Virginia Tech stopped revenue share payments and dismissed one of its players, who expressed interest in redshirting this season, according to the player's lawyer, bringing to light a new dilemma schools must manage in this era.

Darren Heitner, a prominent sports attorney, was hired to defend a Virginia Tech football player who was informed last Thursday that his revenue share payments would stop after the player reached out to interim head coach Phillip Montgomery and expressed an intent to redshirt.

Rather than honor that request, according to Heitner, the school removed him from the football roster, informed him that all guaranteed money from the signed revenue share agreement would be stopped immediately, revoked his access to the program and told him to return all property. Within

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