FC/OT: U Tennessee QB renegotiating contract…

bdgan

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Note ... one "funny" additional thing - even the coaches/programs of non-revenue sports demand an unreasonable amount of time to be spent on their sport by the athletes. I remember that being a conversation with my nieces, two of whom were potentially D1 athletes in non-revenue sports ... and they had said that the attrition rate of girls going from their programs to these sports in college was crazy high (over 50%) because the coaches just wanted them to always be training or practicing, even if they weren't on scholarship, so if you had any kind of a challenging major, you just gave it up, eventually. So one just went DIII and the other just didn't do a college sport because it was an unnecessary hassle.
Some here seem to think players at places like the Naval Academy don't have the same type of work/time commitment that exists at places like PSU.
 

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Some here seem to think players at places like the Naval Academy don't have the same type of work/time commitment that exists at places like PSU.
Any college athlete has to commit a lot of time to their sport.
 
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Still, Nico‘s current endorsement deal with Spyre was set to pay him more than 2 million for the upcoming season, according to a person familiar with the agreement. That should have been enough to keep him near the top among current college quarterbacks, according to data from Opendorse, market Intel, which analyze $500 million of verified NIL deals. Blake Lawrence, the CEO of Opendorse said Nico is not the only player to try to get a raise by playing hardball. Our college partners are having agents threatened portal more than ever, he said. And almost every case if it’s a high caliber player, the school has given into the demands of the agent. What unique about Nico situation is thar Tennessee didn’t blink.WSJ 4/14/25.

He saw Carson Beck get $4mm from Miami and thought he was worth the same. Nico threw 19 TDs last year; eight were against Vanderbilt and UTEP, four were against Kentucky, Mississippi State, and Kent State. That means against Georgia, Bama, Florida, Arkansas, OU, and NCST he threw seven. And none against OSU. Sure, pay him - to leave.
 

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Not that it matters but after this season I'm done. Hopefully the Lions win one and I can forget cfb for the rest of my life. These stories just reaffirm my lack of interest. We as adults destroyed cfb completely.

I will attend the Yale Harvard game several more times. And possibly Army Navy as a bucket list item, but I'll watch pro football exclusively after this season.
 

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All his best stats were against the weaker teams . 🤔 Dropped off against the big boys .


Exactly and he was playing on a team that had the talent to keep up with the big boys. I would get it if he was QB at Vanderbilt but he was at Tennessee and had the horses to run with the big boys. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out....
 
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Not that it matters but after this season I'm done. Hopefully the Lions win one and I can forget cfb for the rest of my life. These stories just reaffirm my lack of interest. We as adults destroyed cfb completely.

I will attend the Yale Harvard game several more times. And possibly Army Navy as a bucket list item, but I'll watch pro football exclusively after this season.
Got ya, but the one thing College Football still has over the pros is the pageantry. Hard to walk away from at this point, but I could see that fading in the near future. At that point, I'll be with you.
 
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Not that it matters but after this season I'm done. Hopefully the Lions win one and I can forget cfb for the rest of my life. These stories just reaffirm my lack of interest. We as adults destroyed cfb completely.

I will attend the Yale Harvard game several more times. And possibly Army Navy as a bucket list item, but I'll watch pro football exclusively after this season.
I have been losing a lot of desire for watching CFB as the NIL/transfer portal debacle continues to develop. A lot of these kids, because mentally that is where some of them are at developmentally, just act like my 3 year old granddaughter. She is always asking for candy, popsicles, cookies, etc. You tell her she can have it after doing something positive as a reward (like eating her lunch), but a lot of the time she has a meltdown hoping we will give in, but we don’t. Sounds a lot like the Ima Leaving situation. I can’t think of a more apt name for this man-child.
 

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Love this line … He should just pull a Costanza and show back up at TN like he never left .

 

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From the article:

”Iamaleava, a five-star prospect from Long Beach, California, was recruited by UCLA out of high school. His younger brother, Madden Iamaleava, committed to UCLA out of high school but changed his commitment on the morning of signing day and signed with Arkansas.”

What’s with these kids? For f*ck’s sake.

Also, let‘s see if nico can do better in big games at ucla than he did at tennessee. He came up small with the vols.
 

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If Arkansas thought it was difficult to keep their players, now they won't be able to get them in the first place.

Do you go to the school that enforces their buyout clause or the one that does not?

Think they’re all going to be doing it. Or do they all have money to burn?

I’ll add he enrolled at Arkansas in January 2025.
 
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