Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava essentially a contract hold out...
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Clay Travis does sports? Who knew?
We have to make big time college football an extension of the NFL. Bring in the people with NFL experience and set it up. These players need structure. This crap makes me angry, but nobody has given the players any rules. Who is in charge? The coach just coaches and recruits. The players must think rich people have unlimited money and they don't feel any guilt asking for more. Somebody needs to assume power, set rules, and lead or college football will stay off the tracks. Where's Mike Leach when you really need him?
WOW!! Good for Tennessee. Someone needed to stand up to the foolishness.
I wonder how many P4 coaches who need a starter will pass on Nico because of the headache. You know he’ll only be there one year, so it might be worth it - he’s draft eligible in 2026.
Hopefully everyone will pass on him and he will find up at Arkansas State for 15k a year. Eta: or Scooba Tech
Good on UT for doing it. But the ****** system made up of ****** humans coddling ****** behavior will line up several offers for him I'm sure. Does OM have their starter lined up?
Unfortunately, I think we all know this won’t happen. He’ll be at a top program probably for more money. But if he doesn’t improve his stats vs good teams, some top program is in for a disappointing year. He feasted on bad teams but was very mediocre vs good ones.
Is he even that good? Talented and highly recruited, sure. But his numbers from last year are definitely nothing spectacular. He was very underwhelming against anyone with a pulse. Did not even crack 200 yards passing in 8 games.
According to this report, Nico is the one who broke up with Tennessee
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I read that as a threat to bargain and Heupel wouldn’t play games any longer. Heupel dismissed him before he entered the portal since that report states “next week”.
It’d be great if this stuff gets neutralized quickly. It’s what we should’ve done with some players of several sports. Either something should be done or the pay-for-play needs to be officially removed so schools have some power against the divas.
Naw, you are right. OSU, USC or Nebraska or somebody needing a QB is probly already throwing money at him and kissing his a$$. I read somewhere his dad was shopping him to west coast teams.
Can’t wait to see this challenged in court. I’m guessing it will be Texas that pops that cherry.
I wonder how enforceable that really is…. If he threatened to take it to court, would that rule be upheld?
No. The sec would lose in court. Then talking heads would say "why has the sec allowed this meat market of free transfer."
Eh, I don’t think so. SEC players have over hundred other schools they can transfer to this Spring. The conference is on pretty firm legal ground from what I understand. Hence the fact there haven’t been any lawsuits the past two years challenging the rule.
I am sure somebody can jump in with more details, but as I understand it, NCAA rules are weak now because of antitrust (monopoly). The SEC does not have the same issue obviously as there is plenty of competition with other conferences. No different than the NFL being able to set a salary cap or limit team size.
No one's paying $4 million for one season for that guy. They have 79 other players to worry about.
What a ***** move. He's supposed to be a leader, but he can't be reached for a day and a half by his head coach? They also tried to reach his agent. This stuff makes me want to throw up. Get this bum out of college football and put his *** in a classroom.
This is exactly what needs to happen to put some restraints on things. The power programs are the only ones who can move the needle. They won’t do a 17ing thing as long as they can cherry pick from lower tier programs. But, if they start losing talent via the same means then they’ll ensure guardrails are in place.