Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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Glitch said:
No mowing for me for a while. Having the first of my hips replaced on Thursday, so I will be unable to complete my lawn care duties and responsibilities. Good news is, crocs are not forbidden in the recovery phase.



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I know several people that have had it and unreal how fast the recovery is. A buddy had it a few weeks ago and in a couple of weeks will be good to go, at least normal stuff..A New man.

Good luck.
 
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rltw1974 said:
Interesting take from TJ Houshmandzadeh. BLUF: Nico and family say TN is lying, and that Heupel promised to tweak offense to better prepare Nico for the NFL, then didn't do it.

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A friend of the family doing the best PR job they’ve attempted but come on everyone would have to be in on lying about practice. That ain’t happening. I don’t think we could get posters in this thread to agree to spout the same lie for even an hour.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but the "negotiation" had nothing to do with his fair market value.

I'm a software engineer. It would be very much like if I got hired. Then I went in and embedded myself in all the projects. Then I went back two months later and asked for more money because the operation would grind to a halt without me. That is at best bad faith negotiation, and at worst it is literal extortion.

The collective committed to him in every way possible, and Nico's team leveraged their own commitment against them. The idea that some governing body does not need rules in place that prevent that from happening is asinine.
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Who is the governing body that makes rules to prevent that from happening with software engineers?
 
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Orangeburst said:
I know several people that have had it and unreal how fast the recovery is. A buddy had it a few weeks ago and in a couple of weeks will be good to go, at least normal stuff..A New man.

Good luck.
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Thank you. Going to get the second one done a little later this year. Looking forward to a lot less pain and spending more time enjoying my family.
 
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csprig9 said:
Thoughts???


Nico goes to tulane

Stays another year and follows Tulane a coach jon sumerall to UK
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He’d play the Vols in Neyland… and if you thought the return of Lane was a blood bath, then this would rise to levels of hatred the likes of which this great country has never seen before.
 
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Yeah...Heupel doesn't prepare QBs for the NFL.

Yet he's had 2 QBs graduate and both get drafted. Joe got to play for one game and looked amazing, Dallas was quick to trade to pick him up too.

Maybe Nico should've stuck with volleyball...we got a full season of him playing with arguably the best RB in Vol history (for sure the best season by a RB). And a WR group full of talent with an OL that could have 2-3 NFL guys off it. But somehow there wasn't enough talent around him.
 
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MarcoVol said:
For the record AP says he doesn’t believe that Nico threatened to sit out the playoff
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Gray on purpose imo - Now ask AP directly if they might have asked for more money at that time... there are always ways to phrase this that can provide plausible deniability. One is to have VQ leak program level info to ON3 but then say program did not release info. The reverse to that is VQ deny knowing about an overt threat to sit even if you do know his team had their hand out during the playoffs. All the parties can claim certain knowledge while the rest of us can easily see the likely truths.
 
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DD4ME said:
Gray - Now ask AP directly if they might have asked for more money at that time... there are always ways to phrase this that can provide plausible deniability. One is to have VQ leak program level info to ON3 but then say program did not release info. The reverse to that is VQ deny knowing about an overt threat to sit even if you do know his team had their hand out during the playoffs. All the parties can claim certain knowledge while the rest of us can easily see the likely truths.
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I believe he got about a $350k bump around playoff time and then wanted more afterward.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
But he didn't...so? Burns post is stupid and pointless...everybody would have been good with a raise if he deserved one, that's no big secret, and I think he would have gotten one had he played better.

All that being said...he was obviously being a massive mercenary pain in the ass the whole time...and I don't give a 💩 about his "people"...ultimately he is responsible.

I hope we stay away from slimy dishonest scum like him AND his scum "people" from now on.
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I’m NOT absolving Nico of responsibility, I’m a huge believer in personal accountability. It’s the whole design God has for the world.

However, I have learned to give more grace and be more understanding of people’s circumstances. He was raised how he was raised. You can’t divorce that fact from the conversation. His dad runs the show. It’s obviously a family thing, and evidently a cultural thing also, although I have a hard time believing most Polynesian patriarchs are so wreckless with their families and have such poor morals as big nic. Should nico have made better decisions? Yep. But it isn’t that simple, when all you have known your entire life is to defer big decisions to your dad. He trusted his dad to lead him the right direction. Unfortunately dad isn’t the best role model.

Like I said before, Hopefully he learns a lesson

I’m glad so many of y’all had life all figured out when you were 20 and knew exactly when to, and when not to take your dads counsel, and always made good decisions.
 
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rltw1974 said:
Interesting take from TJ Houshmandzadeh. BLUF: Nico and family say TN is lying, and that Heupel promised to tweak offense to better prepare Nico for the NFL, then didn't do it.

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We obviously do not know all the facts here, but T.J's story doesn't hold very much water in my mind. He goes home the day before the O&W game because he didn't see the tweaks he was promised in January? Would it have made more sense to finish the spring and say "coach you didn't deliver on your promise of change, I'm entering the transfer portal next week" , if what he was saying is true?

Nico would have come out looking a lot better if that were the case. The timing of his departure screams leverage from a financial standpoint.
 
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