Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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Orange. said:
Every time I warm up a little to the idea of cutting Nico himself some slack (because I've always liked him), he does something else nut-less and stupid. Why didn't he tell his brainless, asinine father: "Enough is enough, Pops. We landed, I've got this. I don't want you to bad mouth Coach Heupel, or Tennessee, or my former teammates. Just let me handle it from here."
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This whole situation requires that Nico himself buy into the delusional view of the situation, or he would have gone to meetings and practice. Nico has played enough ball to understand what skipping those means. I mean Tennessee has two highly touted prospects behind him, another on the way, and a situation that most qbs would die to be a part of. On top of that he has a lackluster spring which put him under more pressure. Pressure does funny things to people. Bottom line, the Nico camp seriously misjudged both Nico's value and Tennessee's situation. NIco was over the barrel not Tennessee.
 
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Christian Lowe said:
I said it a few days ago in QB thread but it’s asking a lot to have a proven starter in a draft year leave his already good situation to learn a brand new system and gel with new teammates in 4 months.
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Don't disagree so worst case grab Gaston and let's roll. Build toward Faizon.
 
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Christian Lowe said:
Arian Foster wasn’t and still isn’t a bad dude. The taco story wasn’t mean to hurt us or make us look bad. It was all aimed at the NCAA. Maybe I’m misremembering but that’s what I took away from it
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I just meant Arian is worried about Arian more than other things. He never worried about optics for us with his comments. He's not about the T nearly as much as many of your other VFL. He's still a VFL. Nico ain't and never will be.
 
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I don't want to sound like i'm defending Nico because I'm not. He's a 20 year old man.

However, I do wonder if the shadiness of NIL deals gone wrong shaped the attitude of his camp. It sounds like they have trust issues, and we've all heard of unfullfilled NIL promises. That doesn't seem at all what happened to him, but could have contributed to their attitude towards the whole process.
 
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you said:
I don't want to sound like i'm defending Nico because I'm not. He's a 20 year old man.

However, I do wonder if the shadiness of NIL deals gone wrong shaped the attitude of his camp. It sounds like they have trust issues, and we've all heard of unfullfilled NIL promises. That doesn't seem at all what happened to him, but could have contributed to their attitude towards the whole process.
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Well most sources say they refused to fulfill their obligations to Spyre which resulted in less pay. Since the father is his agent and woefully unqualified to be so, they likely feel slighted by that since he probably had no idea what he was signing.
 
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you said:
I don't want to sound like i'm defending Nico because I'm not. He's a 20 year old man.

However, I do wonder if the shadiness of NIL deals gone wrong shaped the attitude of his camp. It sounds like they have trust issues, and we've all heard of unfullfilled NIL promises. That doesn't seem at all what happened to him, but could have contributed to their attitude towards the whole process.
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They never complained about not getting paid, so I doubt it could have shaped their attitude.
 
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Christian Lowe said:
Well most sources say they refused to fulfill their obligations to Spyre which resulted in less pay. Since the father is his agent and woefully unqualified to be so, they likely feel slighted by that since he probably had no idea what he was signing.
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yeah, i'm thinking that had something to do with it.

I mean it seems pretty easy to me to show up to do your marketing obligations. It's not hard work. But they seemed bitter over it, and not wanting to go the extra mile to impress anyone.
 
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rjd970 said:
The third bullet - I thought that was already a rule? It costed us field position per the ref in the ‘23 Bama game because a frontline return team player made some movement with his arms.
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He waved his arm over his head, which was already a rule.

The T signal is different, though I've never seen anyone make a T signal and don't even know what that means.
 
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jave36 said:
They never complained about not getting paid, so I doubt it could have shaped their attitude.
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not their experices specifically, but just hearing of others not getting paid could have made them the way they are. Thinking the same thing might happen to them, even though it didn't
 
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you said:
yeah, i'm thinking that had something to do with it.

I mean it seems pretty easy to me to show up to do your marketing obligations. It's not hard work. But they seemed bitter over it, and not wanting to go the extra mile to impress anyone.
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You’d think with the lineage of “generally good dude” QB’s we have, Manning, Dobbs, Hooker… someone would have tried to steer him to at least try to LOOK like he cared about any of it. But who knows, maybe they did and Big Nic cussed them out too lol
 
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It’s almost as if rolling into spring practice with only 6 scholarship WR’s, with their combined receiving yards being 444, and replacing 4/5 starting OL is a bad idea 🤯
 
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