Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Jimmy Football]

Sorry for calling you names, Big Nic and saying mean things about you...

...it's actually your son that is a gigantic, immature pooswah, not you.

My bad, big dog.

My guess is that the apple and the tree are still in close proximity.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Somebody better get a handle on this NLI money, or it’s gonna get so much worse.

Vague comments are vague.

 

[Adam2014]

Somebody better get a handle on this NLI money, or it’s gonna get so much worse.

Yep. It will be interested to see what comes of the Arkansas NIL deal with Madden.

 

[MetalVolunteer]

Yep. It will be interested to see what comes of the Arkansas NIL deal with Madden.

There needs to be precedent set in order to protect both school and player. How that happens is beyond me, but something has to change and quickly. This is much like the Wild Wild West.

 

[MetalVolunteer]

Vague comments are vague.

Take that how you will.

 

[Glitch]

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that time you saw your dream car for sale. got out of the car, excited to finally see one 42 years later. and realize its $40,000.00.

back to the car,

 

[screenthis]

Vague comments are vague.

Yet, somehow, I agree. All this 'churning' occuring around NIL is not good for College Football and your everyday fan.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Take that how you will.

 

[vol9799]

Somebody better get a handle on this NLI money, or it’s gonna get so much worse.

The only thing that will get a handle on it, is the people providing the $ stop paying, across the board. Financiers (effectively what they are) determine the ROI isn't sufficient and the employees aren't trustworthy and they stop ponying up. Then we find out which players want to play and which players want to get paid.

Short of that they'll be rules and loopholes and the most successful will be those who maneuver the rules and loopholes most effectively, just like the previous NCAA system.

In the meantime, a great motivator toward this end would be someone like Texas dropping $50M on a roster than yields a 9-3 record and an invite to the Citrus Bowl.

 

[knoxvol52]

Take that how you will.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

That article makes it seem like Nico had no idea what his father and other representatives were doing. They were shopping him behind the scenes and haggling over pay and he did not seem to know.

 

[rikberry31]

This whole thing with Nico will have far reaching ramifications, but not for a while. Basically Nico started the whole NIL wild wild west and he will go down as the one who ushered in the reining in of the mess. Many people will be watching how next season plays out. If Nico doesn't ball out and his draft stock plummets, future bag chasers will notice. His rash decision and short sightedness will have cost him millions. Nico will be the face of NIL backlash. I really believe that it will the be the beginning of the return of sanity.

 

[Vols4us]

We are a better team without him. He did us a favor.

Yup, blessing in disguise based on attitude alone, then add in the other stuff.

I'm with Heup - move on.

 

[DD4ME]

Hard to argue

 

[volbeast33]

 

[Vol423]

Big Nic fell on his sword for his headcase son? If that's true.... and Chris Low is usually spot on when it comes to UT... it changes so much. Hell, we might even owe Big Nic an apology. What a damn mess.

WTH! We don't owe Nico OR Big Nic a damn thing. They can both kiss our collective derrieres.

 

[SmokinBob]

Does anyone know if season ticket holders have been notified about away games? Kentucky in particular…

 

[VolInDayton]

Hard to argue

I would say it depends on the location/timing of the interception. We had a good defense last year. I would have traded 4 interceptions on their side of the field for 7 big play touchdowns.

 

[Orangeburst]

Nico had at least 2-3 sure fire dropped INTs. Of course, that applies to most anybody.

 

[Butch Jones]

I would take Josh Dobbs over Nico 10/10, no questions asked

Yeah? Me too. Dobbs over Pavia? Probably so. The debate would be Bray or Pavia and Milton or Pavia. Pavia's a pretty good college QB. Guess we can piss about these hypotheticals until September.

 

[Vol423]

I would say it depends on the location/timing of the interception. We had a good defense last year. I would have traded 4 interceptions on their side of the field for 7 big play touchdowns.

That seems rather obvious since you're talking about trading guaranteed points for us versus potential points for them. With the quality of our defense last year, I would have traded as many as 12-14 more INT's in their territory (with no pick sixes) for 7 big play TD passes for us. I think our defense would have given up far less than 42 points.

 

[volinexile17]

Nico had at least 2-3 sure fire dropped INTs. Of course, that applies to most anybody.

Our WRs had a bunch of critical drops on big plays too.

 

[itsme]

A couple quotes from this article that really stood out to me...

"You kept hearing rumblings all spring that [Iamaleava] one way or the other wouldn't be here in the fall," one Tennessee source told ESPN. "A lot of people were surprised he missed that practice, but it wasn't the first time he missed something he was supposed to be at, so I don't know if anybody should have really been that surprised."

And then there's this....

"I'm getting in the portal, if you need to handle your business," Iamaleava said as he was walking off the practice field, according to a Tennessee player who heard him say it.

One of the teammates went to Heupel to alert him. Heupel met with Iamaleava to make sure everything was OK and didn't mention anything about the information coming from teammates, and Iamaleava assured his coach that everything was good and it was "all a bunch of rumors."

and then the nail in the coffin on Nico....

"That next morning, Iamaleava didn't show up for Friday's practice or meetings and didn't alert anyone in the program.

Nic Iamaleava urged his son to go in and meet face-to-face with Heupel and his coaches to work things out, but Iamaleava felt betrayed, sources said, and did not speak with Heupel on Friday. Several people within the Vols' program tried to reach out to the quarterback to no avail."

So it was Nico, NOT Big Nic that decided to not show up to practice

I am not sure that Nic Iamaleava encouraged Nico to go talk to the staff. That is the only thing I feel is a cover from Nic for himself. I'm sure the fine upstanding father told Madden to as well before he just up and left Arkansas.

 

[DD4ME]

Yeah? Me too. Dobbs over Pavia? Probably so. The debate would be Bray or Pavia and Milton or Pavia. Pavia's a pretty good college QB. Guess we can piss about these hypotheticals until September.

System to system every named UT QB is better and more talented than Pavia in our system. If you trained them on Vandy's system my guess is only Bray fairs worse because he is a pocket passer. Infinitely more gifted as a passer though. Look how crazy long Bray was on an NFL roster.

Pavia has it though and hats off to him. Sometimes you want that more than talent.

 

[DD4ME]

Ball knower