Nico not at practice today

[C-south]

If Nico is gone, I guess he sells the TN Playbook?

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

I wish we had this type of negotiation at work. Listen I'm not coming to work unless you give me a significant raise

You do have that option, depending upon your value to your "employer".

 

[patrick]

Just think how bad this is from Nico's perspective.

He will be eligible for the pros after this season and now instead of balling out with a playoff team where he knows the personnel, playbook, and system he has to go somewhere and start from scratch without benefit of even a spring practice. That has to at least move a pro career back a year over what amounts to crumbs in comparison to what he could make as a pro.

But the guy ran out of bounds on the last play of a game without even taking a shot in the endzone so it seems kind of fitting his career would get derailed by the same sort of choice.

He can walk - he isn’t that good. He is mid. Screw him and his camp!

 

[Swiftybaby]

We should’ve saw this coming when he was doing 7on7s and camps in pajama pants and shades at night

 

[Legion of Doom]

He can walk - he isn’t that good. He is mid. Screw him and his camp!

Yeah he is mid for sure. Both of the other guys will work hard and do just fine.

 

[UTFranklinVol]

Josh Dobbs?

Dobbs is very rare, but if Dobbs was a good enough athlete he would have left for the pros without a degree just like all the rest of them. there's a reason he stayed all 4 years at Tennessee because his pro prospects weren't that great.

 

[dduncan4163]

Rumor going around is Nico was wanting more money for O-Linemen and WRs and not for themselves

 

[CAVPUT]

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[StuckInBamaVol]

Rumor going around is Nico was wanting more money for O-Linemen and WRs and not for themselves

No one believes this

 

[dduncan4163]

No one believes this

Hell I dont know what to believe at this point. The only thing I am sure of it's a helluva a mess Hoss

 

[Proud Army Wife]

I’m about done with following or caring about football if this is what it’s going to be. Ridiculous.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Dobbs is very rare, but if Dobbs was a good enough athlete he would have left for the pros without a degree just like all the rest of them. there's a reason he stayed all 4 years at Tennessee because his pro prospects weren't that great.

You mean like Manning? Or more recently, Joe Burrow? Mahomes? Brees? Rodgers?

 

[BigOrangeNC]

Rule should be you have to have x amount of college hours and above x GPA to transfer without sitting out a year. It is still sorta college football.

 

[ButchPlz]

Rumor going around is Nico was wanting more money for O-Linemen and WRs and not for themselves

If Dave Hooker wasn't trying to crap on Tennessee literally every chance he gets this would be believable.

 

[UTFranklinVol]

lol. it was 50/50 for him. Dude has played for almost every NFL team at this point.

currently on team number NINE lol

on the same team as Joe Milton now!

 

[Vol737]

Rumor going around is Nico was wanting more money for O-Linemen and WRs and not for themselves

This has straight up to do with Nico’s dad. I doubt dad is in Heupel’s office pounding the table for more money for the O linemen. He wants Nico paid more so he can get paid more.

 

[KeyVol14]

Nico "Imaleavin"....what a shame

 

[BigOrangeNC]

This has straight up to do with Nico’s dad. I doubt dad is in Heupel’s office pounding the table for more money for the O linemen. He wants Nico paid more so he can get paid more.

It may be the BS PR plan as to how they try and walk this thing back. "It wasn't just about me."

 

[DaddyChad]

I’m about done with following or caring about football if this is what it’s going to be. Ridiculous.

I’ll still turn on it for games but damn it’s hard to care. It’s essentially minor league professionals.

 

[orangerush]

Next man up, time waits for no one.

 

[CINCYVOL]

What’s Nico’s dads x handle?

 

[dduncan4163]

 

[UTFranklinVol]

You mean like Manning? Or more recently, Joe Burrow? Mahomes? Brees? Rodgers?

I don't see those players as being in the same position as Dobbs was in. also Mahomes left college as a junior.

 

[patrick]

Yeah he is mid for sure. Both of the other guys will work hard and do just fine.

I’d take his NIL money and go grab another offensive lineman, receiver and a db who is ready to jump.

This is team Tennessee, not team nico. Bye Bye.

The love of money is ………!

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

most players already don't choose the school route. they do the very minimum to stay eligible to play which let me tell you isn't much unless youre Vanderbilt. the players now making big$ were already on track to leave the university for the pros without a degree in hand and it was never their intention to ever have a degree. it's been that way for decades.

the players who end up with degrees are players who never had pro potential and just play ball as a way to get a free education.

but lets be honest those aren't the players we care about, are they? no big time athlete comes to Tennessee or any other school for an education. they come to get exposure nationwide so they get put on the NFL draft boards.

I like the idea of the football team being owned by a group of people separate from the University where they can be free to make actual employment contracts and let the NIL stuff take a back seat.

If most are not choosing "school" route, then how are team GPAs so high. Many of the guys playing for the NFL also do well while in school. You're throwing out opinions straight from your hip