Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[TN-POSSUM]

Is everyone from California this messed up??

No wonder people on the sidewalks out there. They don't know any better.

 

[Vols2DaWall]

Right before the spring game too. Heup’s gonna have to address it

 

[DD4ME]

He’s driving around in a dang near 200 thousand dollar car and complaining about the amount of money he is making after losing every big road game he played in. Win at Arkansas and then holler about more money.

He can’t hit a deep ball, can’t make quick decisions, and doesn’t have the leadership qualities you need in a QB.

I’m venting at this point, but this is NOT professional sports. Binding contracts where the player loses money if they pull a stunt like this are necessary!

He's about to be drop shipping it back to Cali.

 

[knoxvol52]

“Weren’t going to blink”.. someone care to interpret that?

That means Nico isn't getting another damn dime....

 

[Midas]

Lincoln Riley has had success with QBs tho. Maybe that works for him?

They just lost skill players in the portal and more. They lost 21 players to portal. I don’t think it’s going to work out over there. Lincoln’s seat is becoming hot there too.

 

[Geronimo]

If he throws 3 tds tomorrow, he will be king of Knoxville

Seriously doubt he plays at this point. Not sure he just walks back in like nothing happened. Plus, he’ll be expected to answer questions from media.

 

[DD4ME]

How it can go

 

[BigSteve09]

ship has sailed on using the Nico $ to get a transfer QB

maybe they'll call around to some WR or OL that were asking for more than we were willing to give the first time

this Nico thing sucks for us, but there are a lot of position coaches chewing their nails now. fans of opposing teams would be silly to point and laugh

 

[DD4ME]

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[Adam Sandler]

I don’t care if he leaves or stays.

It sucks that we didn’t get Merk more reps, but oh well, I personally don’t think we were hitting 10 wins this season anyways.

I’m not gonna support giving more money to a kid that gave us JG like results in a much more dynamic offense. Sampson and defense was the reason we played so well last year.

Let the kid leave. Get Merk ready for game 1. Take all the Nil this kid tied us for and give it to some portal guys.

You’ve become as bad as Vol twitter. Nico has been an exemplary leader. We are not a better team without him. We literally have some players only on this team because they wanted to play with him. Quit the crying and he’ll raisin and let the situation play out.

We still don’t ACTUALLY know anything. This is all rumor mill. And that shouldn’t mean anything.

 

[Ace]

Seriously doubt he plays at this point. Not sure he just walks back in like nothing happened. Plus, he’ll be expected to answer questions from media.

I was referring to Merk from the previous posts

 

[tyonthefly93]

You’ve become as bad as Vol twitter. Nico has been an exemplary leader. We are not a better team without him. We literally have some players only on this team because they wanted to play with him. Quit the crying and he’ll raisin and let the situation play out.

We still don’t ACTUALLY know anything. This is all rumor mill. And that shouldn’t mean anything.

Name one game that Nico won for us last year.

 

[TrippieRedd]

You’ve become as bad as Vol twitter. Nico has been an exemplary leader. We are not a better team without him. We literally have some players only on this team because they wanted to play with him. Quit the crying and he’ll raisin and let the situation play out.

We still don’t ACTUALLY know anything. This is all rumor mill. And that shouldn’t mean anything.

Nico Immafknpotato

 

[DD4ME]

ship has sailed on using the Nico $ to get a transfer QB

maybe they'll call around to some WR or OL that were asking for more than we were willing to give the first time

this Nico thing sucks for us, but there are a lot of position coaches chewing their nails now. fans of opposing teams would be silly to point and laugh

For sure because despite whatever trivial insults random fans may offer the whole industry knows our program has been one of the most lucrative and professional.

 

[Geronimo]

I was referring to Merk from the previous posts

Ah, my bad.

 

[MarcoVol]

You’ve become as bad as Vol twitter. Nico has been an exemplary leader. We are not a better team without him. We literally have some players only on this team because they wanted to play with him. Quit the crying and he’ll raisin and let the situation play out.

We still don’t ACTUALLY know anything. This is all rumor mill. And that shouldn’t mean anything.

If CLow reports something you can take it to the bank

 

[DD4ME]

Name one game that Nico won for us last year.

 

[Midas]

I think Nico was okay last year, but I think he showed moments of really, really good QB play.

The other issue that comes with Nico leaving, is what dominos fall after? Does Matthews leave? Staley? Etc. Merk might not even have the chance to succeed because the offense is left without even more talent. Grass is not greener here, imo.

Yeah the roster implications is what I’m worried about most. I guess we’ll know tomorrow how this is going to go.

 

[KPT_VFL]

Merk and Mc going to get stand ovations tomorrow.

 

[Adam2014]

You’ve become as bad as Vol twitter. Nico has been an exemplary leader. We are not a better team without him. We literally have some players only on this team because they wanted to play with him. Quit the crying and he’ll raisin and let the situation play out.

We still don’t ACTUALLY know anything. This is all rumor mill. And that shouldn’t mean anything.

We know the news broke about contract negotiations yesterday.

We know Nico’s dad got on Twitter and called the reporter who broke it a bitch.

We know Nico then did not practice today.

We have heard from a well-connected source (Chris Low) that Nico’s camp wants to renegotiate from 2.5 to 4 million. He also said the UT side is not going to blink.

We have heard from Hubbs (who is one of the most conservative people with news) that he doesn’t see a way this gets worked out.

We know quite a bit.

 

[butchna]

I can handle renegotiations…price of today’s business. Can’t handle sit-outs. Bespeaks weak moral substance from a player and family I previously had no issue with.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Yeah the roster implications is what I’m worried about most. I guess we’ll know tomorrow how this is going to go.

This has the potential to be crippling. If Nico bolts (which seems almost inevitable now), Danny, Josh, and Spyre are really gonna be tested to keep this thing from going right back into the ditch.

 

[TrippieRedd]

For some reason I get the feeling it could be the opposite.

I feel like the players will respect the coaches for cutting loose ends (if that’s the route they go)

 

[Adam2014]

This has the potential to be crippling. If Nico bolts (which seems almost inevitable now), Danny, Josh, and Spyre are really gonna be tested to keep this thing from going right back into the ditch.

It’s never as good as it seems or as bad as it seems. After the Pruitt BS I thought it was over. I think Danny can figure it out, but who knows.

 

[Vols And Bruins]

They let Rickey Gibson do it.

Gibson showed he was worth it last season though. Nico has potential but....