Tennessee & Nico Iamaleava are in active contract negotiations ahead of the 2025 season

[IAmTheBelvedere]

I'm debating now on wearing my Nico jersey tomorrow or not

Please do, wear it over your Aidoo jersey so we can know where to aim our trash

 

[IAmTheBelvedere]

Not saying he's beyond criticism but he's a kid

He’s not a kid…he stopped being a kid when he turned 18. He’s a young adult and should start acting like it. Maybe folks like you should stop handing out passes to young adults acting like kids?

 

[barknoxbrawler]

 

[OrangeInKy]

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Nice!

 

[bigorangepoppa]

Wasn't the kid at Florida a true freshman? At this point, it might be best for all parties for Nico to go find his greener pasture.

If you're talking about Lagway, yes he was, but he also was considerably heftier than MacIntyre.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

He’s not a kid…he stopped being a kid when he turned 18. He’s a young adult and should start acting like it. Maybe folks like you should stop handing out passes to young adults acting like kids?

That would be some good advice for many of the adults here, with their petty disparagements and an immature sense of entitlement

 

[Godfatha]

Everyone around here seems to have already made a final judgment on a bunch of stories with unnamed sources. Is this really happening? Do people really trust the media this much?

I trust Chris Low

 

[Coy53175]

Fake News !!!

 

[VOL931]

That's where I disagree. He's a Tennessee kid that really wants to be a Vol. Some guys would never sell out to UGA, UF, UK, or BAMA

I believe his grandfather played football at UT too. He's a midstate kid. Deep roots at UT. He's not gonna pee on a tree and bark like a dog.

 

[YankeeVol]

 

[Coy53175]

 

[VOL931]

TN will pay him the going rate at the time, if he plays and lights it up, i'm sure they'll up the pay but Nico didn't live up to the hype and still wanted more money, there's a reason we saw him wearing a go pro this year when no one else is doing that

I noticed that. Film for later to see what he "missed" right in front of him as it played out. We saw that so many times last year.

So and so was running wide open! (Telling the TV as it could do anything)

 

[VOL931]

You nailed it, if you had to sit out if you transferred it would slow it down a lot. Even if they just said you cannot transfer within your conference without sitting out 1 year it would limit it dramatically. I think the market will stabilize in time, at some point the money will stabilize and folks in the NIL will be more cautious how they throw their money around. At some point players with average to slightly above average numbers will find it hard to find someone to pay them double. A school will get burnt like the Aggies did with that ballyhooed spending they did with Jimbo in the first NIL year. Teams will learn and adjust.

They actually do have to sit a year if they transfer within a conference. He won't be in the sec.

 

[ETV]

 

[Vols till I fall]

Ita official he's gone

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

Everyone around here seems to have already made a final judgment on a bunch of stories with unnamed sources. Is this really happening? Do people really trust the media this much?

There is no “the media”. That’s cult speak.

 

[sptnut]

 

[Volinlife]

He’s not a kid…he stopped being a kid when he turned 18. He’s a young adult and should start acting like it. Maybe folks like you should stop handing out passes to young adults acting like kids?

That's why I said he's worthy of criticism, but mentally, he's a kid. You're acting like a kid right now, how old are you?

 

[jwells]

That's why I said he's worthy of criticism, but mentally, he's a kid. You're acting like a kid right now, how old are you?

Brains are still developing at this point. We just placed an artificial break from child to adult, regardless of development. I get that he's old enough to know what he's doing, but still young enough to let impulsivity and parental pressure (maybe) push his decisions.

 

[Volinlife]

Brains are still developing at this point. We just placed an artificial break from child to adult, regardless of development. I get that he's old enough to know what he's doing, but still young enough to let impulsivity and parental pressure (maybe) push his decisions.

Better said then I'm able to muster

 

[n_huffhines]

We won the natty in baseball, played in the CFP, and the elite 8. It's great to be a Tennessee Vol. Good luck to Nico. Next man up

 

[orangerush]

No active negotiations.

 

[sonofUT62]

No team anywhere is going to pay him as much as we were.

Don’t kid yourself. If Duke paid the Tulane kid 4, there are 5-6 schools who would pay Nico 3. I’m glad we aren’t one of them

 

[Volador]

Nico Iamaleava - correctly pronounced:​

Nico "I AM A HO WHO'S LEAVING FOR MORE MONEY"

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

I am not against Nico! If you could reganotiate your pay at your job. You would. It’s the effing NOL. it’s the devil!!

Bet the OL guys were going to negotiate payments from him directly to block for him this season. Nothing illegal about that I have heard of. Seems fair!