Reportedly Tulane backed out, UNC saying no thanks. You hate to see it but there is hope.
Nico Imaleavin Sweepstakes doesn’t seem to be going according to plan
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He's going to find that few teams are going to want to take him because every week they'd be wondering is this the week he hold out for more money? Not to mention, he's asking way more than he's worth.
I hope no one offers. Probably end up at San Diego St or similar.
I’ve read it’s a greedy parent…..shocker
Hope the NIL package at Co-Lin pays him well. And i really hope he doesn’t blow out his knee while there ****
He's gonna end up at UCLA for about 1/4th what he was asking Tennessee.
All he had to do was go to practice and play in the Spring game, and he probably gets a raise from someone.
All he had to do was go to practice and play in the Spring game, and he probably gets a raise from someone.
That’s what he gets for besmirching the name of a fine upstanding moral institution like the University of Tennessee
Atlas appears to be shrugging.
Price is dropping so I predict he'll be in Starkville...starting for Southern Miss.
I don’t wish ill on anyone, but the timing of this is really bad for him and schools. Everyone is well into spring practice and the semester is wrapping up. Schools don’t just have $4mil in NIL sitting around at this point. If they do then I assure you they already have a stud QB. If not, then they have more money than sense.
My guess is he’ll end up getting just north of a million and his situation will become a case study for why more formal contractual agreements are good for both player and University.
My guess is he’ll end up getting just north of a million and his situation will become a case study for why more formal contractual agreements are good for both player and University.
I’m thinking about this situation a bit. If his deal gets closer to a million, do we see a big program (e.g. USC, Michigan, Penn State) pick him up to be a 2nd string QB? In the transfer portal age there is no incentive to develop a future QB, so I’m not sure backups fetch that type of dough. However, the big programs may use it as an insurance policy in case #1 goes down.
This is actually great for schools.
Maybe this will be a wake up call for him and he will make better life choices in the future. Unfortunately, he’s probably at least a year late in learning a valuable lesson.
I really can’t imagine having 2 million dollars guaranteed to be the freaking starting QB for an SEC school while getting god knows how much else in local advertisements. I was cooking ramen noodles in freaking Hathorn hall
As expected, this is hurting students and schools. How the transfer rule isn’t already amended is a puzzle to me. That has to be the minimum fix.
Between greedy parents and greedy agents, a lot of players are going to get ruined.
I also had a highlight or two from my time at hchool.
I don’t think you want this guy anywhere near your program as the #2. You’re either all in or all out with him. He will cause problems otherwise. He’ll cause problems either way, but it will be worse if he’s not the #1 guy.
Yep but I’d also say he’s old enough to stand up for himself and make his own decisions.
obviously that would be easier for him if he had parents who raised him that way.
His side could claim there's collusion, but there's no evidence that the NCAA is organized enough to collude.
is he not getting any deals because he isn't using a savvy agent that knows how to negotiate...... or are boosters and coaches collaborating together to not touch him, as to reset the market.
The market went from this guy being the highest paid QB two years ago to a handful of guys getting nearly double ($4m). It blows my mind these billionaires haven't drawn the line yet on these guys. Maybe they are now.
The market went from this guy being the highest paid QB two years ago to a handful of guys getting nearly double ($4m). It blows my mind these billionaires haven't drawn the line yet on these guys. Maybe they are now.
I dont think his ego could let him be #2 somewhere. He's going to go somewhere he can start
He’s asking way over market price. Teams are already set with their rosters & have already committed their available NIL money for 2025. And he was a problem to deal with for Tennessee from the beginning, not showing up for fan autograph sessions or NIL commitments, etc. He overplayed his hand when he held out of spring practice.
Yep. We all reach the age of accountability long before we are well prepared to make all the decisions we need to make. It's just a matter of how many scars, how deep, and ideally learning and not getting multiple scars in the same place.
If the SEC was in play, Kiffin would've offered immediately and wouldn't care about collusion. People just don't want to pay the asking price. I always thought he was good, but wasn't a 5 star. He disappeared in big games.
On one of the talk shows, they were saying that his dad was shopping him around and he claimed to not know about it.
That story sounds familiar.
Right on cue...
His name says it all. I-am-a-leava not a loyalty statement.