'23 CA QB Nico Iamaleava (Tennessee Verbal)

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Dale said:
Tennessee was Iowa with more window dressing this year
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Yup. I posted similar in the SEC thread. Tennessee relied on its defense and Sampson last season. Nico was ass on the road and in bigger games. In his defense, however, he was a freshman.

Also, although he didn’t play well (the whole team was savagely destroyed), he did appear to play the toughest against Ohio State.
 
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Is it fair to say that if you really care about and closely follow recruiting at this point you really are a sucker?
 
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forkbeard3777 said:
Yup. I posted similar in the SEC thread. Tennessee relied on its defense and Sampson last season. Nico was ass on the road and in bigger games. In his defense, however, he was a freshman.

Also, although he didn’t play well (the whole team was savagely destroyed), he did appear to play the toughest against Ohio State.
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I hate when people call him a freshman. Dude enrolled early and also redshirted while playing in five games and starting in the bowl game. He went through 2 Spring and 2 Fall camps before last year. If CJ Carr starts this year, nobody is going to refer to him as a freshman.

This is nothing against you, just heard it all the time from my UT buddies.
 
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Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Nico Iamaleava isn't doing anything wrong; he’s just playing by the rules as they exist now, and by doing that, he's helping expose where those rules are flawed or unfinished. He's doing the current market, college football, the fans, and maybe even himself—depending on how it turns out—a great service by testing and exploiting the boundaries. If you want reform and a better system in the future, you need cases like this. Every major shift in sports—whether it's free agency or NIL in college—has come because someone was willing to push the envelope. If you want a more fair, sustainable system, you need athletes like Nico to force those uncomfortable situations.

You want to piss off the right people, basically
 
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NDFAN420 said:
Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Nico Iamaleava isn't doing anything wrong; he’s just playing by the rules as they exist now, and by doing that, he's helping expose where those rules are flawed or unfinished. He's doing the current market, college football, the fans, and maybe even himself—depending on how it turns out—a great service by testing and exploiting the boundaries. If you want reform and a better system in the future, you need cases like this. Every major shift in sports—whether it's free agency or NIL in college—has come because someone was willing to push the envelope. If you want a more fair, sustainable system, you need athletes like Nico to force those uncomfortable situations.

You want to piss off the right people, basically
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What change do we need that Nico is pushing the envelope for?

Because the logical answer you might give is well then there will be contracts, they’ll be professional etc. But NFL players hold out too. So what exactly is the end scheme that makes the sport better from this?
 
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NDFAN420 said:
Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Nico Iamaleava isn't doing anything wrong; he’s just playing by the rules as they exist now, and by doing that, he's helping expose where those rules are flawed or unfinished. He's doing the current market, college football, the fans, and maybe even himself—depending on how it turns out—a great service by testing and exploiting the boundaries. If you want reform and a better system in the future, you need cases like this. Every major shift in sports—whether it's free agency or NIL in college—has come because someone was willing to push the envelope. If you want a more fair, sustainable system, you need athletes like Nico to force those uncomfortable situations.

You want to piss off the right people, basically
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I like this system, helps a place like Notre Dame who puts culture first. Let the SEC teams try to win with cash and me first players.
 
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NDFAN420 said:
Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Nico Iamaleava isn't doing anything wrong; he’s just playing by the rules as they exist now, and by doing that, he's helping expose where those rules are flawed or unfinished. He's doing the current market, college football, the fans, and maybe even himself—depending on how it turns out—a great service by testing and exploiting the boundaries. If you want reform and a better system in the future, you need cases like this. Every major shift in sports—whether it's free agency or NIL in college—has come because someone was willing to push the envelope. If you want a more fair, sustainable system, you need athletes like Nico to force those uncomfortable situations.

You want to piss off the right people, basically
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Idk tons of old head stars, current NFL stars, recent CFB stars are all shitting on him. There is no silver lining in getting yourself ostracized.
 
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Dale said:
What change do we need that Nico is pushing the envelope for?

Because the logical answer you might give is well then there will be contracts, they’ll be professional etc. But NFL players hold out too. So what exactly is the end scheme that makes the sport better from this?
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They can hold out but they can't switch teams because......the NFL actually has rules.
 
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They can hold out but they can't switch teams because......the NFL actually has rules.
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Sure they just hold out into the season until they get a new contract or traded. Would you prefer ND players start sitting out till into the season or just let them transfer if they want?
 
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Sure they just hold out into the season until they get a new contract or traded. Would you prefer ND players start sitting out till into the season or just let them transfer if they want?
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I actually do prefer a system where a player has some skin in the game if they transfer, it would change a lot imo.
 
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I like this system, helps a place like Notre Dame who puts culture first. Let the SEC teams try to win with cash and me first players.
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I said this a few times during our run last season. It's becoming obvious that Notre Dame has the advantage in this new system now that they're paying to retain and add the right guys. Culture is everything in team sports and we have it in spades!
 
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Instead of blaming the game which is the easy way out at some point fingers have to be pointed at the kid who wants a new contract.

If I were Tennessee I'd move on. No thanks to Nico, give me any of our QB's on this roster over him; kids like Nico are ruining the game.
 
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