'23 CA QB Nico Iamaleava (Tennessee Verbal)

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Jimmy3Putt said:
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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Completely agree.
If we continue to recruit and develop kids who want to be at Notre Dame (not just the biggest bag) then we will be just fine, and probably better off more often than not. Culture is everything. But it is also not a given (even at Notre Dame, witness the current state of the women’s basketball team).
 
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irishandy said:
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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I’d rather not give them any of our quarterbacks, personally. 😉
 
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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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Those holes he is exposing is only due to this kids me first selfishness and a disregard for a legal contract he agreed to and signed.

If you want this to be similar to the NFL, then there needs to be a rule that requires them to sit out a year before they can switch schools.
 
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NDRock said:
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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Guess I forgot about that and the breadth of his experience. I always think of Milton for 2023 Tennessee…that said, given I’maleaveya’s additional year of experience, that makes him that much shittier of a player.
 
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Irish du Nord said:
Well we just went to the championship where 19 of our 22 starters were players who we recruited so I think it still probably matters.
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And you got there with the significant help of transfers, as did Ohio State. Recruiting will matter more to ND due to its self imposed restrictions of not accepting undergraduate transfers, but to every other school out there, what’s the point? Why follow recruiting and/or a recruit that will sign and may leave in a year or two?

I’d be curious to see a global statistic of players that sign and the percentage that ultimately transfer elsewhere. I’m taking a total shot in the dark, but would say it’s 1/4 or maybe 1/3?
 
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Gonna guess USC, Oregon or here’s one that I haven’t seen, Georgia.

EDIT: the SEC might still have their inter conference transfer rule.
 
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GoldenBoy3 said:
Crazy news
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I bet he (or his uncle) thought he held all the cards.

I hope he has to sit a year. I know he won’t bc some desperate team will snatch him up.

Good on Tennessee if true. I’m all for players getting paid but some order needs to be restored and kids need to fear they may not land on their feet at a new school with a huge contract if they act this way.
 
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IrishWayDomer said:
I don't. He's immensely talented and the only reason Tennessee was picking around with the playoffs.
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He’s a locker room cancer he’s the flame to light that USC locker room on fire plus it will cause their other QB to transfer who I think has more upside
 
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I must have watched different games than you guys because what I saw against OSU and SEC teams was Nico running for his life every snap and the only reason they got any first downs. He had no help against the big dogs and you know stat sheets don't show that favorably to a QB on the run.
 
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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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Playing like dog shit and demanding $4M is exposing the system? Okay.
 
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IrishWayDomer said:
I must have watched different games than you guys because what I saw against OSU and SEC teams was Nico running for his life every snap and the only reason they got any first downs. He had no help against the big dogs and you know stat sheets don't show that favorably to a QB on the run.
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He was running because the Tennessee offense is a quick decisive system and he was not that.

Tennessee had their best defense in years and a NFL RB, that’s how they won games. Rocky Top Iowa

Nico was only pressured on 29% of dropbacks, that is not abnormal at all. 5th lowest in the SEC.
 
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