"Iamaleava is considered one of the top quarterback prospects in college football entering the 2025-26 season. But he wanted to renegotiate his $10 million NIL deal with Tennessee, which spanned multiple years, according to ESPN."
So Iamaleava decided to sit out and refused to play in the Spring Game while demanding to renegotiate his $10M NIL deal. The LSU coach said that Iamaleava would not be the last. I must commend Tennessee's head coach, Josh Heupel for saying that no one is bigger than the program and that includes himself. Heupel said that he took Iamaleava off of the roster, goodbye Iamaleava. Tennessee will now try to find a QB in the transfer portal. Unfortunately, if Tennessee starts to lose this coming season, then Heupel and his ethics will be fired, and that is too bad. The only ethics these kids know is in the size of the check.
Goodbye college football. Some coach somewhere will pay the ex-Tennessee QB what he wants most likely, so the wars begin, and what is REALLY important to these players is the name on the back and how big are the checks. As those academic all-stars on the Maryland men's basketball team said, "The coach do pay..."
Someone within the powers of collegiate football/athletics has to grow some cajónes and get this situation straightened out.
On a side note, I read that one of the big donors who has given in the millions of dollars to UW and the School of Engineering is "re-thinking" his commitment to UW based upon UW's firing of the head of the school of engineering. Beam me up Scotty, there is no more intelligent life left on this planet!
So Iamaleava decided to sit out and refused to play in the Spring Game while demanding to renegotiate his $10M NIL deal. The LSU coach said that Iamaleava would not be the last. I must commend Tennessee's head coach, Josh Heupel for saying that no one is bigger than the program and that includes himself. Heupel said that he took Iamaleava off of the roster, goodbye Iamaleava. Tennessee will now try to find a QB in the transfer portal. Unfortunately, if Tennessee starts to lose this coming season, then Heupel and his ethics will be fired, and that is too bad. The only ethics these kids know is in the size of the check.
Goodbye college football. Some coach somewhere will pay the ex-Tennessee QB what he wants most likely, so the wars begin, and what is REALLY important to these players is the name on the back and how big are the checks. As those academic all-stars on the Maryland men's basketball team said, "The coach do pay..."
Someone within the powers of collegiate football/athletics has to grow some cajónes and get this situation straightened out.
On a side note, I read that one of the big donors who has given in the millions of dollars to UW and the School of Engineering is "re-thinking" his commitment to UW based upon UW's firing of the head of the school of engineering. Beam me up Scotty, there is no more intelligent life left on this planet!
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