April 14, 2025 • 8 mins
The Volunteers cut QB Nico Iamaleava in the midst of NIL disputes.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I got some stuff for Doc Garrett coming up on Wednesday.
I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Andy, You're like, well, it's a day or whatever, and
I love you, but I hate to call you a tick.
But it's like it's a parasite that is slowly infested.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, you're just hooked on golf, now that's the whole thing. Yeah,
all right, yeah, but I got to talk to Doc
Garrett about how to get more flexibility, get looser, especially
at the start of the day. So we played in
this charity event this morning. The way well, the first
seven holes, I was not even there. It was just
my body was there, but I physically mentally wasn't there.
(00:41):
But I got to get I think I'm going to
have to start doing what Tiger does and get at three,
go wake up in three and start stretching, and you
take an ice bath and do all this kind of stuff.
Because the last seven or eight holes I played great.
The first seven or eight was disaster. So you have breakfast, yeah,
but I've always had breakfast, but I've got proper breakfast. Yeah.
(01:02):
I had bacon and eggs. That's what I usually eat
for breakfast. Okay, and no, and mostly all protein. No,
no carbs until later in the day and no carbs
at night.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Five hour energy.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That'll work.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I just need something to get looser because I was
I couldn't. I couldn't make a good turn. You gotta
be able to turn in this game. We gotta have flexibility,
all right. This weekend, Nico iyam Aleva said to the
Tennessee Football program. Yeah, there's two million dollars in that
you gave me for nil. It's not enough. I want more.
It's time for you to give me more. I'm not
(01:33):
going to play. So Josh Hipel didn't have a conversation,
didn't meet him someplace. He just said, we're moving on.
Next guy up. You're the quarterback. We'll go look in
the portal here next week if we need to and
see if there's somebody else out there. But you made
a deal with us. You took the two million. There
are no holdouts in college football. Good on Tennessee, Good
(01:55):
on on the volunteers. And I hope that this happens
only to teach him a lesson. He just got greedy.
And I hope whether it's UCLA or Oregon, or North
Carolina or two Lane, that he goes to I hope
he gets Dinnis Streeterer money. I hope he gets significantly less.
(02:16):
If you don't understand the reference. A few years ago,
the Lakers offered Dinnis Strooder like four years and eighty million,
and he said, no, that's not enough, and no team
picked him up. So he had to sign for the
league minimum in some god awful place like Toronto or
Washington or someplace like that. So and he was making
one point five million or two point five million when
he could have had four years in eighty And that's
(02:38):
one of the things that the athletes in college sports
are going to have to learn that you are important,
but when you make a deal, you can't renegotiate your
deal every time the wind blows. And if you think
that other teams are going to pay you more, then
just go there in the first place. And this is
why I say we need to get them. We need
to start signing, starting whenever the next round of letters
(02:59):
have sign I guess in December, this is how much
nil we're going to give you if you negotiate a
pre and IL deal or whenever you negotiate the nil deal.
It's attached to your letter of intent. I agree that
the school is going to give me this amount, or
that the collective is going to give me that amount,
and we're going to sign a contract, and that contract
(03:21):
is good for three years, four years, two years, whatever
the coach wants it to be, or whatever the coach
and the player agree to. And at some point the
player says, you know, it's time for me to go.
It's time for me to move on. I want to
go see if there's more money. Go in the portal,
and you can go in the portal for free, and
you can come back out of the portal and come
back to the team that you were on if you
(03:41):
so choose to do so, and the team still want you.
But if you play, if you enroll in the other school,
or if you practice in another school practice, or certainly
if you play in a game, either you or the
school owes us a buyout and will negotiate the buyouts,
just like coaches have buyouts their contracts. Yes, coaches can
(04:02):
go whenever they want, but we've got to start having
either the player or the school that that player goes
to pay the other team for developing that player, and
then that way the school has money to go out
and because if I give, if I give a hot
shot recruit. Let's say there's somebody that plays for I
(04:23):
don't know, North Charlotte and he has all the stats
in the world and Jeff Traylor wants him. So Jeff
Traylor says, well, what's your buyout? Okay, your buyout's twenty
grand and we'll pay you forty. Okay, it's going to
cost us sixty. All right, you come here now, and
now he's going to develop you for a while, and
you're going to be really, really good, and you're going
(04:45):
to set the world on fire. And then when you're
a junior or a senior, he's put time in developing you.
He's taught you. An assistant coach is to tell you
how to play. And now, okay, Texas or A and
M or Oklahoma wants you to come play for one
more year and they're offering one hundred. All right, that's fine, go,
but youos twenty thousand or twenty five thousand or twelve thousand,
(05:08):
whatever you negotiate in the buyout. By the way, we're
going to have Jeff on tomorrow to talk about the
spring practice how that's gone. And I know every coach
in the world holds their breast starting Wednesday for two
weeks because that's when the portal opens, I believe. So
we'll ask Jeff about that, and I'll bring up the
contract thing. Should should players start signing contracts with buyots,
because I think they should and I think it's the
(05:31):
right thing for Tennessee to do that. After they gave
a kid two million dollars that he's complaining that that's
not enough. See, you hit the road, and it's probably
not the kid that's worried about it. It's about the agent,
and it's about the mom and the dad, or it's
about the uncle that pretends to be the agent. And
here's the thing about the other thing too that we
(05:52):
need to get to. I think that if you're going
to be a college player that gets paid, whether it's
from a collective or it's from revenue sharing, you need
to not only have a contract, but either you represent
yourself without any kind of agency, or the agents has
to be certified, just like they are in the NFL.
(06:13):
You may not know this, but the NFL, all the
agents in the NFL are certified by the NFL to
represent players. Just because you have a law degree and
just because you're a negotiator doesn't mean you get to
be a guy's agent. In the NFL, there's a certification
process that you have to go through. So that's number one,
(06:35):
and then number two. The agents only get two percent
and that is the max deal and it's negotiated on
by the players Association in the league that whoever represents
you only gets two percent of your money. So when
when Rock Party signs for sixty million, it's only two percent,
So that's one point two million in my math, that's
(06:55):
all the agent gets. But you see this in this
college football stuff. Yeah, you see as you hear stories
about agents that are are taking ten percent and twelve percent,
and thirty percent and fourteen percent. It's all over the board,
and that's that. We got to stop that. So we'll
see what happens. But I'm glad Tennessee did what they did.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, you know, Josh Heipel went on to say that quote,
this program has been around for a long time. There
are a lot of great coaches, a lot of great
players who came before that laid the cornerstone pieces the legacy,
the tradition that is Tennessee football. It's going to be
around a long time after I'm gone and after they've
and after they're gone. And he also went on to say,
(07:38):
I want to thank him for everything that he's done,
that he's gotten here as a recruit, and who who
he was as a player, and how he competed in
the building. But there's no one bigger and there's no
one bigger than the Power Tea that includes me and
absolutely all right.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
We got one more segment in this hour. We've got
the WNBA Draft coming up, and we'll talk a little
bit about load manage. In the six o'clock hour, the
suns Of parted ways with Mike Butenholzer and we'll talk
with Art Strickland as he got to watch the Masters
up close and personal yesterday. All that straight ahead, it's
the Andy Everage Show on the ticket
I got some stuff for Doc Garrett coming up on Wednesday.
I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Andy, You're like, well, it's a day or whatever, and
I love you, but I hate to call you a tick.
But it's like it's a parasite that is slowly infested.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, you're just hooked on golf, now that's the whole thing. Yeah,
all right, yeah, but I got to talk to Doc
Garrett about how to get more flexibility, get looser, especially
at the start of the day. So we played in
this charity event this morning. The way well, the first
seven holes, I was not even there. It was just
my body was there, but I physically mentally wasn't there.
(00:41):
But I got to get I think I'm going to
have to start doing what Tiger does and get at three,
go wake up in three and start stretching, and you
take an ice bath and do all this kind of stuff.
Because the last seven or eight holes I played great.
The first seven or eight was disaster. So you have breakfast, yeah,
but I've always had breakfast, but I've got proper breakfast. Yeah.
(01:02):
I had bacon and eggs. That's what I usually eat
for breakfast. Okay, and no, and mostly all protein. No,
no carbs until later in the day and no carbs
at night.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Five hour energy.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That'll work.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I just need something to get looser because I was
I couldn't. I couldn't make a good turn. You gotta
be able to turn in this game. We gotta have flexibility,
all right. This weekend, Nico iyam Aleva said to the
Tennessee Football program. Yeah, there's two million dollars in that
you gave me for nil. It's not enough. I want more.
It's time for you to give me more. I'm not
(01:33):
going to play. So Josh Hipel didn't have a conversation,
didn't meet him someplace. He just said, we're moving on.
Next guy up. You're the quarterback. We'll go look in
the portal here next week if we need to and
see if there's somebody else out there. But you made
a deal with us. You took the two million. There
are no holdouts in college football. Good on Tennessee, Good
(01:55):
on on the volunteers. And I hope that this happens
only to teach him a lesson. He just got greedy.
And I hope whether it's UCLA or Oregon, or North
Carolina or two Lane, that he goes to I hope
he gets Dinnis Streeterer money. I hope he gets significantly less.
(02:16):
If you don't understand the reference. A few years ago,
the Lakers offered Dinnis Strooder like four years and eighty million,
and he said, no, that's not enough, and no team
picked him up. So he had to sign for the
league minimum in some god awful place like Toronto or
Washington or someplace like that. So and he was making
one point five million or two point five million when
he could have had four years in eighty And that's
(02:38):
one of the things that the athletes in college sports
are going to have to learn that you are important,
but when you make a deal, you can't renegotiate your
deal every time the wind blows. And if you think
that other teams are going to pay you more, then
just go there in the first place. And this is
why I say we need to get them. We need
to start signing, starting whenever the next round of letters
(02:59):
have sign I guess in December, this is how much
nil we're going to give you if you negotiate a
pre and IL deal or whenever you negotiate the nil deal.
It's attached to your letter of intent. I agree that
the school is going to give me this amount, or
that the collective is going to give me that amount,
and we're going to sign a contract, and that contract
(03:21):
is good for three years, four years, two years, whatever
the coach wants it to be, or whatever the coach
and the player agree to. And at some point the
player says, you know, it's time for me to go.
It's time for me to move on. I want to
go see if there's more money. Go in the portal,
and you can go in the portal for free, and
you can come back out of the portal and come
back to the team that you were on if you
(03:41):
so choose to do so, and the team still want you.
But if you play, if you enroll in the other school,
or if you practice in another school practice, or certainly
if you play in a game, either you or the
school owes us a buyout and will negotiate the buyouts,
just like coaches have buyouts their contracts. Yes, coaches can
(04:02):
go whenever they want, but we've got to start having
either the player or the school that that player goes
to pay the other team for developing that player, and
then that way the school has money to go out
and because if I give, if I give a hot
shot recruit. Let's say there's somebody that plays for I
(04:23):
don't know, North Charlotte and he has all the stats
in the world and Jeff Traylor wants him. So Jeff
Traylor says, well, what's your buyout? Okay, your buyout's twenty
grand and we'll pay you forty. Okay, it's going to
cost us sixty. All right, you come here now, and
now he's going to develop you for a while, and
you're going to be really, really good, and you're going
(04:45):
to set the world on fire. And then when you're
a junior or a senior, he's put time in developing you.
He's taught you. An assistant coach is to tell you
how to play. And now, okay, Texas or A and
M or Oklahoma wants you to come play for one
more year and they're offering one hundred. All right, that's fine, go,
but youos twenty thousand or twenty five thousand or twelve thousand,
(05:08):
whatever you negotiate in the buyout. By the way, we're
going to have Jeff on tomorrow to talk about the
spring practice how that's gone. And I know every coach
in the world holds their breast starting Wednesday for two
weeks because that's when the portal opens, I believe. So
we'll ask Jeff about that, and I'll bring up the
contract thing. Should should players start signing contracts with buyots,
because I think they should and I think it's the
(05:31):
right thing for Tennessee to do that. After they gave
a kid two million dollars that he's complaining that that's
not enough. See, you hit the road, and it's probably
not the kid that's worried about it. It's about the agent,
and it's about the mom and the dad, or it's
about the uncle that pretends to be the agent. And
here's the thing about the other thing too that we
(05:52):
need to get to. I think that if you're going
to be a college player that gets paid, whether it's
from a collective or it's from revenue sharing, you need
to not only have a contract, but either you represent
yourself without any kind of agency, or the agents has
to be certified, just like they are in the NFL.
(06:13):
You may not know this, but the NFL, all the
agents in the NFL are certified by the NFL to
represent players. Just because you have a law degree and
just because you're a negotiator doesn't mean you get to
be a guy's agent. In the NFL, there's a certification
process that you have to go through. So that's number one,
(06:35):
and then number two. The agents only get two percent
and that is the max deal and it's negotiated on
by the players Association in the league that whoever represents
you only gets two percent of your money. So when
when Rock Party signs for sixty million, it's only two percent,
So that's one point two million in my math, that's
(06:55):
all the agent gets. But you see this in this
college football stuff. Yeah, you see as you hear stories
about agents that are are taking ten percent and twelve percent,
and thirty percent and fourteen percent. It's all over the board,
and that's that. We got to stop that. So we'll
see what happens. But I'm glad Tennessee did what they did.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, you know, Josh Heipel went on to say that quote,
this program has been around for a long time. There
are a lot of great coaches, a lot of great
players who came before that laid the cornerstone pieces the legacy,
the tradition that is Tennessee football. It's going to be
around a long time after I'm gone and after they've
and after they're gone. And he also went on to say,
(07:38):
I want to thank him for everything that he's done,
that he's gotten here as a recruit, and who who
he was as a player, and how he competed in
the building. But there's no one bigger and there's no
one bigger than the Power Tea that includes me and
absolutely all right.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
We got one more segment in this hour. We've got
the WNBA Draft coming up, and we'll talk a little
bit about load manage. In the six o'clock hour, the
suns Of parted ways with Mike Butenholzer and we'll talk
with Art Strickland as he got to watch the Masters
up close and personal yesterday. All that straight ahead, it's
the Andy Everage Show on the ticket
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