April 11, 2025 • 10 mins
Taking a moment circling back around the hot topic in the NCAA regarding Name, Image, & Likeness; Tennessee's quarterback Nico Iamaleava pronounced absent at the teams spring practice this morning has left a sense of confusion for many. Still actively in contract talks about his future at the University, many aren't buying and believe that this situation entirely has to do just regarding 'contract talks'. Most do believe this has every bit to do with NIL and money. Sean and Dan take a moment announcing Iamaleava's absence and what direction they believe college sports is heading following the constant ongoing issues around the NCAA involving NIL.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I live out there for the Sean Salisbury show continued,
and I'm actually going to start with the headline at first,
and that is Tennessee quarterback Nico im is it Idlava?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm glad I don't have the smalva. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I am Aliva. I think, yeah, that's pronounced well, Nico
im im Aliva. I think it's I amily. There you go,
there you go. Eventually we get there. But the headline,
Tennessee and Nico are in active contract negotiations ahead of
(00:36):
the twenty twenty five season. So so Tennessee's an NFL
team now, I mean that's and that's where you know.
I I laid out for a second, just for a
dramatic effect, to just finally get to what the hell
are we doing here? Like, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
College sports? Are we? We don't have college sports anymore.
They're pros And you could say what you want. I'm
glad the kids get paid, but there we're getting paid
the wrong way. We're doing it the wrong way. The
idea of doing it is right way. We got a
guy who's under contract hasn't won it. I mean, good player,
and there's but I got news for three years from now,
there's going to be another NCO there or something there.
(01:11):
Just is they're all replaceable that they are now. I
cannot believe we're sitting here at guy plays has a
solid year, got a lot of talent, got paid a
lot of money coming out of school to go to
school there, and now wants to renegotiate while he's on campus,
Like this is the NFL. Okay, So if he sucks
(01:31):
the first three weeks? Can I cut him? We should
be able to, you would think the NFL? Can I
cut him? Can I h without and cut him? Scott free?
You're no longer on scholarship. Did you got to go?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Do it? Cho?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You're not performing? We've talked about that on the show.
I cannot believe that I'm reading this when I did
this morning thinking this dude's under contract at a college,
has more latitude and bandwidth with money and to do
what he wants to demand that you either pay me
or I'm leaving as a Scott having already had nil
(02:02):
money in his pocket before this, and he's renegotiating, or
whether he's put the threat on the perception is well,
if not, I'll just leave And he could literally tomorrow
up and leave and be starting for another program for
fifteen million more dollars next year. And when people say
that's good, the pros can do it, No, they can't.
They absolutely can't do it. Neither can your coach. There's
(02:24):
a buyout, and as the NFL player, the NFL player,
you don't show up and we don't trade it and
you just get fined. You don't get to come. Let's
start doing that, and I would crush every single one
of these. I'm no longer I'm no longer team kid
when it comes to this anymore. I used to be
coaches get the opportunity with the buyout to go they're
at their dream job and leave again. I believe that
(02:45):
if you get recruited by that coach and in the
first year he leaves or two years, you can leave
with a free transfer. I'm okay with that because that's
the guy who recruited. Yet it's your first big decision. Sure,
but we got I'm no longer team kid, and I
coach them, and I'm no longer their team kid either.
I coach them to get him better, to have the
opportunity to go get paid. It doesn't mean I gotta
like the system. Love the kid, hate the system, And
(03:05):
if the kid's gonna milk the system, then you've better
put your big boy pants on, because I'm treating you.
And the biggest mistake we're doing is allowing Congress and
government to jump into this decision. Grown men at the table,
What a clear cut dumb ass idea. This is let
government that can't run their own nose run now a
college football an aisle. They're gonna screw this up even worse.
So if you thought it was bad, it will get worse. Republican, Democrat,
(03:29):
all of them together, I don't care keep government out
of sports because they will ruin it. I assure you
that's already been ruined. College football and college sports is
no longer college sports. And you can't tell me you
have the same feeling about it as you did, because
guys will walk across the street to go somewhere else
with no legacy, and they could have had fifteen people
at their alma mater been there and leave and leave
(03:50):
for a dollar extra. I'm glad the kids get paid,
but I no longer feel sorry for the kid, any
of them. We should treat them just like you do
in real world. Labor, I can cut you. You're gonna
sign a contract, you're gonna have, You're gonna I would
make academic requirements. Put this one on him that if
they're not attaining a certain GPA and working towards graduation,
(04:13):
they can't collect an eye ol money, not a dime
of it. Put that on them. So to make sure
at least if I only got you for a year
or two, you're going to class or you're not getting paid.
And how this we say, it's not hand to hand cash.
You're full of crap. It is hand to hand cash.
We got a guy who's a quarterback who is negotiating,
whether negotiating while he's already on scholarship and signed on
(04:35):
the dot line to be his letter of intent to
be there, and he's there. But now you can just no,
I'm not I'm gonna leave. The pros can't do that,
So don't tell me. Well, the pros, no, they can't.
They cannot up and leave. If they do, there don't
get paid and they get fined. So start finding them,
start putting a dollar fine on. Put a transfer like
a a what are the coaches? What is it called?
(04:57):
When they put a buyout on him and also academic
requirements on him, and also be able to cut him
and put an nil salary cap, so you can't go
get Nico if you're over the cap, and if you do,
you lose two scholarships a year. Start making it pros.
If you don't produce, I can cut you at the
water cooler. Sorry, and I'm don't feel one bit sorry
(05:17):
for you. Hopefully you invest your money. And this idea
of don't tax these kids on their money. Oh no,
right now, you get if you getting nil money, you
better be prepared. If you're making five million, it's all
getting taxed, not state tax because you live in Texas,
but if you live in a state tax, if you
live in California, you're in iol money's getting taxed, and
(05:39):
it should. Don't give these kids that break. They're pros. Now,
you don't get the leeway of oh, we're gonna, we're gonna,
We're gonna give you a break on it just because
you're nineteen. The nineteen year old makes more than the
quarterback coach does. He makes more than the coordinator does.
Even some head coach with out performing a drop or
peeing a drop in the league. I'm not saying, Nico,
(05:59):
he's playing a little bit, but he's still how many
national championship brings he got that?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean, that's the point that I was gonna get to.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
How many championship So we're paying him on potential and
kind of production and he gets to stop and renegotiate.
I don't know the kid from Adam, but the fact
that they get to do this. Listen, I'm talking to
the coach of the kids. I coach. I'm gonna do
everything I can to put you in position to be successful.
The way we got it is wrong. And please don't
ask me when you come to me and say should
(06:25):
I get transferred three or four times for more money,
because I'm gonna give you an answer you don't want
to hear, especially if you're not producing at the next level.
We got it wrong. Pay him, get him the right way.
Got to regulate it. Keep Congress out of it, because
you'll be more screwed than you already are. And I
don't feel I'm no longer team kid when it comes
to nil and money and the kid, because the kid
(06:46):
can make He makes more than the coach, and he
can transfer any time he wants. The pros can't, so
we're giving him. You know what does this make up
for lost time? Stop it? Just frigging stop it. So sorry.
I'll coach your kid as hard as I can. But
if you're asking me, should he be able to transfer
and get money three different times, the answer is absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, just it shows the wrong thing to do. That's
not good enough. Fire somebody else.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I just this stuff that you can stop down in
the middle and negotiate while you're under sky. Why you're
basically under contract and still demand more. Nah. Sorry, it's
not a free enterprise. I'm all for, but you don't
get free enterprising in our job. If you decide to
leave during a contract, you can't go work somewhere else
(07:31):
for an extended amount of time. It's called a non compete.
And people have him in all walks of life. But
we're gonna let an eighteen year old and makes more
money the guy who's coaching, who's been in the business
and move seventeen times to get his job at forty
save it. Say, I'm all for money regulated, and they
don't deserve more money than the head coach. Sorry, they
don't go through some tough times get kicked in the teeth.
(07:52):
Let him fail a little bit. And this is an embarrassment,
the fact that he can just renegotiate while he's on
scholarship and underneath there, you know what, I already start
looking for replacements. When a guy starts that, I'd start
saying he may bail on us. So be prepared to
put somebody in there, not just him, anybody. There's no
sacred cows. Manning's replaceable, quinn Ewers is replaceable, Nico's replaceable.
(08:16):
All of them are replaceable. If they weren't. Why did
Notre Dame and Will Howard at the Ohio State to
transfer quarterbacks? Why did they get the job? Because they're
not superstars, but they were more experienced in better than
the five star guy you paid eight million bucks to
who can't get on the field because you don't trust
him in a national championship game. How's that for perspective?
The guy who wasn't supposed to make a big dent
(08:38):
to transfer kind of quarterbacks that are mid round type picks, right,
But man kg and can lead us? Well, where's the
five star for ten million dollars? As a freshman? I
thought he was that good? He can't beat out a transfer,
who's going to play maybe in the NFL for a
handful of years. Yeah, save it. I'm no longer team
kid when it comes to ANIL period, and I'm sure
it's hell not team Congress.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And for Nico, I would say that probably you want
this headline to come out if indeed you did go
out to Ohio State last year and win that game
but you got smacked.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, and he's a good player, and he may be
the one same. I didn't do any of this. They
they're weird. I don't know. I don't nobody. But if
you have an agent, I can cut you. That's the
way I look at it. You've got an agent, you're
you're like the pros and the big boys. Then I
can treat you just like they treat your dad or
your mom. Hey man, you've underproduced. We're laying people off.
(09:28):
You've had three games, but you've thrown three picks. I
either got to I'm asking you to take a pay
cut or I'm gonna have to cut you and you
can go to class, but you're gonna have to pay
for it yourself or transfer to another school. Then you
go ahead and leave. But if I over and then
if I got an nil where I got a salary cap.
Now we keep him and he leaves on us, we're
(09:50):
gonna get doc scholarships, and then you got to pay
buy out. Treat him exactly like you do coaches. They
want big boy treatment, they want big boy money. Let
him have big boy circumstance and come to Jesus times.
I have no problem with it. And I don't feel
sorry for one eighteen year old kid that's getting paid
and is transferred twice and then gets benched. I don't.
I have zero, zero sympathy for it. Either work harder,
(10:12):
work smarter, or find another profession. Sorry, And it is
a profession in college sports now period. So I love
the kids. I'm not team kid. When it comes to
you being able to leave and do whatever you want
anytime going, we got to put a stop to it.
College sports will never be what you want it to
be again. Ever, get used to it. It's pros. Reality
comes for us all that's for sure. In a reality
(10:34):
that we have in this business, well, somebody in the
business found it out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We'll let you hear that coming up right here. Sean
Salisbury Show
I live out there for the Sean Salisbury show continued,
and I'm actually going to start with the headline at first,
and that is Tennessee quarterback Nico im is it Idlava?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm glad I don't have the smalva. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I am Aliva. I think, yeah, that's pronounced well, Nico
im im Aliva. I think it's I amily. There you go,
there you go. Eventually we get there. But the headline,
Tennessee and Nico are in active contract negotiations ahead of
(00:36):
the twenty twenty five season. So so Tennessee's an NFL
team now, I mean that's and that's where you know.
I I laid out for a second, just for a
dramatic effect, to just finally get to what the hell
are we doing here? Like, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
College sports? Are we? We don't have college sports anymore.
They're pros And you could say what you want. I'm
glad the kids get paid, but there we're getting paid
the wrong way. We're doing it the wrong way. The
idea of doing it is right way. We got a
guy who's under contract hasn't won it. I mean, good player,
and there's but I got news for three years from now,
there's going to be another NCO there or something there.
(01:11):
Just is they're all replaceable that they are now. I
cannot believe we're sitting here at guy plays has a
solid year, got a lot of talent, got paid a
lot of money coming out of school to go to
school there, and now wants to renegotiate while he's on campus,
Like this is the NFL. Okay, So if he sucks
(01:31):
the first three weeks? Can I cut him? We should
be able to, you would think the NFL? Can I
cut him? Can I h without and cut him? Scott free?
You're no longer on scholarship. Did you got to go?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Do it? Cho?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You're not performing? We've talked about that on the show.
I cannot believe that I'm reading this when I did
this morning thinking this dude's under contract at a college,
has more latitude and bandwidth with money and to do
what he wants to demand that you either pay me
or I'm leaving as a Scott having already had nil
(02:02):
money in his pocket before this, and he's renegotiating, or
whether he's put the threat on the perception is well,
if not, I'll just leave And he could literally tomorrow
up and leave and be starting for another program for
fifteen million more dollars next year. And when people say
that's good, the pros can do it, No, they can't.
They absolutely can't do it. Neither can your coach. There's
(02:24):
a buyout, and as the NFL player, the NFL player,
you don't show up and we don't trade it and
you just get fined. You don't get to come. Let's
start doing that, and I would crush every single one
of these. I'm no longer I'm no longer team kid
when it comes to this anymore. I used to be
coaches get the opportunity with the buyout to go they're
at their dream job and leave again. I believe that
(02:45):
if you get recruited by that coach and in the
first year he leaves or two years, you can leave
with a free transfer. I'm okay with that because that's
the guy who recruited. Yet it's your first big decision. Sure,
but we got I'm no longer team kid, and I
coach them, and I'm no longer their team kid either.
I coach them to get him better, to have the
opportunity to go get paid. It doesn't mean I gotta
like the system. Love the kid, hate the system, And
(03:05):
if the kid's gonna milk the system, then you've better
put your big boy pants on, because I'm treating you.
And the biggest mistake we're doing is allowing Congress and
government to jump into this decision. Grown men at the table,
What a clear cut dumb ass idea. This is let
government that can't run their own nose run now a
college football an aisle. They're gonna screw this up even worse.
So if you thought it was bad, it will get worse. Republican, Democrat,
(03:29):
all of them together, I don't care keep government out
of sports because they will ruin it. I assure you
that's already been ruined. College football and college sports is
no longer college sports. And you can't tell me you
have the same feeling about it as you did, because
guys will walk across the street to go somewhere else
with no legacy, and they could have had fifteen people
at their alma mater been there and leave and leave
(03:50):
for a dollar extra. I'm glad the kids get paid,
but I no longer feel sorry for the kid, any
of them. We should treat them just like you do
in real world. Labor, I can cut you. You're gonna
sign a contract, you're gonna have, You're gonna I would
make academic requirements. Put this one on him that if
they're not attaining a certain GPA and working towards graduation,
(04:13):
they can't collect an eye ol money, not a dime
of it. Put that on them. So to make sure
at least if I only got you for a year
or two, you're going to class or you're not getting paid.
And how this we say, it's not hand to hand cash.
You're full of crap. It is hand to hand cash.
We got a guy who's a quarterback who is negotiating,
whether negotiating while he's already on scholarship and signed on
(04:35):
the dot line to be his letter of intent to
be there, and he's there. But now you can just no,
I'm not I'm gonna leave. The pros can't do that,
So don't tell me. Well, the pros, no, they can't.
They cannot up and leave. If they do, there don't
get paid and they get fined. So start finding them,
start putting a dollar fine on. Put a transfer like
a a what are the coaches? What is it called?
(04:57):
When they put a buyout on him and also academic
requirements on him, and also be able to cut him
and put an nil salary cap, so you can't go
get Nico if you're over the cap, and if you do,
you lose two scholarships a year. Start making it pros.
If you don't produce, I can cut you at the
water cooler. Sorry, and I'm don't feel one bit sorry
(05:17):
for you. Hopefully you invest your money. And this idea
of don't tax these kids on their money. Oh no,
right now, you get if you getting nil money, you
better be prepared. If you're making five million, it's all
getting taxed, not state tax because you live in Texas,
but if you live in a state tax, if you
live in California, you're in iol money's getting taxed, and
(05:39):
it should. Don't give these kids that break. They're pros. Now,
you don't get the leeway of oh, we're gonna, we're gonna,
We're gonna give you a break on it just because
you're nineteen. The nineteen year old makes more than the
quarterback coach does. He makes more than the coordinator does.
Even some head coach with out performing a drop or
peeing a drop in the league. I'm not saying, Nico,
(05:59):
he's playing a little bit, but he's still how many
national championship brings he got that?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean, that's the point that I was gonna get to.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
How many championship So we're paying him on potential and
kind of production and he gets to stop and renegotiate.
I don't know the kid from Adam, but the fact
that they get to do this. Listen, I'm talking to
the coach of the kids. I coach. I'm gonna do
everything I can to put you in position to be successful.
The way we got it is wrong. And please don't
ask me when you come to me and say should
(06:25):
I get transferred three or four times for more money,
because I'm gonna give you an answer you don't want
to hear, especially if you're not producing at the next level.
We got it wrong. Pay him, get him the right way.
Got to regulate it. Keep Congress out of it, because
you'll be more screwed than you already are. And I
don't feel I'm no longer team kid when it comes
to nil and money and the kid, because the kid
(06:46):
can make He makes more than the coach, and he
can transfer any time he wants. The pros can't, so
we're giving him. You know what does this make up
for lost time? Stop it? Just frigging stop it. So sorry.
I'll coach your kid as hard as I can. But
if you're asking me, should he be able to transfer
and get money three different times, the answer is absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, just it shows the wrong thing to do. That's
not good enough. Fire somebody else.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I just this stuff that you can stop down in
the middle and negotiate while you're under sky. Why you're
basically under contract and still demand more. Nah. Sorry, it's
not a free enterprise. I'm all for, but you don't
get free enterprising in our job. If you decide to
leave during a contract, you can't go work somewhere else
(07:31):
for an extended amount of time. It's called a non compete.
And people have him in all walks of life. But
we're gonna let an eighteen year old and makes more
money the guy who's coaching, who's been in the business
and move seventeen times to get his job at forty
save it. Say, I'm all for money regulated, and they
don't deserve more money than the head coach. Sorry, they
don't go through some tough times get kicked in the teeth.
(07:52):
Let him fail a little bit. And this is an embarrassment,
the fact that he can just renegotiate while he's on
scholarship and underneath there, you know what, I already start
looking for replacements. When a guy starts that, I'd start
saying he may bail on us. So be prepared to
put somebody in there, not just him, anybody. There's no
sacred cows. Manning's replaceable, quinn Ewers is replaceable, Nico's replaceable.
(08:16):
All of them are replaceable. If they weren't. Why did
Notre Dame and Will Howard at the Ohio State to
transfer quarterbacks? Why did they get the job? Because they're
not superstars, but they were more experienced in better than
the five star guy you paid eight million bucks to
who can't get on the field because you don't trust
him in a national championship game. How's that for perspective?
The guy who wasn't supposed to make a big dent
(08:38):
to transfer kind of quarterbacks that are mid round type picks, right,
But man kg and can lead us? Well, where's the
five star for ten million dollars? As a freshman? I
thought he was that good? He can't beat out a transfer,
who's going to play maybe in the NFL for a
handful of years. Yeah, save it. I'm no longer team
kid when it comes to ANIL period, and I'm sure
it's hell not team Congress.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And for Nico, I would say that probably you want
this headline to come out if indeed you did go
out to Ohio State last year and win that game
but you got smacked.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, and he's a good player, and he may be
the one same. I didn't do any of this. They
they're weird. I don't know. I don't nobody. But if
you have an agent, I can cut you. That's the
way I look at it. You've got an agent, you're
you're like the pros and the big boys. Then I
can treat you just like they treat your dad or
your mom. Hey man, you've underproduced. We're laying people off.
(09:28):
You've had three games, but you've thrown three picks. I
either got to I'm asking you to take a pay
cut or I'm gonna have to cut you and you
can go to class, but you're gonna have to pay
for it yourself or transfer to another school. Then you
go ahead and leave. But if I over and then
if I got an nil where I got a salary cap.
Now we keep him and he leaves on us, we're
(09:50):
gonna get doc scholarships, and then you got to pay
buy out. Treat him exactly like you do coaches. They
want big boy treatment, they want big boy money. Let
him have big boy circumstance and come to Jesus times.
I have no problem with it. And I don't feel
sorry for one eighteen year old kid that's getting paid
and is transferred twice and then gets benched. I don't.
I have zero, zero sympathy for it. Either work harder,
(10:12):
work smarter, or find another profession. Sorry, And it is
a profession in college sports now period. So I love
the kids. I'm not team kid. When it comes to
you being able to leave and do whatever you want
anytime going, we got to put a stop to it.
College sports will never be what you want it to
be again. Ever, get used to it. It's pros. Reality
comes for us all that's for sure. In a reality
(10:34):
that we have in this business, well, somebody in the
business found it out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We'll let you hear that coming up right here. Sean
Salisbury Show
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