Here’s one of the places I got the info about Iamaleava’s agent. https://atozsports.com/nashville/vo...holdout-family-drama-josh-heupel-dan-lanning/
Are buyouts for NIL deals the answer? Interesting article on it in USAToday. I don't see it as an answer though since the NIL money comes from multiple sources it's not a single contract. In other words, schools must start inserting significant buyouts into contracts. It can’t be hit and miss, or high school and transfer portal players will simply shop and sign with schools that don’t have buyouts. If all power conference schools have NIL deals with buyouts, the possibility of player holdouts at least comes with a caution signal. The machinations within the deal are then inherent obstacles. How much is the buyout? Who pays the buyout? How much will the buyout affect the new deal? “Not 100 percent of it is exactly what you want,” Heupel said when asked about the current state of college football. NCAA solution for Nico Iamaleava situations is NIL buyouts
This guy is a great player and from what I read an actual student who went to class and took academics seriously. So this is a head scratcher, granted I give him that he would like to play both ways. But if he can't then he's taking his ball and going home? He'd give up the millions that he'd be making to get an actual job rather than just be an All-Pro on one side of the ball? Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter told CBS Sports that none of the teams he has met with in the weeks ahead of the NFL draft has made an issue of him playing both offense and defense. However, if an NFL team told him he had to focus on wide receiver or cornerback and not play both, it would be game over for him. "It's never playing football again," Hunter told CBS Sports. "Because I've been doing it my whole life, and I love being on the football field. I feel like I could dominate on each side of the ball, so I really enjoy doing it."
I wonder if NFL coaches/management take this kind of ultimatum into consideration when making draft decisions?
A bunch of tweaks to the rules were announced. including this one In an effort to curtail players faking injuries, a concern that has permeated throughout college football for years, the NCAA announced Thursday that its Playing Rules Oversight Panel has approved changes to the injury timeout rules starting this fall. Under the new rule approved Wednesday, if medical personnel enter the field to evaluate an injured player after the ball is spotted by the officiating crew for the next play, that player's team will be charged a timeout. If the team doesn't have any timeouts remaining, a 5-yard delay-of-game penalty will be assessed. The proposal to adjust the injury timeout rule resulted from teams faking injuries to stop their opponents' momentum or avoid using an allotted timeout. NCAA changes TO rules to combat fake injuries
I don't quite understand this one... • No offensive player can be in the direct line of the snap to the potential kicker or within the frame of the snapper on punts for the formation to qualify as a scrimmage kick formation. If a team is not in scrimmage kick formation, it must have five players numbered 50 through 79 on the line of scrimmage. Additionally, if the snapper is on the end of the line by formation, the snapper will lose scrimmage kick protection, and the opposition can line a player over the snapper.
The snapper is protected by not allowing the defense to put a defender directly over him. Some teams may have used this to their advantage when running a fake punt maybe?
If I'm reading it right, it's when teams are doing a "trick" line up with a bunch of guys to one side or the other... either leaving the snapper alone, or at the end of the line. In that case, you can now defend the snapper whereas before you couldn't put anyone over him because he was protected. A normal kick won't be affected.
NFL Draft is coming, I thought this interesting comments on the 2 QB's who lead their teams to the Nat'l Championship game. From an Athletic article about QBs, sources are anonymous coaches/front office types in the NFL Who is your sleeper that you don’t think is getting talked about enough? OC No. 2: “(Notre Dame’s) Riley Leonard. He’s the best one to develop. I think he has a lot to work with. He’s a great athlete. Really good basketball player. Smart. Really tough.” Scouting director No. 1: “I don’t know if Leonard gets enough credit for his toughness. I thought he did such a good job of getting his team as far as he got them, and at the combine, he looked confident and comfortable out there playing quarterback.” Passing game coordinator No. 2: “I think Will Howard has a chance. It’s hard to call a guy who just led his team to a national title a sleeper, but I don’t think a lot of people are talking about him. I like the efficiency with which he operates. I kind of like (Syracuse Kyle) McCord. He doesn’t move great, but he’s accurate and I think he can replicate that.”
In the crazy portal world a player can transfer to a new school, go through Spring and if he doesn't like the new school, just go back to the old school. Quarterback Ryan Browne has decided to transfer back to Purdue after joining North Carolina earlier this offseason. Browne committed to rejoining the Boilermakers on Friday after entering his name in the NCAA transfer portal Wednesday. The 6-foot-4, 210-pound redshirt sophomore started two games for Purdue in 2024 but moved on amid the program's head coaching change and went through spring practice under new Tar Heels coach Bill Belichick.
Nico made it official that he's going to UCLA. I wonder if he took a pay cut? Bruins are not a good team and don't have a good offense, maybe he'll be the guy to change that. Mean time the question will be how will Tenn fans take it if the Vols struggle on offense and take a step back from being a playoff team?
Well the Vols now have a kid who transferred to UCLA in Dec from App state and with the two brothers coming to UCLA ...he's out of there to Knoxville. Madden Iamaleava's anticipated cross-country move caps off a busy 36 hours for the UCLA quarterback room. On Monday, shortly after Nico Iamaleava's commitment to UCLA, Joey Aguilar, an Appalachian State transfer who signed with the Bruins in December, entered the portal. By the end of the day, he had found a new home, with ESPN reporting he plans to sign with Tennessee, completing a quarterback trade few, if any, could have seen coming two weeks earlier.
The sport is being remade. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors on Monday proposed deleting 153 longstanding rules from its handbook, a move that will allow schools to share financial benefits directly with players -- an expected step towards a new era of amateurism in college athletics, but one that remains contingent upon the approval of the House settlement. NCAA board members met for about four hours on Monday and emerged with nine major proposed legislative changes, including permission for schools to provide direct financial payments to players, including for use of their NIL. NCAA leaders are aiming to reshape the organization's role and are poised to effectuate sweeping changes by July 1 if the settlement is approved. Schools have until June 15 to decide whether to opt to provide benefits that would be permissible under the settlement for the coming academic year. Proposed legislation also includes sport-specific roster limits and allowing full scholarships to all student-athletes on a declared roster -- a move the NCAA said will double the scholarships available in women's sports. NCAA floats rules for direct payments to players
R.I.P. Mike Patrick, for years a well-known football and basketball play-by-play announcer. Age 80. Natural causes. I was neutral toward him, which means - in my book -that he was good at his craft.