Joel Klatt
Lead College Football Analyst
In a movement that came a bit of a surprise, Tennessee Quarterback Nico Iamaleoa submitted the transfer portal last weekend after he had helped the volunteers last season to reach the Playoff of the College Football.
The 20-year-old reportedly stopped for the spring exercises and asked for $ 4 million in name, image and parable (zero) money before the decision was made, so that many football fans apparently are upset and frustrated.
If you remember, the dedication of Iamaleoava to Tennessee as a secondary school also recovered with sub -zerul drama. I committed myself to De Vols after I had reported that I had found a zero package between $ 8 and $ 9 million for the duration of his time in Knoxville, which seemed bizarre at that time. Now Iamaleoa asks for more and I am excited to talk about the problem.
I don’t think Amaleoa is the villain who wants to make him, and I think there are other factories that play outside the extra zero money. The relocation of Iamaleava serves as the latest lightning distance of a Muy larger conversation about the era in which we are with College Football. Many people immediately went: “Well, this is crazy, it is broken and ruined,” but this is an example of sub -growing pains.
That of course does not mean that this does not hurt, or that it is not unpleasant. It simply means that you have to go this sub of these chaos to get to another place. College Football will have to do this Sund of these growing pains to get where to. That was the umbrella thought I wanted to share about Iamaleava before he looked at his decision to transfer more specific points via sub sub Sub.
This was inevitable.
The only thing that should be surprising about the situation of Iamaleova is that it took so long to get here. The vast majority of players who transmit in the spring window do this Beckouse of a zero dispute or scholapse that chases them more money. The other part of players probably does a match for a runway. As Nick Saban told us on the way to the door, players are concerned with two things: their value and how much money it deserves. Those two things are intertwined, that’s why I first mentioned value, because that’s how you earn your money.
What is unique about this is that a team finally said no, and that player kept his ground. I know that star players went to their teams with a prominent program in the past and asked for more Maley best to believe they have earned more, only to stay with the program, they are tolted no, but Tennessee – coach Josh Heupel said on Saturday that there is “no one bigger than the power t – who grabs me.”
Nobody was wrong here.
I am a bit proud of what Tennessee did in this situation, and Iamaleva was entirely within his rights. I have heard that this is only about money, although that is where the story landed. Iamaleova is here only a one -man band, where you have Tennessee a whole device to help control the story, to set up one player against the entire team.
Iamaleva just played with the rules. The fact that he kept his ground also indicates that there is more than money here.
The failure of the NCAA to the government has created this.
The NCAA has completely failed when it came to adapting to NIL and the transfer portal. Buried is the head in the sand and wanted to keep a model that was archaic, it was essentially collected that it had to change and enforce Ruls that stood in the books about boosters, play-for play and other things.
So now the NCAA is in void. Tennessee helped create this emptiness when the NCAA tried to infringe, among other things, the recruitment of Iamaleova. Tennessee has sued the NCAA, so that the organization sent a memo where it practically hit its hands and said it will no longer maintain anything when it comes to NIL.
Players, be careful with what you want.
Players, distinctive, want to exercise their value and leverage to maximize and get that value on the market via the transfer portal. Players must want leverage, but they always want it without costs. They must be careful with that. The pendulum that you have waved so far to the players that there will be a reaction and it will wave back to the schools at Sub Boint. Perhaps this is a bending point for those scientists, this is the first time it feels like a school has no player.
However, what players should not be read is not no. They must lead to an Sition where a program believes that they are left behind and that their services are no longer necessary. I don’t want to end up in such a situation, and the players would not want that Eithher will happen.
Will there be more ‘hold-outs’ in the future of the University Football?
Program and athletic directors must also feel free to tell coaches.
We have played situations such as Iamaleavas in University Football, but with coaches Instád of players for decades. We see Coaches this leverage handling about their programs and fan bases for years. They have used emotional leverage to their advantage when a prominent position is opened, so that millions are generated.
If you go back to where coaching salaries were 10 to 20 years ago, this was what you bought: the agents in this company began to understand that atletic directors would make emotional decisions. All those agents needed was a prominent vacancy for head coach, who led every agent to athletic directors and said: “That school really wants your coach. You have to pay him much more money so that he can stay.”
So if I say good to Tennessee for holding the line in this Sition, I have to be consistent. For years I beg athletic directors and programs to tell coaches. When Jimbo Texas A&M holds on the Coals Sellue LSU is open to the Tuene of more than $ 90 million, that is ridiculous.
Now that players do this, I don’t want to hear tears from coaches. Heupel has coached and played everywhere in Oklahoma. Let’s just call a kick to kick. Loyalty is what it used to be. That’s fine, gravy as londe we are not saying that one side is loyal, and the other is not.
Athletic departments will have to change.
Athletic directors cannot be the only ones who make decions and choices when it comes to the valuations of their head coaches. General managers must also be involved in this process for each program.
You may need general manager and a personnel department when it is time for evaluations and ratings of players. You have to endorse what a player can do for you and what your program is, so that you can draw a line and say, “I’m sorry, we’re not going there”, when the player comes to you. Coaches and athletic directors can make emotional decisions and do things as I suggested would be more efficient and cleaner.
Perhaps the Iamaleoa situation can cause change.
A collective negotiation agreement must be entered into to manage fewer power brokers.
Nil does not ruin the College Football. The transfer portal does not ruin football. Those are lazy stories. What University Football rests is the unimaging of the NCAA to enforce rules. There is a simple way to resolve this: a mutually agreed set of rules between all parties at Play-A CBA that is then enforced. Yes, it’s really that simple.
Now the construction of those rules will be difficult. There are far too many chefs in the kitchen in university athletics. Chancellors, commissioners, presidents and many more people have said. You had all these “stakeholders” who made a change to change things more difficult to do than try to run the Titanic. There were icebergs everywhere and that ship went on immediately.
I made this argument earlier and I will remain there. Power must be used by fewer individuals so that the Knilder can be, and we can create more systems that will be the government in the future. I think that the court happens and what we saw with Ieamaleova should take us one step closer to it. Perhaps the congress can help you create a Umbella.
And sorry, but the Big Ten and Sec Garling Garling more power is better for the health of university football in the future. The old system did not work. The old system no longer has any rules with zero, and that is a fuck. We need something else. I am going to take my chances, with 10 Peopleing agreeing with new rules instead of 1,000 people trying to do the same.
Joel Klatt is FOX Sports’ Lead College Football Game Analyst and the host of the Podcast “The show of Joel Klatt.“Follow him up @joellatt And Subscribe to the “Joel Klatt Show” on YouTube.
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