I’ve always known of FUCLA, but FUND also has a nice ring to it.
FTFO!
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good for Tennessee
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Very easy to do since they recruited the Brentwood, Tn. phenom in this class and the kid from Savannah, Ga. in the class before. Someone should have warned Nico that holding out with two easy replacements behind him was a dumb move.
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I would think that he will have a tough time finding a team. “He wants how much???” Maybe byu-provo can pick him up. They seem to have unlimited NIL money.
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Weirdly, he may end up at a better school. UCLA makes the most sense. SC, ND, UNC and from the rumors Oregon may be an outside contender.
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I hope no one wants the hassle and he drops to G4. I don’t really want schools with more power, but his behavior should be met with consequences. Overplayed his hand.
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All the 5-star qbs from 2023 except Arch are at different schools:
- Arch Manning: Texas
- Nico Iamaleava: Tenn → ?
- Dante Moore: UCLA → Oregon
- Jackson Arnold: OU → Auburn
- Malachi Nelson: USC → Boise St. → UTEP
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That QB from American Fork beat out Nelson at BSU. I don’t think he was heavily recruited. Utah sure could have used him last season.
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Out of boredom I checked Alabama’s QB class from that year. One’s at BC and the other is at Pitt. That class loves to move.
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Man, who would have thought that a few years later, Nelson would be at UTEP of all places?
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In the 2024 Class, 40% of the Top 10 QBs have already transferred after one season.
So, the good news is that position will be easy to replace in any given season.
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That’s insane.
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In this world of “get it all now” is it a surprise that a 19 year old kid with no time playing P5 football believes they are good enough to start? Nevermind before the portal 99 percent of them would be redshirted their first year to LEARN the offense and to develop their skills and bodies to be ready to play the next season.
I get a Frosh starter at a G5 or FCS school getting recruited to the portal by a P4 team. The NIL alone would be an enticement. The others? That a lot of ego providing some really bad advice.
Again, making it to the NFL is a crapshoot. Settling in, getting an education, getting paid to play football, and using that to help launch the next step after the football goes flat (and it always goes flat at some point) could be life and generationally changing.
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It’s the constant “You’re the next Big Thing” being told to them. It’s why Arch is a great get for Texas because he has a support system behind them to keep him grounded and realistic about the process.
Honestly, it’s like convos I have with some of my daughter’s friends parents that assume my daughter is getting in an Ivy or even a top end Engineering school (he current focus). You can have the scores, you can have the essays and you can have the ECs and time spent doing research etc but it’s all still a bit of a crapshoot. More so since I am not an alumn at any of those schools and I make decent coin but not million dollar a year level.
Delusional people and delusional expectations have become a very American trait recently (points at Washington DC).
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LOL. Shedeur is getting a jersey retirement after an 8th-place Heisman finish and a 13-12 record. I can barely see the Travis Hunter retirement as justified. CU hasn’t retired Cordell Stewart’s who went 27-5-1 and had them ranked in the top 10.
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stupid
Good grief, what a joke. Sanders was fine, but in the games I watched, he was bailed out A LOT by Hunter and two or three other good Colorado WRs. Retiring the jersey of a dude that went 13-12 and didn’t win a bowl game (getting blown out by BYU in the one bowl game he did play in) seems silly.
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I think retiring college numbers unless they die or were beyond the standard is such an odd move.
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UCLA’s gain.
Part of the path through the NIL storm? Hope so. Maybe. Maybe not.
“The power conferences have contracted with auditing giant Deloitte to review booster NIL deals and decide whether each is a legitimate endorsement contract or a veiled attempt to circumvent the salary cap,”
House vs. NCAA settlement gets possible revisions, but not on roster limits
Sifting legitimate NIL deals from the darker world of pay-to-play - ESPN
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