Nico Iamaleava Highlights NIL Chaos

College sports are a mess — and the Nico Iamaleava situation proves it. College football

is starting to feel like a badly run pro league. Players deserve to get paid,

but this system is breaking. Nico reportedly wanted his NIL deal raised from $2.2

million to $4 million, skipped practices, then entered the transfer portal right before the

spring game — while coaches couldn’t even reach him. And this isn’t a generational star.

It’s a middle-of-the-pack SEC quarterback who didn’t live up to the hype. Tennessee will be

fine, but the bigger issue is obvious: No structure. No guardrails.

Total chaos. I’ll still watch on Saturdays — but a lot of fans are starting to check