Bama is putting a good portion of their chips in that class in the Manning basket. Probably gonna come down to a Bama - Texas battle and I have heard Mannings have some hesitations with Sark. I heard Bama's pitch..it was simple yet very effective. Heard Bill O'Brien told other staffers that Arch could have started at Bama this season..processes things that well.
Miami actually has me more worried than Oregon. If we keep on him (NIL deal) and survive a Miami visit I think we get him.
Pair him with Marcus Lemonis working on NIL deals and Miami is dangerous again. I bet they take over Clemson in the ACC in short order.
From VQ. The family making another cross country trip to Knoxville next month. “We will start with everyone’s favorite topic and that’s Nico Iamaleava. Tennessee crushed his visit last weekend. No ifs ands or buts about it. The family was blown away by the trip and the outpouring of love from the fanbase. In our estimation, Tennessee is the team out in front for Nico. Joey Halzle has been so good in this recruitment! He is super tight with the family and Nico is very partial to the California native. Nico and the family will be back in town on April 9th”
Iamaleava reportedly has an $8 million NIL deal offer from us and we are well ahead of most schools on the NIL landscape.
8 mil, that's insane! I'm curious to see how crazy the NIL landscape gets before it gets wrangled in, if it ever does. If donors pay it, then so be it. Maybe I need to be rich enough that contributing a mil here and there is just chump change, then...then maybe I'd understand.