Andy & Ari On3 - OFFICIALLY official: Former Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava lands at UCLA
Episode Date: April 20, 2025We’re excited to announce we’ll be hosting Andy & Ari On3 LIVE from the Draft in Green Bay on Thursday, April 24 and Friday, April 25! We’ll be set up right outside the famous Frozen Tundra of L...ambeau Field at the Culver’s Great Wisconsin Tailgate. Born in Wisconsin, Culver’s is the home of the legendary ButterBurger, Fresh Frozen Custard and Wisconsin Cheese Curds—there’s no better representation of America’s Dairyland than that. We’ll have some very special guests throughout the Draft that you won’t want to miss, so stay tuned for more details and get ready for a weekend of fun, made fresh with our friends at Culver’s: https://go.culvers.com/culvers/sAkHCIt’s finally official! Former Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava is joining the football team at UCLA. After a week and a half of drama, Iamaleava lands at a Big Ten school close to home. Andy and Ari break down the move...(0:00-0:59) Intro(1:00-4:02) Did Nico have to take a pay cut from what he would have made at Tennessee?(4:03-6:40) Is Nico’s plan still to go into the draft after three college seasons, or does this situation change that?(6:41-9:15) What competition will Iamaleava face at UCLA? How tough is the Bruins’ Big Ten schedule?(9:15-12:47) What happens with current UCLA QB Joey Aguilar, who transferred there from Appalachian State?(12:48-14:07) Culver’s Great Wisconsin Tailgate!(14:08-20:23) Nico’s message to Tennessee and UCLA fans(20:24-27:41) Are we going to talk about UCLA more now with Nico there?Subscribe to On3! youtube.com/on3sports/?sub_confirmati... Welcome to On3 | The best of college football and recruiting https://www.on3.com/ Listen to Andy & Ari On3 on podcast! Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/5AhQ4d2m5TQu5Q2vkwtxjt?si=d9016221aa2a4427 Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-staples-on3/id1695325427 Follow Andy Staples on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Andy_Staples Follow Andy Staples on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andy_staples Follow Ari Wasserman on Twitter: https://x.com/AriWasserman Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/on3sports Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/on3/ Like/Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/On3Sports/ Hosts: Andy Staples, Ari WassermanProducer: River Bailey Want to partner with the show? E-mail advertise@on3.comÂ
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You hear the sirens, you know what that means.
It's an emergency edition of Andy and Arianne 3 presented by Culver's.
Ari, it is officially official.
Nico Iamaljava is transferring to UCLA.
We kind of knew that was happening, but now he's said it and UCLA has said it and everybody said it and now the real
fun begins yeah I don't know if it's just me but I'm hearing the sound effects
again but I think we probably should play it twice because this is a big deal
we've been waiting for what like a week now for this to come we kind of knew
that this was gonna happen it happened And now we can finally contextualize what it actually means,
because there's a lot to unpack here.
One, did he make a good deal?
We don't know exactly what that deal is,
but I would probably bet a hefty amount of money
that he is a hefty amount of money
short of what he was probably going to make at Tennessee
as a result of all this.
And not just the 12.3% state income tax in California. Like,
yeah, I asked that question, because I was debating when I was
writing the YouTube description of this video. And I asked that
question to myself, like, do people care if he got the same
bag or a bigger bag or a smaller bag? And like, yeah, they
definitely care. And I think if we just use logic, look at the
fact that he essentially took Tennessee
out as a bitter. By skipping the end of spring practice, there is
no. There is there was not a huge market for him. There were
not a lot of schools clamoring for him. I think logic tells us
he probably getting less than he was going to get at Tennessee.
Yeah, I think that this is an interesting case study too,
in terms of what's interesting.
Because I don't know if fans actually
care what the specific number is when a deal is just
made up front.
Like, if Nico would have made $6 million at Tennessee or $12
million in his initial contract, I
don't know if it would have been any different for anyone.
But when somebody tries to involve themselves in a strong arm negotiation tactic, then people
are extremely interested in whether or not that paid off because I think there's a lot
of people out there Andy that are trying to see whether or not this is the beginning of
a trend of some sort. We've talked extensively on this channel about whether or not we think
that's the case and right now bad negotiation tactics and what it seems they did to me
doesn't really tell you much,
but there is a interest because
Shadenfreude doesn't just exist on Saturdays and games.
Shadenfreude exists with individual players.
And like we've talked a lot about Niko as a man
and individually, and I personally don't think
he's a terrible human.
I don't think he's a scumbag.
I think he tried something in his camp tried something it didn't work
But the thing that I think is most interesting that gets lost in this whole discussion about how much is he gonna make and I'm in
State income tax and if he's clearing 500 K here and would have made you know 1.7. They're like
What about this?
Is the situation
The football situation better for him?
Like, right, you know, because to me, it's like, what if he goes to a place that has fewer good players around him?
And I know that Tennessee isn't particularly the beacon of wide receiver depth, but goes to a place where the offensive line isn't as good, the running backs aren't as good.
The pedigree from the head coach in terms of developing quarterbacks for the league isn't there in
comparison to Josh Heiple.
And just like this move alone, if you took money aside, is this the right move or a bad
move football wise?
Because this could hit him in the pocket right now, but this also could hit him in the pocket
a year from now when he's preparing for the draft.
Well, I think that's the legitimate question. I think that's the thing that probably got lost
in all this is the real money is still in the NFL. Yes, they're paying college players a lot
of money now, but the real money is in the NFL. The real money is in your second contract in the NFL.
And does this get you a high enough draft pick? And we're operating under the assumption that he
would leave next year for the NFL. I
think that is what he and his camp have been operating under
the entire time that he was going to go to college for three
years and go to the NFL. But what if he has a bad year? What
if what if the line's not very good and he gets sacked a lot
and it's not really no fault of his own like what what do you
do then? Well, here's the thing if he gets sacked a lot and
shows a lot on film
in terms of potential,
I think if he were to re-enter the portal in the wintertime,
he might end up at a third school next year
that might be more situated to prepare him for the draft.
Like if I had to do an outrageous prediction right now.
And a bigger market money-wise too,
probably at that point.
I think there's probably a,
if I had to guess, there's probably a 1% chance or 2% chance
that he's back at UCLA next spring, okay.
I would say there was a 70% chance
that he is starting for a different college program
at this time next year,
and a 29% chance that he's in the draft.
What do you think about my math breakdown there?
I think it's barely realistic. I think it's a pretty, because I just don't know, I don't know how hard and fast that plan is right now, we heard a lot about Nico behind the scenes
during his recruitment, okay?
Like this isn't just familiarizing ourselves with Nico
for the first time right now.
And my understanding from the Nico camp
at the time that he was being recruited
was a steadfast plan of Tennessee for one year,
or for three years, first year red shirt, two
years start pro that was there on paper plan when he got to Tennessee and things
were fine for the first two years of that plan. He redshirted although there
should have been more of a discussion potentially of whether or not he should
have played that first year, but he didn't. He played in the bowl game, had a
pretty good year this past year, and like now
things are completely off the rails. But like I went in before the negotiation even started, Andy, with the anticipation
that Nico would be leaving Tennessee a year from now anyway. So yeah, like I just don't know. He hit himself in the
book right now in terms of like guaranteed income from an NIL standpoint, I think he hit himself in the pockets potentially a lot more drastically in terms of where he's going to get
drafted next year, if at all, and his, you know, and if he doesn't get drafted or doesn't go to the
to the NFL draft next year, then the year extra that he'll have to wait for a second contract.
Yeah, it's going to be a pretty difficult situation.
Because I don't think this is as easy as Tennessee. I don't think
it's a setup as Tennessee. The the schedule is not simple. I
mean, they're in the big 10. They're gonna be playing good
competition. But this is what he wanted. He wants to be a big 10
school. By the way, if you're watching on Twitter right now,
join us on YouTube, you can watch the rest of the show on YouTube. We're gonna keep
talking about this. We have a lot of things to talk about
because we need to talk about what happens at Tennessee next.
We need to talk about what happens with Joey Aguiar, the
quarterback who UCLA brought in. So we'll talk about all that
rest of the show. Okay.
And I just put a link on my Twitter if you need to find it
too. It's easy to find. Yeah, exactly. If you've been watching on Twitter,
it's right below that link.
So here's the thing.
Going to the Big 10, that's not easy either.
It's not like you move from the SEC to the Big 10
and all of a sudden things get easier.
You're not on as good of a team as you were in the SEC. And playing in the Big 10 is no slouch. Like the Big 10 is pretty deep.
Yeah, would would probably say that the competition is at least on par. You know,
you know, you open with Utah, by the way, at a conference. That's no picnic either.
Yeah. Well, here's the thing, though. I mean, I think that the Tennessee schedule was unquestionably harder than this UCLA schedule is, but if your team is, you know,
proportionately not as good, then it's still going to be a struggle.
And of course you play Penn State and Ohio State, two teams, Penn State at home, Ohio State on the road that, you know, people think
could potentially win the national title in 25. So this is a interesting.
Hey, you gotta go to the snake pit that is Bloomington, Indiana.
They're playing at UNLV too. Is that real? Or is that a graphic
error?
No, no, that's, that's, that's real. So listen, this is not
going to be an easy situation. Like you're just not gonna walk
in and everything's be easy. But it wasn't going to be easy at
Tennessee this year either, because we don't know if
Tennessee was going to be as good this year as they were
last year. They are still pretty deep on the defensive
line, but they lost some really good players. They're revamping
the offensive line because they had some some older offensive
lineman that have moved on in the NFL. It's not going to. It
wasn't going to be an easy season either way.
He's going to have to be really good.
Nico's going to have to be really good to elevate his team, whether he had
stayed at Tennessee or now at UCLA.
He'll have to be really good.
Now I see this in the chat.
GBO Kyle says, Joey Aguiar, Tennessee might just go get him.
Mike says, agree.
Joey should head to Tennessee.
A lot of questions in the chat about Joey Aguiar, who was Appalachian State's quarterback the last two years, took a
good deal to go to UCLA, was by all accounts having a really good spring at UCLA, had gotten
along with Tino Sunserri, their new offensive coordinator. Yeah. And now.
What happens to him?
Does he stick around and compete with Nico?
Does he go try to find another school?
Does he? If this would be crazy,
go to Tennessee like would Tennessee
consider that because listen,
I'm sure Josh Hypel is well aware of
what Appalachian State has done now.
Appalachian State fired their coach last year.
That's one of the reasons Joey Aguilar. people is well aware of what Appalachian State has done. Now Appalachian State fired their coach last year.
That's one of the reasons Joey Aguilar was on the move.
But he had a great year in 2023.
I just, I wonder,
because you and I talked about this the other day.
We talked about this on Friday show.
I think everybody assumes that Tennessee takes
another quarterback that it's
somebody who they're just throwing the NECO money at.
Just because they take another quarterback
doesn't mean they're signing him for $2.5 million,
or they're gonna sign him for $3 million.
They tried to get, according to the Fort Worth Star
Telegram, they tried to get Josh Hoover from TCU,
did not get him, he got a raise and stayed at TCU.
But if it's Joey Aguilar, there's no guarantee
that you'd bring him in to definitely start over Jake Merklinger or George McIntyre.
So you'd bring him in for less.
He's probably gonna get to keep whatever UCLA has paid him so far because they probably feel terrible about this whole thing.
Mm-hmm.
Why?
It's the funniest possible outcome. Why not?
Well also too if Tennessee is feeling good about the two
quarterbacks that are on the roster right now and they wanted to find a third body to compete,
like that makes sense. Now the problem here is that Joey went to UCLA under the pretenses
that he was going to play. He's going to start right there. And I think that like if he is to
leave and I probably would expect that he would because not only is this kind of a bad deal for him, but like, I think that
it's possible too that he wasn't completely kept up the speed during the process behind
the scenes.
Oh, I think that's happening.
So like, it's very, very much the case.
The lack of information flowing to the guys in the UCLA quarterback room over the last
five days or so, I think they should all be pretty pissed off about that.
I made some waves last week Andy saying that Tennessee was with a dream
scenario for everyone to step up and take it man could you imagine like this
scenario playing out him going back to Tennessee or going to Tennessee excuse
me and then winning a job there and then being good but he would be a Tennessee. Like I don't know if he's in a position where he would want to
not go to a place that guarantees him the starting job, but this might also just be a casualty of bad
timing because how many other places are out there that are like you can come in and like I don't know
how many places are looking like we were talking about this all last week. How many schools are
actually looking for a quarterback? He might not have a better option in Tennessee can pay him you know
pay him commensurate with his value which would still be a you know probably a two and a half
or a two million dollar savings on what they were going to pay the quarterback was it well
maybe not because they're gonna have to up the other guys too well he was gonna get you know
probably a good chunk of change at UCLA. And again, he's probably gotten
a third of that already. So that's the craziest part. All right. Let's talk a little more about
this first though. I can tell you about Culver's because they are bringing us to the draft this
week. Ari and I are going to Green Bay. We're going to be there on the frozen, well, not on the frozen
tundra, but very close to the frozen tundra at Lambeau Field
at the Culver's Great Wisconsin tailgate.
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of the legendary Butter Burger, fresh frozen custard
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They have brought it out to the rest of America
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But we're heading back to America's Dairyland
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You won't want to miss it. That's right, Curds. We're having some curds on set. Those are the guests. Yeah. I mean,
like, I don't know who's going to, who we're talking to, but no, no, no, no. Potential first
round draft picks is who we're going to talk to, but you will also, yeah, we'll give them some
curds. You know who you're talking to though. Like, you know, first round draft pick or curds. I mean,
I'm going curds, uh, 80% of the time, 80 to 100% of the time. Yeah, but yeah, super excited to get out there, Andy.
And it's gonna be a really awesome time. I've never been to
Green Bay. I don't know that if you have, but just like I have
not, I'm very excited. So it's a little cool in Wisconsin. Not
crazy. This is like, whenever me and you go places, you've always
been there. I don't think I've ever gone to a place with you
that you've never been.
First timers, both of us this time. Yeah, it'll be fun. So Nico not going to a place that he's
never been. He's going home. So he's an LA guy going home to LA. I do think that's got to feel
nice. That's a let's let's hear what Nico wrote, because I thought his message in announcing his commitment was pretty
good. There's not much you can say at this point. It's hard to put this into words when
all of us have been spilling words about you for a week and a half without you getting
a chance to really say much. So here's what he said. He said, first and foremost, I want
to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for his grace,
for continuing to bless my family,
and for allowing me to live out my passion
each and every day.
To the amazing people in Knoxville,
thank you for embracing and uplifting me
throughout my time there.
I'll forever be thankful for the support
you showed me every step of the way,
and I'll always cherish the relationships I built there,
and the memories I created with all my brothers.
I believe with all my heart
that I gave my all as a volunteer.
I'm truly grateful for the time I had at UT.
My journey at UT has come to an end.
This decision was incredibly difficult
and truthfully not something I expected to make this soon,
but I trust God's timing
and I believe he's leading me where I need to be.
Even though this chapter is now ending,
a new chapter has begun and I am committed to UCLA.
So interesting that he said it that way that truthfully it ended sooner than he
thought. Yeah.
Sooner than all of us thought, bud.
But I think that the thing that I found interesting about that language and I
don't know how much like, you know, 37 year old men should be reading into, um,
uh, Instagram captions here, but like this decision was incredibly difficult and truthfully not something I expected to make this soon.
He's talking about the UCLA decision or is he talking about the decision leaving Tennessee?
I'm pretty sure he's talking about leaving Tennessee. The decision was incredibly difficult
and truthfully not something I expected I think is an interesting
Byproduct of this man. That's something I expected this soon like
Yeah, yeah, cuz we think you expected to go to the NFL for three years. So next year you were out I wasn't like you were gonna do it in August
But I read that as not something I expected to do
at all
Meaning look correct. That's the translation of it. You weren't expecting him to leave
Tennessee at all. None of us were. And then he was. Yeah. Um, but here's the thing though,
because I think that like part of the reason why so many people are interested in this,
Andy is because of the ha look at what you did. Greedy, greedy dude. Like that's like
the thing. Sure.
Like what if he goes to UCLA and lifts up a team
that people didn't really expect much from
and becomes a first round pick?
Like we have to give him the benefit of the doubt too
of like, hey, he's still a good football player.
So like, and this is a tremendous pickup for UCLA.
It's not a team that we talk about very much on the show,
but like now you have a quarterback
that was making national headlines for the last three years leading a program that I
Truthfully believe has been underachieving for a decade like I you know UCLA with the right coach and the right formula is a pretty good
Program or could be I don't know right and I know everybody made fun of DeSean Foster because of what he what he said
It big 10 media days and everything. I actually thought he did a good job considering the circumstances last
year. I thought they developed an identity as the season went on. They beat Nebraska,
they beat Washington. I really thought that he, considering the situation, because remember,
Chip Kelly left at a very awkward, inopportune time. DeSean Foster didn't get a lot of chance
to do much. So now he is, one of the things
he did, he had brought in Eric Bienneme as the offensive coordinator, Bienneme long time
chiefs offensive coordinator, but he didn't really call the plays. Andy Reid did. So everybody
wondered, okay, what happens when he calls the plays? Well, it didn't go that well for
UCLA. So he's headed back to the NFL. Tino Sonseri comes in. Now Tino Sonseri has not called plays either,
but he was the quarterback's coach for Kurt Signetti
at Indiana and at James Madison.
So he was working with Mike Shanahan
who was calling the plays.
And so they walk into the schedule, which is, look,
not easy.
We were just talking about that.
They open with Utah at home.
They get Penn State at home.
They've got to go to Indiana.
They've got to go to Ohio State.
They beat Nebraska last year, but can they do it again?
We think Washington's going to be pretty good.
And of course, you've got USC.
And Ari, I'm thinking of the psychological damage
either direction here.
What if Nico leads UCLA to win against USC?
And USC's seven and five again.
Yeah, I mean I maybe just really wanted to go back to Columbus and give it another shot.
I don't know.
God, it's cold.
It did not go well.
I go well.
I thought he played as well as he could have in that game.
It wasn't his fault.
I did.
I did too.
Yeah, I think that you know, he was in a he was in a position
of great difficulty there and I thought he showed great poise in that game.
Yeah, so this is heavy.
I'm happy that we have the answer to this.
I'm sure we're going to talk about it again on the show on Monday.
But the dominoes now, I think, are interesting.
And I'm very curious to see how Tennessee moves forward with this.
And they've had plenty of time to kind of anticipate this was going to happen. are interesting and I'm very curious to see how Tennessee, you know, moves forward with this and, you know,
they've had plenty of time to kind of anticipate this was going to happen.
And, you know, my curiosity is real.
Like, I mean, I could really, you know, how I am,
I can talk myself into really good storylines like Joey Aguilar headed out to,
um, to Knoxville, Knoxville, which would be, I mean, that's,
we are saying that because it's the most convenient thing for us to say and it'd be
funny. Makes sense though.
Chances that happening seem
pretty slim to me. I know,
but it does make sense.
I think it's just a matter in
matter of like whether or not Joe,
I think it would be similar to the
Steve Angelli conversation we had
where it just be hit thrown him
thrown in competing with the other
two guys and we'll see. Yeah,
Boy.
What have we what we've talked about this for a week straight? What have we missed? I mean, we're 20 minutes into this thing. What have we missed? Is there anything else that we
that we need to discuss, Andy? I think we've hit it all. I think I'm I think now we move on.
Actually, I do have one question because. Because you mentioned this and it got me thinking.
Are we going to talk about UCLA more now because of Niko?
Oh yeah.
Because UCLA was not a team I expected
to talk much about this season.
Because like I said, I thought they did a good job.
I thought Deshaun Foster did a good job
considering the circumstances last year.
Do you remember that Iowa game?
What's that?
I think that Iowa game.
Yeah.
Or the Iowa game. Not why I said they beat Washington. I meant Iowa. Iowa is the game? I think that Iowa game. Yeah, the Iowa game. I said they beat Washington.
I meant Iowa.
Iowa is the game I was thinking of.
Yes.
Yeah, they beat the crap out of them physically in that game.
And I came away thinking, man, you know, you see that was a Friday night game.
You're like, oh, they're figuring some stuff out.
And so I'm actually kind of excited and like talking to Sean Watson last year at
Big Ten Media Days because believe it or not, what he said on the stage was not everything he said.
Like talking to him about his plan to revitalize UCLA recruiting and bring in more guys from
the high schools in LA.
Like he has a plan.
And so I do think there'll be much more interesting now that Nico's there because I was looking
at them, you know, possibly as a bowl team and maybe not much more than that. And so we probably weren't
going to talk about them very much. But I guarantee you, we're gonna talk about them a ton now.
Yeah, I mean, every single game, especially in the first half of the season becomes interesting
because everyone's gonna I mean, I don't know that like the interest in Nico in his path has ended
today because we know where he's going now. It's, is this, I mean, like, listen, we, whether he made a right move financially, I think has already, you
know, the Hayes, what do they say in rural areas, the Hayes in the barn or the Hayes
in the barn? The Hayes in the barn with that. But the Hayes is not in the barn in terms
of whether or not long term financially, he'll be able to make himself whole. Cause if he
does have a good year, I mean, people get drafted from random schools all the time.
You don't have to go to Tennessee or Alabama or Ohio State
to get drafted as a quarterback.
So if he shows growth and potential
and maybe even realizing some of that potential
based on his physical ability, then I
think he has a shot to maybe still get drafted pretty high.
And I don't know what went on behind the scenes
and who was pulling the strings
and how many people pulled them in a direction
that he may or may not have wanted to go.
We don't know what it was like in those rooms.
But what I do know is that he bears some responsibility
for this, but I'd be willing to bet
that he doesn't bear all of it.
And I'm not wishing him ill will.
I hope that he finds himself and as a chance to make his he's a young guy who's listen when we were 1920 21 years old
we sure as hell weren't perfect either. So this is a young guy who's doing the best he
can now I do it his Instagram stories these past few days have been interesting too, because
I kind of want to defend him on this one, because you've got him saying, you know, that,
hold on, here we go, there it is.
It's a picture from the Ohio State game in the playoff.
It says, damn, I tried to sit out and throw the playoff game too.
I don't know where that that came from.
We sure as hell didn't say that.
We certainly didn't accuse that I nobody on three did.
I don't remember seeing that in a lot of places, but that was something that was out
there last week. And listen, I don't blame him for being pissed about that.
I'd be pissed about that, too.
Ari, like the idea of saying he threw the play.
Like we watched him in the playoff.
You know how it goes with this stuff.
Would he have been?
Would he have been running so much against that nasty Ohio State defense if
he didn't care in that game?
I just put his body on the line.
Yeah, I mean the throwing thing is ridiculous and I think what happens is
when somebody wrongs you it's like how everybody's ex-girlfriends ugly.
You know what I mean? what happens is when somebody wrongs you it's like how everybody's ex-girlfriend's ugly you know
what i mean like oh yeah right you know you know or every single player that commits to another
school the school that wanted him really bad was yeah we didn't want him anyway like that's how
people are and try to rewrite history i don't know if you know his dad threatened holdout before the
game or whatever but like in terms of what we saw on the field that day there's no way he threw
that's that's insane. Absolutely not.
You know, Ben in the chat says that's him selectively choosing what to bitch about. He knows damn well
why people are mad at him. No, you're allowed to defend yourself against the thing that isn't
true. Like, yeah, he knows why people are mad. He's not notice he's not trying to defend himself
against why you're mad at him. Yeah, yeah. I mean, and he was doing a little, one of these in his Instagram
story today. So he seems to be, you know, in pretty good spirits and you know,
it, uh, guess what, Andy, we're a podcast. We talk about college football.
We added another important program to watch moving forward.
And that's a pretty exciting thing to thought.
The last thing I'll leave you with is this, um, UCLA, you know,
damn well, they don't fill up their own stadium.
And I don't know if that's an LA traffic thing or if that's a off-campus thing or however
you want to excuse it.
But my general understanding of UCLA is that they don't have the financial backing as a
program or a fan interest as a program to do what needs to be done from a financial
aspect to be competitive
in the current scale of things. Now that might be changing being in the Big Ten with Rev
Share coming down the pike, but I do think it's interesting that they found enough money
to get him to go there. It definitely wasn't what he was going to get paid at Tennessee,
but it wasn't 200 grand either. And I wonder if this investment in Niko trying to get him
in to bring some more eyes on the program to, you know, put a high figure person at the most important position is a line in the sand of like UCLA trying to be good.
Like, I think that that's an interesting thought process too. It's not just how good is Nico going to be and how much did he make everybody else's commitment to trying to build a winner there?
Especially USC right down the road isn't necessarily letting the world on fire recruiting Southern California
Like I think there's a path there for UCLA
With the right investment and the right people and the smart people
To actually be a pretty good to great football team down the line
And I wonder if this is the first domino to fall of like, hey, we're changing things up here.
That's just a thought.
Yeah.
It's an interesting thought and more eyeballs will be on
them this year because of that.
So it's up to them to take advantage of this opportunity.
We see your eyeballs on us right now.
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We're going to be talking about Bryce Underwood,
his performance in the Michigan Spring Game.
We're gonna be talking about Colorado offensive lineman Jordan Seton saying how
hard it is to build a brotherhood with people just hopping into the transfer
portal and bopping out.
And Ari, college football never stops.
There's always something to talk about.
And Andy, I don't know if we said this at the jump, but I just wanted to say to you and to everybody listening, if you observe, have a happy Easter.
Thank you so much for joining us on a very important day and I'm really, really glad to
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