Andy & Ari On3 - The transfer portal is OPEN FOR BUSINESS and Nico is IN

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

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Portal Combat! Welcome to Andy and Ariane 3 presented by Culver's... We should have some techno music playing now. Do do do do do do do do do do do! That didn't land with you, does it? You didn't even know what I'm talking about, did you? I mean, the way you made that noise sounded like Mario Kart, so I don't know, like, where we're... Mortal Kombat? You didn't play Mortal Kombat? I don't know if I made that noise sounded like Mario Kart so I don't know like where

we're where we were going combat you didn't play Mortal Kombat. I'm just saying you're I know. Yeah finish him. I played it. Yeah, I mean I was yeah, I don't think I remember vividly being in the car with my dad driving to school when

I was like in third grade and asking him how old do I have to be to play Mortal Kombat and he's like dude. I don't even know what that is. I'm like that. I remember that. Well, I know there's a lot of you saying finish him when it comes to Nico and just tell us where he's going, but we don't know where he's going, but we do know this.

Nico Iamaliava has officially entered the portal with a do not contact tag. Don't call me. I'll call you. Does this mean that Team Niko knows where he's going or does this mean that they've already been working on this thing for several days and don't really need any more suitors?

Does it give you hope that maybe they were more equipped to do this than we thought? Nothing they've done gives me hope, but you never know. They could surprise us because this is the sort of thing that if you are actually negotiating with him, let's say you've been negotiating with him since Saturday, it's not something you'd want to advertise because you're going to get killed for it. Especially if you're going to meet his price. But, because the thing that I think is interesting about this is you're in a position where you want as many suitors as possible bidding.

Obviously money is what drives you. Where wouldn't it be in the situation to begin with? So why would you put the do not contact tag on? You would want as many offers from as many people as possible to create a sense, to create a hot market, right? Like I don't understand that. I just think the do not contact,

it's sort of like the velvet rope at the nightclub and you let the line build up, even though there's nobody in the club yet, because you want people to see the line outside the club like this is an exclusive deal. This is this is a five star quarterback. We can't just have any old school emailing. Yeah, that's it. That's it. I didn't think of it that way. That's a really good way to put it.

And they certainly think they're they're dealing with an exclusive product that. Is worth more than most of the quarterbacks in the country. Now we know that the market may not be there for that, but I like how have you been in the chat's idea. Just go to Hawaii and just call Hail Mary's. I'm all for that. Like if you can't get the right deal, if you can't get however much money you want just do the funniest one. Yeah. I'm wondering if we're going to find out today.

As a result of this to the timeline of it seems a little bit different now to me. I don't know if I'm over analyzing the do not contact tag. You tell me, is there anything to look into there or do you think that this is just another scheme and an attempt to draw up, drum up some interest? I mean, let's, Ockram's raised with this one. Do not contact tag almost always means

I know where I'm going. Right. So I say we operate from there that they know where they're going that they've they've because they've had days to talk it over. We've talked to people from different schools who were not interested. We know the market is probably not what they thought it was going to be but I'm sure there are interested schools and I'm sure they've been talking to him. Yeah, I mean, there was no way that he wasn't gonna get a phone call from somebody, right?

Like he's too good of a player to, I mean, there have been people who have done way worse things than Nico who have gotten second chances in football, right? Correct. Some of the biggest stars in the NFL, I'm not gonna name their names, you know who they are, have done some things that make them reprehensible human beings and people still cheer for them.

So like I understand that Tennessee fans have vitriol towards him and they should. I would too if I were a Tennessee fan. But that doesn't mean that he's a terrible human. Even people who get, listen, Andy, you ever been in the casino and up with that dude when we were in New Orleans together on the cooler by the way if in case nobody knows when we were in New Orleans together. Andy wanted to go on a walk and I was like, okay or whatever. I don't know what you were doing. We're going to dinner. We're getting we're going to push out butcher.

Yeah, but I went two hours or an hour and a half earlier than you. Yeah, and I was in the casino and I was crushing it. I was crushing it. I think I was up like 1,200, 1,400, 1,500 bucks. I don't remember. And then Andy comes and I had all the money that I came with in my pocket.

And I'm like, you know what, Andy? Let's create a story. Let's create a memory. And I just started hammering the blackjack hands, trying to get greedy and take the winnings and play with house money and triple or double that up and try to get out of there up two or three grand. And I got cool that he stood behind me and I got destroyed. And he's like, I'm so sorry about that. I'm like, Andy, that was that was that was

I'm never going to meet you in a casino again, because I am I am the cooler. But the thing about it, though, is is that like, I have done what Nico has done, we all have done it, maybe not to the same scale. and maybe if it's a bigger scale, it's worse because you're already made with two and a half million in the year. I don't know if trying to turn a thousand into three at the casino for a normal person like me is the same thing as somebody turning their back on two and a half million dollars for one season. But I understand the feeling of we're a hot product. We are commanding a ton of money already. There are other people that we perceive to be better than commanding more in this market. Let's try to push it. I think it was stupid. I think it was a

bad move. I think it was bad business, but I don't think he's a bad person. Like, so like to me, like I knew that he was going to go into the portal and get some interest. I just don't think he's going to make what he would have made because that's what happens when you keep playing blackjack. Sometimes you get cleared out. Sometimes you hit, but sometimes you clear it out. Right now, Nico still feels like he has a chip in a chair. He's still at the table and has a little stack in front of him.

Maybe he can go on a run and the shoe gets hot. Somebody comes in at the ninth hour and pays him a ton of money to come there. But I don't know that this is going to be a, well, you're out of luck. You're going to a community college now. I know he'll find a place to play. Yeah, it just probably isn't going to be what they envisioned when they put the screws to Tennessee.

And look, I think we can pretty safely say that staying at Tennessee for the deal they were on would have been the better move. But maybe they'll surprise us. Fence post in the chat says go to Syracuse. That's Tennessee's first opponent. That would be incredibly funny. Now Syracuse did name Ricky Collins as starting quarterback last week. So I don't think that's gonna happen. I don't think that's possible. One time when I was in

middle school I a girl told me that we were in a relationship and Then she hit the portal like the next day so anything can happen Naming somebody to starters is it's a cute thing to think that that matters if somebody is better is on you know Fran Brown He's trying to win their man if he thinks there's that there's an upgrade and they can get him. They'll do it What would the reaction be at Neyland Stadium? What would the welcome at Neyland Stadium be for Nico Iamaleava? Week one.

That would be the thing that gets us to off the Ohio State Texas game, right? Because it's the same day, right? Oh, we go. Wait, is that that's in Atlanta, right? That's not in Atlanta. It is in Atlanta. in the stadium. Oh, it's in Atlanta. It is in Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, okay. It's still gonna be mostly Tennessee fans.

It'll be hard to tell because everyone will be wearing orange, but it'll be mostly Tennessee fans. That, that would be such a loud boo. The girl's name. Yeah, we would not be going to Tennessee, Ohio State. We would be going to that game in Atlanta. Just so you know, her name was Jenny Stein

and it still stings, just so you know. I was like, listen, Jenny doesn't deserve this smoke. You won. I don't know where she is. She's probably happily married with kids. I just want her to know that she hurt five, like seven year old me. Like I thought we had something. Well, Josh Hyple, I guess hurt Nico. Yeah. Or Nico or Josh Hyple. I, it is amazing to me that this has continued to, to, to bubble and boil and we were not going to make every show this week about Nico. I promise. Like that was not the original plan, but it just keeps getting more interesting. Yeah. And he, this is actually an interesting thing too, because I want to get into something I wrote from on three and the Wolverine scoop here, put something on here and he

said, if Nico wasn't bigger than the power T, then why was he getting paid more than any UT player while he was still in high school? He's getting paid less than Josh Hyple and Josh Hyple says he's big, not bigger than the power T either. So I do think that you're gonna need a pretty large amount to be bigger than the power T. But it's an interesting, I wrote an entire column about how nobody's bigger than the power T.

I'm with you on this Andy, but I will say that if you pack up the money, as you mentioned, for somebody at the beginning of their, at the end of their high school career, before they step on campus, you are cultivating a thought process, right or wrong, that you are more important than the power T you. Like and that's the gamble of doing this, which I think we've covered extensively. So, you know, this to me is an important

thing to realize as Tennessee and other programs go for high school kids for big amounts of money, because if you do pack a huge message in the form of a check with multiple commas right out of the gate, you are cultivating an environment that promotes this type of behavior. And you talked about that. So it's a smart discussion. It's the do you. How much do you evaluate how motivated by money they are?

Because it is an important part of the evaluation now. Like if they are purely a highest bid player and they don't care about any other factors, if it's clear they don't care about whether they're going to get developed or whether they're going to win championships, like you're probably going to have to take a few of those players on every team. You're probably going to have to, but you cannot, you can't build the whole boat out of them. And that's, that's the issue. And you probably can't do it at quarterback. Let me rely on your big brain here for a second.

That's able to recall things that I can't recall. Um, are there players that were like Nico in the recent years that we viewed as pay for play type guys that went somewhere specifically for money who actually turned out to be great program players. Like I'm trying to think like there isn't anybody that comes to mind that like went to a place that they wouldn't have gone otherwise. Okay, well, I give you one. I give you one. I give you one. Allegedly. Because no one's ever proven that money changed hands. Cam Newton.

Yeah. Allegedly. Allegedly Auburn pay. I just mean in the NIL era where it's all out in the open too. Oh. Because Cam Newton didn't have a choice back then. Like once you were at Auburn. That's true. It's having the choice to leave for more that makes this interesting. Yeah. I'm trying to think of guys who left. Like, so Caleb Williams left Oklahoma, but that was to follow Lincoln Riley. But I don't know that I would even consider Caleb Williams being a pay for pay.

Like Nico, I wouldn't either. I don't think because it was, he was just going to USC. Like if Caleb Williams, when he was leaving Oklahoma wanted to make the most money, he would have just opened it up. Yeah. And the other thing too, um, is maybe there just aren't that many. Maybe Nico is an interesting, and like Tennessee is like good program

that recruits at a high level. But the five star prospect from Southern California winding up at Tennessee during that point in time, probably wouldn't have happened without money involved. Right? Like it's a fair thing to say. Correct. That was a time when those types of players went to a few pools and that was it.

And Tennessee, as Producer River says, desperately needed a splash. And Tennessee too was parading how they were first to NIL as an accomplishment. So I don't think that it's bad, but you know, I guess, you know, you could, there's a few people in here that are saying Quin-Shaian Judkins, right? Because they ended up winning the national title. But if Ohio State would have lost to Texas in the semifinals, then he would have just been another player that played at Ohio State for a year.

He might be a legend now because they won the national title, but I don't know that I would confirm it. But he is that type of player. That was the knock on him at Ole Miss is that he wanted to renegotiate quite a bit. So like, that actually is a pretty good example. And he turned out to be what Ohio State paid for. Yeah, maybe Caleb Downs. But again, I don't know that Ohio State is falls into the category of wouldn't have got this type of player otherwise. So like, you know, maybe the list of

small, which is why I'm having a hard time coming up with other examples. But this leads into what I wrote today, Andy, which is at the right price, somebody is worth a stab. And we got into this a little bit, you know, yesterday with Nacos on the show. But now that he's not here and we can yell at each other, I wanted to revisit it. So you read the column. Before we do that, I want to tell everybody who's watching on Twitter right now. If you want to keep watching the show, join us on YouTube, the link you're watching on Twitter, just scroll down to the next tweet from me that has the link to join us on YouTube, the chat is much

livelier. You have a much better chance to get your your comment put on screen, you join the conversation, you can yell at Ari, because I'm about to, but join me in yelling at Ari on YouTube. We'll see you there. Okay, Ari, you were saying. There's this notion that Nico is untouchable right now. And I saw like even Paul Feinbaum said this, I think that you alluded to this a little bit, that he is somebody that would create instant cancer in a clubhouse, cannot be trusted, is unhinged, could leave at any moment, could hold out in the middle of the season. All these different things are the reason why this human being can't be paid or trusted. I think, and this is a story that Pete

also reported yesterday, which is there's a ton of programs out there waiting to see if the price becomes more reasonable. But I think he's 1000% worth a stab for a million dollars for a program that otherwise wouldn't have a chance to get him. And the reason why is because you're already going into that under the assumption that he wants to be in college for one more year. You won't have to deal with any other portal windows with him because the assumption is that he's gone at that point. He desperately needs to have a good year on tape if he wants to make it to the NFL, which is obviously the ultimate goal. And if you're a team that needs a quarterback or an elevated, you know, stature at the position with a high ceiling that a million dollars has been spent in the NIL era in way worse ways by other programs than it would be for, you know, let's say like a Maryland who lost their quarterback recently or even a Syracuse or a Wake Forest or somebody who wants to create a splash. At the very least, you get butts in the seats. I know people like you, I as Judas, but let me tell you one thing we know unequivocally about college football, Andy, no matter where he ends up, the fans of that team are going to root like

hell for him. Like he could be a hero with somebody else. Of course, it's sort of like how Ohio State fans hated Urban Meyer when he coached Florida and then loved him when he coached Ohio State. All politics are local. when he goes to Ohio State. Oh yeah, that's how it works. All politics are local. So to me, as we wait to see what happens, the do not contact thing kind of throws a wrench in the notion that he might slide down the market.

But I kind of view this, the equivalent of what- I think they all know who to contact, as Gabe Mills says in the chat. Yeah. He entered with the do not contact tag, is that because you have to contact his dad instead of him. Yeah, everybody knows who to call. I wish it was a contact dad tag I probably would have used that at 20 or 9

So I am NOT gonna yell at you about this one We will I think we may get a little more heated if we talk about our boss's suggestion Which you tend to agree with and I very much disagree with I don't know but we'll get to that but Maryland or some school like that, yes, I think a school that is in a situation where they need a quarterback who can upgrade their talent on offense that was in a position where like so Maryland's a good example of this. Like they need to have a good year. Yeah, they need they need to have a bowl type season or a seven or eight win type season for Mike Loxley. And they've had some really bad fortune with this. Like Billy Edwards Jr.

was a pretty good quarterback for them last year stolen by Wisconsin, like lost them in conference. That's the type of program that could use somebody like Nico. You throw a million bucks at him, see if he says yes. Like, why not? Yeah. And like also to Nico's taking his medicine and understanding, hey, this wasn't the right play. I've got to salvage what I can.

I can still go to a power school in a big time conference, try to compete at a high level and get to the NFL. And if you play well, because listen, we can't erase the notion that there's a chance that he reaches or gets closer to reaching his ceiling. As we said on the show yesterday, 25% better play last year means he's probably still a Tennessee and getting what he wants. Maybe not all that he wants,

but they would have come to an agreement of some sort because Tennessee would have been more apt to not want to lose him. And like, I think that there is a situation out there that could exist that we're not talking about. Maybe the answer is he's just going to end up at UCLA later today. Maybe that's what's going to happen. But at the very least, I think that for the right program, this isn't a person who committed

a violent felony or something. He is a normal guy who might have gotten caught up. We don't know the extent of his own, you know, doing in this and his responsibility, I think that as an adult, whether you're somebody who leans on your dad or not, that you don't bear any responsibility for it. Because I think when you're making $2.5 million a year, you should take control of your life. You can take control over your own life at this point. But at the same time, I don't think that he's

untouchable or that he's a cancer that can't be like put into a locker room. I disagree with that notion. So I wrote that that's it on three. Now. Now do you want to go to another thing that before before we do that, I want to tell everybody about Culver's because we are going to Green Bay next week. We'll be hosting Andy and I live from the draft Thursday and Friday of next week in Green Bay. So previewing the first round Thursday night on Thursday morning. Recapping the first round, getting you ready for the next set of rounds on

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building a case and I've just like, no, absolutely not. Before you go through it, Andy, I want you to know that earlier in the day, before I read Shannon's tweet, it actually occurred to me that it could be a possibility because these two parties might find that they need each other. Okay, go ahead. Yeah, okay.

So here's what our boss, Shannon Terry, tweeted. "'What if Tennessee takes back Niko?' Hypal lays down the rules for Niko's return and his family. The deal stays the same, but Tennessee builds in wind-based incentives, which you can't actually do under current rules. Dad apologizes to Bi7CH-Nikos and a bad situation turns good. Now, I don't think that's going to the Bible verse Luke 15 11 through 32 so chapter 15 verses 11 through 32 That is the story of the prodigal son if you don't know your Bible stories

And so the story prodigal son if you if you haven't been to Sunday school is you got two brothers? One does everything right one is a complete screw-up The screw-up leaves to go screw up some more elsewhere. And then one day he comes back and dad's like, Hey, we're gonna kill the fatted calf or throw in a big old party. And the brother who does everything right, who always obeyed his dad is like, what the hell? What are we doing here? And dad's like, we have to celebrate because he was lost. and now he's found.

So would Tennessee kill the fatted calf if Nico were to come crawling back? I don't think so. I don't think there's any chance. I think you would get the opening scene of Godfather 2 in Vegas when the senator's trying to shake down Michael Corleone and Michael Corleone says you could have my offer now. My offer is this, nothing! And that was theology with Andy and Ari. I uh- And Godfather 2. The thing that I think we need to like, this is like a very heavy conversation.

We have to start with the first part, which is, do you think if Nico publicly apologized, his dad called himself an idiot for doing what he did, we played ourselves. We're sorry that Tennessee fans would accept the apology. That's the number one question that I have. Because they thought it would win him two more games this season. They'd accept the apology. Like that's the number one question that I have. Because they thought it would win them two more games this season. They'd accept the apology. Okay. So here's the thing.

I've been on the bad side of all Twitter. Okay. Not as bad as Niko, but yes. Recently. Okay. Now I'm not their quarterback and I didn't leave them high and dry. I'm good with them now. Like I'm on I've got ball Twitter behind me now.

I do think that if Tennessee fans feel in their guts. That Nico. Could win them an extra few games or gives their team the best chance to win, and he apologizes that this they they could conceivably move on from it. Now, there are two different things that you have to consider here, Andy, which is what do the fans think, right? And then of course, what do the people behind the scenes who were involved in the contentious contract negotiations to begin with think? And those might be two very different things. Like they might not want to deal with it anymore. I mean, when you get to a contract

negotiation, when you get into a negotiation with anybody or an argument with anybody, it gets to a point where you don't wanna speak to that person anymore. And we might be there, okay? So like, I'm not saying that this is like a perfect solution. My question has always been and will remain to be as if Tennessee sticks with Merck Slinger and he's not a very good player yet.

I'm not saying he won't be eventually. I love that everybody who watches the show is gonna be calling him Merck slinger and probably thinks that's his real name. But I'm fine with it. Let's go. What is it? What?

I thought it was his name. Mercklinger is his real name, but he's Merck slinger. Put me on this, Andy. And they in Tennessee knows and Josh Hypal knows and the people who are trying to sign him or get him or even offered him the money to begin with know that he is the best player that they can get right now because the market at the moment portals open. Nobody flew out of the sky yet. Now, I have not posted the checkerboard in zone on somebody going in with the do not contact tag.

And he go best offer is 899 from UCLA and they both come to realize separately like a girl and a boy who break up that they actually are happier and better off with each other and then reconcile whether or not that could turn into a better situation for

everybody rather than I'm really glad that you created a 2002 romcom starring Rachel Lee Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr. as Nico Amaleaba for this story. But that ain't gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. In theory, could it happen in theory? Like is it crazy?

Because while you are correct when you say that there are people who've done a lot worse things in Nico. correct when you say that there are people who've done a lot worse things in eco. Like, to the coaching staff and the players at Tennessee, there's a broken trust there that is really hard. Yeah, to mend at this point. That that's the I think that's the reason. Like if this were more if this were not when it happened and how it happened, like if this were earlier, let's say it was December,

I think maybe, yeah, you could make the case. But I don't think you can make the case for that now. Andy, the guy's gone a year from now either way. I know. You won't trust D&D back. He has to play. He has to play. If you don't think the season is going to be that different

with or without him, make the point you want to make. If you don't think it's going to be that much different, then maybe that's the reason he's not there. I'm saying if they both got to a point where they felt like they needed each other again, in theory, I feel like fences could be mended if people wanted to step to the table and apologize. Now, if you're willing to do what Nikos Kamp did to begin with, I doubt you're probably in a position that would like like Shannon's like publicly apologize to Naco's. The man's tweet is still up. I don't think that we're anywhere close to him apologizing to Naco's for

anything. But if he actually was remorseful for his actions, and maybe it's only because you found out you made a stupid decision. But either way, you know, you can be remorseful and really remorseful and you apologize and say, hey, I know I left you guys and that was the biggest mistake of my life. Let me put every single ounce of energy I have left in my system into being of all and repairing this relationship and making this team better. Then you might have a more driven, more reliable quarterback than you otherwise might have had because he realized what he lost.

I don't know. Maybe I'm watching too many Disney movies, but my wife and I had some tough times while we were dating. I'm sure that you had some tough times. I don't know. Like, when you are in a strong relationship with somebody that you love, you make it work. You make it work, and you fight through it, and it makes you love, you make it work. You know, you make it work

and you fight through it and it makes you stronger. I don't know. Maybe I'm just too idealistic. I'm not saying I think this is going to happen. Oh, sorry. All right. You need to stop. You just, it is not happening. I didn't say at all. I don't think it's going to happen. It would never happen. I don't think it would ever happen. But River. What? If Nico publicly apologized, came back to Tennessee and rocked shit next year, you wouldn't love that guy? Come on.

It'd be a hell of a redemption story, but they're not doing that. There's not gonna be a public apology or nothing like that. Maybe I'm giving them the part I think is the least believable part of this scenario is is that people could apologize with two million dollars in the head are you kidding me I mean I would be on my knees begging I'd be like look you want me to make a statement you know what you want I'm sorry I'm gonna

like that with my wife for nothing yeah I'm like that with my wife. For nothing. Yeah. I say sorry to my wife when she's wrong to stop the argument, OK? Like, I don't know what you're talking about. You could tar feather me naked at midfield at halftime of a Tennessee game for $2 and 1.5 million. You could have 150,000 people going, shame.

I agree. I do not have that level of shame. Make the first two mil. So maybe you're you're when you already have some money, it makes you a little bit um but yeah, I don't know. It's just a theory and and Shannon posted it and I was like, I actually when I read it like people are like, you're a no, it's it's not the worst idea and in an ideal world, it is something that would be a realistic possibility. Why can't we live in an ideal world in

this messed up dysfunctional world of college football for five minutes? Right. It actually should be a possibility. It should be if you think about it logically, it should be but it's not like I said, I don't think it's gonna happen. No. Josh Hyple is Michael Corleone at the beginning of Godfather 2. You can have my offer now. My's gonna happen. No, Josh. Hypal is Michael Corleone at the beginning of Godfather 2 you can have my offer now My offer is nothing so

Which I think is if he did come back apologizing that would be where you'd start negotiating zero. Why don't we? Go to the end of good fellas now if we want to stay with and kill everybody No, I'm just in the house. We're chasing somebody when what's the main character's name? Henry Hill Henry Hill goes back to Paulie after he was dealing dope after they told him not to deal dope and he's crying in the restaurant and He goes I'm sorry Paulie I don't have anybody else to turn to and he he rips off a few you know few Bands and gives it to him, but he says like, you know, I've got to turn my back on you now maybe throw him a few hundred bucks

just to I don't know. He didn't get to come back. He could just say Niko 500 bucks and say enjoy the Mountain West. So over 100k and be like hey thanks for your service I don't know I don't know okay but it was fun to talk about. It's crazy all right we do have to talk about the rest of the transfer portal. Now, every time we talk about NECO, we talk about the flip side of the transfer portal. Is there anybody Tennessee would take? So, in terms of other quarterbacks who've officially gone in,

South Alabama's Gio Lopez went in this morning. He's expected to go to North Carolina. We haven't really seen anybody else. Jake Garcia, former four star recruit, had been at, let's see, Miami, Missouri and East Carolina. He's back in, but he's not considered an option for any of this. I don't think, I don't know if we're going to see anybody. Remember last week when I said I might post the checkerboard end zone if somebody goes in with the do not contact tag. I'm not sure we're going to see it. Well, here's the other thing too like. Merck Slinger could be really good. He might

be a little bit early in his development, but they signed him out of high school as a top 250 player. Like it's not like the guy's chop liver. You know, and I think at times in college, we lose sight of talented people because the glitz and glamour of the offseason discussions like the one that we're having right now carry the boat in terms of storyline. But how many you're the one who always says, pick the guy that goes to the place where the competition is already there and isn't afraid of it. I mean, you know, maybe the plan wasn't for him to start

and he knew that he might not be ready right now. But at the same time, you know, I do believe that quarterbacks in this day and age are far more willing or able and seasoned to play earlier in their careers than they were 20 years ago. Yeah, like being forced into this situation through the offseason and being in a position where he gets to spend the next few months as the guy, going into fall camp as the guy, that's a hell of a lot better. And Heiple said it himself, that if Nico would have blown his knee out in week two, you know, teams have to replace their quarterbacks in a time where they don't have the opportunity to go out and get somebody else. And like, I actually think the best possible redemption story or the hell of the story that it would be for for Tennessee, maybe not a redemption story, but just a great story is if he was

awesome. Do you imagine if he just turned out to be really good? Are they won nine games behind him? He's a legend. He never has to buy a beer in the state again. So yeah, but you know, maybe they feel good about it. But I don't know that I would go out and overpay for somebody that they don't perceive to be better than Merck. Well, and the other factor is, and I was, I was talking to some folks about this this morning. If you were to come into Tennessee, one, you have to turn your back on your team. And it's probably a starting quarterback who made a big show of coming back in the winter. probably a starting quarterback who made a big show of coming back in the winter. Like somebody who had some other chances to go somewhere, who decided to stay, probably took a better deal to stay where they are.

So they've already made a show about coming back. They also are taking a massive risk by going to a place where they have to learn the offense in 100 days versus being at a place where they've been running the offense for a year or two years or whatever it is. So I think that's the other, the other thing about people too is that that guy can coach offense, right? Like that guy can, can draw up some plays and get you in a, in a good position. I think that that would be fine.

But you'd have to learn that offense. If you never played in it before, it's tricky tricky, but with the limited amount of time you have. So that's the hardest part. Let's talk about some other folks in the transfer portal. George's Branson Robinson, the running back just entered. This is a guy who as a freshman in 2022 looked very promising, had a bad knee injury in 2023. The knee injury, I don't know if he had another knee injury

or if this was a complication of the first one, but it hindered him last year. So he's in the portal now. And Frazier's a stud. Let's not let's not get through this conversation without acknowledging that Georgia. Exactly. Frazier's awesome. Jade Knot, we mentioned yesterday. Jade Knot was already in the portal because he could use a grad transfer and they can enter at any time. So he has signed with Oklahoma.

Oklahoma also signed an offensive lineman from Stanford yesterday as well. Jake Micula. So this is Oklahoma trying to. Oh, yes. Yes. Losing your top receiver in the spring is terrible for them, especially after what they dealt with last year.

Right. But like I could be tucking myself into an Oklahoma, Florida situation in this off season. They're getting good. Like I think that I'm going to... These are good players they're getting. These are good players they're getting who are sitting here. Both players signed up to play in the Pac-12.

The situation changed on them. Jade Knot had a pretty injury. Jade Knot would be in the NFL right now, except he was injured quite a bit last year and didn't have the kind of year he wanted. So he wants to have a good year and then go pro. So yeah, Oklahoma is getting some talent right now. They also have a very, very hard schedule.

So I don't know if talking yourself into them being good, even if you're right, you'll still look wrong. Can I just read the last seven games for our people who are listening in podcast form? Sure. Texas at South Carolina, Ole Miss at home, at Tennessee, at Alabama, Missouri at home, LSU at home.

Barf. That's brutal. What does Brent Venables have to do against that schedule to keep his job? They got to be better than we're last year. There's definitely like improvement. I don't think it has to be like make the playoff, but I do think significant improvement. Do you think significant improvement has to manifest in

in a great record? Or do you think that people can use their eyes and say, hey, yeah, we got better? I don't know that it has to in the record. Yeah, they can't get their asses kicked like there cannot be another version of last year South Carolina game where they had zero chance to win the game from the opening kickoff. You can't have that. Yeah.

I think material is going to be excellent. I love Dion Burks. I love Ott. I love that they're helping their offensive line, which was the reason they stunk last year. They were competitive in a lot of games last year, despite the fact that they were terrible on offense. They beat the crap out of Bama. Like I don't think that like, oh, you is just like some, like, I don't want to make the mistake that we make sometimes, which is well, they stunk last year, so they're going to stink next year. Like we didn't think that we're is just like some, I don't wanna make the mistake that we make sometimes, which is, well, they stunk last year, so they're gonna stink next year.

We didn't think they were gonna stink last year either. So let's just pump the brakes on that. I think that there's a chance that OU could be a tough out. Continue. All right, so other players who have entered the transfer portal, Syracuse offensive lineman, Kaelin Ellis, Northwestern quarterback, Mike Wright, who you probably remember from Mississippi State and Vanderbilt before that.

Uh, and, oh, here's a, here's a, here's a big one. Tacoma Crawford started out in Nebraska, went to Louisiana tech. He tweeted this morning. He's in the portal. Screenshot at his email. River run the commercial I'm so glad we called sos rac is the coldest. I'm always the coldest Hey, this is dakotas crawford ride receiver from louisiana now playing at lincoln when your ac isn't dakotas

You call sos heating and cooling. Their ticks don't make commissions so they give you an honest opinion, fair pricing, and longer warranties than a competition guaranteed. Take it from Dakotas, we will keep you cool this summer. That is NIL. Even if Dakotas Crawford does not wind up being a star anywhere he lands, we will always have that commercial. Always. That's what NIL was supposed to be. That's beautiful. No it wasn't. NIL was supposed to be paying players. It was to get it past stupid people who didn't want to pay players. Yeah. No I know, but that's the... Yeah, it was to get it past stupid people who didn't want to pay players. Yeah, no, I know, but that's the yeah, it was to do.

Yeah, you got 2000 bucks to do a local AC commercial. Yeah, by the way, those AC people are loaded. I'm fine now. Yeah. Oh yeah. We talked about this and and they have what you need, baby. They have what you need, especially if you live where you live in Dallas or where I live in Florida. Yeah, they got what you need. I'm telling you this right now.

If I ever got late, and this is gonna be the funniest thing that you've ever heard, knowing what you know about me. But if I ever got laid off or couldn't find a job in journalism, and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't take for granted how lucky I am to continue to have gainful employment in this industry when people around me and me, we all fight

for our lives every day because it's a very hard industry to stay employed in. Then I feel like I would want to go to trade school and learn a craft with my hands. I'm going to be the best plumber. I feel like by the time I was 50, I'd be loaded. You would run the business pretty well, I think. You need to learn how to do this stuff. But yeah, I think you're capable of it. But no, my son has a friend whose parents

run an HVAC company. And I've asked, okay, when can he work for you? Like, when can he learn how to do this stuff? And they said 16. So I said, okay, we may have a little summer gig. I went to a playdate at someone's house in Highland Park that goes to my daughter's school and they gave us the address we pull up. This house is 9,000 square feet, one of the most richest neighborhoods in the country. I can't imagine what and like they own a business that epoxies garage floors. Keep going. And they scaled the business and now they've got 2900 trucks across the country going

out charging people $2500 to epoxy their floor. And it's all 100% profit. I always used to think when you grew up growing up that in order to be really, really wealthy, you had to be a Harvard graduate in investment firms or a lawyer or a doctor or something. And like the richest people I know, the richest people I'm around in Dallas every day are blue collar workers who knew how to scale a business. And I'm like, and I think it's so cool. It is very cool. Now you're afraid to put up a curtain rod. So that is probably your barrier to entry.

Hold on a second. Can I show you this? Yes. I'm going to change the camera for a second. I'm just going to show it to the people watching. The curtains up. Hey, I mean, it's not actually covering the entire window but it's up. It's not all the way up. You see there, like right there, I couldn't get, reach that so I just let it. Yeah, yeah we see, we see. We see the solar flare coming in. Oh my goodness. Well I eagerly await Ari the plumber. I think that's gonna be a fun show when you retire to become a plumber. I think that's gonna be a fun show when you retire to become a plumber.

What about like just astroturfing? Oh my god, I can tell you the little bit we put in the backyard. There's a lot of money in that. Yeah, just like mulching. It doesn't have to be something technical like with your hand. Well, our guy Grant Ferking, who works at our company in high school started a ground cover company and now that thing is massive.

So absolutely. Grant's a genius. Absolutely. But to Coldis Crawford back in the portal, Colorado safety, Savion Riley, now back in the portal. He started out at Vanderbilt originally. UCF cornerback, Tre'Quan Fagans. He's been at Alabama, USC, and UCF. Are you seeing a pattern for some of these, Ari?

What's the pattern? That people who started at a place didn't win a job, went to another place didn't win a job, went to another place didn't win a job. There's a lot of that going on. Yeah, yeah. And maybe we're finding out that leaving isn't always the cure that you think it's going to be. And I think that's a lot of people maybe are not saying there's a reason for it. Yeah. There's also some guys, and I'm not naming names or accusing anybody I've named here, but there's some guys who just weren't that good. Maybe they were over-evaluated in high school and they just weren't as good. You know what happens a lot too in high school recruiting is that a lot of times too,

much like in the NFL draft at the high school level, you're projecting how somebody will develop and a lot of times too you earn rankings because you're a early bloomer who is awesome very early on and you just don't grow or don't get better and then you just aren't good enough. Like I remember. I'm learning that now as I'm watching my son who's going into his sophomore year in high school. Yeah.

And we're gonna be hitting some camps and stuff. But there are guys in his class that already have offers that have been, people have been talking to them for a year or two at this point. And like I'm looking at my kid, I'm like, okay, he's not ready to be recruited at all. He may eventually grow into that, but he's not ready for that.

And sometimes people that age, it happens in three months. Like it doesn't always, it doesn't need to be five years. Right, hit the growth spurt or whatever, exactly. But the thing that I remember too, in 2016, I think, I was covering a recruitment for Danny Clark. Do you remember Danny Clark? No. OK. Well, he was a freshman five star quarterback out of Massillon, Ohio, and Ohio State took this kid as a true freshman or like took a commitment from him. freshman or like took a commitment from him. Yeah, four years or three years. You know, people thought that he was going

to be the next great Ohio State quarterback because I think he was six three had a big arm as a true freshman like was just like bigger and better than everybody. Yeah. He got a big block Oh tattoo tattooed on his arm like, like, I mean, like, when I mean like, it one, like, when I mean, like, it one of those is really hard to remove in like really detailed ink, I wish I could show you the thing. And Ohio State, after three years moved on from him. And I believe that was the Tate Martel class. And they ended up taking somebody else

instead of him because he didn't get better. He didn't grow anymore. Like and when by the time he got to, you know, college, he just wasn't what they thought he was going to be. And then after that, you know, went to Kentucky, and it didn't work out at Kentucky. And I think he went to Vanderbilt or something after that. And it's just like the same thing that you're saying. It's just because he was over-evaluated early on. And I also think, too, that that might have been a cautionary tale for Ohio State and other programs to be careful who you accept the commitment from very early in their careers. Well that's the thing. It's a lot of these guys are very early bloomers and if you want to find some value in recruiting, watch senior film because there's a lot of guys that don't

physically develop till they're a senior and they come in and it's like Ashton Genti. People weren't really on him until the summer before his senior year. And I think if Baylor or TCU or Texas Tech had offered him much earlier, they had got him. But if you're a recruit, don't get a really big tattoo of the school before you do something there on your arm or exactly. Exactly. Yeah, there was a who? Why am I blanking out? There was a linebacker got an Auburn tattoo and then went to Alabama.

Yeah, I know like doesn't you know I just like Ruben Foster. Yeah, I don't have any tattoos. Do you have a tattoo? No, that was my tattoo. Show the cover up now. I don't know if I but that like you you can't cover that up like that's like put a lion in the. Like that's like he put a lion in the middle of it.

He did put a lion in the middle of it, but you could still see the block. Oh, it was an unfortunate situation because he was a good kid, really nice guy. And, uh, you know, I was rooting for him and I got, I had a relationship with him when he was in high school and like, I thought he was going to be awesome. I did in depth features. I spent a weekend with him and his family. Like it was a big deal. And then by the time he was a senior in high school, it just, he wasn't

as special as he was as a freshman. So, and that happens and maybe not through any fault of his own. It just, and now with the portal, like a lot of times you'll see those guys just go one, one school, one school, one school, cause they just were evaluated wrong and they're trying to find their level. The thing with me and Tattoo Candy has always been, there's been nothing important to me enough in my life that I felt like I needed to have it on my body forever. Maybe at times and seasons I felt like something, but then now I have a daughter

and I feel like I could get her name on my body. Exactly, that is the easy one because that's definitely important enough. Speaking of lasting things. Things that last forever. Colorado is going to retire the numbers of Travis Hunter and Chador Sanders at the spring game. Number two and number 12, officially untouchable.

Ari. This feels a little soon, and for one here you're retiring shoulders at all like Travis is you were going to retire at some point. Because he won the highest trophy. He's only you know, so II get that but that's a pure Dion Vanity play to to retire shoulders number right? Well, I didn't think really much of it because like I don't know the history of Colorado football like the back of my hand, but when I didn't blink at all when I saw

this yesterday, I was like, oh, okay. Well, maybe Chidur is just like the most productive quarterback in program history. But then I realized that Cordell Stewart's number wasn't retired and I found that to be offensive. Like once I got that context, then I was like, oh God. If a Colorado quarterback's number is going to be retired, the first one needs to be Cordell Stewart. Now, there's one Colorado quarterback whose number is retired already, and that's Byron Whizzer-White, who was an All-American.

Now he played quarterback and running back. He also became a Supreme Court Justice later, and he wrote the majority opinion, or no, excuse me, he wrote the minority opinion in the NCAA versus Board of Regents case, the one that decided the television stuff in the 80s. So he was big into college football, but Byron Whizzer-White, he was the first number that they retired, number 24 Joe Romig, who is an offensive guard Bobby Anderson, who

played running back. Rashan Salam is the is the interesting one here, because like Travis Hunter, Rashan Salam won the Heisman. Now they did not retire his jersey until after he died. And if you know about Rashan Salam like. You kind of understand maybe he didn't really like the attention and I don't know that he would have wanted that while he was alive. Here's the deal too and here's the Wolverine scoop saying something that I wanted

to say. Are they the only players to ever have their jersey numbers retired who never beat a ranked team or win a bowl game? Yes. The question that I do have though is there are two aspects of this that are interesting One is why immediately right like why do it now, but right secondly to you Also could make a better case for them if they were the ones who laid the foundation For a program resurgence that had a lasting impact on Colorado football, which you will never know until

five, six, seven years down the line. Right. And also like the way you do the jersey retirement, if you do it is they've been out for a while, maybe even their NFL careers over and they come back and it's a huge celebration of them. But Ari, can I tell you my opinion on retiring jerseys in college in general? Sure, I don't think you should do it. You're carrying over 100 people on the roster. You gotta double up numbers anyway. Like you can't be taking numbers away. It's not the NFL where you have 53 on the

roster. So you got you have 47 spots that you can you can delete and be okay. A lot of times people too ask for permission to wear retired numbers. And I get well here's here's what I think you should do. I think so Syracuse retired the number 44, which is like Syracuse number 44 is probably maybe one of the best numbers in the history of football. They retired it in 2005. They restored it in 2015 They retired in 2005. They restored it in 2015 so that they could honor really good players by allowing them to fight for the right to wear it, which I think is the way to do it. So

you know it Syracuse number 44 is. Jim Brown, Ernie Davis and Earl Little or number 44. Like. That's as three guys go, it doesn't get much better than that. Well, here's the thing with the retired numbers. I think that if you win the Heisman, you should now that gets kind of true. Yeah, I'm not talking about Travis Hunter. Like if you retire numbers, if you're a school that retires numbers, Travis Hunter's numbers should get retired.

No argument for me here. But what if Shador Sanders is the top three pick? Does that matter? Okay, you can wait. Then wait and see what happens. Yeah. And like every school has a different threshold too for retired numbers. Like you know, if you go to a place like Bama,

it's a lot more difficult to retire numbers because you have elite level Heisman caliber players every year there. Where at Colorado, it's, you know, the thing that I went to look up is Cordell Stewart wasn't drafted until the late second round. And I- Right, because he was the slash,

he was slash in the NFL, he was quarterback and receiver. But let me ask you though, because I was very young. Uh, you know, I was five years old when he was playing college football. You were probably 10. I don't know if you remember, but like, what was, what was Cordell Stewart as a player in college? Freaking awesome. And it was he better than Chidor? Uh, it was probably as good in Colorado was a much better team.

I know the iconic play that Cordell Stewart was a part of. You know that Hail Mary that they play. Yeah, but Colorado was a national power at the time. Yeah, so it's a different context. I think it oh by the way, the Syracuse I think I said

Earl and I meant Floyd Little very sorry Floyd Little Jim Jim Brown Ernie Davis number forty four that order I believe when Ernie Davis Jim Brown Floyd little. So. I think I think because you got so many numbers like the number two should be a number that every player. Who's not alignment who gets to Colorado should strive to earn. Like that would be the coolest thing. If you could wait like work your way into wearing Travis Hunter's number, LSU does this number 18. Yeah, it's not a retired number. Yeah.

Don't other schools have honorary numbers? Isn't like the one at Michigan big Michigan? Michigan has several and they'll they'll, you know, they'll give them out. But it's it's, it's important. And then in Texas A&M, obviously, is number 12. Yeah, which goes to a lock on and like there's a whole reason behind a story behind that. So LSU is number seven is, uh seven is, isn't that like their DBs or is it for everyone? Oh yeah. Seven, didn't he? Yeah. But so they, they have, they

have 18, they have seven different schools have different ones. Ohio state has the O now the block O when Metrol was at temple. He made the whole single digits a thing like you had to earn a single digit. And so, yeah. And somebody in the Jones, she door holds over a hundred school records at Colorado. Yeah, I know. But it's not even the same sport as it was when Cordell Stewart played like Cordell Stewart, how he played in 2024 would have thrown for a lot of yards too. Yeah.

Yeah, Travis Hunter, nothing from me on this. I have no I have no complaints about Travis Hunter having his jersey. I don't think I would complain about Travis Hunter if. It even on the timing of it like it's just he's awesome. He's one of the most iconic players that I've ever seen in college football. And also, I have a tremendous amount of respect for his personal story. Now I know he attached himself to Dion, but this is a guy who could have gone to Florida State. He could have done this anywhere. He could have done it with anybody. I don't know if he would have been able to play two ways everywhere as much as he did.

Yeah, I think Dion does deserve credit for letting him do that because I don't think most coaches would have been willing to try. Well, it was out of necessity as much as it was out of doing him a favor. Like, I mean, like they needed him on both sides of the ball everywhere. But here's the thing, even out of necessity in other schools. And I think that maybe part of it too, if his name was Shador Smith, would we be thinking about this or like, you have to also acknowledge the fact that he's the coach's son. Like that, that like everything optically is more difficult. That doesn't mean he didn't. He didn't do anything that would get like, there are lots of record setting quarterbacks.

Like there was a point where Nick Florence. Broke a record that RG 3 held at Baylor. Should be able to retire Nick Florence's number. RG 3 won the Heisman, so you should write an 800 word column just like blasting Colorado for it. No, I would love to see that. Yeah, this is not a person who would get their jersey retired or in any other circumstances. So it's interesting because they're both doing the same time.

So like the Travis Hunter one, never going to complain about. If you were a school that retires jerseys and you have a player like Travis Hunter, you retire his jersey. But Chideur is not that level. Yeah, I think I'm with you. But listen, it's your program. You do whatever you want. Again, I wouldn't retire any jerseys at all. I would make it a reward for players who earn the right to wear it. I think that's more fun anyway. I think that's a more fun tradition.

And also too, still holds the same purpose, which is honoring the person who initially wore it. I think that's more fun anyway. I think that's a more fun tradition. And also to still holds the same purpose, which is honoring the person who initially wore it. So yeah, yeah. Well, I don't know like if we have any time constraints or somebody or something else to talk about, but I was just watching JD show is is coming up at time do we have 10 Central so we can go until then if we want to but I'm a grab ass topic Bring it up. Hold on before we do that Let's look in the portal. Okay, see if there's any other huge names

Not a lot of huge names. Notre Dame safety, Kennedy, url locker Cornerback to voy fagan going as committed to Ole Miss he left Clemson. He's going Ole Miss So Going as committed to Ole Miss. He left Clemson. He's going Ole Miss. So we have not seen the bomb of a quarterback that is currently starting. We have not seen a lot of currently starting players who want an internet portal. Last night we got news that Buffalo's best edge rusher was gonna go in but we haven't seen a ton

of teams losing guys that they're really counting on. I've got a dental appointment at noon so let's just hope for the best here I might have to come out of the dental appointment with those like clips on and do a show like this. Remember when you went on finebomb bleeding from the mouth in the middle of it in unemployment? Yeah, not to get too in the weeds, but that was a extremely painful cleaning. Like I had to get a deep cleaning. I guess I wasn't enough brushing my teeth. Gross debridement, they like to call it.

Yeah, whatever that was, it was awful. It's gross. So now I've like totally upped my game with the flossing and stuff because I don't ever want to do that again. But I want to ask you because I've been thinking about this not for any particular reason but just because I've brought up the working with your hands thing. If you weren't in sports journalism what are three things that you think you would like to do? Because I think I have three things. Okay I've already I've always said I'd probably be an English teacher slash high

school football coach. If I didn't do this, that's probably the most likely thing that I would do. But like, what about like fun things that you think would be cool to try? Maybe that is underwear model. Absolutely. I would definitely be an underwear model. I feel like I would want to go knock on people's doors who have classic cars in their driveways and try to buy them for cheap

and then fix them up and flip them. I think that would be really fun. I think it would be really fun to be a storage ward person. I'm fascinated by this. Like, I don't like, is storage wars like a completely Hollywood, like dramatized Hollywood thing, or do the people actually do this and make money? People actually do it but they they made that show a lot of it

was fake. Okay, because I feel like it's probably not glamorous because you were just trying to like buy a storage unit for 200 bucks and then flip like conventional ovens that are sitting in there for 250. But like that would be fun. Like, I don't know, like rooting around in other people's shit would be great. Like, I don't know why I feel like that would be cool. And then- I would want to go to culinary school and learn to become a chef.

Yeah, that'd be cool. Or like opening up like a car detail place that films the detail of cool cars that haven't been detailed in a while. I'm stealing that idea, but I think that would be awesome. There's nothing more satisfying than cleaning a filthy automobile. I think you should bring back Pimp My Ride to be honest with you. If you're going to do that, just go all the way. I'll be your version of exhibit. We put a fish tank in your car. I mean, MTV Cribs and Pit My Ride should definitely be back.

100%. 100%. I think that was cool because doesn't MTV just show the same thing over and over again? They just play ridiculousness over and over, I think. same thing over and over again. They just play ridiculousness over and over. I think yeah, it's like I feel like if they had new new MTV cribs, the fascination of celebrity homes isn't gone. But I also too would would love to own a pawn shop and it's funny greatest greatest episode of cribs ever was odb because

it was just like a crappy apartment and there was one room that just had an ironing board on the floor. It had a cockroach. It was the like a crappy apartment. And there was one room that just had an ironing board on the floor. It had a cockroach. And that was the only thing in it. Yeah. Have you ever seen it? Ari, you've reached the level of ridiculousness in this show.

Okay, bye. I was having fun. We will be around all day monitoring the transfer portal. If there is huge news, we may go live. Tomorrow, we probably will have a little better idea where things are going. Pete Naco is going to join us, help break down everything that's happened. Later in the week, dear Andy, dear Ari, we want to hear from you. So if you have a question, you know where to find us. We're on social media. I'm at Andy underscore staples on Twitter and Instagram. Ari is it at our at Ari Wasserman

You can email Andy staples on three at gmail.com. You can also email Ari dot Wasserman at gmail.com Send those emails along send those questions. We already got a couple good ones our guy Willie who always Brings it in the chat Email me a really good question the other day about the quarterback class of 2023 that I think is probably gonna make the show. But send us those questions. We appreciate them and we use them.

So if you have something that's on your mind, a criticism, a compliment, a thought, a theory, I let you know me, I'm a theories guy. We use them, we want them. And the Dear Andy, Ari episodes have been only half the episode because we've only had a few pretty good ones to use. So the more we get, the more likely we are to get to you. Oh, we're going to get a bunch this week, Ari.

I'm not worried about that. Yeah, yeah. But we appreciate them and we want them. We do. I don't want to beg. But I've already begged once on this show. I don't want to do it again. You should have begged. We're begging you.

Come back tomorrow, because we're going to break down everything that's happened in the transfer portal. Maybe we'll know where Nico wound up. Who knows? We do this every day, Monday through Friday, 9 30 AM Eastern Time, right here on the On3 Sports YouTube channel. Stay tuned. Come back to the On3 Sports YouTube channel.

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