Exactly. So he's getting less money annually AND paying state income tax.
Dude's not just a mediocre QB, he's a financial moron.
Or his Dad is, or both are !!!!!
I vote for both since they seem to like the color orange!!!!
UTK QB Nico Iamaleava holding out for more NIL money (TN/Nico part ways - Entering portal)
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Or his Dad is, or both are !!!!!
I vote for both since they seem to like the color orange!!!!
And at the same time this tells you how bad at negotiating UCLA is. They probably could have gotten for $1mm or less... guven there were probably not many suitors out there...
There needs to be a meme with Nico's face on a cell of Wile E. Coyote after lighting the cigar that blows up in his face.
I know the NCAA and the colleges should have done something sooner to get in front of this mess. But honestly, I think we still reach this point. We assume once players would have started being compensated they would have been happy with that. But in reality, that's not how human nature works. "More" is always going to be the enemy of "enough".
This might be better than no one wanting him. I am so happy right now.
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He’ll be completely forgotten at UCLA.
We probably won’t even see him in highlights this year other than games where they lost to a team in the CFBP hunt.
This has been one of the All-Time blunders of sports contract negotiations.
Lols
Bwahaaa! Couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of hillbillies 🤣 and for that guy to go to California double bwahahahahah!!
It ranks behind the annuity deals given Bruce Sutter and Bobby Bonilla and right there with some fella named Trump paying Heisman winner Doug Flute $1.3 million a year:
a) when the highest paid NFL QB (Joe Montana) made $300K per year less
b) he had one of the best QBs in the USFL (Brian Sipe)
c) that he had signed Sipe to a GUARANTEED three-year contract worth $2 million one year earlier
In his defense, he may have REALLY wanted to get away from Tennessee. At any price. I can understand that.
Why? It's a QB friendly system that allows the QB to rack up stats and automatically put him in the conversation for top pick in the draft. Why would you leave that? If he wanted to get closer to home his camp would have not told him to hold out of practice. His actions point to it was about more money and his bluff got called.
We medical technologists had a gold mine fall into our laps thanks to the pandemic. With the federal government supplementing hospitals with funding, all of a sudden laboratory paychecks - if you were willing to travel - went from around $1100-1400 a week to over $3K per week provided you "duplicated" living expenses (e.g. had a home of record, a physical address). One job in Portland paid over $6K per week during the pandemic, and it was doing lab work and running tests.
What happened to a number of young folks who had been out of school less than five years should be OBVIOUS, it's the same thing that happened here. Once they got used to making $3K per week and going into contract extensions demanding 10% raises AFTER 90 DAYS ON THE JOB - and getting them - well, you can figure what was going to happen and it did. Two months into my first contract, the government stopped Covid funding, and the hospitals came in to most employees and either offered them a down negotiation or a trip out the door. And most got sanctimonious and didn't understand anything and gave up jobs that now paid "only" $2K per week because "I know my worth!"
Many of these idiots are now stuck with monthly RV payments because it seemed a good way to work past the housing requirement. What happened was the number of available travel jobs was oversaturated which caused: a) the salaries to crater; and b) hospitals to be choosier about their staffing. And the more self-righteous and snotty you were, the worse it has gotten for you because reputations get passed around.
Me?
Let's just say I've made a killing by playing the right cards.
When he asked for more money, he greatly over estimated what the average Tennessee garbage truck worker makes in a year.
Reputations do indeed get passed around, no matter the industry.
You might find yourself in an advantageous situation. But if you show your hindquarters simply because, in the moment you find yourself with all the leverage, people remember just as much as if the wet-behind-the-ears kid shoved used toilet paper in their face.
Yeah, you got me once. The market will get back into whack soon enough, and I'll remember you until the devil is on ice skates. That extra grand a week you got for 6 months will be the most expensive $26K you can imagine -- and only $18K - $19K after taxes. You'll be paying for that snit for years if not decades. Bravo for you.
There's only two kinds of workers still doing travel med tech right now:
1) the really REALLY good ones (like me, I say this humbly)
2) and the REALLY really bad ones who would get fired at a permanent job quickly
There's also a bunch of clowns who apparently slept through Economics who believe - and I'm 100% serious here - that the only reason med tech went down is "because people are accepting lower rates; if we'd all just refuse to sign contracts that pay less than $3K a week, hospitals would be forced to raise their pay."
I've seen variations of that same nonsense so many times the last three years - to the point people who showed up to the gold rush first but blew their fortunes because they thought it would last forever attack people online who didn't get to drink at the trough of easy money for "taking pay that is beneath them."
And we all talk to each other. I've gotten calls from an agency on Person X, and I'm 100% honest - to the point that when agents check their endorsements, they say almost the same words every time. "I'd be in a foxhole next to this one. I wouldn't hire this one to watch my dog. This one is a mixed bag, good when she's in the mood to work but has streaks of laziness."
I got this job over people with higher degrees because the one doing the hiring has seen me in action and knows what I bring to the table.
Anyway, back to the Tennessee quarterback who went to UCLA and got lost.
Well, looks like Nico's brother has left Arkansas.
Madden Iamaleava flipped from UCLA to Arkansas on signing day this past December. He enrolled at Arkansas as an early entry and went through spring practice. Don't know his position in the depth chart at the end of the spring.
So not quite 5 months after putting a thumb in UCLA's eye on signing day, Madden is going back home to Los Angeles. I'm wondering if he'll land at UCLA as a package deal with Nico. Don't know the answer to that one.
Any program that takes either one of those guys is signing a deal with the devil, and not likely getting much in return other than headaches and acid reflux.
This crew makes Todd Marinovich's family look like Ward and June Cleaver.
Madden Iamaleava flipped from UCLA to Arkansas on signing day this past December. He enrolled at Arkansas as an early entry and went through spring practice. Don't know his position in the depth chart at the end of the spring.
So not quite 5 months after putting a thumb in UCLA's eye on signing day, Madden is going back home to Los Angeles. I'm wondering if he'll land at UCLA as a package deal with Nico. Don't know the answer to that one.
Any program that takes either one of those guys is signing a deal with the devil, and not likely getting much in return other than headaches and acid reflux.
This crew makes Todd Marinovich's family look like Ward and June Cleaver.
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