Nico Iamaleava Transfer: Detailing the Tennessee Breakup with Former No. 1 Overall & 5-Star QB

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What went wrong with Tennessee football and quarterback Nico Iamaleava? How did it get this bad? Where does Tennessee go from here? Who are options at quarterback now for the Vols? Is Jake Merklinger or George MacIntyre ready? Will Josh Heupel’s starting quarterback come from the transfer portal? Brian Smith of The Portal visits with Locked on Vols host Eric Cain to break it all down.

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0:00.0	Who's to blame for the entire Nico Ayamoleva situation?
0:04.3	We're going to break that down right here on the Portal podcast.
0:09.1	Locked on presents the portal.
0:12.3	The daily podcast covering college football recruiting and everything NIL.
0:18.0	Part of the Locked On podcast network.
0:20.8	Your team every day.
0:27.4	Welcome back into the portal podcast where you get your daily recruiting NIL and
0:31.6	Transfer Portal News.
0:32.6	I am your host, Brian Smith, longtime college football writer and recruiting analysts.
0:36.0	Thank you for making the Portal podcast your first listen each and every day.
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0:50.6	Today's show is 100% about the Nico situation.
0:55.9	We're going to have a really special guest to help us break that down, but let me give you the backdrop. Nikolaiamoleva is a great kid.
1:01.4	This is not his situation alone. There are a lot of people involved, and we're going to explain
1:06.5	that and why Josh Heiple, quite frankly, has set the precedent for college football coaches,
1:12.9	but now who follows it? Does anybody else give in to these kind of demands? And to figure out
1:18.0	all of that right here and right now, Mr. Eric Kane locked on balls. Eric, how are you doing
1:24.3	today, sir? A little busy, a little busy, Brian, as I'm sure you are as well.
1:28.5	Yeah, your situation is really bizarre. And as I noted in the opening, you and I talked about
1:34.4	this off air and I just want to clear the air on this. It's pretty easy to throw darts at Nico
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