Nico Latest & Impact On CFB + Transfer Portal On Fire
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 625 features Josh Pate reacting to the wild news out of Knoxville as Nico Iamaleava and Tennessee have parted ways after a contract renegotiation went south. Where will Josh Heupel and the Vols go from here? What’s next for Nico? Will College Football see a wild spring transfer portal window in the coming weeks? Tonight we’re also looking at the biggest what-ifs in College Football this season. Could we see a world where UGA, Texas, Oregon, and Ohio State are somewhat down in 2025? Might it be mid-season or later before the best team(s) emerge? Josh also discusses the feud between UGA who want Mike Bobo gone as UGA offensive coordinator and Kirby Smart’s insistence in keeping him onboard. All that plus some words on the retirement of Lee Corso from College Gameday. Be sure to let us know what you think, SUBSCRIBE to the channel, and CLICK THE BELL for notifications as we bring you multiple live shows per week!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:16.2 | I did some soul searching today. |
| 0:19.5 | Like I try and do every day, at least five minutes. |
| 0:21.2 | I figured out one of my most toxic traits is every six, four, 330 pound tackle that I see go into the portal, I'm automatically convinced is a future first rounder if he lands at the right place. |
| 0:34.3 | Like we saw a kid earlier today, where was it, Grishy? |
| 0:36.3 | He went in the portal. |
| 0:37.9 | It's like Mississippi State or Virginia or Colorado. And I'm thinking, why aren't all the |
| 0:42.7 | elite programs offering this guy? 6-4-330 tackle. I'm just thinking future first rounder. |
| 0:47.6 | It's a problem. I'm dealing with it as best I can privately. I think our insurance covers this, |
| 0:52.6 | but I'm trying to deal with it. But that's my |
| 0:54.5 | toxic trait. Transfer portal, of course, is fully engulfed right now. We'll talk about it. We're |
| 1:00.4 | jam-packed. We're high atop a blossoming downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this |
| 1:05.0 | allegedly Thursday, April 17th, the year of our Lord, 2025. We're brought to you by Academy Sports |
| 1:12.3 | and Outdoors. Academy, though, does not necessarily endorse everything happening in college football |
| 1:18.1 | right now. We had a very fiery show the other night. We talked about Nico the other night. |
| 1:23.9 | I'm going to talk about it tonight again. I'm going to talk about it maybe from a little bit |
| 1:26.7 | different angle. Dare I say, a hopeful angle. If you left the other night feeling a little |
| 1:32.6 | down about the state of the sport, maybe tonight you leave feeling a little bit encouraged about |
| 1:38.5 | the state of the sport. At least I am surprising. I know that sounds surprising, but there may be some movement, some unexpected movement because of this. I don't mean portal movement either. I mean movement because of the portal. It sounds like a madlib. Just stick with me. I'll explain it to you. We got some crazy what ifs on the show tonight. I don't know. I don't want to spoil the fun for you. I'm just saying, |
| 2:18.1 | we're going to dive deep on these what ifs. I was at USC. I was out in L.A. yesterday. I was in Arizona State the other day. I just went there to hang out because that's what I do when I go to Arizona State. Then I went to USC yesterday. Did a sit down with Lincoln Riley. You'll hear that early next week. But I've got some feedback, some behind the scenes, observations. Colin, what is my hand doing? Just leaning on the |
| 2:24.7 | mic boom arm. It's not there for that. If you're listening on podcasts, pay no attention to the |
| 2:30.4 | ramblings right now. So we're going to talk about that. Also, Lee Corso retiring after one more |
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