Tennessee & Nico Disaster + Portal Chaos Ahead?
Josh Pate's College Football Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 624 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? Tonight we tell the truth about Big Noon Kickoff. What are the pros and cons of having premiere games kickoff the day? Several teams had spring games this weekend including Alabama, UGA, Ohio State, Miami, and more. What were the biggest takeaways?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:16.6 | Well, at least golf's doing okay. |
| 0:18.5 | Looks like golfs doing good. |
| 0:20.3 | No cell phones in the crowd today. |
| 0:22.4 | Masters looks like it did 50 years ago. |
| 0:24.9 | Maybe a little bit better picture. |
| 0:26.8 | So, hey, someone appreciates their tradition and pageantry and doesn't really bend because someone outside the gates wants them to. |
| 0:33.6 | It's totally unrelated to where college football is now. |
| 0:36.4 | I certainly don't mean anything by that. |
| 0:37.8 | We're jam-packed. We're high atop just a picturesque, postcardesque downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Sunday night. April 13th, the Year of Our Lord, 2025. |
| 0:48.7 | Proudly brought to you by Academy Sports and Outdoors. It is a knuckle-cracking show tonight. |
| 0:57.3 | It's not a fun one, but I've waited a solid 48 hours, and I'm ready to talk about it. Nico is not at Tennessee anymore. We'll lead the show |
| 1:03.4 | with it. Got plenty to say, as you might imagine. The Spring Portal, were we a year early on it? |
| 1:09.4 | I'm going to revisit one of the darkest chapters of my somewhat storied career here a little bit later on in the show. |
| 1:16.6 | Because I said something. |
| 1:18.6 | Back in the day I predicted TCU to be good and they sucked and then they were good a year later. |
| 1:22.6 | I predicted the portal to pop off in post spring last year and it didn't. |
| 1:26.6 | We could have been a year |
| 1:27.7 | early, that's all I'm saying. We got spring games. You remember those? Yeah, spring games happened |
| 1:32.2 | yesterday. I do have some thoughts, not on the games per se, because they were a mockery of what |
| 1:37.1 | spring games are, but I do have some post-spring thoughts and intel from a number of places. Plus, |
| 1:41.9 | the truth-teller series continues tonight, and we're not telling the |
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