The Nico Iamaleava Fiasco + John Kurtz on Kansas State & the Big 12 - 2025 College Football Podcast
The Solid Verbal College Football
College Football
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we tackle the breaking news of Nico Iamaleava transferring from Tennessee after an (alleged) failed NIL renegotiation. Now, Nico’s looking for a new home, and the Vols are suddenly in the market for a quarterback ahead of the 2025 season. We break down what went wrong, where he might land, and whether Tennessee could turn its sights toward a Big 12 starter.
Later, John Kurtz from The John Kurtz Show and the Open For Business newsletter joins the show to preview Kansas State’s 2024 season, the development of quarterback Avery Johnson, and share broader thoughts on how the Big 12 fits into an increasingly chaotic college football landscape.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the solid verbal. |
| 0:03.8 | The solid verbal. |
| 0:04.8 | Come after me. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm a man. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm 40. |
| 0:08.2 | I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy. |
| 0:10.7 | You want to be happy for a day? |
| 0:12.3 | Eat a steak. |
| 0:13.3 | It's that woo, woo. |
| 0:14.8 | And now, down and tie. |
| 0:18.3 | Dave Rubinstein. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome back from a huge freaking sports weekend, man. |
| 0:24.6 | It was large. It was large. Not a great one for the Dodgers. I don't recall. |
| 0:30.4 | I was 16-0 lost to the Cubbies. So I was hearing it from some family members here. We got Rory rocking. |
| 0:35.9 | We've got Nico no longer at Tennessee. Yeah, we'll get |
| 0:40.0 | there. What happened in Monte Carlo? Is that the thing still going on? Alcaraz one. And now we're |
| 0:44.7 | into Barcelona and Hamburg, I believe, on the European Spring Clay swing. Beautiful. Well, |
| 0:51.3 | welcome back in one and all. Yeah, we've got a lot to talk about there is some |
| 0:56.2 | breaking news i'll play the sound here momentarily we're also going to have john kurtz on the show |
| 1:01.5 | first time on the show to talk about case date really the big 12 as a whole john does a great job |
| 1:07.1 | out on his youtube channel and in his newsletter, really everywhere you can find his content, |
| 1:12.8 | not just talking about K-State, but really being an advocate for the Big 12, which is something |
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