Welcome to Annie and R&3, presented by Culvers.

We have a very much fluid influx news story to talk about this morning.

We had actually planned to give you a really fun show with T. Bob A. Bear, our friend from Baton Rouge, talking LSU, and you're going to get

that. But before that, we have to talk about Nico I Amaliava and Tennessee. Pete Nacos

reported on Thursday that Nico Iamaliava and Tennessee are in active negotiations regarding his deal for

2025.

Tennessee spring game is Saturday.

The transfer portal opens Wednesday.

Ari, it seems like they need to get a deal done prior to that.

And this is serious and this is real. I know there's

a lot of people who, including Nico's dad, who says on Twitter that there's no negotiation,

there's a negotiation. They are definitely negotiating right now. Whether he stays at Tennessee is

another question. But they're definitely negotiating.

Yeah. There's just a fundamental inability from a lot of people to accept news when they don't like what the news is, but it's happening.

So, you know, you can be a productive part of this conversation or you can insult us, but that's not going to

change whether or not this is happening. So first, I wanted to start off the show. I'm kind of fired

up. I don't know if you noticed this on Twitter before we started, but there is a fundamental

misunderstanding of what clickbait is. And I just don't like we're even seeing it in the chat here.

That's not even what that word means. You don't get that from somebody who has been reporting on this stuff consistently

right for years. Pizza pro. He knows what he's doing. And it's correct. Well, and here's the other piece of

this. When stories are false everybody involved comes out and says these are false

Nico's dad says it's false Nico's dad is negotiating a deal right now with Tennessee

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