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Not Texas, but interesting transfer news. Iamaleava to UCLA.
SpoilerFormer Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava is expected to transfer to UCLA, a source briefed on the process said.
Iamaleava officially entered the transfer portal Wednesday with a “do not contact” label. He left Tennessee last week after attempts to rework his contract with a Tennessee name, image and likeness (NIL) collective went publi
He initially committed to Tennessee in March 2022, shortly after signing an NIL deal with Spyre Sports, Tennessee’s collective, that paid him more than $8 million over four years. Entering the final year of that contract, Iamaleava’s representatives were seeking a raise to around $4 million ahead of the 2025 season, a person briefed on the matter said.
The Iamaleavas also sought assurances that Tennessee would improve its offensive line and receiving corps this offseason.
Tennessee was unwilling to meet the financial demands dating back to the 30-day winter portal window in December. On Friday, a day before Tennessee’s spring game, Iamaleava was absent from practice.
Tennessee coach Josh Heupel said Saturday he elected to move on without Iamaleava when he hadn’t received any correspondence from Iamaleava or his representatives by the end of practice.
“No one is bigger than the Power T,” Heupel said. “Including me.”
Iamaleava quarterbacked Tennessee to a 10-3 record and a College Football Playoff appearance as a first-year starter last season. He threw for 2,616 yards and 19 touchdowns with five interceptions in 2024, his second season in Knoxville. Just six of those touchdown passes came in six games against SEC teams that qualified for bowls.
His decision to transfer came at an unusual time. The majority of players who enter the transfer portal during the 10-day spring window that opened Wednesday do so after seeing a narrow path to playing time in the fall. Iamaleava, who was the established starter at Tennessee, will almost certainly head to UCLA with the intention of starting.
Heupel said Tennessee, which has just two scholarship quarterbacks remaining on the roster, will be taking an additional quarterback out of the transfer portal this offseason. Graduate transfers can enter the portal at any time and non-graduates in the portal can commit at any time, but they must enter the portal by the time the window closes on April 25.
Iamaleava was one of the best prospects to enter the portal in the spring window, but the Volunteers’ open spot and ability to pay near the top of the market could entice some quarterbacks who had no intention of entering the portal a week ago to do so.
Meanwhile, Iamaleava, a native of Long Beach, Calif., is now expected to head closer to home as a key building block for second-year coach Deshaun Foster, who took over at UCLA last offseason after coach Chip Kelly left to become Ohio State’s offensive coordinator.
The Bruins went 5-7 but closed with four wins in their final six games. The Bruins added Appalachian State transfer quarterback Joey Aguilar this offseason to an offense that ranked 95th in yards per play.
Foster hired first-time play caller Tino Sunseri as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in January. He replaced former Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Football Team offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, who Foster fired at the end of his first season in Westwood. Sunseri worked as co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Indiana last year, helping Kurtis Rourke lead the Hoosiers to the College Football Playoff.
This is a developing story. More to come.
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56 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:
BetOnline has the Bruins as the early favorite to land Iamaleava at 2/1 followed by UNC at 5/2 and SC at 3/1. Not sure where the NIL would come from.
I think it would have to come from a lack of competitive offers elsewhere. He'd be a massive upgrade over Aguilar. Would be a bizarre move coming from the other school that was recently burned by the Imaleavea family, but it would be a massive talent upgrade for UCLA (and I don't even think Nico is particularly good).
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I think they're going to be significantly worse than last year? If I'm being extremely generous, the offense might be slightly improved with QB (who is bad), RB (tbd if Moss is the same) and OL coming back and second year with the OC. On defense, they took heavy losses on a pretty good DL and the only guy who jumps out as an above average SEC starter is Will Lee. Nonetheless, the schedule is an absolute cakewalk and the Elk should probably receive capital punishment if he doesn't hit 8-4.
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A bit off topic, but does anyone know the story on Keisean Henderson (not as it relates to us as we have our QB)? I haven’t heard much about his recruitment for a QB that’s currently the consensus #1 prospect in Texas. Seemed like he was all UH from early on, hard to imagine that sticks unless there’s some sort of family connection.
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4 hours ago, Professor Chesney said:
Have a friend in their AD so have some additional info amidst the current dumpster fire. Excellent kid and would be a culture fit here, similar impact to Trey Moore with better NFL measurables. High value on academics, but we all know how that goes when NIL gets big enough. UCLA is the favorite unless Texas blows them away or someone comes in with a godfather offer.
UCLA 247 mod says that his ask is about 4x what they're able to come up with. Bodes well for us, as we might be the happy medium with UCLA being poor and Texas Tech being exclusively for illiterates with severe learning disabilities.
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Just now, texifornia said:
There's always room for Best Player Available
Right and I think he's good enough that he'd very much improve a position group that's already stellar. Kind of reminds me of going after Silas Bolden when we already had Bond/Golden/Cook/Moore/Wingo.
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We need to run Arch more is going to be the next great football board argument, has all the potential to replace "is Quinn Ewers a good quarterback?"
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1 hour ago, closetojumping said:
Here’s a sad article that Tarp had to write, obviously under threat of violence towards his family, about the defensive draft prospects for 2026:
Texas A&M had three defensive linemen go to the 2025 NFL Combine in Nic Scourton, Shemar Stewart, and Shemar Turner. All three of them are expected to be no worse than second day draftees with Stewart moving into the top ten in some mock drafts and Scourton perhaps expected to possibly a day one selection as well.
However, despite the losses, the Aggies return most of their starting lineup from their 2024 unit that might mean better things in 2025 and perhaps as many defenders going to the 2026 NFL Combine. Gigem 247's Jeff Tarpley spoke with ESPN Central Texas radio host Glenn "Stretch" Smith about who was coming back on defense and what to expect from the biggest names on that side of the ball that make them draftable for next year.
We'll start on the inside. Albert Regis is someone who started alongside Turner. He looks a little undersized at first glance but is actually much bigger than you think. He's about 6-foot-1, 6-foot-2, maybe 320 pounds. He's a very agile interior lineman. He is hot necessarily a guy with a lot of get-off that comes up the field but someone who can move up and down the line of scrimmage, moves well laterally, and makes plays all over.
The breakout guy for 2025 may well be on the outside. Cashius Howell (transfer from Bowling Green) had a good bowl game against USC. He had a couple of sacks, half a dozen pressures, and an interception. Howell was a real force for a unit that was missing Scourton, Stewart, and Turner as well as some other guys due to injury. Given his size right now, 240 to 245 pounds, he may be more of a 3-4 type of outside linebacker at the next level as opposed to a 4-3 defensive end but he fits A&M's scheme well.
You've got the Mike backer, Taurean York, who had a very good freshman campaign but wasn't quite as good this year due to various issues, most of which weren't of his own making. He's someone to keep an eye on but probably not for the 2026 Combine.
Scooby Williams, the Florida transfer, had a nice year in 2024. He's an off-the-ball backer to watch out for. He was much improved and became more of a line of scrimmage, downhill player. He is probably going to test well in a combine setting.
Bryce Anderson, one of the A&M safeties is a veteran who has started a lot of games and played a lot of football. He has been a nickel and a safety. He was dinged last year but should be able to show more of what he can offer you going forward. He is another one who should have a good combine.
Will Lee, the big corner who returned the interception for a touchdown against Texas is a guy that's going to get scouts' attention just because he is 6-foot-3. He is a big guy. He likes to get physical, jack receivers up, and make them feel like they're running routes in a phone booth. He is not going to beat you in a sprint but on the other hand he is going to make your life extremely difficult to catch the football. He's going to measure out well. The issue is how well he tests out but that is a totally different thing and that's something to worry about in March 2026 as opposed to the fall of 2025.
Overall, if A&M has a lot more players that are going to be NFL-worthy and combine-ready a year from now, those will be the guys that make it happen.I love how 3/5 guys mentioned get the caveat that they don’t have NFL athleticism/measurables, but Tarp concludes that these are the guys that could be NFL ready next season. What ever happened to DJ Hicks, wouldn’t he be the natural guy to mention here since he’ll be draft eligible? Do they have a single defensive player who’s definitively better than say, Liona Lefau?
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The effort is not great at this point, but I've seen worse. It's just so blatant that this team is poorly coached on both sides of the ball.
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1 hour ago, Constant said:
Might be worth mentioning the freshman all american Jayden Jackson.
Sorry, I thought it was obvious i was referring to the big defensive lineman from IMG who was actually good last year. Point is, there isn't a ton of young talent flashing on your roster.
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They actually have a ton of experience on the team this year, I think we could be looking at a solid year in 2025 followed by a cratering in 2026. They haven't exactly had a bunch of guys flashing in the 24/25 classes, aside from the big DL from IMG and I guess the younger Bowen.
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Not Gary, Indiana related, but it's really odd to me that the perceptions of Turntine and Ojo appear to be on opposite trajectories. I guess Ojo is a more toolsy player, but Turntine continued to perform very well on the field this year. Feels like the industry is really overthinking it on Turntine, that guy is as close to a sure thing as they come IMO.
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If we don't get Turntine, someone needs to do a wellness check on Gerry Hamilton.
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Basically any combination of the OL being recruited would be spectacular. If we get Turntine + literally any 2 of the other tackle prospects, that is a tremendous haul.
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Does Fanduel have odds on Chace Sims for Heisman? Seems like it might be wise to get in on the ground floor given what I'm hearing from my scouts on TexAgs. Seriously though, why is it an accepted fact over there that he's going to be an immediate contributor, no one is even pushing back on that narrative.
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6 minutes ago, sunset87 said:Kenny Baker left a strong impression with Kanu as well.
"He's a cool coach," Kanu said.
Put him in the calculator after this strong impression.
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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:
It’s not like the loss of @Machinator to this board, but it’s a bigger loss than Carl. I did not have Burnt Orange & White getting murdered by his wife on my bingo card for 2025. RIP, you mildly interesting and highly voluminous dipshit.
If you weren't expecting this, you clearly have not been paying attention. I'm on my way to Lake Charles today to cash my BO&W murdered by his wife for telling her to take the trash out in the snow ticket.
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14 hours ago, Holy Horn said:
Will Austin Novosad see the field up there?
I think that if Novosad outplays Moore in spring, they're more likely to hit the transfer portal.
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8 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Thank you. Texas, Georgia and PSU will NOT be portal shopping a spring QB - they know what they have, with QBs who have actual in-game reps as starters.
Ohio State, Oregon, Notre Dame, Bama - could easily see all of them grab a spring portal QB. So I am saying those 4 are not "settled" on a QB yet in the way the other 3 are.
Oregon does not Dante Moore, but he wasn't very good at UCLA in his one year.
Maybe he's developed tremendously in the past year, but I think starting Dante Moore could be a disaster for Oregon next year. He has very limited mobility compared to Nix/Gabriel and looked terrible, even by freshman QB standards, at UCLA. He has a subpar arm but nice touch in the short game, which at least is a good fit in the Oregon offense. It will be fun to monitor the post-spring QB market from the sidelines, as I think you'll see some desperation from at least two of the schools you mention.
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4 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:Do guys have NDAs when they come on board? Kinda bs that ATM could now get literally the entire offensive playbook from Amari
If he knew it
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50 minutes ago, Atticus said:
Not to mention, Oregon wasn’t willing to concede him up until the very end.
Terry also runs sub 11 seconds in the 100m. He’s a strong runner who can be too finesse at times, but he’s the kind of guy who is a cheat code if he develops.
I’ve never heard any consistent issues about his work ethic or behavior.
I know one of the assistant coaches at Alamo Heights, he said Terry is a good kid, was well liked in the program and is the best player he’s coached by a wide margin. That being said, even after being around the kid for years, he wasn’t confident about his best position in college, but landed on receiver/maybe a sort of halfback role. Thinks he’ll really benefit from college S&C. All that to say, he essentially parroted what’s been said on this board the past year.
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1 minute ago, MuellerHorn said:
When i saw the blurb hyping up Parker Livingstone I wept for Arch.
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Very curious to see if we portal in a starting-caliber RB with Blue moving on. Choice, to his credit, seems to really like and have loyalty to his guys, but if you swapped RBs in the Cotton Bowl we’d be playing for the title right now.
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1. Chip Kelly literally stopped recruiting years before he left. 2. UCLA does not have competitive NIL funds, lost its starting QB to graduation and backup to Maryland, was going into this season looking to start an inaccurate former App State QB. 3. DeShaun Foster looks to be on a fast track to a short tenure, if the UCLA admin cares enough to fire him in a few years, and he needs talent. The roster is very very poor.