According to Will West, "negotiations" were always about getting more receivers, OL

[BruisedOrange]

I've not been following this story, so I have no bias one way or another. I just know that in any controversial, breaking story, THE TRUTH will be elusive and more money will be made off of speculation, innuendo, and half-truths.

For whatever it's worth, here's today's interview with Will West of 99.1 The Sports Animal, offering what he's been able to learn:

 

[jasonvol18]

I've not been following this story, so I have no bias one way or another. I just know that in any controversial, breaking story, THE TRUTH will be elusive and more money will be made off of speculation, innuendo, and half-truths.

For whatever it's worth, here's today's interview with Will West of 99.1 The Sports Animal, offering what he's been able to learn:

He is absolutely wrong. It's all about money and has been since the winter. He proydoes want more help, but the bigger factor is the money.

 

[VOLLeeann]

According to Will West, "negotiations" were always about getting more receivers, OL

Then all anybody had to do was say so.

But they didn't.

 

[Derek Reese's jumpshot]

Yeah right.

 

[Smokievol]

Hogwash!

 

[EZE]

I have some oceanfront property in Fargo, ND for sale.

 

[OrangeInKy]

Will has been weird about this, almost making Tennessee the bad guy.

 

[Pawleysvol]

I've not been following this story, so I have no bias one way or another. I just know that in any controversial, breaking story, THE TRUTH will be elusive and more money will be made off of speculation, innuendo, and half-truths.

For whatever it's worth, here's today's interview with Will West of 99.1 The Sports Animal, offering what he's been able to learn:

I’ll go with what Chris Low says

 

[Mikevol1964]

Don’t know much about Knoxville media. But I do know Will West is a moron

 

[volfan411]

This is Nico’s camp trying to save face.

 

[Jaws]

So this guy and his Dad want general manager roles in addition to more money?

I hope TN tells him gtfo and lands someone better in the portal.

 

[Volsdeep4]

they wanted more money. If he wanted better WR’s he would be linked to teams with a better WR room. Notre dame , ucla , usc don’t have that. It’s always been about money.

 

[treecejc]

I call BS. If that’s all it was they would’ve said that up front. They didn’t. They saw the backlash and wanted to save face. The fans have every right to be pissed. There’s fans that are struggling to pay bills right now and they still donated to spyre because they wanted to see him suit up in Orange. They wanted him to be a part of this team and now he has the audacity to say “no this 8 million ain’t enough. I’m gonna need 4 more million”?? Especially after a subpar performance this past year. Either way the fans have already turned on him. Theres no going back. A train doesn’t run on a torn up track.

 

[TheVolunteer002]

I don't buy that for a minute. The hell with all of this. Give me a guy who wants to be here.

 

[CAVPUT]

I don't buy that for a minute. The hell with all of this. Give me a guy who wants to be here.

But I thought we wanted kids to have freedom and to get a bag? Now they get both. Ain't it grand?

 

[Orange931]

Well Will West, that’s a load of bs if I’ve ever heard it. Also, maybe if Nico wasn’t getting 8 million we could use some of that money on other players. My goodness, you’ve got a scholarship to play football at one of the best universities in the country with everything pretty much paid for. Do you really need millions of dollars right now?

 

[Dadof2Vols]

I call BS. If that’s all it was they would’ve said that up front. They didn’t. They saw the backlash and wanted to save face. The fans have every right to be pissed. There’s fans that are struggling to pay bills right now and they still donated to spyre because they wanted to see him suit up in Orange. They wanted him to be a part of this team and now he has the audacity to say “no this 8 million ain’t enough. I’m gonna need 4 more million”?? Especially after a subpar performance this past year. Either way the fans have already turned on him. Theres no going back. A train doesn’t run on a torn up track.

There will be some kind of backlash if he shows up to O&W game tomorrow….BOOs will probably be louder than JGs…

 

[lego126]

One of favorite quotes,
"Its not all of them, but it is always them!"

Its not ALL about the money, but it is about the money.

 

[secking]

I've not been following this story, so I have no bias one way or another. I just know that in any controversial, breaking story, THE TRUTH will be elusive and more money will be made off of speculation, innuendo, and half-truths.

For whatever it's worth, here's today's interview with Will West of 99.1 The Sports Animal, offering what he's been able to learn:

Then Nico would be asking for less money where more money could be spent on WR and OL. He would be saying he wants to take less to improve the team and TN and Nico’s PR team would be making sure every sports outlet wrote that story to make him look good.

 

[lego126]

There will be some kind of backlash if he shows up to O&W game tomorrow….BOOs will probably be louder than JGs…

I hope not, he's been everything we should hope for from a future VFL since he's been here. He just needed 1 more season under his belt before he could puff his chest out and ask for more money.

 

[Dadof2Vols]

I hope not, he's been everything we should hope for from a future VFL since he's been here. He just needed 1 more season under his belt before he could puff his chest out and ask for more money.

Everything we could hope for except being a man of his word…..There is no I in Team especially come Spring

 

[patrick]

I've not been following this story, so I have no bias one way or another. I just know that in any controversial, breaking story, THE TRUTH will be elusive and more money will be made off of speculation, innuendo, and half-truths.

For whatever it's worth, here's today's interview with Will West of 99.1 The Sports Animal, offering what he's been able to learn:

Will West doesn’t know beans from buckshot. His commentary isn’t worth shyte.

 

[njvols]

He is absolutely wrong. It's all about money and has been since the winter. He proydoes want more help, but the bigger factor is the money.

Yeah this is about more OL/WR, now give me more money…ok.

 

[Vol865]

Well Will West, that’s a load of bs if I’ve ever heard it. Also, maybe if Nico wasn’t getting 8 million we could use some of that money on other players. My goodness, you’ve got a scholarship to play football at one of the best universities in the country with everything pretty much paid for. Do you really need millions of dollars right now?

It's $2 million a year. It'll cost more to get another P4 caliber out of the portal if they go that direction. Regardless of this situation, we aren't ponying up money to be an elite football program.

 

[DooleyOrangePants]

This smells like Nico’s team (or father because apparently “Team” is a foreign concept to them) is trying to spin some damage control because this hasn’t gone quite like they tried to play it out.

He will still get rich, but hopefully they get a dose of reality after this and watch that fade away from the greed & extortion they tried to pull here. Calling coaches to gauge interest and value should have been the first clue to anyone paying attention.