Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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Sounds like UCLA or bust for Nico. I suppose he could wait and see how the transfer portal shakes out. Cal could use a QB, though I doubt they are gonna pay Nico anywhere near 2.5 million. Maybe Utah takes a shot?
 
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De La Cloobs said:
The silence from Nico is deafening. The fact NOTHING has been addressed by him is just another enormous red flag in terms of maturity and character.

I mean, he never seemed to have much social acumen, but I never would have guessed he was this inept.
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What do you expect him to say, exactly? And why would he say anything while he still hasn't signed anywhere? He has absolutely nothing to gain from speaking. He could only hurt himself further.
 
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I’m starting to see some BVS trickle into the site. Here’s my thought that’s calming my nerves: Nico was around $2.5M and wanted $4M (supposedly). There’s a reason the program didn’t negotiate and offer around $3M back in December/January before it came out in the open. That tells me Heupel is confident with what he’s currently got and didn’t see Nico as that shining star that was the difference between 10 wins and a 6-6 campaign.
 
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De La Cloobs said:
The silence from Nico is deafening. The fact NOTHING has been addressed by him is just another enormous red flag in terms of maturity and character.

I mean, he never seemed to have much social acumen, but I never would have guessed he was this inept.
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This is the exact opposite of what needs to be done. Sometimes, Shutting up is the best course of action. Which more people needed to learn. Not everything needs an explanation immediately.

I bet Nico wishes Big Nick just STFU back in January.
 
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tnvols72 said:
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After some thought, I felt before for anico a bit and still do for the fact that this seems driven by his counsel. HOWEVER, here’s the thing: if you want to be treated like a professional and earn professional money, act like one. I said it before, you see this stuff in the nfl, but those players are the best in the game (Lamar jackson) and when they do it during a time that impacts the team (leveon bell) it does not turn out well for them. Nobody wants that. And you can’t want to be treated like an adult and then get sympathy for being a kid. So as much as I hate it for the kid, you asked for it. The ability to be treated as a kid was lost when you signed on the dotted line for 2 mil a year and had a university bring down the whole system just to be able to do that for you. Show some gratitude and go earn that next pay raise before demanding it.
 
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I think we will be fine with Merklinger playing QB1. Only thing CJH needs Merk to do is be a game manager and ride the running game hard ...no crazy turnovers trying to play hero ball. The defense should be just as strong or stronger this upcoming season...


I know you guys think 17-10 games are boring but if that's what it takes to win "so be it".
 
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knoxvol52 said:
I think we will be fine with Merklinger playing QB1. Only thing CJH needs Merk to do is be a game manager and ride the running game hard ...no crazy turnovers trying to play hero ball. The defense should be just as strong or stronger this upcoming season...


I know you guys think 17-10 games are boring but if that's what it takes to win "so be it".
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Not sure the defense will be stronger. Losing their best DL and McCoy is coming off of a major injury.
 
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25vol said:
lol is Nico’s dad trying to get this out there to make people think there’s interest?

Notice how the failed twitter journo said “here are the segments from our DMs regarding Nico getting offers over $4M” and yet the actual message from Nico’s dad says “the offers we have received are better, by a lot!” and never even specified a number or even alluded to it being close to $4M! Exaggeration is a classic tactic for controlling a narrative and I really feel like that’s the case here.

I think this is just too fishy. Not a single big name school seems to be interested and this dad has ruined his son’s football career for nothing but seems to stupid to even realize it.
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I mean, it's all BS from a majorly untalented BS Artist, but... ???

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R0CKYT0P 16 said:
He also had a $3 Million offer from Miami in the off-season allegedly.
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He has negative leverage now. What a clusterhump of poor management. I'd be shocked if he gets anything close to the UT deal or lands at a major program. I'd bet good money that he's blackballed at major universities. . .
 
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Let's say that hypothetically Nico showed up to practice on Friday, played in the Spring game, and all the stuff from his reps stayed out of the public light. After they pushed for a new deal before the playoffs, again in the winter portal window, and then through the Spring...you know Heupel was probably already prepared to cut ties. It's bad enough that you lose your starting QB at the end of Spring, but what's worse? How about him going through all pre-season practices and then threatening to sit out the season? I think Heupel knew that's where it was heading and maybe that's why everything was leaked...get it out in the open to help settle it one way or the other now so there's still time to make up for Nico's loss.
 
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