Josh Heupel Announces Tennessee Is Moving on From Nico Iamaleava After He Attempted a Holdout Prior to the Vols' Spring Game

Nico Iamaleava and his father are two of history's great cocksuckers. They swindled the University of Tennessee out of millions of dollars for one average season, threatened to leave immediately after it ended and then decided instead to meticulously wait until the spring when they thought UT would be pressured to double Nico's salary. And when that didn't work, he just quit on his team 24 hours before the spring game.

I don't know if Nico is a malicious or vindictive person — the people around him definitely are — but I do know that he's a severely overrated football player and at minimum pretty dumb to be taking some of the horrific advice he's getting right now. He'll get another nice chunk of change from some school desperate enough to take on this train wreck of a situation, but I can't imagine the NFL Draft process, if he makes it that far, will be a particularly pleasant one for him after this.

I love the response from Josh Heupel and Tennessee, though. Nico thought he was going to skip practice the day before the Orange and White Game, fuck over his teammates and coaches and somehow come out of it with $4 million. Sorry buddy, you're out of here and we're not even gonna let you be the one to claim you're leaving on your own. See ya, bitch.

I want to say I hate that it ended like this, but I guess I really don't. We were sold a bill of goods on a guy who looks great against Chattanooga and Vanderbilt and can't do anything against a team with a pulse. Add to that he's one of the great pieces of shit of a generation where those are a dime a dozen and I can't imagine a scenario where Tennessee is worse off with him gone. I don't know what Jake Merklinger's got in the tank, but let's put some weapons around him and find out.

I would watch the Vols win eight games this year with a smile on my face knowing everyone on the field wants to be there and is doing their best to win football games for the University of Tennessee. We might not have even won that many last year if we had an average defense with Nico running around back there like the playbook was written in Chinese.

Rest in piss, bozo. We #JerkForMerk now.