The Tennessee Volunteers have been in the headlines due to their back-and-forth with now-former starting quarterback Nico Iamaleava, who is officially in the college football transfer portal. Iamaleava tried to negotiate for more money before electing to enter the portal in hopes of a bigger deal elsewhere.

These things take time and money. And it hasn’t been as long as it seems. But Tennessee needs a quarterback from the transfer portal.

The news comes after attempts to renegotiate his NIL went public, creating what essentially became an NFL-style holdout.