He had BYU on his list, but then a Tennessee associated company purportedly offers him a 4 year 8 million dollar NIL deal, and he’s skipping his senior year and showing up for work hawking ice cream in Knoxville, planning to be a Volunteer next fall.

https://theathletic.com/3241640/2022/04/11/nico-iamaleava-tennessee-nil/#:~:text=No%20one%20will%20acknowledge%20whether,for%20the%20next%20four%20years.

BYU restricts these kind of deals, preferring to keep control of the money and to prevent partnerships with companies outside the values of the University, giving players some decent money, but with a couple less zeroes than Tennessee.



Predictably, Tennessee is 7-0 and BYU 4-5