Nico Iamaleava's departure from Tennessee has everyone rethinking college football and its NIL system.
On a recent episode of "The Ryen Russillo Podcast" football analysts Todd McShay and Daniel Jeremiah discussed the quarterback splitting with the Volunteers in pursuit of more compensation at another school.
Jeremiah first put the responsibility on college football, not on any individual player.
"Figure out a formula or a system where we can have it just like we have it at the professional level because this is professional football now," Jeremiah said.
McShay took it one step further, suggesting that college football should make an effort to control the money that teams can spend.
"There's got to be some kind of CBA, some kind of salary cap," McShay said. "There's got to be some kind of system where a trust is set up."
The longtime insider went on to say that with the high dollar amounts offered to college athletes, families are taking advantage and influencing the players' decisions.
"The reports I'm getting from these background checks are scary," McShay warned.
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Many analysts fear that Iamaleava is setting a precedent that other college athletes will follow. If that was to happen, McShay's idea could come to fruition. College athletes being compensated is in its infant stage and there are more developments to come.
"I'd like to see steps towards something that caps it, makes it reasonable, and it's not just in the moment mom and dad have their hands out," McShay said.
Times are rapidly changing for college athletes.