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.

Looking back on it all now, was the juice worth the squeeze for Tennessee in this now-severed union with Nico Iamaleava?

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