The volleyball team has been consistently one of the best sports teams on campus for the last decade, but don't always get the recognition or respect they rightfully deserve.
I don’t know that Nico is wrong and I don’t know that Tennessee is right. Ryan, however, is correct about Mark Emmett. The current state of the NCAA was totally foreseeable, and Mark Emmett was presumably steering the ship when it happened. His leadership is unequivocal failure.
Nico Iamaleava is right to fight for every single penny he feels he deserves, & the University of Tennessee has every right to decide he isn’t worth it. The problem is that former NCAA president Mark Emmert had a chance to protect them both from being in this position. The NCAA’s failure to do the one thing it was created to do shows why leadership matters.
The NCAAs refusal to be on the right side of history has us looking at the present like “What the F*ck?”. So, who’s to tell Nico he doesn’t deserve $4 million, & who’s to say someone hasn’t already said they got it for him. So, don’t be mad at Nico or Tenn. Place the blame where it belongs… Squarely on the greedy shoulders of the NCAA.
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