Cam Newton warns QB Nico Iamaleava money aint gonna last after advice from fool led to Tennessee divorce

Cam Newton believes in the saying that good advice saves and bad advice kills.In the case of ex-Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava leaving the Volunteers amid an NIL discrepancy, the former NFL MVP worries the young prospect is suffering due to the latter.Iamaleava sat out Tennessee’s spring practice in hopes of landing an NIL deal that would bump him from roughly $2.4 million to $4 million, per ESPN, leading to a messy divorce.“Whoever gave him the advice to sit out killed that kid,” Newton said earlier this week on his “4th&1 with Cam Newton” program.“Regardless of how you bounce back from this, you will be the example.

There are certain things in people’s careers that it just sticks.… With Nico, he will have this stain on his career and it’s sad because, to Dan Orlovsky’s point, he is still a kid that’s being guided by other people, whether it’s his father, whether it’s his agent, if it’s his family members.

It doesn’t matter.”The standoff may cost Iamaleava millions if he has to settle for a lower NIL deal, according to ESPN, with UCLA emerging as his next potential home.Newton said that focusing on the money is the wrong strategy for a youngster.“Whoever gave this kid the advice to sit out and chase in hopes for more money is a fool because the reality is this, and I’ll need to tell everybody about what NIL was and is intended for.It’s just to make your college experience comfortable.

This is not forever money,” Newton said.“You have to understand that.

Even though you’re talking about millions and millions and millions of money, you’re at 19-years-old, that money ain’t gonna last past 24.You dig what I’m saying.

At 35, everybody love to say, ‘I got old money, I got old hundreds.’ Listen, at 35, I probably got money at 30 still saved.But at 22, 23? Money been spent.”Newton knows Iamaleava after spending time with him at his QB Skills Challenge event and praised him for being a “good kid” an...