Three months after Nico Iamaleava left Tennessee for UCLA and shook the college football world amidst the most significant contract dispute in the NIL era, the star quarterback finally broke his silence.

The new Bruins quarterback disputed reports about the reasons behind his dramatic departure from Knoxville and discussed his perspective on what happened.

Nico Iamaleava wore a UCLA blue suit on Big Ten Network as his Tennessee highlights played on the monitor. Here's what he said at Big Ten media days.