Recruiting Forum Football Talk V

[Devo182]

Are we talking about a small or large company? I can give my opinion as a former department head for a large engineering company. Starting salaries, vacation, sick leave policies etc. were set by management and HR department. So as a department head I had flexibility on who to hire, but not on starting salaries and benefits. The good news was that annual raises were based on performance, so we did have control over how to split up the raise budget each year.

Only once did an interviewee come in with a list of demands on benefits, about ten of them! (Extra vacation, Fridays off, on and on.) We didn't hire him. So my advice would be to tread carefully.

Pretty dang large. I'm in the finance section of an engineering center plant (capital tooling), international company. I'm already there, I'm simply on contract while deciding to go permanent if I liked it...which I feel gives me plenty of leverage. They were sort of drowning before I came on.

I'm shooting for 15% salary bump and 3 weeks off. Is it best to ask higher (like 20-25%) and then there's room to settle down to 15%? Or is 20-25% a little much?

Thanks for any tips.

 

[Orangeredblooded]

Floriduh got another one
They are red hot right now

So what, I’ve felt like I’ve been on that crappy forum swamp gas all day. Vols will get theirs also and that’s all I CARE about.

 

[NochNoch]

Multiple bubbles on the edge of collapse, yield curve inversion at a 40 year low, massive inflation, multiple other major markets either in recession already (Japan) or close (Europe), equities are still way overvalued, Russia restricting gas to Europe this winter, China, etc. It's a perfect storm.

You can't pump multiple trillions into a ZIRP driven economy and market, creating massive demand and inflated valuations, and expect nothing bad to happen.

And there are more than a few indicators that either a) we never had a recession or b) the worst is already behind us. By technical definition Q2 and Q3 will “officially” land us in recession territory but many inflation indicators have already turned over. I’m not even saying that I think a recession isn’t going to come but I don’t see a lot to believe that it’s going to be some “worst of all time” status.

 

[VolNash17]

Floriduh got another one
They are red hot right now

Ya… They’re hot. Napier will have a good first year class for sure probably will end up being their best class points wise since the Muschamp days. I know their average player rating is definitely higher than it usually has been from 2014-2022 Mullen had a few 90.00 classes but Napier appears to be in on alot more elite guys than Mullen ever was. Key for them is can they carry that momentum onto the field

 

[TheRain]

.... No. Nope.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

Ya… They’re hot. Napier will have a good first year class for sure probably will end up being their best class points wise since the Muschamp days. I know their average player rating is definitely higher than it usually has been from 2014-2022 Mullen had a few 90.00 classes but Napier appears to be in on alot more elite guys than Mullen ever was. Key for them is can they carry that momentum onto the field

I’d rather have this one than LSU but I feel like we should get one of them at least. Florida would be better perception wise.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

The thing is, and you know this, that we don't want to be realistic. There are the numbnuts who get mad when the team does not reach their expectations, but most of us are optimistic and take the bad with the good. I am at 8-4 right now, but think 10-2 is very possible.

or

15-0

c’mon Byron. Be optimistic!

 

[ACvol3]

I didn't say anything negative about Tennessee's recruiting class. I only responded to a post that seemed surprised regarding the strength of Florida's recruiting efforts.

Everything else was part of the normal banter of "Florida sucks, we're going to hang 50 on the Gators, your coach is garbage", that happens every year.

We haven’t had a coach in a long time… I’m thinking we finally got one

 

[jave36]

We could do a lot on the gas side of this ourselves. Don't know how much more grain we could possibly produce without reducing production of some other agricultural product. Then you create a new problem if we do that.

Ramping up gas production is a really expensive process, and by the time gas companies have invested all that money and time, the Russia situation could be resolved and the gas companies never make back that investment. Tough balance to strike for them, they'd need Russia to be idiots for like 5 more years just to break even on tapping all those wells.

 

[jave36]

Pretty dang large. I'm in the finance section of an engineering center plant (capital tooling), international company. I'm already there, I'm simply on contract while deciding to go permanent if I liked it...which I feel gives me plenty of leverage. They were sort of drowning before I came on.

I'm shooting for 15% salary bump and 3 weeks off. Is it best to ask higher (like 20-25%) and then there's room to settle down to 15%? Or is 20-25% a little much?

Thanks for any tips.

3 weeks? That's it? 4 weeks + company holidays should be your minimum ask if they need you more than you need them. Heck, I'm a nobody and I get more than 3 weeks.

 

[VolGee4]

Dan Mullen could recruit.
















He now coaches at a HS.

Dan Mullen couldn’t recruit. That’s why he was NEVER a fit at UT.

 

[VolGee4]

Tried telling everyone that Napier can recruit.

They're not close to done either.

Lol…cry me a river

 

[Devo182]

equities are still way overvalued

There needs to be new definitions of overvaluation in equities. And yes QE infinity should be good reason to believe they are. And they may be to some degree. And yet...many folks were wary and said to exit all equities nearly a decade ago, especially in talking with folks used to the 70s-90s market... and they missed out on one of the greatest bull markets ever.

The most common metric is the Schiller PE and according to it we have been historically overvalued (and should have seen epic crashes) for going on a decade. But the most conmonly ignored item is the new allocation of large cap equities into higher PE industries.

Just don't think it's that simple as using historical cutoff points to figure market overvaluation.

 

[Glitch]

yup been gobbling up as many as possible.

yes i know glitch.

What?

 

[Glitch]

check this bad boy out....signal mountain....better wear good shoes/boots

VIDEO: Giant snake found near Snooper's Rock in Chattanooga

That is one big butt nope rope.

 

[Glitch]

Looks like a team enjoying being a team.

 

[Johnny Majors' Ghost]

Someone on VQ said Nebraska might try for Stoops if Frost faceplants again. No idea whether he'd want to deal with that.

He would pass on that job and wait on Ferentz to retire at Iowa. At least that's what AP believes. I thought he may also be a candidate at FSU if Norvell is canned.

 

[BarnesIsCaliparisDaddy]

smh

 

[ACvol3]

Looks like a team enjoying being a team.

I bet it was something like, if he catches this kick, you don’t have to run

 

[ACvol3]

He would pass on that job and wait on Ferentz to retire at Iowa. At least that's what AP believes. I thought he may also be a candidate at FSU if Norvell is canned.

FSU = neon Deion

 

[SweetasSoda]

So then we agree on 15-0

Of course!

 

[SSVol]

There needs to be new definitions of overvaluation in equities. And yes QE infinity should be good reason to believe they are. And they may be to some degree. And yet...many folks were wary and said to exit all equities nearly a decade ago, especially in talking with folks used to the 70s-90s market... and they missed out on one of the greatest bull markets ever.

The most common metric is the Schiller PE and according to it we have been historically overvalued (and should have seen epic crashes) for going on a decade. But the most conmonly ignored item is the new allocation of large cap equities into higher PE industries.

Just don't think it's that simple as using historical cutoff points to figure market overvaluation.

Why not? We just redefined recession.

We'll see. Deep recession, or not. Significant market revaluation, or not.

 

[SweetasSoda]

Fun fact:

Hooker has the highest UT qbr all-time so far. His 181 QBR as a UT qb is a whopping 24 points higher than 2nd place.

And it was only year 1

Just imagine if we had Heupel's mind back 15 years ago to save Fulmer and his high-talent defenses. Man, what a deadly combo that would've been.

181?????

 

[Glitch]

Ramping up gas production is a really expensive process, and by the time gas companies have invested all that money and time, the Russia situation could be resolved and the gas companies never make back that investment. Tough balance to strike for them, they'd need Russia to be idiots for like 5 more years just to break even on tapping all those wells.

Forget Russia. Put in is a despot and we should do anything and everything to limit his influence on the world. If we ramp up gas production the the world has an alternative to Russia petroleum products and then Putin can't just invade countries and hold Europe hostage because he supplies all the gas they need for heating their homes in the winter.

I know this stuff isn't as simple as we would like it to be but there are things we should've been doing 20 years ago that would have had a dramatic effect on the world today.

 

[CABVOL]

I’ve seen him live in Knoxville and he is absolutely amazing. My favorite guitarist of all time!

Really want to see him and Beth Hart live.