Mississippi State fired Lemonis

#27
#27
Only thing I could see is revenue sharing going 99% to football and that pissing tony off.
If the House settlement occurs, the majority of the revenue sharing will go to 3 sports: football, basketball, and women’s basketball. Per the terms of the settlement, Baseball is lumped in with the rest of the “no margin” sports (ie tennis, golf, rowing, etc) which will receive a small % of rev share. NIL will be separate income bucket but there would be a clearinghouse overseen by Deloitte.
 
#30
#30
Some factors keeping CTV at UT:

1) he loves it here
2) admin is fully supporting baseball evidenced by $100M in stadium renovations and making CTV highest paid coach in NCAA baseball
3) CTV had input on stadium renovations and design
4) fan support and big donor support has been stellar
5) he’s transformed UT to a baseball powerhouse
6) president of UT is a huge baseball fan; AD knows how important CTV is to UT and gives him 100% support.
 
#31
#31
Some factors keeping CTV at UT:

1) he loves it here
2) admin is fully supporting baseball evidenced by $100M in stadium renovations and making CTV highest paid coach in NCAA baseball
3) CTV had input on stadium renovations and design
4) fan support and big donor support has been stellar
5) he’s transformed UT to a baseball powerhouse
6) president of UT is a huge baseball fan; AD knows how important CTV is to UT and gives him 100% support.
If he was money-whipped by Texas, Arkansas, or LSU he'd have to consider it. As you said there are strong factors keeping him here though.

Fortunately 2 of those schools shouldn't be in the market for a HC for a while. Van Horn is going to retire at some point.
 
#32
#32
If he was money-whipped by Texas, Arkansas, or LSU he'd have to consider it. As you said there are strong factors keeping him here though.

Fortunately 2 of those schools shouldn't be in the market for a HC for a while. Van Horn is going to retire at some point.
CTV knows the grass isn’t always greener on the other side…even with a boatload of more money.

Of the work environment isn’t good, it’s hard to enjoy work and enjoy the increase in pay.
 
#41
#41
I had a friend from southern Mississippi (in a Greek language study group, ironically) whose last name was Strum. He said everybody in his hometown (where his family had lived for generations) pronounced his name "Skrum" -- even his school teachers!

Land o' pee-cans and fauxnemes...
…took me a while to cipher fauxneme… a Faulkner tradition.
 
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#44
The main thing I remember about Starkville from when I went to a football game long ago, other than the Vols losing, was the fact you could not buy cold beer at the store, it was room temp.

Asked and answered. My bad.
 
#47
#47
For less than 24 hours. Drove down from Memphis for a football game, hung out for a while after, drove back overnight.

We pulled off the highway for a while and slept in the car on the way back.

Yep. It was alright. They take their baseball seriously. I guess anything is possible, I just don’t see it.
 
#49
#49
Mississippi State, Ole Miss and LSU all had a huge drop off the following year after winning the CWS.

Vitello and staff have bucked the trend.

Impressive that the Vols
lost all these players and are still a top 4 team in the toughest conference in the country.

-Christian Moore
-Blake Burke
-Dylan Dreiling
-Kavares Tears
-Billy Amick
-Cal Stark
-Zander Sechrist
-AJ Causey
-Drew Beam
-Kirby Connell
-Aaron Combs
-Chris Stamos
 
#50
#50
Mississippi State, Ole Miss and LSU all had a huge drop off the following year after winning the CWS.

Vitello and staff have bucked the trend.

Impressive that the Vols
lost all these players and are still a top 4 team in the toughest conference in the country.

-Christian Moore
-Blake Burke
-Dylan Dreiling
-Kavares Tears
-Billy Amick
-Cal Stark
-Zander Sechrist
-AJ Causey
-Drew Beam
-Kirby Connell
-Aaron Combs
-Chris Stamos

6 teams. Back to back. I’m sure you’ll dig it up.

More importantly…I hope it happens for these guys, hope they all get where they wanna go. It ain’t supposed to be easy and the stats bear that out. We got 9 games in a row at home, that’s a good thing. Anything is possible.

I believe.

GBO!!!
 

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