Should AD go all in on baseball and offer tony $20M

[bpalmer28]

asking for a friend

 

[rockytop25]

No

 

[CAVPUT]

asking for a friend

20M per year? Are you insane? Look, I want to keep him with all my being, but you can't run a business that way. And yes, college sports are a business. Honestly, I think the college coaches are way overpaid, but 20M is not sustainable....and that applies to every sport.

 

[82_VOL_83]

3.2 mil, 15 year contract with incentives

 

[rocketskates]

Nah that’s insane. But that being said I think you offer him substantially more than he’s making to try to keep him in Knoxville.

 

[knoxvol52]

No words ..

I think it will be over $4 million a year .

 

[lilesrt]

Or we can just give him the keys to the city.

 

[busper]

No words ..

I think it will be over $4 million a year .

I don't think baseball generates that kind of revenue.

 

[FortWorthVol]

The UTAD needs to be exceptionally creative at keeping Tennessee fan’s favorite coach and generate some new ways to get him the funding he needs, legally of course. Danny White has got to earn his salary here because he will lose vast credibility by a large portion of the UT fan base if he does not.

I suspect the average fan rating for Coach V is higher than any other coach. There is a limit in what can be offered to baseball but UT has to realize this program at this time ranks at the top all-around, perhaps not in success (LSU) - yet - but certainly in notoriety and recognition. No other sports flashes the UT brand like UT Baseball and no other coach has the same flair, genuineness, competency, baseball knowledge, and generates hype for the UT brand than Tony Vitello. I suspect his players would run through walls for him and as a baseball season ticket holder so would I.

 

[BelievetheHeup2022]

asking for a friend

Tell your friend he's an idiot

 

[CAVPUT]

I don't think baseball generates that kind of revenue.

Perhaps not and that might be why we're having this discussion. Still, consider the revenue generated by women's softball and basketball in relation to their head coaching salaries. I don't think $4M is out of line. Frankly, I say we make him the highest paid coach in college baseball AND double his NIL fund. He's earned every penny of it.

 

[crazycanuck20]

That's insane. Where did you come up with that number? Any AD who offers that to CTV should be fired immediately. It should be 44M fully guaranteed with personal revenue sharing from the football team, as well as a 2022 Dodge Durango.

 

[taylorvol]

$3.5M annually and a larger budget for recruiting and retainment commiserate with a top program. I’d tell the other programs that they can ask for more NIL $ / Rev share once they’ve won a NC.

 

[CobbWebb71]

No words ..

I think it will be over $4 million a year .

Hells yeah, like $16 million more if it were up to my boy @bpalmer28
He ain’t letting Tony V walk!!

 

[bpalmer28]

Hells yeah, like $16 million more if it were up to my boy @bpalmer28
He ain’t letting Tony V walk!!

i’m just trying to distract myself from the pain of my team played like crap last night. I don’t give a rip about Tony if I’m being honest.

 

[CobbWebb71]

i’m just trying to distract myself from the pain of my team played like crap last night. I don’t give a rip about Tony if I’m being honest.

I’m still hurting too, I just appreciate the hell out of the way you spend someone else’s money.
I’d rather keep Tony V, over any other coach on campus.

 

[bpalmer28]

I’m still hurting too, I just appreciate the hell out of the way you spend someone else’s money.
I’d rather keep Tony V, over any other coach on campus.

i thought its be obvious that i was being sarcastic. 20M for baseball would be absurd. that’s more than 8x his current salary

 

[Volstylexx]

I don't think baseball generates that kind of revenue.

It definitely doesn’t generate it on paper, but the value It brings to the University of Tennessee is arguably much higher.

 

[preacherman20]

Can I throw in pay a former LHP director of something, sorry I don’t know his official title , $100,000? If we are dealing in what ifs?

 

[rocketskates]

I’m still hurting too, I just appreciate the hell out of the way you spend someone else’s money.
I’d rather keep Tony V, over any other coach on campus.

Agreed. Of the major men’s sports it’s Vitello, Barnes and Heupel in that order for me. That’s not a knock on Heupel and football is by far my favorite sport—but Tony has proven he can win it all and I got so much joy the summer of 2024, that he’s my favorite Tennessee coach.

 

[knoxvol52]

i’m just trying to distract myself from the pain of my team played like crap last night. I don’t give a rip about Tony if I’m being honest.

 

[RandomUTfan]

This is the most ridiculous proposal I think I have ever seen on this site. 20 million dollars? Are you categorically insane? Did someone drop you on your head as an infant?


If I'm Danny White, I'm offering no less than 25.

 

[VetVol]

I don't think money is driving Tony. I think he wants to be in the big dance and coach in the majors. I guess only Tony knows.

 

[MAD]

I’m still hurting too, I just appreciate the hell out of the way you spend someone else’s money.
I’d rather keep Tony V, over any other coach on campus.

Donde or Tony?

 

[CobbWebb71]

Donde or Tony?

Tony