Tony Vitello to SF Giants (Confirmed)

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Volfan2012 said:
Finally the truth is told. Thank you. I saw the payout distribution when the NCAA settlement was finalized and I remember that baseball and women's basketball were basically even in Nil money. Lady Vol basketball got a big boost when Adidas became our shoe company not because of uneven distribution, but because Candace has already signed some high school players of which we have already got a commitment from one of them with a Adidas deal.
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I think you're confused on a couple of points. That Adidas money goes straight into the University coffers. Adidas does additional deals with athletes as part of the arrangement in addition to what they give the AD. None of this has anything to do with Adidas money.

The way the share of revenue was divvyed up was the majority to football (we don't know exact numbers so I'm guesstimating 75% just to have a number) , a lot less to basketball (15%), 5% to Lady Vols basketball, and then the remaining 5% is divided up among all the rest of the sports on campus.

Tony's got a real good argument that baseball is worth more to the bottom line than that.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
I mean I did think we’d have a decision to one way or another but now. A bit shocked it still hasn’t reached its conclusion.
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I’ll say this: if you told me this time yesterday that Tony would be present at practice and an open scrimmage this afternoon, I would have said that’s a really good sign.
 
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RandomUTfan said:
I think you're confused on a couple of points. That Adidas money goes straight into the University coffers. Adidas does additional deals with athletes as part of the arrangement in addition to what they give the AD. None of this has anything to do with Adidas money.

The way the share of revenue was divvyed up was the majority to football (we don't know exact numbers so I'm guesstimating 75% just to have a number) , a lot less to basketball (15%), 5% to Lady Vols basketball, and then the remaining 5% is divided up amongst all the rest of the sports on campus.

Tony's got a real good argument that baseball is worth more to the bottom line than that.
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Yes true but Edwards the latest Lady Vol recruit has a direct Adidas deal separate from everything else. She was influenced to come here because were the number one Adidas school. There is another player signed by Candace Kaleena Smith that has an Adidas contract as well and she just took an unofficial visit here is rated the number one player in 2027. What I'm saying is that were getting some women's basketball players not affected by the NIL deal as they are getting paid through Adidas.

Tony certainly has an argument but it would probably have to come from football or mens basketball as messing with womens sports is hard to do these days.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Yes true but Edwards the latest Lady Vol recruit has a direct Adidas deal separate from everything else. She was influenced to come here because were the number one Adidas school. There is another player signed by Candace Kaleena Smith that has an Adidas contract as well and she just took an unofficial visit here is rated the number one player in 2027. What I'm saying is that were getting some women's basketball players not affected by the NIL deal as they are getting paid through Adidas.

Tony certainly has an argument but it would probably have to come from football or mens basketball as messing with womens sports is hard to do these days.
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Oh, yeah. I see. That's a great point and a serious advantage for women's basketball. There are more resources pouring into that program now that Kellie just didn't have. Not saying she wasn't given a fair shot. It's just that there's more investment now. It's a simple fact. I'm sure baseball is probably set to benefit directly from the Adidas deal in terms of NIL too.
 
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With the world we live in now, how has something not leaked out from somewhere. The only conclusion we can reach is that he really hasn’t made up his mind. He has had the Giants offer and (per report on here) we countered last night. The Giants have to had given TV some type of time frame. Please be over soon!
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Snooping around on San Francisco Giants message board🤮🤮🤮. The usual posters stated if the hire was going to be made it would be announced today sometime...
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And frankly, if the hire was going to be announced today, I honestly don’t think Tony would be out there holding practice. Now he could prove me wrong, but that just doesn’t seem like a Tony thing to do.
 
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I do wish folks would stop with the putting down of the woman's basketball team including Pat Summit. Pat Summit is one of the key reasons why woman's basketball is where it is at today.

Personally, I don't care for the style of play I am seeing today in women's basketball, but we should not have to pit these two sports against each other. That is just wrong.
 
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Vols1966 said:
With the world we live in now, how has something not leaked out from somewhere. The only conclusion we can reach is that he really hasn’t made up his mind. He has had the Giants offer and (per report on here) we countered last night. The Giants have to had given TV some type of time frame. Please be over soon!
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txbo said:
I'm not hearing any other names being mentioned for the job.
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They need to go ahead and hire Pujos who turned down the Angel job. He would make San Francisco a great coach.

Were going to have to get Tony the NIL money he needs if he decides to stay. Arkansas will give it to him if they get an opening and so will some other schools. We just need to find a way probably not that much money short so hopefully someone with that kind of money to throw around would make it happen.
 
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volfan102455 said:
I do wish folks would stop with the putting down of the woman's basketball team including Pat Summit. Pat Summit is one of the key reasons why woman's basketball is where it is at today.

Personally, I don't care for the style of play I am seeing today in women's basketball, but we should not have to pit these two sports against each other. That is just wrong.
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I've read most of this, don't see Pat being put down.
 
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