Tony Vitello to SF Giants (Confirmed)

[Aesius]

Reading “Tony Vitello is out” was a jumpscare

 

[Mullins2010]

 

[taylorvol]

My view is Lady Vols basketball is going to get their 5 percent really no way for Danny White to prevent it. What he needs to do if he can is find a way to get Tony what he needs it is certainly happening at other SEC baseball schools like LSU and Arkansas.

5% is only $1M. I’d be surprised if the LV are not getting more of the Rev share than that…

 

[NO SIR EEE]

Either SF and TV are just ironing out details and he is just hanging around practice or he has already turned it down. Just think it would be weird if he's at practice knowing he's leaving.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I get that there are negotiations and all that when it comes to big-time MLB jobs, but it’s really strange that Tony keeps showing up. Usually, once a coach accepts another job, they move on, there’s not much point in continuing to show up to practice if they’re actually leaving.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

He looks like he’s crying….

 

[MAD]

One of the great things about VolNation is that we got connections to every organization in every sport at every level.

I shave this lady’s back and her grandson works for one of the agents in California and she heard him say it’s complicated.

 

[wellsea180]

FYI - Attendance for TN Baseball this past season was 210,618 whereas Lady Vols Basketball (2024-2025 season) was 181,002. That's about a 15% difference. TN Women's Basketball (2023-2024 Fiscal Year) lost a cool 7 million clams.....AI reports that for the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year TN Baseball did not have an operating loss.

More money should go to TN Baseball - Tony is a generational coach who proved who can actually win championships!

I would hope they have a higher total attendance they play 20 more home games than the women's basketball team does

 

[RandomUTfan]

The opportunity in altering the split with WBB is not material. Meaningful NIL improvment for either needs to come through the collectives.

I keep coming back to that and it confuses me. Before anyone floated the idea this could be about revenue sharing, it just didn't make sense to me that Tony would be this bent about it, given the portal haul he just assembled and the recruiting classes last year and the one he's currently assembling make it pretty clear he has the resources he needs. We are stacking #1 classes. We have such great depth at pitcher we are losing bullpen players to other teams as starters. This is about the deepest baseball team I think I've seen in the modern age. Where is our roster lacking? What holes does it have?

 

[hooperj75]

Did he have Calhoun's ribs or Rice a Roni for lunch? That will tell you everything.

 

[taylorvol]

It just started to rain here, might get cancelled

You obviously weren’t at the Auburn game last year.

 

[chuckiepoo]

Agreed. I even bought LV basketball season tix this year—all because of what Kim Caldwell has started. I never thought that would happen. I’m baseball first followed by football, basketball, and LV basketball.

PS. No more pro sports for me although college is getting closer each day.

Last six Tennessee jerseys ive purchased are all baseball …as well as hats…

 

[volfanhill]

Either SF and TV are just ironing out details and he is just hanging around practice or he has already turned it down. Just think it would be weird if he's at practice knowing he's leaving.

My source high up in the Lingerie Football League says he's leaving to be head football coach at Penn State

 

[84Volfan]

He looks like he’s crying….

I thought the same

 

[taylorvol]

Basilio just ran out of frame on his live show and now looks distressed. Almost like he got bad news…

He probably had to use the restroom.

 

[Volfan2012]

5% is only $1M. I’d be surprised if the LV are not getting more of the Rev share than that…

A million would be 80000 a player if it was shared equally. I don't see why they would get more than that some may get more than that amount and others less. Tony has to deal with 34 players so there is where the problem comes into play for him.

 

[RandomUTfan]

My wife’s cousin works for the Lakers. I haven’t heard anything.

Granted we also haven’t spoken to her in 3 years.

I'm descended from Rachel Donelson but not Andrew Jackson. She doesn't know anything either.

 

[VolNation88]

If he's truly gone, why wait 2 days to announce it?

tricky to announce during playoffs.

Didn’t want to overshadow game 7 last night… but need to do it prior to World Series starting

 

[darsinewman]

Looks like the media from VQ, RTI, and maybe KNS. Scouts are usually behind home plate.

Are they letting people behind home plate in the construction zone? I haven't seen anyone sitting there (but admittedly haven't been to a ton of practices, either). Maybe scouts in hardhats should be a thing.

 

[JacketVol]

He looks like he’s crying….

He’s smiling

 

[volfanhill]

He looks like he’s crying….

Do you show up in full gear just to announce your leaving? Seems like that would be odd

 

[Mullins2010]

Frank seems happy as well

 

[taylorvol]

Are they letting people behind home plate in the construction zone? I haven't seen anyone sitting there (but admittedly haven't been to a ton of practices, either). Maybe scouts in hardhats should be a thing.

They only allow the Scouts.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Do you show up in full gear just to announce your leaving? Seems like that would be odd

Tony’s very business focused. Don’t think he’d do anything out of the ordinary to tip his hand. I’m probably reading into that short clip too much, but he did look emotional.

 

[RandomUTfan]

5% is only $1M. I’d be surprised if the LV are not getting more of the Rev share than that…

It very well could be (and I don't know why no one in the media has the guts to do a FOIA request so that the #s would be public) that LVB is getting a higher percentage of the revenue than other women's basketball teams are getting at other SEC schools. That could be a point of contention. But if this is becoming such a big deal now, you got to think there are going to be other sports at other schools who feel slighted by the way their school divvies up the revenue share.

 

[Proud Army Wife]

No. He is not even close to being fired. Now or if Tony leaves.

Key word “eventually”.