Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[SoilVol]

I see Tony taking a payout as him taking a gamble on himself. The Giants are already taking a gamble on him, you can't expect them to pay premium on something unproven at that level. I bet when the details come out this was a compromise for the Giants to pay his buyout since the original report said they wanted him to pay it.

 

[SpringBokVol]

He did not mention starting a coaching search

 

[Johnny Majors]

Hire Elander for $1.5M, give Frank a raise, and pass on buyout and difference to current players and next years class to hold it together.

 

[bluegrasser]

Doesn’t matter when your boss is doing dumb s** like that to protect his own hire. Tony earned everything it should have never been touched period! Part of Danny’s job is helping with NIL.if he felt like they needed more then he should have gotten off his ass and talk to donors.I don’t blame Tony at all.

What are you even talking about? You sound like a summarization of every random, unfounded message board rumor over the last 5 days all rolled into one paragraph.

 

[UTK]

Taking a pay cut? Something smells like rotten @Weezer garbage.

It’s the MLB. lol dude probably dreamed of this his entire life. People wanna be miserable and think there’s more to it than there is. Just stop.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

I'll be Frank:

Frank: "I don't care what Sally thinks. Sally isn't a real person."

She's real to me!

 

[Lloyd_Christmas]

Taking a pay cut? Something smells like rotten @Weezer garbage.

Could also be that he's a single guy approaching his 50s that doesn't think he has the time to achieve some personal life stuff outside of baseball with the time he has to invest in recruiting? I know a lot of folks are going to run with rumors of conflict between TV and DW, but there could be some very understandable personal reasons TV has for taking the SF job.

 

[UTSuave’]

They done tried that.. Tee left remember

 

[VolGee4]

This may be a off the wall thought...


IF DW doesn't promote Elander to Head Coach, how about our Hall of Fame Todd Helton. ?

Chris Burke, but he has a nice gig. I am sure Burke is telling DW to hire Elander.

 

[RandomUTfan]

She's real to me!

I would suggest that we need to have you committed but you already appear to be pretty committed.

 

[SSVol]

what the hell really happened?

Evidence would suggest that a storied MLB team got to their 3rd target and the young college coach found it too great an opportunity to pass up.

Sometimes it is exactly what it appears.

 

[Jackcrevol]

I don’t know. I think what they do with Elander will tell us a lot, though.

I'm really surprised, and not upset that he's gone. I dont get it. By all accounts everything looked good. It feels like Tony was making demands, and demands werent met. And he took a paycut. I think TN made a business decision. I dont think Tony made the best decision, but only he knows that. I feel like he had everything here. But, wish him luck.

 

[MarcoVol]

I'm really surprised, and not upset that he's gone. I dont get it. By all accounts everything looked good. It feels like Tony was making demands, and demands werent met. And he took a paycut. I think TN made a business decision. I dont think Tony made the best decision, but only he knows that. I feel like he had everything here. But, wish him luck.

The thing he didn’t have here was the opportunity to manage a MLB team

 

[JCP201]

He did not mention starting a coaching search

I am hoping he keeps Elander and Frank.

 

[Jackcrevol]

The thing he didn’t have here was the opportunity to manage a MLB team

Overrated. MLB is for rich white folks.

 

[knoxvol52]

I'm really surprised, and not upset that he's gone. I dont get it. By all accounts everything looked good. It feels like Tony was making demands, and demands werent met. And he took a paycut. I think TN made a business decision. I dont think Tony made the best decision, but only he knows that. I feel like he had everything here. But, wish him luck.

It's a good time to tell you... Top choice as of now for Braves Manager is Danny Lehmann . Dave Roberts right hand man on Dodgers staff...

 

[VolGee4]

Doesn’t matter when your boss is doing dumb s** like that to protect his own hire. Tony earned everything it should have never been touched period! Part of Danny’s job is helping with NIL.if he felt like they needed more then he should have gotten off his ass and talk to donors.I don’t blame Tony at all.

You seriously believe that? DW may have allocated more of the House money to LV basketball, but I guarantee you he was supporting as much NIL money to baseball as he could. I don't get why people want to pick sides.

DW has to manage our situation- not Arkansas or LSU. UT baseball is getting great support- $109 million in fact.

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

If Vitello to the giants means less Eric Cain ramblings on the VQ pod then it can be considered a win overall, right?

 

[85SugarVol]

SEC fines Texas A&M $50,000, issues public reprimand of Mike Elko for having player fake injury

Texas A&M was deemed to instruct a player to go down with a fake injury and has been fined by the conference

www.cbssports.com

Good.

We need to knock it off, too.

 

[MarcoVol]

You seriously believe that? DW may have allocated more of the House money to LV basketball, but I guarantee you he was supporting as much NIL money to baseball as he could. I don't get why people want to pick sides.

People acting like he’s leaving for another college job

 

[LotteryPick]

what the hell really happened?

Why does there have to be some hidden reasoning behind everything? TV got his shot and wants to be the first to do something.

 

[RandomUTfan]

Evidence would suggest that a storied MLB team got to their 3rd target and the young college coach found it too great an opportunity to pass up.

Sometimes it is exactly what it appears.

I read this at first as "steroid MLB team" because I just glanced at it.

 

[Go Fight Win]

some people, believe it or not, have enough money--and this is wild-- actually want to pursue their passions as far as they can take them, money be damned! Francis Ford Coppola last year spent $136,000,000 of HIS OWN money on a passion project that made only $14.4m for a loss of over a hundred million dollars. Some people want to do things with their life, not make as much money as possible... crazy I know...


i say congrats to Tony for living out 99.9999% of baseball player & coach's dreams. hope they win a world series. he left our team literally at the top

 

[Dadof2Vols]

100% and DW has had enough time since TV dragged this out to work out a deal with Elander already.

Announce it today/tomorrow and keep the entire class in tact and get to work!

I am sure Sexton has already signed Elander and has left DW a voicemail.

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

Really odd choice of the Giants though. He’s competing with LA and SD. I don’t see him succeeding.