'26 TN RB Jayzon Thompson

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HoleInTheRoof

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peaygolf said:
He’s the kind of kid that needs to blow up for a year or two at a UTC or Peay, and then go get your cash.
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Hes good enough to play in the SEC, and he will eventually earn a scholarship if he comes to Tennessee. But I agree, would like to see him cutt his teeth somewhere else first
 
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LaagerVol said:
I thought in ‘26 we began having 105 scholarship players and no more walk ons?
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Hubbs a couple weeks ago:
I checked on that this afternoon. I understand the SEC is staying at 85. The rest of the power 4 is going to 105. Strange decision by the SEC and it was a vote of the schools.
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-Hubbs
 
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These days, isn't a preferred walk-on pretty much someone that's going to spend a year at our program as a walk-on and then we'll have to re-recruit them next year because someone's likely to throw $100 bills at him?
 
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Weezer said:
That's stupid. The school's voted to allow other conferences to have a competitive advantage? That makes zero sense.
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You're not thinking about NIL.

What good is having the literal Top 100 players for HS (theoretically) on your roster if each them want 500k + a season?
 
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Weezer said:
That's stupid. The school's voted to allow other conferences to have a competitive advantage? That makes zero sense.
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We will have competitive advantage because we will be able to pay the best players a competitive wage.

I could be wrong, but I could see it negatively affecting non-football sports due to title 9.
 
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The extra roster spots that the other P4 conferences will be allowed will allow them to take these 2 and 3 stars that normally would go to the Group of 5 teams and pay them reasonably small amounts of NIL money... Kinda like having a practice squad in NFL...
 
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knoxvol52 said:
The extra roster spots that the other P4 conferences will be allowed will allow them to take these 2 and 3 stars that normally would go to the Group of 5 teams and pay them reasonably small amounts of NIL money... Kinda like having a practice squad in NFL...
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Or you never know. You could come up with a fellow like U of Pit did under Coach Majors did with his 105 recruit (as he told me) his first year at Pit. The guy was a little running back named Dorsett....
 
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knoxvol52 said:
The extra roster spots that the other P4 conferences will be allowed will allow them to take these 2 and 3 stars that normally would go to the Group of 5 teams and pay them reasonably small amounts of NIL money... Kinda like having a practice squad in NFL...
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Practice Squads in the NFL are 17. So including practice squad NFL rosters are still less than 85. 105 feels excessive. I would rather take the money for the last 20 and focus it on a better 85 than have an army of walk on/g5 caliber players.
 
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VolInDayton said:
Practice Squads in the NFL are 17. So including practice squad NFL rosters are still less than 85. 105 feels excessive. I would rather take the money for the last 20 and focus it on a better 85 than have an army of walk on/g5 caliber players.
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Yes I know how many are on NFL practice squads... Hence the phrase " kinda like ".
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Yes I know how many are on NFL practice squads... Hence the phrase " kinda like ".
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But isnt the back end of the roster basically the practice squad already? The extra 20 spots serve no purpose in the transfer portal era. Having 5 deep at every position seems wasteful to me.
 
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