Recent content by DeerPark12

Any deal for this academic year would have been frontloaded before the June deadline. So any football player this fall has already received the bulk of his NIL money for the year. Could a collective or a business go after what they’ve already paid should the player not suit up? Possibly. Would...

Although the uniforms were Russell Athletic and Sports Belle for those years, Tennessee’s shoes and player/sideline apparel were done by Nike from 1985 through 1996. Regardless, we’re talking about very different eras. The influence of branding and shoe companies didn’t become a significant...

You’re entitled to your opinion, but saying that being with Nike over the last ten years has not helped recruiting is just being willfully ignorant.

The contract signed in 2022 with MTSU was for two games in Knoxville, one in M'Boro and one at a neutral site of MTSU's choosing. They picked Huntsville, which is their largest out of state alumni base. It's hard to break even on a neutral site in Nashville because you'd have to sell out...

There are two types of logos to be licensed, current and College Vault. A company buys a license for either (or both). The current logos are the Power T, the baseball script "Vols," the Lady Vols T and the "Tennessee" wordmark. Nike has an exclusive on the "VOLS" that is on the black baseball...

Women's basketball redesigned in 2018 and will have a redesign this year.

It was supposed to be a two-year cycle for the home-and-home opponents, guess they decided to change it. Didn't realize the SEC had put the whole thing out already, but here it is: SEC Reveals 2025-26 League Hoops Opponents - University of Tennessee Athletics

Full schedule has not been released yet, but we do know some parts of it. At UCLA, at Stanford, at UConn, at MTSU, and Louisville and NC State at neutral sites. The SEC schedule is the reverse of last year, everyone we played at home last year we will play on the road this year, and vice versa...

She has a long-term boyfriend here, don’t think there’s anything to worry about from that perspective. Lots of photos of them doting on each other on Instagram.

I was not pro-Adidas or pro-Nike. But many people at the time felt like Nike would pay to get us, or that we were on the verge of changing it at any time. I said pretty consistently for several years that Adidas would always be the high bidder, so we would never leave them. What it took to...

Nike only does NIL deals with athletes in their last year of eligibility. They have maybe 10 in the country. Nico did not have a shoe deal. Adidas has signed quite a few, some aren’t even at Adidas schools. Only a handful are large deals. One of the things that Adidas has done at Texas A&M...

Under Armour is not currently bidding on college properties. They just let Auburn go, will hold onto Maryland and Notre Dame and Northwestern, but I don’t see them adding anybody in the next few years.

They moved on from Garth Brooks last year. Unfortunately, we are stuck with that dreadful Morgan Wallen song until he does something stupid again, which is inevitable if you’ve ever spent any time around him. His music is almost as awful as he is as a human being.

They played Tennessee Jed between the third and fourth quarters for about three years in the late 2000s, and I don’t recall anyone ever singing along.

Finished in the top five in recruiting twice since moving to Nike, top 15 seven times. When you consider how bad the program was in some of those years, that’s not insignificant.