Recent content by DeerPark12

Redshirt freshman. You're going to get mistakes.

Nico took a team to the playoffs as a red shirt freshman. I’m not sure what more you could have asked from him in that season.

That’s not correct. The only thing that stopped Jimmy Haslam from attempting to play God with Tennessee Athletics was his purchase of the Cleveland Browns. He gives money, but it doesn’t have an active role since they want to play in the Cleveland sandbox. Big Jim purchased a Founders suite for...

Well, taking a look at your list, Ergen has never donated a penny to NIL, donates enough to athletics to have a box on the west side of the stadium, and typically little more than that. Has given to a few facilities projects. When he owned dish, it was a corporate partner, but that was corporate...

Can confirm, there are donors that have been 7-figure supporters of football NIL that aren't continuing at this point. Some are moving support to other sports, some are just stepping back. Lot of concern on campus over this. Other schools have billionaires writing checks, we have millionaires...

81-56 UT

Not about money, about belief in his ability to be a contributor for this team going forward

If you were on a FBS or FCS roster in 2020, you got an extra year of eligibility because the number of games you played in 2020 may have been affected by Covid cancellations and/or a reduced schedule. That gave players that were on a roster in 2020 five competition seasons, rather than the usual...

I think he’s in the portal because of a talk with the coaches.

Rickea Jackson was the highest paid player in the SEC both years she was at Tennessee. While it is true that some other programs, notably Texas and LSU, outbid Tennessee for a couple of freshman, acting like she didn’t have NIL money to work with when she had the highest paid player in the...

This is absolute nonsense. Every bit of it.

Well that last part just isn’t true. Many here predicted before last season that they wouldn’t even make the tournament. That was as nonsensical as the current discussion on this season already being a disappointment.

So we’re officially in the “win a title or else” phase of coaching expectations? Good luck with that.

They played two bad games against UCLA and Louisville, two teams that will win their conferences. They looked disinterested at UT Martin. They'll learn from being challenged by two of the nation's better teams and I'm not going to spend any time thinking about sleepwalking through a game against...

Not in today's world. 7-5 next season with bad losses and he's on a scorching seat at a minimum. Donors aren't paying a million dollars a year for a Founder's Suite to watch 7-5.