Recent content by walkenvol

Seems as if you’re against the concept of social media? Momma Bos literally said nothing in that post that specifically attacks or insults the Tennessee program. She’s a single mom whose son has poured his heart and soul into the Tennessee program for 2 years and things didn’t work out how...

Well since he’s in the portal, I don’t see the logical link to the Bo fiasco?

Is this blue font or are you serious? When momma Bishop starts the gangsta talk and posts her thong pics then maybe there’s something to talk about

If this is triggering some of you guys because momma Boswell reposted momma Mashack then you’ve become a very sensitive group.

Did you just call him out of the blue?

IIRC, athletic departments can’t pay NIL which is why organizations like SPYRE (sp?) were created?

Hard to not think the staff misjudged how crazy the NIL market would become when they were placing dollar values on their returning players? Maybe they will rethink the evaluations when they start trying to buy a new roster and a few of our guys might return from the portal? This is going...

Are you confident buy out money paid to an athletic department can be allocated as NIL payments?

Obviously I could be wrong, but if the market has valued JP at $3-4 million with his known health issues, then we’re not likely finding a comparable JP replacement without health issues for $3-4 million as the market would value him higher than JP. I don’t envy our staff trying to figure this...

The market sets his value - not what our coaches think he’s worth. JP isn’t some unicorn that’s magically being offered way more than comparable players in the portal. If indeed he’s gone then we’re going to have to pay a comparable player to JP $3-4 million if not even more. What am I...

How could they have known a week ago what the market numbers would be in such a dynamically changing market? I agree they are likely acutely aware of the market today, but the financial valuations made for our returning players was done a week or more back. When some of the VN Joes were saying...

That’s not the question because I didn’t say I knew the market better than anyone, especially the coaching staff. The question is when the season ended and the coaches met with the players to discuss their future role and $NIL for next season, could the coaches have underestimated how much the...

I hope our brain trust re-evaluates this market and figures out that they have underestimated the new NIL market values of our returning players which will also mean the prices they were hoping to pay for replacements will be too low. Gonna have to come up with more funds or forget those final...

I’m not JP’s agent, friend nor family member and I can’t disagree with you enough concerning JP

That sounds reasonable for an established market, but we’re in an “NIL gone wild” market. These valuations we determined over the last few weeks may be uncompetitive now. We can say we’re only paying so much for a player, but if there are numerous other programs willing to pay more then we’ve...