2026 Vols Transfer Portal Thread

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#2,176
I am way more interested in hearing who we got. I mean, it's been 34 minutes and no news. What give?!? I can only hit refresh so many hundreds of times, you know?
 
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i2amavol said:
I am way more interested in hearing who we got. I mean, it's been 34 minutes and no news. What give?!? I can only hit refresh so many hundreds of times, you know?
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You can't know who you're getting until the portal officially opens, which it just did less than an hour ago. (Lundblade was a special (early) case since he was a graduate transfer and therefore didn't need to wait for the portal to officially open).

Edit: Ok, I missed the 34 minute bit and realized the sarcasm, well played
 
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i2amavol said:
Todd Kirk hit on some pretty big news, but he was just real good at scanning all the news and reading the tea leaves.

Edit: I agree he sounds legit, but so did TK. It's just too similar not to be him.
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Phillips portaling and Perry assistant coach stuff was nowhere, though. ToddKirk87 was traceable. This stuff isn't.
 
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walkenvol said:
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 out and compiling a competitive roster on a budget.
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I fully understand why you think this way. My understanding is that "the grass is greener" is a real phenomenon in the NIL era. Teams see a player who has achieved a lot on an upper tier program and believe we don't value him enough. So, they're paying to poach him.

Meanwhile, our staff knows the player better than anybody. So, we must trust their scouting report/valuation. If Barnes and his staff believe we can find something similar for less, I believe they know what they're doing. Their results in the NIL era indicate as much.

Having said that, nobody is going to bat 1.000 on this stuff. If he's healthy and motivated, he can be a third-team All-American. It wouldn't shock me. However, the odds sadly suggest he's more likely to play less than 20 minutes per game and for less than a full season, which makes him a poor investment.

This is NFL salary cap math that somehow now applies to CBB. It's brutal, and the whole thing circles back to a Charlie Finley quote about free agency, which was that the best way to reset the market was to make them all free agents each year. We're pretty much living out that scenario now.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
NC State actually is flush this year with cash considering LSU paid Wade’s buyout 1 year into his deal and I imagine Gainey had virtually no buyout for leaving Tennessee. Would imagine they have at least 7-10 million dollars to use for this single year.
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'twas only a $4 mil buyout
 
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GoneViral said:
I fully understand why you think this way. My understanding is that "the grass is greener" is a real phenomenon in the NIL era. Teams see a player who has achieved a lot on an upper tier program and believe we don't value him enough. So, they're paying to poach him.

Meanwhile, our staff knows the player better than anybody. So, we must trust their scouting report/valuation. If Barnes and his staff believe we can find something similar for less, I believe they know what they're doing. Their results in the NIL era indicate as much.

Having said that, nobody is going to bat 1.000 on this stuff. If he's healthy and motivated, he can be a third-team All-American. It wouldn't shock me. However, the odds sadly suggest he's more likely to play less than 20 minutes per game and for less than a full season, which makes him a poor investment.

This is NFL salary cap math that somehow now applies to CBB. It's brutal, and the whole thing circles back to a Charlie Finley quote about free agency, which was that the best way to reset the market was to make them all free agents each year. We're pretty much living out that scenario now.
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The best ability is availability
 
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YankeeVol said:
'twas only a $4 mil buyout
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And that amount simply gets added on top to their current NIL spending this year. They got a free $4 million from LSU. And I’m sure they were spending atleast$3-4m on their team.

So yes, Gainey will very much likely have $7-10m to spend in his first year. Won’t be the case every year though.
 
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BallerVolFan said:
Making it to the Elite Eight with the roster we had is nothing short of a good coaching job. But tbh, our roster as a whole wasn’t all that great. Losing these guys isn’t making me flinch one second. You can replace every guy that has left via the portal with better. Just gotta land the big ones to go with that.
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For a long time college sports fan it's less a matter of 'not flinching' at the losses of kids like Boswell, Phillips, and Estrella because of what they offered as players, but at the elimination of what college ball was all about - watching a group of kids that are part of the school grow into a unit over 3-4 years and leave as VFL's, and the continual passing of the torch to new blood while keeping the established culture alive. Now the culture is dead and needs to be recreated every season.

As the tired cliche goes, it is what it is. But just simply 'rooting for the jersey' is a big reason I lost interest in pro sports years ago, and sadly that mentality is now what following college sports has become.
 
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