2026 Vols Transfer Portal Thread

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Ryanvols24 said:
are we gonna be willing too pay out the portal bc gonna cost way more putting this roster together that way if we want good players
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Essentially they think they can get someone better than Evans for $2m, or equal for less, that’s their whole mindset. We ultimately won’t know if that’s true or not until this is all over with.
 
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Many of our portal entires won’t make more money elsewhere and very well may have to take a cut. Estrella leaving makes sense for him. These players agents are stepping way over the line across the country driving the market rate up. Many players will get caught in a worst situation both in terms of NIL, playing time, fit and sacrifice competing for championships.

No fun when your team sucks. In my opinion Barnes’ resistance to unreasonable demands is going to teach many of them a life lesson.
 
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walkenvol said:
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 against everything Barnes has ever said in interviews about team culture and player led teams being more successful.
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Worry Circle, assemble!
 
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Ryanvols24 said:
Seen trilly is saying evans gonna be gone today also... I mean I get upgrading but we couldn't pay one damn player? Seems odd too me unless we are gonna spend 20 million on roster then okay ... but damn not one player
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It isnt that we couldn't pay them, its that their value to another team exceeded our assigned value. Time will tell whether me made a good choice on these guys. Some of them are just not a big deal. Massamba and Henderson, no one is losing sleep over those guys leaving. Boswell, Phillips, and Carey, same thing to an extent. JP is the one who could come back to haunt us.

With Evans, you have to look at things year to year, now. With what we return and what we hope to bring in, does Evans offer you a value commensurate to what he is asking for? If he is asking for starter money, do you believe he is a starter for your team. Otherwise, you pay him $1.5 or $2 mil (whatever he's being offered elsewhere), you get 20 mins, 6 pts, and 3 rebs. Is that good ROI? And then you have to do the same song and dance with him next offseason.

The sport is just becoming one where your returnees are either guaranteed starters, or guys happy to just be on the team. Anything in between is a flight risk and a delicate balance of team value vs. market value.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Vaaks for 2mil would for sure be an upgrade over Evans. Both were true freshmen this year too.

15.8 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 3.2 apg, shot 40.3% FG, 35% 3PT and 83.9% FT and he's 6'7"
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I was referring to Jamier Jones. Reminds me of Castle (if you’re referring to my post)
 
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volfaninpa said:
Kentucky stinks.
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AND UK paid twice as much last year for their roster to get a 7 seed and get thumped in round 2.

It's a new dawn for college sports fans. Take the names off the backs of the jerseys. There will be 1000 players in the transfer portal asking for the value some unregistered, unregulated 'agent' told them they were worth and only a small fraction will make more than they could have at the school they're leaving. You can't sustain paying NBA money to kids that are going pro in something else. Athletic departments are going to tire quickly of going in the hole to pay players for sports that are losing money (see women's basketball and baseball). It's not a sustainable business model.
 
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walkenvol said:
Are you confident buy out money paid to an athletic department can be allocated as NIL payments?
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When has a buyout ever done anything but go into the AD coffers when a school loses a head coach to another job? There is no stipulation that a buyout that gets paid to a school for losing their coach has to be spent anywhere.

NC State got paid to lose their coach. They hired an assistant from Tennessee who likely had next to nothing in terms of buyout for leaving his assistant role for a head coaching gig. If you are Gainey, you telling NC State to take that $4m and add it into their NIL pool to make it bigger for his first year.

NC State can take that $4m and buy $4m worth of ice cream cones if they wanted to. It is theirs to use however they want.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
He played well this year, but JaKobi Gillespie money for a true freshman that played spot minutes is insane. If this is where the market has shifted, gross.
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I still think there will be a market correction at some point. I find it hard to believe that P4 teams have the pockets to pay $2 million for a kid that averages 6pts—you might as well take a chance on a HS kid. You’re going to see a lot of these kids ending up taking much less in the end.
 
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Just think, when NIL first came on the scene, I thought give these guys $500 a month and all is good. Now if not 2-3 million players will bolt. I don’t think anyone thought it would turn out like this. Regulations have to be coming in the near future. Schools cannot keep coming up with millions of dollars to pay players. It’s really only fun for the players now. I place no blame on the players, go make life changing money in your early 20s. Michigan won a national championship through the portal, just gotta get the right mix of players which is very hard to do I’m sure.
 
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JRVOL11 said:
If Evans had made more of those 3s he would chuck maybe, but nah 2m’s is crazy
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Here's the thing. They'll be all this movement. Some teams will improve their talent, other teams will lose talent. At the end of the day, the total talent pool won't change. The pie ain't gettin bigger; BUT magically because of all the schizophrenic movement, the same talent that was worth $450M (random number) in 2025 will be pulling down $600M (also random number) in 2026. Nothing will have fundamentally changed but agents and players will have accepted an extra $150M from irrational boosters to do the same thing they did last year. We say it's unsustainable, but we also know you can't fix stupid.
 
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