Coach Vitello Is Building A Dynasty

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Volfan1000 said:
And an everlasting legacy that will surpass Delmonico.
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All trends are for sure wonderful, but I am not going to get cocky till we peak and prove that in today's environment ANY team can keep the players and not lose them due to ONE TIME and NIL. Can other teams target a few key pieces and alter those on the way up or already there. I think the best thing about NIL is that players in these sports that have limited scholarships can legally be rewarded through efforts by their fans. BUT that can be good news or bad news. Can any team SUSTAIN a pitching staff and bench like we have right now, or will guys legitimately desiring playing time have to deal with risk/reward dilemmas not in play before this place in time? That said you have to give it up for CTV and staff for finding and putting this squad together and then getting them perform at this level.
 
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Volfan1000 said:
And an everlasting legacy that will surpass Delmonico.
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For all he accomplished, Rod was so frustrating. Might have been my perspective, but he always seemed to excel during a contract season. In between, it was...no pun intended...hit or miss. OTOH, when viewed along side our other coaches since Rod, he's the Vince Lombardi of baseball. Coach Vitello has me thinking we've hired the Steve Spurrier of college baseball. Kind of a mad scientist/genius who is going to play with swagger and rub your nose in it every chance he gets. He's going to live in some programs minds like UF currently lives in ours in football. I pray to the baseball gods that Vitello retires here, but heaven help the admin that lets him slip away. I shudder at the thought of how our fans would react.
 
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CAVPUT said:
For all he accomplished, Rod was so frustrating. Might have been my perspective, but he always seemed to excel during a contract season. In between, it was...no pun intended...hit or miss. OTOH, when viewed along side our other coaches since Rod, he's the Vince Lombardi of baseball. Coach Vitello has me thinking we've hired the Steve Spurrier of college baseball. Kind of a mad scientist/genius who is going to play with swagger and rub your nose in it every chance he gets. He's going to live in some programs minds like UF currently lives in ours in football. I pray to the baseball gods that Vitello retires here, but heaven help the admin that lets him slip away. I shudder at the thought of how our fans would react.
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Great analogy. Tn football fans allow Kiffin to live rent free in their minds. Tony V has that Spurrier swagger and will beat teams badly when he can, like Spurrier. TV has brought an attitude I hope rubs off on the football team too.
 
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CAVPUT said:
I pray to the baseball gods that Vitello retires here, but heaven help the admin that lets him slip away. I shudder at the thought of how our fans would react.
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I’ll start with the caveat that anything can happen, but it feels like this past offseason was the best chance we had at losing Vitello. Jobs like LSU were open, and we still hadn’t committed to the kind of stadium improvements we desperately need.

Right now, Vitello has the team performing at a truly historic clip, they’re getting attention from every corner of the country, and he knows the administration is going to spend $60 million on the stadium. And even though we won the East last year, we still lost series to Vandy and Arkansas—felt a bit like the established SEC pecking order would be tough to shift. The team is proving now that they’re perfectly capable of being the conference bully.

So he’s got the talent, the exposure, the (still unfolding) results, full support from the administration in terms of his salary and their commitment to facility upgrades, and all of these things will work in tandem to make the program more and more attractive for top recruits. I also think he’s sincere about loyalty since Tennessee is the school that gave him his first shot at being a head coach.

So yeah, the future is hard to predict, but I feel like Vitello’s roots here have strengthened exponentially even since last year. He’s building his own program at a school that loves and supports him in the nation’s best baseball conference.
 
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Other schools will come after CTV this season (if not during the season). He’ll get another raise and extension from Tennessee, and he’s earned it.

I won’t be surprised if Florida and Ole Miss have vacancies at the end of the season, and that’s just in the SEC.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
He’s going to need to win a national title first before we should even entertain the word “dynasty.” Let’s just enjoy what we’re watching right now.
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Ding,ding,ding.
He for sure is building a solid program.
Let's wait and see if he can stick some trophies in the case before he's anointed the best thing ever.
 
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ThatVolGuy said:
I’ll start with the caveat that anything can happen, but it feels like this past offseason was the best chance we had at losing Vitello. Jobs like LSU were open, and we still hadn’t committed to the kind of stadium improvements we desperately need.

Right now, Vitello has the team performing at a truly historic clip, they’re getting attention from every corner of the country, and he knows the administration is going to spend $60 million on the stadium. And even though we won the East last year, we still lost series to Vandy and Arkansas—felt a bit like the established SEC pecking order would be tough to shift. The team is proving now that they’re perfectly capable of being the conference bully.

So he’s got the talent, the exposure, the (still unfolding) results, full support from the administration in terms of his salary and their commitment to facility upgrades, and all of these things will work in tandem to make the program more and more attractive for top recruits. I also think he’s sincere about loyalty since Tennessee is the school that gave him his first shot at being a head coach.

So yeah, the future is hard to predict, but I feel like Vitello’s roots here have strengthened exponentially even since last year. He’s building his own program at a school that loves and supports him in the nation’s best baseball conference.
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To be fair, according to LSU, Vitello wasn’t one of their top 3 choices.




This past weekend, Guilbeau reported that Woodward was considering exploring Tennessee’s Tony Vitello and Tim Corbin as candidates. Vitello told reporters he had no contact with LSU.
 
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mad4vols said:
To be fair, according to LSU, Vitello wasn’t one of their top 3 choices.




This past weekend, Guilbeau reported that Woodward was considering exploring Tennessee’s Tony Vitello and Tim Corbin as candidates. Vitello told reporters he had no contact with LSU.
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FYI, LSU announced the "final 3" after Vitello turned them down the night before.........
 
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I'm not worried about losing Vitello this off-season. Obviously, this season is shaping up to be potentially historic. His agent will get a call from every single opening. But, last season was the time to be nervous. He's now one of the highest paid coaches in all of CBB and we just pledged $60 million for renovations to LNS. Plus, he'll have the brand new Smokies Stadium for some top tier mid-week or non-conference games.

I can't see him leaving what he has now built. He's here until he decides he is done coaching.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
I'm not worried about losing Vitello this off-season. Obviously, this season is shaping up to be potentially historic. His agent will get a call from every single opening. But, last season was the time to be nervous. He's now one of the highest paid coaches in all of CBB and we just pledged $60 million for renovations to LNS. Plus, he'll have the brand new Smokies Stadium for some top tier mid-week or non-conference games.

I can't see him leaving what he has now built. He's here until he decides he is done coaching.
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Well that’s what Oklahoma, Notre dame, Oregon, thought in football. Let’s not get over our skis.
 
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Danny White made Tony one of this highest paid coaches in college baseball, and with the infusion of money into the conference from the SEC network, we have just as much in the coffers to match or exceed any offer that comes in the future. Beyond the ability to pay, our administration seems committed to baseball now with the $60M stadium renovation budget, and they are already seeing return on their investment of Tony’s contract in the form of wins (and lots of ‘em!).

I just don’t know what jobs could attract him away. His brash nature will not play to some administrations (Vandy springs to mind), and Tennessee is poised to provide the fan support and institutional stability (shocking to say after all these years), that rivals any school in America. Add to that that he is already coaching in the premier baseball conference.

I am confident that we can keep TV.

When I was down at Ole Miss, I looked to a buddy of mine and said, “if he keeps us playing like we are, we’ll have all this and more” while surveying their stadium. I can only hope we get to see it all come to fruition.
 
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