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Can you talk about plans for the future of the various buildings for the AD?

When should the new indoor track be done? Will it be by Tom Black?

Any other buildings being redone?

Can audiology and speech pathology get a building at some point?

Will mens soccer ever return? Sad Title 9 left us with a giant money loser of a department that expands.

Finally what is happening with the crap lawsuit from womens trainers helping 10 people who want to make more than trainers who help 100?
 
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Andrew Wiggin said:
Can you talk about plans for the future of the various buildings for the AD?

When should the new indoor track be done? Will it be by Tom Black?

Any other buildings being redone?

Can audiology and speech pathology get a building at some point?

Will mens soccer ever return? Sad Title 9 left us with a giant money loser of a department that expands.

Finally what is happening with the crap lawsuit from womens trainers helping 10 people who want to make more than trainers who help 100?
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Indoor track/volleyball facility will be built next to the current soccer complex, where the warehouses are currently. As far as when, that depends on funding.

I know nothing about the University's plans for an academic department, sorry.

What do you mean return? We never had men's soccer. There was a plan to add it when other SEC schools did, but circumstances changed and those schools elected to not go forward. One of the three SEC programs with men's soccer dropped it. I don't foresee UT ever adding it. As for your second, statement, I completely disagree. We haven't added a women's program since 1998. I don't think having strong women's sports is "sad" in any way.

I'm not going to address the last part, there's a lot more to that story than has been reported publicly and I'm not going to get into it. By your statements, I can tell you don't think a lot of women's sports, so you're going to disagree with anything I have to say of that topic.
 
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Are we going to add any mens sports in the forseeable future? Soccer or lacrosse? Wrestling?
 
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Womens crew offered money for girls who had never competed in the sport before.

UT had an outstanding wrestling program but it was cut and mid 90s soccer went from becoming varsity to a club sport.

If you think the claims that were found to be without merit are legit we probably would disagree about topics from linda bensel meyers to the gal who sued peyton.

I am happy our womens sports are strong. I do not think it makes sense to have tons Of money in something that never makes money and has very little fan support. I realize that would mean eliminating basicallg everything but mens bball and football but there are intangible benefits to some money losing sports and then there are programs that exist to satisfy an insane mandate that is sexist and harmful to sports with higher participation rates.
 
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When is the next phase of the Neyland renovation starting? I thought it was this offseason, but it must be next
 
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Went from becoming varsity which was the plan to a club sport. Mens soccer was discussed and promises made for lots of the last twenty years. For now tons of great talent from east TN has the ETSU program as their only local option.
 
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Midfielder10 said:
Are we going to add any mens sports in the forseeable future? Soccer or lacrosse? Wrestling?
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I do not see Tennessee or any other SEC school adding a men's sport in the next 10 years. In fact, in the last five years, the only schools to add sports have been Vandy (dropped men's soccer, added swimming), Alabama (rowing) and Florida (women's lax).

No school is going to add a sport without other schools in the conference adding that sport.

Andrew Wiggin said:
Went from becoming varsity which was the plan to a club sport. Mens soccer was discussed and promises made for lots of the last twenty years.
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Men's soccer has never been a varsity sport at Tennessee. Never.

It was informally discussed in the mid-2000s that it would be added if other SEC schools did the same. Ultimately, the other schools decided against it, and we followed suit. Not sure who made these "promises" or who they were made to, but there were never plans made for a men's soccer program at Tennessee.
 
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Vols817 said:
Has a lacrosse team been discussed? that sport is really exploding
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Women's lacrosse would have been the sport added as a companion to men's soccer. Florida elected to add it anyway without launching a men's soccer program. No other schools have plans to follow suit.
 
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I know Michigan and Penn State added men's lacosse and would love for some more bcs schools to pick it up.
 
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Andrew Wiggin said:
UT had an outstanding wrestling program but it was cut and mid 90s soccer went from becoming varsity to a club sport.

If you think the claims that were found to be without merit are legit we probably would disagree about topics from linda bensel meyers to the gal who sued peyton.
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Wrestling was cut in the early 80s.

Again, not all info in this case has been made public.

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When is the next phase of the Neyland renovation starting? I thought it was this offseason, but it must be next
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Plans are on hold indefinitely. Next phase was scheduled to begin in December 2012, but that's not likely to happen.

Academic departments must leave the stadium before infrastructure enhancements to electrical and water systems can be done to support a renovation of the south end.
 
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Vols817 said:
I know Michigan and Penn State added men's lacosse and would love for some more bcs schools to pick it up.
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Agreed. Really starting to spread in the south. Vandys vice chancellor said they want to add mens lacrosse as their next sport. The Acc and now big ten are going to be great lacrosse conferences. Don't know how well the sport would be accepted in east tennessee though.
 
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I wish they would add women's equestrian since the 2009 National Champion and 2010 National Runner-Up is a Junior at Friendship Christian in Lebanon, TN and is the biggest Vols fan around.
 
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Volrog said:
I wish they would add women's equestrian since the 2009 National Champion and 2010 National Runner-Up is a Junior at Friendship Christian in Lebanon, TN and is the biggest Vols fan around.
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Maybe Ralph Lauren would help fund it - :clapping:
 
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Major League Soccer plans to have development acacademies for all its teams, in the future, which is great for MLS, but what little talent the college teams have will be pillaged so college soccer will sink into further oblivion. doubtful that it will ever be viewed as an profitable sport by the SEC.
 
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orange parmejohn said:
Major League Soccer plans to have development acacademies for all its teams, in the future, which is great for MLS, but what little talent the college teams have will be pillaged so college soccer will sink into further oblivion. doubtful that it will ever be viewed as an profitable sport by the SEC.
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Like it is by anybody

I'd actually like to see an increased commitment to soccer in the us, mainly so we can win a world cup and be like "it's still only the fifth most popular sport here and we're better than everybody else at it"
 
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DeerPark12 said:
I do not see Tennessee or any other SEC school adding a men's sport in the next 10 years. In fact, in the last five years, the only schools to add sports have been Vandy (dropped men's soccer, added swimming), Alabama (rowing) and Florida (women's lax).

No school is going to add a sport without other schools in the conference adding that sport.



Men's soccer has never been a varsity sport at Tennessee. Never.

It was informally discussed in the mid-2000s that it would be added if other SEC schools did the same. Ultimately, the other schools decided against it, and we followed suit. Not sure who made these "promises" or who they were made to, but there were never plans made for a men's soccer program at Tennessee.
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