Taylor Pannell

[ETNVolunteer1]

No, Lady Vols fandom is delighted that the proven liar is no longer here.

Her and her daddy aren’t worth the trouble.

 

[DeerPark12]

I doubt there was that much of a concerted effort to dig into disgruntled parents. The simplest answer is they looked for the best players on the best teams and then made them offers (#2) as you posted. Incredibly smart in the current age of sports and it's gotten them to two straight title series. If I win the lottery, you better believe I'm buying Karen a super team.

Can tell you 100% there was. That’s one way that Tech got people sewn up well before the portal opened last year. They went through the travel ball network and figured out whose parents weren’t happy, even if the kids were. People that are happy don’t entertain offers midseason that don’t allow you to wait for the season to play out or to see if your current school will counter.

Again, people in softball aren’t mad that Texas Tech is paying a lot of young women a lot of money to play a game that there was no money in five years ago. They are mad at how they went about it, doing things like that. It is what it is at this point, but people are angry because of the way they’re doing it, not that they are doing it.

 

[Jax_Vol]

Can tell you 100% there was. That’s one way that Tech got people sewn up well before the portal opened last year. They went through the travel ball network and figured out whose parents weren’t happy, even if the kids were. People that are happy don’t entertain offers midseason that don’t allow you to wait for the season to play out or to see if your current school will counter.

Again, people in softball aren’t mad that Texas Tech is paying a lot of young women a lot of money to play a game that there was no money in five years ago. They are mad at how they went about it, doing things like that. It is what it is at this point, but people are angry because of the way they’re doing it, not that they are doing it.

Right! If a booster wants to pony up $25m/year for a couple of runner-up plaques, good for him.