One of the reasons for our conservative spending?

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I do think we are being conservative with our spending, but I think our football program has a disadvantage compared to other big schools because how good we are at other sports. Ohio State and Georgia both do not have high expectations on other sports and do not spend much money on their basketball, baseball, and other sports programs. We have a #1 basketball team right now in the rankings and a championship baseball team, and a good women’s basketball team and many others. We have to spend much of our money keeping our other sports programs great each year which many other schools do not have to do.
 
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TN Volunteers. said:
I do think we are being conservative with our spending, but I think our football program has a disadvantage compared to other big schools because how good we are at other sports. Ohio State and Georgia both do not have high expectations on other sports and do not spend much money on their basketball, baseball, and other sports programs. We have a #1 basketball team right now in the rankings and a championship baseball team, and a good women’s basketball team and many others. We have to spend much of our money keeping our other sports programs great each year which many other schools do not have to do.
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Could be we don't wanna give cash to a guy who is here for one year and then goes looking for more money
 
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TN Volunteers. said:
I do think we are being conservative with our spending, but I think our football program has a disadvantage compared to other big schools because how good we are at other sports. Ohio State and Georgia both do not have high expectations on other sports and do not spend much money on their basketball, baseball, and other sports programs. We have a #1 basketball team right now in the rankings and a championship baseball team, and a good women’s basketball team and many others. We have to spend much of our money keeping our other sports programs great each year which many other schools do not have to do.
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Football is the only sport that makes money (Outside of a few programs, and even then it’s peanuts comparatively).
 
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TN Volunteers. said:
I do think we are being conservative with our spending, but I think our football program has a disadvantage compared to other big schools because how good we are at other sports. Ohio State and Georgia both do not have high expectations on other sports and do not spend much money on their basketball, baseball, and other sports programs. We have a #1 basketball team right now in the rankings and a championship baseball team, and a good women’s basketball team and many others. We have to spend much of our money keeping our other sports programs great each year which many other schools do not have to do.
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A prospective portal addition has to fit the team culture first and foremost.
 
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TN Volunteers. said:
I do think we are being conservative with our spending, but I think our football program has a disadvantage compared to other big schools because how good we are at other sports. Ohio State and Georgia both do not have high expectations on other sports and do not spend much money on their basketball, baseball, and other sports programs. We have a #1 basketball team right now in the rankings and a championship baseball team, and a good women’s basketball team and many others. We have to spend much of our money keeping our other sports programs great each year which many other schools do not have to do.
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I dare you to tell Ross Bjork or any other Division I AD their expectations are low for all other sports and see how they react.
 
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TN Volunteers. said:
I do think we are being conservative with our spending, but I think our football program has a disadvantage compared to other big schools because how good we are at other sports. Ohio State and Georgia both do not have high expectations on other sports and do not spend much money on their basketball, baseball, and other sports programs. We have a #1 basketball team right now in the rankings and a championship baseball team, and a good women’s basketball team and many others. We have to spend much of our money keeping our other sports programs great each year which many other schools do not have to do.
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Yeah okay, Ohio State has been pretty damn good in mens bb. 10 ff and a natty.
Georgia BB has a ff .
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TN Volunteers. said:
I do think we are being conservative with our spending, but I think our football program has a disadvantage compared to other big schools because how good we are at other sports. Ohio State and Georgia both do not have high expectations on other sports and do not spend much money on their basketball, baseball, and other sports programs. We have a #1 basketball team right now in the rankings and a championship baseball team, and a good women’s basketball team and many others. We have to spend much of our money keeping our other sports programs great each year which many other schools do not have to do.
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Who cares about baseball and women’s basketball?
 
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Nnam said:
Maybe…just maybe… heupel is playing chess and not scooping up guys until portal window was closed to avoid more leaving. Yes, another opening in spring but just my guess he is playing chess.
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The spring portal window only allows us to target non SEC players, and I’m not sure how many stud WR/OL will come from non SEC schools that weren’t good enough to crack their starting lineup
 
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Not to put too blunt a point on it, but how do you know Tennessee's -- or rather, Tennessee's NIL mechanism -- is being conservative with its spending?

Is this based on an article or a report claiming to know what each program is spending? And if so, do we know that report to be accurate?

Because in all honesty I don't know how anyone here, save very specific people who I doubt would ever leak such information on a public forum, could possibly know what Tennessee and its apparatus is or isn't spending.
 
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Voltopia said:
Not to put too blunt a point on it, but how do you know Tennessee's -- or rather, Tennessee's NIL mechanism -- is being conservative with its spending?

Is this based on an article or a report claiming to know what each program is spending? And if so, do we know that report to be accurate?

Because in all honesty I don't know how anyone here, save very specific people who I doubt would ever leak such information on a public forum, could possibly know what Tennessee and its apparatus is or isn't spending.
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I have no clue, and how much we are offering AFTER evaluation and how much we are spending is two different things.

It is possible that the good players have been getting > than our evaluations support.

I THINK we still have to make room to offer anybody. Anybody got a clue who might be projected to enter post spring? Assuming our folks are not legally floating balloons on ATHLETIC and CULTURAL fits is a bad move. January is better, BUT…..,,

Way too early to panic on NIL/portal acquisitions.
 
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TN Volunteers. said:
I do think we are being conservative with our spending, but I think our football program has a disadvantage compared to other big schools because how good we are at other sports. Ohio State and Georgia both do not have high expectations on other sports and do not spend much money on their basketball, baseball, and other sports programs. We have a #1 basketball team right now in the rankings and a championship baseball team, and a good women’s basketball team and many others. We have to spend much of our money keeping our other sports programs great each year which many other schools do not have to do.
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DO you have a report you can share of SEC schools and what they spend per program? I've been searching for that info..
 
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Voltopia said:
Not to put too blunt a point on it, but how do you know Tennessee's -- or rather, Tennessee's NIL mechanism -- is being conservative with its spending?

Is this based on an article or a report claiming to know what each program is spending? And if so, do we know that report to be accurate?

Because in all honesty I don't know how anyone here, save very specific people who I doubt would ever leak such information on a public forum, could possibly know what Tennessee and its apparatus is or isn't spending.
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We lost Thompson because LSU gave him more. We have been inactive in the portal. You can tell what a program is spending pretty easy. Look at the players they are getting.
 
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TN Volunteers. said:
I do think we are being conservative with our spending, but I think our football program has a disadvantage compared to other big schools because how good we are at other sports. Ohio State and Georgia both do not have high expectations on other sports and do not spend much money on their basketball, baseball, and other sports programs. We have a #1 basketball team right now in the rankings and a championship baseball team, and a good women’s basketball team and many others. We have to spend much of our money keeping our other sports programs great each year which many other schools do not have to do.
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Not true
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
We lost Thompson because LSU gave him more. We have been inactive in the portal. You can tell what a program is spending pretty easy. Look at the players they are getting.
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Money is not the only factor. The guys on the paysites often say the money is comparable and then it comes down to traditional factors.
 
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VawlIn said:
The spring portal window only allows us to target non SEC players, and I’m not sure how many stud WR/OL will come from non SEC schools that weren’t good enough to crack their starting lineup
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Tbh, I think the SEC “hype” was overdone this year. All the SEC teams are looking like shyt besides Texas/UGA. Will be interesting to see how these two fare in the rest of playoffs + bama/Mich, etc

With that being said I think there’s plenty of dudes in the portal now and once closed today, we can start knocking heads.
 
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