Ragin'Vols
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I think most people are confused as to what Tennessee and CJH need in a GM. If you look at a lot of the other schools who have hired GMs, the moves have been largely PR moves in my opinion, not really addressing where college football is today and not really using the role to give their programs an upperhand.
In today's college football I believe a true GM needs to be someone with a legal background. Someone who can use the House Settlement (and eventual collective bargaining) to give Tennessee an advantage in the new era. Tennessee doesn’t need a glorified recruiting coordinator in a new hat, they need a strategic architect. A GM with a legal mind can build frameworks that navigate the current gray areas of NIL, collectives, and athlete compensation.
Let the CJH and the football staff evaluate talent. This GM role doesn’t need someone who can manage a depth chart or evaluate talent, it needs someone who can design a system. Hire a GM who can design the structure to make that talent worth the investment.This isn’t just roster management, it’s contract compliance, payment planning, retention forecasting, and risk mitigation. This isn’t about talent evaluation. It’s about system construction. This is legal design meets financial modeling, not sideline scouting.
Additionally, you’re not hiring a GM to maintain a system. You’re hiring someone to build it. It's easy to just compare current college football to the NFL, but the NFL has a completely different system: CBA-defined roles, unionized players, and fixed revenue shares (college will still have two sources between NIL and salary cap). None of that exists (yet) in college. And until it does, schools like Tennessee need to invent the system themselves, and just hiring someone with an NFL background doesn't address that.
And from the sounds of it that is what CJH is looking for. Just wanted to see what everyone thinks a GM should look like in today's college football.
Amidst the Nico situation and now Frerking having been an advisor for CJH, its apparent the program needs someone to step in.
In today's college football I believe a true GM needs to be someone with a legal background. Someone who can use the House Settlement (and eventual collective bargaining) to give Tennessee an advantage in the new era. Tennessee doesn’t need a glorified recruiting coordinator in a new hat, they need a strategic architect. A GM with a legal mind can build frameworks that navigate the current gray areas of NIL, collectives, and athlete compensation.
Let the CJH and the football staff evaluate talent. This GM role doesn’t need someone who can manage a depth chart or evaluate talent, it needs someone who can design a system. Hire a GM who can design the structure to make that talent worth the investment.This isn’t just roster management, it’s contract compliance, payment planning, retention forecasting, and risk mitigation. This isn’t about talent evaluation. It’s about system construction. This is legal design meets financial modeling, not sideline scouting.
Additionally, you’re not hiring a GM to maintain a system. You’re hiring someone to build it. It's easy to just compare current college football to the NFL, but the NFL has a completely different system: CBA-defined roles, unionized players, and fixed revenue shares (college will still have two sources between NIL and salary cap). None of that exists (yet) in college. And until it does, schools like Tennessee need to invent the system themselves, and just hiring someone with an NFL background doesn't address that.
And from the sounds of it that is what CJH is looking for. Just wanted to see what everyone thinks a GM should look like in today's college football.
Amidst the Nico situation and now Frerking having been an advisor for CJH, its apparent the program needs someone to step in.
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