A.D. Danny White; discussion thread

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FormerLadyVolFan said:
Doesn't matter...this thread is about Lady Vols Basketball.
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He is trying to get it right by firing Kellie….She has won less than 60% of her games at any of her previous stops before UT…. Nothing in her history says she is an elite coach…. it is beyond time to let her go and move on.
 
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Just thought the below provides a little more insight on DW's reasons for his coaching hires.
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Tennessee’s athletic director typically wants young, up-and-coming coaches who – where it applies — bring an exciting style of play.

“I’m a sports marketer,” he said. “I’ve said before, two touchdowns are better than the absence of touchdowns. I’ll say the same thing about 3-point shots and dunks and home runs.

“We’ve got pretty exciting play across the board and some of that is intentional.”

White said he wants coaches who deliver an “exciting brand” of play that makes it fun for the fans and student athletes.

He's had it at Tennessee with Heupel. He hopes to have it with Caldwell.

“I do kind of like offense,”
 
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OrangeBeachVol said:
Just thought the below provides a little more insight on DW's reasons for his coaching hires.
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Tennessee’s athletic director typically wants young, up-and-coming coaches who – where it applies — bring an exciting style of play.

“I’m a sports marketer,” he said. “I’ve said before, two touchdowns are better than the absence of touchdowns. I’ll say the same thing about 3-point shots and dunks and home runs.

“We’ve got pretty exciting play across the board and some of that is intentional.”

White said he wants coaches who deliver an “exciting brand” of play that makes it fun for the fans and student athletes.

He's had it at Tennessee with Heupel. He hopes to have it with Caldwell.

“I do kind of like offense,”
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Thank you! Great find, great quote!
 
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Actually, it would be worth more than 4 mill. That would be the price for one year. Assuming a multi-year contract, the new amount would be at $4 million per year.

And price could go up if Mulkey wants to put her record against Staley's and challenge LSU. Of course, Auriemma's totals dwarf both of them, but he's not likely to leverage that into the top salary.
 
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leeeda97 said:
Great, so not a single school exists that recruits extremely well without a collective!

Winning traditions don't matter when a player is down to their final 4 or 5 schools. NIL is what tips the scale in favor of the schools with robust NIL.

Stanford and Duke recruit pretty well, but they struggle to close with top kids bc they don't have robust NIL.
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Duke is recruiting exceptionally well if you have not been following. Also, I’m not sure your picture of the SC booster NIL collective is accurate, you make it sound like they are swimming in cash. Most of the NIL funds SC players receive are from their own private deals with commercial marketing and advertising enterprises. The school itself has a booster collective that is nowhere near the big leagues, it struggles like many do to raise funds from fans.

The one thing SC did right from the very beginning was to aid the players $25,000 each per year as part of a privately set up fund from a Law Firm that uses the players for commercials and marketing. Not exactly life changing money. The collective aids with sign on bonuses, but again, they are not flush with cash and struggle.

If revenue sharing is indeed shared with WBB players starting this summer it will aid all schools as each school will be permitted to share upwards of $20m annually with their athletes. Most of the SEC/P4 schools will earmark 80-90% of those funds strictly to FB from what is being reported however. As an example, Clemson has stated 90%+ of those funds go to their FB team.

The title IX smoke being blown around lately is toothless, it’s not a mandate, it’s a recommendation.

It will be interesting to see how much of that $20m for each conference school is allocated to WBB. That is where we find out how serious each school is about their WBB program. I’m thinking White will be motivated to help CKC a good bit here. His hire and all.

This is the latest NCAA report on expected expenditures for the $20m, with WBB getting an average of 1.2% or roughly $225,000 of the total. Schools without Hockey and wrestling programs have more leeway obviously.

NCAA Revenue Sharing & NIL Estimates 2025

nil-ncaa.com nil-ncaa.com

You can bet that the top 2-3 recruits/transfers will get the bulk of those funds each year in WBB. So there is great value still in coaches that recruit wisely and of course develop. The more successful a coach is the more gravitas they will have in asking for funds from that pool. If a coach is not performing well and showing they know how to spend those school dollars wisely they won’t be trusted with more. An alpha type coach with a successful program is worth their weight in NIL funds it would seem, in every sport.

Highly successful WBB coaches will be sought after in the near future by programs serious about WBB.
 
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