Portal Activity (News and Rumors)

[NorCalVol67]

This has turned into a FF type thread.

 

[VolMarine1371]

Yep!

When it's this bad for the P5 schools just imagine the Walter States of the world.

Zero chance of keeping your best players. At least the P5 schools have a shot.

Walters State is a juco program and the players have to leave after 2 years no matter what. Walters get kids that are P5 talent. Reason for Juco is they are draft eligible after freshman year. Where as if they go university route it’s 21 or 3 years before draft eligible.

 

[Freak]

Some posts in here have gotten way off track. Let's keep this thread on discussion of players in the portal. If you guys have other topics you'd like to discuss, please do so in another thread. Thanks.

 

[VolMarine1371]

Sheesh. People. Celebrate the wins. It really should be just that simple.

Nothing is that simple anymore. Wish it was!

 

[D3Athlete]

Well Blake Burke is actually from California.

Ortega and Lawson aren’t from Tennessee either.

 

[VolMarine1371]

Some posts in here have gotten way off track. Let's keep this thread on discussion of players in the portal. If you guys have other topics you'd like to discuss, please do so in another thread. Thanks.

Yea what he said!!

 

[KptVFL]

Walters State is a juco program and the players have to leave after 2 years no matter what. Walters get kids that are P5 talent. Reason for Juco is they are draft eligible after freshman year. Where as if they go university route it’s 21 or 3 years before draft eligible.

You are right. Was a bad example. Pretty sure you knew what I meant though.

 

[TechnoVol]

Some posts in here have gotten way off track. Let's keep this thread on discussion of players in the portal. If you guys have other topics you'd like to discuss, please do so in another thread. Thanks.

Yes, please!

 

[Weezer]

What sucks is when I saw several new pages of thread, I thought it was good news, not Checkerboards and Bruin complaining about the portal.

 

[CAVPUT]

I literally cannot believe that the prospect of landing arguably the biggest portal W possible is leading to arguing and anger. This could potentially change our entire trajectory offensively. I’m blown away. Keep doing your thing, Tony legend!

Who do we consider to be the "biggest portal W possible"? After going back several pages all I've gotten is wet from a golden shower from all the posters engaging in a pissing contest.

 

[TechnoVol]

Who do we consider to be the "biggest portal W possible"? After going back several pages all I've gotten is wet from a golden shower from all the posters engaging in a pissing contest.

I would say Amick.

 

[CAVPUT]

I would say Ammick.

Saw one comment about it being a huge bat that we're adding. My mind immediately thought Condon had slipped into the portal and I'd missed it.

 

[Spring Hill Jay]

We getting Amick or nah?

 

[cardvolfan]

Does any successful P5 program only have 35 players at camp in the Fall? Many players can’t handle the demands of the program, College life, or their newly found independence, and will leave on their own. Others aren’t putting in the work or don’t rise to the level of competition so don’t understand why you wouldn’t have several extra players to compete.

Folks may not remember or understand that dynasties and great teams of the past were built on numbers. The Alabama Bear Bryant years and Johnny Majors Pitt national championship had huge rosters built full with depth from talented players. The numbers were insurance against attrition from various reasons. Tony has built wealth and depth in the form of sheer numbers. I feel bad that guys get recruited over, but if they’re not being recruited over, then we will see our team experience lows that will have everyone dissatisfied.

 

[BruinVol]

Walters State is a juco program and the players have to leave after 2 years no matter what. Walters get kids that are P5 talent. Reason for Juco is they are draft eligible after freshman year. Where as if they go university route it’s 21 or 3 years before draft eligible.

Much of what Walters is going to take are power 5 portal guys that haven’t established themselves enough to find our bigtime portal options. They love this climate but I don’t think the draft has as much to do with it anymore

 

[cardvolfan]

It’s simple as this, Tennessee and Tony V wanna keep winning and have championship caliber team, then they have to do what is means necessary to keeps this train rollin. Don’t like it. Don’t watch. Simple as that.

I’m older than most on here, and I didn’t (and still don’t) particularly like the environment in college athletics that has so rapidly evolved the last few years. However, it is here to stay and I’m all in….100%. I am going to embrace it, enjoy watching talented kids, and watch TV keep bringing great baseball to we, the fans. We can still recruit high-character kids who are good citizens, and we do, for the most part.

Come play in Knoxville, and let’s keep the Vitello train rolling.

 

[BruinVol]

Folks may not remember or understand that dynasties and great teams of the past were built on numbers. The Alabama Bear Bryant years and Johnny Majors Pitt national championship had huge rosters built full with depth from talented players. The numbers were insurance against attrition from various reasons. Tony has built wealth and depth in the form of sheer numbers. I feel bad that guys get recruited over, but if they’re not being recruited over, then we will see our team experience lows that will have everyone dissatisfied.

we also have to remember that the shiny best flavor of the portal month isn’t always what’s best …while a current roster player might be ..

Stories like this kid are going to less and less and I think that’s why many can’t get on board with the portal environment.



Trey Lipscomb - Baseball - University of Tennessee Athletics

 

[ETNVolunteer1]

Landing Amick would be huge. I don’t really understand why people might be upset. If Zane doesn’t return we will need a 3rd baseman. Amick also has a big bat, something we also could use.

Re: transfer portal. It’s apart of the game now. You either have to adapt or you fall behind. It’s that simple. LSU won it all this year. Do they do that without Skenes, White and Hurd? I don’t believe so.

 

[cardvolfan]

we also have to remember that the shiny best flavor of the portal month isn’t always what’s best …while a current roster player might be ..

Stories like this kid are going to less and less and I think that’s why many can’t get on board with the portal environment.



Trey Lipscomb - Baseball - University of Tennessee Athletics

I don’t disagree with that.

 

[Orange.]

I don’t disagree with that.

Right. No one in the history of the world has ever disagreed with that.

Who has ever argued that "the shiny best flavor of the portal month" is "always what’s best …while a current roster player can never be? No one.

It's a bizarre strawman argument dude has invented to try to persuade people that he is suddenly reasonable.

 

[Halph66]

So it's okay for a coach to recruit over a kid, but it's not okay for a kid to take his talent elsewhere?

If you're so unhappy, just do as you say and quit watching. Why even post on VN? If all of this makes you so unhappy and miserable, find something that doesn't.

This is what makes him happy.

 

[BruinVol]

Do we know why Amick left Clemson?

seems like an odd move.

 

[ETNVolunteer1]

Do we know why Amick left Clemson?

seems like an odd move.

Rumor is NIL....

 

[CAVPUT]

Do we know why Amick left Clemson?

So he could play for UT of course.

 

[BruinVol]

Rumor is NIL....

Thanks
I’m sure that has something to do with it

Clemson has to do a solid job with their baseball players there with $ though I’d guess