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On Friday, VolQuest will have a detailed story outlining Tennessee’s new financial commitment to its football program. Pruitt has started to bring the “Alabama model” to Tennessee, with the 2018 support staff including six members making at least $85,000. A year ago, Butch Jones had just one in player personnel director Bob Welton. Be on the lookout for that story in the morning.
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Hope he balls out this year and ends up in the first round.

Would do wonders in helping us on the recruiting trail. I hate not having any first rounders this year.
 
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it's really cool to see all this happening. but the sad part is this just gets us to "par" structurally with the big boys in the league. to think we've been going about this the last 10 years or so with one hand tied behind our back.

glad that's being rectified.
 
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jakez4ut said:
it's really cool to see all this happening. but the sad part is this just gets us to "par" structurally with the big boys in the league. to think we've been going about this the last 10 years or so with one hand tied behind our back.

glad that's being rectified.
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The university probably didn't want to invest (waste) the money with Dooley & Jones at the helm.

This is meant as a joke with a healthy dose of sarcasm, but it's still not far from the truth.
 
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WinginFlorida said:
The university probably didn't want to invest (waste) the money with Dooley & Jones at the helm.

This is meant as a joke with a healthy dose of sarcasm, but it's still not far from the truth.
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you're right, but in the end....but in the end, the same deficiencies that are being addressed now, are likely the same that led to those hires to begin with.

just glad it's gettin fixed....finally.:thumbsup:
 
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HoleInTheRoof said:
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Hope he balls out this year and ends up in the first round.

Would do wonders in helping us on the recruiting trail. I hate not having any first rounders this year.
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Yep would love if he has monster yr and is a big pick next yr. great great kid
 
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Last year, Tennessee listed seven quality control coaches who were interns or analysts. Those seven were paid a total of $355,850, per open records. Pruitt's first staff has eight quality control coaches, one of whom is actually a volunteer coach. Combined, the seven analysts will make $351,200. The difference with Pruitt's staff is the administrative positions and salaries. Butch Jones' 2017 staff had four player personnel staff members, who made a total of $347,548.

Pruitt has five administrators with a job title of player personnel or player development, and that doesn’t even include “assistant to the head coach” John Lilly. Combined they make $660,000. In 2017, Jones’ director of football operations Jake Kirkendoll made $85,000. Pruitt's ops director Todd Watson is making $225,000. In total, the seven administrative positions are making $885,000. That's double the salaries Tennessee paid out for similar positions in 2017.

VolQuest.com did not compile the numbers or salaries of the entire recruiting office, video department and training/equipment staff, as those positions are still being filled and managed. The changes will certainly add to the new bottom line, though. Pruitt still has additional positions to fill, too, as his on-campus recruiting coordinator Makenzie Franklin is departing the program, per sources, and that position is expected to command a six-figure salary in 2018 — nearly doubling what it was in 2017.

Pruitt also moved Patrick Abernathy from the position of high school relations coordinator into a player development role, so that position is open as well, should Pruitt elect to fill it. What’s most notable about Tennessee’s increase in resources and support under Pruitt is the school’s new philosophical change of reinvesting in the football program. The money has been there for years. Now they’re spending some of it — both on staff and facility upgrades like redoing the weight room floor for the second time in less than five months.

Tennessee led the SEC in both revenue ($109 million) and profit ($80.6 million) in 2015-16, per the U.S. Department of Education athletic filings as reported by TheAdvocate last June. However, the Vols ranked in the middle of the pack in expenses, spending almost half ($29 million) of what Alabama ($56.1 million) put back into its football program.

Fulmer has charged Pruitt with turning around Tennessee's program. He's allocating him the resources to do it, too. The reality is that the cost of playing football in the SEC is greater than it's ever been. Pruitt knows it. Fulmer understands it, and Tennessee's payroll ledger in 2018 shows it.
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WinginFlorida said:
The university probably didn't want to invest (waste) the money with Dooley & Jones at the helm.

This is meant as a joke with a healthy dose of sarcasm, but it's still not far from the truth.
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I remember a story about recruiting on espn a few years back had a source talk about an unnamed program where the coach rubbed people the wrong way and the booster finally got tired of it and pulled a lot of resources out and that recruiting class falling off significantly from previous ones.

The timelines and all made it pretty clear it was about Dooley and UT
 
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jakez4ut said:
it's really cool to see all this happening. but the sad part is this just gets us to "par" structurally with the big boys in the league. to think we've been going about this the last 10 years or so with one hand tied behind our back.

glad that's being rectified.
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From a commitment to football standpoint, this will put us at least close to Alabama's level of commitment. Their level of commitment has been a good bit higher than just about all other schools in the SEC really since Saban has been there. We will now be above just about every other SEC school other than Alabama in this area.
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
McKenzie not even showing up on lists of best players... OL or DL

SMH. Taking that Bray/North route to the NFL

... found him! 27th best available DT 😒
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I’ll bet he gets drafted late as a Guard, spends a year on a practice squad, and becomes a contributor. He should’ve spent more time on offense but Butch couldn’t recognize it.
 
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I love the investment in personnel. The workload to build a national powerhouse demands an adequate staff. The benefits are huge, not the least of which is the stress it takes off of the head coach. JMO, but $2M in salaries for the auxiliary staff still might not be enough to play with the big boys. Fulmer gets it and it shows. This support was nonexistent with the past 3 AD’s, and it showed. Infrastructure, yes, personnel, no.



My only issue: why replace the weight room floor twice in 5 months!?
 
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When was Fitzgerald hired? Was the previous floor under his watch? 5 months ago? Just wondering if he didn’t order that first floor, was it Rock’s baby?
 
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butchna said:
When was Fitzgerald hired? Was the previous floor under his watch? 5 months ago? Just wondering if he didn’t order that first floor, was it Rock’s baby?
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5 months ago is late November. Maybe not under Fitz’s watch, but likely in a time with no coach on staff. Having said that, the budget for the floors would have been done in spring of 2017, and the bids would have been done in fall of 2017. Still, the smart solution is to delay construction until the new staff is in place. UT would either do a change order on the bid for time extension/changes or rebid the project to meet different specs.

All I know is that my head would be on a platter if I did that on one of my projects.
 
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Brillovol said:
I love the investment in personnel. The workload to build a national powerhouse demands an adequate staff. The benefits are huge, not the least of which is the stress it takes off of the head coach. JMO, but $2M in salaries for the auxiliary staff still might not be enough to play with the big boys. Fulmer gets it and it shows. This support was nonexistent with the past 3 AD’s, and it showed. Infrastructure, yes, personnel, no.



My only issue: why replace the weight room floor twice in 5 months!?
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Apparently my wife called Fulmer...
 
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