Barnes getting Juke example of $$ commitment & great coach

The football roster is almost 40 million. How much does it need to be for you to say it is a commitment??

VFLPT22. said:

The football roster is almost 40 million. How much does it need to be for you to say it is a commitment??

Prob a hundy

VFLPT22. said:

The football roster is almost 40 million. How much does it need to be for you to say it is a commitment??

Enough to win a natty. We don’t have that ability right now.

VFLPT22. said:

The football roster is almost 40 million. How much does it need to be for you to say it is a commitment??

~Clearly more if we're still #14 in roster talent according to TOS, and we recruit at ~#9 according to all recruiting sites. I'm not sure that $30M-$40M is a lot compared to Top 5 spenders

VFLPT22. said:

The football roster is almost 40 million. How much does it need to be for you to say it is a commitment??

There's commitment then there is top of the heap commitment!! LSU-OSU-TxT-Ore

Troopervol said:

There's commitment then there is top of the heap commitment!! LSU-OSU-TxT-Ore

Always something for you to complain about.

VFLPT22. said:

The football roster is almost 40 million. How much does it need to be for you to say it is a commitment??

I mean how does that compare to the other top teams We are getting close to 18-20 million in basketball which is near the top. Just because Football is double with 4-5x players doesn’t mean much in today’s world

o_Xanderlise said:

We are getting close to 18-20 million in basketball which is near the top.

Nah, not that high.

o_Xanderlise said:

I mean how does that compare to the other top teams We are getting close to 18-20 million in basketball which is near the top. Just because Football is double with 4-5x players doesn’t mean much in today’s world

It’s in the top 10ish

How much do you commit OP?

VFLPT22. said:

The football roster is almost 40 million. How much does it need to be for you to say it is a commitment??

Barnes and Heupel are not equals in coaching ability, reputation and career success. Just the fact of our football program vs our basketball program.

Shelray14 said:

Enough to win a natty. We don’t have that ability right now.

Not enough talent on the field or in the coaching box. Money, gives us a small chance.

KidzBop38 said:

~Clearly more if we're still #14 in roster talent according to TOS, and we recruit at ~#9 according to all recruiting sites. I'm not sure that $30M-$40M is a lot compared to Top 5 spenders

OR, what we are spending that money on. Is it spent wisely or wastefully?

JacksonVol24 said:

Always something for you to complain about.

Don’t like the truth?

George Cafego said:

Not enough talent on the field or in the coaching box. Money, gives us a small chance.

“The “someone’s” on this board that know nothing. I listen to Austin, Brent, and Wes. The posters on the Legion of the Miserables only know how to complain, moan, criticize and hope Tennessee loses. They will be mad if we goes undefeated!!!!”

George Cafego said:

OR, what we are spending that money on. Is it spent wisely or wastefully?

Very true, we may be wasting some of it on high schoolers that portal before they see the field. Or, maybe we are spending it wisely and it just hasn't paid off yet (but will). I don't know, it's a tough question to answer, but talent on field has to increase if we want to compete with the very tip top.

George Cafego said:

Barnes and Heupel are not equals in coaching ability, reputation and career success. Just the fact of our football program vs our basketball program.

What a strange comment haha it has nothing to do with what I said. We are talking about commitment to winning for the programs with money allotted to the programs rosters. Nothing to do with Barnes or Heupel

Shelray14 said:

Enough to win a natty. We don’t have that ability right now.

VFLPT22. said:

What a strange comment haha it has nothing to do with what I said. We are talking about commitment to winning for the programs with money allotted to the programs rosters. Nothing to do with Barnes or Heupel

Knoxville isn't silicon valley either. How many colleges have great BB and FB since the NIL era ? Michigan? Who else? I think it's reasonable to say you can be great in 1 sport, take your choice. BB is way easier to do that. You can be good in both, hard to be great in both since 1 school has succeeded at it. OSU did it back in the early 60s. If I'm missing a school, add them but it's still a tiny number.

RDBIPB said:

Knoxville isn't silicon valley either. How many colleges have great BB and FB since the NIL era ? Michigan? Who else? I think it's reasonable to say you can be great in 1 sport, take your choice. BB is way easier to do that. You can be good in both, hard to be great in both since 1 school has succeeded at it. OSU did it back in the early 60s. If I'm missing a school, add them but it's still a tiny number.

We aren’t great in any sport. We are good in a couple. Alabama has won a natty in football and reached a final 4 in the 2020’s. Michigan has won both, hell even Florida has won a natty in basketball and made the Sec championship game in football in 2020.

They trust Barnes they don’t trust Heupel

Shelray14 said:

We aren’t great in any sport. We are good in a couple. Alabama has won a natty in football and reached a final 4 in the 2020’s. Michigan has won both, hell even Florida has won a natty in basketball and made the Sec championship game in football in 2020.

Everything school is just a coping mechanism

RDBIPB said:

Knoxville isn't silicon valley either. How many colleges have great BB and FB since the NIL era ? Michigan? Who else? I think it's reasonable to say you can be great in 1 sport, take your choice. BB is way easier to do that. You can be good in both, hard to be great in both since 1 school has succeeded at it. OSU did it back in the early 60s. If I'm missing a school, add them but it's still a tiny number.

I do think Tennessee has the resources to be great in both basketball and football. Only reason it may be a down year this year in football is because of the QB. Our roster is very good and the QBs are really talented, just young and you never know how that will go early on.

KidzBop38 said:

Very true, we may be wasting some of it on high schoolers that portal before they see the field. Or, maybe we are spending it wisely and it just hasn't paid off yet (but will). I don't know, it's a tough question to answer, but talent on field has to increase if we want to compete with the very tip top.

So does our coaching in my opinion. 👍🏻

George Cafego said:

So does our coaching in my opinion. 👍🏻

The missing link with FB to me is Josh can't prevent disastrous outcomes like Vandy last year, 2023 leading Bama 20-7 at halftime then the team literally returned to Knoxville at halftime, etc. Great coaches that doesn't happen. But, I think Josh is better than good at the same time.