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re: Is the University of Tennessee poor?
Posted on 7/9/23 at 9:08 am to CrimsonFever
Posted on 7/9/23 at 9:08 am to CrimsonFever
This is likely the downside of the Covid “super senior” stuff. The free year of eligibility is still there but the scholarship numbers are not. NIL is keeping the impact down some (NIL allows a couple of basketball guys to return next year without scholarship room) but not all athletes are seeing enough NIL money to stay. And it’s a shame but also the logical outcome to the extra year.
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Posted on 7/9/23 at 9:26 am to cbi8
They should use some of their money to fix their crappy field. Its the worst in the nation. More knee injuries have happened in my lifetime at UT to UGA players than any other stadium. We lost 3 in ONE game! I've heard many other fanbases say the same thing.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 11:49 am to Darindawg
Everybody is saying it. They come to me with tears in their eyes and say Sir, we have to tell UT to fix their field. Why, we lost er, uh, and uh then there was you know and er, uh, remember?
Posted on 7/9/23 at 11:53 am to CrimsonFever
Too poor to have a women's gymnastics team.
Love their rowing team, but I can't figure where the best spot is to watch them - the start? in the middle? the finish line?
Love their rowing team, but I can't figure where the best spot is to watch them - the start? in the middle? the finish line?
Posted on 7/9/23 at 11:55 am to BigScoreboard
If you're implying that its just teams making excuses for losing there, well, sorry to refute you as far as UGA is concerned, but since the year 2000, UGA's record in Knoxville is 8-3, and we've currently won 3 in a row playing in Neyland. So, we win there most every time we show up for our annual prison-raping of the Vols. So, no excuses needed. I was just making an observation that their field is the worst one in the nation.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 11:59 am to scrooster
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Dayum those thighs ... iwdhi.
There is thunder in them.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 12:16 pm to BigOrangeBri
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I guess we’re using it on football and not on pointless, non revenue sports.
#EverythingSchool
Posted on 7/9/23 at 12:27 pm to CrimsonFever
Bama Endowment- $1.09 Billion
UT Endowment - $1.3 Billion
UT has more money than Bama, they just cutting minor sports it appears. More minor sports will be cut throughout NCAA now players want to be paid and looked at as employees. This is the cost of NIL and it will not get better.
The smaller schools will eventually only have football, baseball and basketball. Sucks that this is what it’s come to.
UT Endowment - $1.3 Billion
UT has more money than Bama, they just cutting minor sports it appears. More minor sports will be cut throughout NCAA now players want to be paid and looked at as employees. This is the cost of NIL and it will not get better.
The smaller schools will eventually only have football, baseball and basketball. Sucks that this is what it’s come to.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 12:37 pm to Prof
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We don't value tossing hammers as much as you.
What’s wrong with a good hammer throw?
This post was edited on 7/9/23 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 7/9/23 at 1:16 pm to TheShmoo
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Too poor to have a women's gymnastics team.
A decision was made to avoid gymnastics and support other women’s programs more. Only a handful of SEC schools have scholarship gymnastics programs and the return wasn’t worth the resources.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 1:32 pm to TheShmoo
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Love their rowing team, but I can't figure where the best spot is to watch them - the start? in the middle? the finish line?
Crew is a sport only a mother could watch with one big exception. My nephew's JV high school team is a hoot to watch. It is always 50-50 whether they flip the boat while getting in it and then the coxswains at the JV level are simply...not good... at steering so there is always a good chance half the boats don't stay on course and the other half cut off or cross oars with another. That makes for some unintended comedy.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 1:54 pm to CrimsonFever
I would breed and get some solid Scottish Games progeny
I was pretty good at the 22 pound hammer and they had me do shot put in T&F
Those legs and we could get a pretty good caber tosser!
I was pretty good at the 22 pound hammer and they had me do shot put in T&F
Those legs and we could get a pretty good caber tosser!
Posted on 7/9/23 at 2:51 pm to Smokeyone
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Only a handful of SEC schools have scholarship gymnastics programs and the return wasn’t worth the resources.
That would be eight of the current 14 schools have teams. Will add 2 more with Texas and Oklahoma. So all the SEC schools that really matter have a gymnastics team.
SEC schools win their share of nattys (Georgia-10, Alabama-6, Florida-3). Oklahoma has 6.
Do some research. Ask someone about attendance at home meets of SEC schools. I'd say the return is well worth the investment
Posted on 7/9/23 at 2:57 pm to TheShmoo
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Posted on 7/9/23 at 3:03 pm to TheShmoo
Yeah, when UGA was at its peak, the meets filled Stegeman.
This post was edited on 7/9/23 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 7/9/23 at 3:30 pm to TheShmoo
6 original SEC schools have gymnastics programs. It’s just not that big of a deal, sure at LSU it matters I guess but for what 5 meets a year? No value. And the “sport” has gotten a terrible rap between abuse, exploitation, trafficking, etc, the last couple of decades.
Title IX matching numbers meant it was gymnastics or rowing and the school opted for rowing. There are more D1 rowing programs(156) than gymnastics so it made sense. And the Vols have a club sport team.
Title IX matching numbers meant it was gymnastics or rowing and the school opted for rowing. There are more D1 rowing programs(156) than gymnastics so it made sense. And the Vols have a club sport team.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 4:03 pm to PassingThrough
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Yeah, when UGA was at its peak, the meets filled Stegeman.
What’s UGAs current draw? I’ll guess around 10,000 a meet. Which is impressive and likely second only to football in attendance for its 5 or 6 meets a year. Take everything that’s not football at UGA and it’s a monetary loss. I believe the non football sports combine for 1.7 million in money incoming. That’s split between baseball softball gymnastics basketball and women’s basketball. Pay the coaches and staff and the well is dry. Then factor in scholarships, support, travel, equipment, training space, etc and to do it right isn’t worth it.
Tennessee has a great cheerleading program with a couple of national titles the last 4 years, the football team appears to be in good hands, baseball and softball both played in their CWS tournament, basketball and woman’s basketball both made the sweet 16. The school finished in the top 10 in directors cup standings this year, there just is no need for gymnastics at UT
Posted on 7/11/23 at 3:22 pm to Darindawg
Not saying anything about wins and losses, I was just making an observation that you're wrong.
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