It took Red Sox fans almost 100 years and a WS title to let go of the curse of the Bambino Part of the fun of fandom is having a rival you can hate. Personally, I hope UT somehow beats ND. Boy do I hate ND’s whole atheletic arrogance. There isnt a single team in the AAC I can hate. What a bummer.
Just my thoughts: BY knows basketball better that VolNation because we have actually seen good examples that are less than a decade old.
In truth it would cost UT $600,000 to release Holly at any time. Now, that is a chunk of change. But UT is a healthy sports institution, and although WCBB doesn't take in much, especially during the Holly era, UT's pockets are deep enough to fire Holly and assume a contract from another coach, say between $800,00 to even $1.1 million without any strain. However, if she resigns that goes out the window and they'll owe her nothing.
That game was at Alabama.
Sports are so much more fun with an arch-rival, especially when they are in close geographic proximity.
For purposes of comparison, when TN fired Head Football Coach Butch Jones last year, the buyout was $8.26 million. Subsequently, AD John Currie was sent packing after he botched the search for a new football coach. The price tag for Currie was $2.5 million. That’s almost $11 million in buyout costs, not including football assistants.
Yes and no. Comparing buyout costs to what happened with football is really apples and oranges (or watermelons and blueberries?). Even with the relatively rabid fanbase of the Lady Vols, it's nothing to the level of hysteria and economics that football commands.
Agreed, but the issue is not money relative to WBB.
Exactly. I’m a gray beard. I went to UConn in Yankee Conference days. We hated UMass and especially URI. Our most major sport was men’s hoops, there was no women’s team. The men’s team was a regional power with some occasional notable national win. The students filled the old field house every game. Our football was at best average with a few occasional NFL prospect. Nobody cared that we weren’t going to be a national champ so long as we could beat our main rivals, hopefully win the hoops conference title and make the NCAA ourvif not, the NIT.
It would be interesting to see the $$ from game attendance since SC and others ticket prices are considerably lower than those at UCONN, TN and ND.
Well if I'm reading some of these recent post correctly. UCONN WCBB ain't about &$&$ish now and is going to less that that next year. Two years from now will they even have varsity WBB at UCONN or will it be more like a club sport?can it wait till after UConn plays them in the next two years?.....
All due respect Rocky but would it? I mean other teams have filled that void and quite nicely. Since 2008 alone, in the SEC alone, MSU and SC have raised their profile and attendance significantly. Oregon, Oregon State have joined Stanford as West Coast elite. Louisville has become a perennial power. Replacing Tenn as the penultimate WCBB team is Notre Dame and lurking shortly behind them is Kim Mulkey and Baylor. I would argue that WCBB is significantly better now. Remember, Army and Navy once rule collage football and I don’t think anyone is bemoaning that fact and CFB is better for it now.
I personally would have no sorrow to see Tennessee become the bottom feeder it's destined to be.
You're talking about popularity, oldude and I are talking about bottom lines. Holly has failed to deliver a viable product to UT's consumers, attendance has steadily dropped because of it, and UT's pockets are deep enough to assume the loss. The word is a loss to Arkansas and ND or not making the Dance this year and Holly is a goner.
Now I'm in the awkward position of semi-rooting for Tennessee to beat Arkansas just to hold off the executioners.
"the word is" Is there credibility to that word? "the word was" that we would get Boston, Horston &/or Jones. I'm certainly not insinuating that "the word" came from you but I have always held to the creed.....We'll see what happens WHEN it happens. Just sayin'
