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Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss the Volunteers’ move to add the cost to season tickets to help cover NIL deals and the likely sharing of revenue with players. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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What Tennessee is doing the, instead of saying to the fans, hey, we would like you to donate to the collective.
They’re saying you’re going to donate if you want tickets, this is what you’re going to do.
You are going to pay more and we’re going to direct it to the athletes to pay house money.
I now I hope there’s, there’s line items that show how much money they get for the talent fee and exactly where the talent fee goes so that there’s complete transparency on all of it.
But that’s what this is, is, is, it’s not voluntary anymore.
It’s now gonna be mandatory and they, to Dan, to your point, they can do it right now.
They’re hot.
They’ve got a great product and they’ve got great fans.
You know, they may, I mean, they may lose a 2000 fans or something.
Like forget it.
I’m not gonna do this.
Hey, they got other ones that’ll take their place.
They’re putting 100 and 5000 in that stadium no matter what right now, like if you’re a Florida State fan right now and you watch the portal, just blow up on your team’s not any good and you’re going, some of my money is paying these guys that aren’t as good as I thought we’re losing.
I don’t like some of them might get be like, you know, you could bench guys that are making a lot of money.
First thing that’s gonna get cut out of my monthly budget is the 100 a month or 1000 a month.
You have to be on an upward spiral like Tennessee is and capture…
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Publish date : 2024-09-18 00:18:35
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