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Tennessee football's 10% talent fee opens discussion of how many schools and sports will follow
Read full article: Tennessee football's 10% talent fee opens discussion of how many schools and sports will followTennessee’s announcement of a 10% talent fee on 2025 football season tickets to help pay players could have been considered inevitable in the still-evolving era of name, image and likeness compensation.
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Cedar Hill graduate, Kaidon Salter, finds a home with Liberty University football
Read full article: Cedar Hill graduate, Kaidon Salter, finds a home with Liberty University footballFollowing two run-ins with the University of Tennessee police, former Cedar Hill football star Kaidon Salter announced his departure from the Vols' football program back in June on his social media accounts:
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AP Top 25 Podcast: College football's biggest underachievers
Read full article: AP Top 25 Podcast: College football's biggest underachieversNebraska’s search for an identity in a changing college football landscape. On the latest AP Top 25 College Football Podcast, Steven Godfrey of Banner Society joins the AP’s Ralph Russo to take on the task of finding each conference’s most egregious underachiever. And how USC being unable to maximize its potential hurts all of college football. Plus, new Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea joins the show and shares his vision for transforming the Commodores. ___Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP and listen at https://westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/ap-top-25-college-football-podcast/Ad___More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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NCAA probe is 'speed bump' to Vols' new coach Josh Heupel
Read full article: NCAA probe is 'speed bump' to Vols' new coach Josh HeupelNew Tennessee NCAA college football head coach Josh Heupel, left, shakes hands with University of Tennessee athletics director Danny White after being presented a jersey speaks during an introductory press conference at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (Caitie McLekin/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP, Pool)Josh Heupel believes he can win quickly at Tennessee and position the football program for long-term success. Heupel was introduced Wednesday as the program's 27th head coach and fifth, not counting interim or acting coaches, since the end of the 2008 season. New athletic director Danny White said Tennessee ran an “exhaustive nationwide search” led by the same search firm that helped land White. White was hired last week to replace the retiring Phillip Fulmer and hiring a new coach was his first task.
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One Good Thing: 109-year-old woman receives honorary degree from University of Tennessee as birthday surprise
Read full article: One Good Thing: 109-year-old woman receives honorary degree from University of Tennessee as birthday surpriseCHATTANOOGA, Tenn. A 109-year old woman from Chattanooga received a high honor from the University of Tennessee for her birthday. Halie Forstner was a freshman at the college in 1930 but had to leave after one year, due to financial reasons. The university chancellor and the head of the History Department surprised Forstner with an honorary college degree, and a certificate that made her honorary president of the schools history club. Its such a surprise and just a plain little girl from the mountains and having all this happen to me. Its wonderful, Forstner said.