THIS is why the Tennessee Vols are bucking a major trend in college football

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Lucas Panzica reveals why the Tennessee Vols are bucking a major trend in the world of college football.

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00:00There was some interesting news in the world of college football last week

00:02that highlighted a trend going around the sport that the university of

00:06Tennessee has not yet jumped in on.

00:07We'll talk about it next.

00:12Hey, Lucas Panzeca here from one of four, five, the zone, and it is e-sport.

00:15So last week, Stanford university made the move to fire head football

00:19coach, Troy Taylor, after back-to-back seasons going three and nine.

00:23If you're a Tennessee fan, you don't really bat an eye at that headline.

00:26It has nothing to do with the Vols program.

00:29And that is certainly true.

00:30But when you look closer at how Stanford made this move, there's

00:33one really interesting component.

00:36It was not the athletic director as it typically is making the decision

00:39and even putting out the statement about why Stanford is moving on and

00:43where they're headed in terms of the direction of the football program.

00:46In fact, it was program legend and current Stanford general manager,

00:50Andrew Luck making that call.

00:53Now we're seeing this become much more commonplace across the sport of

00:57college football in this ever-changing world of NIL and the transfer portal.

01:02More and more programs, including in the sec are bringing in people to be the

01:07general manager for a roster management role.

01:11We've seen Vanderbilt do this.

01:12We've seen Oklahoma do this just a month ago.

01:15The Sooners hired Jim Nagy, the director of the senior bowl to come over and be

01:19the GM of the football program after he had just interviewed for a couple of

01:23vacant GM positions in the NFL.

01:26As college football continues to look more and more like professional football

01:30in terms of the way that it's run more and more college football programs will

01:34bring in general managers to help take things off of head coaches plates because

01:39it is simply too much of a workload right now to keep up with all the moving parts.

01:44Now, Tennessee has not jumped in on this trend.

01:46Why is that a couple of different reasons?

01:48Number one, Josh Hypel, though he does not have a GM helping him

01:52oversee the program has a massive network, a massive support staff.

01:56In fact, one of the highest paid support staffs in the country, whether that's

02:00quality control analysts or people in roster management roles to help him

02:05navigate the world of NIL and the transfer portal.

02:08Number two, we see the extreme of Stanford letting its GM literally run

02:13its football program that will not happen at Tennessee as long as Danny

02:16white is the athletic director.

02:19Danny white is an elite athletic director in the country for multiple

02:23reasons, whether it's fundraising, marketing, being the face of a department,

02:27all of the things that it takes to be an excellent ad, Danny white has all of

02:32those in spades, but arguably most importantly, where Danny white has hung

02:36his hat as a, in his career as an ad, whether it's at Buffalo, UCF, Tennessee.

02:43Hiring and firing coaches has been his specialty.

02:46You look at the moves he's made just as the ad at Tennessee, obviously

02:50Josh Hypel, the one that sticks out the most, the hiring of Kim Caldwell

02:54has had the lady vols in the sweet 16 in year one.

02:58And at his previous stops, Danny white has made hires that have impacted that

03:02program and then others as those coaches have gone up levels in their respective

03:07sport.

03:08So Danny white will always be the one to hire and fire coaches and make those

03:14within Tennessee's athletics department, make no mistake.

03:17And this is not to say Tennessee couldn't go out and get a general

03:19manager to help with all of those roster management responsibilities, but it

03:23certainly won't be as extreme as what we just saw with Stanford.

03:27It will be interesting to see though, how Tennessee continues to navigate

03:31this world of NIL and the transfer portal as the vols chase championship

03:35under Josh Hypel.

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