The Vols football program is apparently worth...

[TheRealOrange]

...a little bit. 

http://wate.com/2015/12/22/forbes-tennessee-3rd-most-valuable-college-football-team/

[Black Diamond Vol]

Well damn.  If we were bammer, we could claim another NC for that.

[BanditVol]

well give Hart credit for turning that around at least

interesting quote

the report by Forbes’ Chris Smith states that while the Vols “have been far from successful on the field in their three seasons under Butch Jones, posting just 20 wins and beating only two ranked teams,” no other team in the SEC was “as good as Tennessee at maximizing their bottom line and filling their athletic department’s coffers.”'

"far from successful", but much, much better than we were.

Here is hoping that improvement continues in 2016 

[BanditVol]

another interesting tidbit....

And when it comes to spending what you make, there’s no better example than Alabama (No. 8, $99 million). With $97 million in revenue the team is second only to Texas. But the Crimson Tide also spent $51 million of that on football operations. That’s $11 million more than any other team spent last year — Auburn, second on the spending list, dumped $40 million into football last season — and thus ranks the Tide 10th in profitability.

Hm....they spend $11 million more than the second place team on football, which is a whole 25% more.  Some of that increase goes to the highest paid staff in America, but still...when you are that far above no. 2, one wonders what the money is spent on.  


(the above quote comes from a link in the original article)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2015/12/22/college-footballs-most-valuable-teams-2015-texas-notre-dame-and-tennessee/?utm_campaign=Forbes