A hand picked board by Bill Haslam, who is going to retire as governor and take over the presidency at UT. Geeze what can go wrong? And you're right she is part of the problem now and so is Lampley. They're no more than pawns and scapegoats for the Haslam family. This is a bad deal folks for UT athletics, don't believe see the events from this past November and December that was all Haslam's. And Bill and little Jimmy are pissed because Bev went rogue and put Phil in charge of athletics instead of Curries right hand man ( whom conveniently worked for little Jimmy in Cleveland)
A hand picked board by Bill Haslam, who is going to retire as governor and take over the presidency at UT. Geeze what can go wrong? And you're right she is part of the problem now and so is Lampley. They're no more than pawns and scapegoats for the Haslam family. This is a bad deal folks for UT athletics, don't believe see the events from this past November and December that was all Haslam's. And Bill and little Jimmy are pissed because Bev went rogue and put Phil in charge of athletics instead of Curries right hand man ( whom conveniently worked for little Jimmy in Cleveland)
You might want to pay attention to the news...Bill Haslam has repeatedly said that would not be president of UT.
You and others posting in on this thread make it out as these people are going to run the UT system. Not so, they are only an advisory board. They can make all the recommendations they please, but the board of the UT system does not have to listen to them or vote anything the advisory board recommends. Lawson and Lampley are under no pressure as to running the UT system. They are there to give their best opinions and ideas as to the things put forth or things they themselves see and think.Go way back and look at the search for an AD last February, who did the Haslam family put on the search committee? Peyton Manning and they did that so people would think Manning signed off on Currie, when in fact Manning backed Blackburn and Fulmer the entire time. Neither one of those received a formal interview from UT, Currie was the only one. Currie was someone the Haslam's knew they could control from day one and they did just that.
My advice to Lawson and Lampley is to be careful and know who you're getting involved with. If all of this goes through these 2 could end up universally hated by this fan base because the Haslams will throw them on the sword just like they did Manning over the last year.
Any of these names setting off red flags? Im not seein any.
You and others posting in on this thread make it out as these people are going to run the UT system. Not so, they are only an advisory board. They can make all the recommendations they please, but the board of the UT system does not have to listen to them or vote anything the advisory board recommends. Lawson and Lampley are under no pressure as to running the UT system. They are there to give their best opinions and ideas as to the things put forth or things they themselves see and think.
The 11 appointees are the new BOT. They're not advisory-- they're the voting members. As UT's governing body, university policy, executive hires, contracts, etc. require their approval.
Compton is more than a former CEO of Pilot's travel plazas-- the dean's suite in the Haslam Business building is named for him. He's a close friend of the Haslams, as is Raja Jubran. Lamprey, Pryse and Evans are the other three holdovers from the current BOT. Charlie Anderson and the other Haslam dissenters were purged. Kara Lawson was selected to give women's sports a voice, but make no mistake-- the new Big Board is stacked in the Haslams' favor.
And who do you think gets hired as UT's president after DiPietro retires?