John Currie of K State Hired as AD

[Orange&White]

John Currie of Kansas State has been hired as Tennessee's AD. He has a masters from Tennessee and was here under Hamilton. Per Jimmy Hyams.



"BREAKING NEWS: Source: John Currie of Kansas State has been hired as Tennessee's new athletic director. Currie worked at UT as assistant athletic director from 1997-2008 when he took the job as AD at Kansas State. He turns 47 on April 1." -- Hyams

 

[Smokey]

Per Jimmie Hyams

 

[chargervol]

Of course we did.

 

[daugag02]

Currie is a GREAT hire. Proven P5 AD experience. Tennessee roots.

So, please commence the *****ing and moaning.

 

[dyllisvol42]

John Curry Kansas state A.D has been hired for the vacant Tennessee A.D job per Jimmy Hyams.

 

[volfannbama]

lolololol

Is it me or is this administration looking studly these days?

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Currie is a GREAT hire. Proven P5 AD experience. Tennessee roots.

So, please commence the *****ing and moaning.

Would rather have Blackburn.

 

[Orange&White]

I'm not going to lie, it was random, but the guy has Tennessee connections and seems pretty highly regarded and successful. He won AD of the year a few years ago.

 

[flatiron]

 

[1982Alum]

If he learned anything under Hamilton, we are in trouble.

 

[Special Ed]

Not much good comes out of Kansas.

 

[RockyTop22]

Tennessee guy, was assistant AD here. Power 5 AD experience. I'm in.

 

[Through_The_T]

Tennessee ties and K State has a good athletics program, considering it's in Manhattan freaking Kansas. Cautiously optimistic here...

 

[BigorangeBoy]

Knox paper has nothing on it at all....

 

[GoVols15]

Pull out the sofas, fires coming!

 

[daugag02]

Blackburn is a lesser version of Currie - Tennessee roots, successful as associate AD and moved to another job as head AD to get experience.

Currie did it at KState. Blackburn did it at UTC.

Currie has raised literally millions of more dollars, negotiated contracts worth literally millions of more dollars, and has built facilities that cost literally millions of more dollars than Blackburn.

This is a slam dunk hire.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Tennessee guy, was assistant AD here. Power 5 AD experience. I'm in.

Nm.

 

['Boro-vol]

Only Tennessee eats their own like this. So sorry Mr. Blackburn....You were to obvious of a choice apparently.

We'll never be any different.

Welcome Mr. Currie, good luck....You'll need it.

 

[AllVols]

Holding breath and praying for the best.

 

[RockyTop22]

Under the guy that hired Derek Dooley.

You must have a fun life just finding things to be upset at.

 

[bignewt]

Looks like a solid hire.

 

[leftygray]

I don't know much about him, but this was exactly what we should expect. A person out of left field that none of us even mentioned. With that being said, it looks like a good hire. I'm pulling for the guy!

 

[Demon_Vol]

I admit to not knowing much about the dealings of the business side of college athletics, but I fail to be inspired by the hiring of someone to the A.D. that was a subordinate during the fall of Tennessee athletics.

 

[bignewt]

ALl I can do is look at his wiki page, looks like a great hire to me. At this point the only place to go was outside.

 

[daugag02]

Nm.

Currie left UT in May 2009. At the time, it was thought Hamilton would have the job for the next decade.

Hamilton hired Dooley in January 2010.

Currie had nothing to do with Dooley.