Chris Spognardi pocketed 14,000 dollars. Could be in a lot of trouble?

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Hang this bastard with the full extent of the law and hold Butch accountable for mis-management. Every manager has to sign off on an expense report. Butch and/or Currie are complicit if they signed his expense report.
 
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Hang this bastard with the full extent of the law and hold Butch accountable for mis-management. Every manager has to sign off on an expense report. Butch and/or Currie are complicit if they signed his expense report.

That's not how it works at all.
 
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Hang this bastard with the full extent of the law and hold Butch accountable for mis-management. Every manager has to sign off on an expense report. Butch and/or Currie are complicit if they signed his expense report.

Not to take up for him, but wasn't Hart still the AD when this went down and not Currie?
 
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That's not how it works at all.

Um yeah....As a long time Plant Mgr. at several companies. That’s exactly how it works. He may have been under Hart but nevertheless, your immediate Manager signs the expense report up thru upper management and finance management. Get back to me when you have a clue.
 
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Not to take up for him, but wasn't Hart still the AD when this went down and not Currie?
I think you’re right. Hart was in the office while this was going down, and if he knew about this and hid it, then he could get into trouble.:hi:
 
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Hang this bastard with the full extent of the law and hold Butch accountable for mis-management. Every manager has to sign off on an expense report. Butch and/or Currie are complicit if they signed his expense report.

I highly doubt Butch signed expense reports. He may be responsible for some of the dysfunction in the program, but this isn't one. Also, the guy was fired, so someone figured it out and did the right thing. Where's the credit go for that?
 
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If it's anything like my employer, I submit the report and my boss' secretary stamps it literally with a rubber stamp of his signature. As long as you have a receipt it isn't questioned
 
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If it's anything like my employer, I submit the report and my boss' secretary stamps it literally with a rubber stamp of his signature. As long as you have a receipt it isn't questioned

Very inefficient company that is most likely losing a lot of money in expenses. Large companies do not operate that way for sure.
 
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Hang this bastard with the full extent of the law and hold Butch accountable for mis-management. Every manager has to sign off on an expense report. Butch and/or Currie are complicit if they signed his expense report.
Sometimes I just say things that make no sense. It's relaxing.
 
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Um yeah....As a long time Plant Mgr. at several companies. That’s exactly how it works. He may have been under Hart but nevertheless, your immediate Manager signs the expense report up thru upper management and finance management. Get back to me when you have a clue.

If five or six people sign every expense report, your company needs better management. I guess UT is the government, so maybe they could do that.
 
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Hang this bastard with the full extent of the law and hold Butch accountable for mis-management. Every manager has to sign off on an expense report. Butch and/or Currie are complicit if they signed his expense report.

Think it happened under Hart.

Edit: EVERYBODIED
 
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If it's anything like my employer, I submit the report and my boss' secretary stamps it literally with a rubber stamp of his signature. As long as you have a receipt it isn't questioned

This works well until a bogus expense is rubber stamped. At that point the manager/boss will find out how important they really are.
 
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Um yeah....As a long time Plant Mgr. at several companies. That’s exactly how it works. He may have been under Hart but nevertheless, your immediate Manager signs the expense report up thru upper management and finance management. Get back to me when you have a clue.

There's simply no way an SEC head football coach is approving every expense report submitted by program staffers my man
 
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Um yeah....As a long time Plant Mgr. at several companies. That’s exactly how it works. He may have been under Hart but nevertheless, your immediate Manager signs the expense report up thru upper management and finance management. Get back to me when you have a clue.

Your experience as a plant manager is completely different than how the process works in college athletics.

If you think the head football coach or the athletics director signs off on the football operations expense report, you need your head examined.

Here's how it actually works at UT: The director of operations is given an amount of cash by the athletics business office that both parties determine will be enough to cover the necessary expenses. Hotel and transportation costs are covered by direct billing to UT. All meals, incidentals and tips for meals and other services are covered by cash. At the end of the trip, the director of operations turns in the leftover cash and receipts that cover the rest. Any discrepancy is supposed to be rectified before the next travel event. In many cases, a handwritten receipt for tips for services like the hotel bellman, police escort, airport and charter air employees and waitresses is acceptable.

There's a lot about the story that doesn't add up. The state auditor report says Spognardi made up receipts to cover about $14k over a three-year period. They never alleged that he actually pocketed the money and after investigating bank and other records over a year-long investigation, they actually found there was no evidence to support the allegation that he did.

Even prosecutors agreed there was no evidence to support a theft charge. He pled guilty last week in Knox County Court to official misconduct for doctoring the receipts and will have the charge removed from his record if he stays out of trouble for a year.

Since the UT system started requiring teams to use cash instead of an official UT credit card for team travel expenses in 2005, this is the eighth time a coach or director of operations at a UT system school has been investigated by the state. It's a horrible system that is hopefully being fully corrected after all of this. I know some teams were able to use cards to pay for some things last year.

Here's the bottom line to the story. Another University has hired him despite all of this. A lot of people in the football community have blamed UT's policies for this, not him.
 
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Um yeah....As a long time Plant Mgr. at several companies. That’s exactly how it works. He may have been under Hart but nevertheless, your immediate Manager signs the expense report up thru upper management and finance management. Get back to me when you have a clue.

My immediate "manager" has never signed an expense report of mine....nor have they even seen it lol. "Working in a plant" is a totally different environment than this situation.
 
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Very inefficient company that is most likely losing a lot of money in expenses. Large companies do not operate that way for sure.

I know this might be off your radar, but you need to acknowledge the difference between large companies and large universities. If a large company loses money, they go bankrupt. If a large university loses money, it's flow of funding by tax dollars, corporate grants, and private donations allows for it to continue operating.

It takes awhile for an auditor to finally come through and ask, "What the Hell?"
 
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Here's how it actually works at UT: The director of operations is given an amount of cash by the athletics business office that both parties determine will be enough to cover the necessary expenses. Hotel and transportation costs are covered by direct billing to UT. All meals, incidentals and tips for meals and other services are covered by cash. At the end of the trip, the director of operations turns in the leftover cash and receipts that cover the rest. Any discrepancy is supposed to be rectified before the next travel event. In many cases, a handwritten receipt for tips for services like the hotel bellman, police escort, airport and charter air employees and...

What is this, 1975?
 
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