Albert Haynesworth rants on AD hire

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TNinSC said:
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but if I need a job done, one of the main attributes


did you have experience when you got hired? how do you get experience if you don't get hired. what if companies only hired people with experience how long would they last.
I think phillip fulmer knows enough about ut sports that he could run the athletic department.
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Vol4Lyfe said:
Good luck man. You and 5k other men probably have the same thoughts. Lol. If it doesn't work out, you can always cuddle up to her fhm spread.
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I'm married and a recent grandfather. Images help tho. :)
 
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Hilarious..,just simply hilarious...this thread must've set the rules as 1. There are NO rules and lies and inaccurate facts are not only allowed but encouraged!!!
This man is well respected among people who actually know something about being an AD but hey let's slander the man anyways....right out of a progressive handbook!!
 
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TNnative said:
If Phil want to still get paid for speaking engagements, he needs to take a step back before someone exposes dirty laundry.
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I don't disagree. He should show up when asked and wave. With that said, had they named him AD I wouldn't have been upset.
 
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This is not a coaching job in any capacity. It is an administrator. Hire personnel and manage budgets is more descriptive of an AD. While he has raised money and monitored the football program, led us to prominence and I will never forget that. He deserves respect, but does "Fulmer Cup" ring a bell?

I love UT with my whole soul. I was born on Good Ol' Rocky Top. I have been a lifelong Vol, but I promise you I don't deserve the AD job.

You don't recruit, you don't draw up plays, you don't just focus on football. Those are the things CPF excelled at. As an AD you manage a huge organization. CPF probably would have done a great job at it, but experience has to count for something. I hope CPF gets back into UT somehow, just not going to be AD . . . for now.

He would have made a great OL coach. :eek:lol:
 
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maddux5150 said:
Dude the AD UT hired was the one that got Coach Fulmer fired...
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No.... Coach fulmer got himself fired.. By not being able to beat his rivals anymore, florida, bama, georgia, and player development slipped, recruiting slipped, he hired at the time, an oc that didn't fit here.. The only time he did good was when cutcliff came back, fulmer should of been gone long before he was fired. Now, if the next coach after him would of won, 9 or 10 games the next couple of seasons,and competed for championships youd hear no mention of fulmer for anything.. With that said. I'm on the fence with this hire, haven't really heard too many good things. I wanted blackburn, and would of settled for fulmer over Currie..
 
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He is right had a chance to bring in a HALL OF FAME coach in coach Fulmer and of course we blew it Battle i think did a good job at bama but i forgot bama care's about the football program i guess 8 and 4 is good enough these day's the FULMER CURSE lives on maybe in 10 to 15 years the so called power people will get there head out of there azz. . GO VOLS BUCK BAMA
 
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TNnative said:
What did the league think of his explanation? Man's helmet came off and he stomped on his face. At that point, anything that came outta his mouth is not worth hearing, and that includes today.

To answer your question, the guy who retaliates, always. You handle your business between the snap and the whistle. Commissioner should have kicked his sorry ass outta the league right then and there. It would have saved the stupid Redskins a ton of grief. After that incident, what did Haynesworth do besides screw up? Nothing much. That the kinda guy you want to back?
Bud, you are on your own.
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When you posted, "the guy that retaliates, always", I knew then that we have fundamental differences that probably go much deeper than this.

We still have the Vols. I'm really looking forward to see how 121 handles the expectations this year. Maybe we can avoid as many injuries with Rock running the S&C, get a lucky bounce here and there and it could make for a better year than 2016.

Release the Beast!
 
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jonnon111 said:
This is not a coaching job in any capacity. It is an administrator. Hire personnel and manage budgets is more descriptive of an AD. While he has raised money and monitored the football program, led us to prominence and I will never forget that. He deserves respect, but does "Fulmer Cup" ring a bell?

I love UT with my whole soul. I was born on Good Ol' Rocky Top. I have been a lifelong Vol, but I promise you I don't deserve the AD job.

You don't recruit, you don't draw up plays, you don't just focus on football. Those are the things CPF excelled at. As an AD you manage a huge organization. CPF probably would have done a great job at it, but experience has to count for something. I hope CPF gets back into UT somehow, just not going to be AD . . . for now.

He would have made a great OL coach. :eek:lol:
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I think Fulmer could do it all he would have to do is give Battle a call.:)
 
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VolLFN said:
"1. John Currie has a terrible track record in his administrative experience with the Vols.

2. John Currie has a mediocre track record as athletic director of the Kansas State Wildcats.

3. There were better options than John Currie available for the Vols.

4. John Currie generates very little energy as Tennessee’s new athletic director."

Caleb Calhoun article.
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1. He was part of Fulmer getting fired. It was time and many agreed it needed to happen. His boss was an idiot. I'm glad I'm not responsible for every action my boss has taken.
2.? He won AD of the year in 2013
3. Who? Blackburn? Fulmer?
4. Doesn't generate energy to people who didn't get their way.
 
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DocVOLiday said:
What if the new AD brought Fulmer in in some capacity (as many said that Blackburn would if hired)?

As far as I know, nobody has said that that is out of the question (though it may well be)
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He better make sure all the knives are in the drawer..


And that drawer is locked... up.. tight!
 
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terrypedigo said:
I think Fulmer could do it all he would have to do is give Battle a call.:)
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Battle had the best job in the world. Bama AD is on automatic pilot. Their biggest problem is getting enough brinks trucks to the banks.

Bamers really don't give a **** of they win anything as long as football is winning and dominating th SEc. And they are.
 
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flatiron said:
His first point is nonsense. Currie working under Hamilton is counted a strike against him, but then Blackburn being part of Hamilton's senior leadership team when he was here is totally glossed over.
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Despite recent events Phil and DB seem to have a cordial relationship. However Phil and Currie seem to have a conflict brewing. It is likely that Currie was in the camp to replace Phil and Blackburn was not or at least neutral. Or perhaps they never hit it off.
At first sight the Currie hire looked good. Now it seems he is not responsible for the upswing at KState and will aleanate Fulmer and his camp. That makes this a poor hire on Davenport's part. Division is never good. When Currie hits his first pothole a war will ensue. If I were Davenport I would not have hired anyone on bring such a division in the fan base.
 
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volfan102455 said:
Fulmer had absolutely no experience at being an AD. He was up against at least 2, maybe more candidates that had that experience.
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Neyland, Woodruff, and Dickey didn't have experience as ADs when they got that job for the first time either; all did quite well. Hamilton trained for the job and Hart had been an AD, and neither have set the world on fire, but Hamilton and his staff made up a flaming disaster - so much for grooming. Another example was Bill Battle at AL - failure as a coach but apparently a pretty good AD.

The most important job for an AD is find good coaching talent because winning teams bring all the rest if somebody's competent enough to just not screw it up. The made for AD guys seem to fail more than get it right on the coaches, and the coaches seem more competent in picking coaches.
 
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butchna said:
Florida fired Doug Dickey.
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You know, that is the truest of statements! Bama hired Battle as well. Now, Dickey was before my time but I have to say I never really liked him and I think that probably derives from being told about the Fla deal of the 60's or 70's. However, I do say he did a very good job as AD.
 
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aredfox28 said:
No.... Coach fulmer got himself fired.. By not being able to beat his rivals anymore, florida, bama, georgia, and player development slipped, recruiting slipped, he hired at the time, an oc that didn't fit here.. The only time he did good was when cutcliff came back, fulmer should of been gone long before he was fired. Now, if the next coach after him would of won, 9 or 10 games the next couple of seasons,and competed for championships youd hear no mention of fulmer for anything.. With that said. I'm on the fence with this hire, haven't really heard too many good things. I wanted blackburn, and would of settled for fulmer over Currie..
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I agree... Partly... Because the Fulmerites would have said the success would have been do to Fulmer!
 
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utvolpj said:
What a terribly misinformed statement
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This got 12 likes? So the answer to one question is the administration has a dozen self serving moles here in the nation.

I have no problem with the hire itself. I just think its a shame that the disrespectful way it was handled was very ivory tower Vanderbiltish BS.

She knew what message she was sending by publicly humiliating David Blackburn by not even interviewing him after not taking him out of consideration prior to the actual hiring. Same goes for Coach Fulmer. Albert is unfortunately spot on.

She effectively communicated her message that UT athletics is the little sister to academics. However, she also commucated that you are secondary here in Knoxvile. So if you want to enjoy a school where winning at EVERYTHING With UT on the jersey is equally important to the reputation and financial well being of our great university as research and test scores. You need to take your donations and loyalties to a university that emphasizes athletics because now that I'm here that is not the case.

We've seen this movie here in Nashville already.It's titled VANDERBILT'S IVORY TOWER THE CLAY STAPELTON STORY :How to Destroy the history and winning tradition of your athletic teams to look like an academic powerhouse.
 
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kudos to the powers that be!

they went out and hired the best man--not the man many of us uninformed fans wanted...

and K State offered extension and substantial raise after UT came calling.

We will be just fine with him.

He does know how to fire a coach if necessary.

Relax--this is good!
 
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Grizzlymint said:
Every single K-state fan is beyond happy to be rid of him. That does not look like a good hire to me
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I don't know which fan forum you're going to but on their Scout forum fans posts are mixed, and it seems many are like this:


..."Currie did the following:
1.) saved us from the Ron Prince mess
2.) started the sell-out streak for football
3.) hired a MBB coach who won KSU's first Big 12 Championship in 35 years
4.) hired a good WBB coach
5.) transformed BSFS into the gem that it is
6.) scheduled a decent non-con game vs a P5 football team
7.) guided us thru conference realignment, along with Schultz
8.) fund-raising increased immensely

The next AD has big shoes to fill. Hope you all are happy!...all of you who are still in love with a former coach who pimped himself out to Miami and then South Carolina, and then chose to leave KSU. Was it such a bad thing that Currie disagrees with Bill Snyder, and didn't want Snyder JR to be the next football coach?! We just lost a good AD."...

I actually hoped for Blackburn, who would then bring in Fulmer and they could work together.
 
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ru4real-really? said:
kudos to the powers that be!

they went out and hired the best man--not the man many of us uninformed fans wanted...

and K State offered extension and substantial raise after UT came calling.

We will be just fine with him.

He does know how to fire a coach if necessary.

Relax--this is good!
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So he can fire a coach, that's good. More importantly, can he hire great ones? He's not shown that yet and that's by far the most important part of his job as AD
 
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