Doug Matthews Roasting the AD hiring process

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KBVol said:
Interesting that she stated the 2 requirements that immediately eliminated both Fulmer and Blackburn....yet they both flew up to New York to interview with the Search firm late. Wonder why?

Also interesting that the one Search committee member who was left out of the process at the end, when the decision was made, was Charlie Anderson, the lone Fulmer advocate on the committee.
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Our new chancellor is a shrewd operator.
 
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Doug Mathews is a Vandy grad, and his opinion is therefore suspect. Forty years isn't quite long enough to get rid of the Vandy stink.
 
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KBVol said:
Interesting that she stated the 2 requirements that immediately eliminated both Fulmer and Blackburn....yet they both flew up to New York to interview with the Search firm late. Wonder why?

Also interesting that the one Search committee member who was left out of the process at the end, when the decision was made, was Charlie Anderson, the lone Fulmer advocate on the committee.
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This is a big WOW to me that Peyton didnt back Fulmer?
 
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KBVol said:
Very well said about the administration/boosters and the way they do things. It's disgraceful imo, specifically how they play our loyal fan base.

On a related note, ironic thing for me is, I find Butch to be a sympathetic figure at this point, and he all but lost me after this past season. I'm now pulling for him specifically to have great success this year so that Currie won't have to hire a new football coach anytime soon....his track record of hiring coaches es no bueno.
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This is where I am, also. I wanted Butch gone at the end of the past season, but now I am rooting for him to turn it around. I don't believe I want this bunch even hiring janitors.
 
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sounds like we are trying to keep up with the Jones....Jerry Jones that is.....but then again, as long as this type stuff has been going on, maybe Jerry Jones learned from JH..:bash:
 
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Pretty out of character for Doug to do like he did this morning but I totally understand why he's so po'd. He usually does his best to put a positive spin on whatever is going on on the Hill. Said Davenport wouldn't have been hired to her position if she would have had to meet the same qualifications as she mandated on the AD hire.
 
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How much input did Peyton have during the process or was it decided only by haslam and his money?
 
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Bms4880 said:
Doug Mathews is a Vandy grad, and his opinion is therefore suspect. Forty years isn't quite long enough to get rid of the Vandy stink.
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You are obviously unaware that Doug Mathews is a true VOL, having coached there for 10 years. He often speaks of his college education at NE Oklahoma Junior College & rarely mentions his two years at vandie. Doug is the go-to guy for information on Tennessee football. :whistling:
 
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Currie may end up being the best AD in America but when you have a dysfunctional and backstabbing administration and boosters, you're going to have a hard time hiring the best people. This isn't even a rumor anymore, it's widespread knowledge that UT athletics is a sideshow.

If Haslam truly was the one and only person that chose Currie, why the hell did we wait to fill that void so long? Just for appearances to have Davenport rubber stamp it? That's not only duplicitous, it's also just damn incompetent. There's no way we ever get a keep a coach worth a damn with leadership like that.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
Oh look, another thread about someone not liking the AD hire. Who gives a flying monkey's ass? It's over with! The fans and the media need to move on and let Currie do his job. Blackburn wasn't hired. He would have been great but Currie has a chance to be great too. No reason for constant whining over something that's already been done.
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How many people liked Dickey coming in?

How many liked promotion of Chavis to coordinator?
 
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I just listened to the podcast of DM this morning. It is my take he was saying the Currie was behind getting booster support for firing Phil by using they were getting Gruden as head coach so people would get on board. But we wind up with Kiffin. I am of the theory that Gruden's name is just floated around when the boosters want something done.
 
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Bms4880 said:
Doug Mathews is a Vandy grad, and his opinion is therefore suspect. Forty years isn't quite long enough to get rid of the Vandy stink.
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Taking up for Doug Mathews. Yes, he is a Vandy Grad, but has supported the University and Coaches for years. In essence, he is a Vandy Grad that is all Vol.

Coached here and you would never know that he did not graduate from UT.

As many times as I have been around him, I have never smelled any Vandy Stink. He was jilted by CJM and has good reason to do nothing but bash UT.

If he has gone off about this (I have not listened to Pod Cast) then, he has good reasons. Anybody with Vandy Stink would just laugh, comment, and just move on to another subject. Evidently, he did not.
 
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vol-un-tear said:
Doug does have a biased opinion. Him and Phil are big buds.
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Judging by the show they co-hosted for awhile, I assume they are friendly. That said, I've heard DM say critical things about the Fulmer era on his show so I don't think Fulmer is a sacred cow in DM's perspective. In recent months, DM has gone to a very pro-administration/status quo stance on his show. I think he'd bought into the idea widely espoused by some of our posters that criticism, however well founded, is currently counterproductive. I did not listen to today's show but will try to catch the podcast. If the summary of the show at the top of this thread is accurate, I'd say that DM did a 180. I don't see him doing that if he wasn't convinced that people got done dirty.
 
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coffeevol said:
Total meltdown on the administration. Basically....led fulmer and blackburn on, cut Anderson out of having a say because he supported Fulmer. Never had a say in things at the end....Big Jim made decision and had contract worked out before Davenport hit the ground in Manhattan. Says it was done dirty with the leading on of other candidates
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Sometimes I think Tennessee is the Washington DC of Sports Politics.
 
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KBVol said:
I have a handful of adjectives/labels in mind for her....neither shrewd nor operator made the cut.
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I agree. I hope I'm wrong, well, I at least hope it works to the advantage of the University.
 
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VolsRule said:
How much input did Peyton have during the process or was it decided only by haslam and his money?
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At the end of the day, Jim Haslam has the final say on all athletic hires at UT. Hopefully Peyton's weight will increase over time...
 
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This place is starting to sound like a gossip column. No one knows the truth and all these hurt feelings are so juvenile it's ridiculous. John Currie is a professional. Amateurs like us should leave our agenda driven opinions at home and tend to the things we know about like gardening, fishing, hunting etc....I've said before I have family members who were legendary coaches in the SEC and most would know immediately who they are but I've NEVER heard this type of stuff from any of them. NEVER...they are professionals and hurt feelings and the like just never enter the pic. I like Doug Matthews personally but his new career is dependant on opinions. Take them with a grain of salt...JMO of course...
 
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Sounds like the last three or four major hires at UT. They put all their eggs into one basket, get turned down by their 1st choice, then they have to scramble to get somebody ASAP in order to wipe the egg off their face.

This one didn't have to involve Fulmer or Blackburn though as long as it did. Another embarassment for UT.
 
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