Let's question some things we have collectively taken as fact (or at least "likely") for the past few weeks...
There is a very real possibility that:
...Currie asked Gruden. Gruden flat-out said no.
...Currie asked Patterson, and Peterson. Both no.
...Currie asked a host of high-value targets, all of whom declined.
...Currie honestly thought Schiano was the best choice available (of course he wasn't, but we'll come back to that).
...Haslam hasn't said a word to Currie. Hasn't wielded any influence whatsoever.
...There is no booster power struggle. Or at least, none worth mentioning (we'll circle back to this, too).
...Ergen and other mega-boosters are not at all engaged. No one with a net worth above $10M, say.
Not saying all that is true. Not saying any of it is true. Only that it is all possible. That's how little we know about what's really going on.
We're standing on top of a 12-story house of playing cards, built slowly and methodically over several weeks by ourselves with help from a few friendly-seeming trolls.
Here's what little we do know:
--Currie really screwed up the Schiano thing. He is truly incompetent, arrogant, and a terrible communicator (see the OP of this thread for further explanation of those three charges:
The Three Ways John Currie Failed in His Duties). He should be fired, even if he tried to contact all the white whales in the ocean.
--Atlanta Vol truly is connected to the university as a booster. That doesn't mean he's in the tier of boosters who would even remotely be able to challenge Haslam (or even get Haslam's attention), but he believed that he could. Whatever battle it was that he waged, it may have been significant or may have been a squib firing in the night. We simply don't know anything beyond that AV is a nice guy, and is a person with significant influence at the free-tickets level.
--Beav and Bubba may very well be AV employees, paid to play a role, to build support for something AV wanted to try. Even if it had zero chance at success. We don't know who they are. Only that they played a rabble-rousing role, and are unlikely ever to explain fully.
--All the other insiders are not truly insiders, they're people who know insiders, or people who know people who know insiders, and so their information is just as shaky as listening to Hyams or Basilio or Ainge. Not that they'er bad people, I like a lot of them...they just don't have very solid sources of info.
Anyway, sorry to be all negative, but it really is prudent to question everything we thought we knew.
Only one thing for certain: Currie needs to go. He's not up to the job.
" that has enough clout should stand up and let the media know it! Most Vol fans don't even think Gruden was offered due to all the puppet media folk. If most Vol fans knew this was a fact they would be much more invikeved in forcing change. IMO
