Recruiting Forum Football Talk XLIX

[i2amavol]

Because Fulmer will be a puppet as well and also he will hire Steele.

This is the first I have heard of this. If this is the case, then it looks like to me that we simply need to get rid of everyone that matters, and start over. This is so way beyond ridiculous.

And, to me, Steele is about as risky a hire as Schiano was. It is just ridiculous. His record as a Head Coach was absolutely atrocious. Let him be hired as a DC, and I'm OK with that, but Head Coach?! NO!

We possibly could have had Gundy, and we had Leach in our back pocket, and now what?!

 

[Big Sun]

If it's Fulmer to AD he will obviously have most of Vol Nation's support.

Dont **** this up Phil.

 

[VolsnCards5]

So, Phil is back to his old tricks. Worked out pretty well for UT football last time.

 

[TheTimeIsNow]

How do you do gifs? lol

 

[chavisut]

Currie was going to be fired or "stripped of power" yesterday by DiPietro and Davenport. They called him and told him to come back to Knoxville and he ignored them and instead moved forward with Leach.

My gut tells me DiPietro and Fulmer are trying to take power away from the Haslams and their hand picked AD Currie.

t.

Hire Blackburn from the start and we're in a much better position right now. Just another frustrating decision made that most supported just because.

 

[WriterVol]

I wouldn't believe anything reported right now.

If there are different factions, they're going to leak different stories to different outlets.

Only thing to do is wait and see who is left standing when the dust clears.

Total dysfunction.

 

[volatil]

Bring me Blackburn and Gruden, right guys?



Guys?

We don’t speak that name on here anymore


NB4 Blackburn?

 

[Dooby15]

I bet Currie sleeps for a week.

Please keep that avi.

 

[WarMachine]

SAIP

[twitter]https://twitter.com/JohnDBrice1/status/936616849940377601[/twitter]

 

[Air_Force_Vol27]

Fulmer is in the Haslams pocket as well.

If that were true he would be AD

 

[Lovesomebigorange]

Is Basilio saying whose side Fulmer is on?

 

[VolsnCards5]

Hold on. So Fulmer has been undermining Currie? Now that sounds bad.

However, if he undermined Currie in the hiring of Schiano and Doeren, heck, he needed to be undermined! But if he also did it with Gundy and Brohm only because he wants to be AD, well, that sucks and its wrong.

It is PF's MO

 

[butchna]

Swain's happy

[twitter]https://www.twitter.com/SwainEvent/status/936615251189096449[/twitter]

You and Ziti too, right? Always got the impression firing Currie was more important than the coaching search. Since you wanted him fired BEFORE there even was a coaching search. This isn’t shade btw. You wanted this so how does it end perfectly in your mind? So I can hope for it and heavenly silence.

 

[Ibracadabra]

Fulmer is the hero of this story.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Yep, if Fulmer doesn't get Leach or someone better, then it proves HE was the puppet of the Haslams and HE INDEED was trying to undermine the entire hiring process. So A guy that says he loves UT and coached here, is willing to sacrifice the program maybe long term to make a point or win a job? At the cost of the football program?

I just can't see that. He built this football program. Surely he wants us to win again.

 

[nicksjuzunk]

Skeeter’s fireworks were obviously for Bahama John

He knew last night Currie was on his way out

That was the fireworks

 

[#JuanVol]

Love this RF thread! My source for info.

 

[Big Sun]

the lust for power...

 

[volswillrise12]

It’s just BS—-you basically rolled around in gasoline—set yourself on fire and then jumped off a cliff. I think I’ll switch to basketball. Anyone that doesn’t see that Fulmer and the richy rich Haslams have ruined Vol football over old grudges and horse crap. We’ll trot out Kevin Steele or Dave Clawson or some has been. I’m not eating that crap sandwich. I’ll be done with football in Tennessee—-it pains me—but I’ll be done.

 

[UTJoe]

[twitter]936613795409154049[/twitter]

Fulmer really wants control and it doesn't matter if it kills the program in the proces. He just wants to be in charge of the Titanic it seems.

Johnny Majors approves this message.

 

[jave36]

Not if the Haslams are the ones who got him fired because he went after Leach. They're solidifying their power, not losing it.

Remember that Fulmer is close with the Haslams.

This is what scares me. Did they fire him because he stopped being a yes man? Or was he going rogue trying to hire Schiano. The former seems a lot more probable unfortunately

 

[JCP201]

Brett McMurphy reporting that Currie had Leach, and they didn't want it--he was fired.

So what is really going on? Twitter is celebrating right now. Kevin Steele with Fulmer, Ainge is all about it.

 

[Ron Swanson]

After exactly eight months on the job, John Currie is no longer the Vols' athletics director, sources told VolQuest.com.

Per a source, "John Currie no longer works at Tennessee."

The school's public relations personnel have gathered in the University Administrative offices where they are preparing a statement on Friday.

The news comes on the heels of circus coaching search, where Currie met with Washington State’s head coach Mike Leach about Tennessee’s opening on Thursday. However, no deal was struck, per VolQuest.com sources, and Currie came back to Knoxville to meet with Chancellor Davenport on Friday morning.

According to a WBIR tweet, the meeting lasted less than 15 minutes.

Former Hall of Fame head coach Phillip Fulmer has been involved in the coaching search since Sunday's fiasco and a source tells VolQuest.com that he's set to assume a greater role — if not take the lead — in Tennessee's search for a new head football coach.

This story will be updated shortly.

-VQ

 

[appyvol]

[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/936614721284911104[/TWITTER]

 

[volatil]

SAIP

[twitter]https://twitter.com/JohnDBrice1/status/936616849940377601[/twitter]

Hmmmmmmmmm


Bet Fulmer interviewed Sumlin yesterday.