Currie is out!!!

#227
#227
Fulmer won't help the situation any. Fulmer is a two bit politician. He'll just do the Haslem's bidding in hopes of keeping the job permanently. Besides given the crappy assistants Fulmer had a long track record of hiring, we really don't want him making this head coach hire.

Getting other major boosters together to outweigh the Haslems and hiring David Blackburn is the only way to fix the problem.
 
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ile3000gt said:
He did it to himself. He wanted total control of the hire. No search firm. No communication will come out until I announce. Had his mind set on Mullen, then Chip goes to UCLA, then Mullen picks UF over UT. Currie panics and gets sloppy and everyone knows he is in Columbus. We all know how the rest of the afternoon went
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Here's where I disagree. IMO, shamoo was Currie's, I mean Haalam's guy from the get go..
 
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87Vol said:
Fulmer won't help the situation any. Fulmer is a two bit politician. He'll just do the Haslem's bidding in hopes of keeping the job permanently. Besides given the crappy assistants Fulmer had a long track record of hiring, we really don't want him making this head coach hire.

Getting other major boosters together to outweigh the Haslems and hiring David Blackburn is the only way to fix the problem.
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Until there is a way to fill the $$ void that would be left when the Haslams stop donating, very little will change.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Give the OP a chance to let it play out. I wish Currie was fired before he was wheels down back in K-town last night. But I knew that was a pipe dream. There is a tremendous amount of information floating around that Currie is gone. It’s just going to take some time.

OP you did go All In though. Time will tell if you’re holding trip aces or a pair of deuces.
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More like 2 7 offsuit
 
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GBO25 said:
Until there is a way to fill the $$ void that would be left when the Haslams stop donating, very little will change.
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Well they need to be forced to decide if they want the Haslems' money or the FANS money.

Until we get some freakin' positive change, every single fan should stop spending a single penny on anything UT. That means tickets to any sporting event, any university donations, purchase of any merchandise, etc. It's time the fans send a message that we are tired of be crapped on by the Haslams and their stooges.
 
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87Vol said:
Fulmer won't help the situation any. Fulmer is a two bit politician. He'll just do the Haslem's bidding in hopes of keeping the job permanently. Besides given the crappy assistants Fulmer had a long track record of hiring, we really don't want him making this head coach hire.

Getting other major boosters together to outweigh the Haslems and hiring David Blackburn is the only way to fix the problem.
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Fulmer had staff stability. Didn't replace key coaches very often Willis
 
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Have you contacted the President or Lady Davenport?

Call and email President DiPietro.

Tel: 865-974-2241
Fax: 865-974-3753

@UTPresidentJoe on Twitter
President Joe DiPietro on Facebook

Executive Assistant to the President
David Golden
dgolden@tennessee.edu


Beverly Davenport @ChancellorDav twitter
chancellor@utk.edu email
865-974-3265 phone
 
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ShoNuff said:
i dont want schiano as much as anyone else but the fact is there's no proof the guy covered up for sandusky. just one word against the other. obviously it was a dumb idea to hire schiano but chicken currie isn't going to be ran out of town over wanting to hire him, key word here is "wanting". There was no contract signed and apparently wasnt only currie pushing it, davenport did as well. so fire currie, davenport, fulmer, and the entire board if you want change.
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Almost 24 hours later...and after a night's sleep...your suggestion sounds like a wonderful idea. Clean house...
 
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87vol said:
well they need to be forced to decide if they want the haslems' money or the fans money.

Until we get some freakin' positive change, every single fan should stop spending a single penny on anything ut. That means tickets to any sporting event, any university donations, purchase of any merchandise, etc. It's time the fans send a message that we are tired of be crapped on by the haslams and their stooges.
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yes!
 
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87Vol said:
Fulmer won't help the situation any. Fulmer is a two bit politician. He'll just do the Haslem's bidding in hopes of keeping the job permanently. Besides given the crappy assistants Fulmer had a long track record of hiring, we really don't want him making this head coach hire.

Getting other major boosters together to outweigh the Haslems and hiring David Blackburn is the only way to fix the problem.
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Wait Phil Fulmer had a long track record of hiring crappy assistants? Please name some of them.. CPF made one hire that didn't work out well for him at the very end... up till that point he had a long track record of winning a lot of games. In 17 years (16 full seasons) he won 152 games and lost 52 (148-52 in full seasons) and went to 15 bowls.

He was fired because he didn't do what the boosters wanted. He was fired for the exact thing that fans are all clamoring for now. Please stop talking out of both sides of your mouth.
 
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87Vol said:
Fulmer won't help the situation any. Fulmer is a two bit politician. He'll just do the Haslem's bidding in hopes of keeping the job permanently. Besides given the crappy assistants Fulmer had a long track record of hiring, we really don't want him making this head coach hire.

Getting other major boosters together to outweigh the Haslems and hiring David Blackburn is the only way to fix the problem.
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We need a coalition
 
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pimo1 said:
Wait Phil Fulmer had a long track record of hiring crappy assistants? Please name some of them.. CPF made one hire that didn't work out well for him at the very end... up till that point he had a long track record of winning a lot of games. In 17 years (16 full seasons) he won 152 games and lost 52 (148-52 in full seasons) and went to 15 bowls.

He was fired because he didn't do what the boosters wanted. He was fired for the exact thing that fans are all clamoring for now. Please stop talking out of both sides of your mouth.
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You want a list of bad Fulmer assistants, well here is just a starter list:

1) Pat Washington
2) Larry Slade
3) Kurt Roper
4) Kevin Ramsey
5) Steve Caldwell
6) Jimmy Ray Stevens
7) Matt Luke
8) Stan Drayton
9) Jason Michael
10) Randy Sanders (as offensive coordinator)
11) Greg Atkins
etc, etc. etc.

By the way, if Fulmer was so good at hiring assistants where are the great ones in the Fulmer coaching tree? Answer: There aren't any !!!
By the way, you site Fulmer's overall record, but do you know what his winning percentage was without Cutcliffe on his staff? Answer: Only 59%
The bottom line is Philly Bag 'O Doughnuts rode the coattails of Johnny Majors and David Cutcliff to the HOF.
 
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#242
A great number of UT fans are too immature to be composting anything. All of you were given sound reasons as to why Gruden was not coming to UT. It was explained over and over that his salary From ESPN was greater than UT was able to pay. Made no difference to most of you. You were like drunken sailors . You were going to have it your way. So now that we have ruined the recruiting class foe 2018.Where do you think we will find a Head coach? UT needed def. tackles and off. linemen. I do not see success for that to happens. Infact our only source is to go JR. College, and we have not had a lot of success with that. So what does the future look like . Another 5-6 years of of absolute poor football success. However you can sit back and say" I told you so". In mean time the program deteriorates to the point that UT cannot compete in the SEC. Your happiness is complete!!!!!!
 
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#243
Guys, I’m as dejected and depressed as one could be in this situation. But the one silver lining is that we are strong when we unite. Knowing that, it gives me hope that we can still make a solid hire and can remove those that don’t have our best interests in heart.

Judging by several boosters reactions, it is clear that there is an attempt to make this happen. It’s our jobs to keep our voices loud enough to be heard, and not dismissed. Keep the pressure up on social media, it obviously is a great weapon for us to use. Don’t let the media make the narrative about us being spoiled, or entitled as they are trying to do, not without a fight.

It’s time for us to help make this change, along with everyone in AD who didn’t want this to happen, and all our alumni and boosters who are fighting so hard for us as well.

Go Vols!!!
 
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franchuck said:
A great number of UT fans are too immature to be composting anything. All of you were given sound reasons as to why Gruden was not coming to UT. It was explained over and over that his salary From ESPN was greater than UT was able to pay. Made no difference to most of you. You were like drunken sailors . You were going to have it your way. So now that we have ruined the recruiting class foe 2018.Where do you think we will find a Head coach? UT needed def. tackles and off. linemen. I do not see success for that to happens. Infact our only source is to go JR. College, and we have not had a lot of success with that. So what does the future look like . Another 5-6 years of of absolute poor football success. However you can sit back and say" I told you so". In mean time the program deteriorates to the point that UT cannot compete in the SEC. Your happiness is complete!!!!!!
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The only thing "composting" is the garbage you have posted above.

Sorry, is that immature?
 
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87Vol said:
You want a list of bad Fulmer assistants, well here is just a starter list:

1) Pat Washington
2) Larry Slade
3) Kurt Roper
4) Kevin Ramsey
5) Steve Caldwell
6) Jimmy Ray Stevens
7) Matt Luke
8) Stan Drayton
9) Jason Michael
10) Randy Sanders (as offensive coordinator)
11) Greg Atkins
etc, etc. etc.

By the way, if Fulmer was so good at hiring assistants where are the great ones in the Fulmer coaching tree? Answer: There aren't any !!!
By the way, you site Fulmer's overall record, but do you know what his winning percentage was without Cutcliffe on his staff? Answer: Only 59%
The bottom line is Philly Bag 'O Doughnuts rode the coattails of Johnny Majors and David Cutcliff to the HOF.
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You really should read up on some of these guys that are "terrible" because it makes you look really foolish:
-Kurt Roper was the OC at Duke under Cutcliff; is the current OC at South Carolina
-Matt Luke is the current head coach at Ole Miss
-Randy Sanders was/is the current OC at FSU
-Greg Adkins was the oline coach at Oklahoma State
-Steve Caldwell has done pretty well at BSU
-Stan Drayton is the rb coach at Texas
-Jason Michael is the qb coach for the Tennessee Titans
 
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87Vol said:
You want a list of bad Fulmer assistants, well here is just a starter list:

1) Pat Washington
2) Larry Slade
3) Kurt Roper
4) Kevin Ramsey
5) Steve Caldwell
6) Jimmy Ray Stevens
7) Matt Luke
8) Stan Drayton
9) Jason Michael
10) Randy Sanders (as offensive coordinator)
11) Greg Atkins
etc, etc. etc.

By the way, if Fulmer was so good at hiring assistants where are the great ones in the Fulmer coaching tree? Answer: There aren't any !!!
By the way, you site Fulmer's overall record, but do you know what his winning percentage was without Cutcliffe on his staff? Answer: Only 59%
The bottom line is Philly Bag 'O Doughnuts rode the coattails of Johnny Majors and David Cutcliff to the HOF.
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Other than you don't know what you are talking about, you are completely clueless about the Fulmer years.
 
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OrangeFrog said:
I can't believe we are in this position. I finally had some hope when Butch was fired. "Enjoyed" 2 weeks of optimism waiting for a big new hire. Could it possibly be Gruden? Would I be ok with Mullen? Laughing over the "Bring home Kiffin" remarks. After getting tanked last night at home to Vandy we started hearing of a possible announcement today. Sure enough...things started leaking. How did we get to where Schiano was on the verge of being announced? Quite possibly the only man that could have brought this fanbase to do what it did. Would we have revolted over Mullen? Kiffin? Leach? Petrino? I often wondered how VN would react if it wasn't Gruden. It wouldn't have been what happened today. Currie had to go out and sign a MOU with literally the only person that could have initiated this response. Reading the tweets of outside media...will anyone come and take this job now? Who is going to have that responsibility to go out and find a coach? Currie should be gone. I hope there are legs to this story. I am not ready to give up on the Vols.
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Pretty decent post. A regular on VN with good "sources" and a booster himself states that almost all boosters were taken by surprise by Currie signing MOU with Schiano. A lot of posters stating Currie went rogue which I don't believe. I don't believe VN will ever know the truth. What I do know is there is an inner fight amongst the top boosters and Haslam is gonna get the short end of the stick. As maddening as it's starting to appear can we rationally percieve that Haslam was behind Currie attempting to hire Schiano in a super secret manner? If that turns out to be the case was it a matter of Haslam behaving like a spoiled child that couldn't get his way? All this is very pervasive and I expect Haslam will throw both Davenport and Currie under the bus when all along it's been him and a dash of Sexton reaping benefits for creating chaos. Who really knows what's going on in the shadows and would even talk about it? The media would put their spin on it and only distort truth further. Fire Currie and regroup ASAP and at the least let Hoke keep the reins which is bad,I'll admit, but maybe better than a sudden hire hire. Also many think J.Jennings didn't deserve being booted off the team. This deserves to be reviewed but some consequences should be applied.
 
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Quotes today in the Kansas City Star on Currie
After watching the carnage in Knoxville yesterday, we should all be thanking whatever deity we worship that John Currie left before being able to oversee the hiring of Bill Snyder’s eventual replacement,” Morse wrote.

“Of course, we’ve already had reports that he tried to bungle it anyway, even with Snyder still under the university’s employ. But yesterday’s clownshow at Tennessee serves as a glaring reminder that K-State’s former athletic director simply has no idea what he’s doing.”
 
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