Currie texted Wolken "Our people are wacko" and Why Not?

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UT Hill Man said:
"Neither chancellor Jimmy Cheek nor his wife ever made a UT donor cry, as far as I know. There are no Persian rugs or gas grills to remember him by. And he lasted more years than Gilley, Shumaker and Petersen combined."

Who can forget Cheeks "Booger Gate" scandal?
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Getoutaheah! 'Es a made man ya see! Jimmy "Tha BoogerEater" Cheek.
 
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Currie (and Haslam, and much of the administration) underestimated the degree to which the fans would be ticked off at a Schiano hire. Totally tone deaf. That's why he said we were "wacko."

When the Twitter mob assembled after the hire, I'm sure Currie's overriding thought was "Geez people, why do you care about this so much?" Which is really funny, because crazy people caring a lot about football is (or was) his livelihood.
 
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114VOL said:
With all due respect, Greg Schiano has FAR MORE credibility as a coach outside of this state than Jeremy Pruitt.
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But I thought "WEEEERRREEEE FROM TEEENNNNEEEESSEEEE" and that we don't give a damn about all the other states.... Was the song a lie, do we really care what Wyoming, New Mexico, and North Dakota think?
 
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05_never_again said:
Currie (and Haslam, and much of the administration) underestimated the degree to which the fans would be ticked off at a Schiano hire. Totally tone deaf. That's why he said we were "wacko."

When the Twitter mob assembled after the hire, I'm sure Currie's overriding thought was "Geez people, why do you care about this so much?" Which is really funny, because crazy people caring a lot about football is (or was) his livelihood.
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Add that Currie, as Hubbs recently wrote, has “Smartest Guy in the Room Syndrome”, and that further explains his “whacko” comment. Easy to see that he looked down on Vols fans as peasants who were not to be respected but only tolerated. What an awful initial hire.
 
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114VOL said:
With all due respect, Greg Schiano has FAR MORE credibility as a coach outside of this state than Jeremy Pruitt. Our behavior just added to our status as a laughing stock. Now, all that being said, I like the Pruitt hire ok for right now. Going to reserve judgement though until he actually coaches for a few games
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No he doesn't.
 
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Not that I personally think Schiano could've been the answer as coach but are people up in arms because an accusation was made against Schiano that he knew.(sorry had to end the sentence there) Sandusky was doing gross calf raises with the boys in the shower. If I remember it was casually said once like "even coach X and coach Schiano knew". Should that ruin peoples careers when so many important people looked at it and thought it was a "nothing burger" or are these continued liberal talking points of political corrective and trying to end people careers? I know UT had just gotten past the Title IX lawsuit so it that the driving force behind the criticism? Just asking.
 
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05_never_again said:
Currie (and Haslam, and much of the administration) underestimated the degree to which the fans would be ticked off at a Schiano hire. Totally tone deaf. That's why he said we were "wacko."

When the Twitter mob assembled after the hire, I'm sure Currie's overriding thought was "Geez people, why do you care about this so much?" Which is really funny, because crazy people caring a lot about football is (or was) his livelihood.
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He was getting kick back by some people he didn't expect before the internet melted over it. That was the icing.
 
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BreatheUT said:
Not that I personally think Schiano could've been the answer as coach but are people up in arms because an accusation was made against Schiano that he knew.(sorry had to end the sentence there) Sandusky was doing gross calf raises with the boys in the shower. If I remember it was casually said once like "even coach X and coach Schiano knew". Should that ruin peoples careers when so many important people looked at it and thought it was a "nothing burger" or are these continued liberal talking points of political corrective and trying to end people careers? I know UT had just gotten past the Title IX lawsuit so it that the driving force behind the criticism? Just asking.
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My biggest problem is that either he knew or he was oblivious. Knowing and doing nothing is worse than not watching out for the kids. Sure a creep will be sneaky, but when it's your job to mentor these young boys and guide them into becoming men, is a dereliction of duty for that mess to be going on.
 
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BreatheUT said:
Not that I personally think Schiano could've been the answer as coach but are people up in arms because an accusation was made against Schiano that he knew.(sorry had to end the sentence there) Sandusky was doing gross calf raises with the boys in the shower. If I remember it was casually said once like "even coach X and coach Schiano knew". Should that ruin peoples careers when so many important people looked at it and thought it was a "nothing burger" or are these continued liberal talking points of political corrective and trying to end people careers? I know UT had just gotten past the Title IX lawsuit so it that the driving force behind the criticism? Just asking.
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He's a DC at a top program, albeit under Meyer who hasn't seemed to worried about the line so much in the past. So I wouldn't say he was ruined from it.

The PSU cloud was not brought back up as far as his employment as a Head Coach until UT. Its interesting that from 2014 to the present he hasn't been snatched up to lead a program and evidently UT is the only major school to really try.

He has more issues than just PSU.
 
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BeecherVol said:
He's a DC at a top program, albeit under Meyer who hasn't seemed to worried about the line so much in the past. So I wouldn't say he was ruined from it.

The PSU cloud was not brought back up as far as his employment as a Head Coach until UT. Its interesting that from 2014 to the present he hasn't been snatched up to lead a program and evidently UT is the only major school to really try.

He has more issues than just PSU.
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Yeah he does, have you ever read about what happened during his time at Tampa Bay? Insane.

My fun question for the day is this: Since Currie only had Schiano in mind, was Gruden (singing rocky top on the radio etc...) trying to push for the UT job?

:)
 
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Evidently not. Now that the emails/texts are public, you can see that several coaches and agents contacted John Currie directly saying they wanted the job. Gruden could have done that, and as we all know now, he was looking to get into coaching. He could have called Currie and evidently didn't.
 
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