flashback to 2003, when UT launched a "national search"

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for Dickey's successor...

Feb. 6, 2003

KNOXVILLE--The University of Tennessee has launched a national search for an athletic director to succeed Doug Dickey at the helm of one of the nation's most respected and successful programs.

UT President John W. Shumaker said the university has issued a request for proposals for a firm to help develop the search process, a timeline and search requirements. He said it is hoped that the firm can be chosen by Feb. 24 and an offer made to the new athletic director by the end of April.

UT Launches Search for Athletic Director University of Tennessee Athletics

Three months later, the hiring (promotion) of Senior Associate Athletics Director for External Operations Mike Hamilton was announced:

May 10, 2003

University president John Shumaker, in a Saturday press conference, announced the hiring of Mike Hamilton as Tennessee's seventh director of athletics. Hamilton will succeed Doug Dickey, who is retiring June 30.

"We did a thorough and exhaustive national search involving several candidates as identified by our consultant, Dr. Charles Knapp of Heidrick & Struggles," Shumaker said. "On the basis of all the information we gathered and the candidates to which we spoke, I am convinced Mike Hamilton is the right man at the right time to be the men's athletic director at the University of Tennessee."

http://www.utsports.com/genrel//051003aab.html

A few weeks later, Hamilton stated the "five core values" that would guide his tenure as AD:

* Complying with NCAA and SEC rules;
* Competing for championships;
* Running a financially sound operation;
* Graduating student-athletes; and
* Continuing a pattern of service to the community and state, with the athletics department as a positive role model.

Mike Hamilton - Athletics Director University of Tennessee Athletics
 
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Complying with NCAA and SEC rules --- Failed!!!
Competing for championships --- Failed!!!

I really can't dog him on the other three, but the problem is that the first two is all that I care about!
 
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Complying with NCAA and SEC rules --- Failed!!!
Competing for championships --- Failed!!!

I really can't dog him on the other three, but the problem is that the first two is all that I care about!

I don't know about that. In terms of the amount of cheating that goes on at every campus around the nation, we complied fairly well.
And at least one hire he made panned out fantastically (tennis). The basketball hire got us to the Elite 8. That's not really a failure, either.

I still don't understand why people consider the basketball hire a failure.
 
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No financially sound outfit pays a fired coach $6 million, or a fired coach who broke NCAA rules $1 million. At best, he accomplished two of the five.
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No financially sound outfit pays a fired coach $6 million, or a fired coach who broke NCAA rules $1 million. At best, he accomplished two of the five.
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If that's the buyout it does.
 
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Umm he was hired in 2003. About the time that the clouds begin to turn dark in Knoxville. Competing for championship. Isn't that what we were doing before 2003.
 
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* Complying with NCAA and SEC rules; (LMAO)
* Competing for championships;(Double LMAO)
* Running a financially sound operation;(not with over 10 Million in buyouts)
* Graduating student-athletes....(that don't get kicked off the team first)
* Continuing a pattern of service to the community and state, with the athletics department as a positive role model. (OMG Hammy turned the other cheek ever chance he got)
 
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The heat had been turned up on Hammy after firing the best coach we've had(imo). So he took a sexy name and let Lane bend the rules a lil to get us back to where we were. I blame MH for a lot of this but I see why he did what he did also. If we don't get caught and we land some great players and we win a title then he is set. I mean when your back is against the wall you do things you don't normally do. Just like Bruce, he paniced as well.

I don't agree with what happened, but i'd be lying if I said I didn't see the other side also.
 
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