Has Hyams lost any credibility he had left?

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golfballs said:
He also said it wasn’t about the money
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I really don't think it was. I think it was about feeling a higher commitment from Fulmer and the administration. A commitment for the entire program which certainly included $ but $ for solely Barnes was only a small part imo
 
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ShoalCreekVol said:
On Hyams, it really is all about sources. Jimmy lost his a while ago, and hasn't been able to establish new ones who actually know anything. In fact, it kinda looks like someone enjoys messing with him.

Honestly I'm not sure how he stays in his role. His personality is fairly unlikeable, and he gets cocky a lot for someone who's wrong so much. He could do that back when he sources, but now it's just difficult to take.
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Fairly unlikeable is an understatement
 
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golfballs said:
He also said it wasn’t about the money
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What's the old saying, "When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money."

Leverage descended on Coach Barnes like a gift from UCLA. He did what he needed to do to represent himself and his program. Good for him and good for UT.
 
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As for Jimmy, he's not bad. He's not super. He's just a guy trying to make a little money after the crash of the historic journalism model.

As for me, I fondly remember the days of reading articles by Steve Ahillen, Mike Strange, Dan Fleser and Ben Byrd, among others.
 
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Roustabout said:
Jimmy lost his sources.
Sources are the key.
Basillio has the inside guy right now
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While I think Basilio is mostly a clown, he actually does work for his info, even if it is bad info on occasion. Hyams just seemingly waits around for the info to come to him which is why he is so often wrong or late with the info he throws out. In short, Jimmy is complacent in the WNML ivory tower and Tony beats the bushes.
 
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Not JH agent or defender etc but that might actually all have been true until the last minute. It happens like that in this area of sports all the time. I have no inside info but it appears to me this went down to the last hour before an agreement was met. I have been in contractual meetings 5 minutes before hand shakes and back slaps sealed the deal if someone had ask me how it was going I would have said "no way we make a deal"...."we're just too far apart"...thankfully no one was wanting inside scoops from me on those meetings. JH might want to re-assess his sources though.
 
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orchidvol said:
Hyams also said last night that Barnes had a meeting with the team and that’s not what you do if you’re staying.

When he said that and all the other gloom and doom stuff I knew there was a great chance Barnes was staying. 😁
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Barnes seems like the kind of guy that would meet with the team either way. My guess is he called them all together for something like this. “I wanted to let you all know I interviewed with UCLA. Like I always tell you to explore every opportunity to better yourself this was an opportunity I needed to explore. After that meeting I met with CPF and decided to stay at UT. I wanted you all to hear it from me before CPF makes the announcement to the press.”
 
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He pulls comments/predictions out of his arse....He gets clicks........VN bashes him........Rinse and Repeat..........That is the pattern.

He still has a job because he is relevantly irrelevant but VN still listens to him......
 
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jbuchanan said:
He was blatantly wrong twice yesterday:

1) He said there would be a Barnes announcement within an hour. The news didn't come until almost 10 hours later.

2) He said multiple times on WNML last night that things were not looking good and Barnes was probably leaving.

He will never live down the Brohm situation, but it seems like he's just consistently throwing out guesses and being overly confident.

Who can we trust locally for news on UT sports? If it wasn't for this site, many of us wouldn't know half as much as we do.
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People get/give info......and then things sometimes change. Geez.
 
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jbuchanan said:
He was blatantly wrong twice yesterday:

1) He said there would be a Barnes announcement within an hour. The news didn't come until almost 10 hours later.

2) He said multiple times on WNML last night that things were not looking good and Barnes was probably leaving.

He will never live down the Brohm situation, but it seems like he's just consistently throwing out guesses and being overly confident.

Who can we trust locally for news on UT sports? If it wasn't for this site, many of us wouldn't know half as much as we do.
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.5 of very little is still very little.
 
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Basilio didn't have a clue what was happening and now he is spewing that somehow this incident has diminished Barnes in the eyes of the fan base. Basilio is a hater pure and simple
 
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jbuchanan said:
Can't forget this.
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Whoever runs that page is a complete a**hat. First, they mock Tennessee fans, then when wrong, they double down and mock us some more. I guess I shouldn't expect anything else from a fan of an elitist school like that.

I hope you guys enjoy Barnes as your head co.... oh... wait. Lol.
 
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Knuckleheaded said:
Basilio didn't have a clue what was happening and now he is spewing that somehow this incident has diminished Barnes in the eyes of the fan base. Basilio is a hater pure and simple
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Basilio is free to say whatever he wants because he never had any credibility to ruin. He has never been right about anything important.
 
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golfballs said:
If there’s one thing we should have learned by know is that anyone who relies on “sources” should be taken with a grain of salt. They’re all wrong on a much too frequent basis to be reliable.
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I mean, unless they're from Bucksnort.
 
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