Hyams On AD Hire Process

[chargervol]

Interesting point.

It doesn't have to be a Tennessee guy is true.

That also shouldn't disqualify a viable option either.

Yeah, just has seems odd.
I've already scanned down and LA Vol says not impressed or on board, whatever. Even though I've never been "Has to be Blackburn", the job he has been doing is very impressive. Unless she is just judging the size of the school, hard not to be impressed.

 

[Jax_Vol]

Witch Doctor say Hart should have fired every other woman in the AD dept and the guy coming in(no matter who) is going to have to deal with that bunch of traitors and our idiot fan base. Maybe someone who knows this WONT come...maybe Blackburn is too smart? lets hope not...

Bones Never Lie.

Hey Witchy...forget about all that.

Get over to Murfreesboro Oakland tomorrow and deliver the goods to Jacoby Stevens. 2x the James Stone package u delivered for us.

 

[Catbone]

By the end of 2017... thanks Hart, Cheek, Davenport, and Hamilton.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

Sometimes I just ask myself why?! Just why?... So let me get this straight the UT administration is planning to waste time, resources, hire committee, and pay committee when our best and most likely candidate is less than 3 hours away! Makes since!

Whether you call it due diligence or CYA probably depends on your point of view. A good bureaucrat knows how to assemble layers and insulate themselves from the consequences of decision making.

 

[Volunteer2012]

By the end of 2017... thanks Hart, Cheek, Davenport, and Hamilton.

I've never considered my a"negavol" , but hey are making this extremely hard to be positive

 

[Witch_Doctor]

Hey Witchy...forget about all that.

Get over to Murfreesboro Oakland tomorrow and deliver the goods to Jacoby Stevens. 2x the James Stone package u delivered for us.

Witch Doctor hear hes a lock..? Witch Doctor aint got no Vol Hostesses that look good anymore! L**y and the Loosies all got married! lol

Bones Never Lie

I had to take out her name lol

 

[chargervol]

And if LA Vol's information is correct, her "not wanting a Tennessee guy", that doesn't sound like a legitimate search for the best candidate. Sounds biased to be honest.

Don't want you to think I was misquoting you LA, I was referencing this post.

No, because her vision is at odds with what most Tennessee people want-- for the university, the state and the AD position. She wants UT to refocus its priorities, and she has always wanted a national search for AD. She doesn't want a Tennessee person in the job.

 

[pismonque]

By the end of 2017... thanks Hart, Cheek, Davenport, and Hamilton.

I like that you're listing Davenport in the Dumpster Fire Brigade even though she doesn't officially start for two more months. That's forward thinking! :good!:

 

[vol66]

The thing that bothers me about what Hyams is reporting, besides the fact that the hire may not be made until April or May is the part about one BOT member declining to be part of the search and the fact that no committee has been put together after weeks. On top of that, a list of candidates exists and the Vice Chair of the BOT says they will hire a search firm.

Four of the five candidates are known commodities to at least some of the people involved in the search, either Cincinnati folks or Tennessee folks. Why do you need a search firm if you already have a list? Where at least one member of the committee probably has the guys phone number?

How can the process already seem divided into factions before it's even started? If a room full of people can't come to a consensus then they need to keep interviewing until they are blown away by somebody.

Other than Byrne from Arizona, the average fan could have come up with this list...in other words, they should try harder.

If we suffer through this until May and get Byrne, great!

But any of the other candidates could be locked up at any point and without a search firm, a couple of phone calls, interviews...we should be talking end of February, early March.

It's ridiculous, congress is more efficient and less dysfunctional.

 

[Jax_Vol]

Witch Doctor hear hes a lock..? Witch Doctor aint got no Vol Hostesses that look good anymore! L**y and the Loosies all got married! lol

Bones Never Lie

I had to take out her name lol

Lacy got married?


That was some gold-lined *****

 

[jbr82]

Keep giving hard earned $ to that uncommitted to winning university imo

 

[Witch_Doctor]

Lacy got married?


That was some gold-lined *****

Witchie wonder how quick Kiffen will start all that back up down there? I bet hes auditioning already! Bless him, he is doomed to fail. My bet is probation within 3 years.
Bones Never Lie

 

[FiremedicVOL127]

Jimmy Hyams
‏@JimmyHyams
Tennessee might not hire AD until April or May, says vice chair of UT Board of Trustees.

Tennessee AD search might take longer than expected | WNML-AF

Did anyone else find it interesting that at the very end of that article the only candidate who's resume was broken down from the different stops was Bohn from Cincinnati???

I do not know what we fans ever done to deserve this **** storm of administration blunders but by Gawd its gettin very freaking old!!!! Every person in the administration needs to reach around and get there heads outta there a$$e$ and get it together!!! Or better yet somebody who knows more than me and has any influence at all needs to clean house completely!!!!!!!

This is embarrassing to say the least. These a$$ hats we have running this great university are killing our once greatly respected reputation......

Our big donors need to put their foot down before it gets any worse than it already is. Next thing ya know we will be pulling outta the SEC and going to a softer conference or dropping to D2 or FCS status. Smh I don't get it!!

 

[jakez4ut]

The thing that bothers me about what Hyams is reporting, besides the fact that the hire may not be made until April or May is the part about one BOT member declining to be part of the search and the fact that no committee has been put together after weeks. On top of that, a list of candidates exists and the Vice Chair of the BOT says they will hire a search firm.

Four of the five candidates are known commodities to at least some of the people involved in the search, either Cincinnati folks or Tennessee folks. Why do you need a search firm if you already have a list? Where at least one member of the committee probably has the guys phone number?

How can the process already seem divided into factions before it's even started? If a room full of people can't come to a consensus then they need to keep interviewing until they are blown away by somebody.

Other than Byrne from Arizona, the average fan could have come up with this list...in other words, they should try harder.

If we suffer through this until May and get Byrne, great!

But any of the other candidates could be locked up at any point and without a search firm, a couple of phone calls, interviews...we should be talking end of February, early March.

It's ridiculous, congress is more efficient and less dysfunctional.

this.

 

[UTVolinExile]

Here is my 2 cents on this. I'm an alum of the College of Law, and for a several years was on some dean and alumni committees that did some long term planning and advising. I think to some extent that there's an institutional shift going on in leadership at the University. I saw it on the law school end with a very strong internal commitment to "diversity" that resulted in the hire of a new law school dean who is quite left wing. I'm not commenting on the rightness or wrongness of the politics, but the shift in leadership really latched on to the Title IX suit as justification for further pushing the leadership in a more politically correct direction.

From what I saw behind the scenes at the law school, Davenport is the next step in this changing leadership. If not outright disdain, there is definitely not a friendly attitude in the new leadership towards the football program, and what is seen as the "old boys" network. I think some of this delay is Davenport asserting her authority, and some is a desire to undercut what is viewed as an unacceptable status quo in how things are run.

Again, JMO, TIFWIW, free opinions are worth what you pay for them, etc.

 

[vol66]

Did anyone else find it interesting that at the very end of that article the only candidate who's resume was broken down from the different stops was Bohn from Cincinnati???

I do not know what we fans ever done to deserve this **** storm of administration blunders but by Gawd its gettin very freaking old!!!! Every person in the administration needs to reach around and get there heads outta there a$$e$ and get it together!!! Or better yet somebody who knows more than me and has any influence at all needs to clean house completely!!!!!!!

This is embarrassing to say the least. These a$$ hats we have running this great university are killing our once greatly respected reputation......

Our big donors need to put their foot down before it gets any worse than it already is. Next thing ya know we will be pulling outta the SEC and going to a softer conference or dropping to D2 or FCS status. Smh I don't get it!!

Yeah, made it easier to look him up.

The problem with the Buffs is they talk bigger than they act.

Bohn was the worst offender.

He was a salesman who couldn’t leverage the 2010 invitation to the Pac-12 Conference in the way it matters most: money.

Like it or not, money is the No. 1 way of keeping score in major-college athletics.


The hefty exit fee from the Big 12 had Bohn crying poor to boosters. The embarrassing 23-60 combined record of football coaches Dan Hawkins and Jon Embree were on his watch.

A videotape of the excruciatingly awkward news conference in which Embree was dismissed should be shown to every introductory public-relations class as an example how a clueless leader can make his institution appear inept.

Bohn was left holding the bag when Butch Jones played CU for the fool on his way to becoming football coach at Tennessee.

Kiszla: Mike Bohn forced out at CU because of money, football record – The Denver Post

 

[Witch_Doctor]

Hey witch. How about rubbing a couple bones together and coming up with a voodoo curse on little nicky & the bammers (good name for a cover band btw) & end the insanity thats is bama football.

Witch Doctor could come up with something as strong as the hurt feelings curse I did on the BB forum ten speed bike gang I would!! as you can see I still have their mascara running LOL I think Saban must have some strong juju going. Witch Doctor thought slipping meth in their water bottles..? hmm? lol

Bones Never Lie,

 

[tennrich1]

They will screw it up just as they always have. We had our greatest success with a strong AD. So let's make sure we take our time and let the right guy get away.

I'm confused. Do you want to wait and get the right person even though they'll screw it up(according to you) or wait and get it right although we've declared them screw-ups???? just asking??

 

[vol66]

Here is my 2 cents on this. I'm an alum of the College of Law, and for a several years was on some dean and alumni committees that did some long term planning and advising. I think to some extent that there's an institutional shift going on in leadership at the University. I saw it on the law school end with a very strong internal commitment to "diversity" that resulted in the hire of a new law school dean who is quite left wing. I'm not commenting on the rightness or wrongness of the politics, but the shift in leadership really latched on to the Title IX suit as justification for further pushing the leadership in a more politically correct direction.

From what I saw behind the scenes at the law school, Davenport is the next step in this changing leadership. If not outright disdain, there is definitely not a friendly attitude in the new leadership towards the football program, and what is seen as the "old boys" network. I think some of this delay is Davenport asserting her authority, and some is a desire to undercut what is viewed as an unacceptable status quo in how things are run.

Again, JMO, TIFWIW, free opinions are worth what you pay for them, etc.

There maybe something to this but it's not exactly like Cincinnati isn't having it's fair share of Title IX issues...

University records reveal more than 400 Title IX complaints were filed in 2015. Only four individuals were found responsible and disciplined for committing "physical abuse or harm," which is the charge that sexual assault would fall under. The Title IX complaints include incidents that are "sexual in nature and non-sexual," according to university officials.

According to the documents, there were more than 260 of those cases in 2016 up to Sept. 20 and none of the accused were found responsible.

University of Cincinnati investigated for 'sexually hostile environment' | WKYC.com

 

[LA Vol]

Don't want you to think I was misquoting you LA, I was referencing this post.

No problem, man. There were several posts in an ongoing dialogue and while I was trying to bring timely info, my posts seem to have stirred the pot. Should have kept quiet and let Hyams or Hubbs dole out the info.

 

[vol73]

This administration reminds me of congress. They get paid to sit and do nothing.

 

[WVU05UT09]

Here is my 2 cents on this. I'm an alum of the College of Law, and for a several years was on some dean and alumni committees that did some long term planning and advising. I think to some extent that there's an institutional shift going on in leadership at the University. I saw it on the law school end with a very strong internal commitment to "diversity" that resulted in the hire of a new law school dean who is quite left wing. I'm not commenting on the rightness or wrongness of the politics, but the shift in leadership really latched on to the Title IX suit as justification for further pushing the leadership in a more politically correct direction.

From what I saw behind the scenes at the law school, Davenport is the next step in this changing leadership. If not outright disdain, there is definitely not a friendly attitude in the new leadership towards the football program, and what is seen as the "old boys" network. I think some of this delay is Davenport asserting her authority, and some is a desire to undercut what is viewed as an unacceptable status quo in how things are run.

Again, JMO, TIFWIW, free opinions are worth what you pay for them, etc.

Solid post worth reading. Not sure if we overlapped but I was Law '10. Like yourself I also had some limited access to strategic planning and I think you are spot on. Bottom line is UT is behaving like an ACC/Big Ten school in the SEC but without the accompany academic ranking bump. What once was easily a top 3 overall SEC athletic program is already in the bottom half and could easily be bottom 3 fairly quickly.

 

[Titan&Volfan4life]

Here is my 2 cents on this. I'm an alum of the College of Law, and for a several years was on some dean and alumni committees that did some long term planning and advising. I think to some extent that there's an institutional shift going on in leadership at the University. I saw it on the law school end with a very strong internal commitment to "diversity" that resulted in the hire of a new law school dean who is quite left wing. I'm not commenting on the rightness or wrongness of the politics, but the shift in leadership really latched on to the Title IX suit as justification for further pushing the leadership in a more politically correct direction.

From what I saw behind the scenes at the law school, Davenport is the next step in this changing leadership. If not outright disdain, there is definitely not a friendly attitude in the new leadership towards the football program, and what is seen as the "old boys" network. I think some of this delay is Davenport asserting her authority, and some is a desire to undercut what is viewed as an unacceptable status quo in how things are run.

Again, JMO, TIFWIW, free opinions are worth what you pay for them, etc.

I don't doubt anything you said or your analysis.

Anyone with a active brain cell knows the fact that Political Correctness and Liberalism has totally taken over Americas entire education systems.

In any and every area where total control hasn't been achieved as yet there's a huge push to get total control over those areas.

The South has always been more traditional Conservative and over the last 2 or 3 decades we've seen many Northern Liberals move South to push their agendas and gain more control over the South.

The good old boy systems of our Southern past are simply NOT allowed now.

I totally HATE to interject any politics into this AD discussion but it IS so clear and obvious what's happening at our University of Tennessee that something needs to be done to put a stop to this garbage NOW before all our sports Teams get totally destroyed.

I also see where serious cronyism may be taking place here and that should NOT be happening for our new AD hire.

We need and should demand in a very loud manner that our new AD be of top excellence for what's best for our sports systems!

Call us hillbillies, call us rednecks, call us whatever you like but we ARE Tennessee and we demand the best!

We also need to STOP wasting so much time and STOP wasting so much $$$$ with ineptness at something that shouldn't be that difficult!

VFL...GBO!!!

 

[tvolsfan]

Is the whole issue with Blackburn because he was here when the Title IX stuff allegedly took place? Other than that he is a no brainer.

I don't think there is an issue with Blackburn. It's just unclear what Tennessee wants to do. Maybe they just want to check all available candidates. Maybe not.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

Here is my 2 cents on this. I'm an alum of the College of Law, and for a several years was on some dean and alumni committees that did some long term planning and advising. I think to some extent that there's an institutional shift going on in leadership at the University. I saw it on the law school end with a very strong internal commitment to "diversity" that resulted in the hire of a new law school dean who is quite left wing. I'm not commenting on the rightness or wrongness of the politics, but the shift in leadership really latched on to the Title IX suit as justification for further pushing the leadership in a more politically correct direction.

From what I saw behind the scenes at the law school, Davenport is the next step in this changing leadership. If not outright disdain, there is definitely not a friendly attitude in the new leadership towards the football program, and what is seen as the "old boys" network. I think some of this delay is Davenport asserting her authority, and some is a desire to undercut what is viewed as an unacceptable status quo in how things are run.

Again, JMO, TIFWIW, free opinions are worth what you pay for them, etc.

Strange that 6 years into a republican administration the BOT would be in this posture. From what I've observed the past couple of years on Title IX issues, the BOT has been methodical but responsive to republican/conservative preferences when it comes to due process considerations in their administrative rules.