Is Tennessee's Athletics Department the worst in the SEC?

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Athletics is apparently not important to the Board of Trustees nor the Administration. If it were, UT wouldn't have promoted a bean counter like Mike Hamilton to AD and then let him stay in office long enough to destroy the football program, the basketball program, the baseball program, and the track program.

They wouldn't keep hiring egg heads from other parts of the country to be chancellor of the university and then let them make decisions that determine the direction of the athletic department. Especially, when the egg heads in question either don't care about athletics or would like to see them devalued.

They wouldn't let a chancellor ignore two great choices for AD to hire a guy who was on the staff of the biggest loser AD in SEC history and who was not liked or respected at the job he currently held. Just so, the new chancellor could show she was in charge and didn't have to listen to the supporters of the UTAD.
 
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VFLCodyGBO said:
Not with this attitude......Mind blowing how ignorant some fans are "As long as we win footbawl who cares bout them academias"....
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My sheepskins came from elsewhere. UTK could be the lowest rated state university in the US and it would not bother me so long as they win football championships. :hi:
 
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CAVPUT said:
I started attending in '65. My family then myself have had season tickets since then and the pie in the sky program. The last 3 years of my run was in the Terrace. I routinely made all UT home games and at least one or two road games per year in football. Managed to make at least half a dozen hoops game per season. I finally stopped contributing and gave up my tickets 2 years ago. At some point, one questions the value of what one receives for the investment of time, money and emotion with UT sports. These are lean/tougher times and there's competition for entertainment dollars. When it got to the point that I simply didn't look forward to making the trips, I decided it was time for a change. UT's admin simply failed to recognize "competition" existed for the money and support. Not sure they truly care about fans and the product they've given us. I still follow UT sports, but just not with the same intensity and passion I once did. I simply concluded that the admin appears not to care that much so why should I? Hey, that's not an insignificant sum of money and other resources to spend. I have other things that money will go toward. Playing a lot more golf and traveling to do so. Enjoy it so much that I doubt UT ever gets my financial support again. When they send their solicitations to me and my 85 year old mother for money, I tear it up and circular file it. UT is now an afterthought and UT could not care less. That's the problem.
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When I renewed my tickets this year I did notice that the Volunteer Fund participants had dropped by about 2000 contributors from 2016 to 2017.

I understand your position and priorities. I'm not there yet. I agree with LWS on the situation relative to the "powers that be" and the state of our athletics.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I'll just come out and say I'd rather win with thugs than lose with chiorboys. The thing that made the Fulmer Cup a badge of shame is that we had thugs who were not winning championships. Not looking for a team full of rapists an murderers but I can overlook some bb gun shenanigans, a few bar brawls, and some pot slinging for a few more wins. It's not like UTK will ever be an elite academic school with a squeaky clean reputation.
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BB gun combined with pot is a felony. No thanks. So you are now looking for a thug rating to go with the star rating? A thug is a thug. Period.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I'll just come out and say I'd rather win with thugs than lose with chiorboys. The thing that made the Fulmer Cup a badge of shame is that we had thugs who were not winning championships. Not looking for a team full of rapists an murderers but I can overlook some bb gun shenanigans, a few bar brawls, and some pot slinging for a few more wins. It's not like UTK will ever be an elite academic school with a squeaky clean reputation.
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At the end of the day all programs have issues. They are dealing with 18-22 year olds and in big time athletics dealing with a lot of kids from different backgrounds.
Some stay cleaner than others, but I take more issue with covering up bad decisions or turning your head when it happens, because it happens to all of them more so than can you prevent everything from happening.
 
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After fall and winter sports, we are 50th in the Directors' Cup rankings, 11th in the SEC.

Kentucky is tops among SEC schools in eighth place nationally. South Carolina follows at 14th, Florida 17th and Texas A&M 18th. Missouri is 20th, Georgia 24th, Arkansas 27th and Alabama 29th. Auburn is 40th, LSU 41st, then comes Tennessee, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt.
 
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Orange&White said:
After fall and winter sports, we are 50th in the Directors' Cup rankings, 11th in the SEC.

Kentucky is tops among SEC schools in eighth place nationally. South Carolina follows at 14th, Florida 17th and Texas A&M 18th. Missouri is 20th, Georgia 24th, Arkansas 27th and Alabama 29th. Auburn is 40th, LSU 41st, then comes Tennessee, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt.
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Well, the positive spin is that we beat out the school without an athletic department and the 2 schools in the poorest, least educated state in our nation.
 
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General Jack said:
Well, the positive spin is that we beat out the school without an athletic department and the 2 schools in the poorest, least educated state in our nation.
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"better than Dooley." sensing a theme.....

where being better than the worst, is good enough.:whistling::thumbsup:
 
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jakez4ut said:
"better than Dooley." sensing a theme.....

where being better than the worst, is good enough.:whistling::thumbsup:
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What was once a source of pride has become a continuously flowing well spring of cynicism.

Growing up I remember feeling pity for schools that I had never seen have success and wondering how their fans held on. Now I'm living it. And the sad part is we probably have more resources than any of those schools. Sooner or later the worm has to turn, right?
 
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General Jack said:
What was once a source of pride has become a continuously flowing well spring of cynicism.

Growing up I remember feeling pity for schools that I had never seen have success and wondering how their fans held on. Now I'm living it. And the sad part is we probably have more resources than any of those schools. Sooner or later the worm has to turn, right?
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it's cyclical. :eek:lol:
 
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