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VFL-82-JP said:
Yeah, that would not surprise me at all. Since, you know, the Governor's office is how they got onto the BoT in the first place.

From the BoT's web site: "The 26-member board is comprised of both five ex officio and 21 appointed members. Appointed seats include one voting and one nonvoting faculty, one voting and one nonvoting student, and 17 congressional district and county representatives."

So that's 24 voting members of the board (one of the two students and one of the two faculty members don't get a vote).

Four of the 24 voting members got onto the Board by virtue of their main jobs. That's four who need not have any uncommon loyalty to the Chairman/Governor.

The other 20 are the trick. Half of them, give or take, would have to be convinced to vote out the guy who got them onto the Board. Tough order, that.

But Atlanta Vol never said, "hey, this is gonna be easy."

I wonder if this is the approach they're taking to wrest power away from the Haslams?
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I would surmise the best way to leverage the BOT is not to turn Bill Haslam's appointees away from him, but to leverage the governor himself.

He has future political aspirations. Convince him that those ambitions would be best served if he was NOT connected to his brother's actions re: our coach search.

For example, Bill already said this week that Jimmy didn't have a hand in the Schiano mess. But today, Jimmy himself is reportedly contradicting the Governor by telling legislators that "we" pick the coach.

Split Bill away from Jimmy, and the BOT becomes less of an obstacle.
 
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G8rh8r said:
I think he’s doing a pretty decent job blowing a hole in his boat all by himself. Didn’t Bill say Jimmy had nothing to do with Schiano earlier this week?
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So the chairman of the BOT could have knowingly lied about his brother's involvement with the Schiano deal? That's certainly not a good look.
 
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UTVolinExile said:
I would surmise the best way to leverage the BOT is not to turn Bill Haslam's appointees away from him, but to leverage the governor himself.

He has future political aspirations. Convince him that those ambitions would be best served if he was NOT connected to his brother's actions re: our coach search.

For example, Bill already said this week that Jimmy didn't have a hand in the Schiano mess. But today, Jimmy himself is reportedly contradicting the Governor by telling legislators that "we" pick the coach.

Split Bill away from Jimmy, and the BOT becomes less of an obstacle.
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In fact, gives him an opportunity to step in, as chairman of the board, to publicly demonstrate that he isn't a party to this interference by forcing the removal of currie.
 
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UTVolinExile said:
I would surmise the best way to leverage the BOT is not to turn Bill Haslam's appointees away from him, but to leverage the governor himself.

He has future political aspirations. Convince him that those ambitions would be best served if he was NOT connected to his brother's actions re: our coach search.

For example, Bill already said this week that Jimmy didn't have a hand in the Schiano mess. But today, Jimmy himself is reportedly contradicting the Governor by telling legislators that "we" pick the coach.

Split Bill away from Jimmy, and the BOT becomes less of an obstacle.
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Yep, once again keep giving these guys the rope, they will hang themselves. Amazing that their father might have failed them in teaching them how to run anything, did they not take, or did dad not teach?
 
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UTVolinExile said:
I would surmise the best way to leverage the BOT is not to turn Bill Haslam's appointees away from him, but to leverage the governor himself.

He has future political aspirations. Convince him that those ambitions would be best served if he was NOT connected to his brother's actions re: our coach search.

For example, Bill already said this week that Jimmy didn't have a hand in the Schiano mess. But today, Jimmy himself is reportedly contradicting the Governor by telling legislators that "we" pick the coach.

Split Bill away from Jimmy, and the BOT becomes less of an obstacle.
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Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath on that approach.

Even on my worst day with my little brother, and we've had some knock-down drag-out ones, anyone tries to come between me and him and they learn their mistake quick.

So if that's the approach, it's probably a really bad one. And also, at best, a very short-term solution.
 
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UTVolinExile said:
I would surmise the best way to leverage the BOT is not to turn Bill Haslam's appointees away from him, but to leverage the governor himself.

He has future political aspirations. Convince him that those ambitions would be best served if he was NOT connected to his brother's actions re: our coach search.

For example, Bill already said this week that Jimmy didn't have a hand in the Schiano mess. But today, Jimmy himself is reportedly contradicting the Governor by telling legislators that "we" pick the coach.

Split Bill away from Jimmy, and the BOT becomes less of an obstacle.
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Isn't the FBI doing this already? I Bill isn't pulling away from Jimmy over the investigation, he never will.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Squints, what you're saying doesn't get Haslam's hand off the wheel. It is only a short-term win (new AD, restarted coaching search without interference).

That doesn't make the problem go away, it just shoves it aside temporarily.

Weren't Paul Vol and Atlanta Vol (who may be the same guy, but you didn't hear me say that) and that gang insinuate they were going for a more permanent solution?
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This is a step in achieving that permanent solution. The fans (e.g. the right hire will yield money hand over fist) and boosters' requests being met will push him out. If UT refuses, we don't show up and the other diamond boosters walk, leaving UT in financial shambles and Haslam footing the bill. There are many ways to spin it, this is but a simple illustration.
 
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