Official Statement from UT on the AD Position

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#53
I find this whole timeline thing interesting considering what is already happening compared to the date released for the arrival of Davenport, if you believe she really has a prominent role in who ends up with the job. Which the big $ is on 2 guys within a 2 hour drive from campus.
 
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Boca Vol said:
This reads like something from Dr. Seuss:

The University of Tennessee issued a statement Wednesday night to shed light on the search for a new athletic director. The gist: A hire is not imminent.

This is the text of the statement:

"Dr. Davenport arrives on Feb. 15 to begin serving as UT Knoxville’s chancellor. She has said that filling the AD position is one of her top priorities.

The athletic director serves as a member of the chancellor’s cabinet. Dr. Davenport has emphasized the importance of finding the best person for this key role.

The university is in the midst of a procurement process to hire a search firm to assist with the search.

Once that process concludes, UT will release information about the firm that is selected.

At that time, the campus will also announce the members of the search committee and provide a tentative schedule for the search process.

We hope to announce these details soon.

From there the search committee and the firm will begin working together to begin the national search.

Dave Hart continues to serve as the Athletic Director for the UT Knoxville campus. His retirement date is June 30, 2017.''

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More like Dr. Demento
 
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GAVol said:
No. It just gets old watching people concoct scenarios in their minds and freak out.
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I agree GA. The statement says no search firm has been decided on and won't be untill the new Chancellor is here. At that time when one is decided on the firm and the search committee will combine and "then" start to look at candidates.

Until then nothing is going to happen folks so no need in making thread after thread or whining about it.
 
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B EaZy40 said:
You do realize football starts the first weekend of September right?
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Not really. Next season's prep has started. Offense and Defense will be installed for spring football, and be refined over the summer. For anyone to excuse UT's powers that be for the extensive timeline we now have, when they knew months ago that all this would be taking place is a sad, sad point of view.
 
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Boca Vol said:
This reads like something from Dr. Seuss:

The University of Tennessee issued a statement Wednesday night to shed light on the search for a new athletic director. The gist: A hire is not imminent.

This is the text of the statement:

"Dr. Davenport arrives on Feb. 15 to begin serving as UT Knoxville’s chancellor. She has said that filling the AD position is one of her top priorities.

The athletic director serves as a member of the chancellor’s cabinet. Dr. Davenport has emphasized the importance of finding the best person for this key role.

The university is in the midst of a procurement process to hire a search firm to assist with the search.

Once that process concludes, UT will release information about the firm that is selected.

At that time, the campus will also announce the members of the search committee and provide a tentative schedule for the search process.

We hope to announce these details soon.

From there the search committee and the firm will begin working together to begin the national search.

Dave Hart continues to serve as the Athletic Director for the UT Knoxville campus. His retirement date is June 30, 2017.''

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Meanwhile Alabama seeks outs and hires a new AD in just a few days.....
 
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KBVol said:
Meanwhile, in Tuscaloosa, their AD announced his retirement on Sunday night and he introduced the new AD in person this morning to the Alabama coaches and staffs.....4 days later.
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Did Bama hire a new chancellor as well? It's hard to hire someone when their boss hasn't even started the job yet.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
I agree GA. The statement says no search firm has been decided on and won't be untill the new Chancellor is here. At that time when one is decided on the firm and the search committee will combine and "then" start to look at candidates.

Until then nothing is going to happen folks so no need in making thread after thread or whining about it.
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Is part of the statement missing? Where does it say that the search firm will not be decided on until after Feb 15?
 
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Smart, intelligent, experienced coaches WILL want to know who the AD is that they will be coming to work under.

This drawn out moronic ignorance DOES have a negative effect on buTch and his ability to hire a OC and other staff members.

A lame duck AD in place now and not knowing who the next AD will be DOES seriously reduce the list of people for the OC position or other serious coaching positions buTch may be wanting to negotiate hiring.

Hello, this is buTch Jones at Tennessee...

Sorry buTch, I have no interest at any program where I won't know who my real boss will be, thanks for calling, Bye.

This long delay is definately making our BoT and Admin look like incompetent morons all across the nation and the press is loving it.

VFL...GBO!!!
 
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Boca Vol said:
This reads like something from Dr. Seuss:

The University of Tennessee issued a statement Wednesday night to shed light on the search for a new athletic director. The gist: A hire is not imminent.

This is the text of the statement:

"Dr. Davenport arrives on Feb. 15 to begin serving as UT Knoxville’s chancellor. She has said that filling the AD position is one of her top priorities.

The athletic director serves as a member of the chancellor’s cabinet. Dr. Davenport has emphasized the importance of finding the best person for this key role.

The university is in the midst of a procurement process to hire a search firm to assist with the search.

Once that process concludes, UT will release information about the firm that is selected.

At that time, the campus will also announce the members of the search committee and provide a tentative schedule for the search process.

We hope to announce these details soon.

From there the search committee and the firm will begin working together to begin the national search.

Dave Hart continues to serve as the Athletic Director for the UT Knoxville campus. His retirement date is June 30, 2017.''

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It is much easier to be cynical, critical and ignorant than it is to be correct and astute.
 
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landscapingvol said:
That would be a good point if it were true but it isn't. Doug Dickey has been sick for a while. It isn't as if he just informed them a few days ago he was sick and then they negotiate a new AD within four days. I know you want that to be true just to prove a point.
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I guess I missed something! What the Heck does Doug Dickey have to do with Alabama. I have always though it was the other former UT coach Bill Battle.:loco:
 
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BJWeeks said:
So if its up to Beverly then it will be Mike Bohn. She is familiar with him and and there is trust there. Get ready to be disappointed
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It damn well better not be. I've had season tickets since 1975 and if she pulls this insider, cozy BS, I will be totally pissed. Don't know anything that could be done, but, I'll be totally pissed.... so there.
 
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sona said:
Why not just do the job they are well paid to perform and forego the search firm? If you need a search firm to do your job for you maybe you shouldn't be in charge of the hiring process. Results from these firms are more miss than hit anyway. Be better off hiring a private investigator to vet these people.
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Starting with Davenport.
 
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VolFan4Life87 said:
If Dave Hart's decision to stick around until June 30 has prolonged all of this, can they just fire his ass and hire Blackburn already!? If reports are true, Jones' hands have been tied with regard to hiring quality assistants due to this BS.
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Clueless. He is sticking around so they won't be left without an AD. Be thankful he is willing to do that.

This confirms what many have been saying on here as to the ineptitude of the BOT. Not forward thinking at all. Completely reactionary.
 
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It's been said before, but this is all textbook academia. Chancellor Davenport is going to make the AD hire. It's not going to happen before she's actively serving, and it'd honestly be pretty abnormal to saddle a new chancellor with a hire at the level of an AD that's not of their choosing, this close to their start date. UT has a contract with Parker Executive Search but is under no obligation to actually use them for a search, and evidently doesn't want to here - probably Chancellor Davenport's prerogative. They'll name one when they name one. Clearly a bunch of Vols fans are up in arms over things playing out that way, but it's a university that participates in athletics, not an athletic club with some higher ed attached.

To do something other than how it's actively playing out right now would be putting the cart before the horse, from the perspective of the university. It just seems like a mess because this is Volnation and all we really care about here is the cart.
 
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sport3500 said:
It makes sense for UT to hire a search firm and take their time to find the best fit for the athletic department whether it is Blackburn, Fulmer or somebody else and for Davenport to have her thoughts on this hire because this and future hires will stamp her legacy at UT.
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Hart's retirement announcement was months upon months ago. See Florida and Alabama how to be proactive and competent,
 
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Hart did not have any choice about sticking around since his true retirement date is June 2017. He aint staying cause he loves UT so much and is it not strange that Alabama did not want Bama Dave anymore than we do.
 
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Behr said:
Why'd you have to go and post this? Trying to take the fun out of it?
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Oooooh Noooooo

Cheeks gonna stay indefinite as Davenport got her fill of southern redneck hillbillys from reading VN an declined the Chancellor job. But now Depietro an Cheek are facing off on who should AD. AND since Derek Dooley has been a head coach in the SEC AND an AD there are movers and shakers trying to bring Dooley back as AD. THAT puts a crimp in everything from all new assistants to the OC.


Howzat? Be fun? :)
 
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EZE said:
Hart's retirement announcement was months upon months ago. See Florida and Alabama how to be proactive and competent,
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There is no critical rush factor in the new AD hire. It wouldn't have been prudent to bring in a new AD mid-season given the status of the University administration, and the challenges being faced within the football program. (which are now being addressed) This football cycle un-officially ends with signing day. A clearer overall picture and status can be determined at that time, and give everyone a moment of pause... The new Chancellor will officially be on board February 15, and "officially" head up the search. That will be her main priority. The timing will allow her and the administration to get acclimated and develop a logical transition/exit strategy for Hart. It will also allow potential candidates to be further reviewed.
 
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emzeeee said:
I must have missed the part where they also hired a new Chancellor. Y'know, the main roadblock in this process.
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Do you really think Bama would've let a chancellor hire to turn an AD hire into a 6 month cluster f***? I personally don't. Besides, as Doug Mathews has repeatedly said, at the end of the day, this AD hire isn't Davenport's decision, she'll have "involvement", but only President DiPietro, Jimmy Haslam and Charlie Anderson are ultimately gonna make this hire.

Also, when did Cheek announce HIS retirement? About 2 months before Hart announced his last summer, in June. Why in the world are we letting guys announce their retirements and then be "lame ducks" in their positions for 8 months?

All I can tell you is that the best football program in America, and its respective AD program had a swift, efficient succession plan in place and here we are, 5-7 months later, witnessing what appears to be a bureaucratic, dysfunctional, drawn out exercise by our "leaders" open to widespread criticism to the detriment of our athletic department.
 
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