The Short Version is, I think Mike Hamilton's office ought to be cleaned out by Monday morning.
I agree that it was time to replace Phillip Fulmer. Now it didn't necessarily have to be done last year, but it needed doing. I think we might ought to have waited until there were less years left on Phillip's buyout to do it and we had fully studied the situation and had a top coach in place to replace him with.
Oh, I forgot, someone put UT on the hook on Phillip's lifetime contract that automatically extended if he won 7 games. The buyout on that contract was never going down.
Then there's the Kiffin hire. I'm not sure what possessed Hamilton to hire Kiffin and pay him what we did to come here. It's not like he had any experience as a head college football coach. Oh, I forgot, he coached the Raiders 3 games into the season before being fired. Yeah, he was an assistant. Basically Kiffin had the shortest resume of anyone I've ever seen to come up with a 3 million a year contract to run a major program.
Yes, I along with most Vol fans got behind him this year, but we'd get behind anyone who is leading our Vols. If Obama was coach, I'd still be for Tennessee and support our team.
The thing that stands out to me is the idiocy of the AD allowing Kiffin's assistants to have contracts that puts the university on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars if we don't want them anymore to the point that whoever is the new coach will have to make due with Kiffin's reject assistants.
Mike Hamilton is supposed to be the business manager for the Athletic Department. IMO, getting your company into a situation where you have ridiculously 1 sided contracts with your employees is the fault of Management and I'm not sure the board of directors should tolerate that from management.
I agree that it was time to replace Phillip Fulmer. Now it didn't necessarily have to be done last year, but it needed doing. I think we might ought to have waited until there were less years left on Phillip's buyout to do it and we had fully studied the situation and had a top coach in place to replace him with.
Oh, I forgot, someone put UT on the hook on Phillip's lifetime contract that automatically extended if he won 7 games. The buyout on that contract was never going down.
Then there's the Kiffin hire. I'm not sure what possessed Hamilton to hire Kiffin and pay him what we did to come here. It's not like he had any experience as a head college football coach. Oh, I forgot, he coached the Raiders 3 games into the season before being fired. Yeah, he was an assistant. Basically Kiffin had the shortest resume of anyone I've ever seen to come up with a 3 million a year contract to run a major program.
Yes, I along with most Vol fans got behind him this year, but we'd get behind anyone who is leading our Vols. If Obama was coach, I'd still be for Tennessee and support our team.
The thing that stands out to me is the idiocy of the AD allowing Kiffin's assistants to have contracts that puts the university on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars if we don't want them anymore to the point that whoever is the new coach will have to make due with Kiffin's reject assistants.
Mike Hamilton is supposed to be the business manager for the Athletic Department. IMO, getting your company into a situation where you have ridiculously 1 sided contracts with your employees is the fault of Management and I'm not sure the board of directors should tolerate that from management.
