*****Updates on John Currie situation [updated 12:10 pm]

[titansvolsfaninga]

Hire Blackburn now, go get Kiffin, Tee and Steele and the other boosters need to tell Haslam to sit the F down.

Agreed, Haslam needs to worry about going to jail.

 

[WillisWG]

Will hire AD/HC@UTK for food.

 

[JettVol]

The Rick Russo story reads like the AD and the Chancellor both got canned? Any word on that?

 

[Vol737]

The Rick Russo story reads like the AD and the Chancellor both got canned? Any word on that?

One could only hope. This is going to be one helluva
30 for 30 on ESPN one day, who hates us btw.

 

[Flyinhighvol]

This is my first post. I’m not a troll. I just joined but have read posts for a long time as a guest. Has it not occurred to anyone the reason they reeled Currie back in from out west where he was talking to Mike Leach was.

1. He did it without authority?
2. When they found out it was obvious Mike was just working on getting himself a raise?
3. And this would be just one more coach who played us and embarrassed the university?

 

[djohnnyg]

Well...the Mike Leach stuff was fun while it lasted. I had a feeling it would get botched somehow.

Dave Doeren back in play?

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

The Rick Russo story reads like the AD and the Chancellor both got canned? Any word on that?

Buy one get one free?

 

[xpsyclonex2002]

So how exactly does one sabotage hiring a coach in an effort to steal the athletic director's job? I mean I think this is kind of all just part of the Tennessee craziness right now. I mean let's be honest who would be shocked if an alien ship landed at the 50-yard line on Neyland Stadium today? But I would rather see Fulmer as the ad of the program. Let's be honest when it comes to hiring coaches for football, who knows more about selecting a good coach then a good coach?

 

[508mikey]

good grief

 

[kotheb]

So if this is true, is Leach still in play?

 

[therealitytheory]

The Rick Russo story reads like the AD and the Chancellor both got canned? Any word on that?

She ain't the Chancellor of Football you know. You gotta figure Davenport was hired for her academic acumen. Crazy, but there it is.. ..

 

[Teirnon]

REPORT: Tennessee has fired athletics director John Currie - Rocky Top Talk

Brett McMurphy
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@Brett_McMurphy

Sources: John Currie was prepared to hire Mike Leach but university officials wouldn’t allow him to do so. Phillip Fulmer has been sabotaging search process in hopes to become Tennessee’s AD
9:15 AM - Dec 1, 2017

 

[theFallGuy]

If this terribly timed decision messes up a potential Leach deal I'm going to be so pisseed

 

[jimed1]

Twitter

Currie fired for trying to hire Leach. Haslam doesn’t want Leach.

Currie is now a martyr. His name has become a battle cry.

 

[Special Ed]

I guess Leach wants to bring his own AD.

 

[dono]

I wonder if Cutcliffe is back in play?

No - imo

 

[Power T-Rev]

Phillip Fulmer, if reports are true, has just shat on his own legacy

 

[Cocke-y_Vol]

I'm not buying that Fulmer was undermining Currie or trying to get him fired. That is definitley not in his character.

 

[zeppelin128]

If Currie needs to fall on the sword to get Lane, I'll push him myself.

Kiffin to the Hill!!

 

[VoLunTiTan7]

10:27 AM John Brice
Confirming @wvlt excellent work, multiple people connected to UT say that Currie is out. Fulmer will assume the reins moving forward. Has been unfolding that way for past 48 hours.[/QUOTE]

 

[TN_Transplant]

Phillip Fulmer, if reports are true, has just shat on his own legacy

Well, stop and think. It could mean that Fulmer leaked the Schiano mess.

 

[508mikey]

I'm not buying that Fulmer was undermining Currie or trying to get him fired. That is definitley not in his character.

The perfect revenge for 2008 -- think about it

 

[dono]

Phillip Fulmer, if reports are true, has just shat on his own legacy

Not with me. He did his duty - gave his All for Tennessee

 

[scvol98]

I'm not buying that Fulmer was undermining Currie or trying to get him fired. That is definitley not in his character.

Johnny disagrees

 

[OldLofter]

So an AD goes and tries to make a hire in the athletic department and is fired because he didn't have permission? Who's permission? Haslam? IF true it's time to make the Schiano reVOLt look like a kindergarten fight as to the protest that needs to occur until that sorry ass Jimmy Haslam is put out of any and all power and say so at UT

Never happen. Haslam gives too much money. NOBODY at UT is willing to risk that.