When Hamilton is fired......

#76
#76
T.N. Buckingham said:
I've seen a proper athletic director. He held the job before your idol took over.

Dickey wasn't perfect. But he set the financial table for Hammy and makes him look like a rank amateur by comparison in every other respect.
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Dickey was a disaster for basketball and he didn't really have to do anything in football.
 
#77
#77
From the outside looking in - how come you guys haven't gotten rid of this guy yet? What does he know and who does he know it about?

At this point, shouldn't you fire his boss, too?

Have to admit I'm curious. Tennessee is a lot better than this series of fiascos.

Travis
Vols Daily
 
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#78
#78
you know I was against firing Hamilton but I have changed my mind in the last few weeks.

I think he did the right thing by sending Fulmer out, Kiffin is a pass, glad he brought Dooley in but the way Pearl's situation has been handled he just seems to be in over his head.
 
#79
#79
I like Dooley and i feel that he will have us where we need to be by 2013. Unless the world ends before then.
 
#82
#82
slimjim85vols said:
How much rope do you guys think a new AD will give Dooley? When Kiffin left, I told several friends that Hamiltons job would coincide with Dooleys. Little did I know the Pearl shenanigans, and the behind the scenes activity.

But in thinking that Hamiltons job went with Dooley, and pretty much being wrong... do you guys think that a new AD will give Dooley a fair chance, or try and get "his" hire in?

My opinion is that Dooley would get 2 years to have a 9-10 win season. After that, we could be down the same old familiar road we have been traveling for what seems like forever.
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depends on who the new AD is. An internal hire, probably not much change in the amount of rope. Outside guy? Might have coaches he knwos better so rope could be short.

Just depends on the hire.
 
#84
#84
GAVol said:
Didn't have to anything in football? The Majors/Fulmer crisis was pretty significant.
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In all his time here he made one hire in football and that was just promoting someone from within. I don't think the job he did hiring coaches at UT was anything special.
 
#85
#85
It wasn't the hiring that marked Hammy's lack of decision making it was the firing. He is spine-less and whorish. Chose $$$ over a straight rudder of success. It takes alot of star alignment to win NCs every year. 9-10 win seasons are good compared to what we have had the last two years. If you can't look Lame Kitten in the face and know he is a dirt-bag, you don't need to be the AD of UT. Just goes to show how the guy has no poker face, no conversations w/himself and no insight into people. FAIL
And Dickey did set Hammy up for success and he has flushed all that hard work. Our programs are in shambles and it will take over a decade or more for Tenn. Football to recover.
If Phil was as bad as many of you say, he would have eventually (REALLY) proven he didn't have it anymore. His record (don't start) would have been all the evidence he needed to VOLUNTEER a resignation. Coaches & Programs have slides,....Phil would have gotten it righted. (but the Clawson hire was not wise, wth?)

GO VOLS
 
#87
#87
vol_in_il said:
hiring Kiffin
hiring Dooley
throwing Pearl under the bus prior to the tourney

that's 3 big ones
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Hiring Dooley IMO,was a GREAT move on Hamiltons part.But I'm startin to push towards the whole new AD idea myself...because thats all he has to show for anymore..
DD=BEAST! :loco:
 
#88
#88
CountVolcula said:
Whats wrong with Dooley?

Kiffin was a reach and sometimes you got to take a chance. Most people liked the hire until he started acting like a horses butt and then ditched us for USC.

Pearl threw himself under the bus.



Lets talk about the financial state of the Athletic Department, the renovations to Neyland Stadium, the new training center, new score board.

How come no one mentions the good things Hamilton has done for the AD?

It would be good of some people on this board actually knew what they were taking about instead of regurgitating what a few posters on this board have to say about the situation. Those same ones that seem to have an axe to grind with Hamilton.
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No one cares because the good things you mentioned are the bare minimum any Associate AD does. No one cares because they aren't difficult tasks to complete for anyone with a phone call and check book to accomplish.

How freaking hard is to have a bunch of people in the business of installing scoreboards and renovating stadiums to install a scoreboard and renovate a stadium?

An AD's primary responsibility is to hire great coaches, make sure his coaches don't get the programn trouble with the NCAA and build a good reputation for the University.

How's Hamilton doing on those three things?

He had the Kiffin hire blow up in his face and hired a basketball coach with no NCAA Tournament head coaching experience; has had the NCAA investigative committee setting up shop on campus because of 2 coaches he hired; and gave the most disastorous interview by an Athletic Director I've ever seen.
 
#92
#92
vol_in_il said:
he'll be gone shortly after the NCAA hands down the sanctions...
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That's my theory. I think there is a good chance he's negogiated a nice severance for getting through the Lane Kiffin saga since he's a key person that has to speak before the Infractions player, and then will step down with a nice fat payout.
 
#94
#94
It's pretty much a fact, no matter what hamilton does from now on.... a big chunk of people are going to want him gone. He can't last too long.
 
#95
#95
tvolsfan said:
Dickey was a disaster for basketball and he didn't really have to do anything in football.
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You've forgotten how he got our butts out of hot water with the NCAA several different times. Dickey knew how to handle them better than any AD I've ever seen.

We'll have to see if MH can do the same thing.
 
#96
#96
jsc1973 said:
You've forgotten how he got our butts out of hot water with the NCAA several different times. Dickey knew how to handle them better than any AD I've ever seen.

We'll have to see if MH can do the same thing.
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MH can fire a coach to appease the NCAA
 
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