OT-ish: Reports that Tennessee has fired their AD.
December 1st, 2017 at 12:24 PM ^
December 1st, 2017 at 12:35 PM ^
Payton Manning holds a grudge
December 1st, 2017 at 10:43 AM ^
hire blew up in his face. At a minimum, name a committee to take over the coaching search. How could he continue to lead the hiring process? One factor in losing out on their candidates was likely the idea that he would soon be gone. Maybe even before their hire would be finalized.
December 1st, 2017 at 10:51 AM ^
Another source: Tennessee’s own people have been ambushing (John) Currie’s (coaching search). They shoot themselves in the foot, cock the gun & shoot themselves in the other foot. It’s been going on for a week"
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) December 1, 2017
December 1st, 2017 at 10:56 AM ^
this is game of thrones level shit. Phil "little finger" Fulmer sabotaging so he can be AD?
December 1st, 2017 at 11:03 AM ^
seriously, someone ask johnny majors about all this.
— El Flaco (@bomani_jones) December 1, 2017
December 1st, 2017 at 11:20 AM ^
Currie only has himself to blame for getting the process off to a bad start. Then they maneuver behind the scenes and let him twist in the wind, sabotaging things instead of making a public stand. The school's administration let it turn into a fiasco. Wonder if someone there will be on the chopping block next?
December 1st, 2017 at 2:09 PM ^
Thats a quality quote
December 1st, 2017 at 11:40 AM ^
Amazing ... thanks for summarizing.
December 1st, 2017 at 12:32 PM ^
Didn't Currie also have a deal with Brohm and it was nixed by the president because of a 750k buyout?
December 1st, 2017 at 2:18 PM ^
Good they can have fourth place fulmer. Fulmer is a complete piece of shit. Go Georgia, go Florida and they rest of the sec east. Fuck you Tennesee and especially fuck you Fulmer. After what that toad did to Michigan anything bad happenning to Tennesee and Fulmer is good by me. Hoke should have never gone there.
December 1st, 2017 at 10:41 AM ^
John Currie reportedly out as Tennessee athletic director. If true hire paul asap as the AD!!!!! Real orange blood. Then he will hire Tee Martin #volsrback #rockytop @finebaum @coachtee17 @espn https://t.co/Ku2gZYVvvH
— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) December 1, 2017
December 1st, 2017 at 11:20 AM ^
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December 1st, 2017 at 1:31 PM ^
Ahhhh....a fellow farker!
December 1st, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^
I'm not fond of the way that site has been moderated over the past few years. They really killed a lot of the fun I used to have there.
December 1st, 2017 at 10:31 AM ^
December 1st, 2017 at 11:11 AM ^
According to @TonyBasilio -- @John_Currie worked on an MOU with Mike Leach and sent it to UT OGC for approval. This is what got him fired. Because he tried to do his job without being run by Haslam. Bless you John. We owe you an apology.
— Robert Conley (@rconleyVFL) December 1, 2017
December 2nd, 2017 at 12:54 AM ^
These dumbasses need to stop doing MOU. One day they might get knocked into making a real K. Why are they doing this??
December 1st, 2017 at 12:27 PM ^
Just not the park anyone wanted to go to...
December 1st, 2017 at 10:31 AM ^
Not too difficult to see Michigan's coaching search sour (though maybe not to THIS extent) if we didn't get JH. Since it is not happening to my team, I will sit back and enjoy from afar
December 1st, 2017 at 10:37 AM ^
My guess is Tennessee doesnt have a Jim Hackett in the wings.
Its probably pretty rare that you can get a truly successful CEO of a major company to be an AD.
December 1st, 2017 at 11:24 AM ^
And we had two in a row!!!
December 1st, 2017 at 12:03 PM ^
Not sure Brandon qualifies as a successful CEO (despite what he say).
December 1st, 2017 at 9:12 PM ^
December 1st, 2017 at 9:16 PM ^
Assuming the /s is assumed here...
December 1st, 2017 at 12:58 PM ^
Our administration gave him full authority to do his job. He wasn't undermined by donors, holdovers in the AD or former coaches and players. This despite his lack of experience in athletics, the temporary nature of his tenure and all the recent personality conflicts.
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December 1st, 2017 at 1:04 PM ^
Yeah, Hackett really only worked out because there was mutual interest with the dream candidate and he only wanted the job temporarily. There's an alternate universe out there where the Niners give Harbaugh whatever he wants and we end up with Jim Mora.
December 1st, 2017 at 4:17 PM ^
Dan Mullen was a willing Plan B in case Harbaugh turned us down, but whatever. We got our guy and are on one hell of an upward spiral.
December 1st, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^
what he did really wasn't that hard.
Hey Jim, do you want to come back home and coach your alma mater for however much money you want? Oh, really? So you think it's perfect timing and your last employer sucked balls? Well great, I'll get the attorneys to write up the contracts.
He was fortunate (and really, we all were) that Harbaugh was available and that because of the previous two hires, the admin (and boosters) and money people opened up the bank to hit a home run. The fact he was interim means it had even less to do with Hackett. It's not like Harbaugh was coming on to work with Hackett and thought he'd be a good AD. He was coming home to be the head coach of Michigan.
December 1st, 2017 at 11:48 AM ^
Burn, Tennessee Football, burn...
December 1st, 2017 at 12:21 PM ^
Not too long ago, either. Gosh, I'm old.
December 1st, 2017 at 10:35 AM ^
run a coaching search.
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
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) December 1, 2017
Brady Hoke has a chance because who else wants to coach there at this point? 
December 1st, 2017 at 10:40 AM ^
December 1st, 2017 at 4:14 PM ^
WD have any relatives in Tennessee?
December 1st, 2017 at 10:57 AM ^
right now it may not be worst thing in the world for them to slap the Interim tag on him for a year. They can't salvage the hire right now, it is a running joke, and I don't think they can make a quality hire while all of this is going on. Hoke appeared capable of instilling a short-term dose of inspiration into Michigan when he first took over. It could never have lasted because he simply is not a quality head coach for a major program, but the players did respond to him and he can be a really engaging guy. Understanding full well that it would not be a long term fix, it might be worth doing just to quiet things down for a minute while making clear that it is just an interim hire. He does have major college football head coaching experience and could perhaps be a nice 1 year place holder. It could also possibly prevent the levees from breaking with players, transfers, lost recruits etc.
December 1st, 2017 at 11:23 AM ^
Just keep Hoke on as interim HC for next season to stabilize things. If he pulls another rabbit out of his ass by winning the SEC East or something, then talk about giving him the job.
If not, at least there will be some distance between this CC clusterfuck. Maybe next year there won't be so many openings at top programs.
December 1st, 2017 at 11:33 AM ^
the only thing that I disagree with is even hinting that he could be offered the full time job. He can't manage a big time program, he can't be the guy at a place like Tennessee, IMO. But he could pretend to do it for a year and drop a few "This is Tennessee" type statements about tradition and what they are going to build for the future and then be retained as a D-line coach or something when they finally do make the hire. Believe it or not, Brady Hoke is beginning to look like the only adult in Tennessee's room right now.
December 1st, 2017 at 11:50 AM ^
Michigan is still suffering from Hoke's final, lame-duck year of recruiting. A year of Hoke as a known dead man walking would be a year of absolutely terrible recruiting for Tennessee, leaving whomever is the new coach a black hole from which to climb out of with expectations of success pressuring him from the beginning.
Hoke simply won't be able to recruit good prospects. Not because he is a bad recruiter (we know that he can get it done) but because everyone he tries to recruit knows that he will be gone and that someone else that they don't know will be coming in next year.
Tennessee could take another two weeks to find its coach and still have a coach in place significantly earlier in December than when Michigan signed Jim Harbaugh.
And while it might be late to salvage this year's class, whomever gets the job gets a full season to start working on next year's. That's a big deal. They need to hire someone now.
December 1st, 2017 at 12:20 PM ^
disagree. I think just hiring somebody now could set them back for far longer than having an interim coach for one year. When you are working on your 8th and 9th choices to fill a coaching vacancy, you are not getting a coach that you want to hire. You are getting a coach that you have to hire. You can point to Notre Dame, who I believe was actually paying Ty Willingham, Charlie Weiss, and Brian Kelly at the same time for a year, and still sucked. I don't think it is wise for them to hire whatever guy will take it at this point. Why? They have a former head coach on staff that could step in for a year for a posiition coach's salary. Why pay somebody far more than they are worth right now just to get a head coach that you don't want? Their '18 class is screwed either way. Brady Hoke at Michigan is actually an example of exactly why they shouldn't just hire whoever will take the job right now.
December 1st, 2017 at 12:31 PM ^
"A year of Hoke as a known dead man walking would be a year of absolutely terrible recruiting for Tennessee, leaving whomever is the new coach a black hole from which to climb out of with expectations of success pressuring him from the beginning."
This would be a great thing!! Fuck UT!! LOL
December 1st, 2017 at 1:15 PM ^
Hire Hoke as interim, then before the end of next season hire the next coach and appeal to the NCAA to allow said next coach to go and recruit while Hoke focuses on coaching. It worked for Urban and OSU. Only problem is UT needs a viable coach to be able to bring in before the end of the season.
December 1st, 2017 at 4:23 PM ^
I would agree with you, but the problem for Tennessee is that there is no Harbaugh waiting in the wings.
In fact, it does not look like there is anybody with a pulse waiting at all.
Having Hoke be the interim coach for a year is a move to save them from themselves.
They are getting desperate. Like 2:00 AM in the bar and everyone decent has already left desperate.
They have beer goggles on right now that are making marginal coaches look viable to them that no top P5 program would ever consider under normal circumstances.
Hoke can be their wing man that takes them home before they do something stupid they will regret for years.
December 1st, 2017 at 10:56 AM ^
and instead of never wearing long sleeves (up in Michigan, in the cold), he will exclusively wear parkas and stocking hats in the heat of the south.
December 1st, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
With bbq sauce all over his fingers and mouth.
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