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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #100 on: March 01, 2017, 10:34:57 AM »
Sometimes, you just know.


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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #101 on: March 01, 2017, 10:41:22 AM »
I don't normally listen to the GPC podcast, but I did last night. Fitz made the point that if Currie has something against you, he will basically make up a rule to prevent you from doing certain things. He pointed out that GPC used to be a pregame sponsor for football with a segment and that Fitz used to be the color commentator back up for basketball. A couple of years ago, Currie came to him with a rule that said because of his status as a media member and being part of rivals, he was not able to work for athletics any longer or be a sponsor. However, Fitz then pointed out many rivals colleagues that work for athletics at their institutions, including a guy at Texas Tech and the guy at Tennessee.

Granted, I get that some of that is Fitz being ticked at Currie, but when he pointed out others that do the exact same thing with no problems that Currie made up rules to prevent him from doing, he made his point IMO.

Normally I'd say this is tin-foil hat thinking, but my first thought when reading this is John knew about Fitz' rep on Twitter and didn't want that associated with KSU in case Fitz got drunk and tweeted something super creepy.  John doesn't need the risk of that guy being financially tied to KSU.  Which like or hate Fitz, is ridiculous. 

I don't know if it's been said in this thread, but John once told a reporter "I am risk management".  I think he takes that thinking into compliance, which is where it could hurt you on the field.  With John there is no "I go 4 over the speed limit, if it accidentally go up to 8 over, I'll pay the ticket and move on" mentality. 
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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #102 on: March 01, 2017, 10:43:55 AM »
he found a mystery receipt for a small cash transfer from a friend to one of our best players and suspended him in the hours before a sweet 16 game.  That's a real thing that actually happened

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to go to the S16 was what I meant.  Does that make a difference?

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #103 on: March 01, 2017, 10:46:03 AM »
he found a mystery receipt for a small cash transfer from a friend to one of our best players and suspended him in the hours before a sweet 16 game.  That's a real thing that actually happened

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it would have been the player's final game of his (5th year) senior season, too
Yeah. I hated him for that. Also Frank left immediately after that season.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #104 on: March 01, 2017, 10:46:24 AM »
the fitz/holly rowe stuff legit hurt him which it should have. as an adult with the role that he had, typing what he did was a huge mistake and as an adult he had to pay for it.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #105 on: March 01, 2017, 10:50:57 AM »
I'm 80% sure this is true so...

currie told jamsam he was out before he told the coaching staff. currie then went to the room frank was in to tell him and frank lunged at him and had to be held back. frank said that if it was going to happen that he needed to be the one to tell jamar and was over the top irate that currie usurped him in that. frank then told everybody that would listen that he was done at kstate and then told his agent to get him out.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #106 on: March 01, 2017, 10:55:46 AM »
I'm 80% sure this is true so...

currie told jamsam he was out before he told the coaching staff. currie then went to the room frank was in to tell him and frank lunged at him and had to be held back. frank said that if it was going to happen that he needed to be the one to tell jamar and was over the top irate that currie usurped him in that. frank then told everybody that would listen that he was done at kstate and then told his agent to get him out.

Um-hmm


The conversation should have gone like this:

Currie:  Coach, tell Jamar to be more discrete about getting money from life time friends.

Frank: Will do

Currie:  Go Cats


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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #107 on: March 01, 2017, 10:56:18 AM »
Yowza.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #108 on: March 01, 2017, 10:58:02 AM »
the fitz/holly rowe stuff legit hurt him which it should have. as an adult with the role that he had, typing what he did was a huge mistake and as an adult he had to pay for it.

that was part of it.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #109 on: March 01, 2017, 11:01:29 AM »
the fitz/holly rowe stuff legit hurt him which it should have. as an adult with the role that he had, typing what he did was a huge mistake and as an adult he had to pay for it.

Maybe he apologized to her in person but he never did publicly, just gross.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #110 on: March 01, 2017, 11:04:51 AM »
yeah Currie invented that reason so he didn't have to say "you are super creepy towards minors and young girls"

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #111 on: March 01, 2017, 11:04:59 AM »
the fitz/holly rowe stuff legit hurt him which it should have. as an adult with the role that he had, typing what he did was a huge mistake and as an adult he had to pay for it.

Maybe he apologized to her in person but he never did publicly, just gross.
remind me of this, I don't remember it

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #112 on: March 01, 2017, 11:05:10 AM »
the fitz/holly rowe stuff legit hurt him which it should have. as an adult with the role that he had, typing what he did was a huge mistake and as an adult he had to pay for it.

Maybe he apologized to her in person but he never did publicly, just gross.

True, that was a really bad look.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #113 on: March 01, 2017, 11:05:58 AM »
the fitz/holly rowe stuff legit hurt him which it should have. as an adult with the role that he had, typing what he did was a huge mistake and as an adult he had to pay for it.

that was part of it.

I still feel a bit uneasy about snitching on him for that because, snitches you know. However, Fitz is a legit bad person and if I have to step out of my values to hurt a bad person, I'll just have to live with it.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #114 on: March 01, 2017, 11:09:29 AM »
the fitz/holly rowe stuff legit hurt him which it should have. as an adult with the role that he had, typing what he did was a huge mistake and as an adult he had to pay for it.

Maybe he apologized to her in person but he never did publicly, just gross.
remind me of this, I don't remember it

The tweets are gone but he essentially called her fat and gross on twitter, subtweeted her if course. When she came back later that season I @ed her the tweets and she went to Currie and ESPN with the tweets.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #115 on: March 01, 2017, 11:10:40 AM »
he found a mystery receipt for a small cash transfer from a friend to one of our best players and suspended him in the hours before a sweet 16 game.  That's a real thing that actually happened

Second round

to go to the S16 was what I meant.  Does that make a difference?

It wasn't a correction that needed to be made, my apologies.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #116 on: March 01, 2017, 11:12:50 AM »
the fitz/holly rowe stuff legit hurt him which it should have. as an adult with the role that he had, typing what he did was a huge mistake and as an adult he had to pay for it.

Maybe he apologized to her in person but he never did publicly, just gross.
remind me of this, I don't remember it

The tweets are gone but he essentially called her fat and gross on twitter, subtweeted her if course. When she came back later that season I @ed her the tweets and she went to Currie and ESPN with the tweets.
oh yeah.. Now I remember.. that was awful

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #117 on: March 01, 2017, 11:22:31 AM »
He hated EMAW right?

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #118 on: March 01, 2017, 11:24:33 AM »
I think he did a good job of leveraging fear (of being left out in a conference realignment scenario) to get money to drastically improve facilities.  Fear is probably the easiest thing in the world to sell, tho.  But kudos to him for taking advantage.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #119 on: March 01, 2017, 11:25:00 AM »
the fitz/holly rowe stuff legit hurt him which it should have. as an adult with the role that he had, typing what he did was a huge mistake and as an adult he had to pay for it.

Maybe he apologized to her in person but he never did publicly, just gross.
remind me of this, I don't remember it

The tweets are gone but he essentially called her fat and gross on twitter, subtweeted her if course. When she came back later that season I @ed her the tweets and she went to Currie and ESPN with the tweets.

http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=3732.msg717784#msg717784

The tweets were worse than I remembered them being. Just terrible, really.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #120 on: March 01, 2017, 11:28:36 AM »
I forgot how bad those were too. Man.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #121 on: March 01, 2017, 11:33:02 AM »
He hated EMAW right?
my memory is the removing/distancing of EMAW came from University President Schulz (and maybe more specifically Mrs. Schulz)

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #122 on: March 01, 2017, 11:44:14 AM »
MIR was before the AtSignal's time.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #123 on: March 01, 2017, 11:51:46 AM »
Good Lord.  Coming from someone who makes a living via a public/online presence, you would think he'd understand the impact of putting something like that on Twitter.

If you're going to be an bad person, at least be a smart bad person and hur hur it up with your buddies in a private setting.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #124 on: March 01, 2017, 11:54:01 AM »
He hated EMAW right?

The belief, yes. Schultz hated the acronym. Moreso, Mrs. Schultz hated the acronym.