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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1175 on: December 08, 2017, 02:02:15 PM »
I wouldn't be opposed to bringing that weasel back in strictly a fund-raising/facilities role.  Just keep him away from an NCAA compliance role or any involvement with the coaching staff at all.
BITB says fundraising for athletic facilities is literally the easiest thing in the world to do so this doesn't make any sense.

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I heard that. In an off-season of incredibly stupid hot takes, that one was far and away the dumbest.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1176 on: December 09, 2017, 01:16:05 AM »
So where is John Currie? Hiding? Hanging around with The Animal?

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1177 on: December 09, 2017, 06:16:42 AM »
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/wsu-cougar-football/wsu-president-kirk-schulz-addresses-mike-leachs-future-and-the-cougars-athletic-director-search/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_title_1.1
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However, Schulz did put one rumor to rest: Former Tennessee AD John Currie, whom the Vols suspended last Friday after his reported meeting with Leach, will not be a candidate for the WSU athletic director job, Schulz said.

Currie’s relationship with Schulz dates back to the president’s Kansas State days, when he hired Currie to be the Wildcats’ athletic director in 2009. Currie left Kansas State for Tennessee in February, but was suspended last week and replaced by Phil Fulmer.

“John is not a candidate and would not be an appropriate hire for us at this time,” Schulz said Friday. “John’s got to resolve his issues with Tennessee and is in the middle of a legal battle. We have other terrific candidates who have expressed strong interest.”

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1178 on: December 09, 2017, 06:34:48 AM »
I wouldn't be opposed to bringing that weasel back in strictly a fund-raising/facilities role.  Just keep him away from an NCAA compliance role or any involvement with the coaching staff at all.
BITB says fundraising for athletic facilities is literally the easiest thing in the world to do so this doesn't make any sense.

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If true, KU must have a worse AD than they do head football coach.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1179 on: December 09, 2017, 08:36:06 AM »
Et tu, the animal?

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1180 on: December 09, 2017, 07:57:39 PM »
KU should hire Currie.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1181 on: December 10, 2017, 02:07:06 AM »
KU should hire Currie.

He and Zenger as KU Co-Athletic Directors.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1182 on: December 10, 2017, 08:24:00 AM »
KU should hire Currie.

KU wouldn't have a football team still NOR a basketball team... Currie would find receipts for days over there and would bench the entire Athletics department.


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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1184 on: December 11, 2017, 09:47:09 PM »
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/940345114580471810

This is interesting.  The MOU was signed by Currie and Schiano.  There are signature lines for the Chancellor and CFO, but the MOU does not state that their consent is necessary to bind the University.  Tennessee is (unsurprisingly) claiming that their lack of signatures means the MOU was not fully executed.  Yet you do have representatives from either side signing it.  Considering there is somewhere around $19 million on the line I would definitely expect a lawsuit unless Schiano is worried about pulling a Leach and risking further job prospects by suing the school.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1185 on: December 11, 2017, 09:51:19 PM »
Any more about UT pursuing paying currie $0 ?
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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1186 on: December 11, 2017, 11:11:57 PM »
I am dying to see the legal battle that ensues here. We probably won't know much of anything about it though, right? I assume this'll end in a settlement and everybody will keep their mouths shut about the terms and the discussions that led to those terms? That would be a shame, because I have been following this crap like it's the OJ trial, and I want to hear every single gory detail.
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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1187 on: December 12, 2017, 04:31:41 PM »
I am dying to see the legal battle that ensues here. We probably won't know much of anything about it though, right? I assume this'll end in a settlement and everybody will keep their mouths shut about the terms and the discussions that led to those terms? That would be a shame, because I have been following this crap like it's the OJ trial, and I want to hear every single gory detail.

In my mind these proceedings will play out in a 2 story un-airconditioned courtroom with balcony seating up top and everyone fanning themselves, wearing seersucker and saying things like "iffidta please the court" and "objeksheein yawnuh!" And of course "why I do declare!"

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1188 on: December 12, 2017, 10:28:18 PM »
Yep.  Couple “big city LAWYER” references, etc

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1189 on: December 13, 2017, 09:35:49 AM »
I wouldn't be opposed to bringing that weasel back in strictly a fund-raising/facilities role.  Just keep him away from an NCAA compliance role or any involvement with the coaching staff at all.
BITB says fundraising for athletic facilities is literally the easiest thing in the world to do so this doesn't make any sense.

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I heard that. In an off-season of incredibly stupid hot takes, that one was far and away the dumbest.

Yes.  Relative to the subject matter, an absolutely idiotic take by BITB.

When it comes to the actual business of collegiate athletics, he's possibly the WITB, just awful.


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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1190 on: December 13, 2017, 10:42:33 AM »
I am dying to see the legal battle that ensues here. We probably won't know much of anything about it though, right? I assume this'll end in a settlement and everybody will keep their mouths shut about the terms and the discussions that led to those terms? That would be a shame, because I have been following this crap like it's the OJ trial, and I want to hear every single gory detail.

In my mind these proceedings will play out in a 2 story un-airconditioned courtroom with balcony seating up top and everyone fanning themselves, wearing seersucker and saying things like "iffidta please the court" and "objeksheein yawnuh!" And of course "why I do declare!"

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1191 on: December 13, 2017, 10:43:35 AM »
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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1192 on: December 13, 2017, 02:54:42 PM »
it'll all settle.


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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1193 on: December 13, 2017, 03:01:38 PM »
it'll all settle.

In your professional opinion how much of the 5 million dollars will currie receive in settlement?  About tree fitty?
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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1194 on: December 13, 2017, 03:06:07 PM »
it'll all settle.

In your professional opinion how much of the 5 million dollars will currie receive in settlement?  About tree fitty?
in my professional opinion i have no idea.  haven't seen his contract.


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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1195 on: December 13, 2017, 03:06:43 PM »
Tennessee should pay Currie 0%.  It doesn't matter whether they ultimately have to pay Schiano or not; the mere act of putting them in a position where they have to litigate/settle paying a coach that never coached is sufficient to fire Currie for cause.

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« Reply #1196 on: December 13, 2017, 03:07:53 PM »
But most Universities have incompetent administrators taking advice from incompetent in-house legal counsel.  So who knows.  I know I would litigate the hell out of it if I were calling the shots at Tennessee.

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1197 on: December 13, 2017, 03:08:38 PM »
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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1198 on: December 13, 2017, 03:17:58 PM »
it'll all settle.

In your professional opinion how much of the 5 million dollars will currie receive in settlement?  About tree fitty?
in my professional opinion i have no idea.  haven't seen his contract.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480519-Contract-for-Tennessee-AD-John-Currie.html

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Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?
« Reply #1199 on: December 13, 2017, 03:41:45 PM »
it'll all settle.

In your professional opinion how much of the 5 million dollars will currie receive in settlement?  About tree fitty?
in my professional opinion i have no idea.  haven't seen his contract.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480519-Contract-for-Tennessee-AD-John-Currie.html

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doesn't really help.  gonna depend on whether he was fired "for cause," a definition not supplied by that MOU. 


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