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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: December 03, 2017, 10:17:48 AM »

Manning's image was tarnished quite a bit in the last 10 days. He had to call other Vol players to inform them about (and sell them on) the potential Schiano hire. Speculation is that he is aligning himself with the also tarnished Haslams in order to get into NFL franchise ownership down the road.

Many were hoping that the golden boy would be the one to lead us out of the wilderness.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: December 01, 2017, 08:29:34 PM »

The Johnny-Phil rivalry has been boiling for 25 years. It's really something to behold. Johnny supporters will always think that Phil stabbed him in the back in 1992 and kicked a man while he was down.

Phil had an unprecedented run in the 90s and won a MNC. He lost the 2001 SEC championship game to a backup QB. His teams after that underperformed. We knew it was over when he lost to Vandy in 2005. He stubbornly held on for 3 more years, but Phil supporters will always say that he was done wrong.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: December 01, 2017, 03:52:41 PM »

Complete lack of leadership and AD's that had no idea what they were doing. Haslams running the show on top of that. No chance to be great with no commitment to winning.

We will be elite again soon.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: December 01, 2017, 10:06:03 AM »

I've crap on Currie a lot this week, but I think he's about 33% of the problem there.

The Haslams have been the problem for a long time. They hired Currie to be their puppet. Currie went rogue last night and nobody knew where he was.

The Fulmer-Majors and especially the Fulmer-Kiffin rift also plays into the coming hire. Highly doubtful that Kiffin gets a second chance if Fulmer is made AD.

Currie didnt go Rogue. He got called home by Bev and Haslam -- and Currie was quiet the whole way with his tail between his legs.
My prediction is Fulmer doesnt become AD, he just finds the next coach (if even that).

He went to LA and nobody knew where he was. I think he met with Leach and then came back. Fired at 9am this morning.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: December 01, 2017, 09:58:53 AM »

If Fulmer wanted to be AD, why the eff didn't he do it in February??

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He tried to. The admin said nah for Currie

Jimmy Haslam said no to Fulmer and Blackburn

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: December 01, 2017, 09:48:17 AM »

I've crap on Currie a lot this week, but I think he's about 33% of the problem there.

The Haslams have been the problem for a long time. They hired Currie to be their puppet. Currie went rogue last night and nobody knew where he was.

The Fulmer-Majors and especially the Fulmer-Kiffin rift also plays into the coming hire. Highly doubtful that Kiffin gets a second chance if Fulmer is made AD.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: December 01, 2017, 08:49:48 AM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: December 01, 2017, 08:44:15 AM »

Currie just met with Chancellor. Possibly fired. Possibly stripped of certain powers.

Another rumor that he went rogue and tried to hire leach without the blessings of the Haslams.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 30, 2017, 06:52:34 PM »

aTm by far

No, no.  East Tennessee is full of upland aboriginal type white people like West Virginia who rarely see a black person not in an athletic uniform.

UT ran off Cuonzo Martin with racial slurs and taunting even after he took them to the S16 a few years back.

Incorrect. Cuonzo underperformed for 2 1/2 years. Fans started a petition to bring back Pearl (which they should have). Pearl loves UT. He hung around here for 3 years waiting for the job to come open again.

The petition lit a fire under Cuonzo's ass. They made it to the sweet 16. After that, I think he flirted with Marquette(?) and then left for Cal.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 30, 2017, 03:27:38 PM »

Rumor of Currie's professional demise happening in the near future. Latest rumors are either Sumlin or a Kevin Steele-Tee Martin combo.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 30, 2017, 02:01:43 PM »

You don't think Currie deserves any blame here? Tennessee has had sex scandal issues of their own and there are plenty of coaches with records similar to Schiano that haven't been connected in any way to Sandusky. It's just a tone deaf/idiotic move by Currie, whether or not Schiano deserved to be blamed for allowing Sandusky to continue doing what he was doing.

It's all on Currie and Haslam (who made the call imo).

Once he's our coach, he's linked to us. We don't want to be associated with the Ped Staters in any respect. In a vacuum, he's also not a great coach. Thirdly, his name didn't really come out until Sunday morning. They tried to slide that hire by us, and it failed.

So, take your pick as to why you don't want him (1 and 2 above). We can all wait for the next school that offers the HC job to Schiano. Don't hold your breath.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 30, 2017, 12:57:47 PM »

Currie's life will not be pleasant after this. Kevin Sumlin is up next per rumors.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 30, 2017, 12:10:00 PM »

Currie is the puppet for Jimmy Haslam, but it's inexplicable to make an offer to Dave Doeren. It is sabotaging the program imo. No other explanation.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 29, 2017, 04:10:06 PM »

If I were a Tennessee fan, I'd probably be emailing Currie to call Schiano back at this point.

roffle. N.o.b.o.d.y. wants to come here!

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 28, 2017, 01:01:27 PM »

So are we hoping Currdogg gets fired? I kinda am. (Never forget.)

It's hard to tell. He's saying that Jimmy Haslam made him offer Schiano. A bold move Cotton since Jimmy is the one who runs things (for now).

Coincidently, Jimmy Haslam was personally implicated in court today with regard to the Pilot Oil scandal (stealing money from companies buying gas from them).

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 27, 2017, 12:32:47 PM »

When Frank left there was a high donor that bounced around the top 3 on the Ahearn Fund rankings that wanted no public recognition for their money.  Most wouldn't know his name.  The night we hired Weber, I saw a text message from him.  He was given no warning that Frank was leaving & found out from friends with Twitter that oscar was being hired.

Sounds familiar

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 27, 2017, 11:44:01 AM »

I might have missed it in the fast paced discussion in this thread but has anything else come out in regards to UT having to pay schiano despite not hiring him?

TBD but we will have to pay him. I think Schiano is preparing to file suit against UT.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 27, 2017, 09:11:12 AM »

I do think this whole deal will fall at Currie’s feet and probably rightfully so, but I have to imagine he was receiving significant pressure from somewhere to look at Schiano. If people really believe Currie single handedly ran off Frank for being difficult to work with and potentially violating NCAA rules, I have a VERY hard time believing Currie would insist against everyone else on hiring a guy like Schiano. Makes zero sense.

Maybe he’s just lost his mind, or maybe there is way more to the story.

The Haslam family (Pilot Oil) runs things in the UT Ath Dept. Jimmy (Cleveland Browns) had previously interviewed Schiano for the Browns and was enamored with him. Many think that Currie was at least in part doing his bidding. Currie apparently ran the hire by a few big boosters and the reaction was negative. Yet he still went ahead with the hire, or tried to do it.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 26, 2017, 11:18:27 PM »

Zero chance JC survives this.

He won't be AD at the end of the week imo.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 26, 2017, 07:43:55 PM »

Great day in Big Orange Country! John Currie will not be the AD at the end of the week imo. That will also be great!

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 26, 2017, 03:17:46 PM »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/07/12/greg-schiano-tom-bradley-knew-of-jerry-sandusky-abuse-at-penn-state-documents-show/

Former Penn State assistant coaches Greg Schiano and Tom Bradley knew that Jerry Sandusky, their colleague on Joe Paterno’s football staff, was acting improperly with young boys years before law-enforcement authorities were first notified, according to testimony from former Penn State assistant Mike McQueary that was unsealed Tuesday by a Philadelphia court.

McQueary, who testified in Sandusky’s 2012 criminal case that he had told Paterno of seeing Sandusky rape a boy in 2001, said in the 2015 deposition that he had “briefly” discussed with Bradley what he had seen.

“He said another assistant coach had come to him in the early ’90s about a very similar situation to mine, and he said that he had — someone had come to him as far back as early as the ’80s about seeing Jerry Sandusky doing something with a boy,” McQueary said.

According to McQueary, Bradley identified Schiano, now the Ohio State defensive coordinator, as the other assistant. In response to a question about whether Bradley had shared details of what Schiano had said, McQueary related a conversation with Bradley.

“No,” McQueary replied, according to the documents, “only that he had — I can’t remember if it was one night or one morning — but that Greg had come into his office white as a ghost and said he just saw Jerry doing something to a boy in the shower. And that’s it. That’s all he ever told me.”

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 26, 2017, 02:58:15 PM »

The only crap show is John Currie.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 26, 2017, 02:53:39 PM »

No words for what is happening in Knoxville. Tragic day for Tennessee if this happens. Holding out hope that social media will stop it from happening.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 25, 2017, 09:11:49 PM »

No sane person would hold that against Currie. Gruden has turned down NFL jobs to stay at MNF but Genesee Tennessee fans are so stupid and myopic that they thought he'd leave to go there. I would be like us pitching a fit that we don't get get Dabo to replace Snyder.

Gruden has a pretty long history with Tennessee, and he likes the Vols (says he does at least). He has played this game before (2012), so it won't surprise me at all if this is a big tease. I say tease b/c neither JC nor Gruden has shot down the rumors for almost a month now. There really haven't been any credible reports as to whom JC has talked. I wish we just had a normal coaching search where we talked to one coach, he said no, we talked to next coach, etc. Instead, the fans are worked up to a fever pitch. The press conference should be something to behold.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: November 25, 2017, 07:32:39 PM »

You and Nebraska can commiserate over being being irrelevant for essentially twenty years.

Our slide starting in 2001 in the SEC Championship game losing to a backup LSU QB. By 2005, we were not a national contender, and haven't been since.

With the very cautious bean counter JC at the switch. Sorry, Vols but you're mumped.

It's starting to sound like he made a very bad miscalculation by leaving the Gruden rumors out there. When he did make a public statement, it was about pushing for an upcoming stadium renovation. People are expecting a huge hire. If he doesn't come through, it's going to be ugly.