re: Per Hyams we've hired John Currie as AD

Meh, not a site that I put much stock in

Forget the site...

Are his facts incorrect? Yes/No?

Well to start, I don't see a lot of facts just a bunch of speculation

Also appears to blame him for everything that has gone wrong when he is within 50 miles of a mistake and finds ways to give other people credit when things go correctly. But let's see....

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this hire, and quite honestly, it was an idiotic one. Currie, who has been athletic director at Kansas State since 2009 and was at Tennessee from 1997 to 1998 and then 2000 to 2009, has shown nothing to prove that he will be a good athletic director.

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There are posts in this very thread and in this author's own article that refute the last sentence of this paragraph


2. He helped hire Pearl but also Raleigh, Peterson, and Kiffin


Sure but you could say that about anyone in the AD at that time, unfortunately we will never know who made what key decisions or who may have advocated for other coaches but shot down by higher ups. Ultimately these decisions were made by Hamilton and above



3. The running off Martin stuff has been addressed in this very thread. Was Currie perfect during that circumstance? I'm sure he wasn't but I'm also sure it was as one sided as this article depicts it. Also hurts that pretty much anyone you can find that knows him will tell you Martin is an a-hole

4. Don't give me this shite that Fulmer would be a better choice. We have NO IDEA how Fulmer would've done in this job as the man (who I love btw) has NEVER had a job remotely similar to this. Most ppl who are knowledgeable about college sports were terrified/excited about Fulmer being hired depending on whether they love/hate Tennessee. Bama fans would've paid his salary the first year probably

Now when it comes to Blackburn, I won't defend that. I think it's safe to say he would be an equal hire and probably a much better hire than Currie


5. Finally we have "low energy". Give me a fricking break is this guy trying to be trump? The program has all the energy it needs right now I will at least give Botch that, what it doesn't have is an excellent AD and hopefully, hopefully, hopefully the admin didn't frick this up


I say all this as someone who was at first very skeptical about this hire and am still very much in wait and see mode but I will not let Calhoun's shite spewing get posted unopposed. The guy fishes for clicks by putting out this kind of sensionalized bullshite he has done it before and will continue to. Not to get off into other things but this shite is a lot of what is wrong with our media

Gotta be first to say whether something will be the second coming or the biggest failure in history when sometimes (maybe a lot of times) we just have to wait and see

Good shite Prof. My initial emotional hot take on this when I got the alert was to be upset and discouraged. I preferred Blackburn, but 24 hours later I feel a lot better about the guy

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Good shite Prof. My initial emotional hot take on this when I got the alert was to be upset and discouraged. I preferred Blackburn, but 24 hours later I feel a lot better about the guy

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No prob. I feel about the same way. My initial reaction was very negative and while I still don't feel 100 percent about this I feel a bit better. I'm still not sure but never can be with the boosters we have in charge.

Well I agree since Hamilton also had the chance to resurrect General Neyland but let him and the Haslems own personal agendas against Dr. Frankenstein get in the way of allowing the General's body to be exhumed and then put on the mad scientist's table


By the time Hamilton was gone is was far too late as Hart, the Alabama loyalist, had too many misgivings of such an endeavor having read the book in 8th grade

Bunch of pussies all of them



I don't have a link but I assure you it is true