Donors threaten to pull donations if Pearl was fired...

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“I can assure you, as have several other donors that I am aware of, that should coach Pearl be terminated, there will be a detrimental affects (sic) to the UTAD financially.”
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At least I don't have to be smart to make a lot of money.
 
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volintears said:
I havnt read it but I heard one of them was Haslem.
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Which Haslam? Anyway, either one of them Jim, Bill or Jimmy have a batphone to the adminstration heads. Doubtful they would be doing any emailing for multiple reasons.
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emainvol said:
I am pretty shocked that Udonis had the time or money to donate to UT, considering his love of blow. I guess there is that whole Florida thing, too.
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Lol, awesome
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I think it's funny that some of these arrogant donors think they control what happens with coaching decisions. (Not talking about the Thunders, Haslams, etc).
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It is about time. Hopefully it will not be long before Hamilton and Cheek are shown the door. :rock:
 
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They need to realize the all though they rhyme donor does NOT mean partial OWNER.

just because you donate money to a school you are not a GM, or an owner. You are a tax break and a contributor.
 
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I'm sorry, but the whole "blame it on the AD" bit is tired. IMO, if you wanna be mad at Hamilton for something, look at the baseball team and the Raliegh hire, not having to fire Bruce. Bruce MADE him do it. I would bring up the Kiffy thing, but lets be honest with ourselves. Most of us (even those who were skeptical of the hiring in the first place) were on board the Lane Train midway through his only season here. Hence why the fanbase was so ticked when he left.

I fail to see the A to B connection with all our issue being Hammy's fault. He made the hires, he was forced to fire Bruce due to Bruce's blatant disregard for the rules and honesty.

Out of 117 Div 1 football team's athletic departments, less than 15% turned a profit and we were one of those teams that made money. Bottom line, Hammy is a successful AD at fulfilling his job responsibilities. He isn't the best at PR, but he does his job fairly well given the situations that we have gone through.
 
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DaDuRkEr said:
I'm sorry, but the whole "blame it on the AD" bit is tired. IMO, if you wanna be mad at Hamilton for something, look at the baseball team and the Raliegh hire, not having to fire Bruce. Bruce MADE him do it. I would bring up the Kiffy thing, but lets be honest with ourselves. Most of us (even those who were skeptical of the hiring in the first place) were on board the Lane Train midway through his only season here. Hence why the fanbase was so ticked when he left.

I fail to see the A to B connection with all our issue being Hammy's fault. He made the hires, he was forced to fire Bruce due to Bruce's blatant disregard for the rules and honesty.

Out of 117 Div 1 football team's athletic departments, less than 15% turned a profit and we were one of those teams that made money. Bottom line, Hammy is a successful AD at fulfilling his job responsibilities. He isn't the best at PR, but he does his job fairly well given the situations that we have gone through.
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Exactly. Most of the people who blame Hamilton have no clue as to operations of the athletic department, the athletic director's role, and HIS LACK of unilateral power on hiring and firing head coaches of major revenue sports (football and basketball). It's the same at all the power schools in major conferences
 
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orange_peel said:
It is about time. Hopefully it will not be long before Hamilton and Cheek are shown the door. :rock:
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You live in fantasy land if you think the Chancellor is going to lose his job over a basketball coach.
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Regardless of Hamiltons perceived ability to raise money... I believe it is fair to say our fanbase would still donate the money regardless of the AD. I think it is time for MH to be shown the door based on his actions that have been detrimental to our athletics as well as our fanbase as a whole. I cannot recall a time that the volnation has been this divided. If a new AD can bring the fanbase back together and make a few good coaching hires I'm all for it. MH seems inept to do either IMO. I think we can all agree the past few years have been the most difficult times to wear our orange with pride. Seems as though everything has slowly declined since MH took the reigns except for the amount of money that is taken in. If that starts to decline as well then what do we have left? I don't want to see us hit rock bottom before we force changes, do you?
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Hey !

Anybody else get this feeling while reading that article?

This is just like reading a Pearl thread on the Great VolNation !

I guess we're just as educated (or clueless, take your pick) as the big boys ! :)

GBO !
 
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orange_peel said:
It is about time. Hopefully it will not be long before Hamilton and Cheek are shown the door. :rock:
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Cheek? You have crossed the line from athletic department fantasy land to actual university administration. I would have to reconsider whether or not to finish my degree at UT if Cheek were fired over a cheating, lying, self-important carpetbagger like Pearl. If you can't understand why Pearl needed to go then there is little hope for you to understand why I'd react like that.
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