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

#27
#27
I like how all the people in this thread who maybe donate their $150 to get football tickets complain about "butthurt donors".

They help keep he AD afloat. I'd say a lot of them should feel entitled to have more say than most of the armchair idiots on this site.
 
#28
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rockytop9808 said:
I like how all the people in this thread who maybe donate their $150 to get football tickets complain about "butthurt donors".

They help keep he AD afloat. I'd say a lot of them should feel entitled to have more say than most of the armchair idiots on this site.
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Maybe in the past, but not as much as they like to think now. Too much T.V. money out there
 
#30
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rockytop9808 said:
I like how all the people in this thread who maybe donate their $150 to get football tickets complain about "butthurt donors".

They help keep he AD afloat. I'd say a lot of them should feel entitled to have more say than most of the armchair idiots on this site.
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Ah. I see. Money = smart. An AD that is afraid to piss off a few donors to the detriment of the program should never have gotten the job in the first place. That is one of Hamilton's few redeeming qualities.
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#33
#33
$150 donation for season tix??? Please show me where I can do that cause last I checked, minimum donation is 1k. These particular people donate an aggregate sum over 100 thousand dollars and are completely off based with this type of behavior. I'm embarrassed by the way they dealt with this situation. Unbelievable
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#34
#34
You also have to acknowledge that our facilities for both major sports have had huge improvements due to Hamilton and his leadership. TBA went from the largest, emptiest, grotesque debauchery of a sports arena that openly acknowledged our lack of commitment to basketball to everyone that entered to an arena on par with most NBA arenas. The facelift to Neyland has been nothing short of impressive IMO as well.
 
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VKAman said:
I'd say there would be significant damage on top of a public relations nightmare had we kept Pearl.
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IMO, 75% of the PR damage was done bc we kept pearl as long as we did. Hamilton failed... not bc he fired Pearl, but bc he fired him in March. Pearl should have been let go before the season started. What did we gain this year from keeping him through the season ? A 30 point blowout in the 1st round NCAA?
 
#37
#37
I disagree. I think the biggest PR hit was Hammy's "hint" mere days before we played MI. Pearl had people in the national media supporting him as well as chastising him. It went both ways and the fan base really, as a whole, wanted to keep Pearl on board because of the equity he had built in the community not to mention within the UT inner circle of important people.
 
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Volstylexx said:
IMO, 75% of the PR damage was done bc we kept pearl as long as we did. Hamilton failed... not bc he fired Pearl, but bc he fired him in March. Pearl should have been let go before the season started. What did we gain this year from keeping him through the season ? A 30 point blowout in the 1st round NCAA?
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I don't know how many times I have to mention this, but Hamilton DOES NOT have the unilateral power to hire/fire the head basketball coach or the head football coach.
 
#45
#45
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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regardless if everyone liked kiffin while he was our coach, it was still a bad hire. it being bad in retrospect even when most vol fan then loved it does not excuse the decision.

our issue is the leadership at the top, mainly our inept athletic director.

a grasshopper could lead ut's ad into profitability.
 
#46
#46
jerryvol44 said:
And we hired a guy who is going to take us right to the top a proven winner has so many div 1 natl titles. LOL
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And that guy is now holding down one of the 10 most prestigious coaching jobs in college football. Remind me where exactly Fulmer is coaching.
 
#47
#47
JokermanVol said:
regardless if everyone liked kiffin while he was our coach, it was still a bad hire. it being bad in retrospect even when most vol fan then loved it does not excuse the decision.
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No, what's inexcusable is how he handled Kiffin's departure. Kiffin made Hamilton aware a few days before everything went down that if USC offered him the job, he was going to take it. Yet inexpicably Hamilton stood by and waited until Kiffin left to actually do anything. It was as if he was still caught completely off guard. He then allowed us to be rejected publicly numerous times by the top coaches on his list, and was then forced to settle for Dooley, who has never accomplished anything as a HC. As if that wasn't bad enough, he then tries to play the hire off like he got the guy he really wanted even though everyone knows that's a load of BS because we sat here and watched as coach after coach said they had no interest in the job.
 
#49
#49
bleedorange0037 said:
No, what's inexcusable is how he handled Kiffin's departure. Kiffin made Hamilton aware a few days before everything went down that if USC offered him the job, he was going to take it. Yet inexpicably Hamilton stood by and waited until Kiffin left to actually do anything.
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That's just flat out not true. Hamilton immediately asked if there was anything he could do financially or otherwise and Kiffin said no.
 
#50
#50
When he named off names like Jamie Dixon and Jay Wright for our wish list for Bball, everyone was screaming smokescreen, yet when he does the same thing in football, it is all truth to the power of T??? Maybe those coaches fielded questions from local media after our "list" was released and were commenting on something that was purely skeptical media hype? Just maybe MH knows what he is doing. Lane wasn't a "bad hire" he bolted for the only job he would have left us for, and given what has transpired since he arrived here... hindsight is 20/20 and foresight is -120/120. IMO Hamilton has done about as good as could be expected given the circumstances that have been beyond his control.
 
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