Fire Hamilton-bball forum edition (merged)

#30
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Mike Hamilton should be arrested for arson. He has burned the once-proud UT athletic department completely to the ground.

From football to basketball to baseball, it has been one calamity after another during his watch. He simply cannot be retained at this point.
 
#33
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I know, in the coming days, alot of people will say that Mike Hamilton deserves to be fired. And I agree, he should be fired. But he deserves alot worse than that.

Philip Fulmer deserved to be fired (he deserved it at least a year or two before Hamilton did it. Before Hamilton awarded him with a huge new contract and the largest buyout of any college football coach ever). Fulmer was past his prime. He didn't understand the college football landscape anymore and he was too lazy to learn new tricks. But no one doubts that Fulmer wanted to be a good coach. He wanted UT to succeed.

Hamilton doesn't want UT to succeed. It's the only conclusion one could make after watching him systematically dismantle first our football and then our basketball team. I don't think the downward spiral of our athletic programs under his watch is due to mere stupidity or laziness. I think it stems from a conscious commitment to mediocrity.

Mediocrity is the reason Hamilton still has a job and it is becoming all too clear that mediocrity is what Hamilton hopes will keep him in his job for years to come. Hamilton has proven time and time again that his chief survival instinct is to avoid sticking his neck out for UT athletics. After Fulmer was fired (because the fans in the thousands stopped showing up to games), Hamilton could have broken open the bank like Alabama did, and gotten a coach who could compete with the Sabans and Meyers. But that would have been a risk. And Hamilton doesn't take risks. Risks might benefit the program, but it isn't prudent for job security. Instead Hamilton got Kiffin.

Then, when Hamilton's mistake in contract negotiations made it all too easy for Kiffin to bolt for USC, and put our program in dire need, Hamilton had another chance to right his wrong. Rather than flying out to see the best candidates and setting his money on the table, he made several phone calls, until he could find someone who wouldn't say no to any major job. He hired a coach who had never beaten a good team. Is it possible that Hamilton thought such a coach could really compete in the current SEC? Please. But Hamilton knew several years of mediocrity without much flash or turmoil would keep the fans grumbling in the background while his own checks kept coming in.

Now we have the latest outrage Hamilton has inflicted on the program. I don't doubt that Hamilton would have liked to keep Pearl. Pearl is the greatest basketball coach we have ever had or will ever have. Surely, even Hamilton knows that. But, keeping Pearl meant issuing a challenge to the NCAA (a body that has been known recently to back down from challenges, see Cecil Newton and the Sugar Bowl). Moreover, it probably meant taking up for his coach with the boosters and the president. In short, it meant sticking his own neck out, and when faced with the choice of success with risk or comfortable mediocrity, Hamilton made the choice that was natural for him.

These are sad days for a once proud program and I'm sorry to say that I think it will be a long time before we see any kind of meaningful championship, making this probably the worst stretch of time in UT sports history. And we can thank Hamilton for presiding over it and guiding us to it. For that, he deserves something more than the firings he handed out to Fulmer and Pearl. I'm not advocating personal harm or anything like that (though I think exile from the state of Tennessee might be appropriate), but rather that his name should become forever synonymous with spinelessness, with the concept of skating by with just the bare minimum of effort, with being a corporate "yes" man, who will never stick their necks out for anyone or anything. Maybe in the future, instead of saying someone is "gutless", we can just say they've got a little Mike Hamilton in them.
 
#34
#34
Sandman 423 said:
if fulmer had won the Wyoming game they would have been bowl eligible. Hamilton caused a emotional week before the game all but assuring a loss and a losing season. Wait that sounds familiar doesnt it...
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Hiring Kiffin was a complete failure too. It is foolish to argue otherwise. If Kiffin went 8-5 this year with all the talent USC had, how good could he had done at UT?

UT was in the SECC 2007. I don't see us there for a long time. Hope I am wrong, but...it is what it is?
 
#39
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smokey90 said:
Hiring Kiffin was a complete failure too. It is foolish to argue otherwise. If Kiffin went 8-5 this year with all the talent USC had, how good could he had done at UT?

UT was in the SECC 2007. I don't see us there for a long time. Hope I am wrong, but...it is what it is?
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when they backed in :hi:
 
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#42
#42
**** it!!!! I am done with UT and the ****ing sports. I am alumni, I have complained and *****ed about hamilton and no one listens. **** it I am done. No more going to the game! Done with my ****ing tickets, I AM DONE.
 
#43
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mpgonline said:
**** it!!!! I am done with UT and the ****ing sports. I am alumni, I have complained and *****ed about hamilton and no one listens. **** it I am done. No more going to the game! Done with my ****ing tickets, I AM DONE.
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If you stare at this and scroll it real fast up and down, you can actually see Mike Hamilton catching fire
 
#46
#46
TennesseePride said:
Did he make Fulmer get lazy and sloppy with our program?

Did he make Bruce lie to NCAA investigators?
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Did he sign Fulmer to a contract guaranteeing an extension if he won at least 8 games in a season?

The answer to your question: he was totally willing to make a deal with a content Fulmer. This after he said he 9 wins was "average" at Tennessee.

So Hammy's Commitment to Mediocrity is there for all to see with the last contract he made with Fulmer.
 
#47
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mpgonline said:
**** it!!!! I am done with UT and the ****ing sports. I am alumni, I have complained and *****ed about hamilton and no one listens. **** it I am done. No more going to the game! Done with my ****ing tickets, I AM DONE.
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Does this mean that you are done?
 
#50
#50
Without getting anyone upset.. Let me ask it like this

In your opinion, what could Hamilton have done in the past to prevent the circumstances that have troubled UT in the last 5 years?
 
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