Fire Mike Hamilton (merged)

#26
#26
We still do not know the whole story until WBIR wins its open records claim and we can see all of the blanked out information.

I am concerned about Hamilton setting up the first Bruce Pearl press conference to make it appear that we had just made a few phone calls and then a week later the story about the barbeque comes out.

I have to agree with the real issue is that he should have fired Fulmer in 2005 and kept the program on a competitive level. There is no time in the history of this program that there has been so much scandal. I do not think that Mikie is a bad person but he is just incompetent as an athletic director. We need to get him a job with Knox Area Rescue Ministries since he is such a good fund raiser. He would probably excel there.
 
#28
#28
hammy needs to go for the simple fact that under his watch (2003-2010) we have experienced the worst football in UT history.
we have more loosing seasons than bowl victories.
we have had 3 HC's
only 3 ten win seasons (one of those included 3 loses of 17+ points)
only beaten FL once
suffered domination by bama lately
consistently had thousands of empty seats in neyland
only had 2 bowls wins (cotton and outback)
not made a BCS game
not won a SEC title
only won the east twice
his claim to fame (pearl) has become an embarrassment
baseball is just flat our miserable

i'm sure ive left some things out. but hamilton has simply not got the job done.
 
#29
#29
I've always felt that in order to have a truly successful Atheletic Department you need to have someone who knows and loves the University. For example Doug Dickey. Mike Hamilton is an outsider and is not a Tennessee alumnus and I feel that we should keep our Athletic Director as someone who truly knows UT, and by all honesty in saying that I would love to see someone like Condredge Holloway step up.
 
#30
#30
vol in dixie said:
hammy needs to go for the simple fact that under his watch (2003-2010) we have experienced the worst football in UT history.
we have more loosing seasons than bowl victories.
...
only 3 ten win seasons (one of those included 3 loses of 17+ points)
only beaten FL once
suffered domination by bama lately
consistently had thousands of empty seats in neyland
only had 2 bowls wins (cotton and outback)
not made a BCS game
not won a SEC title
only won the east twice
...
...

i'm sure ive left some things out. but hamilton has simply not got the job done.
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Aren’t those the responsibility of the Head Football Coach? Who was it for most of that time anyway?
 
#31
#31
Guess you don’t remember Dickey going to Florida.
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#32
#32
drgreear said:
I've always felt that in order to have a truly successful Atheletic Department you need to have someone who knows and loves the University. For example Doug Dickey. Mike Hamilton is an outsider and is not a Tennessee alumnus and I feel that we should keep our Athletic Director as someone who truly knows UT, and by all honesty in saying that I would love to see someone like Condredge Holloway step up.
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Who would you suggest be AD?
 
#33
#33
vol in dixie said:
hammy needs to go for the simple fact that under his watch (2003-2010) we have experienced the worst football in UT history.
we have more loosing seasons than bowl victories.
we have had 3 HC's
only 3 ten win seasons (one of those included 3 loses of 17+ points)
only beaten FL once
suffered domination by bama lately
consistently had thousands of empty seats in neyland
only had 2 bowls wins (cotton and outback)
not made a BCS game
not won a SEC title
only won the east twice
his claim to fame (pearl) has become an embarrassment
baseball is just flat our miserable

i'm sure ive left some things out. but hamilton has simply not got the job done.
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Hamilton may need to be fired, but claiming blaming him for some down years in football is idiotic...
 
#36
#36
drgreear said:
I've always felt that in order to have a truly successful Atheletic Department you need to have someone who knows and loves the University. For example Doug Dickey. Mike Hamilton is an outsider and is not a Tennessee alumnus and I feel that we should keep our Athletic Director as someone who truly knows UT, and by all honesty in saying that I would love to see someone like Condredge Holloway step up.
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Yeah, expect for the fact he is the reason UT men's basketball was a joke for so many years. And he loved UT so much he allowed Kentucky merchandise to be sold at TBA when Kentucky came to town.
 
#39
#39
It's bad when the football program is charged with major violations. It's bad when the men's basketball program is charged with major violations.

When they both get charged at the same time? It's really bad. Fireable offense bad.
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I simply don't understand why this isn't obvious to an overhwhelming majority of the UT fanbase. There are still people defending the guy. It's not like he won the only NC in football in the last 50 years. He's done nothing for UT.
 
#41
#41
utmba93 said:
I simply don't understand why this isn't obvious to an overhwhelming majority of the UT fanbase. There are still people defending the guy. It's not like he won the only NC in football in the last 50 years. He's done nothing for UT.
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I think we have to keep him until the NCAA process is over and then let him go somewhere between August and December.

I like Mike as a person a lot, but I can't think of any other organization in America where he would survive after this. He has to be let go.
 
#42
#42
utmba93 said:
I simply don't understand why this isn't obvious to an overhwhelming majority of the UT fanbase. There are still people defending the guy. It's not like he won the only NC in football in the last 50 years. He's done nothing for UT.
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He got in with the right people, just like Fulmer. He's another one that is dug in like a tick. I think in the end he gets his though.
 
#44
#44
tigervol9802 said:
I think we have to keep him until the NCAA process is over and then let him go somewhere between August and December.

I like Mike as a person a lot, but I can't think of any other organization in America where he would survive after this. He has to be let go.
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The fact that he has the strongest incentive to help clear the mess he made is the only thing I could even fathom as an excuse for why he still has a key to an office in Knoxville.

Still, I'd rather have a smarter man without the 'inside scoop' working to plead the case on UT's behalf.

He is a nice person, but that does not make him the right person for this job. He clearly is not. I wish him well, but he needs to go... and the sooner, the better as far as UT's reputation is concerned.

Ironically, I still think the last guy he hired for HFC would have been, and still is, the ideal pick as his replacement.
 
#45
#45
utmba93 said:
I simply don't understand why this isn't obvious to an overhwhelming majority of the UT fanbase. There are still people defending the guy. It's not like he won the only NC in football in the last 50 years. He's done nothing for UT.
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+1
 
#46
#46
utmba93 said:
The fact that he has the strongest incentive to help clear the mess he made is the only thing I could even fathom as an excuse for why he still has a key to an office in Knoxville.

Still, I'd rather have a smarter man without the 'inside scoop' working to plead the case on UT's behalf.

He is a nice person, but that does not make him the right person for this job. He clearly is not. I wish him well, but he needs to go... and the sooner, the better as far as UT's reputation is concerned.

Ironically, I still think the last guy he hired for HFC would have been, and still is, the ideal pick as his replacement.
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Firing Hamilton now would only increase the number of column inches the scribes spend bemoaning the disarray at Tennessee...
 
#47
#47
Whether Mike Hamilton remains our ad or not is the University of Tennessee's decision....not some hack writer working for espn.
 
#49
#49
Why would anyone from VolNation want to listen to anything Pat Forde says? He was once a reporter for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky. Trust me, I lived there for a long time. The Courier-Journal hates and I do mean hates the University of Tennessee, every SEC team, and the whole South in general.

Pat Forde relishes the times he gets to write or say anything negative about the SEC and or the South!!
 
#50
#50
utmba93 said:
The fact that he has the strongest incentive to help clear the mess he made is the only thing I could even fathom as an excuse for why he still has a key to an office in Knoxville.

Still, I'd rather have a smarter man without the 'inside scoop' working to plead the case on UT's behalf.

He is a nice person, but that does not make him the right person for this job. He clearly is not. I wish him well, but he needs to go... and the sooner, the better as far as UT's reputation is concerned.

Ironically, I still think the last guy he hired for HFC would have been, and still is, the ideal pick as his replacement.
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I don't think we're sitting on a Pat Hayden type person to come in and clear it up is the only reason I think we should wait. I think it would be hard to get someone at this present time. I would say bring Dickey back as interim, but I don't think he could handle it from a health (I did not think he looked good last time I saw him).

My two cents, but yes, I don't expet him there this time next year.
 
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