Jimmy Cheek

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barney

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Chancellor Cheek is the reason why the AD has no money. He is the reason why we are at a competitive disadvantage with everyone else. He is the reason why all our players were failing last spring. He is the reason why we can't find a coach.

Until UT's administration makes a commitment to our AD, Tennessee football will never return to greatness. That won't happen as long as Cheek and his cronies are around.

Fire Him!
 
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barney said:
Chancellor Cheek is the reason why the AD has no money. He is the reason why we are at a competitive disadvantage with everyone else. He is the reason why all our players were failing last spring. He is the reason why we can't find a coach.

Until UT's administration makes a commitment to our AD, Tennessee football will never return to greatness. That won't happen as long as Cheek and his cronies are around.

Fire Him!
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There is to much learning going on in that school!!
 
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Amen!! Oh but this is a university of academics not a semi pro football farm system!! F that ish I wanna win!!!!!
 
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I want my football team in the top 25 and the heck with the ranking of the academic side!!!

Butt Cheek gotta go!

Seriously though, as an alumni, I do want our academics to do well. However, I don't want to try and make our University into something it's not and put our athletics at a competitive disadvantage compared to the other SEC teams.
 
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I absolutely agree with you. I want the University of Tennessee to be competitive in every single area. The problem is that Cheek seems to think we can settle for mediocrity in athletics while devoting his attention solely to improving the academic side of things. The fallacy here is that the revenue raised by the football program is extremely important for academic scholarships. One does not succeed without the other.
 
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I'm starting to believe here is the problem, I believe Gruden was contacted and I also believe Strong or Gruden would have taken the job! I also believe it may not all be on Dooley! I believe that Cheek wants a bunch of doctors and lawyers running around on the field and not athletes. Cheek has got the academic requirements set that coaches can not succeed because you can't get talent you need! Tennessee is second to Vandy with academic requirements making it a fantasy land like Gruden's agent said to get a coach to come here. Coaches want to compete! C'mon man someone at that university with all that education has to understand that!

I read that yesterday Cheek told Strong that the academics would not be a problem, if your chancelor is having to reassure coaches there is a problem my friends!
 
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I was talking with a person close to UT last night, and he said (in his opinion) that the main problem getting a quality coach to UT is Cheek. He said that most coaches just don't want to work with him. For example, he said that one of the main reasons Spurrier left UF for the pros was to get away from him.

Any truth to this?
 
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Minibull said:
I was talking with a person close to UT last night, and he said (in his opinion) that the main problem getting a quality coach to UT is Cheek. He said that most coaches just don't want to work with him. For example, he said that one of the main reasons Spurrier left UF for the pros was to get away from him.

Any truth to this?
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Quick answer, Yes.
 
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He looks soft, looks like a nerdy non-athlete.

Growing up in Texas, with a vinyl pocket protector, a math compass, and a protractor, he was pretty much ignored by the ladies.

Even worse those Texas high school football players got all the hot babes.

So young Mr. Cheek's psyche developed a pathological jealous scorn for all athletes - his raising of academic standards and destruction of athletics is an act of immature revenge

Got no facts to back it up, but my mind is made up, so that's proof enough for me.
 
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I have not been a fan of either Cheek or Hart, who strikes me as smarmy, and that was true before this fiasco.
 
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We need the academic side of things to run well. Didnt yall hear? They usually kick in 6 mil a year for the football program. Or was it the other way around? Academics.....thats funny. Thats why professors make 100k and football coaches make 4 mil. Academics
 
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volzfanz said:
We need the academic side of things to run well. Didnt yall hear? They usually kick in 6 mil a year for the football program. Or was it the other way around? Academics.....thats funny. Thats why professors make 100k and football coaches make 4 mil. Academics
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You are exactly what's wrong with this country.
 
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rockytop9808 said:
You are exactly what's wrong with this country.
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Thats funny too. Ive never hired or fired or discussed salary with a teacher or a coach. I was being sarcastic. But since you brought it up, where does the 6 million dollars per yr go that the athletic dept puts into the school? I would tread lightly on that one. Last time I checked, biology lab doesnt have a tv endorsement deal or sell season tix. Why does the academic side of the school never pull its own weight but is always the first to complain about not being revered?
 
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This is nonsense. Remember Omari Phillips? He didn't get into UF so we took him. Last I checked UF blows UT away in academic rankings as well as football most years so there should be no reason why academic standards would hurt our football recruiting. You can be a top 25 research university and kick ass on the football field too. Look at Florida, Georgia, A&M, etc.

It's pretty easy to say "to hell with academics" when you didn't attend UT, or any college for that matter. I'm a UT student right now and I want my degree to be worth at least the paper it's printed on.
 
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volzfanz said:
Thats funny too. Ive never hired or fired or discussed salary with a teacher or a coach. I was being sarcastic. But since you brought it up, where does the 6 million dollars per yr go that the athletic dept puts into the school? I would tread lightly on that one. Last time I checked, biology lab doesnt have a tv endorsement deal or sell season tix. Why does the academic side of the school never pull its own weight but is always the first to complain about not being revered?
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I can tell you're an idiot since you think that $6 million represents a huge chunk of money to a school with revenues exceeding $1 billion and you don't realize that a sizable donation from athletics to academics was just returned to the AD to help pay for all this crap going on.

But you ain't come here to play school, right?
 
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I cant even believe we are discussing academics really, but if academics were that important to football then who the hell signed cordarell patterson? He is prob gonna have to enter the nfl draft just to escape going back to junior college.
 
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jefferson said:
This is nonsense. Remember Omari Phillips? He didn't get into UF so we took him. Last I checked UF blows UT away in academic rankings as well as football most years so there should be no reason why academic standards would hurt our football recruiting. You can be a top 25 research university and kick ass on the football field too. Look at Florida, Georgia, A&M, etc.

It's pretty easy to say "to hell with academics" when you didn't attend UT, or any college for that matter. I'm a UT student right now and I want my degree to be worth at least the paper it's printed on.
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This bears repeating. Many, many times.
 
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Yeah, Im an idiot. If I am then you can thank UT for my ignorance. Revenue is not the same as profit...which is what I am referring to. But Im sure you knew that already. Since you seem to be the smartest person here why dont you tell me where the biggest chunk of that revenue comes from.
 
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volzfanz said:
Yeah, Im an idiot. If I am then you can thank UT for my ignorance. Revenue is not the same as profit...which is what I am referring to. But Im sure you knew that already. Since you seem to be the smartest person here why dont you tell me where the biggest chunk of that revenue comes from.
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Jesus Christ.

Public universities aren't for-profit entities. Good luck finding information on how much profit UT turned.

The biggest chunk comes from tuition and fees.
 
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I don't know what the problem is.. For this being the supposed best job out there sure are a lot of coaches turning us down.. If Cheek is causing some roadblock then i think we should send him packing...
 
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