No plan on how to pay Dooley

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#27
We can barely pay the coach that's leaving and you guys think we can afford Gruden. Priceless.
 
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#28
#28
Why would Cheek even make that type of comment? How does it help our program? Right now there is obviously problems bubbling to the surface between the AD and Cheek.
 
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GAVol said:
I don't believe this for a second. This is not the type of move that gets made without all the ducks being in a row.
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exactly my thoughts after I read his statement. This statement was made for a reason but I'm not well versed at reading between the lines.
 
#31
#31
This is why we have a hoops coached named cuonzo. This is just funny at this point. The last 4 years of paying buyouts we have no money left. Haha
 
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coug said:
We can barely pay the coach that's leaving and you guys think we can afford Gruden. Priceless.
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With Gruden's ESPN gig and other sponsorship deals and such he makes almost 10 mil a year..he would be asking at least 11 mil or higher JUST to take the job at UT..the school cant AFFORD that!!! the athletics dept is flat BROKE!!! looks like a bottom feeder for our next coach UNLESS our high paying boosters pull out the checkbooks and tell UT "we will pay WHATEVER it takes to bring Gruden here next yr!!!"
 
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diehardvolsfan said:
With Gruden's ESPN gig and other sponsorship deals and such he makes almost 10 mil a year..he would be asking at least 11 mil or higher JUST to take the job at UT..the school cant AFFORD that!!! the athletics dept is flat BROKE!!! looks like a bottom feeder for our next coach UNLESS our high paying boosters pull out the checkbooks and tell UT "we will pay WHATEVER it takes to bring Gruden here next yr!!!"
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The HIGHEST paid college football coach right now is Mack Brown of Texas Longhorns at 5.19mil per year. At this point I don't even know if UT could afford 3 mil per year.
 
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Honky said:
"The University of Tennessee does not yet have a plan for how it will finance a multimillion-dollar buyout of former head football coach Derek Dooley, who was fired Sunday, Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said today."

How do you fire someone but have no plan on how to pay him?!!


UT's Cheek: No plan yet for funding coaching buyout » GoVolsXtra
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There's no plan as of yet because they haven't figured who is going to pony up the cash donations to the athletic department. UT is operating on such a slim budget right now that Hamilton and Cheek know that if they even hinted at taking it out of the general funds there would be a full scale revolt on their hands by both faculty (forced to do more with less) AND students who've been forced to pay more and more and for less services.

It would resemble the student protests of late sixties or worse when Nixon crashed the Billy Graham Crusade at UT back in the day.
 
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coug said:
The HIGHEST paid college football coach right now is Mack Brown of Texas Longhorns at 5.19mil per year. At this point I don't even know if UT could afford 3 mil per year.
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Hell, they would cover his first year salary via merchandise sales for Christmas if they hired Gruden.
 
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#49
#49
A few thoughts:
1.) Payout is in installments and not a lump sum
2.) @ UT Prof you want to see protests see us hiring us some no name
3.) If you think we did not realize we were going to pay 5 mil or more for our next coach then you have not been paying attention to the media, who we bash all the time, but do have sources
4.) There has already been talk about money coming back to the AD
5.) Would not be surprised if this was a power play statement by Cheek to try to "protest" Hart and his taking control of the AD
 
#50
#50
A multi gas station owner, a food distribution owner, and a quarterback will be funding the buyout and 1st year salary of new head coach
 
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