Should we get rid of Jimmy Cheek!

#26
#26
orange_peel said:
Jimmy Cheek and David alabama Hart both need to be fired.
Click to expand...

Off with their heads....every dmn one of them. Cheek, Hart, Dooley...Go ahead and do the basketball and baseball coaches too. Board of Trustees. Kill them all.Then you can start on the department heads...roll them down the steps and into the basket too. Is there anybody else we want to fix while it's all set up ?
:crazy:
 
#28
#28
So because Cheek was the dean of UF's college of agriculture he's out to destroy UT's athletic programs? Got it.

I'm not supporting him or hanging him but he's a native Texan who went to A&M, I doubt his professional affiliation with UF governs how he views our athletics. This thought that everyone hates/is out to destroy UT because they went to or worked for another university prior, reeks of uneducated rednecks.

If y'all want to ***** about his pay raise in the midst of tuition hikes, so be it.

But if anything, the guy knows what a top notch university and top notch football program look like and how they operate together. Yes, UF is light years ahead of UT in both.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#29
#29
Volnation is ****ing crazy! Lets keep firing everyone, that will fix all our issues right guys?! Thank god none of y'all run real companies.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#30
#30
Should we get rid of Jimmy Cheek? I have read this a lot lately, but unfortunetly unless you donate a $hit ton of money it is not up to you or any of us. I don't like him either but there is nothing we can do about it. Make all the threads you want about it, but the "should we get rid of Jimmy Cheek" tatic is useless. Sorry bro but its the truth.
 
#33
#33
Yes, but the reasons have nothing to do with athletics. It's as if some doofuses on here don't realize there's a major university sitting around the football stadium.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#34
#34
time to rid the hill of the outsiders.

Cheek-gator
Hart-bamer
Dooley-who cares where he is from.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#37
#37
Cyclopskiller said:
Wtf does it matter, boy?
Click to expand...

Because I'm assuming the idiot doesn't realize the school president, who is actually pretty good, went to school in Illinois, among a handful of other examples.

"Rid the hill of outsiders" is something only someone who thinks the school runs on athletics would say.
 
#38
#38
rockytop9808 said:
Because I'm assuming the idiot doesn't realize the school president, who is actually pretty good, went to school in Illinois, among a handful of other examples.

"Rid the hill of outsiders" is something only someone who thinks the school runs on athletics would say.
Click to expand...

Gotcha, just thought you was trying to big boy him to be a dick. My bad! :eek:k:
 
#39
#39
Eye think its hilarious that so many folks are deluded into thinking that the "Universities surrounding the stadium" aren't heavily (and Eye mean HEAVILY) financed by the cash cow that is athletics, mainly football. The arrogance it takes to pretend that most universities would exist in anything remotely similar to their current configurations without the money provided by the football program is amazing....
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
#40
#40
That being said... It IS a pretty adolescent attitude to want to "run off all those Fer'ners" from the University... Every time I see that thought process put out there, all I can think of is Alabama fans who didn't want anything to do with a coach that wasn't somehow connected to Bryant... It took 20 years for Bammers to understand that good coaches exist outside of Bryant's sphere of influence....
 
#41
#41
bluetickhound16 said:
Eye think its hilarious that so many folks are deluded into thinking that the "Universities surrounding the stadium" aren't heavily (and Eye mean HEAVILY) financed by the cash cow that is athletics, mainly football. The arrogance it takes to pretend that most universities would exist in anything remotely similar to their current configurations without the money provided by the football program is amazing....
Click to expand...

I would agree that the athletics program brings recognition to the school (and helps with enrollment to an extent), but where exactly are you figuring that tons of money piles into the school from the football program?

At Tennessee, the AD and the university are separated. The AD is self sustaining. Yes, they donate money, but the vast majority of money that is donated to the university comes from elsewhere. This would be why scholarships and buildings on campus are named after companies or private donors (Haslam Business Building, Min Kao Building, etc.) and not athletes.

This is the same reason I laugh at the morons on campus who complain about how the university is wasting money by keeping Neyland's lights on frequently.
 
#42
#42
I'm no authority on the subject by any means but I would imagine a good many of the private donors (like Haslam and Thornton, among others) write checks to both entities... All that being said, I do believe Cheek's time has come at UT.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#43
#43
bluetickhound16 said:
I'm no authority on the subject by any means but I would imagine a good many of the private donors (like Haslam and Thornton, among others) write checks to both entities... All that being said, I do believe Cheek's time has come at UT.
Click to expand...

...yes, but how is that the football program pumping money into the school?

I'd assume guys like Haslam would be donating to the school anyway if for nothing more than PR purposes.
 
#44
#44
rockytop9808 said:
...yes, but how is that the football program pumping money into the school?

I'd assume guys like Haslam would be donating to the school anyway if for nothing more than PR purposes.
Click to expand...

I was looking at it from the other side if the mirror.... I assumed guys like that donated mainly to the UTAD and threw a little coin over to the academic department to make it look like they cared about UT as a whole (which is totally in line with your PR viewpoint...) rather than just the football program.... Like I said, I don't really know a lot about how the funding works but my assumption was that the AD funneled quite a bit into the academic side to keep the 'AA as a whole happy....
 
#45
#45
Fire Jimmy Cheek!

Make Derek Dooley the president and tell him to keep his nose out of the football program.
 
#46
#46
bluetickhound16 said:
I was looking at it from the other side if the mirror.... I assumed guys like that donated mainly to the UTAD and threw a little coin over to the academic department to make it look like they cared about UT as a whole (which is totally in line with your PR viewpoint...) rather than just the football program.... Like I said, I don't really know a lot about how the funding works but my assumption was that the AD funneled quite a bit into the academic side to keep the 'AA as a whole happy....
Click to expand...

The Haslams at least donate significantly larger amounts than "a little coin".

I would go so far as to say that I doubt the major academic donations are influenced much at all by football success.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#47
#47
rockytop9808 said:
...yes, but how is that the football program pumping money into the school?

I'd assume guys like Haslam would be donating to the school anyway if for nothing more than PR purposes.
Click to expand...

It's been reported that the AD donates ~8 million dollars to the academic side every year. That probably won't be an option anymore unless Cheek wants to bankrupt the AD.
 
#49
#49
jjay2518 said:
It's been reported that the AD donates ~8 million dollars to the academic side every year. That probably won't be an option anymore unless Cheek wants to bankrupt the AD.
Click to expand...

For a school with revenues over a billion dollars I don't think that is a big issue.

And you can see for yourself how much the AD donates every year at halftime of one of the football games. It's basically a PR move.
 
#50
#50
I guess my viewpoint stems from anecdotal evidence I have seen at (ironically enough...) Troy University... I grew up in Columbus Georgia not far away and it was always Troy State back then... The football program was nothing and the school was pretty much an afterthought, a place kids went who didn't get accepted by Auburn or Bama... The football program starts exploding and next thing you know the campus is buzzing with construction activity and quite a few nice new buildings are in place there now that I'm pretty sure were mainly financed through money briught in by the team... I could totally be off base here but it does seem mighty coincidental that Troy's growth into a destination university and the football teams rise to national conciousness went hand in hand... I realize that is not a fair comparison to a land grant university like Tennessee (which existed long before football was a word anybody in America spoke...).
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top