Why is Cheek so reviled/hated by fans?

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VolsFanRJ said:
Cheek signed off on a $5 million buyout for Dooley. According to Faud Reviez Dooley basically sold UT on why they should hire him during his interview and was never really qualified to get the job to start with. Then you sign off on a $5 million buyout. Not smart.
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And Dooley received a contract extension after his first year.
 
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tennfever said:
Widely thought to be anti football person. Who knows if it's true or not. We do know he likes boogers.
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But it has been and continues to be used against us on the recruiting trail. I had a few problems with Fulmer but I don't think he forgot how to coach or recruit. Kiffin has expressed to others that Cheek puts UT behind the 8 ball in comparison to other SEC schools in terms of recruiting.
 
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UTK said:
You do realize its Cheek thats sticking his nose in Hart's business and making poor decisions.
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According to Charlie Strong's camp, Cheek was the point person in his interview. Never heard of the Chancellor interviewing HC for football.

To answer the OP's question. My problem with Cheek is his incessant babbling about how he is 'helping' the AD with its own money. The same money that overflowed through the academic department from a once successful football program, and basketball program to a lesser extent during the Pearl campaign.

I have a problem that Cheek has made these bold proclamations of making Tennessee a top 25 research school receiving government grant money from ORNL and record funds from the AD to only fall on his face and fail miserably.

I also hate how he took so much money and mismanaged it without any transparency as is generally required from a not for profit university and left our sports programs at a competitive disadvantage with a very slim reserve.

That being said, my problem is that he is either an incompetent bumbling goof as you have suggested or dishonest about what his true intentions at UT are. Neither of these criteria fit the job description as to what a Chancellor of a major university should bring to the table.

Other than that, he is OK I guess. Probably never shake hands with the man after seeing where he puts his hands during the CBJ press conference.
 
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T.N. Buckingham said:
James Cheek is one of the faces of the University of Tennessee. He should comport himself with dignity when he is before the public and in front of the camera. I expect the behavior he displayed in front of a national audience from a toddler. I don't expect it from the leader of my Alma mater.

Those who believe Alabama, LSU, Florida, and the other SEC programs hold their student-athletes to the same admission standards they place upon the rest of the student body are absolutely kidding themselves. You can't demand Doug Atkins and Reggie White on Saturday if you're only allowing Poindexter and Percy into class Monday through Friday. There just aren't enough Charles Davis and Peyton Manning-types in the nation's best academic high schools allowing you to compete against programs casting a wider net for talent.

The presence of Bobby Dodd and George Cafego on our campus didn't hurt Tennessee's reputation as a university in the 1920s and 1930s. Shazzon Bradley and Leonard Little didn't harm our academic ranking one iota in the 1980s and 1990s. The restrictions placed upon athletics by Cheek and his minions haven't done one thing to enhance the prestige of the University of Tennessee as an academic institution. It has only served to put us in the bottom-tier of athletics programs in terms of performance in our conference.

We can have quality academics and athletics. But you are not going to have quality athletics in the SEC with the existence of a climate overly-restrictive in admissions and completely hostile towards sports on campus. This is the climate Chancellor Cheek has created at Tennessee. The result? Too close to Sewanee and Tulane for comfort.

I have yet to see one of Cheek's defenders demonstrate to us how a level playing field for student-athlete admissions would pose harm either to the academic mission of the University of Tennessee or to their particular degree.
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And no one can, which is why Cheek should be put on one of those burning mattresses next time there is a 'riot'.
 
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UTK said:
He has his nose where it shouldn't be.
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I thought it was his thumb... While Cheek was teaching Etiquette 101, he:

1) Looked to his right to see if anyone was looking
2) Looked to his left to see if anyone was looking
3) Poked his thumb up his nose to swipe a booger
4) Innocently slid booger-infested thumb across bottom lip
5) Used teeth to remove booger from thumb
6) Proceeded to chew booger

He actually embarrassed UT, while at a press conference, by eating boogers.
 
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carpbc said:
I thought it was his thumb... While Cheek was teaching Etiquette 101, he:

1) Looked to his right to see if anyone was looking
2) Looked to his left to see if anyone was looking
3) Poked his thumb up his nose to swipe a booger
4) Innocently slid booger-infested thumb across bottom lip
5) Used teeth to remove booger from thumb
6) Proceeded to chew booger

He actually embarrassed UT, while at a press conference, by eating boogers.
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Best play by play of a man eating a booger I've ever seen. A+ post.
 
#110
#110
Some folks need to do there homework Cheek is a Chancellor not President. We actually have one but with the crap of all the short term Presidents each time Cheek diminished the power of UT'S President to the point almost where nobody knows anything about the guy in place.One thing we know is he can screw up an athletic dept. and pick his nose.
 
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Anyone here in Engineering School or have a kid in said school? How about Business or Nursing? How is that extra tuition doing getting that kid or you a job?
 
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