Gribble on Twitter: Hart hired as AD, "done deal"
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Wait, what? We just hired an Alabama boy as AD?
Ew!
by GhostDance on Sep 5, 2011 5:01 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Rumors are he'll be taking Bama's compliance director as well...
Mike Ward. What’s the over/under on the number of minutes it takes for us to see Clay Travis trying to back away from his suit store articles?
Fumbles. It was always Fumbles
I've got a great idea
Let’s hire this guy and let that be the end of the crazy ride we’ve been on for the last 3 years.
Might as well welcome him into the job the right way. First question:
Why are we backing out of our game with Oregon?
Follow-up:
Why couldn’t we cancel with Western Kentucky or South Alabama?
Next question:
When is North Carolina going back on the schedule?
Formerly 'snail. You get used to it after a while.
by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 5:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Followup:
Will you sing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida, or just Alabama?
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 5:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Have you given the NCAA copies of the paper trail for Alabama’s undeclared violations over the last few years? What are you waiting for?
Is there a factory for Bama-banged QBs, or is Auburn’s QB-cloning facility the only QB mass production facility in the state?
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions
What’s the higher priority, playing another FCS team or begging boosters for money to build yet another workout room?
Exactly how much did it cost the university to buy out of our commitment to Oregon?
'Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.' -Frank Herbert
OurAthleticDirectorIsNowHere
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by birdjam on Sep 5, 2011 10:53 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
This is why they only let the press in to those news conferences...
'Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.' -Frank Herbert
Oh, come on.
We’re legitimate.
Ish.
::paints mustache on Nick Saban statue::
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I bet we'd come up with a pretty good slate of questions.
It’s the “uncomfortably candid” part that would keep us from ever getting credentialed.
Yeah, I think we'd be fine.
But I really want to paint that mustache.
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Press conference link is live at the top.
Please to refresh.
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Listening to presser
but making dinner, so can’t transcribe. Assistance would be appreciated.
(Nothing’s happened yet. CHAIR!)
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions
I hate Alabama.
Better off if we had hired a former Compliance Facilitator from the Soviet Union.
This guy better piss and bleed orange.
by GhostDance on Sep 5, 2011 6:29 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
David Cutcliffe says "hi"
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by Incipient_Senescence on Sep 5, 2011 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm just gonna go ahead and say
WOO!!!!!!
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by Incipient_Senescence on Sep 5, 2011 6:32 PM EDT reply actions
(it's not the same.)
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions
any idea when this thing is starting?
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by Incipient_Senescence on Sep 5, 2011 6:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Supposed to be 8 minutes ago.
Maybe we’ll just be watching this in perpetuity.
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions
alright
well tell me if you get picture, because I never trust my feed. also, do they air this on TV anywhere? ‘Cause I’m actually in Tennessee right now, and that’d be awesome.
Heel for school, Vol for life!
Bolts, Preds, Canes (childhood team, home state team, hometown team). Canes mini-STH. Southern hockey solidarity!
by Incipient_Senescence on Sep 5, 2011 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions
never mind, got it
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by Incipient_Senescence on Sep 5, 2011 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm inherently a little distrustful of the Vice Chancellor bit.
Having the athletic department somewhat separated from the academic side of things has been largely beneficial. Having watched our Faculty Senate, I just don’t trust them to be any further involved, which I fear this new title may allow.
I'm gonna guess that was mostly executive-speak?
Anything useful in there?
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This feels like
me responding to Will’s “what do you think about the line?” question. Engineering answer GO!
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions
This looks like a homerun hire by any definition of the word
I’m not sure why there are some folks grumbling about it. We hired a guy from Alabama. Alabama didn’t want him to leave. That means this hire both helps Tennessee AND hurts Alabama? Isn’t that the ideal? The best thing ever? Answer: yes.
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by Incipient_Senescence on Sep 5, 2011 7:15 PM EDT reply actions
Agreed - I like it.
My concern medium-term is that he’ll want to bring in “his guys”, so we’re in for yet another round of coaching changes. That being said, that would happen with anyone. But from what I can tell, he sounds like the guy.
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 7:18 PM EDT up reply actions
that's also my only concern
but he seems like he and CDD would get along great.
Heel for school, Vol for life!
Bolts, Preds, Canes (childhood team, home state team, hometown team). Canes mini-STH. Southern hockey solidarity!
by Incipient_Senescence on Sep 5, 2011 7:20 PM EDT up reply actions
It'd be more likely in the other sports.
If Dooley does well, there’s no way he interrupts that to bring in “his guy”. That’s a sure fire ticket downriver. If Dooley does poorly, it doesn’t matter if Hart’s a new AD or not.
Agreed.
Also, since Dooley has Saban roots, that may bode in his favor.
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions
someone clarify
But as I understand wasn’t he the AD during some dirty dealing in FL?
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by Joseph Stanley on Sep 5, 2011 7:22 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Yes/No.
Not sure how much he knew/could have known, and his departure to Alabama was in process before anything broke. (Again, not sure what was known at that time.)
I think he was part of the FSU front office during the 90s.
I don’t know many of the details, though.
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by Chris Pendley on Sep 5, 2011 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions
I know he was fired
What I know is minimal. They fired him, and the athletic programs were pretty much in the toilet (language warning) when they did it. Beyond that I confess my knowledge is minimal of the incidents in question.
BloodSpite
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." -John Heisman
"Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach". -Woody Hayes
by Joseph Stanley on Sep 5, 2011 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Found it!
25+ player cheating scandal that the FSU President alleged Hart was involved in.
Scout has a more detailed breakdown of it.
And while those two links are fairly serious I couldn’t help but chuckle over this one which says that he hates cheerleaders.
BloodSpite
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." -John Heisman
"Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach". -Woody Hayes
by Joseph Stanley on Sep 5, 2011 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Sweet!
I like this hire.Far moreso than the LSU or Georgia Tech guy.
Plus, he’s Rick Hart’s dad. UTC AD Rick Hart that is…..
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