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Phillip Fulmer for Athletic Director?
The conversation on who will be the Vols' next athletic director is sure to go a number of different directions, but among the masses it will start here. It's been less than three years since Phillip Fulmer was on the Tennessee sideline, and now that both the coach who replaced him and the...
Mike Hamilton's Legacy: The Parallel Tracks
Revolutions have a way of running their course, and the nature of the pendulum is to eventually swing back the other way. So while Tennessee's athletic department remains in the midst of turmoil and is headed to Indianapolis to plead its case this weekend, the man who started it all by giving the...
Talking Points: Was the Bruce Pearl Era a Failure?
ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER. Many of today's news items use yesterday's firing of Todd Raleigh merely as a place to jump off on Mike Hamilton. Team Speed Kills notes, among other things, that Tennessee is now paying over $7 million dollars to former coaches in all three of its major...
Was The Ticket Violation A Pretense For Bruce Pearl's Termination?
Yesterday, Mike Griffith divulged the details surrounding the March free tickets violation that Mike Hamilton cited as partial justification for revoking his earlier-stated support of Bruce Pearl. Here's what happened, essentially. UT players are supposed to get four free tickets to home games. The...
Tennessee Hires Cuonzo Martin as Basketball Head Coach
Tennessee has hired Missouri State's Cuonzo Martin to replace terminated head basketball coach Bruce Pearl. Suffice it to say that this is not what I would consider to be the most intimidating hire Tennessee could possibly make. Martin is coming off a very strong season in which his team went...
Save Bruce Pearl
[UPDATE, 03/21/11 3:22 PM EDT ] Sigh. Bruce Pearl's been fired. A huge thank you to Mrs. Hooper for creating this for us I'm off the fence. Not sure I was ever really on it. Bruce Pearl should stay as the basketball coach at the University of Tennessee. I believe this more now, on the heels of...
Should Bruce Pearl be fired? What about Mike Hamilton?
The wins, the violations, the lies, the interview. We run the least boring athletic department in the nation. So on the heels of Mike Hamilton's "we'll evaluate it at the end of the season" kiss of death, what do you think Tennessee should do with its basketball coach and its athletic director? ...
Bruce Pearl did not report bump violation; Mike Hamilton says he will be evaluated after the season
In an interview with Jimmy Hyams that will air on The Sports Animal just after 3:00 PM EDT today, it's being reported that Mike Hamilton will reveal that Bruce Pearl's bump violation - which came just four days after the initial, tearful press conference that first revealed the NCAA investigation -...
A Breakdown of Lane Kiffin's "violations" at Tennessee
My friend BRDCSTR once again cuts to the chase...cutting out the background noise to get to the heart of the matter. Lots of peas but not a lot of steak... I decided to research just what those six violations were, and quite frankly, was surprised to discover just how trivial they actually were...
What would it take for Tennessee to let Bruce Pearl go?
On the first day of December 2007, Tennessee played in the SEC Championship Game. Twelve weeks later, the #2 Vols beat #1 Memphis in basketball, en route to the program's first appearance at the top of the polls and an SEC Championship. A month later, Pat Summitt won her eighth National...
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