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Interesting the blame on Jimmy Haslam. So the Browns and the Vols are tied together at the hip?

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They really do have a problem.

I was a bit confused at first, then realized that UT's nomenclature for their executive management is backwards from ours. Whereas we have a President for each campus, and a Chancellor who is over the system, they're the opposite. A Chancellor for each campus, and a President for the system.

So system President Di Pietro fired campus Chancellor Davenport.

The trouble is, a quick Google search turned up a recent Knoxville News article saying that Di Pietro is leaving not later than the end of his contract in about a year, and possibly as early as this fall. Which means there's a good possibility that both positions will be vacant at the same time.

Under those circumstances, good luck attracting a quality candidate for either.

Further, the BOT is reducing from nearly 30 members to 13-15. Which could be reducing meddling, or Haslam consolidating power. My money's on the latter.

So Haslam is effectively the dictator. Fulmer is running unchecked. There is no campus executive, and the system exec is a lame duck.

This is a clown car circling a dumpster fire that was started by a train wreck.
 
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4Q Basket Case said:
They really do have a problem.

I was a bit confused at first, then realized that UT's nomenclature for their executive management is backwards from ours. Whereas we have a President for each campus, and a Chancellor who is over the system, they're the opposite. A Chancellor for each campus, and a President for the system.

So system President Di Pietro fired campus Chancellor Davenport.

The trouble is, a quick Google search turned up a recent Knoxville News article saying that Di Pietro is leaving not later than the end of his contract in about a year, and possibly as early as this fall. Which means there's a good possibility that both positions will be vacant at the same time.

Under those circumstances, good luck attracting a quality candidate for either.

Further, the BOT is reducing from nearly 30 members to 13-15. Which could be reducing meddling, or Haslam consolidating power. My money's on the latter.

So Haslam is effectively the dictator. Fulmer is running unchecked. There is no campus executive, and the system exec is a lame duck.

This is a clown car circling a dumpster fire that was started by a train wreck.
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4Q Basket Case said:
They really do have a problem.

I was a bit confused at first, then realized that UT's nomenclature for their executive management is backwards from ours. Whereas we have a President for each campus, and a Chancellor who is over the system, they're the opposite. A Chancellor for each campus, and a President for the system.

So system President Di Pietro fired campus Chancellor Davenport.

The trouble is, a quick Google search turned up a recent Knoxville News article saying that Di Pietro is leaving not later than the end of his contract in about a year, and possibly as early as this fall. Which means there's a good possibility that both positions will be vacant at the same time.

Under those circumstances, good luck attracting a quality candidate for either.

Further, the BOT is reducing from nearly 30 members to 13-15. Which could be reducing meddling, or Haslam consolidating power. My money's on the latter.

So Haslam is effectively the dictator. Fulmer is running unchecked. There is no campus executive, and the system exec is a lame duck.

This is a clown car circling a dumpster fire that was started by a train wreck.
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their new jumbotron video

 
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Davenport will earn $1.7 million for four years of work as a tenured communications professor even though she was dismissed for poor communication skills.
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She uses to many fancy words for the folks in Knoxville. She should have bought Jeff's book.

 
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Sounds like she's going back as part of the faculty, if I read that termination letter right.

How in the world does someone like that get hired for such a position?

Of that's right....were talking 10RC.....:biggrin2:
 
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