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FWBVol writes:

in response to RememberWhen:

Your next piece of factual knowledge will be your first. The ONLY problem with the UTAD is the lack of winning! Blame Hamilton for the football coaching situation if you want, that's fine, but the bottom line is that if Fulmer hadn't gotten fat(ter), dumb and lazy the football program would still be elite, fans would still be flocking to Neyland, and boosters would still be dumping millions in. Hamilton made a decision to make a change. That's his call and his job. Kiffen was a quality hire and got better results right off the bat - on the field and moreso in recruiting - don't tell me about how many left because they came to play for Kiffin not Opie. The fact that Pearl got stupid about the same time and brought the NCAA to the doorstep with guns blazing forced Hamilton to hire Mr. I Can't Coach but I'm Squeeky Clean when Kiffin chose to take a better job. Those are the facts. The man made bad hires and of course chose to grossly overpay the WOMENS bball coach. All of the "cleaning house" in the UTAD has been initiated by Hart not Hamilton and was long overdue besides being the right thing to do so as to eliminate redundency and waste after the merger of the mens and womens depts. The solution is equally simple...WIN FOOTBALL GAMES AND GET BACK TO BEING ELITE. The combination of more ticket sales and larger donations that winning provides coupled with the efficiency gains administratively and added to the completion of payouts to bad coaches will be more than enough to get things back on track. It's not panic time - except for getting rid of Martin before he totally does to basketball what Fulmer/Dooley did to football - and it can turn quickly. All you little fools making your $9 an hour get excited about big numbers like $200 million but as the article points out...the experts find it more than acceptable so just S_T_F_U!!!

Here's a news flash for you Mr. Know It All, by your own statements you acknowledge the men and women athletic departments were separate under Hamilton's watch, which means Hamilton had nothing to do with Pat Summitt's contract. Also, the University had a master plan in place to merge the men and women departments long before things fell apart under Hamilton's watch.

As for Pat Summitt being overpaid, although you didn't call her by name, she's the winningest coach in the history of her sport and the includes men or women. Even if you buy the argument that it's not fair to compare the women's game with the men's game, which, by the way, I do, she is still the winningest coach in the history her sport of women's baskeetball. Pat Summitt won more national championships than anyone in the history of women's college basketball and helped the University of Tennessee bring in a lot of money during her time.

Even if you throw out all of those factors, by law the University of Tennessee was required to pay her a comparable salary to that of the men's coach.

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