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This story makes me LIVID!!!!! That we even have to think about consulting a bloated, corrupt organization like the NCAA to be able to take care of one of our own is ABSURD!! It's time for the NCAA to go bye-bye. They have long outlived their usefulness and far overstepped their bounds. And their magnanimous jesture to approve contributions for medical expenses only is incredibly arrogant. Those guys make me SICK!!!!!!!!!

Awesome! I like CBJ better all the time!

Everyone says this is an NIT team. That's pretty arrogant and unrealistic given their level of play. This team's season will end after the first round of the tournament. Bring Back Bruce!!!

The NCAA AND Jimmy Cheek need to go!!!!

Cheek needs to go before the brand will start to recover. He and Hamilton presided over the dismantling of the AD and Cheek has not been held accountable!!

Exactly!!!! The only way to determne a champion is on the field. That's why they play the game! The NCAA should be embarrassed!!

Best one I've heard in a while. I just wish they could both loose!

We got exactly what we deserved, an up and coming young coach who is a proven winner. I for one appreciate that he WANTS to be here and has already turned down two other jobs! Nows if we can just get rid of Cheek, we'll be in good shape. It will take some time, but I'm a VOL and behind CBJ!!

I agree with wbsmd1! Clean house, and hire Fulmer as AD.

Why are the facilities and financial condition in such bad shape if Hamilton was the wizard with numbers that everyone thought? Maybe it would be a good time for the Trustees to have someone audit the books to see what Hamilton has done. Or maybe they need to hold themselves a little more accountable and take their job a little more seriously. To make this a thorough housecleaning, Cheek has to go as well. He and Hamilton presided over the dismantling of the athletic department and I can't understand why he isn't being held accountable. Hart has his job cut our for him and I hope he's up to the task. I don't think there is an established coach in the country that has any interest in working at Tennessee right now with the situation that it's in unless the pay is exorbitant. That means taking a chance on an up and comer which is risky at best. In that case, Hart better be right. This a very sad state of affairs for the Volunteer nation. Only the most faithful will survive this.

Of course we had an additional handicap the past few years in Mike Hamilton, who did all he could to run off people who had bought tickets for years and gouging those who stayed. He has done more to ruin the program with his bad coaching choices and disregard for the fan than the economy ever did. It will take years to undo, if ever. It's just unfortunate timing that the economy has been in the tank as well. Maybe Hammy can get his corporate buddies or family to chip in and take up the slack. Or maybe he can buy up the unused parking spaces to use with all the free tickets Cheek gave him with his parachute! What a couple of fruitcakes to be in charge of a major athletic department!!

Thank you Mikie Hamilton! Your legacy continues>

UT will feel the effects of Mikie's reign long after he is gone. This is just the beginning. Wait until the Buffalo game! And the ticket office is offending the very fan base that supports them. Amone should not be allowed to speak in public. There is nothing going on at UT this weekend that I personally care to travel to see. I don't even plan to watch on pay-per-view. I'm a long time fan, and always will be, but when the dumb-downed the schedule, they lost me until they compete with the big bous again. Good riddance Mikie!

Tennessee still has severe leadership problems. I don't see how anyone could allow the weasel who practically dismantled a top class athletic department to leave on his own terms and with a tidy package. I have to question the judgement of that. Hamilton is the worst thing to ever happen to UT and Jimmy Cheek is a close second. Neither has any leadership ability. We will continue to suffer until the house cleaning is complete. As far as Glazer is concerned, what do you expect from an attorney with a high sleaze factor. The same we get from a search firm that recommended an AD who was leveled by the NCAA just days before we were set to hire him.

Hamilton's ability to raise funds is about to end. Big companies won't pay for tickets they can't give away. Going to a UT ball game is no longer a big deal unless they are playing one of the national powers. Big donors won't give big dollars to support a mediocre sports program, which Hamilton has turned UT into. Magnificent facilities will not attract fans (or players) if the product is not competitive. Hamilton can't attract a name coach because he's a weasel. He deserves worse than what he did to Fulmer. I'm gone until he goes! Tennessee Big Orange Pride is only a memory.

Pure and simple! Hamilton has to go. He's a weasel. Don't forget the Raleigh hire. All this happened on his watch under his leadership, or lack of. He can't handle the high-powered egos of coaches. Only knows how to squeeze fans and students for more money. But that gravy train is about over for him. I've already told them not another nickle as long a he's there. More donors need to do the same.

Hamilton is the guy the NCAA is after for lack of institutional control. But they have to make an example of Pearl to do it. And in the process ruin the UT bball program for years to come. The sad thing is, the current talented team will take it on the chin.

Hamilton needs to go to show some institutional control by the UT administration. His "toughness" in handling the Pearl situation was only a clumsey attempt to save his own sorry hide! He showed absolutely none of this with Kiffen.

Hamilton MUST go!!!!!!!! The sooner the better.

Where's Mikie when you need him? Probably not much clout with the academic side. Or trying to shake somebody down for more money.

How can Hamilton say with a straight face that UNC was their first choice for a bowl game right after he paid $750,000 to buy out of a series because they are too tough. What kind of Kool-Aid is he trying to get UT fans to drink now. That guy is not only a coward, but a lying coward as well.

HE HAS GOT TO GO!!!!!!!!!

Does anuone find it ironic that we could end up playing a team that Mikie paid $750,000 not to play next year? According to his way of thinking, we don't have a chance against NC. Wonder how much it will cost to keep us away from NC in the bowl games?

Mikie's $4 million surplus will go quickly. Hope he goes as well!!!

I don't agree that Pearl should not be allowed to coach at Tennessee any more. He should be given another chance and be on a zero tolerance policy. Unfortunately, on the heels of Kiffen's stay, this whole thing is now about the Tennessee program in general. Slive didn't like Kiffen and Hamilton's lack of control over his coaches. The rule allowing him to suspend coaches was most likely a direct result of Kiffen's shenanigans. How appropriate that the first time it is used is against the same school that inspired it. Slive took a shot at Hamilton and the NCAA is getting ready to do the same. We are going to get hit with some major "lack of institutional control" penalties and they will be pointed directly at Hamilton.

He has got to go before we will be able to recover from this. Hamilton tried to appear in control by terminating Pearl's contract and docking his pay. I wonder why someone hasn't docked Hamilton's pay for lack of performance by now. That would certainly be appropriate. The surplus announced recently by the athletic department is all going to be spent defending the univeersity and his sorry record. All he did was build up a legal defense fund to save his own hide.

Hamilton must go!!!!!! In spite of all the nice new buildings and facilities he claims credit for, he is ruining our athletic department. We don't need to be worrying about Calipari or any other coaches. We have an alarming lack of ethics and character right at the top of our own athletic department. We have become a puch line and laughingstock nationally. It's all under Hamilton's watch. Fire Mikey!!!!!

We've traded a good athletic program for a $4 million surplus. I've said before, Hamilton is concerned about the dollars only. As long as he can fleece Tennessee fans into paying top dollar for a mediocre football program, the surpluses will continue. But once the fans (corporations) decide the football tickets are no longer a good value for the money (meaning they can't give them away), they will not stop buying. The surplus will go away in a hurry.

The problems with men's basketball demonstrates Hamilton's lack of oversight. He's too busy chasing money to worry about ethics. To him, ethics is merely a distraction that has a price tag. His response to Pearls lying was basically monetary. Another chance to save some money. And I don't think the NCAA is through with Pearl or the Bball program by a long shot. I hope he has learned his lesson and is able to stay, but, coming on the heels of the Kiffen and Orgeron troubles with recruiting and all, I think we will get hit for lack of institutional control. And that's a Hamilton's issue. Maybe Hamilton's salary should be appropriately docked for lack of performance.

Women's basketball remains strong simply because of the talent and strength of character of Pat Summit.

Football pays for just about everything else. Baseball is an embarrassment and the rest of the programs do not generate significant amounts of income. Hamilton better hope that Dooley works out because if he doesn't the corporations will abandon him. He has already run off the regular fans. At that point, the whole athletic program will suffer and the surpluses will go away. At that point it will be a very time consuming process to rebuild the fan base to waht it once was.

Hamilton is extremely ill qualified to run an athletic program. He has no understanding of or respect for what it means to be a Volunteer. It's all a dollar to him. And those will eventually dry up the way he operates. He has got to go!!!!!

Hamilton has got to go!!! Peterson may have needed to go, but Hamilton botched the process. Fulmer may have needed to go as well, but Hamilton butchered that process as well. He embarrassed the university and a coach who had given his life to the university, as well as won a national championship, and will go down in history as one of our best. Hamilton stripped the whole process of the dignity that should have been afforded Fulmer. He had certainly earned much better than the chop job Hamilton did on him.

To Hamilton, everything relates to the bottom line. No ethics, no morals, nothing else. If we can make one more buck, let's do it.

Tennessee is now a laughingstock and punch line nationally. Fans mean nothing to him other than a $ sign. He buys out good opponents and replaces them with Buffalo because he can make a little extra money. And then announces to the world that it is because they are too tough for us. No matter that the fans are now getting a substandard product for premium prices. This strategy is already starting to show cracks. Once the big corp. donors can;'t give away tickets because of watered down scehdules, they will stop buying. Then we will have more years when there are still Florida tickets available two weeks before the game (when has that happened in the past. Needless to say, we wouldn't be playing Florida and alabama if not for our membership in the conference. Too tough for us in Hamilton's view. It will continue to get worse until he leaves. He's probably working on a buy-out with NC State as we speak.

It all starts at the top. Mikie is too busy chasing the next dollar to provide any ethical leadership or oversight to the program. He is a total embarrassment to the Athletic Department and the University.

I don't even want to get started on what he's done to the baseball program. Another stellar personnel decision for Mikie. My only hope is that his departure is handled with the same dignity and sensitivity with which he handled Fulmer's.

When is Hamilton going to be held accountable for his poor performance. Pearl is his only bright spot, and that's wearing thin. His handling of the Fulmer situation was horrible, his hiring of Kiffen even worse, and now he wants to buy his way into a bowl game. And don't forget Todd Raleigh. There is something seriously wrong with the baseball program.

Hamilton has personally managed Tennessee to the lower levels of college athletics and made us the laughing stock of the nation. HE HAS GOT TO GO!!!!!

Who cares about the Heisman. It became irrelevant when it was awarded to Woodson!