As Chancellor Davenport continues to get settled into her new position at the University of Tennessee. The work on the search for a new athletics director continues to heat up.
According to multiple sources, Tennessee's search committee which includes former Vol quarterback Peyton Manning among others will get together on Sunday for the first time since the committee was named. We believe the meeting will also include Dr. Davenport as well as Tennessee's hired search firm, Turnkey.
This past week, Turnkey visited with candidates including Phillip Fulmer and David Blackburn about the vacancy. Some of those meetings with candidates Turnkey is vetting out took place face to face in the northeast which is where Turnkey is headquartered.
It's our understanding that Sunday's committee meeting is an organizational meeting and is just a preliminary meeting. We don't' expect it to include any interviews with the finalists for the job. Those interviews will occur at a later date which could be somewhere around the first of next month we are told. But we haven't confirmed any specific dates.
The other question is who the finalists going to be. Phillip Fulmer and David Blackburn are thought to be two of the finalists. We think it's likely the committee will formally interview 3-4 candidates. One name we are continuing to hear today is North Carolina athletics director Bubba Cunningham. It's a name we are continuing to track to see how serious the interest level might be from both Cunningham and Tennessee.
According to multiple sources, Tennessee's search committee which includes former Vol quarterback Peyton Manning among others will get together on Sunday for the first time since the committee was named. We believe the meeting will also include Dr. Davenport as well as Tennessee's hired search firm, Turnkey.
This past week, Turnkey visited with candidates including Phillip Fulmer and David Blackburn about the vacancy. Some of those meetings with candidates Turnkey is vetting out took place face to face in the northeast which is where Turnkey is headquartered.
It's our understanding that Sunday's committee meeting is an organizational meeting and is just a preliminary meeting. We don't' expect it to include any interviews with the finalists for the job. Those interviews will occur at a later date which could be somewhere around the first of next month we are told. But we haven't confirmed any specific dates.
The other question is who the finalists going to be. Phillip Fulmer and David Blackburn are thought to be two of the finalists. We think it's likely the committee will formally interview 3-4 candidates. One name we are continuing to hear today is North Carolina athletics director Bubba Cunningham. It's a name we are continuing to track to see how serious the interest level might be from both Cunningham and Tennessee.
