This was a good read. Here is an interesting nugget from the article.
Meanwhile, others in Currie’s periphery, including influential donor Charlie Anderson, were doing their own outreach as sort of a “shadow” search, two sources told The Athletic. Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and his agent were approached during the shadow search.
And former Vols head coach Philip Fulmer was exerting his influence behind the scenes, attempting to “advise” Davenport and ultimately wrestle control away from Currie — who served as Tennessee’s executive assistant athletic director when Fulmer was fired in November 2008. Fulmer, too, was making calls to candidates before Currie did.
“There was, in my opinion, a group working to discredit John Currie,” a source said.
That source said at least one head coach who was interviewed for the Tennessee job said he wouldn’t take it because of Fulmer’s meddling and the feeling that, with Fulmer pulling strings, the new coach wouldn’t get a fair chance to succeed.
Meanwhile, others in Currie’s periphery, including influential donor Charlie Anderson, were doing their own outreach as sort of a “shadow” search, two sources told The Athletic. Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and his agent were approached during the shadow search.
And former Vols head coach Philip Fulmer was exerting his influence behind the scenes, attempting to “advise” Davenport and ultimately wrestle control away from Currie — who served as Tennessee’s executive assistant athletic director when Fulmer was fired in November 2008. Fulmer, too, was making calls to candidates before Currie did.
“There was, in my opinion, a group working to discredit John Currie,” a source said.
That source said at least one head coach who was interviewed for the Tennessee job said he wouldn’t take it because of Fulmer’s meddling and the feeling that, with Fulmer pulling strings, the new coach wouldn’t get a fair chance to succeed.
