After reaching out to LSU’s AD Joe Alleva, then being used as leverage for a new deal keeping Alleva at LSU, Tennessee is still without an athletic director.
Dave Hart Hired As New Tennessee Volunteers Athletic Director
He won’t exactly inherit the stablest operation in America, with shards of a football program still being glued back together by young coach Derek Dooley.
Interim AD Joan Cronan performed ably, holding the fort through both tragedy and turnover as state legend Pat Summitt revealed her Alzheimer’s diagnosis and the school hired a new men’s basketball coach.
Read Article >Tennessee Wants Joe Alleva, LSU Athletic Director, But Can’t Have Him
Tennessee is still searching for a replacement for departed athletic director Mike Hamilton, and contacted inter-conference rival LSU about their athletic director, Joe Alleva, The Advertiser reports.
However, LSU issued a press release on their Facebook page announcing that Alleva would remain at LSU under a restructured contract, presumably for more money.
Read Article >Mike Hamilton’s Replacement Is A Lady! (For Now)
Tennessee is one of the few major-college athletics programs in the country to field two directors, one for men’s sports and one for women’s, and according to Knoxville radio, the latter is about to take over for the former: Lady Vols’ athletic director Joan Cronan, will serve as interim AD for all sports in the absence of Mike Hamilton while the university searches for a replacement candidate.
That replacement will also be Cronan’s eventual replacement -- according to the Knoxville News-Sentinel, the new AD position will helm both departments, with Cronan moving up to serve in the school’s chancellor’s office in 2012.
Read Article >Ex-Vols Coach Phillip Fulmer Interested In Tennessee AD Position
Fulmer told ESPN’s Low:
Fulmer was fired after the 2008 season when his Volunteers went 5-7. But he went 152-52 in his career with Tennessee and won the first BCS National Title during the 1998 season.
Read Article >Mike Hamilton Press Conference: ‘I Have Become A Lightning Rod For Negative Attention’
Tennessee men’s AD Mike Hamilton’s resignation press conference was a brief affair, heavy on Biblical imagery and book report-quality remembrances and light on actual information. What few facts were gleaned from the Q & A session, in between Hamilton waxing awkwardly poetic, are collected below:
• Hamilton will serve as AD through June 30, and still intends to attend Saturday’s hearing with the Committee on Infractions in Indianapolis, where Tennessee will defend itself against charges of NCAA violations during the football and basketball reigns of Lane Kiffin and Bruce Pearl.
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