Always someone else's fault. Clawson is a tremendous flop? Clawson's fault, not the guy that hired him. Custom built furniture designed to specifications approved by the buyers before ordering not to the buyer's liking? Furniture store's fault. Lose to Vanderbilt in a year you were picked #3 preseason? Perfect storm's fault.
So is Blackburn out of the picture? Only at Tennessee would we have a guy that almost everybody likes, but someone gets upset about their lack of say, so we end up getting somebody that nobody wants.
Important hire. Need to have a search firm to find a search firm who can identify a consultant who can suggest a search firm who can recruit a committee who can recruit a new athletic director. Probably seems excessive to you ordinary Joe types, but this is how big business gets done.
Jimmy was saying that only way UT was going to hire a search firm is if they can deliver someone we couldn't identify ourselves. So if that logic holds true Fulmer/Blackburn/Gilbert would be out. However that logic probably doesn't hold true and we ended up wasting a bunch of money.
Hell, Dave Odom said last week that his firm had already been hired. Gonna hire a firm who will deliver the guy wanted the whole time just so you can control the optics and narrative to the orange overall crowd