While I don't think Cheek has been a great chancellor, I also think he's been made a scapegoat by UT sports fans in ways that don't really fit his actual actions as chancellor. He wasn't the barrier to athletics success that people have made him out to be.
No doubt he's taken the blame for a lot of things that really have nothing to do with him, but I just find him arrogant and condescending, and I don't like him. That's enough for me. His handling of the Pearl saga was more than enough for me to want to see him ridden off campus on a rail. Even if the NCAA quietly left the university no choice, you don't throw a team of student-athletes under the bus like Cheek and Hamilton did (and let's not beat around the bush...Cheek was pulling Hamilton's chain through that entire process).
