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Title: This is cause for celebration Post by: Creek Walker on June 21, 2016, 04:44:25 EDT Cheek will announce his retirement in about 15 minutes, per Jimmy Hyams. Plans to stay on until the spring while a successor is being named.
Title: Re: This is cause for celebration Post by: droner on June 21, 2016, 05:18:50 EDT I just received his Message of Gratitude in my email.
Title: Re: This is cause for celebration Post by: HerbTarlekVol on June 21, 2016, 06:03:49 EDT Wouldn't surprise me to see Hart follow suit by year's end. He has accomplished the mission for which he was hired to do.
Title: Re: This is cause for celebration Post by: Clockwork Orange on June 21, 2016, 06:14:42 EDT 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.
Title: Re: This is cause for celebration Post by: Black Diamond Vol on June 21, 2016, 06:37:29 EDT Does this mean we're allowed to chant "FU Florida" now? :toothless:
Title: Re: This is cause for celebration Post by: Creek Walker on June 21, 2016, 08:37:58 EDT 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). Title: Re: This is cause for celebration Post by: Clockwork Orange on June 21, 2016, 08:42:24 EDT 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). I'm not sure how much of the blame for that resides with Hamilton vs. Cheek but I agree with you 100% that stronger leadership makes that whole situation 1000x better, and that was a MAJOR athletics failure under his watch. Title: Re: This is cause for celebration Post by: Tnphil on June 22, 2016, 02:30:51 EDT Weak leadership has gotten our program in the mess it's been in for years. Heads should have rolled long ago, IMO.
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