jaybone
Well-known member
Despite the May 1st date, there is zero chance that Currie is not the one to do initiate the firing and do the hiring search. In some ways, it frees him up to focus solely on that.
This is the best case scenario from one year ago and the reason it was a good thing we didn't fire Manning one year out of a pretty good year (the Collins year). Wellman would have gotten his 5th choice hire as a dead man walking and we'd have four more years of some form of this. It was a gamble. There was no guarantee that Wellman would leave. I'm not sure he's living entirely willingly but it sounds like the health of wife may have made him reconsider the desire to fight to stay the man in charge with forces wanting him out.
Don't know much about Currie, but I am not too worried about hiring Bruce Pearl. You have to take on the culture of your institution a bit and Pearl made Tennessee relevant in hoops and arguably paved the way for Barnes. We'll see how Currie goes about this. Would be awesome if we let Manning go on Monday as well but I doubt it.
This is the best case scenario from one year ago and the reason it was a good thing we didn't fire Manning one year out of a pretty good year (the Collins year). Wellman would have gotten his 5th choice hire as a dead man walking and we'd have four more years of some form of this. It was a gamble. There was no guarantee that Wellman would leave. I'm not sure he's living entirely willingly but it sounds like the health of wife may have made him reconsider the desire to fight to stay the man in charge with forces wanting him out.
Don't know much about Currie, but I am not too worried about hiring Bruce Pearl. You have to take on the culture of your institution a bit and Pearl made Tennessee relevant in hoops and arguably paved the way for Barnes. We'll see how Currie goes about this. Would be awesome if we let Manning go on Monday as well but I doubt it.