OT: Tennessee AD Texts Leaked -- CFB Search & Hoke Highlights
Thought this was too good to not share. Former Tennessee AD, John Currie, had his text messages revealed during the tumultuous head coaching search at UT this past winter.
Highlights include Currie calling Vols fans "wackos", and most importantly, confirmation that Brady Hoke communicates in all caps.
https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/977024285196931072
Hoke highlights:
"JOHN I HOPE YOU DO KNOW I WOULD LIKE TO BE YOUR HEAD FOOTBALL COACH I DO KNOW THE ENVIRONMENT WE LIVE IN AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AT TENNESSEE!"
"JOHN VERY SORRY TO HEAR WHAT HAS HAPPENED THIS IS THE BULL CRAP THAT COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS BECOME. IF I CAN BE OF ANY HELP PLEASE LET ME KNOW."
"JOHN I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN HARD DAVE BRANDON HAS GONE THRU THE MOB MENTALITY AS I HAVE IT MADE ME BETTER AND IT SUCKS. WE ARE BEHIND YOU AND IF I CAN BE OF ANY HELP LET ME KNOW"
...Currie responded with "I'm sorry who is this" to the last one.
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:01 AM ^
Brady Hoke being an all-caps-all-the-time guy seems so fitting
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:26 PM ^
Hoke has been called a lot of things, but "subtle" isn't one of them.
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:22 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:57 AM ^
The one in my head is
JOHN TELL ME AGAIN HOW I'M GONNA GET TO TEND THE RABBITS
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:58 AM ^
Logged in just to upvote!
Does he use all caps so he can get some claps in while typing?
Oh man, THAT score...ugh.
What the hell is he clapping for?
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:30 PM ^
I don't believe flip phones support emojis yet.
And here I assumed you were making up the Hoke texts.
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:07 AM ^
It's even worse than we thought.
Hoke was shouting because he wanted to make sure the Tennessee AD heard him since Hoke wasn't wearing his headset.
Not a lot of info in that story, but it's pretty easy to see that things were a giant cluster of fuckery down there...
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:05 AM ^
a program in chaos: a Hoke's natural habitat
Somebody late in his career who just wants to stay in the game will walk into situations that might ruin the career of a younger man. Nobody wants 2017 Tennessee on their resume.
Greg Robinson coming to Michigan would be another example.
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:37 AM ^
and hopefully more texts will be revealed, as the story is just starting to drop. However, the Hoke bits were just too good to not post haha.
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:10 AM ^
bUT NOT FuLLY CAPITALIZeD.
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:11 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:13 AM ^
Hoke is aware, but not fully aware of the Caps Lock key.
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:14 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:15 AM ^
JOHN I FOUND A QUARTER ON THE GROUND I'VE DECIDED TO KEEP IT
JOHN HOW DO YOU TELL IF A GUACAMOLE IS RIPE CALL ME
JOHN I THINK I'M LOST CAN YOU TEXT ME HOW TO GET HOME
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:18 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:24 AM ^
Look, I get when your life revolves around doing just one thing(in this case coaching football) it's easy to let development in other areas slide and I still think Hoke is, at heart, a decent dude, but this is just further evidence he never really seemed to develop past trying to drink every beer in Muncie, IN.
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:26 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:27 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:27 AM ^
Beilein: "Hey Brady, thanks for picking up the subs, but my order was for a turkey sub, not meatball"
Hoke: "SORRY JOHN I WAS AWARE BUT NOT FULLY AWARE OF UR ORDER"
Beilein: "No prob. Also there's a sandwich place just down Stadium, you didn't have to go all the way to Dexter"
Hoke: "I WOULD WALK ALL THE WAY TO ZEEB ROAD TO GET SUBS FOR YOU"
Beilein: "That's crazy"
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:38 AM ^
WINS THE INTERNETS TODAY!
March 23rd, 2018 at 11:46 AM ^
He knew those texts were going to be made public.... there is no other reason to not say
BULLSHIT!
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:43 AM ^
For the board posters on this one. Of of the )few) truly funny and witty threads. In fact,
I WOULD WALK FROM THE KITCHEN ALL THE WAY TO MY MOM'S BASEMENT JUST TO READ THESE FOR FREE THIS IS MGOBLOG FERGODSAKES
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:45 PM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:45 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:49 AM ^
Must have been an, um, interesting dynamic when Brady Hoke and John Beilein were in the same room.
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:56 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 10:58 AM ^
because otherwise all of his written messages would have Cheeto fingerprint dust on them.
March 23rd, 2018 at 11:02 AM ^
Sounds like my 4 year old.
PAPA MY TEACHERS TELL ME TO SAY PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
TWO PUPPIES ARE NOT TOO MUCH PUPPIES.
AT NIC-DONALDS I GOT A SHAN-ROCK SHAKE BUT I SPILLED SOME ON MY PANTS
March 23rd, 2018 at 11:25 AM ^
with some very nice flowers and the words, naturally in all caps, that SPRING HAS SPRONG. It has indeed.
If only Brady texted the way he spoke.
JOHN UH I UH THINK WE HAVE UH A REAL GOOD FOOTBALLTEAM AND UH I AM PROUD TO BE THEIR UH FOOTBALL COACH. FOOTBALL.
March 23rd, 2018 at 11:21 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 11:43 AM ^
I can only imagine Hoke wandering around that campus....
JOHN WAS IT RIGHT OR LEFT OFF CUMBERLAND TO GET TO PANDA EXPRESS?
JOHN I THINK I WALKED TOO FAR NOW AT OFFICE OUTFITTERS.
JOHN DO YOU NEED A CREDENZA?
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:12 PM ^
He put a lot of effort into the texts. Just didn't execute.