Radakovich not interested in Tennessee
It shouldn’t come as a great surprise, but Georgia Tech athletic director Dan Radakovich said Friday he has no interest in becoming the next athletic director at Tennessee. The opening at Tennessee was one of a number of topics covered in a wide-ranging interview with the AJC that will be published next week.
“I’m really happy here at Georgia Tech,” Radakovich said, adding that he had had no contact with Tennessee.
In light of his previous employment at LSU, Miami and South Carolina and his producitve tenure at Georgia Tech, Radakovich has often been linked to high-profile AD openings.
Tennessee is in search for a replacement to Mike Hamilton, who announced his resignation Tuesday. Tennessee has been charged with major NCAA violations in men’s basketball and football and goes before the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions Saturday.
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Not a Hewitt Fan
June 11th, 2011
9:57 pm
Now, lets get down to the last “less with more” coach left on campus, one D. Hall. Talk about a whiffer. Get someone who knows how to coach AND recruit. As much talent that has passed thru Russ Chandler, we should have more to show…ya know?
sports
June 11th, 2011
11:26 pm
him not interested ’cause they ain’t calling…that’s the real reason knothead, got it?
Gen Neyland
June 11th, 2011
11:29 pm
Happy to be at GT…No contact with Tennessee…So the story is..? Geez Ken, can you say sensational journalism wanting to create news that ain’t..?
UGASlobberknocker
June 12th, 2011
8:03 am
under normal circumstances, UT is a far better job..but with the current situation, even Tech looks better than UT right now..so this isnt surprising. If another SEC school not in trouble comes calling, tho, he is prob gone.
Joey
June 12th, 2011
9:48 am
Good news for Tech! As a UGA fan, I think he is one of the best in the business.
gtfanfrom1951
June 12th, 2011
2:07 pm
I don’t understand why we have to change our look N.D., Navy, Southern Cal, and Bama all keep the same look year in and year out. I do like the navy blue jersey from 1990 but we should have kept the gold pants from Bobby Dodd err.
Ken Sugiura
June 12th, 2011
3:10 pm
To clarify, I asked him if he had interest. The full answer was, “No, I’m really happy here at Georgia Tech.”
Gen. Neyland, I’m not sure if I’d call it sensationalist, but you’re entitled to your opinion. I think some people were wondering. I think if you don’t at least clarify, even if the answers themselves are the least intriguing combination, it leaves the questions out there.
Da' Truth
June 12th, 2011
6:39 pm
Why would he leave a cream puff job at Tech where they not only expect mediocrity but reward it with large rollover contracts? It would be career suicide to go to a SEC school where they demand excellence.
threetrone
June 12th, 2011
7:33 pm
I can respond to commenters. Bringing racism in was not what I meant. When I was at Tech we had Eddie McAshan as quarterback and nobody cared that he was black at all, and I never heard any negative talk around whites about him being black. I believe that Hewitt was black, not a Tech former player, and not popular and now a white comes in. We’ll see if he is popular afer Price and Neal were turned down. I really do believe Tech needed a white basketball coach at this time, like Hyder was when I was there, who gave me an “A” in basketball, although Salley or Scott or Yvonne Josef in my opinion would’ve been ok since they were good players at Tech, some getting their jerseys retired. The word “irregardless” exists in a dictionary- look it up for proof. I do not agree with black jerseys or socks, because “black is out”, again what not I, but the alum assn head said in “Tech Topics”. I don’t agree with black for anything but pin stripes, and maybe numbers, but then again, what about the satin gold numbers of O’Leary’s teams that haven’t been worn since? I don’t like black and white shoes because of the usage of black in them. Either all black or all white is ok for Tech in my opinion. BW shoes look dorky to me with conservative uniforms of white jerseys and gold pants. As far as Buzz is concerned, I, as an alum, was never sent an attitude survey about whether I wanted a new yj. One of the reasons I went to Tech was because of the yj art, and now it’s been taken over coup style by “Buzz”. I recall when “Buzz” was being created, and Tech said there were too many yj’s prior to that. Well, the yj on the T Club jackets in the early 70’s is the BD coach/AD years main yj, and was replaced with “Buzz”. “Vintage” on ramblinwreck.com means to me prior to “Buzz” which is vintage only back to 1980. BD was AD when I was there in the early 70’s, no longer a coach. Carson was coach then. He developed the white GT so I heard. A black GT for license plates was developed after white, years after. I can’t stand it because “black is out” and white is one of Tech’s colors. I don’t like pink socks worn by the football team either because they look powder puff. Pink last year on Grant field in the breast cancer ribbons would have sufficed, but no pink worn by the team, give me a break.
threetrone
June 12th, 2011
7:37 pm
I mean we’ll see if the white, non-former Tech player coach is popular, and if not, Radikovich gets blamed. But if the new coach was on David Robinson’s Navy team, he’ll probably be good.
sasquatch
June 12th, 2011
8:51 pm
even bobby dodd chose tech over ut. in good company, rad.
sasquatch
June 12th, 2011
8:57 pm
really, chris bosh was hewitts undoing. did you expect hewitt to say no i don’t want a raise. and once the bar is raised by a final four appearance, hewitt was doomed to fail. even cremins couldnt consistently bring in the talent he needed to compete in the acc.
looking around at all the NCAA violations occurring with nearly every major school, it is obvious that rule breaking is the norm and if you try to run a program with integrity, you wont be competitive. good and great coaches end up in the nfl and nba to get away from this kind of nonsense.
William Casey
June 12th, 2011
11:53 pm
@Sasquatch: Cremins couldn’t bring in the talent to compete in the ACC? Price, Salley, Dalrympal, Ferrell, Hammonds, Scott, Anderson, Marbury… you must have only watched the last four years.
Freddy Blassie
June 13th, 2011
9:44 am
Tech needs more MARKETING??!! You make me puke. Too many pencil neck geeks working at the AA now. Every second at every game is filled with someone hawking pizza pies, beer halls, and any other establishment that will send a buck to the AA to hear their name on the loud speaker.
Never heard Coach Dodd speak about the Georgia Tech “brand”. Ditch all the marketing assistants to the assistant for public relations and media whatchamacallits and buy some more big_ss dumbells and barbells, helmets and shoulder pads. Win some games and get the benchwarmer Tech president to step up and help the football program by asking CPJ how he can help him out and then doing it.
JM
June 13th, 2011
2:54 pm
Mr Radakovich needs to do something to stablize ticket prices. Entertainment budgets are falling for most families.
lovetravel
June 13th, 2011
3:02 pm
don’t be surprise or shock if Tenn offer him more $$ than what GA Tech has offer him. He shouldn’t never say not interersted until he was call or contact by the school. Honest I am not interested him anyway because he fired my belove Basketball coach.
mark
June 13th, 2011
4:20 pm
The last several times I have attended games I had trouble parking and the police were incredibly rude. Also, the stadium is now completely smoke free, even in open areas where other stadiums allow smoking. If they want fans to show up then they need to make it easier!!!
61-39-5
June 13th, 2011
5:51 pm
I couldn’t be happier for us, I mean you.
Your AD announces he doesn’t want to leave Trek and half the posts are about what color socks to wear – thanks again for more laughs techhies. See ya in November for another beat down.
CPJ and the triple joke forever.,,,,,,,