When Tennessee released the treasure trove of emails, texts and phone records surrounding its recent football coaching search last week, it included 2,200 pages of messages sent to now-former athletic director John Currie’s work email address. As expected, most of them came from furious fans hoping to stop the Greg Schiano hire.



Did Currie read all of those emails? Probably not. Well, let’s hope not, because a lot of them were nasty. But I did. Took me almost three hours, but I read ‘em all. Because I wanted to know: Who did these angry, passionate Tennessee fans want as their new head coach? So many of their outraged emails to Currie included their suggestions. Some just yelled who he should hire in the subject line. Others laid out detailed lists of preferences and advice.



Among all those emails sent in late November, only eight encouraged Currie to consider Jeremy Pruitt, the man who eventually took the job. And 77 emailers informed Currie he...