Call it the Tauntaun Principle: If something looks like it smells bad on the outside, it probably smells twice as bad on the inside. If the Great Tennessee Coaching Search of 2018 seemed bad from a distance, it looks like it was just as bad or worse for everyone inside the process—especially for former Athletic Director John Currie, who had a documentedly bad time before being fired and replaced with Phil Fulmer.
Open records requests filed by 247 and WBIR in Knoxville cut this particular carcass open in a lot of wild ways, but we’ll try to narrow it down to the highlights out there so far.