re: Comparing the # of Championship Coaches at each Big 6 School

oh i agree, that is just the only logical reasoning I could come up with. It was a bad hire regardless.

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I think if Fulmer was let go after the 2005 season and not when he was, things would have played out much better for Tennessee in the long run. Fulmer had gotten lazy recruiting, and by the time he was gone, there wasn't much left. Then, Kiffin leaving after a year, and very late, just exasperated the problem. It's kind of crazy to think how good Tennessee was year in and year out for as long as they were and then look at them today

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A lot of people say that Phil got lazy with recruits and I thought that as well for a while. However, he actually had great classes on paper but had a run of highly ranked recruits that should've panned out but ended up being busts.

I've always felt that the beginning of the end was Kelly Washington's ego which just kinda infected the program as soon as he arrived and stayed even after he was gone (although the real problems didn't start showing on the field until years after he was gone).

Even so, if Fulmer hadn't had a spell of bust QBs that simply didn't have it despite their rankings (plus a bad OC hire) he'd probably still be coaching. But really, we had a lot of problems beyond the football team -- the AD was a mess leadership and we went through a run of awful school Presidents, one who rather famously ripped us off.

I'm glad things are finally on track again on all those fronts. Granted, Dave Hart has had some pretty awful decisions as AD but he's gotten us in the black and is better than the incompetence we had before.

Kiffin fricked us way more than Fulmer. We were still in a good position when he took over but his flight set us back years because it led to a hire like Dooley. Dooley's incompetence was bad enough but his attitude was worse. He took us to new lows and had Hart not lucked into Jones we'd still be behind. CBJ managed to do the impossible and rebuild our roster far faster than should've been possible. No one wants to believe it but we really did have one of the worst rosters in the SEC when he arrived - on par with Kentucky/Vandy and in some ways worse.

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But the biggest frick you was received by Kippy Brown. Kippy may have been a horrible head coach, we'll never know, but NOBODY would have appreciated that job more than him. He would have broken his back for Tennessee, he loved our school, and loved those players. He held that locker room and recruiting class together after Kiffin took off, and Hamilton fricked him over. Basically interviewed him to appease the press, never even remotely considered him.

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I agree with you on this. TBH, I thought Kippy should've been given a shot even if it was on a temporary/trial basis. When I found out Hammy didn't interview him for the HC position until AFTER the hire had been made I was sick.

Talk about a fricking insult.

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It truly is, my sister went to Tennessee and she only witnessed two home losses in her four years there. It really puts it into perspective.

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Similar here. If you were a freshmen at LSU in Fall 2010, you only saw 1 home loss.

2010 Home Record
W Mississippi State
W #22 West Virginia
W Tennessee
W McNeese
W #5 Alabama
W ULM
W Ole Miss

2011 Home Record
W Northwestern
W Kentucky
W #17 Florida
W #19 Auburn
W Western Kentucky
W #3 Arkansas

2012 Home Record
W North Texas
W Washington
W Idaho
W Towson
W #3 South Carolina
L #1 Alabama
W #22 Mississippi State
W Ole Miss

2013 Home Record
W UAB
W Kent State
W Auburn
W #17 Florida
W Furman
W #9 Texas A&M
W Arkansas