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Tennessee is 53-48 since the firing of Phil Fulmer
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:14 am
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:14 am
Phat Phil was 152-52 while at Tennessee.
What were you guys thinking?
I know Vols&Shaft is going to come in here and want to castrate all of the administrators at Tennessee. So we will mark his opinion as already noted.
What were you guys thinking?
I know Vols&Shaft is going to come in here and want to castrate all of the administrators at Tennessee. So we will mark his opinion as already noted.
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Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:15 am to ForeverGator
Phil should be AD and HC at Tennessee. The man is a legend
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:20 am to Dawgholio
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Phil should be AD and HC at Tennessee. The man is a legend
Ray Goff should be made UGA head coach for life.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:31 am to ForeverGator
Tennessee is done its over. i doubt they ever return to a top program
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:55 am to ForeverGator
Surprised the poors have a winning record. Still irrelevant regardless, so I'm good.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:01 am to ForeverGator
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What were you guys thinking?
Fire the guy who was in the process of cratering the program before he does any more damage?
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:01 am to ForeverGator
Ut was 5-7 in fulmars final year of 2008. They should have fired him after he went 5-7 in 2005.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:13 am to SavageOrangeJug
hurr durr Derek Dooley should've signed a lifetime contract.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:15 am to dawgdayafternoon
Firing the Phil Fulmer may or may not have been the right thing to do but the have hired the wrong coach every time since then
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:16 am to djsdawg
Fulmer would have had the same record at best if he were still the head coach. His tenure had become stale and every other SEC big 6 member had passed them by as relavant NC contenders and in recruiting. Richt stabilized UGA, Meyer was at UF, Bama had just hired Saban, LSU was stable, AU had just had a big run although they were about to fire Tubs. Like the Vol poster mentioned, Fulmer should have been done after 2005. AU did it right with Tubs, we could have given him a chance to recover but most likely would have wasted another 4 years.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:20 am to ForeverGator
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What were you guys thinking?
The AD Hamilton was a facilities guy. He typified the old saying, "When they don't know what to do, they do what they know." He freaked out because he had spent and was planning to spend a bunch of money on Neyland Stadium - sky boxes, facade, parking, and also a thorough upgrade and improvement to all the Athletic Department facilities.
After the 2005 season attendance fell off, risking all the upgrade plans. The AD Mike Hamilton panicked and fired Coach Fulmer when the 2008 season looked to be going badly. It is really about that simple.
UT won the East in 2007, and was a couple of INT's by a drug addict QB away from beating eventual national champion LSU in the SECCG.
I always point out that Fulmer had signed Tadj Boyd. He was -still- willing to come to UT but Kiffin told him he wouldn't fit it. It has just been a cascade of crap ever since.
This post was edited on 4/23/17 at 11:21 am
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:27 am to WhiskeyPapa
And let's not forget that Fulmer deserved to get fired but UT also deserved what they have produced since then.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:27 am to TIGERSPIKE
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Fulmer would have had the same record at best if he were still the head coach. His tenure had become stale and every other SEC big 6 member had passed them by as relavant NC contenders and in recruiting.
That is way too intangible. It is an unknowable. Coach Fulmer did rely heavily on Coach Cutcliffe who left for Ole Miss at the start of 1999. He came back and they had one year together where the Vols won the East in 2007. Then Coach Cut left for Duke. Could Fulmer have found someone else to bring what Coach Cut did to the equation?
That is just unknowable. Things could hardly have gone worse.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:28 am to ohiovol
Yeah. Fulmer had lost control of the team by the time he got canned. I distinctly remember UT players laughing on the sideline as Alabama was beating them in '08. His time had passed.
This post was edited on 4/23/17 at 11:29 am
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:31 am to ForeverGator
They can go on a 99-4 streak over the next 8 years and match it.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:32 am to ForeverGator
Kiffin kind of fricked Tennessee over tbh
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:32 am to djsdawg
Well, Johnny Majors was fired only 3 weeks after beating LSU 20-0 in TIGER STADIUM! Y'all used to keep your coaches on ultra short leashes. Not UT seems to accept mediocrity. What gives down there in Knoxville?
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:33 am to WhiskeyPapa
Way too much whiskey for this man. He actually thought ut was good in 2007 and had no problem with multiple 5 win seasons?
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:44 am to TIGERSPIKE
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And let's not forget that Fulmer deserved to get fired
I think Coach Fulmer deserved one more year. "Deserved to be fired," -- I don't expect someone like to you to understand such things but "deserved to get fired" is a function of having a better coach on tap. That person was not Lane Kiffin.
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UT also deserved what they have produced since then.
What sins lie upon the University of Tennessee - besides you being jealous - that cause it to deserve failure any more than any other university?
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:48 am to djsdawg
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Way too much whiskey for this man. He actually thought ut was good in 2007 and had no problem with multiple 5 win seasons?
That wasn't true in 2007. Was it?
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