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How the hell did Tennessee collapse after 2001?
Posted on 11/4/22 at 6:16 pm
Posted on 11/4/22 at 6:16 pm
Spurrier left and we hired the Zooker, cementing mediocrity for the next few years.
Fulmer is still there with a loaded roster (like he had every year)
Casey Clausen comes back. That guy was a really solid QB.
We handed you the SEC on a silver platter.. please explain to me what on earth happened??
Fulmer is still there with a loaded roster (like he had every year)
Casey Clausen comes back. That guy was a really solid QB.
We handed you the SEC on a silver platter.. please explain to me what on earth happened??
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Posted on 11/4/22 at 6:17 pm to SM1010
CMR showed up
Posted on 11/4/22 at 6:18 pm to Aguga
And Fulmer slacked off on recruiting
Posted on 11/4/22 at 6:20 pm to SM1010
It's been a hot minute since then but I've always blamed Kelley Washington. I don't know that it was him specifically but that's how it started. He was a fame/locker room problem and things began to spiral out from there.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 6:25 pm to SM1010
Hobnail boot happened… sent them back to the stone ages. They never fully recovered. They had moments but declined rapidly.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 6:45 pm to SM1010
LSU ended that program for 20 years.
They just recovered.
Miami is still in shambles.
They just recovered.
Miami is still in shambles.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 6:51 pm to SM1010
Fulmer sat on his arse and tried to ride his laurels, and spend his time worrying about his Texas Roadhouse investments.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 6:52 pm to CBandits82
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LSU ended that program for 20 years.
They just recovered.
Miami is still in shambles.
LSU didn't do shite to Tennessee, you fricking moron.
Where do morons like you come from? Seriously?
Posted on 11/4/22 at 6:54 pm to SavageOrangeJug
Where the frick do you come from
Posted on 11/4/22 at 7:15 pm to SavageOrangeJug
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LSU didn’t do shite to Tennessee, you fricking moron.
*sigh*
Beat UT for an SEC Championship/ended their National championship hopes for that year.
LSU then wins a Natty 2 years later in 03.
LSU then beats UT in another SEC championship en route to another Natty in 07…
What do you define as “not doing shite”?
Posted on 11/4/22 at 7:28 pm to crotiger0307
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What do you define as “not doing shite”?
None of it is relevant to what happened internally. Tennessee's problems were 100 percent internal and they remained that way until the Schiano Revolt forced out the AD and reset the power structure (Haslams and related factions lost a lot that day).
Pruitt's firing finished that reset because it also forced us to stop delaying the AD hire (Fulmer had been brought in after the Schiano Revolt as an interim AD and should've been replaced long before Pruitt was fired but the power players didn't want to move on that because with a real AD rather than an interim their petty squabbles and the power structure would change).
AD Danny White was the first real AD we've had since Doug Dickey retired. The absence of a functioning AD is what started and continued our decline. The presence of one is why every sport at UT is finally back on track.
This post was edited on 11/4/22 at 7:29 pm
Posted on 11/4/22 at 7:33 pm to SM1010
The truth. UT was killing it recruiting the Atlanta area until Richt arrived. UGA had been through some horrible coaches since Dooley. Goff was a nightmarish mistake, Donnan was a joke. When Richt came in he made it a point to keep the top Georgia players in state. He also brought the FSU offense to Athens which at the time was very efficient.
UT was not the top dog anymore.
UT was not the top dog anymore.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 7:40 pm to SM1010
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Casey Clausen
Always reminded me of a brain damaged Val Kilmer.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 7:42 pm to CBandits82
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LSU ended that program for 20 years.
No you didn't. You idiots give yourself way more credit than you earned. You didn't end UT's program, You didn't run Bryant off who had dominated you, you didn't have the first gameday in 1997, the first gameday was in 1993 with ND vs FSU. You are not what you think you are to the rest of us. Richt ended Fulmers reign, Bryant retired after losing to Auburn and there were about a dozen gamedays before they made their way to Baton rouge for UF-LSU 1997. Bama, UT, UGA have much more illustrious histories and quite frankly, LSU is not a threat now and are fading even more with the rise of UT. Baseball season will be here soon enough and you can claim this blueblood BS status in that sport.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 7:52 pm to SM1010
LSU broke them, and I watched it happen in person. Never seen so many sad red roses in the garbage cans
This post was edited on 11/4/22 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 11/4/22 at 7:52 pm to TouchdownTony
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No you didn't. You idiots give yourself way more credit than you earned. You didn't end UT's program, You didn't run Bryant off who had dominated you, you didn't have the first gameday in 1997, the first gameday was in 1993 with ND vs FSU. You are not what you think you are to the rest of us. Richt ended Fulmers reign, Bryant retired after losing to Auburn and there were about a dozen gamedays before they made their way to Baton rouge for UF-LSU 1997. Bama, UT, UGA have much more illustrious histories and quite frankly, LSU is not a threat now and are fading even more with the rise of UT. Baseball season will be here soon enough and you can claim this blueblood BS status in that sport.
Nice melt
Posted on 11/4/22 at 7:53 pm to SM1010
"Who is Randy Sanders"
CORRECT! You control the board.
CORRECT! You control the board.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 7:58 pm to TouchdownTony
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No you didn't. You idiots give yourself way more credit than you earned. You didn't end UT's program, You didn't run Bryant off who had dominated you, you didn't have the first gameday in 1997, the first gameday was in 1993 with ND vs FSU. You are not what you think you are to the rest of us. Richt ended Fulmers reign, Bryant retired after losing to Auburn and there were about a dozen gamedays before they made their way to Baton rouge for UF-LSU 1997. Bama, UT, UGA have much more illustrious histories and quite frankly, LSU is not a threat now and are fading even more with the rise of UT. Baseball season will be here soon enough and you can claim this blueblood BS status in that sport.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 8:04 pm to SM1010
Rodney Garner left Tennessee and went to Georgia happened. Garner was bringing in all those Georgia kids to Tennessee and Richt was smart enough to do whatever it took to get him to Georgia. But the biggest problem was when Cutcliffe left Tennessee. He was the reason the TN offense was so good in the 90’s. Fulmer and Garner were bringing in the recruits and Cutcliffe was coaching up the offense and they were rolling. When they left, Fulmer became lazy and also hired bad assistants. Then of course there was all the awful head coaching hires and other shite but I tired of remembering it.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 8:04 pm to Kneehigh
quote:A larger factor in their demise was that their recruiting pipeline to Georgia got welded shut.
obnail boot happened… sent them back to the stone ages. They never fully recovered. They had moments but declined rapidly.
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