re: Attn Tennessee fans: what are your opinions now of the Big Pumpkin, aka, Philip Fulmer??

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The fans quite literally asked for this, it's as much their fault as any.

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Schiano sucks arse and the fans were right. He is a terrible coach, got fired from Ohio State for sucking, never got any serious p5 offers despite tons of vacancies at the time, tucked tail back to Rutgers and has gone 8-14 since. He would not have done well at UT as a fat tomato faced mediocre buzzcutt northerner, considering we had just gotten rid of Butch Jones. Furthermore, every fan in the SEC would talk shite about hiring a pedo, regardless of whether he actually participated or not. I don't care if its just a tangential connection, we didn't need that association.

I like Leach but his ceiling in the SEC was never going to be anything more than an occasional 10-win season and that would not have satisfied the program long-term. And he unfortunately passed away so that would have caused problems just like it did to State.

At the time, Pruitt seemed like a good hire in a vacuum. Had tons of championship experience at multiple SEC teams, recruiting connection, defensive genius, football mind. We had just come off Butch Jones who knew nothing about football, so it seemed nice to have a guy who was almost pure football. Hindsight being 20/20 yeah we shouldn't have hired him, but it was not a terrible hire at the time. Just like the Lane Kiffin hire wasn't terrible...until it was.

Yeah we suffered with Pruitt, but that fiasco led to Danny White, Josh Heupel, and a major resurgence of UT sports across the board. Highest director's cup finish ever for us this year and competitive in all major sports, with the best football season since the early 2000s (including an LSU beatdown at home).

We're doing just fine, thanks