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What broke Tennessee
Posted on 9/23/21 at 5:46 pm
Posted on 9/23/21 at 5:46 pm
They use to be a top team. So what happened to them? Since those days they seem to be broken.
Was it Nick Saban coming to Tuscaloosa?
Lane Kiffin abandoning them after one season?
Butch Jones years?
Fulmer’s bad karma biting the Vol nation in the arse?
Was it Nick Saban coming to Tuscaloosa?
Lane Kiffin abandoning them after one season?
Butch Jones years?
Fulmer’s bad karma biting the Vol nation in the arse?
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Posted on 9/23/21 at 5:47 pm to arp0925
LSU…2001
Posted on 9/23/21 at 5:48 pm to arp0925
Fulmer going in dry on Majors?
Posted on 9/23/21 at 5:48 pm to arp0925
Playing Florida a few weeks in and losing almost every year really drains moral over time
Posted on 9/23/21 at 5:48 pm to arp0925
Posted on 9/23/21 at 5:53 pm to geauxbrown
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LSU…2001
I feel like everyone wants to take credit for Tennessee’s downfall. And oddly, most everyone can kind of point to something their own team did to contribute.
So, yeah, team effort to kill Tennessee!
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:03 pm to mckibaj
Butch Jones was the savior for Tennessee football
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:04 pm to arp0925
It’s like I’m flipping between ABC, NBC, and CBS. Same story written by the same person just a different name delivers it.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:05 pm to hiremikeleach
Said no one ever.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:06 pm to arp0925
Bring back brick by brick butch
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:07 pm to OrangeEmpire
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Fulmer going in dry on Majors?
Isn't this the narrative we always here? I think it started here. Fulmer went full circle. He ended up getting fired after Saban came to town and beat their asses. Then snuck back in. Tried to bring in that dirty Pruitt guy and they both got f'd.
What I hate is how Pruitt (an Alabama guy) got sacrificed to the blue blood football gods along with Fulmer when Fulmer reaped what he sowed.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:07 pm to arp0925
Fulmer sat down somewhere within the state's borders
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:08 pm to OrangeEmpire
He was the most successful coach y’all have had in the last 13 years
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:08 pm to arp0925
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So what happened to them?
How long you got?
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:08 pm to arp0925
2001 LSU SECCG is the clear consensus. Huge choke job by Fulmer and Chavis in that game that they never recovered from.
Not firing Fulmer after 2005 was probably the final fatal blow.
Not firing Fulmer after 2005 was probably the final fatal blow.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:09 pm to hiremikeleach
That means Fulmer’s tenure can’t be harmful in the long term?
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:11 pm to hiremikeleach
Akin to being the tallest midget. Butch did nothing of note. No one gives a frick about finishing ranked. He beat UGA and UF in the same year then blew it by losing to South Carolina and Vandy. The previous year he lost all 4 games in the last possession with probably Tennessee’s most talented team since 04 or maybe even 02 due to his total ineptitude as an in game coach.
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:12 pm to volfan30
Posted on 9/23/21 at 6:13 pm to arp0925
There are a myriad of reasons why Tennessee fell off the map in the early-00s. I think the best explanation is the simplest: the competition stepped up and it became harder to recruit. Pete Carroll arrived in Los Angeles and shutdown Tennessee's west coast pipeline. Nick Saban and Mark Richt shutdown Louisiana and Georgia; Lou Holtz made it more difficult for them to recruit South Carolina; and Ron Zook/Urban Meyer really made it more difficult for the Vols to secure top prospects from Florida, to say nothing of Butch Davis and his recruiting down in Miami.
The coup de grace, however, was Kiffin's sudden departure for USC and Tennessee following up that debacle by hiring Derek Dooley - a man wholly unqualified for such a top tier job. His tenure set the Tennessee football program back for the next decade.
The coup de grace, however, was Kiffin's sudden departure for USC and Tennessee following up that debacle by hiring Derek Dooley - a man wholly unqualified for such a top tier job. His tenure set the Tennessee football program back for the next decade.
This post was edited on 9/23/21 at 6:14 pm
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