5 years ago today...

#52
#52
BanditVol said:
Why would you say this? We are 10-2 this year, he obviously failed.

He did absolutey give us one of our worst seasons on record though, so he has that going for him.
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His mission was to destroy us

He was a terrible coach and tanked our program

Mission = accomplished
 
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#58
mad4vols said:
My most hated Vol coach of all time. Have no sympathy for the Rat Bastard.
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That’s Butch for me. At least Fulmer gave us wins, a dominant decade, and a national title. I still can’t stand him and blame him for bringing UT football down twice, but for me, Butch gets that title.
 
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N.ohio vol said:
Brady Hoke also kicked our best player off team. Pruitt went and got him back which might have been one of the best things he did. He also gave Jeremy Banks one more chance which he might be our best player on Defense.
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If he is the best player on that defense (I’m not sure) I mean, is that a big accomplishment? That’s like being the smartest UK fan.
 
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#60
UTgrad2015 said:
Hindsight always 20/20

Things were bleak in the moment. Rock bottom.
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There is not the rainbows and flowers we experienced earlier this season without the rain and turbulence of the Pruitt era.

I guess as I have gotten older that has become more apparent to me. Nothing is ever as bad as it seems and nothing is ever as perfect as it seems.

You can say one thing though, being a UT fan ain't for sissies. We can go from dizzying highs to unfathomable lows-and back again in a relative blink of the eye.
 
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madbamahater said:
I'm not really sure how Fulmer was duped into making that decision. I don't have any evidence but it's pretty clear that he was played like a fine violin by bammer. They tried everything they could to derail Fulmer as a coach, even through the legal system, and failed. Mainly because they thought he was the one behind the getting axed by the NCAA (he probably was). Coupled with kicking their asses nearly every year.

Welp, they got him. Pruitt threw his hat in the ring, because he and where his loyalty lies had a plan. Sent a coach who wasn't even close to being qualified, whose agenda was to destroy UT program for many more years to come and get paid millions to do it. The goal was to suck so badly, be fired from UT without cause to receive even more milions and millions and return to Bama as an assistant.

The fortunate part for UT is Pruitt and bammers plan back fired when he got caught cheating. The unfortunate part for Fulmer is that it completely ruined his reputation and legacy at UT and at least bammer accomplished that part.

You'll likely just call me a conspiracy theorist. All you got to do is read the ever so sad Albert Means story and countless others.
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I can’t imagine being so mentally deranged that I’d actually believe Bama had a master plan for us to hire Pruitt just to ruin our football program. El oh el.
 
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For the 20+ years after his firing, Fulmer snaked and slithered behind the scenes until he became AD. Fulmer/Pruitt sanctions will be announced by the end of January, His hiring of Pruitt set our football rebuild back ANOTHER 5-7 years.

Bring him back in 2028 for a quick on-field celebration of the 30 year anniversary of our last NC, and make him quickly disappear.

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HSTVol said:
For the 20+ years after his firing, Fulmer snaked and slithered behind the scenes until he became AD. Fulmer/Pruitt sanctions will be announced by the end of January, His hiring of Pruitt set our football rebuild back ANOTHER 5-7 years.

Bring him back in 2028 for a quick on-field celebration of the 30 year anniversary of our last NC, and make him quickly disappear.

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Shows what Finebaum knows.
 
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Look at how we’ve done since Fulmer has been banished. That speaks volumes.
 
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i still think fulmer hired pruitt to game the system like his former boss taught him.we all know kirby went to ga and did the same thing.who knew pruitt was a complete moron and would get caught.at least we got a hooker out of him.
 
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#70
This goes all the way back to the Mike Hamilton years. About two decades (yikes) of absolute incompetent leadership in the Athletic Director position. Fulmer hung around a year or two longer than he should have. The game had passed him by. A competent AD would have engineered a graceful departure and transition to another solid coach. Instead, we get an infant pretending to be a head coach in Kiffin and structure his deal to make it relatively easy to leave us high and dry at the absolute worst time.

The subsequent years was a clown car parade of ever-increasing buffoonery: Dave Hart . . . John Currie . . . Neither of these fools should have ever been allowed to lead our Athletic Department. I still wonder how Fulmer could have ended up being the worst of the bunch as an AD.

Someone on here gave blame to the fan revolt over the Greg Schiano *almost* hire for the predicament in which we found ourselves. No matter what else, Schiano would have been a joke of a hire - and the fans were right to be ticked off. The subsequent “outrage” from pundits and idiots like Urban Meyer was nonsense. What program, to include Ohio State where Schiano was an assistant coach, even considered him to take over as the HC? Rutgers and us. What does that tell you?

And we would never have been considering a chump like Greg Schiano if we had a competent AD. And then the Pruitt hire turned out to be the ultimate proof that Fulmer was unfit to lead the entire athletic department.

Hire a quality AD and things get handled correctly. Amazing how that works.
 
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UTgrad2015 said:
His mission was to destroy us

He was a terrible coach and tanked our program

Mission = accomplished
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Again....if he tanked us, it was very temporary. One season does not a destruction make.

It's true that the last decade was our worst since the leather helmet days, but that was more than Pruitt.

"Destruction of our program" implies a multi-year event. Given that we have our best regular season in 19 years just two years after firing him indicates that he failed, actually.
 
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