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The following is taken from a different thread:
"The fact is Fulmer won't change. No matter how much we want it, or how much people gripe about it, it just won't happen. I'm just as sick of this as anyone, but have resigned to the fact that 8, 9, and 10 every once in awhile is all we are going to do.
It is also going to be a long, long time before Tennessee ever wins more than the SEC East."
My response:
Why is this the case? Why do we handle our coaches with kid gloves around here? In most sporting venues around the country, you win or you are run out of town. Even teams without a tradition of success don't keep around very many underachieving coaches for long.
I think it's time that the fans, the boosters, and the administration start to put some dang accountability on the coaching positions and make difficult decisions when they let us all down.
Criminy! WE WERE SUPPOSED TO COMPETE FOR A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND NOW PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT 4 OR 5 LOSSES AND ARE WORRIED ABOUT VANDERBILT!!!!!
Wake up, Vol Nation. The consequences of not taking action after this disaster of a season will be felt for years and maybe even longer.
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Now, read that last paragraph again. Do you believe it? I do.
Think about the young high school recruits in attendance at Saturday's game. They got to watch a preseason #3 get whipped, outcoached, and outplayed on their own turf. They got to see a worthless offense, awful passes, a fat and lazy offensive line, a "running game" that never existed, stupid mental errors, countless penalties, special teams that dug an insurmountable hole time after time, and a Defense that played it's heart out but finally gave up the ship once the captain had jumped overboard.
Think about a team that realizes it has no chance to go deep, has to face 8 in the box, and try to run it up the middle. Think about a team whose coaching staff gives up with 6 minutes to go, down 2 TD's, and punts it away. Think about a team who can't even figure out who it's QB is after 2 scrimmages, an entire offseason, and then 3 or 4 games into the season.
There's nowhere to go but down.
IMO, we all have two choices here. Accept the above statement in Orange and be fine with it, watching our beloved Vols fall off the National Radar as quickly as it is falling through the top-25. . . .or stand up and demand changes.
You may say "my voice doesn't matter," and you're probably right. But, OUR voices DO matter. It's time for the media and the AD to hear these concerns, real concerns, about the future of our program.
"The fact is Fulmer won't change. No matter how much we want it, or how much people gripe about it, it just won't happen. I'm just as sick of this as anyone, but have resigned to the fact that 8, 9, and 10 every once in awhile is all we are going to do.
It is also going to be a long, long time before Tennessee ever wins more than the SEC East."
My response:
Why is this the case? Why do we handle our coaches with kid gloves around here? In most sporting venues around the country, you win or you are run out of town. Even teams without a tradition of success don't keep around very many underachieving coaches for long.
I think it's time that the fans, the boosters, and the administration start to put some dang accountability on the coaching positions and make difficult decisions when they let us all down.
Criminy! WE WERE SUPPOSED TO COMPETE FOR A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND NOW PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT 4 OR 5 LOSSES AND ARE WORRIED ABOUT VANDERBILT!!!!!
Wake up, Vol Nation. The consequences of not taking action after this disaster of a season will be felt for years and maybe even longer.
**************
Now, read that last paragraph again. Do you believe it? I do.
Think about the young high school recruits in attendance at Saturday's game. They got to watch a preseason #3 get whipped, outcoached, and outplayed on their own turf. They got to see a worthless offense, awful passes, a fat and lazy offensive line, a "running game" that never existed, stupid mental errors, countless penalties, special teams that dug an insurmountable hole time after time, and a Defense that played it's heart out but finally gave up the ship once the captain had jumped overboard.
Think about a team that realizes it has no chance to go deep, has to face 8 in the box, and try to run it up the middle. Think about a team whose coaching staff gives up with 6 minutes to go, down 2 TD's, and punts it away. Think about a team who can't even figure out who it's QB is after 2 scrimmages, an entire offseason, and then 3 or 4 games into the season.
There's nowhere to go but down.
IMO, we all have two choices here. Accept the above statement in Orange and be fine with it, watching our beloved Vols fall off the National Radar as quickly as it is falling through the top-25. . . .or stand up and demand changes.
You may say "my voice doesn't matter," and you're probably right. But, OUR voices DO matter. It's time for the media and the AD to hear these concerns, real concerns, about the future of our program.
