Fulmer and Tubberville on TV

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Per Jimmy Sexton this morning, Fulmer will be on CBS College Sports Channel and Tubberville will be on ESPN. Nothing final, but that's the most likely outcome.

Both will be doing studio spots in the lead-in/recap programs on those respective networks.

He said Fulmer could be the fill-in for Archie's spot when Eli is playing road games and not in NY.
 
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Vol Mania 21 said:
no offense to fulmer, but i rather watch the grass grow then listen to his dry commentary
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I can understand that thought completely. In Fulmer's last decade he became more cliched and built a media fence higher and higher every year.

Hopefully he'll return to being open and personable - otherwise, he'll time on TV will be limited.

And honestly, the same can be said for Tubbs.
 
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Fulmer is going to be on the channel formerly known as CSTV? I figured he might get a better spot than that.
 
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Gcrop said:
Fulmer is going to be on the channel formerly known as CSTV? I figured he might get a better spot than that.
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He's not the most dynamic guy, and the market isn't that big when you think of the available jobs for football personalities on television.
 
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Gcrop said:
Fulmer is going to be on the channel formerly known as CSTV? I figured he might get a better spot than that.
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Apparently CBS bought CSS and rebranded it CBS College Sports. I think they are going head-to-head with ESPN with a morning game day type show and an evening recap show.
 
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Gcrop said:
Fulmer is going to be on the channel formerly known as CSTV? I figured he might get a better spot than that.
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TreeGreen said:
He's not the most dynamic guy, and the market isn't that big when you think of the available jobs for football personalities on television.
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On top of that, and I don't mean any offense, but outside of the UT/SEC area, Fulmer isn't exactly a household name. I personally had never even heard of him before I started dating a UT student. Admittedly, I was not a huge college football fan (I like a few teams a lot and follow them, but that's as far as it goes), but still, the fact remains that I had never heard the name Phil Fulmer. So there's little reason to expect he would be a big enough name to draw national interest on one of the bigger networks.
 
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TreeGreen said:
He's not the most dynamic guy,
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Can't argue with that.

UT IE 95 said:
Apparently CBS bought CSS and rebranded it CBS College Sports. I think they are going head-to-head with ESPN with a morning game day type show and an evening recap show.
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I think you meant CSTV, as CSS is still CSS to my knowledge. Unless they do the show on CBS (and not CBS CS), there is no way it would come close to College Gameday.

Ydfalconvol said:
On top of that, and I don't mean any offense, but outside of the UT/SEC area, Fulmer isn't exactly a household name. I personally had never even heard of him before I started dating a UT student. Admittedly, I was not a huge college football fan (I like a few teams a lot and follow them, but that's as far as it goes), but still, the fact remains that I had never heard the name Phil Fulmer. So there's little reason to expect he would be a big enough name to draw national interest on one of the bigger networks.
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I have talked to (non-Vol) fans all around and most of them know Fulmer's name. Of course, if they haven't been college football fans for more than 8 or 9 years (since the 90's), they might not know him.
 
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Right, and as I admitted, I haven't been following college football for too long. So I'm not saying that my having never heard of him is a perfect example. But basically, it comes down to the fact that I'm fairly sure that there aren't too many folks outside of the Southeast who would consider Fulmer to be a major authority on college football as a whole right now, and who would be interested in hearing what he has to say about a given game. He's just not recognized as that big of a name in a lot of the country, in my experience. So I completely understand why he didn't get a studio job with ESPN, CBS, etc. and instead landed the CBS College Sports Channel job.
 
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Ydfalconvol said:
Right, and as I admitted, I haven't been following college football for too long. So I'm not saying that my having never heard of him is a perfect example. But basically, it comes down to the fact that I'm fairly sure that there aren't too many folks outside of the Southeast who would consider Fulmer to be a major authority on college football as a whole right now, and who would be interested in hearing what he has to say about a given game. He's just not recognized as that big of a name in a lot of the country, in my experience. So I completely understand why he didn't get a studio job with ESPN, CBS, etc. and instead landed the CBS College Sports Channel job.
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Since neither Fulmer nor Tubbs have much experience, both positions are pretty minor.

Based on opportunity, I'd say Fulmer's position with CBS is better since they may bring him in with Tim Brando and Spencer Tillman as a fill in when Archie is out.

Tubbs will not be sitting in on Gameday anytime soon.

And you are correct Gcrop. It was CSTV.
 
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Alright, clearly I wouldn't know anything about how big a name Fulmer is outside of the South (considering I have lived my entire life outside of the South). Obviously just mentioning his name is a huge, big-time draw to everyone in the world and it is a heinous crime that he wasn't immediately granted a spot on the studio team for Gameday in his first year attempting to be on the broadcasting side of things, even though he has no experience and is not a professional journalist. Whoever is responsible for merely sticking him on the lowly CBS College Sports Channel should be drawn and quartered post-haste!

:rolleyes: Sheesh.

Fulmer didn't get a bigger job because he's never done this type of thing before, and given that, unless you are just a stud among studs and a huge drawing name, the networks aren't going to put you in the biggest of the big shows right off the bat. All things considered, the job he got is a pretty impressive land for a first run out of the gate.
 
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Ydfalconvol said:
Alright, clearly I wouldn't know anything about how big a name Fulmer is outside of the South (considering I have lived my entire life outside of the South). Obviously just mentioning his name is a huge, big-time draw to everyone in the world and it is a heinous crime that he wasn't immediately granted a spot on the studio team for Gameday in his first year attempting to be on the broadcasting side of things, even though he has no experience and is not a professional journalist. Whoever is responsible for merely sticking him on the lowly CBS College Sports Channel should be drawn and quartered post-haste!

:rolleyes: Sheesh.

Fulmer didn't get a bigger job because he's never done this type of thing before, and given that, unless you are just a stud among studs and a huge drawing name, the networks aren't going to put you in the biggest of the big shows right off the bat. All things considered, the job he got is a pretty impressive land for a first run out of the gate.
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Wow, I doubt you could blow what I said any more out of proportion than this. Impressive.

If they do not recognize Fulmer as the former coach at UT, they're either novice CFB fans or exclusively fans of one team or something.

Couldn't care any less about his TV situation.
 
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Fulmer's problem isn't name recognition, it's that he's as boring as a dish water and I can't imagine that he'd have ANYTHING interesting, insightful or truly entertaining to say about a football game. He never said anything REMOTELY interesting over his last decade as football coach, so I doubt he's going to suddenly morph into John Madden. I'm happy he's got a little gig, hope he does well, but he's not exactly a riveting personality. Tubberville, on the other hand, might have potential as a TV broadcaster--I can see him being candid.
 
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For the record, Dude, that wasn't aimed just at you. More of a general statement. I just found it funny that people (again, not you personally) from Fulmer's main area of influence were trying to tell me how well known/popular he is in my area as though they would know better than me. And I wasn't necessarily saying that nobody had heard of him. I said that I personally hadn't heard of him until a few years ago when I started dating a UT student and thus started following UT. What I was saying was that he is almost undoubtedly not that big of a draw to the rest of the country. That, and I had to get a jab in at the Fulmer-ites who seemed shocked he didn't land a bigger gig.
 
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The Dude said:
Wow, I doubt you could blow what I said any more out of proportion than this. Impressive.

If they do not recognize Fulmer as the former coach at UT, they're either novice CFB fans or exclusively fans of one team or something.

Couldn't care any less about his TV situation.
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Agreed.

He is boring as hell and that doesn't help with TV gigs.
 
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