Fulmer Picking Up Steam/Schools looking at Fulmer?(merged)

#601
#601
BJSforVols said:
Monte was not a recruiter either. You can afford to keep a coach or two on as non-recruiters as long as you have strong recruiters complimenting the non-recruiters. Fulmer once was a top recruiter. Once that left him, he lost his biggest advantage to being a top coach. I was a Fulmer fan and still like him but realize it was time for him to go. When he was at the top of his game, he out talented people and never was a gameday coach who could out coach the other side of the field. This was even true during the 98 season.
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Fulmer was still a good recruiter; the problem was he couldn't overcome the geographic disadvantage in going against Saban for recruits in Alabama's regional wheelhouse, or Richt in Georgia's wheelhouse, or Meyer in Florida's wheelhouse, or Brown in Texas' wheelhouse, or Carroll in USC' wheelhouse, etc. I have a newsflash for Tennessee fans -- neither did Kiffin and nor is Dooley.
 
#602
#602
VegasVol said:
Fulmer was still a good recruiter; the problem was he couldn't overcome the geographic disadvantage in going against Saban for recruits in Alabama's regional wheelhouse, or Richt in Georgia's wheelhouse, or Meyer in Florida's wheelhouse, or Brown in Texas' wheelhouse, or Carroll in USC' wheelhouse, etc. I have a newsflash for Tennessee fans -- neither did Kiffin and nor is Dooley.
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Surely Callahan or DeBord could have helped Fulmer overcome those challenges.

Damn that Mike Hamilton
 
#603
#603
VegasVol said:
Fulmer was still a good recruiter; the problem was he couldn't overcome the geographic disadvantage in going against Saban for recruits in Alabama's regional wheelhouse, or Richt in Georgia's wheelhouse, or Meyer in Florida's wheelhouse, or Brown in Texas' wheelhouse, or Carroll in USC' wheelhouse, etc. I have a newsflash for Tennessee fans -- neither did Kiffin and nor is Dooley.
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So, we should just give up?
 
#604
#604
volconomist said:
So, we should just give up?
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We gave up.

If Fulmer were the coach today, last weekend we would have been playing for the right to go to Atlanta. I'm not going to say we would have won, but this depleted team took them to the fourth quarter.....

That wasn't good enough, and maybe rightly so. Problem was, people thought it was an easy problem. Problem was, people forgot their Aesop's Fables.

Just sayin'.....
 
#605
#605
Just a few days after praising the Minnesota job as a good one, former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer has told a Knoxville, Tenn., radio station that he's not interested, according to the website MrSEC.com.
 
#611
#611
Philip Fulmer is being picky about jobs? It's ok, I'm sure he has about 20 lined up so he isn't concerned about this one...........................
 
#613
#613
Volfootball55 said:
Which means he got turned down
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Exactly. This means there have been two jobs Fulmer has floated his name out there to try and get by commenting on how great a job it is. He did the same thing with Notre Dame. Yeah Phil, like Notre Dame would ever hire your ass....
 
#614
#614
Fulmer doesn't want to coach again. He just wants to be relevant in college football. So every once in a while, when a job opens up, he throws his name out there long enough to get some publicity and then he pulls his head back in his shell.
 
#616
#616
IPorange said:
That's code for "it'd be hard work."
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LOL This. :)

I remember Fulmer saying that he wants to coach again somewhere "where he can compete for championships."

No one will hire him with that mentality. All the current schools that would have any remote shot at competing for a BCS Championship are firmly seated in their head coaching situation. I think. :)
 
#619
#619
supersmo18 said:
LOL This. :)

I remember Fulmer saying that he wants to coach again somewhere "where he can compete for championships."

No one will hire him with that mentality. All the current schools that would have any remote shot at competing for a BCS Championship are firmly seated in their head coaching situation. I think. :)
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Right. He's looking for a Texas/Oklahoma/Ohio State type job, it sounds like. Aren't we all?
 
#620
#620
VolsRule said:
Just a few days after praising the Minnesota job as a good one, former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer has told a Knoxville, Tenn., radio station that he's not interested, according to the website MrSEC.com.
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I thought Fulmer would only take an SEC job IF offered. Fulmer has enough money that he don't need to gamble on a Northern school. Everybody knows an SEC job is a longshot, but Fulmer is just playing it by ear incase another school gets desperate like TN was this year.
 
#624
#624
utgibbs said:
We gave up.

If Fulmer were the coach today, last weekend we would have been playing for the right to go to Atlanta. I'm not going to say we would have won, but this depleted team took them to the fourth quarter.....

That wasn't good enough, and maybe rightly so. Problem was, people thought it was an easy problem. Problem was, people forgot their Aesop's Fables.

Just sayin'.....
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Listen, I know you have this "data" that supports your claim that we'd be competing for an SEC east crown this year. As someone who works in empirical research, I can say that your data is way to limited for you to be making such claims.

What would the data have said about Gene Chizik?

How about the data for Texas?

I know you're a big Fulmer fan, and thats cool. However, this nonsense of a bowl game in 2008, and a nine win season in 2009 is just that.

The only data I need is 2 losing seasons in three years. I sub top 30 recruiting class in 2008.
Getting blasted by your rivals year in and year out.
Allowing your football team to run wild, and pile up arrests.
 
#625
#625
It would be so cold in Minnesota, Phil would actually have to get in bed with his wife to stay warm.
 
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