Fulmer predicts bowl game for Team #118

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Joe Vols said:
Fulmer haters don't want to see the truth, or admit that they were wrong; even after the last 5 years of carnage. I can take some comfort in feeling I was justified in my stance that we fired Fulmer too soon.
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We fired him 3 years too LATE.
 
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JonGrudensAgent said:
Our woes started with Fulmer.

Had he taken care of business and recruited players that could actually stay on campus or found a suitable replacement for Cutcliffe the first go around instead of Randy Sanders then begging Cut back for a couple of season, there probably wouldn't have been any woes.
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Clawson would've been good if Fulmer hadn't micromanaged him.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Yeah because Phil Fulmer recruited a lot of "choir boys."
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So you be gonna join in makin nonsense? I never brought up Fulmer or the trouble his recruits got in. It was named "The Fulmer Cup" for a reason, was it not? Yes, it was .. Phil, as much as he did, had lost control over a few critical aspects of recruiting and coaching up those recruits. To the point that there even was "The Fulmer Cup". In his last Citrus Bowl appearance, it was evident, from my perch sitting just a few rows behind the bench, the team would no longer respond to a whole team gut check huddle-up. I watched that and knew his days were numbered. It were'nt no choir boyz he was yellin at.
 
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Go big phil, good thing is i believe coach butch listens yo former coachs and players. I think we have the next great coach, i agree fulmer needs to still be part of this program
 
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VolsnRavens said:
Former Tennessee head coach Phillip Fulmer: 'Surely...we can get to a bowl game' - Saturday Down South


Says we could possibly get to 8 wins if things go right. He sounds like he has been watching our young Vols. :hi:

Fulmer will always be VFL. And I think (finally) the success torch has been passed to another quality coach.
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I love coach Fulmer and always will but Karma is a *****. He stabbed Majors in the back after he stepped in while Majors was out for heart surgery. Offense was great! Majors returns and Fulmer goes back to O-coordinator and all the sudden we can't score. Majors gets fired and Fulmer takes over as new coach! He let the program slide in the last years and it started in 2005 when we were preseason #2 and went 5-7. He brought it on himself and no one is to blame but him. He is in some ways the cause of all the crap we've dealt with the past 5 years starting with Kiffy!

CBJ's team now and we are on the way back!

:loco:

Tennesseeduke
 
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I don't think Fulmer predicted a bowl game for 2014. He stated that he "hope" they could. Also added the clause if they don't, fans need to chilli out... :)
 
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Hacksaw said:
There are Kiffin defenders here?! LMAO!

I don't think Phil has ever said anything that any UT fan should be upset about. But even if he did, so what? He can say whatever he wants. He's earned that right. There aren't too many who have, but he is one of them.
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Yeah. Crusse fluffs him any chance he gets
 
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Hacksaw said:
There's more than enough blame to go around. Fulmer, Kiffin and Dooley all bear some of the responsibility, IMO. Having said that, I don't think anyone has more to apologize for than Kiffin.

The guy is a joke. He is best forgotten.
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Dooley, and it's not close. Worst UT coach of all time and its not even debatable.
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
Really? You want to look at all 15 years now? A NC. 2 SEC championships. 7 trips to the SEC Championship. A trip to the SEC Championship the year before he was fired. 2 losing seasons out of 15. And lets keep in mind that he did this while having to recruit almost exclusively out of state because we weren't turning out talent in state like Hurd or pulling legacies. Fulmer's record doesn't need the approval of internet turds. His accomplishments speak for themselves.
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Yes they do, and he still got fired.
 
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Joe Vols said:
Haha, that's funny... Fulmer's history just doesn't support your theory. We basically played for an SECC every other year with Fulmer; 7 out 15 years with 2 SECC and 1 NC. Your theory seems to be flawed, or stupid, not sure which one. lol
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Nothing in Fulmer's history proved that he could turn a donkey into a contender, though. He only proved that, over 15 years, he could turn a thoroughbred into an ass.
 
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crusse10 said:
You do know that 7-6 is not a losing record, right?
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You can keep your 7-6 .. I hope you realize Fulmer coached us to our first NC in how many years? 47 I believe.

He had a total of 2 losing season.

A record of 152-52.

Kitten couldn't tie Fulmers shoes.

Are you still angry over something?
 
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JonGrudensAgent said:
Kiffin is a helluva football coach, he just sucks at being a human.
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We must be thinking of different Kiffen's cause I haven't seen one thing he's done that impresses me.

Failed at the Raiders.

Had a 7-5 seasons here.

Ran USC into the dirt.

What makes you say "Kiffin is a helluva football coach"
 
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utvolpj said:
it was named that because a gator blog thought it would be funny.
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That and UThug. Neither are funny. As much as I hate to say it, the shoe did fit. That is one thing we can recognize CDD did do, was that he did reduce the reported incidences of his players for 'serious' off field offenses. Notice I did not say eliminated. I did say reported. Yeah, we had a few, one T. "☆☆☆☆" Bray being responsible for a couple or three, and etc.
 
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Joe Vols said:
Now this is a post I can agree with. I personally think those who still believe firing Fulmer was a good thing, have too much pride to admit that they were wrong.
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No, it's not having too much pride, but rather knowing what was happening on the inside. Obviously, very, very few if any on the site knows what was happening behind closed doors and the media was just guessing like most VOL fans. Phil had a chance to keep his job--all he had to do was beat USCe and did not. Yet again he got his tail handed to him by the ol ball coach. If Phil would have won, Mike would have had something positive to present to the boosters that probably would have gotten Phil one more year, but he had nothing positive about the present........NO coach can continue to lose to their inter-conference rivals and keep their job, period.

Now, to take this one step farther, Kiffin was available and publicly stated that he would be interested in coaching at the college level. This now become the perfect storm for Phil. Losing consistantly to rivals hurt Phil more than anything especially the ol ball coach. Then once Lane agreed to discuss the potential to coach at UT and the coaches he would bring, Phil's fate was sealed. Was it time for Phil to go, yes. Was his firing handled correctly, absolutely not. Phil deserved being treated with the utmost respect and professionalism but did not receive it so I believe this is the primary reason most fans are still upset......not because of his dismissal but the manner in which it was handled.

As for all this talk about Lane breaking all these violations, he had the green light to break as many secondary violations as needed to get UT back in the national conversation.

As for everyone badmouthing Derek, he was the only coach to even consider taking the position. He certainly was not the first choice, but after being turned down in double digits, Derek became the only choice. He was the only coach that had enough backbone and balz to step up to the plate. Personally, I admired the man for taking the job considering the roster, fan separation, booster moral, and general condition of program. Derek did stabilize the program and was a DC away from success and contract extention. I cannot fault a person for taking s position no one else would even consider including Jon Gruden.

As VOL fans we all know how rough the past few years have been but instead of living in those troubled years we should be focused onthe present and near future. We have one of the better head coach and staffs in college football, as fans all we need to do is take a deep breath, relax, and .
 
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Big_Orange_Fan said:
You can keep your 7-6 .. I hope you realize Fulmer coached us to our first NC in how many years? 47 I believe.

He had a total of 2 losing season.

A record of 152-52.

Kitten couldn't tie Fulmers shoes.

Are you still angry over something?
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With a worse roster he faired better against the teams that crushed Fulmer a year earlier.

Fulmer could have won a thousand games. It wouldn't have changed the fact that the conference had passed him by. The SEC he dominated (except Florida) turned into the SEC that dominated him.
 
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