Fulmer Returns!!!

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livefaith said:
Interestingly, Lane tried to build a relationship with Phil, but he never allowed it to happen. Obviously, Phil aint too high on the boy wonder.
Lane brought Johnny to practice as well. Looks like he was trying to do the same with both.

Also interesting is the fact that some of the players in that room were committed to play for Phil I think. Jacques, Cory Miller?, Walls? I bet that was pretty cool after all those guys have been through.

Great to see Butch getting it done. I expect improvement as this year progresses. We struck gold with this guy IMO.
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Actually all those guys were committed to Kiffin--all the Fulmer recruits are gone. Sorry, not being snarky but it's true.
 
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Vol4life25 said:
Misleading title, I thought he was comin back to coach....

Got excited for a second, I'm ready to win the east every 1 out of 2 years again.

Oh well, I guess ill just have to deal with 5-7 seasons some more.
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Stupid comment. Not factually accurate either.

Fulmer is not the only coach that can win at UT and if memory serves he wasn't winning at such a big clip at the end of his tenure.

I truly respect Coach Fulmer but it's time to move on. Please become part of the unification of UT fans rather than continuing the division. :peace2:
 
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TreeGreen said:
Great story. Phil's message was very apropos, but I don't know if Peyton Manning is waiting on the sideline for 117.
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Actually imo I'd rather have Brandon Stewart...he'd fit this offense much better.

Is that blasphemy?
 
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volswillrise12 said:
Actually all those guys were committed to Kiffin--all the Fulmer recruits are gone. Sorry, not being snarky but it's true.
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Jacques Smith committed to Fulmer in the spring of '08. He signed LOI / enrolled with Kiffin.

Marlon Walls did a year of prep school and was committed in more than 1 recruiting class so also was committed to Fulmer.
 
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DD4ME said:
Even the little steps matter in bringing this program back to the top. Bringing Fulmer into the fold is no small step, IMO.
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I think you are correct and it is in actuality Coach Fulmer choosing to be brought back into the program, although with Dooley's ego I could imagine him not wanting Coach Fulmer around. This truly is a very big deal. They will just have to make sure Coach Majors and Coach Fulmer are not on the practice filed the same day.:peace2:
 
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"It was a little emotional, being the first time back," Fulmer said. "I'm glad to be here. As I've told them, any way I can help."
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I'm not gonna lie, when I read this, my eyes got a little watery.

This man gave his all to Tennessee for a long time. Getting him back here to talk to the team and share his experience and stories of the Tennessee I grew up with, only solidifies, for me, that Coach Butch Jones is the man for the job.


Thank you so much for allowing the coaching legend to come back, Butch.

Butch truely GETS IT!

GO VOLS!!!
 
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gnm53108 said:
Actually imo I'd rather have Brandon Stewart...he'd fit this offense much better.

Is that blasphemy?
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If we had Peyton, we wouldnt even need an offensive coordinator anymore.

I wouldn't care if I never saw this offense again. Peyton would win!
 
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Slydell said:
Give me a direct link to the back stabbing or STFU about it. It never happened.
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People still don't understand this. I've just grown accustomed to the legend surrounding it now and just treat it as Tennessee folklore. And "the backstabbing" is all legend and story.

Phil would still yank someone's ear if he ever overhead a bad word directed at Johnny on the practice field - player or coach.
 
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Jake Tate said:
If we had Peyton, we wouldnt even need an offensive coordinator anymore.

I wouldn't care if I never saw this offense again. Peyton would win!
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The Peyton of today yeh...but not Peyton of 94.

I'm skeptical of this offense too but a pure "pro style pocket passing" qb, imo, is not what we need to run it. This offensive system is like a foreign language.
 
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LookinUp said:
Maybe he didn't like being backstabbed while undergoing heart surgery.
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So you call stepping in to coach games while the other "coach" is out backstabbing? The university made the right call.. Majors was letting the game pass him by, just as it did Fulmer...
 
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Weezer said:
You can love the man and his accomplishments and still believe he was no longer the right man for the job as coach. It's not an either/or situation. The reason we are where we are now is the blunderings of Mike Hamilton. Fulmer had stagnated as a coach and was no longer the man to take us to the top. Maybe he could have kept going with winning seasons, big maybe, but we still would have been a runner-up team. I want to find us a coach who can make us champions, and not settle for always being an also-ran. If you don't love championships, you don't bleed orange.

If Hammy had pulled the trigger 3 years earlier, maybe UT wouldn't have lost so much of its luster and appeal to draw better candidates. As things turned out, we settled for Kiffin, then Dooley. If Hammy had known how to negotiate contracts, we wouldn't have been stuck with so many costly buyouts, then maybe the AD would have had some money. Hamilton is the single worst thing that has ever happenned to UT football.
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There was no reason to pull the trigger in 2005. One losing season in 14 years? Imagine what any prospective coach would have said in interviews. "So you fired a coach for one losing season in 14 years? What does that mean if I have a losing season year 1?"

There were no reasons to fire him after 05. Especially after midseason when he fired Sanders. He made the moves he had too and rebounded quiet well. Now 2008, is a different story and I don't care to dive into that.
 
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"I had the opportunity to speak to the kids and tried to reiterate a little bit of that and what they represent, the great payers and things that have been here that have been so really special to this place."

Come on Phil! What are you trying to do to us? haha, great place for a typo UTsports.com
 
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After all is said and done, I have a lot of respect for Coach Fulmer. He did manage to bring the national championship to UT in my lifetime.
 
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