Eddie Vol Halen
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there were a lot of good things about phil, but if you want to see where he'd be had he stayed, look at mack brown in Austin. it was clear that he felt entitled and was coasting after the early 90s.
Not to start this debate again, but we went to the SEC championship game the year before he was fired. Letting the man to go out with dignity would have been best and that's where I agree with the OP... I can't stand Mike Hamilton.. We fired Phil in mid season, Lane Kiffin ran off great quarterback like Tahj Boyd and then left us with a bunch of duds. (are any of them left?) Then we went through coaches through Dooley and staff that made Phil's bad decision on Clausen seem like Einstein. We would still have one of the best defensive coordinators in college football, Chavis.
Anyone at this time who says that Firing Fulmer was for the best is on crack.
I'm with you on that, bro. He'll go down in UT history as a major blight on this program. Chose Kiffin (who had proven nothing as a HC...still hasn't) over Gary Patterson. Chose Dooley over Sumlin. What's the common denominator, here? Hamilton believed 2 Coaches with losing records > 2 Coaches with Winning records. :loco: Go figure that one out, why don't ya?Can we burn a mattress of him in effigy every October 16th along Peyton Manning Pass?
Fulmer wasn't fired for one or two seasons. He was fired for letting this program steadily decline over a 10 period. We steadily slid to the point we are today. You better believe it was the right call. No drugs needed to come to that conclusion.Not to start this debate again, but we went to the SEC championship game the year before he was fired. Letting the man to go out with dignity would have been best and that's where I agree with the OP... I can't stand Mike Hamilton.. We fired Phil in mid season, Lane Kiffin ran off great quarterback like Tahj Boyd and then left us with a bunch of duds. (are any of them left?) Then we went through coaches through Dooley and staff that made Phil's bad decision on Clausen seem like Einstein. We would still have one of the best defensive coordinators in college football, Chavis.
Anyone at this time who says that Firing Fulmer was for the best is on crack.
Fulmer wasn't fired for one or two seasons. He was fired for letting this program steadily decline over a 10 period. We steadily slid to the point we are today. You better believe it was the right call. No drugs needed to come to that conclusion.
If you think Fulmer would have done worse than 23-28 (combined records under Dooley and Kiffin), and if you think the roster would have been worse if Fulmer were still here, then I don't know what to tell you.
In a perfect scenario, we give Fulmer 3 or 4 more years, keep a full roster, win 7-10 games a year, let it look like he retires (forcing him out), then hire Butch.
Fulmer wasn't fired for one or two seasons. He was fired for letting this program steadily decline over a 10 period. We steadily slid to the point we are today. You better believe it was the right call. No drugs needed to come to that conclusion.