ABINGDON VOL FAN
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I would guess that’s why @Atlanta VOL said he’s being told what to do at this point and didn’t say he was gone.Poster on TOS says they have heard the rumor and it does not include Fulmer.
Look at Texas, SCAR and Auburn.
Texas thought they could buy Meyer. They couldn't. After getting publicly refused, they had to put out an announcement saying they were keeping their HC.
SCAR fans were gleefully posting wishlists with the same guys some UT fans want. They ended up with a former assistant.
Auburn won the throw millions into the wind challenge and their top fallback is to promote from within-- a UT guy that UT wouldn't hire last search.
Letting the season play out while working behind the scenes isn't a bad way to go. Some might argue UT has learned something.
Exactly, this is a mercenary hireGuys you got to the take moral crap somewhere else college football has been a business now for years stop with this crap about coaches who are way better than Pruitt just stop, it’s either win now or get stepped on otherwise we will continue to just be a stepping stone. You pay coaches to win
I’m not so sure. They had already applied pressure in 2005 and he responded with an offensive staff shakeup that did right the ship for a couple years.Fulmer grew complacent. UT let him rest on his laurels a bit, but he was winning. And he probably could have turned it back around, had pressure been applied. Hamilton wanted a different guy and a different image for the program.
It was just bad luck and bad timing with SC. Kiffin was an unlikely candidate, SC was "home" and he hadn't been at UT long enough to change that. Everything that happened after is pretty much the poor judgment and bad decisions of the UT AD, the enabling of a weak chancellor and a hands-off president.