Spineless Athletic Directors.

#51
#51
GAVol said:
I think the Mangino situation is loosely like our deal with Johnny Majors. He's a guy everybody endures until there's a chance to not have to deal with him anymore.
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We'll see how much they enjoy "enduring" a bunch of 4-8 seasons. I bet that'll be less fun than dealing with Mangino.
 
#52
#52
Urinal Mint said:
:lolabove:ARE YOU SERIOUS CLARK?
You think we still would have lost to Wyoming, if Fulmer hadn't been fired 4 days before a game was to be played? It's WYOMING! We would be still in the exact same situation we are now with the exact same staff except we would have made a bowl game and earned millions off of that. Doesnt matter how lost his team was, it was Wyoming, we talkin bout Wyoming.
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There wasn't anything from UT in that Wyoming game that we didn't see in half a dozen other games in 2008. It was consistent with just about everything else that happened. What makes you so sure that we would have magically won that game if only the plug hadn't been pulled on Fulmer earlier that week? It wasn't like we suddenly played worse than we'd already been playing.

Fulmer got to leave the field for the last time carried on the shoulders of his players on national TV. Sure seems like a heck of a lot better exit than most fired coaches get. Hamilton handled it as well as it could have been handled.
 
#53
#53
hatvol96 said:
The university president and the athletic director both were absent at the press conference announcing Bowden's retirement today. Disgraceful.
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Speaks volumes to how spineless they both are.

And the "they wanted to make this all about Bowden" argument is ridiculous.

It was time for BB to go, but this was handled was an atrocity.
 
#55
#55
hatvol96 said:
I'd prefer they hire Fulmer. That way, they'd be paying prime rib prices for salisbury steak. They'd be pining for Mangino in about a season and a half.
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Fulmer, Mangino, prime rib, and salisbury steak...sounds like a July 4th competition.
 
#57
#57
Jaytrain5 said:
You'd think they'd have some recollection of what their program looked like pre-Mangino. This guy won 12 games and went to an Orange Bowl at Kansas....freaking Kansas.
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Not to mention KU won that Orange Bowl as well.
 
#58
#58
Urinal Mint said:
The people saying Hamilton had a spine, that may be somewhat true. Getting Fulmer out was the right decision but the way he handled it was disgraceful. If we had waited until after the final game to announce it and let him coach the bowl if he wants that would have been understandable, but to fire a guy in the middle of a game week it beyond stupid. Had he waited until the end of the season, we would still have Lane Kiffin as out coach. He cost the university millions by causing them to miss a bowl. Fulmer was over the hill but you don't treat a guy who's bled orange all his life like that. If you think we wouldn't haved start looking at coaches until after Fulmer was fired then you would be wrong.
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To blame missing a bowl last year on Hamilton is beyond idiotic. There is NEVER an excuse to lose to Wyoming. BTW, Wyoming's coach was also fired before they came to Knoxville. Did it distract them too?
 
#59
#59
The whole Mangino thing is a disgrace to Kansas University. ALERT THE POLICE!!! HE STUCK HIS FINGER IN A GUYS CHEST!!! WHAT A CRIMINAL!!! Dear Lord.

The Bowden thing was embarrasing period. Bowden should have the humility to realize he just wasn't the guy and step down, just like Joe Pa should have done a while back, but got lucky his coordinators bailed him out.
 
#60
#60
RC Johnson is about to get run out of Memphis or at least that is what most of the fans (more importantly, Fred Smith) are wanting.
 
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