Thanks, Coach Fulmer.

#76
#76
I remember this Fulmer guy you speak of. I remember sitting in the stands one beautiful night in Arizona under a big orange moon. Seems he and the team accomplished something that night that hadn't happened before in my lifetime. Hopefully, some of you will see something like that in your lifetime.
 
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114VOL said:
Your opinion is welcome as it is your right. Your affirmation, however, is neither needed nor wanted.
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Then stop being such an abusive jerk to people on forum. You remind me of that card dealer in Tombstone movie that Wyatt has to show the door. Grow up.
 
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Slydell said:
I remember this Fulmer guy you speak of. I remember sitting in the stands one beautiful night in Arizona under a big orange moon. Seems he and the team accomplished something that night that hadn't happened before in my lifetime. Hopefully, some of you will see something like that in your lifetime.
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Let's not offend 114vol. His memory evidently does not go back that far.
 
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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
Then stop being such an abusive jerk to people on forum. You remind me of that card dealer in Tombstone movie that Wyatt has to show the door. Grow up.
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Abusive? I haven't been abusive to anyone. Grow up? LOL..given your seemingly ultra-sensitivity to anyone that disagrees with you, you might want to check the mirror on that one.
 
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Slydell said:
I remember this Fulmer guy you speak of. I remember sitting in the stands one beautiful night in Arizona under a big orange moon. Seems he and the team accomplished something that night that hadn't happened before in my lifetime. Hopefully, some of you will see something like that in your lifetime.
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we're still hoping for it
 
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#86
geez.

phillip fulmer is a legend, THE OG VFL, we should give him all the praise he deserves.

what a great ambassador for tennessee, as is bill battle, and johnny majors and every great coach that shed sweat blood and tears. remember these guys gave their all for tn.

ill let y'all argue about fulmer.

as for me? i have a short memory for the two between fulmer and butch jones who is gonna be a legend.


if you doubt fulmer. talk to one of his players.
i worked with billy ratliff.

= end of story
 
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ddubb76 said:
So tired of hearing this about cpf running the program down. His final year would not have been 5/7 season if he didn't get fired the week before Montana, the team quit because they lost their coach. He left a team that had plenty of contributors on the following 7/5 team. He had a good looking class coming in including t.boyd the collapse came from the coach that replaced him. 3 of his recruits are still here out of the entire class. I think the fulmer haters are just mad that he replaced majors and are probably
Majors fans that are like their coach and won't get over it.
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****ing a
 
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Slydell said:
Does decades of attendance make for better opinions?
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Of course not. Decades of fandom might though when debating and discussing organizational changes of the football team and how they have might have affected the program
 
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ugahater1 said:
geez.

phillip fulmer is a legend, THE OG VFL, we should give him all the praise he deserves.

what a great ambassador for tennessee, as is bill battle, and johnny majors and every great coach that shed sweat blood and tears. remember these guys gave their all for tn.

ill let y'all argue about fulmer.

as for me? i have a short memory for the two between fulmer and butch jones who is gonna be a legend.


if you doubt fulmer. talk to one of his players.
i worked with billy ratliff.

= end of story
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I know several guys that played for him. They all love him. I've gone on the record on numerous occasions about his affability and loyalty. The reason it is such a sensitive topic for some and people get so emotional defending his record is because he was so much more genuinely likable than Majors. That's not the context of this debate though. it is about his performance as head coach over the last 7-8 years of his tenure. This is about his coaching as far as I am concerned. I won't debate he's a great guy and loves the university, although he doesn't love it anymore than Johnny. Him being a nicer guy doesn't mean he is more Vol than Johnny either.
 
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ItsAllVols said:
Let me tell you...Maybe some of you LOVE Fulmer as a coach but sometimes Karma comes around, and for Fulmer should look in the mirror and SHUT HIS MOUTH. Its been way too long for him to be making waves for UT Football, and I gather he realizes CBJ has too much backing to make waves for him.

So move on or get out of the media world before your CJM opens your Skelton's in the media, get ON OR OFF this UT FOOTBALL BUS there is no room for freeloaders>>>YOUR CHOICE<<<<
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Some of the goofiest and most unsupported assertions I have seen on this site. I guess you blame America for 9/11 too. Quit being silly.
 
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GAVol said:
This clearly is a sign of the apocalypse.
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Agree. It's nice he said it but don't you think the only reason he said it was because of John Adams column and the amount of heat he has taken since? Notice he didn't elaborate about his role other than to say the head coach is responsible. Notice he said he wouldn't change anything if he had it to do over other than something to do with the losses he had. In other words, I wouldn't put down the Krispy Kremes to maybe work harder on the program and portray an image that young men would want to emulate. Reminds me of a convicted criminal, "I'm innocent", even though I was convicted. I'm not saying he's a criminal at all but the sincerity doesn't seem there to me. I'll say it to take some of the heat off me. I wish him the best and hope he keeps his mouth shut about the UT football program. Let coach Jones run his own program without your interference.
 
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Vols4us said:
Exactly. He qualified his admission of responsibility. Kind of like needing a definition of "is".

His inability to see, much less admit, that he caused the program to go well down the slippery slope over a half dozen years and not just a season or two is what is so nauseating. Having a down season every 4-5 years can happen to even the best. However, "down" is like 7-6 W/L at UT. When it is clear you cannot have even that without Cut in charge of the offense and providing team discipline it is time to go.

How good was Randy Sanders as an OC? So good he couldn't stay in the job anywhere else. How good was the Clawface? lol. Yet, Phil would just roll with it regardless as long as they let him. He got lucky having Chief and Cut together while he went out and did what he did the best - recruit. The first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem. He still hasn't fully admitted it.
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You nailed it!
 
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chuck0303 said:
Agree. It's nice he said it but don't you think the only reason he said it was because of John Adams column and the amount of heat he has taken since? Notice he didn't elaborate about his role other than to say the head coach is responsible. Notice he said he wouldn't change anything if he had it to do over other than something to do with the losses he had. In other words, I wouldn't put down the Krispy Kremes to maybe work harder on the program and portray an image that young men would want to emulate. Reminds me of a convicted criminal, "I'm innocent", even though I was convicted. I'm not saying he's a criminal at all but the sincerity doesn't seem there to me. I'll say it to take some of the heat off me. I wish him the best and hope he keeps his mouth shut about the UT football program. Let coach Jones run his own program without your interference.
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And what would this thread be without a no class insult.
 
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114VOL said:
In how many decades have you attended games?

If it isn't too personal of a question, what year were you born?
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You are the one with the superior intellect. I am sure you can figure out how to drill down to my profile and see the year I was born.
 
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87Vol said:
Yet he then proceeded in the article to continue placing blame on everyone but himself. He wouldn't admit one specific single thing that he did wrong. His statement of accepting responsibility was not really a humble admission of his failure at all. His statement on responsibility was merely a cheap attempt to try to make himself look just a little better after his earlier statements, where he blamed everyone and everything except the person most responsible (himself) for the downfall of Tennessee football. He is a sad pathetic egomaniac narcissist who still can't understand why his fat lazy booster brown nosing butt was fired, nor can he accept it. He's still talking about it in every interview five years later. Why anybody even interviews the man anymore is beyond me !
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Well said! People talk about enjoying the wins under CPF, how about enduring the painful losses where he would get a 3 pt lead then try to milk the clock to eek out a win? People try to put out those painful memories away but I vividly remember those and he should have been fired at least 2-3 years before. That last year I was actually pulling for any team to beat UT so we could end the debacle and not have Phil waddle across the field at the end of the game--so embarrassing to have a coach that says to do one thing--give your all--then do something else. Even though things haven't gone well the last couple of years I'll gladly endure that to get to a coach Butch Jones any day. I don't think we have to worry about losing to KY or Vandy anymore with CBJ at the helm. I doubt you'll hear excuses either.
 
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volfanecs said:
And what would this thread be without a no class insult.
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So, let's see, you APPROVE of the physical image he portrays as a coach to young recruits. We want our recruits to model themselves after his physique? I'm very familiar with the onset of age and how one's appearance and body isn't what it used to be. By the same token, when your career involves physical fitness and trying to get young athletes to condition themselves into being the best they can be, what message does it send when you profess one thing then you do another? No wonder you're the last fulmerite.
 
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Lexvol said:
I was peering out my hotel room looking for the Four Horseman as I posted.

I bet there are a ton of fans out there who just wanted Phil to take some culpability.
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That weird moment when you don't know if it's the four horsemen or the three amigos.
 
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