The Worst Firing In Sports History Was

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#76
Slydell said:
Johnny Majors firing was justified, too, IMO. Many fans wanted him gone in '88. It got smoothed over during the next two seasons and then started up again with the loss to Arky in '92.
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By smoothed over you mean won 2 SEC titles and aton of games, right?
 
#77
#77
I look at it like this...


You fire a coach to hire a better coach.

Was Lane Kiffin a better coach then Phillip Fulmer? NO
Was Derek Dooley a better coach then Phillip Fulmer? LOL

So why fire a coach, and then hire a worse one?
 
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#78
#78
Slydell said:
The biggest thing I remember was that I had been a Cowboy fan for life and Landry was my coach. Then, this ignorant and arrogant ******* came in and fired him. I lasted a few more years watching the NFL and finally quit it all together around '92. Landry is now dead and still loved by many and Jones is still a fat ass ignorant arrogant *******.

Yeah, not too many ways to gracefully fire someone.
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So you stopped being a cowboys fan right when they won 3 of 4 Super Bowls. Are you insane?
 
#79
#79
Vol4life25 said:
I look at it like this...


You fire a coach to hire a better coach.

Was Lane Kiffin a better coach then Phillip Fulmer? NO
Was Derek Dooley a better coach then Phillip Fulmer? LOL

So why fire a coach, and then hire a worse one?
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If there is an opening tomorrow in college or the pros, do you really think Fulmer gets the call before Kiffin?
 
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#80
VolSwaff said:
If there is an opening tomorrow in college or the pros, do you really think Fulmer gets the call before Kiffin?
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I actually do think Fulmer gets the call first. He has been mentioned at both Arky and KY. He's not going to be high on anyone's NFL list but neither is Kiffturd. In fact, Kiffturd is proving Al Davis to be a prophet. If USC doesn't do something and do it soon, he is going to be relegated to coaching middle school intramurals.
 
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#81
Also, I would like to add my Dad to to the list. He got canned from coaching Little League baseball in 1990 after going ape**** on an umpire. That ump was blind.
 
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#91
PrattvilleVol said:
You failed to mention Cal demolished us the following year.
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45-31. 14 is not really being demolished. And Cal was a top 15 team. One still being considered a National Championship team. But I'll concede that one, but my point still beats anything that says Fulmer "deserved" to be fired.
 
#93
#93
Vol4life25 said:
I look at it like this...


You fire a coach to hire a better coach.

Was Lane Kiffin a better coach then Phillip Fulmer? NO
Was Derek Dooley a better coach then Phillip Fulmer? LOL

So why fire a coach, and then hire a worse one?
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Fulmer was the better coach until he started feeling to comfortable in his job and stopped working as hard.

I think Fulmer did a great job until the end of the 2001 season and it appears he started losing his drive for success. He became complacent.

His firing was justified and should have happened 3 years earlier. I was a fan of Fulmer but one can take a close examination of his era and it is obvious he let the program deteriate drastically.
 
#94
#94
Gramps said:
Fulmer was the better coach until he started feeling to comfortable in his job and stopped working as hard.

I think Fulmer did a great job until the end of the 2001 season and it appears he started losing his drive for success. He became complacent.

His firing was justified and should have happened 3 years earlier. I was a fan of Fulmer but one can take a close examination of his era and it is obvious he let the program deteriate drastically.
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Did you not read my post that showed his record from 2002 to the end? And then look at UTs history by decade (which I posted)? He didn't do anything except bring it back to what it historically was. If you think UT was always as good as it was in the 90s, you have very selective memory.
 
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#95
#95
Lou Holtz being fired at Arkansas was one of the worst college football firings of all time
 
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whobethis16 said:
Those that complain about how bad it was after 2001, do you all remember the records after that?

2002: 8-5
2003: 10-3 (tied for SEC East, beat Florida, beat Bama)
2004: 10-3 (won SEC East, beat Florida, beat Bama, beat UGA, beat USC)
2005: 5-6
2006: 9-4 (beat Bama, beat USC, demolished Cal)
2007: 10-4 (won SEC East)
2008: 5-7
Totals: 57-32

Yeah, that's REALLY awful. Keep in mind, that for the majority of UTs history (minus Neyland's tenure and the first half of Fulmer's career) the number of wins is about average. So to say that Fulmer "took Tennessee down" is absolutely ignorant. He may have brought them up and then down to what it used to be, but the firing of him is really what brought on this crap we're in now.
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Here, I'll even quote it so you don't have to find it, Gramps.
 
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#98
whobethis16 said:
For those that don't believe me that he was on par for the history, here are the records by decade.

1961-70: 82-31
1971-80: 69-44
1981-90: 83-34
1991-00: 98-24
(1993-00: 80-18)
2001-10: 81-48
(2001-08: 68-35)

Parentheses are just his years. Our "history of dominance" looks just like the **** years of Fulmer. Hmmm...
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And here's the other one. Yeah, it was REALLY deteriorating.
 
#99
#99
Cutcliffe from Ole Miss was pretty dumb. Kyle Bush from Hendrick, Joe Torre from Yankees, JM here, but THE DUMBEST SPORTS FIRING OF ALL TIME WAS PEYTON MANNING FROM INDY
 
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#100
JohnBoyBilly said:
Stop the love fest with gruden. The fans in Tampa wanted him gone and no one down here in Tampa misses him. He had a losing record post super bowl
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One of my best friends is a huge Bucs fan. He is as full-on-Gruden for UT as anyone else. If he can tolerate immaturity of 18 year olds, he will be an amazing success.
 
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