Doyle Hargraves
Trump's diaper is full again
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My theory on the Fulmer "hate" goes back to his final season. You had people (myself included) clamoring for his firing and were very adamant and over the top about it. We felt it was time then and I still believe it was. What we all failed to realize at the time was our AD had absolutely no solid plan in place to replace him once he was fired. We all believed that after Fulmer, Tennessee would hire a top notch coach to keep us at the level we were accustomed to being.
We were dead wrong.
With the way our AD not only mishandled Fulmer's firing but also completely botched the coaching hires that have since followed, it makes letting Fulmer go look like a bad decision and outright foolish.
It makes those calling for his firing look wrong.
People don't like being wrong.
They will try to avoid accepting being wrong by focusing completely on the negatives of Fulmer and shooting holes into any positives mentioned. This comes across as blind hate to some people when actually it's just a matter of people refusing to admit maybe they were just wrong at the time.
Looking back in hindsight and having the knowledge of how our AD would handle the aftermath of the firing, anyone who argues we are better off now than we would have been had we just stuck with Fulmer is either in denial or just plain old stupid.
We were dead wrong.
With the way our AD not only mishandled Fulmer's firing but also completely botched the coaching hires that have since followed, it makes letting Fulmer go look like a bad decision and outright foolish.
It makes those calling for his firing look wrong.
People don't like being wrong.
They will try to avoid accepting being wrong by focusing completely on the negatives of Fulmer and shooting holes into any positives mentioned. This comes across as blind hate to some people when actually it's just a matter of people refusing to admit maybe they were just wrong at the time.
Looking back in hindsight and having the knowledge of how our AD would handle the aftermath of the firing, anyone who argues we are better off now than we would have been had we just stuck with Fulmer is either in denial or just plain old stupid.
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