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10-09-2007, 08:05 PM
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| Keep Phillip Fulmer
I was listening to the Sports Animal and this morning at about 10 AM (I think it's hosted by the Knoxville News Sentinel) and they made quite a few great points about Phillip Fulmer and why people really need to get off of his back.
1.) The man has GREAT consistency coaching in the toughest conference in the land. Over 15 years, he is probably averaging 9 wins a season. That stat is very comparable to Spurrier's. I do not think we can get a proven coach that is as consistent as Fulmer year in and year out.
2.) Winning Percentage. a 74% winning percentage in 15 years of coaching the toughest conference is almost unheard of.
3.) Some fans may say we're not as good as we used to be. Look at the SEC top to bottom in the nineties. Look at the SEC top to bottom now. Enough said.
4.) Recruiting. Top 5 recruiting classes year in and year out. There isn't great talent in the state of Tennessee so the coaching staff has to go around the country ever year and convince young men to play football out of the state. Fulmer doesn't have it as easy as Urban Meyer does where all the talent they need is right in their own state.
Bottom line is, no other coach (save for Spurrier) can achieve great consistency in wins and recruiting in the toughest conference over such a long period of time.
Get off his back. | 
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10-09-2007, 08:13 PM
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| Do we really need to go through this again and post the facts to refute your post above? I don't think anyone here has a personal vendetta against Fulmer. The decline of the program is what we have a disdain for. I hope he gets it turned around and keeps it that way. Things are rosey now after the UGA beating. However, let us stumble at Miss. St. and the wolves will be howling. | |
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10-09-2007, 08:15 PM
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| and i am one of those wolves lurking behind the bushes
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10-09-2007, 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Voldaddy  Do we really need to go through this again and post the facts to refute your post above? I don't think anyone here has a personal vendetta against Fulmer. The decline of the program is what we have a disdain for. I hope he gets it turned around and keeps it that way. Things are rosey now after the UGA beating. However, let us stumble at Miss. St. and the wolves will be howling. | why don't you refute my arguments first? | |
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10-09-2007, 08:17 PM
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| | Buck Fama
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Nashville, tn.
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| Save this post for the end of the year. Thats when phil's judgement will be in. Then maybe some people will get off his back or be proven right, either way you'll have to wait till season's end. | |
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10-09-2007, 08:18 PM
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| | Make em Gobble
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Dover, TN
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| I agree with you....Fulmer may be out of a date a little bit and appear to be a little bit useless at times...BUT the guy can field a football team, and when the players actually listen to him we have great results...All the Fulmer bashers need to take notes on these things that i am fixing to write..
1. If it weren't for CPF we wouldnt have had a 1998 national championship or the back to back SECCG's. Johnny Majors was great, but he couldnt do that for our program.
2. If it weren't for CPF UT wouldnt be a college football team worth talking about and whoever the coach or coaches shall I say that replaces him would even be in the same statement as CPF is.
3. And finally back in the good ole days of the mid 1990's CPF was crowned the king of knoxville, but what we (the fans) forget to realize is at that time the SEC wasnt the conference that it is today, dont believe me look at UGA and LSU for example, ask a bayou bengal about the 1990's they will probably tell you that it was a bad nightmare. UT,FL, AU and Bama were the SEC programs at that time, and never in a million dreams would you even mention Kentucky, South Carolina or Vanderbilt as teams that could compete for the SECCG. Now adays every team has a punchers chance in every game they play.
Bash away everyone please, heres your free shot at a guy that loves UT football, and supports CPF and his staff as well..... | |
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10-09-2007, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by hatvol96 Plenty of guys have won more than 2 SEC titles in a 15 year tenure. | In the nineties yes....in the new millennium? | |
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10-09-2007, 08:22 PM
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| | Calling it like I see it
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: ROCKY TOP TN.
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| Gee, a Phil Fulmer debate thread.....who would have thought it.
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10-09-2007, 08:23 PM
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| | Make em Gobble
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| you crack me up man...thats a funny pic | |
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