Fulmer getting an extension as AD

#51
#51
Malivol said:
I think it is a huge mistake. The game passed him by years ago. He won by overwhelming talent and David Cutcliffe. He has a grudge about getting fired and will be meddling every chance he gets. Pay him 300k a year on a year to year contract. If he behaves, Renew his contract, if not, send him packing. It’s not like he’s a hot commodity not has he ever been since he was fired.
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Mr. Currie, is that you?
 
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Freak said:
Historical speaking, we haven’t done a very good job of hiring athletic directors.
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just a downward spiral since Doug Dickey retired.....the price we fans have paid for having an administration with a desire to win the PERCEPTION battle instead of the actual WARS on the athletic field...stupidity finally being rectified--or at least I feel that way now that FULMER is the AD....

I'd give Fulmer the job for life and tell the Haslam's to go pound sand..
 
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#57
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He has zero accomplishments and no reason at this point to think he will. Yeah give him an extension. Its the UT way.
 
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orangeluvr said:
Former winning football coaches as AD works well, like Alvarez at Wisconsin, hope CPF is as successful.
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Like Neyland, Woodruff, Dickie at Tennessee, and Battle at Alabama. A lot of history there, and it's certainly better than Hamilton, Hart and Currie. Sometimes you just look at what works and go with it.
 
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KBVol said:
So much damn hate and utter stupidity for an all-time great Vol who loves his university and has taken over the freaking tire fire that has been the Vol AD and stabilized it.

Thank God Philip Fulmer, after being ished on multiple times despite essentially giving his life to the university of Tennessee, swallowed his pride and was there ready to help lead Vol athletics out of the gutter when asked.

And instead of being grateful, we got blithering idiots on here running him through the mud. Thank God the other 95% of us appreciate Fulmer and take the exact opposite, and correct, opinion of him.
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I like Fulmer, but saying he gave his life to UT is like saying a politician gave his life to public service. Take away 90% of the money and they would have found another job.
 
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
Historically speaking this isn’t a smart move. I hope it works out, this time.
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Historically speaking Fulmer as AD was a brilliant move. A no brainer. Football coaches are the best ADs - period. We have adults back in charge of Tennessee football.
 
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OY!

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a vol n tears said:
I like Fulmer, but saying he gave his life to UT is like saying a politician gave his life to public service. Take away 90% of the money and they would have found another job.
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He committed as a player when he made no money, he was an assistant coach well before there was any significant money, at all, in the profession. He began making a ton of money after having phenomenal success as a head coach, when he became the first head coach to make $1mm iirc. And now, when the 65 year old Fulmer has all the money he’d ever need and then some, and needs the stress of being UT’s AD like he needs a freaking hole in the head, after being treated more than once like complete ish over the last 10 years from his UT “family”, he agrees to lead a pathetic UT athletic department in severe disrepair.....which is a huge, daunting job for a semi-retired 65 year old man.

I firmly reject the idea that his commitment to Tennessee over the majority of his lifetime is analogous to a necessarily crooked politician who goes into “public service” with the expressed purpose of lining his pockets. We often see examples of politicians who somehow leave the profession of politics with a $10-12mm net worth while being paid $100-150mm a year for a decade or so. I don’t believe I see the comparison.
 
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KBVol said:
He committed as a player when he made no money, he was an assistant coach well before there was any significant money, at all, in the profession. He began making a ton of money after having phenomenal success as a head coach, when he became the first head coach to make $1mm iirc. And now, when the 65 year old Fulmer has all the money he’d ever need and then some, and needs the stress of being UT’s AD like he needs a freaking hole in the head, after being treated more than once like complete ish over the last 10 years from his UT “family”, he agrees to lead a pathetic UT athletic department in severe disrepair.....which is a huge, daunting job for a semi-retired 65 year old man.

I firmly reject the idea that his commitment to Tennessee over the majority of his lifetime is analogous to a necessarily crooked politician who goes into “public service” with the expressed purpose of lining his pockets. We often see examples of politicians who somehow leave the profession of politics with a $10-12mm net worth while being paid $100-150mm a year for a decade or so. I don’t believe I see the comparison.
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LOL This is great comedy. :good!:
 
#72
#72
This will be the first of many he collects. He is the best in the business at securing extensions.
 
#73
#73
jakez4ut said:
i have no real issue with this. just don't understand the timing.
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They couldn't give him a long term contract until Currie was fired.

Now that Haslam has his BOT bill passed, the current admins need to get Fulmer under a long term contract before he has time to rearrange the board.
 
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