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VolzRChamps

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I know people here won't agree with the content, but it's meant to be funny. It's meant to lighten the mood.

Watch it and try to relax, remember It's just a Game to us fans. It's careers and lives for players and coaches and their families.

Go Vols!!

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VolzRChamps said:
I know people here won't agree with the content, but it's meant to be funny. It's meant to lighten the mood.

Watch it and try to relax, remember It's just a Game to us fans. It's careers and lives for players and coaches and their families.

Go Vols!!

YouTube - Smokey Lectures The Bloggers
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Well I might agree with the guy if he was talking about guys volunteering to be youth football coaches, who work for nothing but the enjoyment of the game and being with kids. But to say that professional coaches making six and seven figures a year should be immune to criticism is asinine. Big-time college football is a business as well as a sport, a big business at that. To say that coaches should be immune from accountability for their product on the field is illogical. If they can't take the pressure they should be coaching at the high school level (which by the way is subject to intense pressure itself here in Georgia). Let's face it, the higher the rewards, the higher the expectations, just as it should be. They are not coaching at this level merely for the love of the game, it's more about the money.
 
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billbattle said:
Well I might agree with the guy if he was talking about guys volunteering to be youth football coaches, who work for nothing but the enjoyment of the game and being with kids. But to say that professional coaches making six and seven figures a year should be immune to criticism is asinine. Big-time college football is a business as well as a sport, a big business at that. To say that coaches should be immune from accountability for their product on the field is illogical. If they can't take the pressure they should be coaching at the high school level (which by the way is subject to intense pressure itself here in Georgia). Let's face it, the higher the rewards, the higher the expectations, just as it should be. They are not coaching at this level merely for the love of the game, it's more about the money.
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errrrr. Remember Mike Gundy? You're arguing with a farce.
 
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My wife's(Forbes) company has had 5 different Ceo's in 10 years because they were not meeting company goals. Unfortunately, the Ceo's inability to perform such tasks has cost numerous employees their jobs. That's the real world. In the Fulmer/Hamilton Fantasy World, we find Fulmer, an egotisical man and Hamilton, a coward. Fulmer should be a big boy and go ahead and agree and except his buyout. His ego won't allow him to think he failed. Anyone can clearly see this is the case. The game has passed him by, going on 4-5 years now.If he were fired today at least we could start over from scratch and rebuild the football program he has dismantled. What a joke.
 
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utfantilidie- Next time you are at Phil's house tell him hello for me. It's obvious that you know him personally since you call him egotistical because he has NEVER come across that way on tv to anyone. IF he did, the media would be all over it, so either you know him more personally than anyone on this board, or you are completely and utterly misguided and wrong and have nothing but a personal agenda.
 
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utfantilidie said:
My wife's(Forbes) company has had 5 different Ceo's in 10 years because they were not meeting company goals. Unfortunately, the Ceo's inability to perform such tasks has cost numerous employees their jobs. That's the real world.
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Great example. Hundreds lose their jobs to outsourcing and poor quarterly sales numbers, so why should this type of business be any different. Like it's been said before, college football is a business, and if you look at it that way Fulmer is running this business right toward bankruptcy.
 
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Awesome. What a deep, insightful, creative, heart-felt, thought-provoking post. Great job.
 
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I thought about doing other ones, like the "They were who we thought they were" and "Playoffs?" From Jim Mora.
 
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Well some people are rooted in what they say goes. You're free to your own opinion, but I want to know exactly what Fulmer has shown you lately that makes you say "I want him leading this football team".
 
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I don't want to get into it because that will turn this into ANOTHER Fulmer thread, but I will say that I believe that I understand things more than most because of some of the people I know in life (and I don't mean in Knoxville in the A.D.). I have a more REALISTIC outlook that lets me understand what exactly a head coach's job is and its not what a lot of people here say it is, it is MUCH MUCH more involved and that in almost every area, Phillip Fulmer does his job better than most in his profession. There are times he does not get things done in the win column, but he makes adjustments and MUST be given time for those adjustments to pan out. The time to fire him or for him to leave is not now in my opinion and I just believe that those that think it is time, are fundamentally wrong because of a lack of understanding of the complete situation.
 
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So you're looking at what's been going on behind the scenes instead of his recent record and way of handling it?
 
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VolzRChamps said:
I don't want to get into it because that will turn this into ANOTHER Fulmer thread, but I will say that I believe that I understand things more than most because of some of the people I know in life (and I don't mean in Knoxville in the A.D.). I have a more REALISTIC outlook that lets me understand what exactly a head coach's job is and its not what a lot of people here say it is, it is MUCH MUCH more involved and that in almost every area, Phillip Fulmer does his job better than most in his profession. There are times he does not get things done in the win column, but he makes adjustments and MUST be given time for those adjustments to pan out. The time to fire him or for him to leave is not now in my opinion and I just believe that those that think it is time, are fundamentally wrong because of a lack of understanding of the complete situation.
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Then make him Associate AD in charge of Football. I have always said that he should have a job at UT as long as he wants to stay. I just believe the opposite of what you believe.
 
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