Well, to be fair, we were all being pretty silly about the idea Florida State or Alabama (in a couple years) might come after him.
Also any coach showing a semblance of momentum gets an extension after year two. It’s stupid, but it’s the game.
yeah, and it is a bit of revisionist history to now say "where was all this talk about him leaving?"
hell, the day he was hired, someone, somewhere, extrapolated he'd be taking SAban's place at Bama w/in 5 years.
and coming off last season, and how recruiting was this spring.....lol...most of us were feeling pretty damn good about ourselves....fulmer included. so he extended the guy. at the time it happened, it wasn't a thing, and it made sense.
hindsight is a beautiful thing.
if you want to get bent about the extension, fine, but what was going up leading up to it, at the time, it at least made sense.
that it doesn't now, well, you're crying over spilt milk. can't put it back in the bottle.