Fulmer’s Legacy at Tennessee

[MAD]

How will Phillip Fulmer and his lasting legacy to the University of Tennessee be remembered?

 

[Waterudoin]

Like a beer burp.

 

[GAVol]

A lot of wins and 1998 is all anybody will remember.

Kind of like with Johnny Majors . . . he had an ugly end, but it wasn't long before all anybody remembered were the big wins.

 

[vader]

'98 was fun

 

[Majors]

Two ways...

A legend

or

A legend that stayed in it too long and ruined his legacy

 

[MAD]

He has destroyed Tennessee football 3 times.
If you include the way Majors was pushed out.

 

[GAVol]

He has destroyed Tennessee football 3 times.
If you include the way Majors was pushed out.

Really don't think anybody that knows very much about the details considers the way Majors was removed to be destroying Tennessee football.

 

[VolAllen]

A lot of wins and 1998 is all anybody will remember.

Kind of like with Johnny Majors . . . he had an ugly end, but it wasn't long before all anybody remembered were the big wins.

I dunno if Majors end was THIS ugly lol

 

[Border Vol]

How will Phillip Fulmer and his lasting legacy to the University of Tennessee be remembered?

Winning a National Championship and being Tennessee's worst AD.

 

[OrangeTsar]

He will be remembered for the triumph and tragedy bookends that are the 1998 NC Game and the 2001 SEC Championship Game long after all else is forgotten

 

[EricStratton]

Fifth best, at best.

 

[TheDeeble]

A head coach that reached the pinnacle of success, got lazy and began the downfall of the football program, and kneecapped it as a failed Athletic Director leaving Tennessee neck deep in violations.

 

[GAVol]

Fifth best, at best.

Damn glad to meet you.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

How will Phillip Fulmer and his lasting legacy to the University of Tennessee be remembered?

Great coach in his prime and over his head as AD..

 

[UT Hill Man]

He ran the program into a lake.

 

[VolMarine1371]

A lot of wins and 1998 is all anybody will remember.

Kind of like with Johnny Majors . . . he had an ugly end, but it wasn't long before all anybody remembered were the big wins.

Fulmer helped with that ugly ending I do believe!

 

[VOL-TIL-I-DIE]

some good times and some bad times. But not posting the bad....

 

[vol05]

A head coach that reached the pinnacle of success, got lazy and began the downfall of the football program, and kneecapped it as a failed Athletic Director leaving Tennessee neck deep in violations.

Ouch. That’s rough.

 

[Mikevol1964]

He has destroyed Tennessee football 3 times.
If you include the way Majors was pushed out.

His ending as AD isn’t pretty for sure. Majors pushed himself out and to claim otherwise is BS. I don’t think he destroyed Tenn football in 2008 either. We played for the SEC championship in 2007. No one has come close to his success even in the 2000’s sine and that’s with him being away from the program for 9 years. Can’t blame Kiffin, Dooley and Jones on him. If you want to blame Pruitt on him fine but you need to consider the sh@@ show he inherited.

 

[SmokeyDog1973]

Always will be revered for winning the national title of course and a bunch of games and recruiting Peyton Manning but in the end he drove the bus into the ditch as the coach and crashed the plane into the Grand Canyon as the AD.

 

[orangefloyd]

I remember the back stabbings.

 

[vol05]

His ending as AD isn’t pretty for sure. Majors pushed himself out and to claim otherwise is BS. I don’t think he destroyed Tenn football in 2008 either. We played for the SEC championship in 2007. No one has come close to his success even in the 2000’s sine and that’s with him being away from the program for 9 years. Can’t blame Kiffin, Dooley and Jones on him. If you want to blame Pruitt on him fine but you need to consider the sh@@ show he inherited.

Really sounds like you don’t hold him accountable for very much...give him his due and just ignore all the BS I suppose...as well as the sh@@show he just presided over.

 

[hog88]

As someone who thought he was smarter and better than he actually is.

 

[BigOrangeSky]

He did hold it together in 98. That was great for certain. His run from 95 thru 98 was
also very good, but not stellar and that's it. He had a real nice run that gets over-stated.

He didn't recruit Peyton Manning. Watch the ESPN Biopic: Manning. David Cutcliffe inked him.
And, he backed into the '07 SEC CG after Florida and Georgia lost twice. Cutlciffe bailed him out
in '06 and they did not progress in '07. But, they won the bowl game in '07 to get to 10.

He had 2 conference titles. He couldn't beat Spurrier when it counted, and lost to him when it
didn't matter (05, 08), 5-9 all-time. Got jack hammered in '98 Orange Bowl by Osborne, started
then losing to Saban at LSU right off the bat, then onto Richt and then Meyer. That's about it for
him. Oh, this fiasco of course with Pruitt. He's no saint.

In a way, it's as dodgy as the Majors-Fulmer debacle. 50-50 at best. Like it or not, that's the facts.

**I did forget and was reminded his record versus Alabama was stellar when they had lame coaches.

 

[Border Vol]

I guess these wont be passed around anymore to recruits!