Not really accurate for his recruiting. He was fired with a top 10 class set-up (the Taj Boyd class). While it's true (according to Rivals) that his 2008 class was ranked a dismal 35th, and his 2006 class was 23rd, his 2005 class was 4th, and his 2007 class was 3rd nationally. Two top 5 classes in his last 4 years is better than anything since, including Butch's best two classes. Fulmer also had to do this against the backdrop of negative recruiting from all of the SEC coaches who pointed out Mike Hamilton's "expectations". If you will recall, Hamilton, in all of his Jeremy Foley envy, was doing interviews which put Fulmer on shaky ground, didn't extend his contract one year, etc. That had as much to do with Fulmer's recruiting woes as much as any laziness attributed to him. That laziness is largely a false narrative that fans create to make themselves gfeel better about divorcing themselves from an honorable and successful coach like Fulmer.
Fulmer probably would never have gotten UT to the summit again, but he would have been better than this cluster of fun that we have experienced for the past 9 years.
