Another staggering folly by fulmer...

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PNW Huskie said:
Sorry but this isn’t believable. In today’s environment of instant news, one upsmanship and click bait some news source would have absolutely run with this story to be the first or exclusive or the only site reporting it. Vetting or not there is no way a story this explosive floats for a couple weeks without someone reporting it. Just not the way “news” works these days.
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That was kind of my point, they don't actually see this as an explosive story. I think it ends up being a giant nothing. I know the KNS had looked into it last week and I think everyone knows the kind of hard on they have for negative stories about UT and even they made the decision that there wasn't enough there to do a story.
 
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Very interesting last paragraph in the link provided by the OP

“The internet now-a-days has caused so much chaos, so much rumors, so much conspiracies out there,” Novak said. “Unless they know for sure that there are violations — just cause — a chance to be heard (is needed) before everyone is crucified.”

Cough cough cough!
 
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Actually ole Phil played it perfectly. By accepting the bowl bid, but not being able to play due to Covid-19, Tennessee is still eligible for its cut of sec bowl money, which equates to $8.5 million this year. Those funds could go a long way to say, pay a certain coach’s buyout, so before everyone jumps down Fulmer’s throat, please have all the facts.

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Seems like self imposed penalties would be appropriate only AFTER the conclusion of an internal review. I’d give Phil a pass on this one and actually probably a gold star (and a dozen hot KKs) for his handling of it so far.
 
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Better hope this is nothing. NCAA hammers irrelevant schools. TN is relevant right????
 
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Bowl revenue sharing is millions of dollars. Bans or sanctions would eliminate the share. While covid doesn’t. They’ll literally bank millions of dollars to stay home. It’s usually a net zero at best.
 
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chattavol420 said:
Based on the allegations that recently surfaced I kinda expected fulmer to make a statement rejected an invitation to a bowl game as a self imposed ban. We have absolutely nothing to play for this season and are an absolute $hit show right now. It would’ve been the perfect opportunity to get out ahead of this thing (as the article linked below suggest is often offered by the offending university). That’s exactly what lsu did this year. Instead fulmer accepts the invitation only to be forced to withdrawal a day later. So now we’re not playing in a game but could still have the possibility of a bowl ban in the future as we’re not going to get the benefit of not playing this year which could be used as a bargaining chip.
I can’t tell who’s more in over their heads at this point between fulmer and Pruitt. Both are historically bad. I guess we have to go with fulmer because he’s the idiot that hired the idiot.

NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions discusses Tennessee's alleged wrongdoings

I hope this doesn’t get merged. There’s already a couple of fire fulmer threads. But I think this is different in substance as it relates specifically to the bowl game and potential infractions were facing.
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Pruitt gets it. Pruitt is coaching the Champions of Life and brick by brick. Phil Fulmer is a legend. Just look at the Hullco commercials.
 
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chattavol420 said:
Maybe you’re right and it’s just a smear campaign by someone that would like to see Pruitt hit the road (and by the way I wish I knew who so I could personally thank them)...but just saying this the article linked has direct quotes by an ncaa infractions committee member (who without a doubt knows more about these situations than any of us) stating that he would've expected Tennessee to decline the invitation.
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Give it a rest. You are not going to accept any real information lest it shatter her bile laden statement against Fulmer and Pruitt. Direct quotes of a "violation" don't mean the violation is anything more than a minor "slap on the wrist" type. The players needed the extra practice and game experience, whether or no Pruitt is actually the coach or not.
 
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chattavol420 said:
Based on the allegations that recently surfaced I kinda expected fulmer to make a statement rejected an invitation to a bowl game as a self imposed ban. We have absolutely nothing to play for this season and are an absolute $hit show right now. It would’ve been the perfect opportunity to get out ahead of this thing (as the article linked below suggest is often offered by the offending university). That’s exactly what lsu did this year. Instead fulmer accepts the invitation only to be forced to withdrawal a day later. So now we’re not playing in a game but could still have the possibility of a bowl ban in the future as we’re not going to get the benefit of not playing this year which could be used as a bargaining chip.
I can’t tell who’s more in over their heads at this point between fulmer and Pruitt. Both are historically bad. I guess we have to go with fulmer because he’s the idiot that hired the idiot.

NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions discusses Tennessee's alleged wrongdoings

I hope this doesn’t get merged. There’s already a couple of fire fulmer threads. But I think this is different in substance as it relates specifically to the bowl game and potential infractions were facing.
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Seeing has how Gray has already been cleared and millions in bowl revenue were on the line, I'd say (pretending for a moment there isn't a Covid issue) that Fulmer would have been more likely to be fired for passing on a bowl. To me, $8 mil is a good chunk of change.
 
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Chitlin&theDude said:
He's a terrible AD. He doesn't think ahead. He simply reacts to (but mainly ignores) present day circumstances. Any intelligent AD would have known weeks ago Pruitt was in trouble and began to plan for a replacement. He simply hoped things would work out. He's still hoping things will work out next year. He's a terrible AD
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And one without any Money
 
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If they fired Bruce Pearl for having a barbecue at his house with recruits, then it seems they will probably fire Pruitt if it has anything to do with him.
 
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Old Geezer said:
We should announce our own punishment before an investigation?
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We already received our punishment by playing JG when we knew the results beforehand. Hate to come down on the young man but I blame JP for not realizing the obvious and preparing the other QBs adequately.
 
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chattavol420 said:
Based on the allegations that recently surfaced I kinda expected fulmer to make a statement rejected an invitation to a bowl game as a self imposed ban. We have absolutely nothing to play for this season and are an absolute $hit show right now. It would’ve been the perfect opportunity to get out ahead of this thing (as the article linked below suggest is often offered by the offending university). That’s exactly what lsu did this year. Instead fulmer accepts the invitation only to be forced to withdrawal a day later. So now we’re not playing in a game but could still have the possibility of a bowl ban in the future as we’re not going to get the benefit of not playing this year which could be used as a bargaining chip.
I can’t tell who’s more in over their heads at this point between fulmer and Pruitt. Both are historically bad. I guess we have to go with fulmer because he’s the idiot that hired the idiot.

NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions discusses Tennessee's alleged wrongdoings

I hope this doesn’t get merged. There’s already a couple of fire fulmer threads. But I think this is different in substance as it relates specifically to the bowl game and potential infractions were facing.
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Fulmer just collected 8.5 million for the program. Maybe you know less than you believe you do about running an athletic program
 
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chattavol420 said:
Based on the allegations that recently surfaced I kinda expected fulmer to make a statement rejected an invitation to a bowl game as a self imposed ban. We have absolutely nothing to play for this season and are an absolute $hit show right now. It would’ve been the perfect opportunity to get out ahead of this thing (as the article linked below suggest is often offered by the offending university). That’s exactly what lsu did this year. Instead fulmer accepts the invitation only to be forced to withdrawal a day later. So now we’re not playing in a game but could still have the possibility of a bowl ban in the future as we’re not going to get the benefit of not playing this year which could be used as a bargaining chip.
I can’t tell who’s more in over their heads at this point between fulmer and Pruitt. Both are historically bad. I guess we have to go with fulmer because he’s the idiot that hired the idiot.

NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions discusses Tennessee's alleged wrongdoings

I hope this doesn’t get merged. There’s already a couple of fire fulmer threads. But I think this is different in substance as it relates specifically to the bowl game and potential infractions were facing.
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I know it's a message board and the Internet and yadda yadda yadda, but sometimes it's still mindboggling how humans can so hotly second-guess things without having any idea whatsoever about what is really going on.

OP knows nothing about the violations and resulting considerations, but then recommends a course of action and calls other people idiots for not following it. Just bizarre.
 
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chattavol420 said:
Maybe you’re right and it’s just a smear campaign by someone that would like to see Pruitt hit the road (and by the way I wish I knew who so I could personally thank them)...but just saying this the article linked has direct quotes by an ncaa infractions committee member (who without a doubt knows more about these situations than any of us) stating that he would've expected Tennessee to decline the invitation.
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So you‘re cool with someone making false allegations against someone else to get them fired just because you don’t like how they do their job? I’d much rather be known for losing football games in the short term than deal with the long term effects of having that on our record.
 
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chattavol420 said:
Based on the allegations that recently surfaced I kinda expected fulmer to make a statement rejected an invitation to a bowl game as a self imposed ban. We have absolutely nothing to play for this season and are an absolute $hit show right now. It would’ve been the perfect opportunity to get out ahead of this thing (as the article linked below suggest is often offered by the offending university). That’s exactly what lsu did this year. Instead fulmer accepts the invitation only to be forced to withdrawal a day later. So now we’re not playing in a game but could still have the possibility of a bowl ban in the future as we’re not going to get the benefit of not playing this year which could be used as a bargaining chip.
I can’t tell who’s more in over their heads at this point between fulmer and Pruitt. Both are historically bad. I guess we have to go with fulmer because he’s the idiot that hired the idiot.

NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions discusses Tennessee's alleged wrongdoings

I hope this doesn’t get merged. There’s already a couple of fire fulmer threads. But I think this is different in substance as it relates specifically to the bowl game and potential infractions were facing.
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