I think he could coach again if he wanted to. But you're right, he made good money late in his career. If I'm not mistaken, he was the highest paid assistant on the Arkansas staff last year.He will have the opportunity to coach again if he wants it, he's made enough money that he doesn't have to though.
3rd and Chavis was the least of his problems once he left Tennessee.Did he EVER fix "3rd and Chavis"??!!
In before "3rd and Cha".........nevermind.....I cannot do that. I loved Chavis.
3rd and Chavis was the least of his problems once he left Tennessee.
I like Chavis; he was here a long time and did a ton for the football program, but my critique of him is that his defenses were often less than the sum of their parts. He needed elite (not just good, but elite) talent in order to have a good defense, and he didn't do a lot himself in order to bring in the elite talent (he never was known as a great recruiter).
When his talent was elite, the defense was really good. If his talent was merely "good," his defenses would struggle.
Not to the same degree that Chavis is, no.Isn’t that the case for 99.9% of coaches?
I will say there were rebuilding years where the defense would struggle early but always seemed to figure it out and get better by mid season. Following years were always better too.
Spurrier had him figured out though.
You’re exactly right. Both of those bad teams at the end of Fulmer’s tenure had terrible offenses but good defenses; especially 2005.There towards the end of Fulmer era, it felt like all we had were good defenses and no offensive support at all. Felt like we averaged 14-17points on offense. May be misremembering though