Fulmer will have to start refunding basketball season ticket money this week and the donations that go with the right to purchase the seats at Thompson Boling, furthering the deeper dive into the red ink for UTAD, unfortunately, given Fulmer's grandiosity and mountain like ego, he has locked in an under performing football staff, fully unaccountable for their lackluster on the field product which is non competitive with many teams in the SEC and was embarrassed by a team coached by a first year coach in his sixth game of his SEC career.
The only thing sadder that this sideshow will be when Pruitt gets fired and wins the lottery on the back and pocketbooks of Tennessee fans, while Fulmer goes out and inks a deal with some other bargain basement up and comer, like we've done regularly.
Fulmer had no idea how much the conference had changed in 2008 and he still has a hard time realizing there is no Jim Donnan or Ray Goff at Georgia, no Mike Dubois or Mike Shula at Alabama, no Brad Scott or Granny Holtz at South Carolina, no Curley Hallman or Gerry Dinard at the helm of LSU, no Tommy West or Tommy Bowden at Clemson, the big schools in the South, particularly the SEC, have upgraded every aspect of their football programs, including their coaching talent, while Tennessee continues to overpay for unproven talent, becoming a school known for writing big checks rather than winning big games.