Baffling Barnhart comment about Fulmer

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Vercingetorix

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From a post today:

3. Phillip Fulmer would be a good fit at Clemson: Fulmer’s friends are telling him that he should take a year off to recharge his batteries. But when I talked to Fulmer last week he told me it is hard to imagine not coaching somewhere for the first time in 40 years. Fulmer has heard that Clemson might be interested. It’s just my opinion but Clemson could use a coach like Fulmer to instill some toughness into that group of players. Fulmer can still recruit. He just needs to hire a great offensive coordinator and turn it over to him.
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Brilliant insight like this is why Barnhart deserves that buyout. Good riddance.
 
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HAHA he posted that exact same comment a few days ago and I was ROTFL

Mr. College Football needs to hang up that title
 
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Hell, if he'd have turned it over to the OC this year he wouldn't be looking for a job.
 
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If Fulmer goes to Clemson, he will win championships there and Clemson will become one of the better teams in the nation for sure.
 
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If Chavis went with him, I don't doubt that Fulmer might have some success at Clemson. But "instilling toughness"? Has Barnhart even watched Tennessee play in the last, oh, decade?

It's like Barnhart has this mental image of what kind of coach an old offensive lineman is, and he just sticks Fulmer into that category regardless of what he's actually done. If Clemson hires him, expect a column or two on how Fulmer's going to coach up their offensive line and start blowing people off the ball, establishing a power running game, etc etc etc. Complete blather.
 
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the sad part for clemson would be that Fulmer is in fact an upgrade over tommy bowden.
 
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Why do y'all care what anyone says about Fulmer now that he is no longer going to be our coach? He is gone you should be happy. The right decision was made and we will have a new coach soon and we will be better off for it. So just let it go.
 
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VolBeef88 said:
Why do y'all care what anyone says about Fulmer now that he is no longer going to be our coach? He is gone you should be happy. The right decision was made and we will have a new coach soon and we will be better off for it. So just let it go.
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He's not gone yet. He's still got a great chance to lose to Vanderbilt and Kentucky in the same year.
 
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VolBeef88 said:
Why do y'all care what anyone says about Fulmer now that he is no longer going to be our coach? He is gone you should be happy. The right decision was made and we will have a new coach soon and we will be better off for it. So just let it go.
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My enemies don't cease to be my enemies just because they are out of sight.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
If Chavis went with him, I don't doubt that Fulmer might have some success at Clemson. But "instilling toughness"? Has Barnhart even watched Tennessee play in the last, oh, decade?

It's like Barnhart has this mental image of what kind of coach an old offensive lineman is, and he just sticks Fulmer into that category regardless of what he's actually done. If Clemson hires him, expect a column or two on how Fulmer's going to coach up their offensive line and start blowing people off the ball, establishing a power running game, etc etc etc. Complete blather.
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Toughness and disicpline are two different attributes. I agree that we have had no disipline without Coach Cut, but I think toughness has been a trait of UT that has not disappeared.
 
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i know this much, one area that Bowden failed miserably, Fulmer would excel.......Bowden lost his team. I can't say that Fulmer ever "lost" a team, at least to the point where they had zero faith in him. has he had teams quit at times? yeah.....but by and large the 'family' atmosphere you hear about at TN under Fulmer, he's done a good job of creating that atmosphere, he'd do the same at Clemson.
 
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jakez4ut said:
i know this much, one area that Bowden failed miserably, Fulmer would excel.......Bowden lost his team. I can't say that Fulmer ever "lost" a team, at least to the point where they had zero faith in him. has he had teams quit at times? yeah.....but by and large the 'family' atmosphere you hear about at TN under Fulmer, he's done a good job of creating that atmosphere, he'd do the same at Clemson.
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I like you Jake. That said, I find it tough to believe you're gullible enough to fall for that sham. You saw how much his players care for Fulmer on Saturday. All that "family" babble is so much crap.
 
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The only "baffling' thing is that people actually lend credence to anything Barnyard says. His lips have to be terribly sore from kissing every coach in the South's ass for 25 years.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I like you Jake. That said, I find it tough to believe you're gullible enough to fall for that sham. You saw how much his players care for Fulmer on Saturday. All that "family" babble is so much crap.
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there may be some truth to that, but i guess what i was getting at is that you've never heard the kind of player back lash, like you did from Harper and a few others upon Bowden's departure, about FUlmer.

plus, i don't recall hearing any current clemson players defeding bowden at the press conf or at any point after......the leaders of the team actually seemed happy bowden was out.

didn't see that from TN's players about fulmer......that's all i was getting at.

past that, this year's edition of the vols just sucks.

capable of losing to UCLA.......means you're capable of losing to anyone.

that said........i was surprised to not see a better effort to 'win one for the gipper' so to speak. that is disappointing, on two fronts....one that we just suck that bad and that two, they simplly may not care anymore.

who knows........i still think fulmer > bowden.
 
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