Biggest Villian in modern Tennessee football history

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Smokymtnbullet said:
Fulmer,he got complacent and started the 20 year slide.He did well with Cutcliffe and Chavis but when Cut left it all unraveled.He hired the worst football coach in history..Pruitt.Also hired Kevin Steele for 10 days at around 86,000 dollars a day(anybody thinks Danny White would do that put your crack pipe down now!)
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I don’t see Fulmer as a villain- he accomplished great things and I have no doubt he wants what’s best for UT. However, he is most responsible for the dark years from 2008-2020. Had had not run the program into the ground, there wouldn’t have been a need for Kiffin, Dooley, Jones and Pruitt. Hamilton and Hart wouldn’t have even had the chance to make poor hires. A well oiled machine drove off the cliff under his watch. Related to Spurrier above, I was always more frustrated with Fulmer because he never had his team ready to play. In terms of most unlikeable, I would put Kiffin at the top.
 
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James Franklin not on the list? Kiffin isn't top 5 for me because he grew up and owned the mistake and has shown love constantly since. I blame Orgeron for more of the mess than I blame Lane. I don't want to hate on Hamilton as he's no longer with us, but the way he handled the aftermath is what caused the years of misery that followed. The stunt with Kippy was just gross and unfair to that man. Hiring Dooley was the biggest mistake I can think of. The co tract to Fulmer the year before he was firing when he wasn't going ANYWHERE. That buyout never made sense. I never considered him a villain, though. Currie is more of a villain in my mind
 
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vavolfan6 said:
In the mid to late 2010's, I thought the fanbase was it's own worse enemy. The toxicity was at an all time high. It seemed like our program lost it's appeal to prospective coaches becuase of how rabid the fanbase was and the instant gratification mindset so many had. The pressure was intense as we were sick of losing to Bama and Florida 10+ years in a row. It got so bad that even mediocre ACC coaches were turning us down.

It took us getting to all time lows before we could be thankful when Heupel pulled us out the ditch. Thankfully now spirits are so much better!
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Ah yes, the fans. I forgot how responsible I was for the dysfunction.
 
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Hulavol said:
Before I even clicked on the link, the answer was immediate.
The Cruella Deville in the modern Tennessee football story?

There is only one.

Steven Orr Spurrier.

Ultimately, on a December evening down in Florida, the evil villain was vanquished for good.
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He was the perfect villain. Franklin was next. Saban was a pain but he never poked at us like those two did. I would add the 97 Heisman voters as well.
 
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vavolfan6 said:
In the mid to late 2010's, I thought the fanbase was it's own worse enemy. The toxicity was at an all time high. It seemed like our program lost it's appeal to prospective coaches becuase of how rabid the fanbase was and the instant gratification mindset so many had. The pressure was intense as we were sick of losing to Bama and Florida 10+ years in a row. It got so bad that even mediocre ACC coaches were turning us down.

It took us getting to all time lows before we could be thankful when Heupel pulled us out the ditch. Thankfully now spirits are so much better!
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Any success Heupel has had or will have should be proof that the fanbase is not and never was the problem. People blamed the fans because they couldn’t accept the fact that Dooley, Butch, and Pruitt sucked. Dave Doeren turning us down was not an indictment on the fans, he knew that Tennessee fans wouldn’t and shouldn’t settle for 5 more years of Butch Jones results, so he stayed where he was because North Carolina State will accept those.
 
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Are we going for damage or intent?

Bc a lot of those on there just sucked without the intent part.

Kiffin calling our recruits and trying to steal them makes him one of the worst human beings on that list at least at the time.
 
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Smokymtnbullet said:
Fulmer,he got complacent and started the 20 year slide.He did well with Cutcliffe and Chavis but when Cut left it all unraveled.He hired the worst football coach in history..Pruitt.Also hired Kevin Steele for 10 days at around 86,000 dollars a day(anybody thinks Danny White would do that put your crack pipe down now!)
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If there were a Mount Rushmore of modern day villains then Spurrier, Saban, Kiffin who kicked off our decade of dysfunction, and finally any backup qb we have had to face in meaningful games would be up there stating with Matt Mauk
 
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For opposing villians clearly Spurrier and Saban were the ones who kept us from being as elite as we could've been and cost us at least 4-5 NC game appearances.

But for me it's a mix of Kiffin/Hamilton/Hart. Kiffin's sudden departure may have rallied the fanbase into one angry monolith, but the hiring of he and the coaches that followed sent our program into the worst decade in its history and we are now only thankfully back to normal thanks to Heupel. Hiring Gary Patterson instead would've been the better choice.
 
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Big Orange Captain said:
1. Kiffin
2.Fulmer
3. Mike Hamilton
4. Pruitt
5. Saban
6. Butch
7. Nico
For me personally it’s always been Kiffin his leaving in the midnight hour after just one season kick started a series of chain reactions of terrible decisions and coaching hires. Which pretty much nuked our football program into the wasteland of irrelevancy for a decade plus. So yea Kiffin will always be numero uno of the legion of doom villains to UT football.
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So the guy that won the only national championship in the modern era is on the list of vilians? Smdh…
 
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