did clint stoerner save fulmer's job?

#26
#26
G'Town Vol said:
Stoerner didn't save Fulmer's job, it was the lineman that stepped on Stoerner's foot.
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Or maybe it was the D-Lineman who knocked the O-Lineman back into Stoener, or maybe it was the lunchroom lady who fed that D-lineman that day, or maybe it was the guy who takes care of the field at Neyland who cut the grass a little short exactly where Stoener slipped that day, or maybe it was a flash from a camerman from the KNS reporter who snapped a picture that temporarily blinded Stoener who then tripped, or maybe it was the tuba player for our band who played off key a note and temporarily caused the O-line to get out of sinc, or maybe it was the fact that the center broke wind, and Stoener was trying to get out from under center too quickly...hey I bet that was it! :question:
 
#29
#29
Frankly, I'm surprised that play is still getting run in Tennessee. IMO that play, while obviously a big play, is not the single reason Tennessee won that game.

I remember at halftime, Arkansas had a 21-0 lead. At the beginning of the second half, many of the Tennessee fans that were sitting around us hadn't returned. Arkansas had the game well in hand, and it should have never come down to that one play. Houston Nutt did what he continued to do for the next ten seasons. He played "not to lose". Tennessee got their offense on track and the rest is history.

Arkansas would have likely won if not for the fumble. But they would have also won if they had scored more, instead of going conservative. Arkansas would have won if they had stopped Henry in that final drive. Arkanasas would have won if they had prevented Tennessee from scoring 21 points to tie the game. And on, and on, and on.

Tennessee deserved to with that game. To say the Stoerner's fumble was the sole reason Fulmer got ten more years at Tennessee is ridiculous.

Last I checked, Fulmer coached that entire game, not just that one play.
 
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#30
#30
If you watch the replay, Ratliff literally just charged straight into Burlsworth with precision timing on getting the arms engaged. When I asked him about this, here's how it went.

ME: So, what exactly happened during that Arkansas game?
HIM: Even with the real good ones, I was always able to win a few plays against them. Not that guy....he kicked my ass every single play the entire first half. We come out of half and I said to Darwin (Walker), "Switch sides with me". After one series, he comes up to me and goes "Billy, get your fat ass back over there; this guy's killing me." So every play, he kept on destroying me. He started getting a little tired at the end, so finally I just went right into him and we got the ball back.
 
#31
#31
Daddy Gee said:
Several plays that year that were lucky. I'm glad that it was our turn to win a NC, as you said. I remember the pass interference against Syracuse that kept the drive alive in the 4th q.

That Stoerner fumble extended his reign by at least 6-7 years. Amazing how one moment in time changes things so drastically.
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I take nothing away from the '98 team but we did get some breaks that season.
Another one was that in the championship game, FSU's starting QB, Chris Weinke did not play.
I was stationed at CENTCOM that year and surrounded by FSU fans. It was a great win for the Vols.

:salute:
 
#32
#32
So did Nebraska in 1997, when Scott Frost's pass bounced off the missouri players shoe and into his recievers arms as time expired. Ironically, in the Orange Bowl, they beat us worse than any single defeat we had in the late 1990's, at least going by how they physically manhandled us.


What's the point of this? To discredit our school? To make excuses for reasons Peyton didn't win the NC? Because we never figured out that Peerless Price was the most talented reciever we had for a long time until his senior year? Because it was only his senior year that we moved Al Wilson to middle linebacker?

I really don't get it.

I mean, we won the NC, and people are still trying to knock it, as if to make excuses for Fulmer's success during that timeframe.
 
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