I respectfully disagree. The Fulmer era is not "just another chapter." Neyland brought us to relevance for the first time and kept us there, but after that, we were for the most part mediocre except for the late 60s and early 70s and parts of the 80s. The period from 94 to 07, save a few bad years such as 05 (but even then we beat a very good LSU team in Baton Rouge), represents a sustained period of relevance the likes of which we will never see again.
Yep. If he actually wins a few national titles he would compare favorably to Bowden.The fact that Beemer could recruit with that mismatched skin graph is pretty amazing considering how shallow our culture is regarding appearance.
For Pete's sake, VT was a poly technic school, that really had no business becoming a major football power. Recruiting base? VT is in the middle of nowhere, hill billy country. It couldn't be more isolated from the poplulation base of Virgina.
Wonder if VT will learn anything from the foolishness of Hamilton & UT? We had a great coach who had a mild rough spot & we threw him away. Hows that working out for us?
Beamer built VT from nothing...lefs see how long it takes them to forget that or see if they have been paying attention & have some patience.
The General is untouchable.
Now, having said that, Fulmer is by far more accomplished than Beamer. In a much better league too. UT had history but Fulmer enhanced it. Top five in the history of the league in wins. 6 East titles. 2 SEC titles. First BCS crown. Multiple first round picks. Record setting OC before all of that. Good line coach before that. 7 year win streak on Bama. Only 2 losing years out of 17 seasons in the best conference in the land. Beamer plays nobody in a nobody league and has relatively few accomplishments that compare. Not close in my opinion. At all.
uhhhhh......no. Beamer is HOF material already he built that program. Not going to compare him now to Fulmers decline years.Trying to compare a coach against his competition in one conference vs another coach and his conference competition is apples and oranges He is having one bad season in last ten years.
Over the last ten seasons he is 22-18 vs ranked teams.
2003 Virginia Tech 85 43 4th L Insight
Virginia Tech Hokies (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2004present)
2004 Virginia Tech 103 71 1st L Sugar 10 10
2005 Virginia Tech 112 71 1st (Coastal) W Gator 7 7
2006 Virginia Tech 103 62 2nd (Coastal) L Chick-fil-A 18 19
2007 Virginia Tech 113 71 1st (Coastal) L Orange 9 9
2008 Virginia Tech 104 53 T1st (Coastal) W Orange 14 15
2009 Virginia Tech 103 62 2nd (Coastal) W Chick-fil-A 10 10
2010 Virginia Tech 113 80 1st (Coastal) L Orange 15 16
2011 Virginia Tech 113 71 1st (Coastal) L Sugar 17 21
2012 Virginia Tech 44 22 (Coastal)
At the end of each line is final ranking
He is 59-16 in conference during that time