This guy is a moron. Is it possible? Sure. Do I think it'll happen? Not really. I do think of we got 1-6 or 0-7 Pruitt will be shown the door
You Majors guys really do hold a grudge don’t you? It’s been 27 years, let it go.Fulmer is the problem. He wants back on the field. Got new job with university, applied for AD did not get job, had ear of chancellor. Got Currie fired. Was sitting waiting to take his place. Did not hire an experienced head coach to clean up after jones. Got sited by ncaa for being on field acting like a coach. What else do you need. He should be at home enjoying his millions he has already been paid. I am not happy we are losing but I also don’t like micro coaching.
The thing about Phil is that it was a tale of two tenures. We seem to forget that he was not elite throughout his tenure. His elite period was exclusively from 1993-2001, particularly from 1995-2001. He won 84% of his games overall from 1995-01 with 3 East titles, 2 SEC titles, and a national title. Only a couple of other schools during that timeframe could claim to have more impressive marks.You do realize Fulmer is the 2nd winningest coach in ut history in win %, not sure bout games won. I would love to see the type teams fulmer had again. Yes he had a few bad years. but his worst years is better than we have been for several years
The author clearly makes a few leaps in both articles, but we were actually about to get out of the coaching search wilderness when this happened. Currie had flown to LA and had Mike Leach ready to sign when he was told to come back to Knoxville and immediately dismissed. Currie was the scapegoat and Fulmer becomes AD.I don't buy the whole "Phil's plan" theory. He stepped into the AD role while everyone was in meltdown mode. He didn't hire Pruitt because he knew he would fail. Nobody wanted the coaching job. Pruitt was a risk hire, but it was camoflauged by Pruitt having rings. That appeased the fanbase and gave us all hope. Sure, we all wanted him to get more rings with us, but he may just not be capable of doing that. That's the risk we took.