Fulmer interested in UConn?

#51
#51
Not a smart move by Phillip. If and when UConn turns him down, he will truly understand why he lost his job at Tennessee.
 
#52
#52
Don't over glorify the UCONN job. Edsell was a good solid coach that brought the program up from a doormat to a decent competitor, but didn't blaze trails. He won the conference by attrition. By all accounts a season final record as they had should not win conference titles. Edsall may be a great coach in a viable program who knows. It is still an up and comer program. A CPF hire may seem dumb to us, but a big catch to them. They cannot pay the big bucks for a top coach. You either get a national name at a bargain or another up and coming coach.
 
#53
#53
GVF said:
Don't over glorify the UCONN job. Edsell was a good solid coach that brought the program up from a doormat to a decent competitor, but didn't blaze trails. He won the conference by attrition. By all accounts a season final record as they had should not win conference titles. Edsall may be a great coach in a viable program who knows. It is still an up and comer program. A CPF hire may seem dumb to us, but a big catch to them. They cannot pay the big bucks for a top coach. You either get a national name at a bargain or another up and coming coach.
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If they can pay $4 million a year combined for Calhoun and Auriemma, why can't they afford a football coach? Is their money tied up with basketball? Not enough interest in football?
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#54
#54
SGMVols said:
If they can pay $4 million a year combined for Calhoun and Auriemma, why can't they afford a football coach? Is their money tied up with basketball? Not enough interest in football?
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Maybe. I'm just going on the fact that UCONN football is just recently on the radar, mainly because of Edsall, but still a backseat commodity there. Maybe they are interested in continuing to build it since they found the radar. Being such a huge program in basketball, I would say that gets precedent over football still.
 
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#57
dduncan4163 said:
The Huskie boards are lighting up about it. Most of the fans seems to want him over Leach and RR. They love the fact he can recruit the south.

I think it would be a great move for him. If he could manage to just pull in top 30 recruiting classes each year there is no reason he could win the Big East multiple times.
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I doubt any football coach is going to get a top 30 class yearly at UCONN.
 
#58
#58
VolsSportsFan said:
No they wouldn't.

If they are serious about building a football program, you don't hire a has been like Fulmer. It would work out about as well as Majors going back to Pitt.
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How many other coaches with a 3-1 winning percentage and a NC on their resumes are beating the door down to coach at UConn?
 
#59
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dduncan4163 said:
The Huskie boards are lighting up about it. Most of the fans seems to want him over Leach and RR. They love the fact he can recruit the south.

I think it would be a great move for him. If he could manage to just pull in top 30 recruiting classes each year there is no reason he could win the Big East multiple times.
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Which is a big plus.

However, pulling a kid from Atlanta to Knoxville is a little easier than pulling him to Connecticut.
 
#62
#62
Uconn should be so lucky to have Tennessee's leftovers lol. Nobody wants a washed up coach, if so Larry Coaker wouldnt be coaching a division 50 naia team.
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#65
#65
I hope Fulmer gets this job. I was calling for his head the last few years he was here but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see a Tennessean be successful somewhere else... even if he already has millions.
 
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#68
615 Vol said:
I'm sure every Ohio St. fan is hoping Les Miles goes to Michigan too.
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at LSU, which is in America's toughest football conference. I think he'd make Michigan a lot better than it has been--and keep in mind that the big 10/12 is a pretty weak conference nowadays.
 
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armchair said:
at LSU, which is in America's toughest football conference. I think he'd make Michigan a lot better than it has been--and keep in mind that the big 10/12 is a pretty weak conference nowadays.
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I think you got that one wrong... Nick Saban won a NC for Les Miles. He didn't have to build on anything which is exactly what he WOULD have to do at Michigan.
 
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#74
thebjd said:
UConn would be lucky to get Fulmer.
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So many people talk about how washed up he is...this is a very accurate statement...

I know that if Tennessee Tech hired Fulmer I am pretty sure I would freak out with excitement. He would pull Tech up to new levels.
 
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