Fulmer Needs To Take The Wheel

[VolunteerHillbilly]

Never thought I'd say this, but the time has come for the only person who can clean this mess up to step in. He's obviously got booster backing or he would not be athletic director. Seems to get along with Boyd and Plowman. Fan reaction would be mixed, but the nostalgia factor would bring people around. We'd have to give him a raise but I don't think he'd demand much. Give him a few years to pass Neyland's career wins record and teach some guys how to be a head coach. In-state recruiting would pick up.

 

[Skippy95]

Hell no

 

[Skippy95]

And not just no but hell freaking no.

 

[VOL 4 Life 83]

Fulmer lives in an era of college football antiquity. The game has changed. We need an offense that can put up points and a bend but don’t break defense. We need a HC that is innovative and understands that offense wins games now. Period. He needs to cut bait with Pruitt and move forward

 

[EZE]

 

[FirstAndGoal]

OMG. Just stop with the insanity or we will start subtracting your 'Likes'.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

And not just no but hell freaking no.

That's probably going to be a common gut reaction, but the longer you chew on it the more you'll come to realize that he is the man for the moment. There is nobody else.

 

[loservol]

He is already steering the program off the cliff.

 

[SmokeyDog1973]

Hell no he needs to take his ass out the backdoor and step down.

 

[VOL 4 Life 83]

That's probably going to be a common gut reaction, but the longer you chew on it the more you'll come to realize that he is the man for the moment. There is nobody else.

Disagree. There are plenty of coaches that could correct this..,,but UT is unwilling to make the changes

 

[Tnphil]

I'm going to pretend I didn't read this.

 

[GAVol]

I think it’d be a bad move if for no other reason than his age. However, I’ve seen VN come up with about 50 ideas the past 2 weeks that were way worse than this

 

['Boro-vol]

That's probably going to be a common gut reaction, but the longer you chew on it the more you'll come to realize that he is the man for the moment. There is nobody else.

I tried to chew on it...made me puke.

 

[VolInNW]

Never thought I'd say this, but the time has come for the only person who can clean this mess up to step in. He's obviously got booster backing or he would not be athletic director. Seems to get along with Boyd and Plowman. Fan reaction would be mixed, but the nostalgia factor would bring people around. We'd have to give him a raise but I don't think he'd demand much. Give him a few years to pass Neyland's career wins record and teach some guys how to be a head coach. In-state recruiting would pick up.

If Phlegmatic Phil waddles out there as HC I am totally done with Tennessee Football.

You should have gone with that first instinct to never say this.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

Fulmer lives in an era of college football antiquity. The game has changed. We need an offense that can put up points and a bend but don’t break defense. We need a HC that is innovative and understands that offense wins games now. Period. He needs to cut bait with Pruitt and move forward

We need a bridge to the future. I'd love to get someone like you describe and have him here for a couple of decades, but we can't seem to attract a top tier candidate and nobody can agree on who to go after from the ranks of damaged characters and inexperienced guys. Fulmer has enough credibility to get a decent staff put together. He'd probably do more with Pruitt's staff than what Pruitt was able to do. If I could see another path forward, I'd be on it. Right now, it's do nothing and ride it out with Pruitt for a couple more years or let the battle captain put the whistle back on.

 

[G8rh8r]

Fulmer needs to let someone else take over driving

 

[NATHAN05]

I think as Vol fans with pretty severe bvs we just aren't thinking clearly. If you study Stockholm syndrome at all, one of the things hostages will do during an extended traumatic situation is bargain with themselves, lowering standards and accepting something negative to what they believe to be a compromise...........its ok OP, I'm holding out hope that UT is going to roll out mass counselors for us soon.

 

[vik]

That's probably going to be a common gut reaction, but the longer you chew on it the more you'll come to realize that he is the man for the moment. There is nobody else.

Didn't the "man of the moment" put us in this moment in the first place?

 

[airvols]

I know there’s a coach in here somewhere.

 

[Vol423]

Never thought I'd say this, but the time has come for the only person who can clean this mess up to step in. He's obviously got booster backing or he would not be athletic director. Seems to get along with Boyd and Plowman. Fan reaction would be mixed, but the nostalgia factor would bring people around. We'd have to give him a raise but I don't think he'd demand much. Give him a few years to pass Neyland's career wins record and teach some guys how to be a head coach. In-state recruiting would pick up.

Fulmer and Pruitt should both be fired immediately.

 

[igotworms]

Never thought I'd say this, but the time has come for the only person who can clean this mess up to step in. He's obviously got booster backing or he would not be athletic director. Seems to get along with Boyd and Plowman. Fan reaction would be mixed, but the nostalgia factor would bring people around. We'd have to give him a raise but I don't think he'd demand much. Give him a few years to pass Neyland's career wins record and teach some guys how to be a head coach. In-state recruiting would pick up.

Take the wheel?
Bc the ship needs to fully go off the cliff?
Thats about all he would accomplish

 

[VolsSportsFan]

If it happened, which I seriously doubt, it's going to be for stabilization purposes only. We're not going to compete for the East or anything like that; though I'm sure we'll get those type of pumpers who come out saying he'll have us back competing.

Granted we're not competing for the East for a good while anyway.

 

[Jravol78]

I thought this was going to be a thread about some craptastic Carrie Underwood song .

 

[VOL 4 Life 83]

We need a bridge to the future. I'd love to get someone like you describe and have him here for a couple of decades, but we can't seem to attract a top tier candidate and nobody can agree on who to go after from the ranks of damaged characters and inexperienced guys. Fulmer has enough credibility to get a decent staff put together. He'd probably do more with Pruitt's staff than what Pruitt was able to do. If I could see another path forward, I'd be on it. Right now, it's do nothing and ride it out with Pruitt for a couple more years or let the battle captain put the whistle back on.

Oh we can attract a top tier candidate. Problem is, UT refuses to pony up the money to do it, unlike Bama, OSU, Texas A&M, Texas, etc

 

[Vol423]

Take the wheel?
Bc the ship needs to fully go off the cliff?
Thats about all he would accomplish

Just exactly where do you envision this ship? Niagara?