If I was Fulmer I’d rehire Fulmer

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Fulmer was convinced he had the Clemson job, what ACC school wouldn't fall all over themselves to hire an SEC head coach, but Clemson had another idea, they stayed in house and hired the WR coach, interim head coach named Dabo Swinney and Fulmer's coaching career officially came to a close as the skillset needed to adjust to the modern college game wasn't there, probably still isn't there.
 
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LargeOrange1 said:
Please list all the schools that came after Phil when he was fired......(insert crickets)
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Yall act like someone would know if fullmer had offers.. it has been reported that he did have offers but no desire to leave which happens.

I love volnation, if something dosen't go your way then fire, fire everyone.

I don't know if Pruitt is the answer but he might be..I know fire, fire, fire everyone.

I doubt fulmer will ever coach again. Maybe make pruit the d.c., keep Chaney as o.c. and fumer be the CEO coach that stays the hell out of the way. I doubt it but just a thought.

I will say this, if you fire Pruit then have the next guy signed and ready. No more embarrassing coaching searches.
 
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VFFL@THE BEACH said:
Yall act like someone would know if fullmer had offers.. it has been reported that he did have offers but no desire to leave which happens.

I love volnation, if something dosen't go your way then fire, fire everyone.

I don't know if Pruitt is the answer but he might be..I know fire, fire, fire everyone.

I doubt fulmer will ever coach again. Maybe make pruit the d.c., keep Chaney as o.c. and fumer be the CEO coach that stays the hell out of the way. I doubt it but just a thought.

I will say this, if you fire Pruit then have the next guy signed and ready. No more embarrassing coaching searches.
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I didn't see your list of schools....in your rant you forgot to include them.....
 
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I don’t hate CPF, I appreciate the good memories and all those wins from my early teenage years into my mid to late 20’s. I even think that he had earned the right to get one more year to get things right before being fired with some sort of agreement that if he couldn’t meet whatever mark that was established that he would be allowed to “retire “ . Thanks don’t think that he has been a terrible AD so far. I would give him a C or a C+ which isn’t great but also isn’t awful . The word mediocre comes to mind . I think a plan that allows him to “retire on his own terms “ needs to be implemented in the next month or so and needs to occur as soon as Basketball season ends .

Having said all that I would just as soon re-hire Doug Dickey to be the HC. I would probably feel the same about re-hiring Coach Majors but the hand of time has made that an impossibility . If the powers that be @ UT (hey that rhymes ) want a “usedtocould” to stabilize things until the right man is identified and secured then there are countless better options. **Gus Malzahn , Mark Richt , Rich Rod and even Bobby Petrino immediately come to mind as far as coaches that wouldn’t even be in my top 10 .

I put an asterisk on Gus because he wouldn’t be in my top 1through 4 but could easily be my #5 on the 5-10 list of best options .
 
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UtahVol said:
This would be a controversial choice but would perhaps be the only way to right the ship. Over the last twelve years, the player development has been atrocious. ESPN did a piece comparing recruiting rankings with ultimate draft status four years later and Tennessee’s was rather embarrassing. Games like today are indicative. We have recruited about the same as A&M the last four years but we’re not anywhere near them. Then we listen to the constant refrain yearly of “we’re young we’re young.” We are perpetually young because we don’t seem to develop players and so we have a very small pool of SEC caliber seniors and juniors.

The problem is we have not been able to hire a top quality coach because the culture is broken. I know people thing if we offered $15 million Dabo would come. But he wouldn’t. Seems to me Fulmer should come back and right the ship for five years, develop passable talent, and set the stage for going after a top flight coach when the climate is better. As it stands we just keep hiring our 9th choice and it’s pretty fated not to work. We may not win but if we went 8-5 every year it would at least attract a quality coach when he retires.
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Why the hell not? It couldn't be any worse, could it?
 
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Sandman 423 said:
I love how people point to 2 losing seasons in three years, but leave out the fact they fired him the week of the Wyoming game to ensure that second losing season. Hamilton screwed up the way he handled Fulmer and we are still paying for it.
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Some may not know that Fulmer was offered retirement at the end of his final season but refused.
 
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🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ PF had to have superior talent to win……… not happening in today’s game …… that is why his last 5 years were not stellar… the game was catching up and now irs moved right on by him. Remember all the coaching changes?!


Better find a brilliant Xs and Os guy.
 
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UtahVol said:
This would be a controversial choice but would perhaps be the only way to right the ship. Over the last twelve years, the player development has been atrocious. ESPN did a piece comparing recruiting rankings with ultimate draft status four years later and Tennessee’s was rather embarrassing. Games like today are indicative. We have recruited about the same as A&M the last four years but we’re not anywhere near them. Then we listen to the constant refrain yearly of “we’re young we’re young.” We are perpetually young because we don’t seem to develop players and so we have a very small pool of SEC caliber seniors and juniors.

The problem is we have not been able to hire a top quality coach because the culture is broken. I know people thing if we offered $15 million Dabo would come. But he wouldn’t. Seems to me Fulmer should come back and right the ship for five years, develop passable talent, and set the stage for going after a top flight coach when the climate is better. As it stands we just keep hiring our 9th choice and it’s pretty fated not to work. We may not win but if we went 8-5 every year it would at least attract a quality coach when he retires.
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Fulmer failed to develop talent in the final years and has been out of the game for a long time now. The league is very different compared to 2008 and the game had already passed him by then. He should get the right coach or hire an interim until the right coach is found, but he wouldn’t be a good decision as interim
 
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lifeisdeep said:
You do understand that he was fired for a reason? As in, he lost seven games twice in three years? As in he had the two worst seasons in nearly twenty years, in three years' time? The slide started with Fulmer, not after him, and he never should have been hired for the AD position, as he has amply proven.
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I remember those days too. He deserved what he got, should have been fired earlier than he was.
 
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LAVol1 said:
Bear Bryant, Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno all had losing seasons and were all close to being fired but were given the chance to turn things around. Fulmer earned that right, but Hamilton canned him. It's been a $hit-show ever since. We would have been far better off had we kept Fulmer for a couple of more years at least. He is absolutely a better coach than Mac Brown and look what Mac has done at UNC. I'm not advocating that we hire Fulmer as HC, but we've already done much, much worse--four times!
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You are delusional ,or we’re not watching Fulmer. He regularly under coached top 5 recruiting classes. Spurrier had his number. If he was such an awesome coach why no offers from another program after he was finally canned. That is the most telling, Fulmer highly overrated.
 
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Sandman 423 said:
I love how people point to 2 losing seasons in three years, but leave out the fact they fired him the week of the Wyoming game to ensure that second losing season. Hamilton screwed up the way he handled Fulmer and we are still paying for it.
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Upset losses ,do you remember those ? Memphis (with Peyton at QB) South Carolina ,UCLA where they had 3 ints in first half and still let that 3rd string QB come back and beat them. Not to mention Fulmer was Spurriers bitch. Fulmer was overrated. To point out what several others have also said, what program came after him after he was finally fired? Nobody !
 
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Sandman 423 said:
I love how people point to 2 losing seasons in three years, but leave out the fact they fired him the week of the Wyoming game to ensure that second losing season. Hamilton screwed up the way he handled Fulmer and we are still paying for it.
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No, he had actually announced he was stepping down prior to the Wyoming game. The Wyoming game just cemented his fate as head coach.

I guess he at least went out with a bang by beating Kentucky and Vandy. At least he only lost to Vandy once here and was undefeated against Kentucky.
 
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Sandman 423 said:
I love how people point to 2 losing seasons in three years, but leave out the fact they fired him the week of the Wyoming game to ensure that second losing season. Hamilton screwed up the way he handled Fulmer and we are still paying for it.
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Yeah, a Wyoming win would have really been momentous.
 
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