It's A Bright New Day!!

[orange+white=heaven]

You doom and gloomers just don't get it do you?...

It's called an opportunity.

The cold hard fact is that this program is desperate for new life. And right now... today... the best chance the Tennessee program has had in a very long time at reinventing itself lies sprawling before us.

Rejoice VolNation, because short of a change at the top, this is the dream moment. The brass ring is right before us. Phillip Fulmer can go to the AFCA meeting in January and be the kid in the candy store. Opportunities abound in today's coaching ranks and Phillip has a chance to make the kind of choices that will set this program for the new and challenging SEC that exists today.

You can 'yeah, but' me all you want. Right now.. today... There is hope for a bright future.

I welcome it. Hell, I embrace it.

A truckload of new coaches are coming to to work with my beloved Volunteers.

Yippee!!!!!!!

 

[Chat_Town VOL]

You doom and gloomers just don't get it do you?...

It's called an opportunity.

The cold hard fact is that this program is desperate for new life. And right now... today... the best chance the Tennessee program has had in a very long time at reinventing itself lies sprawling before us.

Rejoice VolNation, because short of a change at the top, this is the dream moment. The brass ring is right before us. Phillip Fulmer can go to the AFCA meeting in January and be the kid in the candy store. Opportunities abound in today's coaching ranks and Phillip has a chance to make the kind of choices that will set this program for the new and challenging SEC that exists today.

You can 'yeah, but' me all you want. Right now.. today... There is hope for a bright future.

I welcome it. Hell, I embrace it.

A truckload of new coaches are coming to to work with my beloved Volunteers.

Yippee!!!!!!!

Im with you. This is whats needed. But I dont think we should have lost Troop, he was the only "new life" we had.

 

[myrobbins7]

Good post OWH, I couldn't agree more. :hi:

 

[jakez4ut]

i hope your're right.

 

[Business]

I love it. A shake-up (hopefully) in the stagnant program.

These coaches coming in will shape how the legacy of Phil Fulmer ends. I think he's smart enough to understand that.

 

[Fine Vol]

You doom and gloomers just don't get it do you?...

It's called an opportunity.

The cold hard fact is that this program is desperate for new life. And right now... today... the best chance the Tennessee program has had in a very long time at reinventing itself lies sprawling before us.

Rejoice VolNation, because short of a change at the top, this is the dream moment. The brass ring is right before us. Phillip Fulmer can go to the AFCA meeting in January and be the kid in the candy store. Opportunities abound in today's coaching ranks and Phillip has a chance to make the kind of choices that will set this program for the new and challenging SEC that exists today.

You can 'yeah, but' me all you want. Right now.. today... There is hope for a bright future.

I welcome it. Hell, I embrace it.

A truckload of new coaches are coming to to work with my beloved Volunteers.

Yippee!!!!!!!

I am on board no matter what so GO VOLS.

 

[jakez4ut]

I love it. A shake-up (hopefully) in the stagnant program.

These coaches coming in will shape how the legacy of Phil Fulmer ends. I think he's smart enough to understand that.

bingo. right now, the chances of a shake up are equal to maintaining the status quo and promoting Greg Adkins.

hope. it's what's for dinner.

Go Vols.

 

[volfanbill]

A truckload of new coaches are coming to to work with my beloved Volunteers.

Exactly. This is Fulmer's opportunity to turn everything around. 98% of this board was in agreement that the coaching staff needed a complete overhaul. Well, offensively we are finally going to get one. I may get racked for this, but Chavis proved he fought through the injuries and inexperience and got the D improved last year, and next year looks even more promising with the players we can put out there. He earned his shot to stay here. Get a high(er) powered offense and let's see what can happen. As hat said in his thread, this may be the happiest I've been with Tennessee football in a long, long time.

 

[Business]

Exactly. This is Fulmer's opportunity to turn everything around. 98% of this board was in agreement that the coaching staff needed a complete overhaul. Well, offensively we are finally going to get one. I may get racked for this, but Chavis proved he fought through the injuries and inexperience and got the D improved last year, and next year looks even more promising with the players we can put out there. He earned his shot to stay here. Get a high(er) powered offense and let's see what can happen. As hat said in his thread, this may be the happiest I've been with Tennessee football in a long, long time.

Are you implying a "perfect storm"?

 

[volfanbill]

Are you implying a "perfect storm"?

you could say that. I'm mostly saying we are about as to close to getting what most on here wanted during the middle of the season as we are going to get. Let's enjoy it. Merry Christmas everybody. Fulmer and Hamilton are injecting life into the Vols offense for Christmas. How could you ask for more?

 

[Martoony54]

Whoever comes in as OC will have a loaded cupboard! Hope Fulmer makes a wise choice here. Time for some new blood!

 

[orange+white=heaven]

bingo. right now, the chances of a shake up are equal to maintaining the status quo and promoting Greg Adkins.

hope. it's what's for dinner.

finding Cutcliffe’s successor remains Fulmer’s top priority.
“I’m going to research this and find the best offensive coordinator available in the country for the University of Tennessee,” Fulmer said. “From the professional ranks, from the college ranks, I’ve had a lot of interest. We’re replacing a guy that was very, very good.”

“I told coach, go out and hire the best possible coaches and we’ll work within reason to pay whatever’s necessary to do that,” Hamilton said. “That’s the charge he’s been given and the responsibility he’s been given. So we’ll see where all that lands.”

“I have no question whatsoever that Mike will allow us to be competitive,” Fulmer said. “We’re not going to get ridiculous with anything, I don’t believe. He’s been very, very supportive of that since he’s been the athletic director — to do what we needed to do to be competitive.”

There are reasons to be hopeful, all one has to do is look between the lines...

 

[volsgal03]

nice post OWH, I am a firm believer that "Rome wasn't built in a day".

 

[Business]

Hamilton and Fulmer sound like kids in a candy store.

With Hamilton being, you know, the daddy with the money.

I smiled, a little bit. I'm happy.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

O+W, I do not trust Fulmer to make the right decisions. Coaches who I do consider to be competent decision makers (Spurrier and Tuberville) are not waiting around to make their hires. My guess is Phil was caught off guard by this, even though everyone else knew it was coming. There was no real contingecy plan in place and now we get to see other teams snatch up the really good assistants. Otherwise, thanks for trying to raise our spirits.

 

[volfanbill]

O+W, I do not trust Fulmer to make the right decisions. Coaches who I do consider to be competent decision makers (Spurrier and Tuberville) are not waiting around to make their hires. My guess is Phil was caught off guard by this, even though everyone else knew it was coming. There was no real contingecy plan in place and now we get to see other teams snatch up the really good assistants. Otherwise, thanks for trying to raise our spirits.

yeah, because all of Spurrier's previous hires at USC have been so spot on. Please Hillbilly, you're reaching on this one.

 

[vader]

You doom and gloomers just don't get it do you?...

It's called an opportunity.

The cold hard fact is that this program is desperate for new life. And right now... today... the best chance the Tennessee program has had in a very long time at reinventing itself lies sprawling before us.

Rejoice VolNation, because short of a change at the top, this is the dream moment. The brass ring is right before us. Phillip Fulmer can go to the AFCA meeting in January and be the kid in the candy store. Opportunities abound in today's coaching ranks and Phillip has a chance to make the kind of choices that will set this program for the new and challenging SEC that exists today.

You can 'yeah, but' me all you want. Right now.. today... There is hope for a bright future.

I welcome it. Hell, I embrace it.

A truckload of new coaches are coming to to work with my beloved Volunteers.

Yippee!!!!!!!

I agree. Change is good.

 

[Business]

O+W, I do not trust Fulmer to make the right decisions. Coaches who I do consider to be competent decision makers (Spurrier and Tuberville) are not waiting around to make their hires. My guess is Phil was caught off guard by this, even though everyone else knew it was coming. There was no real contingecy plan in place and now we get to see other teams snatch up the really good assistants. Otherwise, thanks for trying to raise our spirits.

I cried a little bit.

Seriously, there has to be a contingency in place. Say for instance we're in cahoots with Marrone. You aren't going to hear anything until the Saints are done. That will possibly be in late January.

Same with Kippy Brown and even Gus Mahlzon. (Just not late Jan.)

Even if it is, say a guy that has nothing holding him back it may just be a money issue at this point. I don't hold Fulmer's jock or better yet clip board but the man isn't as big as idiot as people make him out to be.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

yeah, because all of Spurrier's previous hires at USC have been so spot on. Please Hillbilly, you're reaching on this one.

At least Spurrier is being aggressive and going out and staking claim to who he wants. I wonder if Phil even knows who he wants, other than someone with UTK ties who will be loyal to him and not rock the gravy boat? I hope I am wrong but in my minds eye I see Kippy Brown being trotted out come late January and the sheeple will ooh and ahh over the fact that Phil got an NFL guy to come back to K-town even though nothing will change other than recruiting dropping off and the players' morale suffering a hit.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

I don't hold Fulmer's jock or better yet clip board but the man isn't as big as idiot as people make him out to be.

We are talking about the same guy who claimed to have been bamboozled by 17 and 18 year old kids after signing day for the 2006 class right?

 

[volfanbill]

give Fulmer his chance. No one knows who he is after. Don't be so doom and gloom until we know something.

 

[jakez4ut]

There are reasons to be hopeful, all one has to do is look between the lines...

that is good to read. hope there's some beef behind the talk. i look forward to seeing how this all unfolds.

O+W, I do not trust Fulmer to make the right decisions. Coaches who I do consider to be competent decision makers (Spurrier and Tuberville) are not waiting around to make their hires. My guess is Phil was caught off guard by this, even though everyone else knew it was coming. There was no real contingecy plan in place and now we get to see other teams snatch up the really good assistants. Otherwise, thanks for trying to raise our spirits.

maybe that was the plan. the contingency plan in the past has just been to promote from within. that may be out the window, and if so, good. maybe this is exactly what the doctor ordered. talk to several people. Get outside opinions. get another set of eyes to tell you what they see at TN and what is needed. I didn't hate Troop or Cut, but i'm not exactly upset at their departures really.

the only thing that would really upset me is staying with the status quo. Right now, that doesn't seem to be an option. that's a good thing.

we'll see how it all plays out.

 

[Business]

We are talking about the same guy who claimed to have been bamboozled by 17 and 18 year old kids after signing day for the 2006 class right?

Are we going to start a pissing match of citing references when he has been smart and hasn't been smart?

All I'm saying, big daddy, is that the man knows it's his ass next time and that this hire is going to make or break him. He cannot be so oblivious to not know that fact.

 

[DC Vol]

Well, the way I'm approaching this is "cautious optimism". I'm still a bit concerned that we won't or will not be able to get the "right guy". The thing we need most, in my opinion, is a guy that is charismatic enough to get that national recruiting pull that we rely on in tandem with mixing in a system that is effective but will give the kids some marketability in the NFL.

I've read a bit about the possibilities, and that is giving me some grain of optimism, but so many bouts of "fool-hearted optimism" have just ended up disappointing me at this point in other years. So... I guess we'll see how this plays out. Trying to predict who is coming here and what everyone thinks is seriously like trying to make predictions of games earlier this year... impossible to tell.

 

[Plano Vol]

A few years back, the loss of Rodney Garner was viewed as a portent of imminent doom. Didn't go down that way....

Some folks said earlier in the season that the lack of turnover was an indictment of the coaching staff. Can't have your cake and eat it too....

The departing staff takes some things with them. I will particularly miss CDC's apparent ownership of the UGA defense.

The yet to be determined new staff will bring some things with them; new recruits, new plans, and new energy. Who knows, the new OC may demonstrate apparent ownership of the UF defense!

I'm looking forward to it. It's just another part of the rich tapestry of life...it's all good.