couldn't have hurt
Clawson's lead our offense to within one loss of the most losses, by a UT team in it's entire 100+ year history
This team will go down in history as Fulmer's team, not Clawson. You shouldn't select the losing years and say they belong to Sanders or Clawson, and then turn around and say 1998 was Fulmer's. You take responsibility for the good and the bad.
I see your point but do you really think Fulmer would've stepped down before the bowl game? Because I personally don't think that would've happened. He's too stubborn to not embarrass our program even more in a bowl game. I think it would've just complicated our existing problems, prolonged our chance to search and find a suitable coaching replacement, and give our recruits another few weeks to be swayed elsewhere.