Looking back, when should Fulmer have been asked to resign/canned and why?

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tvolsfan said:
I personally really got firmly on the Fire Fulmer bandwagon after that sickening Penn State loss in Outback Bowl after then 2006 season.
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About the same time I did as well. The Arkansas game that same season didn't help either.
 
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AlaskaVol said:
This is a real bullsh-- thread with asinine posts. Don't you ever get tired of bashing the coach that had a great record and a National Championship? Some of you are just sick. You don't bleed orange, you bleed diarrhea.
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potty mouth.
 
#29
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AlaskaVol said:
This is a real bullsh-- thread with asinine posts.
Don't you ever get tired of bashing the coach that had a great record and a National Championship?
Some of you are just sick. You don't bleed orange, you bleed diarrhea.
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Translation:

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And to answer you question: No, I never get tired of bashing The Fired Coach.

Au revoir madam.
 
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VolDad said:
You think that was bad, don't dare question Pearl's abilities. He will go all psycho on your ass.
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LOL... you're right. I don't keep up, so to speak, with basketball as much as football -- but you can see by my screen name that I do remember watching some of the great BasketVols.

I've dropped in from time-to-time over there and have had the privilege of seeing Alaska deliver many harangues toward those expecting a little more from Pearl.

Oh my, the gems keep coming.
 
#32
#32
He should have been put on notice after the Clemson debacle in ATL and fired after the 2005 Vanderbilt game.
 
#33
#33
He was fired exactly when he should have been fired. In 2005, he was just coming off a CG appearance, was still getting players, and still had some hope of turning it around after getting rid of Sanders. He deserved a shot after 2005, got it, failed, and was properly shown the door.

UT treated him EXACTLY like a class organization should treat a devoted employee who had previously done great things.
 
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sjt18 said:
He was fired exactly when he should have been fired. In 2005, he was just coming off a CG appearance, was still getting players, and still had some hope of turning it around after getting rid of Sanders. He deserved a shot after 2005, got it, failed, and was properly shown the door.

UT treated him EXACTLY like a class organization should treat a devoted employee who had previously done great things.
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Coming off 3 CG loses in 4 years. It takes some real incompetence to accomplish that.
 
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VolDad said:
Coming off 3 CG loses in 4 years. It takes some real incompetence to accomplish that.
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Yeah... tell it to the coaches that ended their careers without playing in the CG. His situation went exactly as it should have. He wasn't fired too soon or too late. He was treated fairly and respectfully.
 
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sjt18 said:
Yeah... tell it to the coaches that ended their careers without playing in the CG. His situation went exactly as it should have. He wasn't fired too soon or too late. He was treated fairly and respectfully.
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Who do you have in mind?
 
#43
#43
Zook, Donnan if I remember correctly, Holtz, all UK coaches, all Vandy coaches,... DiNardo...

His situation was handled with class and dignity. As the most successful UT coach in the modern era and one of the most successful coaches in the SEC over the last 40 years or so... it was absolutely RIGHT to give him a shot to turn the situation around.

He got it. He failed. He's gone... and that is exactly how it should be.
 
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sjt18 said:
Zook, Donnan if I remember correctly, Holtz, all UK coaches, all Vandy coaches,... DiNardo...

His situation was handled with class and dignity. As the most successful UT coach in the modern era and one of the most successful coaches in the SEC over the last 40 years or so... it was absolutely RIGHT to give him a shot to turn the situation around.

He got it. He failed. He's gone... and that is exactly how it should be.
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I will give it to you and include Fulmer in their company. :hi:
 
#45
#45
Fulmer in his heydey was a great coach. BUT, he was simply too complacent, his offenses were nothing without David Cutcliffe, and during these last few years, he wasn't the best recruiter. I think we let him walk around the right time, i won't complain though, the guy helped bring us 2 SEC titles and a National Title, But some of the damage he did to this program with his complacency over the last few years shows with the teams current 7-5 record..and the fact that we have a new head coach. i like so many, wish him the best, but i just don't think he's a D-1 coach anymore, hasn't been for a while now.
 
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#46
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using the retrospectroscope it is easy to pick a time earlier in the decade, but realistically 2005 either after the vandy game or the bama game would have been right.

however, with randy sanders gone (who many attributed all the problems to) and cut coming back, and realizing that fulmer-cut-chavis had a record of 45-5, there was a case for keeping the status quo.
 
#47
#47
Ideally after the 2005 debacle, it was clear that the program was broken and Fulmer was the reason for it. However, politics are always a huge factor and Fulmer was well connected to the influential money and they thought he could or should be given a try to turn it around. It's their money, they purchased the right to have a say in the program and that was their decision for better or worse.
 
#49
#49
Really, Fulmer should have left UT with its soon to be kid-like fans with unreal expectations and ludicrous memories of history and understanding of football competition, in 1999, for a program with a rich talent base. Then, we'd have sunk like every other program did in a similar situation this decade (far worse than we did) with 6-6 type seasons as the norm, the rare national ranking at all, the unheard-of win against a top-10 team, no elite bowl games and no conference title game appearances. Instead, we'll get to see that and discuss that five years from now.
 
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"That's HIS BIGNESS" quote: BIGGEST_BIPOLAR_BEAR_UT_FAN_ETC

My Brother and my Cousin were in Winston Salem and decided they would like to have some KRISPY CREAM doughnuts to hold them over until supper time. Imagine their surprise when they walked in and found Phil and RICH BROOKS. Phil was shuffling papers around, but RICH was bored. He asked the MGR if he might go to the back and see how they make the doughnuts. They garbed him up and put his little hat on his head and off they went. He was so taken with the operation that he thinks he might just buy a franchise. Yup, that's what he's gonna do..he would go home to Lexington and tell the little woman to pack her pantie. Say this would beat bagging groceries at KROGER or being a greeter at WALMART!!
Meanwhile, Phil is still in the dining room but has started to write. Turns out he was updating his resume'....Rich was almost at a trot when he emerged from the kitchen to tell PHIL what he was going to do.
Time for SPECULATION.....
Just what was Phil doing in North Carolina? Wake Forest is there in Winston Salem and Duke is just up the road...would COLQUITT take him under his wing and give him a job? We all know he won't be going to Lexington as Joker Philips has one sewed up. I can't see him working with Randy again either so KY is out. IF URBAN MYER doesn't come back, I don't think they would make the interim Head coach permanent. Mississippi State Coach Dan Mullin used to coach at FLA and would do well there. His fans in the stands hate him and even boo him when that take to the field. REMEMBER, I SAID IF...then that would leave Ms State wide open for Phil
 
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