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[VFL-82-JP]

Your statistics have to be deeper than that. You'd have to break it down by coach and year.

EDIT: I see what you mean. Fulmer personally was 2-7 against Spurrier @ Florida. Yeah, I get it. Fair enough.

 

[sjt18]

EDIT: I see what you mean. Fulmer personally was 2-7 against Spurrier @ Florida. Yeah, I get it. Fair enough.

:good!:

Not disagreeing with your main point at all. Spurrier at UF was as good as there has ever been in college football.

I don't like either guy.... but it would be fun to watch a Bama team from this era play a UF team from that one.

 

[BACKDOC]

I'd give anything to be able to "endure" all of that again compared to what we've been through the previous 6 years or so. Being snake bit against one team is a lot better than hoping we make a bowl game.

Actually I think we are more snake bit when we play LSU.

 

[TN Outlaw]

I will say those Florida losses were the toughest losses for me during the run in the 90's. That loss hurt us the most in the East each year in which we wouldve had alot more hardware for the talent we had if Florida had not existed. Plus every year i thought would be the year we finally beat them and it kept not happening until going into 1998 i didnt think we stood a chance and watdoyaknow?

Outside of them, the actual worst azzwhoopin i remember was laid by Nebraska when Peyton was QB. The way i remember it they dominated us the entire game. Ugly!

 

[photovol]

I will say those Florida losses were the toughest losses for me during the run in the 90's. That loss hurt us the most in the East each year in which we wouldve had alot more hardware for the talent we had if Florida had not existed. Plus every year i thought would be the year we finally beat them and it kept not happening until going into 1998 i didnt think we stood a chance and watdoyaknow?

Outside of them, the actual worst azzwhoopin i remember was laid by Nebraska when Peyton was QB. The way i remember it they dominated us the entire game. Ugly!

Nebraska had a killer defense and a great Oline, they took the Vols to the woodshed, unfortunately

 

[TNnative]

If you've been a Vol Football fan before 1992.

I... actually watched highlights of the UT - Florida games from 1993- 1997.

My God in Heaven...

I swear, it was the same game every year. Not the final scores but the feel and tone of the games were a the same.

I was like... "this was our glory years?"

Seriously, even these past 11 years didnt seem as bad as what a I was watching. How can we play so badly against the same team every year.

That was agony watching that. Graham fumbling, Peyton getting sacked, throwing picks right and left. DBs getting toasted!!

I know Fulmer is a legend, but I swear ive never seen Butch's Vols quit and play terrified like that.

I applaud all of you who endured that.

I hope we can beat them this year. They have some nice weapons in their 2017 class so far.

One year at a time. I'll go ahead and say it... some of you all are better fans than I ever will be. I hope to never see Tennessee take that type of abuse again.

The Fulmer era was not the so called glory years.

That would have been the years a guy named Robert Neyland served as head coach. You might have heard of him, they named a stadium somewhere after him. The only reason those years are not discussed is the majority of those present are.....no longer present.

And no matter how shocked you were with the 90s, that was nowhere near as miserable as the Kiffin/Dooley years. Not even close. Quit thinking the end all be all of being a Vols fan is beating those hacks from Gainesville.

 

[KoachKrab127]

Fulmer was a top notch recruiter (but not a great in-game coach) during a time when the SEC as a whole was down. LSU, Auburn, Georgia, and Bama did not have many good/great teams during the 90s. Georgia was pretty good, but those others were mostly mediocre. We out-talented the vast majority of teams in the 90s. Once those other teams started getting good again, Fulmer couldn't hack it in the SEC, and that's what cost him his job.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Some on here are acting like those UF teams in the 90's were just average or something. LOL. Keep on dreaming.

 

[chattavol420]

Speak like Yoda...you do

 

[TNnative]

Fulmer was a top notch recruiter (but not a great in-game coach) during a time when the SEC as a whole was down. LSU, Auburn, Georgia, and Bama did not have many good/great teams during the 90s. Georgia was pretty good, but those others were mostly mediocre. We out-talented the vast majority of teams in the 90s. Once those other teams started getting good again, Fulmer couldn't hack it in the SEC, and that's what cost him his job.

Fulmer was good when he had David Cutcliffe as his offensive coordinator. When Cut wasn't here, Tennessee's offense under Sanders was not able to get a sustainable lead, especially with Chavis' swiss cheese 2 minute prevent defense.

Why Fulmer lost his job? It had nothing to do with other team getting good. Fulmer was fired for poor accountability. He passed the buck way too many times.

When the offense sputtered in the early 2000s, he blamed Sanders. He blamed players for mistakes. He blamed turnover in university presidents for program instability. He even blamed Peyton Manning for losing a game his freshman year. And when discipline became an issue, his solutions were seen as the ineffective half measures of a coach who more and more questioned if he really cared anymore. Fulmer did not realize it, but his seat was getting warmer. Sadly, he was too self assured that being the one football coach at Tennessee not named Neyland to win a national championship somehow made him irreplaceable.

So, when Cutcliffe left for Duke, enter Dave Clawson. His offensive philosophy impressed Fulmer, and a whole new era of greatness was promised. Too bad the players could not understand it. As losses mounted, Fulmer's comments turned off more and more fans and boosters, until Mike Hamilton finally caved in and fired him.

Sadly, Hamilton had the job of replacing him. And we all know how that went straight to Hell.

 

[Vols_74]

Yoda? Is that you?