Never should have fired Fulmer

#28
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VolArmy74 said:
Fulmer was fired too late. The train was off the rails. Without Cutcliffe he was incapable of running a disciplined program. At worst he should have been gone after 2005. Bama, Florida, Auburn or Georgia would probably have ran him after 2002.
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How many nattys did Mark Richt win? Mike Shula? Will MusChump? Gus Malzahn (as HC)? Really????
 
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harley1995 said:
Thats what started this whole nightmare

Should have just let him coach till he decided to retire ....his seasons couldn't have been worse that what we have had!

I would take 7 to 8 wins and a bowl game last 12 years than what we have had!

The man had us in the SEC Champ game in 07..and then fired

Belichick had a bad year...they gonna fire him?
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Remind us of Phil's record against Saban, Richt, Meyer, and Les Miles again.
 
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orangefloyd said:
Ive never understood this endless pining for Fulmer as incompetent as he is.
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I was upset when he was fired but I've long since come to accept it was time for him to go.

I was happy and excited when he came back as AD. Like @BigOrangeTrain just said, 'Boy Was I Wrong....'

I'm still always gonna fondly remember Fulmer for kicking bama while they were down....
 
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If Fulmer had been coaching at say Texas fired and had the same record....people would have been very happy if he was hired in 2009


Didn't Tenn hire a coach that Texas thought was washed up...but clearly was not!
 
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harley1995 said:
Thats what started this whole nightmare

Should have just let him coach till he decided to retire ....his seasons couldn't have been worse that what we have had!

I would take 7 to 8 wins and a bowl game last 12 years than what we have had!

The man had us in the SEC Champ game in 07..and then fired

Belichick had a bad year...they gonna fire him?
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Well sir. You are actually correct. I'm old enough to have warned people on this and TOS that firing Fulmer might be a bad idea. Honestly, I couldn't even have imagined it becoming this bad. But, those fans who lived thru the 70s realized that yes going 9-3 or 8-4 can get a whole lot worse.

Now, I'm not saying plenty of eggs weren't laid after Phil was fired to get us here. But, the 10-2, 11-1, NC entitlement of the 90s had consumed many fans. To put it mildly, dominating at such a high rate is extremely difficult. But, entitlement makes such fears appear common.
 
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For those to young to remember or those who chose to forget we had someone in trouble at least once or twice a month. Some of the players we brought in were talented but they also had issues. Around the time he got fired we had gone from being a team to having several players that had ego problems that hurt the team in more ways than one.
 
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Tman44 said:
How many nattys did Mark Richt win? Mike Shula? Will MusChump? Gus Malzahn (as HC)? Really????
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They fired Jim Donnan for going 8-4/9-3 and Richt started winning 10+ and SEC titles. They fired Richt after winning 10 and Smart took them to the CFB playoff.

Terry Bowden went 11-0 at Auburn. But then struggled for a year and got fired. Tommy Tuberville went 13-0, then had a couple of average years. They fired him and won a National title. Chizik struggled after that so they fired him and Gus went to the NC game.

Spurrier stepped away, Zooker won 8 game and got ran out of Gainesville. Urban won two titles. Muschamp won big then was fired quickly after a bad year. Mcelwain was in the SECCG shortly after then he struggled and got fired immediately. Florida was a top 10 team this year and in the SECCG.

LSU ran NC winning Les Miles 4 games into a season after they'd just won 9 games. They quickly won a national title.

Alabama ran Bill Curry out of town after a 10-2 SEC CoY season. 2 years later they won the NC. Mike Shula went 10-2 in 2004, 6-6 the next year got him fired. They went and hired Saban.

We let Fulmer have big time let down seasons in 1999, 2002, 2005, and then reluctantly fired him after much internal strife in the midst of his second losing season in 4 years.
 
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Majors left this program stronger in 1992 than he found it in 1977.

Fulmer left this program weaker in 2008 than he found it in 1992.

Majors gave Fulmer a program talented enough to take on the best this conference had to offer and beat them.

Fulmer left Kiffin with an offense that couldn't score more than a touchdown against a 4-8 Wyoming football team.

He earned his dismissal.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Hey OP, remember when Kiffin had to start two 265lb walk ons on our offensive line? Yeah, that was because of Fulmer. It was time to for him to go! Our decision to hire Dooley after Kiffin bolted instead of appointing Kippy Brown as interim is what sent this program spiraling. Firing Fulmer was the right call. Everything we've done after that was the mistake.
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Actually, when Kiffin was hired, he started 6:00 am weight room workouts to see who really wanted to be here. I think 13, or so players quit; some of them OL, so I think the program overall had gotten soft under Johnny Long. Playing the Sullins twins was a have to that year as the number of OL was down...
 
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The powers that be should have took note and been looking for a better coach after we lost to Florida and Urban Meyer his first year there.
 
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