People upset over Phil

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#302
Nothing about Fulmer's hiring and empowering skills makes me think he should be the person doing the hiring
 
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With all the opinions on Fulmer, can you imagine the gnashing of teeth we'd have on Dickey, arguably best AD we've had, who played at UF and left UT to coach at FL? Don't think he'd last past the public sentiment on social media to be a finalist. All I'm saying is that the folks making the decision certainly will know if Fulmer checks all the boxes for a modern day AD, outside of past accomplishments. If he does, he should certainly be in the mix...if no, let's move on and make a decision at some point.
 
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njvols said:
With all the opinions on Fulmer, can you imagine the gnashing of teeth we'd have on Dickey, arguably best AD we've had, who played at UF and left UT to coach at FL? Don't think he'd last past the public sentiment on social media to be a finalist. All I'm saying is that the folks making the decision certainly will know if Fulmer checks all the boxes for a modern day AD, outside of past accomplishments. If he does, he should certainly be in the mix...if no, let's move on and make a decision at some point.
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Probably too much credit given here.
 
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Part of the reason it used to be cool for a former player to ascend to AD was because, in the past, nothing mattered but football. Now other stuff matters to fans. 25 years ago Tennessee fans (not alum, just "fans") were Tennessee football fans and Kentucky basketball fans. Those times are changing. People are becoming fans of a university's entire lineup of teams. And now that people are no longer cherry picking their allegiances, the Athletic Director needs to be able to dedicate time to all sports, not just football.

I don't believe Phillip Fulmer is going to be able to be successful at overseeing all sports at Tennessee.
 
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dduncan4163 said:
I'm personally fine with the hire. Phil knows the workings of UT inside and out and there is absolutely no doubt he will make decisions based on what's best for the school. The man has devoted the majority of his life to TN as a player and coach.
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Agree! We live in a 50-50 country you can't please everyone so you've got to please yourself. Everyone in admin positions should have Tennessee roots,the standard for coaches is success, don't matter where they've been or where they're from. Just win baby!
 
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crusse10 said:
Part of the reason it used to be cool for a former player to ascend to AD was because, in the past, nothing mattered but football. Now other stuff matters to fans. 25 years ago Tennessee fans (not alum, just "fans") were Tennessee football fans and Kentucky basketball fans. Those times are changing. People are becoming fans of a university's entire lineup of teams. And now that people are no longer cherry picking their allegiances, the Athletic Director needs to be able to dedicate time to all sports, not just football.

I don't believe Phillip Fulmer is going to be able to be successful at overseeing all sports at Tennessee.
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Thanks to Doug Dickey.
 
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I hope he does 2 things right away...
Bring back the LADY VOLS to all women's sports & hire Mike Hamilton & then fire him!!
 
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jakez4ut said:
precedents being what they are, i understand where this comes from, but while i full believe Fulmer wanted the job and actively (while maybe behind the scenes primarily) lobbied for the job, i don't think there was any "ant-blackburn" rhetoric going on.

and even if there was, the fact that that could be allowed to influence such a decision, says more about the influenced, than it does the influencer.
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When you hear the statement that Blackburn wasn't a serious option when 80 percent of the base wanted him. Flags should be raised. I agree with your assessment however.
 
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I'm not upset about Phil, but I did think Blackburn was the better option. I'm glad to have Fulmer back but I would of preferred to see him in some type of advisory role than AD.
 
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crusse10 said:
Part of the reason it used to be cool for a former player to ascend to AD was because, in the past, nothing mattered but football. Now other stuff matters to fans. 25 years ago Tennessee fans (not alum, just "fans") were Tennessee football fans and Kentucky basketball fans. Those times are changing. People are becoming fans of a university's entire lineup of teams. And now that people are no longer cherry picking their allegiances, the Athletic Director needs to be able to dedicate time to all sports, not just football.

I don't believe Phillip Fulmer is going to be able to be successful at overseeing all sports at Tennessee.
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I can't understand why people would assume non-football sports would suffer. Why assume that? Look at Alvarez in Wisconsin? He's obsessed with football to the point that he probably meddles a little bit too much and Wisconsin went to their first NCAA final in 74 years on his watch.

Point is, if our AD hires the right people, he can just get out of the way.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I can't understand why people would assume non-football sports would suffer. Why assume that? Look at Alvarez in Wisconsin? He's obsessed with football to the point that he probably meddles a little bit too much and Wisconsin went to their first NCAA final in 74 years on his watch.

Point is, if our AD hires the right people, he can just get out of the way.
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What was his best not-from-within, not-with-him-as-a-Majors-assistant hire in his tenure as the head coach?
 
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crusse10 said:
Part of the reason it used to be cool for a former player to ascend to AD was because, in the past, nothing mattered but football. Now other stuff matters to fans. 25 years ago Tennessee fans (not alum, just "fans") were Tennessee football fans and Kentucky basketball fans. Those times are changing. People are becoming fans of a university's entire lineup of teams. And now that people are no longer cherry picking their allegiances, the Athletic Director needs to be able to dedicate time to all sports, not just football.

I don't believe Phillip Fulmer is going to be able to be successful at overseeing all sports at Tennessee.
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You are wrong. 25 years ago our men won the SEC Indoor, Outdoor and National Championships in Track & Field.
The women Volunteers won the Indoor SEC and National Championships in 2005 and 2009.

Both men's and women's Volunteer Track and Field teams were both dominant or highly competitive from the mid 60's to 2010.

Basketball became huge from Reay Mears on.

Building Stokley then the Arena.

Pat Summit!

Others you'd laugh at.

Ah... probably no use ...

But IT WAS NOT "nothing mattered but football".
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
You seriously believe he had real opportunities to be a HC after he was let go? :loco:

This will go down with the Dooley & Tyndall hirings as some of the dumbest things this University has done with Athletics in the last 20 years!
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No one was knocking down Phil's door to come coach em up. That statement was so silly I thought OP was just trolling at that point.

I think he loved Hamilton the most for that phat buyout.
 
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sona said:
No one was knocking down Phil's door to come coach em up. That statement was so silly I thought OP was just trolling at that point.

I think he loved Hamilton the most for that phat buyout.
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You didn't hear about all the offers to coach in the NFL?
 
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