Phil Fulmer...

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#26
Actually he's been at many games this season. I look for him every home game, and he's there a lot sitting next to Vicki and Thunder Thorton.
 
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KnoxVillain said:
Actually he's been at many games this season. I look for him every home game, and he's there a lot sitting next to Vicki and Thunder Thorton.
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Personally I think he is angling for the AD job....but do not agree now that it would be a good fit. I hope Dooley pans out for Hamilton's sake. Fulmer is good for UT and its nice to see him back on the court and hope to see him in the stands next fall.
 
#28
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Phil gave his all then got complacent. Loyalty will only get you so far.
 
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Bballvol said:
Personally I think he is angling for the AD job....but do not agree now that it would be a good fit. I hope Dooley pans out for Hamilton's sake. Fulmer is good for UT and its nice to see him back on the court and hope to see him in the stands next fall.
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I definitely agree. He has to get his face out there to let the university he is still around.
 
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Glad he was able to see a Vol victory over a highly
ranked team. He probably has forgotten what those
look like.
 
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vol_in_ga said:
was at the game today. He may have been forced out of coaching but he is still one of our biggest fans. Once a vol, always a vol!
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I know he's a plus size, but I hardly think he's our biggest fan. You see what I did there? I made it about his weight.
 
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Daddy Gee said:
lulz.. we have 2 losing records in 4 years... lose to vandy and wyoming... thanks to Phill=Up's recruiting or lack of, we're all but out of contention even for an SECE title any time before '12.. at least.... and the fulmer apologists are still carrying his water.... unreal
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152 wins, two SEC championships and the school's only legitimate national championship since 1951. No one needs to apologize for Phil Fulmer and he doesn't need to apologize for himself.

And by the way...find a Tennessee coach who doesn't have a loss to Vandy on his record somewhere. It does happen sometimes. Majors lost a game to Vandy. Bill Battle lost to (and tied) Vandy, and so did Doug Dickey. Shoot, Bob Neyland lost to them three times and tied them twice. The only reason you're griping about it is because the same Phil Fulmer you're bashing spoiled you for so many years.

One thing Phil Fulmer doesn't have on his record, however, is a loss to Kenturkey. I'm glad he was at the game today.
 
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jsc1973 said:
152 wins, two SEC championships and the school's only legitimate national championship since 1951. No one needs to apologize for Phil Fulmer and he doesn't need to apologize for himself.

And by the way...find a Tennessee coach who doesn't have a loss to Vandy on his record somewhere. It does happen sometimes. Majors lost a game to Vandy. Bill Battle lost to (and tied) Vandy, and so did Doug Dickey. Shoot, Bob Neyland lost to them three times and tied them twice. The only reason you're griping about it is because the same Phil Fulmer you're bashing spoiled you for so many years.

One thing Phil Fulmer doesn't have on his record, however, is a loss to Kenturkey. I'm glad he was at the game today.
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Yeah.....you are right.....Fulmer wins A NC then everyone expects it every year.
 
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jsc1973 said:
152 wins, two SEC championships and the school's only legitimate national championship since 1951. No one needs to apologize for Phil Fulmer and he doesn't need to apologize for himself.

And by the way...find a Tennessee coach who doesn't have a loss to Vandy on his record somewhere. It does happen sometimes. Majors lost a game to Vandy. Bill Battle lost to (and tied) Vandy, and so did Doug Dickey. Shoot, Bob Neyland lost to them three times and tied them twice. The only reason you're griping about it is because the same Phil Fulmer you're bashing spoiled you for so many years.

One thing Phil Fulmer doesn't have on his record, however, is a loss to Kenturkey. I'm glad he was at the game today.
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That's all great and all but it's still doesn't mean it wasn't time for him to move on.
 
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jsc1973 said:
152 wins, two SEC championships and the school's only legitimate national championship since 1951. No one needs to apologize for Phil Fulmer and he doesn't need to apologize for himself.
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How long was he head coach at Tennessee? He only had two SEC titles? :ermm:
 
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vol_in_ga said:
was at the game today. He may have been forced out of coaching but he is still one of our biggest fans. Once a vol, always a vol!
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Regardless of whether Phil ends up coaching somewhere else, he'll always be a Vol fan first and foremost.:eek:k::good!::yes:

Go Vols! A friend of mine got a picture of Phil for me a few years back when he was in Atlanta and had it autographed.:clapping:
Born and raised a Vol fan and will to the last day I live even though I now live in Florida. Never changing allegiance to the BIG ORANGE. I say, "it's great to be a TENNESSEE VOL!":salute::dance2::yahoo:
 
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vol_in_il said:
Missed where he gets credit for the only National Championship in the last 50 years
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I'd say surviving a decade of no titles, two losing seasons and hijacking our AD for raises and a contract that netted him $6MM for being hammered for cause qualifies as credit.
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Daddy Gee said:
5-8 (.385) vs. Spurrier: (3-3 since 1998)
0-4 (.000) vs. Meyer
3-4 (.429) vs. Richt
1-4 (.200) vs. Tuberville (at AUB after '98, 3-4 overall)
1-3 (.250) vs. Saban
1-2 (.333) vs. Miles
11-25 (.306) vs. above 6 coaches
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I could pick out any famous coach's record against six others that I hand-picked and come out with similar results. I did that exercise once on here and made Bear Bryant and Tom Osborne look like the worst coaches who ever lived by hand-picking their record against people they had some trouble with. (Look up Bear's record against Bob Neyland...)

It's completely irrelevant to someone's whole body of work. We don't say Tom Osborne was lousy because he had a poor record against Barry Switzer, Jimmy Johnson and Bobby Bowden. And Phil Fulmer isn't lousy because he went 11-25 against four coaches who won a national championship, a fifth who will probably get one when Reggie Bush gets declared ineligible for '04, and another who's twice finished #2. He'd be lousy if he went 11-25 against six coaches who never won anything.

That's all I'm debating this subject tonight. Let's just say you'll be fortunate if you ever see another Tennessee football coach in your lifetime average 10 wins a season over 15 years.
 
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jsc1973 said:
I could pick out any famous coach's record against six others that I hand-picked and come out with similar results. I did that exercise once on here and made Bear Bryant and Tom Osborne look like the worst coaches who ever lived by hand-picking their record against people they had some trouble with. (Look up Bear's record against Bob Neyland...)

It's completely irrelevant to someone's whole body of work. We don't say Tom Osborne was lousy because he had a poor record against Barry Switzer, Jimmy Johnson and Bobby Bowden. And Phil Fulmer isn't lousy because he went 11-25 against four coaches who won a national championship, a fifth who will probably get one when Reggie Bush gets declared ineligible for '04, and another who's twice finished #2. He'd be lousy if he went 11-25 against six coaches who never won anything.

That's all I'm debating this subject tonight. Let's just say you'll be fortunate if you ever see another Tennessee football coach in your lifetime average 10 wins a season over 15 years.
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But 5 and 10 year stretches of futility didn't happen for those guys. It did for Fulmer.
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Bballvol said:
Personally I think he is angling for the AD job....but do not agree now that it would be a good fit. I hope Dooley pans out for Hamilton's sake. Fulmer is good for UT and its nice to see him back on the court and hope to see him in the stands next fall.
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The AD job is not open but the President's is, let's just go that route.
 
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