Phil is interested...

#377
#377
Can we hire Fulmer on the condition he gives up the buyout and then fire him the following week?
 
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#379
kiddiedoc said:
I'll start by saying that I consider the Fulmers friends of the family, and I have no hard-feelings toward Phil. He was given a few extra years as HC due to our success in the 90's. It became obvious that he was losing his edge/drive and was having trouble managing the team, and he was let go. He is set for life, financially, and I think that he will be held in generally-high regard by most fans with time.

However, I have yet to see or hear one valid argument that he would be qualified for the position of AD. "Loving UT," football success over a decade ago. . . .hogwash. The position is largely a business, political, and financial-managerial role. If anyone can provide sound reasoning that he should be considered, with those qualifications, I would love to hear it.
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Ding ding ding!!! We have a winner! The voice of reason. You don't need to know about athletics, or how to evaluate talent, or coach. You need to know how to evaluate those doing the coaching, those evaluating the talent, those in charge of making sure your players are prepared every game. Fulmer made the hires of the coaches under him. That didn't work out so well. Yes, he won a NC, he won back to back SEC titles. He also got very complacent. There was no reason UT lost to LSU on 01. None. We had a better team in pretty much every position. We lost. We should have crushed them and then went on to the Rose b Bowl and won that too. The demise of the Fulmer era was in high gear.
The AD must be a businessman. A leader. He must know the rules for recruiting. I have yet to hear a kid say he's not going to the university of wherever because the AD is a doofus.
Players come to the school to play. They become enamored with coaches or traditions, and they want to be part of it. But they want to play. Be on TV. Have a shot at pro sports. Coaches are supposed to recruit the players, coach the players and prepare the players. If the team loses and the overall program declines, it's because the coaches did not effectively do what they are getting paid to do.
On the other side of that, if the coaches aren't getting it done, it's the AD's job to either light a fire under said coach or show him the door and hire someone who will get the job done.
 
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#383
VolForLife83 said:
We need some UT blood running things up here. Aint Cheek a Gator? Yall want more UF or other outsiders representing and calling the shots for us? Aint no1 going to care about UT traditions and work their arse off like person who loves UT like Fulmer. So what he was loyal to a man on his staff. Dont mean he wont fire bs coaches. Phil has something to prove, he just needs the chance. This is Fulmers destiny. Go dress in your crimson and purple tigertrollvol. Sound like a fair weather fan to me
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If UF's AD could get our athletic programs multiple national championships, etc like he has UF, I'd take him in a heartbeat.

You pose an interesting question, I guess. Should real fans care more about blood color, or the program's success...? I'm fan enough to hope for success instead of the sudden implosion that would result from promoting the man that proved himself too unmotivated to remain successful at a lower-level job.

How 'bout you?
 
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#392
utgibbs said:
Thanks for posting this and demonstrating the absolute nonsense spouted by the GoF and their acolytes.

Putting Lane Kiffin above Phil Fulmer in this ranking is treason. I am becoming more in favor of Phil as AD the more I see you internet heroes. Please, find a bandwagon to jump on. Or go search for Atlantis. Fantasy seems to be soup du jour.
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Point taken. Here's my newly updated list:

4,673 - Satan
4,674 - Nancy Pelosi
4,675 - Tim Tebow
4,676 - Lane Kiffin
4,677 - Tennessee disbands all athletic departments and programs
4,678 - Kim Jong Il
4,679 - Phil Fulmer
4,680 - You, serving as the Head of an AD Committee consisting of: MHF, NEOCON and Raven.
 
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#400
Orange_Crush said:
If UF's AD could get our athletic programs multiple national championships, etc like he has UF, I'd take him in a heartbeat.

You pose an interesting question, I guess. Should real fans care more about blood color, or the program's success...? I'm fan enough to hope for success instead of the sudden implosion that would result from promoting the man that proved himself too unmotivated to remain successful at a lower-level job.

How 'bout you?
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Ditto. But Phil "Loves" the university. What more reason to hire him? He loved it soooooooo much he neglected the program and drove it into the ground, heck, golly, gee, shazam while maintaining the perfect physique to inspire young athletes to be just like him. C'mon, be like coach, and you too can waddle across the field.
 
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