Philip Fulmer

#26
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volfan2024 said:
Its hard not to appreciate a guy that brought you a NCAA Championship. Even though he undercut Majors, he still got her done.😁
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Yeah it was really low of him to win all those early games before Johnny forced his way back early from those heart issues and lost those next games, while according to many refusing to sign a deal on the table without more money.

Love me some Johnny, lived within 10 miles of Huntland for a decade. My favorite Aunt on the wife’s side mother used to babysit the younger Majors kids (saw pictures to prove it last month) saw a new log home at their homesite while on a tour. Great VOL family, but humility was not a strength of Johnny.

Both those Franklin County educated guys belong on any Mount Rushmore of UT coaches.
 
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Vols had 2 coaches for 35 years. Both were great Vol players too. Fulmer was a superb athlete and catcher for a state tournament baseball team.

I vote for statues of Phil and John Majors while leaving a prominent spot for Josh Heupel.
 
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Rocky Top T said:
To be fair, several of those bama teams were not good.
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1. It’s Alabama. I don’t care if they have 3 wins on the year, THEY’RE DANGEROUS. Go look at the scores of those games. They fought us tooth and nail, even when they were bad.

2. 2007-2021, how many of those Tennessee teams were good? I’m counting 3 that won 9 games or more. So Bama only beat 3 good UT teams in the 15 year streak. Do Bama fans give a flying f*** about that? No. Because it’s not their problem UT couldn’t put a competitive team on the field just like it wasn’t ours that they couldn’t do the same from 1995-2006.
 
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NeverWe'llSever said:
Pruitt was such a POS. I have no clue what CPF saw in him.
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Kinda the best of the worst is my only guess. So many people passed on the job after Curry screwed the pooch that hiring a DC from a national championship contender seemed like a good move. I’m still convinced that he was a Bama plant intending to screw the program up even more. He did coach his ass off against Auburn which unironically happens to be the one team that bama hates more than us.

The rest of the time he was disinterested and blamed JG for everything.
 
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rocketskates said:
Kinda the best of the worst is my only guess. So many people passed on the job after Curry screwed the pooch that hiring a DC from a national championship contender seemed like a good move. I’m still convinced that he was a Bama plant intending to screw the program up even more. He did coach his ass off against Auburn which unironically happens to be the one team that bama hates more than us.

The rest of the time he was disinterested and blamed JG for everything.
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Mel Tucker wasn’t great and obviously had other issues, but he would’ve been way better than Pruitt and he interviewed right alongside him.
 
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