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#5
#5
columbia vol said:
Lol, somebody gave Hamilton permission, would like to know who.
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From what I remember, and it isn’t much bc I was in college and young atm so I didn’t focus on this stuff as much, wasn’t it Haslam, Majors, and the major donors? I think some of them fell in love with Kiffin and once Monte was a lock with him they wanted him no matter the cost.

*someone correct me if I’m wrong, I’m guessing more than anything.
 
#7
#7
columbia vol said:
Hindsight is 20/20, I was excited for the change, but in retrospect, hiring the unqualified snake oil salesman set us back 10 yrs. He did more damage to our program than any of the other dipsticks they hired.
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No, it was all the horrible decisions our administration made AFTER Lane left that set us back 10 years.
 
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columbia vol said:
Have to disagree, he ran players off, got us on probation, and embarrassed the program to the point of hiring Derrick Dooley, not saying we didn’t have crappy admin., but all of this to go 6 and 6 was a disaster
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I mean we were 7-5 under LK going into the bowl game, finished 7-6, but ok
 
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golfballvol said:
Personally I think we woulda been better off keeping Phil around a year or two longer. Should’ve seen more success once Clawson got the offense going
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it was really difficult for Crompton to grasp
and two entirely different staffs saw him as the best option
you have to adapt
I won't bash PF on herruh
 
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columbia vol said:
Have to disagree, he ran players off, got us on probation, and embarrassed the program to the point of hiring Derrick Dooley, not saying we didn’t have crappy admin., but all of this to go 6 and 6 was a disaster
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During that time SEC was just in the beginning stages of going all in on football. Tenn still had a good rep as a good program. They messed up not keeping the staff and naming one of them as interim HC. As I remember, some wanted to go that route.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
No, it was all the horrible decisions our administration made AFTER Lane left that set us back 10 years.
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Lane was THE foundational building block. Being trashed after ONE season, as early enrollees were arriving, and triggering the whole ESPN “trailer trash” mattress burning saga. It did spiral on for a while, but make no mistake he layed THAT foundation.
 
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columbia vol said:
Hindsight is 20/20, I was excited for the change, but in retrospect, hiring the unqualified snake oil salesman set us back 10 yrs. He did more damage to our program than any of the other dipsticks they hired.
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Hamilton was a big part of the problem. He was a feckless, pencil sharperner, who lacked the command that Dickey had. Trust me, Dickey has his faults, but he could go to Fulmer and say, focus on football, quit privately investigating Bama and hire an OC you can entrust the offense to 100%. Hamilton mishandled the firing and certianly mishandled the next hiring. Still, we’ve seen programs survive much worse and not have the extended cycle of suck we experienced. There was a lot of behind the scenes failures that shipwrecked the program.

Fulmer couldn’t see the forest for the trees. The fact that he never seriously pursued coaching again is all the evidence one needs to see where his heart was. He didn’t try to restore his legacy and show he still had it. He just quietly retired. Well, until he returned to finish the demolition he had started.
 
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