Randy Sanders says thank you

#32
#32
Sanders wasn't half the OC Cut was. He was a terrible playcaller . look @ the drop off when Cut left to when he came back. That should tell you everything......the 01 season should tell you everything .
 
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david NC Vol said:
I wish Randy Sanders all the success in the world at ETSU !!!!! He will always be a VOL in my book!!
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I live in JC and went to ETSU, but also UT and always cheered for the Vols and ignored ETSU football in the old days. I am pleased to know though that Sanders isn't afraid to go Patton-style and slap a whiner!
 
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utvols74 said:
As it pertains to Cutcliffe..... always remember this......"No Cutcliffe - No Manning".
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Cutcliff made Erik Ainge look like an all American. He should have been handing the reigns instead of listening to the fan base chasing a big name coach.
 
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DenmarkVol said:
We won a national championship with Randy Sanders as OC.
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Actually Cutcliffe coached that team up until the championship game. Sanders was the QB coach and Cutcliffe was running the offense. Sanders was the O-coordinator for the championship game. Nothing against Sanders but he was no where near the offensive coach that Cutcliffe was. Cutcliffe was a better coordinator and a better Qb coach. Cutcliffe and Fulmer were the biggest assets on our great 90's run. GBO!!!!
 
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The Tennessee program was essentially a 6-5 historical program. One National Title in 1951 even though they lost the bowl game to #3 Maryland. The only team Tennessee beat that was in the final AP poll was #17 Kentucky. That title was a joke. Tennessee has had 20 - 10 win seasons. Philip has 9 of them. Tennessee has 13 SEC titles but 6 of them where essentially ties because they didn't play a round robin or a Championship Game. What is this slide I keep hearing about? The slide from the historical high that Fulmer put us on? The slide from the 45-5 run that is by far the greatest in school history and one of the great runs in college football history? The slide happened after 2008. The 2000's are better then almost any decade prior....or since. And that was down a bit from the 90's. Every great Hall of Fame National Title coach has groomed great assistants. Bryant, Saban and Fulmer. Those guys knew they where not going to succeed unless they hired and taught the assistants well. Our fans thinks having good assistants is a bad thing. Like a knock on the head coach. But Bryant gave all his credit to a couple of his assistants. You don't see Alabama fans belittling his success because he has great assistants. Fulmer taught Cut how to be an OC and gave Chavis a shot as DC. Fulmer was considered one of the games best OC's before they got that trash Majors out of the way. Those that are in the know are aware that Hamilton hired Clawson. He was the secret coach in waiting when hired. He is a fit in the MAC and ACC at academic places. Not in the SEC where the players are shall we say not as academically inclined.

Tennessee right now is where they have been in many decades in their history. Those of you that think what Fulmer did was the norm are nuts. He broke Tennessee's glass ceiling and went further then any Tennessee coach in history. But the Legion of Doom thinks this program is something it is not. Just like Georgia. They also have just 2 National Titles. Same with Auburn. LSU has 3 I believe. Get in, and stay in, where you fit in.
 
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VolFan..But said:
The Tennessee program was essentially a 6-5 historical program. One National Title in 1951 even though they lost the bowl game to #3 Maryland. The only team Tennessee beat that was in the final AP poll was #17 Kentucky. That title was a joke. Tennessee has had 20 - 10 win seasons. Philip has 9 of them. Tennessee has 13 SEC titles but 6 of them where essentially ties because they didn't play a round robin or a Championship Game. What is this slide I keep hearing about? The slide from the historical high that Fulmer put us on? The slide from the 45-5 run that is by far the greatest in school history and one of the great runs in college football history? The slide happened after 2008. The 2000's are better then almost any decade prior....or since. And that was down a bit from the 90's. Every great Hall of Fame National Title coach has groomed great assistants. Bryant, Saban and Fulmer. Those guys knew they where not going to succeed unless they hired and taught the assistants well. Our fans thinks having good assistants is a bad thing. Like a knock on the head coach. But Bryant gave all his credit to a couple of his assistants. You don't see Alabama fans belittling his success because he has great assistants. Fulmer taught Cut how to be an OC and gave Chavis a shot as DC. Fulmer was considered one of the games best OC's before they got that trash Majors out of the way. Those that are in the know are aware that Hamilton hired Clawson. He was the secret coach in waiting when hired. He is a fit in the MAC and ACC at academic places. Not in the SEC where the players are shall we say not as academically inclined.

Tennessee right now is where they have been in many decades in their history. Those of you that think what Fulmer did was the norm are nuts. He broke Tennessee's glass ceiling and went further then any Tennessee coach in history. But the Legion of Doom thinks this program is something it is not. Just like Georgia. They also have just 2 National Titles. Same with Auburn. LSU has 3 I believe. Get in, and stay in, where you fit in.
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We are one of one of the winningest teams in the history of college football. You failed to mention the 39 team that went unscored upon in the regular season and the 69 squad that won a piece of the title. Also we had many good teams in the 60's,80's and even more in the 90's. Not too long ago we had been too more bowl game than anyone. All schools have downtimes, nobody has beaten bama more than the vols. As far as 10 win seasons go back years ago they didn't play but maybe 10 games in a year. Yes we have had down times, but so has bama,mich,nd,aub,lsu,neb,usc and the list goes on.
 
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TNnative said:
He got to be a scapegoat.
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I remember that time and it seemed that they were scrambling around to find a scapegoat, don’t get me wrong, I stand behind my belief in Coach Fulmer at that time and now, but was scratching my head at the time as it seemed forever to pinpoint the problem and who. I certainly didn’t have the football knowledge to know (still don’t), I just looked at offense at the time and saw it was sliding down.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
Well..... he had a hand in the slide that started all those years ago.... that has the program where it is today
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Doesn't have anything to do with the thread topic. But u b u
The slide could have been stopped several times and wasn't.
 
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VolFan..But said:
The Tennessee program was essentially a 6-5 historical program. One National Title in 1951 even though they lost the bowl game to #3 Maryland. The only team Tennessee beat that was in the final AP poll was #17 Kentucky. That title was a joke. Tennessee has had 20 - 10 win seasons. Philip has 9 of them. Tennessee has 13 SEC titles but 6 of them where essentially ties because they didn't play a round robin or a Championship Game. What is this slide I keep hearing about? The slide from the historical high that Fulmer put us on? The slide from the 45-5 run that is by far the greatest in school history and one of the great runs in college football history? The slide happened after 2008. The 2000's are better then almost any decade prior....or since. And that was down a bit from the 90's. Every great Hall of Fame National Title coach has groomed great assistants. Bryant, Saban and Fulmer. Those guys knew they where not going to succeed unless they hired and taught the assistants well. Our fans thinks having good assistants is a bad thing. Like a knock on the head coach. But Bryant gave all his credit to a couple of his assistants. You don't see Alabama fans belittling his success because he has great assistants. Fulmer taught Cut how to be an OC and gave Chavis a shot as DC. Fulmer was considered one of the games best OC's before they got that trash Majors out of the way. Those that are in the know are aware that Hamilton hired Clawson. He was the secret coach in waiting when hired. He is a fit in the MAC and ACC at academic places. Not in the SEC where the players are shall we say not as academically inclined.

Tennessee right now is where they have been in many decades in their history. Those of you that think what Fulmer did was the norm are nuts. He broke Tennessee's glass ceiling and went further then any Tennessee coach in history. But the Legion of Doom thinks this program is something it is not. Just like Georgia. They also have just 2 National Titles. Same with Auburn. LSU has 3 I believe. Get in, and stay in, where you fit in.
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Here are some stats.... BTW all of this is AFTER the current 10 year slide......

  • Tennessee is #8 in all-time wins, and 4 of the 7 teams ahead of us have played football for more years than UT
  • Tennessee is #9 all-time in the number of times they have been in the AP top 25
  • Tennessee is #6 all-time in the number of bowl games played and #7 in bowl games won
  • Tennessee is second in the SEC in all-time wins and SEC titles (behind only the New York Yankees of college football)
  • Prior to 1965, Tennessee rarely, if ever, played more than 10 games in a season, so the notion of "historical 10 win seasons" is kind of not a good measure

So, the idea that Tennessee was historically some kind of middling football program is just a false statement. Every football program has its drought periods (look at where Michigan, Notre Dame, USC and Texas are now compared to where they were decades ago. They are all way down. People look at UT now and try to project that on our history like we dont belong among the power house football programs. Just not true at all.
 
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Pruitt Will Do It said:
Imagine if Cutcliffe had never left for Ole Miss in December 1998? I don't think Tennessee would have fallen off.
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It's part of football. Successful assistants get plucked for better jobs and it's up to the HC to find suitable replacements. Fulmer's downfall was most due to the fact that he wouldn't hire top notch assistants. He wanted familiar people or people he could control.
 
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VolFan..But said:
The Tennessee program was essentially a 6-5 historical program. One National Title in 1951 even though they lost the bowl game to #3 Maryland. The only team Tennessee beat that was in the final AP poll was #17 Kentucky. That title was a joke. Tennessee has had 20 - 10 win seasons. Philip has 9 of them. Tennessee has 13 SEC titles but 6 of them where essentially ties because they didn't play a round robin or a Championship Game. What is this slide I keep hearing about? The slide from the historical high that Fulmer put us on? The slide from the 45-5 run that is by far the greatest in school history and one of the great runs in college football history? The slide happened after 2008. The 2000's are better then almost any decade prior....or since. And that was down a bit from the 90's. Every great Hall of Fame National Title coach has groomed great assistants. Bryant, Saban and Fulmer. Those guys knew they where not going to succeed unless they hired and taught the assistants well. Our fans thinks having good assistants is a bad thing. Like a knock on the head coach. But Bryant gave all his credit to a couple of his assistants. You don't see Alabama fans belittling his success because he has great assistants. Fulmer taught Cut how to be an OC and gave Chavis a shot as DC. Fulmer was considered one of the games best OC's before they got that trash Majors out of the way. Those that are in the know are aware that Hamilton hired Clawson. He was the secret coach in waiting when hired. He is a fit in the MAC and ACC at academic places. Not in the SEC where the players are shall we say not as academically inclined.

Tennessee right now is where they have been in many decades in their history. Those of you that think what Fulmer did was the norm are nuts. He broke Tennessee's glass ceiling and went further then any Tennessee coach in history. But the Legion of Doom thinks this program is something it is not. Just like Georgia. They also have just 2 National Titles. Same with Auburn. LSU has 3 I believe. Get in, and stay in, where you fit in.
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Whatever you say big boy ..... except you're full of crap
 
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Orangeredblooded said:
I remember that time and it seemed that they were scrambling around to find a scapegoat, don’t get me wrong, I stand behind my belief in Coach Fulmer at that time and now, but was scratching my head at the time as it seemed forever to pinpoint the problem and who. I certainly didn’t have the football knowledge to know (still don’t), I just looked at offense at the time and saw it was sliding down.
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Well, you can continue to believe in him. Pardon me for not sharing that in any way whatsoever.
 
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