Thanks you Fulmer...

[rockydoc]

You made a great hire.

 

[golfballs]

It truly feels like Fulmer has finally returned to the program. Last time I saw him he was in Louisville eating two chicken baskets while we lost to Purdue in basketball. He’s a fat loser and should never have been brought back. We had Mike Leach in hand and he staged a coup which left us with Jeremy Pruitt. Pruitt sucks. Fulmer Sucks. And the Haslams suck.

 

[Chitlin&theDude]

Fulmer inherited a mess. His choices were limited. Would Moe Tucker been better? Looks like it.

 

[rockydoc]

Last time I remember him was when we ran fat butt out of town after a 5-7 losing season ...heisting a Six million buyout in the process But like Freddy Kruger he pops up again.

 

[utvolpj]

He comes back and we get even worse. Coincidence?

 

[FLSTF-VOL]

LOL some of you have a certain level of stupidity that can't be understood, but you should be admired for your total commitment to it.

 

[Vol Catdaddy]

My honest opinion we should have never fired fulmer, but when u have Mike Leach u listen to his plan for UT Football!

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

Fulmer inherited a mess. His choices were limited. Would Moe Tucker been better? Looks like it.

********. He could’ve hired Leach.

 

[JustFunnN'Orange]

These losses are not on Fulmer...

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

He comes back and we get even worse. Coincidence?

I never understood the logic of letting the guy who ran you into a ditch become the head of the program 10 years later. Only in Tennessee.

 

[lexkyvol]

some people will use any situation to go at fulmer and its stupid

 

[Other_Guy]

My gosh would yall stop blaming him, as if he had coaches lined up to pick from.

They literally had the NC State coach turn them down. I would take a chance on an unproven SEC winning DC who has been under Saban before another average HC.

 

[VOLinAL]

My honest opinion we should have never fired fulmer, but when u have Mike Leach u listen to his plan for UT Football!

I agree with this, somewhat. The year before he was fired he won the East. I think if you knew we were gonna be like this for a decade after he was fired I would have kept him no dount at all but we cant predict the future so here we are.

 

[JustFunnN'Orange]

My gosh would yall stop blaming him, as if he had coaches lined up to pick from.

They literally had the NC State coach turn them down. I would take a chance on an unproven SEC winning DC who has been under Saban before another average HC.

Absolutely!!

 

[JoAllan]

You made a great hire.

Or did Tennessee make a bad fire?

 

[C-south]

He comes back and we get even worse. Coincidence?

I remember 10 win seasons with a chance to compete and probably the only national championship I’ll ever see.

 

[Power T-Rev]

Thanks to Fulmer we dont have Mike Leach

 

[Roustabout]

Fulmer inherited a mess. His choices were limited. Would Moe Tucker been better? Looks like it.

It’s Mel Tucker.

And yes, I said it on this forum that he would be a better hire.

 

[chattavol420]

Mike leach had agreed to become the coach 2 years ago. Behind closed doors fulmer squeezed his way in and shut the door on leach. Only to go out and hire a guy that’s never been a head coach, that doesn’t even know how to speak proper English, and a guy that is as much of a die hard bammer as you’ll ever see. How on God’s green earth did a guy we fired for not keeping up with the times over a decade ago (who’s never been an ad at any level) get placed in charge of the most important decision our 100 million dollar athletic department has to make?
You can’t make that up. We ripped defeat from the jaws of victory in the coaching season...and that theme has continued out on the field. Fulmer is cursed and needs to be removed from the program. He’ll stubbornly stand beside Pruitt until the end of time because he knows he won’t get to make the decision on the next coach

 

[orangerush]

This should sum up Fulmer’s ability to evaluate coaching prospects, he’s in over his head. Just because you played and or coached here does not make you a good hire.

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

Pruitt was a gamble hire that we shouldn’t have taken that was all on Fulmer and its looking like this Pruitt hire will be a disaster. We could’ve had Leach or Brohm or even Mike Norville all better and more qualified coaches than Pruitt.

 

[CountVolcula]

He comes back and we get even worse. Coincidence?

Not surprisingly at all

He lost because he couldn't make good hires as a coach to replace assistants

Pruitt might just end up being his next Dave Clawson

 

[LakeMaryFLVol]

It’s Mel Tucker.

And yes, I said it on this forum that he would be a better hire.

It could have been Friar Tuck at this point

 

[BreatheUT]

Fulmer inherited a mess. His choices were limited. Would Moe Tucker been better? Looks like it.

So is it not true that Curry had Leach as good as hired then the coup happened?

 

[utvolpj]

I remember 10 win seasons with a chance to compete and probably the only national championship I’ll ever see.

Yeah we sure were headed in the right direction when he was fired. Way different sec now and he's over his head in football