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Just letting y’all know we’re gonna sweep the Dudgers this weekend and after 162 games we’ll look back at this series being the moment the season turned around.
 
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Boyd is a baseball guy. Owns minor league teams and loves the sport. He is the best thing to happen to Tennessee in a long time. Plowman has definitely been in favor of it, though. Which is very refreshing.
 
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Florida Stanley said:
Boyd is a baseball guy. Owns minor league teams and loves the sport. He is the best thing to happen to Tennessee in a long time. Plowman has definitely been in favor of it, though. Which is very refreshing.
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It’s just nice to have two people in charge who aren’t idiots for once
 
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TV told them exactly what it would take for him to stay, and they met every single requirement. Tony hasn’t agreed to it yet but it’s all there. Every demand met. Boyd is the man that made it happen, and all of it is from around 8 boosters. Don’t want to undersell Plowman, she definitely was very proactive and supportive.
 
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Florida Stanley said:
And are mostly all pulling in the same direction.

Fulmer was an absolute disaster.
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It's heresy to many a Fulmerite on this site, but Phil's entire legacy at UT is very much mixed, IMO. I'm not talking about very good with a blemish; I mean like having great meal at a restaurant but you found a maggot in your dessert. I don't think you'd go back there no matter how good the entree or service was. At best, he has a really, really complicated legacy here.

If you put his good and bad on a scale, obviously 1998 and the second most wins in school history is quite heavy to the good. However, people seem to have forgotten the football program's slide began on his watch and his tenure as AD was projectile explosive diarrhea. It cannot be overstated how bad it was, especially if the NCAA nails us.

And I hope his gaggle of booster buddies (Thunder, Jones, Anderson) is very much on the outside looking in now.
 
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05_never_again said:
It's heresy to many a Fulmerite on this site, but Phil's entire legacy at UT is very much mixed, IMO. I'm not talking about very good with a blemish; I mean like having great meal at a restaurant but you found a maggot in your dessert. I don't think you'd go back there no matter how good the entree or service was. At best, he has a really, really complicated legacy here.

If you put his good and bad on a scale, obviously 1998 and the second most wins in school history is quite heavy to the good. However, people seem to have forgotten the football program's slide began on his watch and his tenure as AD was projectile explosive diarrhea. It cannot be overstated how bad it was, especially if the NCAA nails us.

And I hope his gaggle of booster buddies (Thunder, Jones, Anderson) is very much on the outside looking in now.
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Phil is a very self serving person. And a down right cut throat behind the scenes, which can be good or very bad. Was definitely more bad in the final leg of his career. His legacy is probably a lot different without Cut.
 
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Florida Stanley said:
Phil is a very self serving person. And a down right cut throat behind the scenes, which can be good or very bad. Was definitely more bad in the final leg of his career. His legacy is probably a lot different without Cut.
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Cut not only won him a title, but came back and temporarily stabilized the program/saved his job in 2006-07. Phil was incredibly lucky to have Cut and Chavis already on staff when he became HC and coach in an era when assistants stayed longer, because he was absolutely terrible at replacing them when they left.

The recent history of our program is so, so different if Cut came back after Kiffin bolted. The opportunity was supposedly there, but Hammy wouldn't let him bring his Duke staff with him.
 
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Making my claim right now — Braves gonna draft Joshua Baez or Bubba Chandler. Looking through this year’s crop and it’s not great at the back end of the first. Lot of high ceiling guys in the later rounds though, so may go under slot (shocker).
 
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