The Crap Show Started With..........

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Mike Hamilton. His knee jerk reaction to fire CPF with 3 games left in 2008, resulting in a Homecoming loss to Wyoming, lit the fuse for the implosion of Tennessee football. Then Hamilton hires the Wonder Boy Kiffin who jets in the middle of the night after one season. What a Summer's Eve. But Hamilton pulls a rabbit out of his hat and hires Doofus Dooley...a coach with a LOSING record at Louisiana Tech. Are you kidding me? At least he had a well known last name and nice hair. And who can forget him teaching "shower technique" to the team. Dooley proceeds to lose to Kentucky his first year ending a 26 year win streak. DD should have been fired on the spot. Then Dave "Bama" Hart gives us Lyle Jones. I remember Lyle once describing himself as the "Caretaker" of Tennessee football. What a FN joke. All Mr. Brick By Brick did was set our program back 5-7 years and escape town with millions of $$$ of Tennessee money. Then that ****head Lyle has the nerve to smoke a freakin cigar in Neyland Stadium when Bama routs the Vols with players he recruited and coached. After a cluster**** coaching search that brought us nationwide ridicule we get Jeremy Pruitt....a FIRST time Head Coach. Pruitt is about as exciting as a can of Vienna Sausage. He did deliver 2 upsets of ranked teams this year but when it was all on the line, the coaches and the players failed BIG TIME. Is that an indictment of CJP or an indictment of the players Lyle left behind....probably a combination of both. The Vandy loss yesterday was a final kick in the nads for Tennessee fans. Is CJP the man to lead us of of the wilderness? Who knows? I just know I cannot take much more. I used to be upset for days after a Tennessee loss....now its "whatever". How far we have fallen. We have become Vandy. Right now my Big Orange Tank is bone dry. However I am sure by next fall, the hope will once again start to rise for the return of Tennessee Football...the way we all remember it back in the day. Until next fall my fellow Vols! Peace!
 
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We were already headed toward mediocrity with Fulmer. He was being rooted out by Saban, Spurrier, and Meyer. He backed into the 2007 SEC championship game and would have never made it there without Cutcliffe.

The rest of your assessment is true because we did not have the right people in place when we HAD to make that decision.
 
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Yes but it's a decade later. It's now someone else's fault. You can't blame 2008 forever, at some point someone else isn't doing their job.
 
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There’s not a single event/person who put us here. We are here because of collective dysfunction and poor decisions over a long period of time. I’ll give Pruitt benefit of doubt in year one but last two games don’t give me confidence I had after KY. Jury’s out but have decent confidence Pruitt will get us right. He’ll need to add a few more high level guys to this class
 
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The Haslams have been part of 4 bargain bin hires here (Schiano qualifies) and 3 with the Browns. We are the worst team in the SEC East and the Browns since 2012 have been the worst team in the NFL...

If you are 0-6 with bargain bin hires, why do you try to make another (and one with an alleged Sandusky tie)?
 
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It is my opinion that if years ago Tennessee had fired Mike Hamilton instead of letting him fire Phil Fulmer we would not have had to suffer though the last several years. I know a lot of fans say that the game of football had passed him by but I believe he would have gotten the program back on the right track and we would now be a happier group of fans.

OK.......flame away!!!!
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
The Haslams have been part of 4 bargain bin hires here (Schiano qualifies) and 3 with the Browns. We are the worst team in the SEC East and the Browns since 2012 have been the worst team in the NFL...

If you are 0-6 with bargain bin hires, why do you try to make another (and one with an alleged Sandusky tie)?
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2 reasons.

1. Money,. Haslam hates to spend a lot of money on anything. Everyone knows that.

2. He really doesn't want a successful head coach, but another puppet in his show that he wants to control. He knows that he couldn't control a quality coach like Saban, Swinney, or Harbaugh.
 
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ric1958 said:
It is my opinion that if years ago Tennessee had fired Mike Hamilton instead of letting him fire Phil Fulmer we would not have had to suffer though the last several years. I know a lot of fans say that the game of football had passed him by but I believe he would have gotten the program back on the right track and we would now be a happier group of fans.

OK.......flame away!!!!
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The Richts, Meyers, and Sabans of CFB sealed Fulmer's fate.
 
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It started with the people that hired him and allowed the decision. Fact is the entire admin at ut is a disaster.
 
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......Philip Fulmer. He began the killing of the football program, along with Mike Hamilton (who managed to kill the rest of the Men's Athletic Department). We have now hired the man who engineered the start of the downfall to lead the supposed resurgence. The only thing more entertaining or absurd would be to hire Mike Hamilton as President of the University.
 
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SmokyRiverDog said:
......Philip Fulmer. He began the killing of the football program, along with Mike Hamilton (who managed to kill the rest of the Men's Athletic Department). We have now hired the man who engineered the start of the downfall to lead the supposed resurgence. The only thing more entertaining or absurd would be to hire Mike Hamilton as President of the University.
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Now that's funny right there: Our most successful coach since Neyland, the guy who brought us our only NC since the 1950s, a true Tennessean and VFL who loves the program, killed the program.

That's some serious logic there.
 
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CampBlount said:
Now that's funny right there: Our most successful coach since Neyland, the guy who brought us our only NC since the 1950s, a true Tennessean and VFL who loves the program, killed the program.

That's some serious logic there.
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Stop being enamored by the first half of his career when he was doing great work. Look at the second half of his head coaching career when he dismantled the program because Cutcliffe was not organizing everything for him.
 
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Based on what's come after, we have to be better off giving Fulmer a few more years with a new or the same oc. I'm glad he's back as AD and hope his influence will get things on track again. I don't think vulcans will take the wins as lightly as they did in the past when things do start to go our way again. Unfortunately, we haven't outlasted the tough times for our football program just yet.
 
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jvol1 said:
Based on what's come after, we have to be better off giving Fulmer a few more years with a new or the same oc. I'm glad he's back as AD and hope his influence will get things on track again. I don't think vulcans will take the wins as lightly as they did in the past when things do start to go our way again. Unfortunately, we haven't outlasted the tough times for our football program just yet.
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It's not so much the Vulcans I'm concerned about, it's the Romulans you really have to worry about........ :)
 
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