(VolunteerHillbilly @ Jan 17 said:
You sheep would be better served to channel your hostility toward what must be done to fix the program instead of lashing out at the people with some vision. You are the same kind of goof balls who probably would have wanted to lynch Tomas Edision because his bad, bad lightbulb threatened the staus quo of you candle lit lives. Get a grip. Fulmer is not the man anymore. We all need to move on.
i'm curious...what "vision" is that? i prefer to go with what works. and i got to tell you, though we had a bad year, and CPF's decisons in the off season, and his philosophy on staff, scheme etc...played a dominant roll in that, it also played a dominant roll in 13 years of winning football, 13 years of bowl games, 2 SEC titles, a boat load of NFL talent coming thru Knoxville, oh and a national title. like i said in another post, you can't just simply focus on the misgivings of our coach....he's done a little good in his time at UT, and he deserves the chance to fix it.
If your vision really includes firing him for one bad year, and hiring the "next big thing", only to find out that HC changes breed nothing but instability and a snowball affect that teams like Nebraska, Alabama and Notre Dame all have gone thru the past decade. And while they may finally have all found the "one" to bring them back, look at what they had to go thru to get there? we have a chance to nip this in the bud quickly and get back to what we would all agree was TN football.
Until someone can show me a coach that's going to have the same sustained success like CPF has had over his previous 13 years, i'll wait and see if he's going to have sustained failure from this point forward. 1 bad year, AS OF NOW, is not a trend. As I've also said, if it comes to pass that he can't fix it, then we can talk.
Look i don't think he did a very good job this year, and i also think that some of his decisions in the past have contributed to the issues currently plaguing the Vols, but he's earned the chance and right to clean up his own mess.
I think if you and some of the others that get on his case all the time really listened, you'd probably find out that we don't really differ that much on what the problems are, why we have them, and who's to blame. The big difference is the willingness to just throw the guy under the bus with no regard for what he has accomplished in the past.