You can’t blame Philip Fulmer for anything

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Keefus said:
Performance as a coach whether you choose to believe that or not. As far as AD just not worth the headache of having him. Fulmer has always been about making himself look well at the expense of others.
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Yes indeed, his performance was sorely lacking....
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FLVOL_79 said:
We have proven victorious, thrice, nay, fourfold my good sir.
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Never my dear fellow. For with a valiant defender like CPF in the vanguard, and with a host of loyalists at his back, true UT fans cannot be defeated, those vol patriots of old. This war for the soul of volnation is far from done!!

Fortunately, I doubt that CPF is inclined to consider an NFL overture again (his great heart likely too aggrieved from the disgraceful treatment he received by those he held to his bosom as family), but perhaps he can be convinced to patrol the sidelines of Neyland once more, serving as the Admiral of the Vol navy, steering the program to port through the maelstrom of Scylla (negavols) and Charybdis (even more negavols).
 
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I had no issues with Davenport asking him to step in to help steady the program and the search after Currie went rogue however, it should have only been a temporary appointment until a qualified athletic director could be found.

Phil Fulmer’s management and oversight was incompetent at best and it was obvious he was in over his head.
 
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tastycar said:
Dang it. I thought this was going to be another UTNOW20 soliloquy.

Edit: yes, I know soliloquies are spoken aloud but you can't convince he doesn't read his posts out loud to his mirror
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I live to serve, not unlike CPF, my good man.
 
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Again, "it wasn't Phil's fault".

He was given a shot. It didn't work out. The less I hear about him the better I'll be. Let him retire in peace.
 
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Fulmer should have been fired with all of the respect that was extended to pruitt instead of the respect that he received. Fulmer is directly responsible for oversight of all sports under him particularly football. Either he knew about what Pruitt and his staff were doing or he was asleep at the wheel. His extension of Pruitt was more a political play to dig himself in more throughly than a move with the best interests in mind for the university. The wouldn’t even extend him the courtesy of a ticket to the games at this point; Tennessee has paid him enough already.
 
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Without the totally undeserved contract extension and raise that he gave to Pruitt, UT would have just fired Pruitt, gave him the buyout, and not publicized the infractions. We would have had more interest from bigger names in the coaching search. This doesn't mean we would have gotten a better coach than Heupel. He very well be who we need.
 
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Orange defense said:
He hired Pruitt thinking that he could win here with his ability. He wasn’t involved in the Pruitt mess. Pruitt is the one that is responsible for this mess.
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Not true.
Fulmer has been cheating long before Pruitt came around.
But so does everyone else.
 
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DaddyChad said:
Fulmer should have been fired with all of the respect that was extended to pruitt instead of the respect that he received. Fulmer is directly responsible for oversight of all sports under him particularly football. Either he knew about what Pruitt and his staff were doing or he was asleep at the wheel. His extension of Pruitt was more a political play to dig himself in more throughly than a move with the best interests in mind for the university. The wouldn’t even extend him the courtesy of a ticket to the games at this point; Tennessee has paid him enough already.
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Took over a Top 10 program in 1992 and left it a bottom-half SEC program in 2008.

Took over a Three Mile Island situation in 2017 and left it as a Chernobyl in 2020.

Over time, his legacy with football fans in general will be that national championship and the quality coaching record.

Those who dig deeper, most of them Tennessee fans, will know the end of the Fulmer story was a tragedy based largely on his inept decisions and lack of oversight.
 
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Can't blame Fulmer for anything? LOL

He was the one who got the snowball rolling of Tennessee's demise.
 
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TheDeeble said:
He signed an extension last year that made him AD through the end 2023. He didn't plan to go anywhere.
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I think the durations given on coaching and AD contracts have very little meaning any more, except as a fig leaf reassurance to recruits and their parents that the leadership they're signing on with will be the leadership throughout their time at the institution.

Let's say you are my boss. And I have a contract with you to work through 2023. I'm getting a little long in the tooth, though, and am starting to feel like I'd like to retire sooner. You also are beginning to think it would be nice to get some fresh blood in. There's nothing in the wide world of sports that would stop you and me from quietly renegotiating my contract so that I can retire--without either of us having to pay a buyout--at any point we agree.

Long way of saying, I don't think Phillip's extension would block in any way his retirement this winter, spring, or summer, even without a scandal. And I truly believe he was heading for the door sooner rather than later. So much so that Donde had already found Danny White before any of this broke.
 
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Keefus said:
Then why was he pushed out as well?
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He was pushed out because they knew he would never be an effective and trusted AD after what Pruitt had done in his watch. Everyone knew this so they decided to clean house and restart. It is what it is and it sucks, but it was for the best.
 
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tastycar said:
That pic... Brutal😂
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What made that game even worse was the fact that Wyoming team wasn't one of those Joe Tiller killers. They were dogmeat and we could not score more than a touchdown on them.

That crystal football was in Gibbs Hall by that time. What was left on the field was a head coach who had become satisfied with mediocre SEC performances and a culture lacking anything resembling accountability.

Fast forward to Fulmer's press conference earlier this year. Did anything really change from 2008 to the present?
 
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UTNOW20 said:
Never my dear fellow. For with a valiant defender like CPF in the vanguard, and with a host of loyalists at his back, true UT fans cannot be defeated, those vol patriots of old. This war for the soul of volnation is far from done!!

Fortunately, I doubt that CPF is inclined to consider an NFL overture again (his great heart likely too aggrieved from the disgraceful treatment he received by those he held to his bosom as family), but perhaps he can be convinced to patrol the sidelines of Neyland once more, serving as the Admiral of the Vol navy, steering the program to port through the maelstrom of Scylla (negavols) and Charybdis (even more negavols).
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I got nothing.

 
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