Fulmer out at Tennessee

Leach needs to stay where he is.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Kiffin go.......maybe Sarkisian.

 

Hasn't Tennessee won more games that any team the past 75 or so years? Isn't it like 8th or 9th in all-time wins, and like 2nd in all-time bowl appearances? It's only lost seven games in a season one time ... ever. (Piecing together info from all the Fulmer stories out there).

That's a lot of lightning in one bottle.

Or a really good job opportunity for the right guy.

Then again, maybe those kinds of stats pile up when you just avoid serious suckage for any extended period of time.

What do I know? I'm just a bored insomniac who fucking hates the fucking Cubs.

 

I dunno if you're a fanboi or not, but Tennessee has not been an Oklahoma or a Penn State or a USC or a Florida as far as being reliably a title contender. Once every 10 years as a serious national title contender has been their speed. Spurrier's quote about not being able to spell Citrus Bowl without UT kinda wraps it up: consistently winning 8-10 games, with an occasional season better, an occasional season worse. So of course they pile up wins. But what Fulmer has done hasn't been a crime. He hasn't turned an Oklahoma into a Kansas State by any means.

 

Been called an SEC fanboy before, but I'm more of an old-school college football (especially in the SEC, spnited) and baseball fanboy.

Your assessment on UT(enn) is correct, though. Consistent 10-20 ranked team that has occasionally had some dominant decades.

And yes, every Spurrier quote is a classic. Man's IQ is way high, and he's a funny jackass. Wouldn't mind being on a beat covering him for a year or two (though the guys on that beat say he can sometimes be a pill).

 

Also, Texas Tech (not Bama) is No. 1 in my poll this week, and I've been saying for months that Georgia was one of the country's most overrated teams.

So put that in your corn cob pipe and smoke it, spnited, you old bastard.

 

I think the overwhelming concern isn't total wins and losses as much as recent big game losses. Sure, Fulmer was piling up 8-10 win seasons, but since winning the national championship, he was 3-5 in bowl games this will be the second DNQ in that span.

And as for it being called stupid that people want to see entertaining football, it's not stupid. It's reality. Today's football fan doesn't want to sit through someone running the ball up the middle all day and winning 14-10. Obviously they'd rather have wins at the end of the season, but on a given day they want to be entertained along the way.

 

Season ticket holder I know at Syracuse says the word around town is that Robinson is likely to be given his pink slip following the final home game, then he'll coach the team as a lame duck the final two games.

 

You know another school which is finding out those 10-win seasons with a loss in a big bowl game wasn't really that bad? Nebraska.......

 

UT hasn't had back-to-back losing seasons, Hack...last season UT won the SECE and played in the SECCG.

Fulmer's problem is timing: UTAD Hamilton a couple of years ago launched a much-needed renovation of Neyland, the end result will be that about 10,000 seats formerly filled by Joe the Plumbers will be removed, replaced by about 2,000 skyboxes filled by corporate types, and this year's economic collapse has meant those over-priced seats aren't selling anymore. Combined with 25,000 Bama fans in the stadium last weekend, and you get a pretty stark picture about the financial future for the Athletic Department.

Hamilton, who carries the water for Haslam & other deep-pocketed boosters, had to pull the trigger. The financial life of the program depended on it.

And that's why UT will go out and get a very big name, just like Bama did. Suggest people take reports of Cowher playing golf in Knoxville last month or Gruden's wife wanting to return home or Pete Carroll worried about a NCAA investigation very seriously. If UT can pay $6 million to a guy NOT to coach, they can pay twice that to a proven winner; also keep in mind UT's recruiting ranking is around 7 at the moment, so if the new coach can hang on to those then the program can wait around for a current NFL coach.

Hello, Jeff Fisher!

 

So how did firing Frank Solich work out, Steve Pederson?

Pederson was idiotic for pulling that trigger. Trev Alberts looked even dumber for not only defending Pederson, but using "we" to defend the transaction.

Where are Pederson and Alberts, anyway?

 

Any discussion of a lunatic fringe fan base not being satisfied needs to include Arkansas or the discussion is meaningless.

And wasn't Tennessee just in the SEC championship game last season? Did they not beat Georgia?

Plus, the fans are stupid.

 

Why would Fisher leave the Titans?