So after another laughable effort by the Philip Fulmer lead Vols we sit at 3-5.
So what Now?
Seems like a question most Vol fans are asking these days. I say let’s move on. What good can come of dragging this firing or resignation out. Do we want another Johnny Majors spouting off rude comments about the University of Tennessee administration or our next coach.
Johnny got the shaft when there was no Internet or blogs and most of all Tennessee was traditionally a great program but Majors was not thought of nationally the same way Fulmer is. Fulmer holds a huge amount of respect in the coaching community and in the national media and deservedly so.
Coach Fulmer took us to a place that many thought to be unattainable at this school, a National Championship. Yes this was a great accomplishment and no one should diminish the things Coach Fulmer has done, but that was 10 years ago. I say how much farther do we have to fall.
Okay let’s look a scenario for a brief moment. On November the 22nd we play the Vanderbilt Commodores in Nashville, what if anything will be playing for. Vanderbilt a team that has and never will have the talent of a Tennessee. We could come into that game with a 4-6 or at best 5-5 record and a 1-5 or 2-4 in the SEC. Vandy by then will be bowl eligible and will probably be in third place in the SEC eastern division. This to me is just totally unacceptable and I know of no other way to put it.
So the word around town is that nobody else can do the job and Fulmer’s agent Jimmy Sexton is even spewing the same propaganda saying Clemson is a better job than Tennessee. This cannot be further from the truth.
What coach would not want to come to a program where he has great facilities, a national fan base, an established program with instant legitimacy, and a recruiting budget that most schools can’t even touch. Did I mention you will be in making 3 million plus and playing in the best conference in the nation or that you will be with a University that has a history of long tenured coaches.
The only negative that I can see is the fact that you have to recruit nationally and that you have to compete against the likes of Myer and Saban.
I just think any good coach that wanted to show the world what he was made of would never turn down a place like the University of Tennessee.
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