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volthrunthru#658770 writes:

in response to RememberWhen:

Your next piece of factual knowledge will be your first. The ONLY problem with the UTAD is the lack of winning! Blame Hamilton for the football coaching situation if you want, that's fine, but the bottom line is that if Fulmer hadn't gotten fat(ter), dumb and lazy the football program would still be elite, fans would still be flocking to Neyland, and boosters would still be dumping millions in. Hamilton made a decision to make a change. That's his call and his job. Kiffen was a quality hire and got better results right off the bat - on the field and moreso in recruiting - don't tell me about how many left because they came to play for Kiffin not Opie. The fact that Pearl got stupid about the same time and brought the NCAA to the doorstep with guns blazing forced Hamilton to hire Mr. I Can't Coach but I'm Squeeky Clean when Kiffin chose to take a better job. Those are the facts. The man made bad hires and of course chose to grossly overpay the WOMENS bball coach. All of the "cleaning house" in the UTAD has been initiated by Hart not Hamilton and was long overdue besides being the right thing to do so as to eliminate redundency and waste after the merger of the mens and womens depts. The solution is equally simple...WIN FOOTBALL GAMES AND GET BACK TO BEING ELITE. The combination of more ticket sales and larger donations that winning provides coupled with the efficiency gains administratively and added to the completion of payouts to bad coaches will be more than enough to get things back on track. It's not panic time - except for getting rid of Martin before he totally does to basketball what Fulmer/Dooley did to football - and it can turn quickly. All you little fools making your $9 an hour get excited about big numbers like $200 million but as the article points out...the experts find it more than acceptable so just S_T_F_U!!!

RememberWhen is full of something other than facts. Bombast and B.S. do not obscure the fact that Fulmer was on track to have a 2nd good bounceback season, had not Cutcliffe been given the Duke HC job. "Cut" was hired late in football year, and Fulmer had to scramble to find an OC, at a time when no good ones were on the market.

Fulmer was not the problem; he was part of the solution, had people like you done the STFUing; so that those who understood what was going on could continue to fix the problems.

Instead, mouthy ignoramuses emailed new administrators, board members and everybody else a LOT of bad information---and barraged their offices and homes with phone calls.

So for those who do not know that footballs are not spherical, UT football is in the tank...along with everything else...because these malcontents, their bombast & B.S....and timid, anti-athletics new administrators converged to almost destroy everything about UT Athletics.

The fault is with the mal-contents at the time Phillip Fulmer was doing the turn-around. They are to blame for the real problems, because they emboldened the anti-UT, anti-Athletics, anti-Fulmer/Pearl/Delmonico/et-al crowd.

And in so doing, with their chronic witching, whining and complaining to the new administrators and on every message board between here and UCLA; they framed the demise of UT's athletics department.

These people...you included...are to blame. You need to be quiet, sir/maam/mixed and allow better people to fix problems you and those like you caused.

I have no advice for you about your ignorance, which is apalling. Frankly, the scope and intensity of it is quite alarming, as is the fact that you have no idea what you and those like you have done.

Such ignorance among Volunteers is very surprising, considering our University's storied history.

GO VOLS!

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