Still not feeling good about things?

Obviously, years ago, they should have done more to get Cutcliffe.

But they are not changing right now, especially after investment in new OC.

The AD, despite being a sleaze, is actually looking at the improvement from week 1 to 2.

And the ut opponents in the sec that have to recruit against their $, facilities and other resources are very much hoping that they would go after a coach and system that would make many of their common recruits turn away from ut.

They just have to show them tape of 1 game.
 
Fulmer won the Natty using recruits out of the ATL, our recruits. He lost his pipeline and I hope we find it.
 
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Yes, it is hilarious, though of course Fulmer did win a NC that Majors never did. But certainly since then the worm has really turned.
 
RamblinWreck92 said:
yeah but then it'd be back to 6 wins in 2 years or so, once he got his guys in there
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He had a better team than any George Olleary team and finished in a higher ranking.He had the best season since 1990 and with his recruits. Hate the man if you want but he will be remembered positively in tech history.
 
It wasn't that they just lost to BYU - it was the way they lost. They literally snatched victory away by leaving a receiver wide open on 3rd and 6 with 20 seconds left to give up a last second fg. You have to work hard to lose a game that way. Of course how we lost to them was just as bad.
 
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Wasn't sarcasm. Johnny Majors was a great coach – won a nat'l champ at Pitt and immediately 'went home' when Tennessee called. He had pretty good success.

So I was shocked when Majors was pushed out, lo those many years ago. Look at his final years... In 1989 the Vols went 11-1, won the SEC, won the Cotton Bowl and finished #5. In 1990 they went 9-2-2, won the SEC, won the Sugar Bowl, and finished #7. In 1991 they went 9-3, finished third in the SEC, lost the Fiesta Bowl, and finished #14. That's a pretty good three-year record!

The very next year, in 1992, he underwent emergency heart surgery in August. Asst Coach Fulmer led the team to 3-0 record, then Majors came back and went 5-3. UT fired him and hired Fulmer. The story of how he was pushed out by Fulmer and Fulmer took over was, for a long time, considered evidence that Fulmer was a back-stabber. In a sense, some would say to Fulmer these days, "what comes around, goes around." But of course there are two sides to every story.
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Majors was fired because he was like 4-12 vs Alabama. Fulmer did much better but was absolutely destroyed by Saban his first 2 years and then was fired. Tennessee hasn’t beaten Alabama since. That streak might get to 20 before Tennessee wins again
 
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Majors was fired because he was like 4-12 vs Alabama. Fulmer did much better but was absolutely destroyed by Saban his first 2 years and then was fired. Tennessee hasn’t beaten Alabama since. That streak might get to 20 before Tennessee wins again
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Yeah, in those three years I described, Tennessee was the higher ranked team everytime, and was beaten by Alabama everytime. In 1990, in fact, Tennessee was #3 and Alabama was unranked, and they still lost.

Of course they're long past firing coaches for losing to Alabama. At this point they're not firing coaches for losing to Georgia State.

Neat fact: Tech actually has a higher winning percentage against Alabama than Tennessee does.
 
Phillip Fulmers success was having David Cutcliff, outside of that I've always questioned his abilities. Don't know that he's ever made any other good hire. It seems today you better have a good AD, we're fortunate to have TS, look at what we had between Homer Rice and TS, pretty bad IMO. I will say that between HR and TS we made a lot of needed improvements which means we may not have wound up with TS and CGC and company without them.
 
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