I'm sure Phil is to. It's hard to believe that UThug has been on the downslope these last 6 years. They had no probation of scholarship limits. Tennessee has a fine tradition and is a big name.
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It's sad what he did. That was once a gallant rivalry of great respect. Fulmer cared about one thing - keeping his job by beating Alabama. And the best way to ensure that was to cripple us. What's funny to me is this: Fulmer's demise really began when he lost the 2001 SEC Championship game to LSU coached by a certain Coach Saban.
Since that night they blew a 17-7 lead on the LSU Tigers with a back-up QB, this is the Volunteer carnage:
86-66 (.565)
Bowl game record: 3-5 (have missed bowl games FIVE times), 0 BCS bowl games
0 SEC championships, 1 SEC East division championship, 0 national championships
3-9 record against Alabama, losing 7 straight
Four head coaches
Now look at our on-the-field record starting with our first probation in 1995 (they had nothing to do with that) until Coach Saban was hired
85-61 (.582)
Bowl game record: 3-4 (ineligible for two bowl games), 0-1 BCS bowl games
1 SEC championship, 2 SEC West division championships, 0 national championships
2-9 record against Tennessee, losing 7 straight
Five head coaches (six if you count Kines in the 2006 Independence Bowl)
Think about it - they're worse the last 13 years than we were when we were terrible - and at least we could blame that on probation and Tennessee. They have NOTHING to blame it on but their own ineptitude.