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By Bracey Campbell

September 29, 2005 04:38 PM | Link to this

Great colum on Coach Fulmer. All he does is win. But, even the Orange faithful have a hard time appreciating him. He’s a good old boy, but he keeps on winning.

My best to David Davidson.

By GT

September 29, 2005 06:58 PM | Link to this

Use car salemen need love too, but you would think if you are going to run the hell out of a football team in two a days the least thing you could do is look like you can make it off the field without having a heartattack. Something goes on up in those hills that is just not right. You have two all American quarterbacks in one recruiting class, from places out west or non related locations to Tenneesee, maybe what one would call civilized locations, wanting to play for the orange and white. Where is the charm? Fulmer had to take a fine for not showing up at a press conference in Alabama because he was dodging being served with papers. As men in his line of work would say,”there has been a slight misunderstanding”. He does make Spurrier look like Leno when he is talking about him and Fulmer’s marble sharp wit and Roger Dangerfield appearance adds to the show. His winning is as easy to explain as a fat bald old man with a beautiful young woman. Something funny is going on in those mountains when the sun goes down.

By reality check

September 29, 2005 07:16 PM | Link to this

Fulmer is a great coach.

I don’t even dislike him. I don’t like it when his teams beat Georgia, but respect and admiration for your opponent is a good thing. It makes winning against them that much better. I didn’t much like it last year, but I’ll have to say that in the last 5 years I have gotten a lot of pleasure out of beating UT more often than not.

Beating Vanderbilt every year hasn’t done a thing for me.

There can be no rivalry if one team always wins.

When we beat UT on October 8, it will be a great victory against a great and well coached team.

By GW

September 29, 2005 08:27 PM | Link to this

Most of Fulmer’s lack of respect comes from Tennessee fans. All of the ones I know say he is a poor coach. I guess they think anyone could win on ole’ Rocky Top.

By Lexington envy

September 29, 2005 09:04 PM | Link to this

Fulmer is a better coach than Mark Richt. Just like Mark Bradley is a better sports writer than Janet Reno. Just like the janitor at the CNN building is a better quarterback than Peyton Manning.

I am so very, very fortunate to have the opportunity to visit Lexington Kentucky soon. I can’t wait to visit the numerous parks, landscapes, multi-cultural centers, gourmet restaurants, grand theatres, five star resorts, skyscrapers, the multi-terminal “blue-grass” airport, and of course the enormous 67,000 seat stadium home to the 2005 NCAA BCS College Football National Champion Kentucky Wildcats!!! Oh how great Lexington must be!!! Why would anyone ever want to visit New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, or Miami when you could spend time visiting the Thoroughbred Horse Fecal Museum in Downtown Lexburg!!!!

Bring on October 29!!!!

By geechee

September 29, 2005 10:25 PM | Link to this

Actually, I’ve heard that Lexington is a pretty nice place but I think you meant to click on Bradley’s column from this past weekend. You might try cutting and pasting your remarks there.

Mark, there is no arguing with the facts and numbers you listed and I’d disagree with that closing paragraph. I don’t think there is a single opponent that would ever expect UT to be a rumpled up anything.

The guy is one helluva a recruiter who always seems to come up with a bunch of Nebraska sized players year after year. If that is the criteria, Fulmer is in deed a great coach.

That I aside, I personally think the guy is a p** poor example of the human species. Looking at the SEC from a distance, and without even getting into the whole ‘Bama thing, he is the shining example, the poster boy for what people in other parts of the nation see as being wrong with the conference and it will take a few more Mark Richts coming into this league to mask the odor that seeps out from under his office door.

He is not a nice guy and certainly no gentleman. Division 1 football is big business but it is not the pros and most people expect the NCAA to be a little more civilized than the NFL. Look at the number of top tier UT recruits who will do just about anything to get away from this guy.

Last week is on paper a great example for backing up your argument but in reality it underlines mine. The way he had berated Clausen in the past is much the same as he has done to other players he has coached. The only reason UT won last week was that total desperation forced him to play Clausen.

Clausen’s incredible performance and the way he has handled this, set the stage for showing just how small a really fat guy can seem. Mark, this guy is such an SOB that after Clausen shows the kind of athleticism that inspires Hollywood writers; it took Phat Phil almost another week and only two days before his next contest to decide that he would “let� Clausen start.

By paul

September 30, 2005 01:22 AM | Link to this

Mark, I want to thank you for having the courage to give Coach Fulmer the respect he deserves. He received alot of crap for the Florida loss, yet everyone ignores the fact that Florida hired C.J. Leake (former Vol. QB and Chris Leake’s brother) in the off season. This gave them months to plan a defense with his knowledge of Tennessee’s offense, yet Tennessee was able to compete. Sure they lost, but everyone expected Urban Meyers to blow them out and it didn’t happen. I would like to see UGA go to the “swamp”, instead of Jacksonville —BIG difference. Look at how Tennessee did at LSU. Very few teams could fly in on game day and still pull off the win in such an emotional and hostile environment. I’d say it took a pretty good coach to see that through. Go ahead and make fun of him, but very few coaches can say that they have 125 wins vs 31 losses while coaching in the NCAA’s toughest conference. Ron Zook stayed physically fit and oops, no longer in the SEC. I’ll take our “fat, good ole boy” coach anyday. Mark again thanks for a wonderful article. GO VOLS!

By paul

September 30, 2005 06:29 AM | Link to this

Fulmer is a fat scum liar. He cant even tie his shoes. A true lowlife.

By Jim

September 30, 2005 06:43 AM | Link to this

Note: geechee must be one of those players Phil sent home!!! Regardless of your opinion of how or what species he is—HE IS A WINNER and that’s more than you seem to be.

By Matt

September 30, 2005 07:23 AM | Link to this

Thanks for the article on Fulmer. He is never going to get the respect he deserves because he is not endearing to the media like Spurrier, Caroll, or Meyer. But he wins ball games.

It’s funny when other teams think Fulmer cheats in recruiting. These are the same teams that have an High School All American QB sit for 3 years until his senior year, but doesn’t transfer? Or they have 2 All American RBs in the same class? But they are just good kids and a good head coach…they never would do anything to break rules?

Where does Fulmer berate his players? Fulmer went with Ainge because a) he was the starter last year b) he played better than Clausen in the swamp. News flash, you don’t lose your starting job to injury. Ainge was injured last year and that is the only reason Clausen got on the field. Fulmer admitted he was wrong to start Ainge and bench Clausen. It takes a man to admit he is wrong on national TV.

Fulmer is the longest tentured coach in the SEC for a reason…good recruiter and he wins ball games.

If you guys would do some research and read Southern Fried Football, Fulmer, Spurrier, Nutt, and Cutcliff all reported Bama. But Bama harks on Fulmer because he has owned them as a head coach. I guess Fulmer really got under GA fan’s skin when we had a 9 game winning streak.

I can’t stand Richt and his “aw shucks” personality…or lack there of personality. I think he is has shady as his former boss…Daddy Bowden. And he does have the same assistant coach that GA fans all cried foul about when TN was getting good GA recruits to come to TN…Rodney “Bag Man” Garner. I guess he is not so bad now that he is working his tricks for GA.

By Bob from Butthood

September 30, 2005 10:12 AM | Link to this

Fillup Phatmer is a slob. I don’t have a job that is surrounded by state of the art athletic facilities and equipment, yet I make myself go out and run every day at lunch and both days on the week-end. Now, I am no buff-body like Mark Bradley, but at least I get out there and try. The one contributor is rite on target; Ol’ Rocky Slob certainly IS the “poster boy for what people in other parts of the nation see as being wrong with the conference.”

By proteustein

September 30, 2005 10:16 AM | Link to this

Give me an orange towel to cry in … when has Fulmer not gotten the respect he deserves … maybe lately! All I can remember ever since Fulmer has been coaching is constant quotes from the media on his win-loss record, his recruiting skills, his programs strength and what a great guy he is! I have noticed that over the last several years the quality of play at Tennessee (reqardless of what his record is)has been some what below the quality of past Fulmer teams. The fact is that Fulmer’s off field sins and lack of sterness have started catching up to him and the ugly head of program instability has raised up. Unless Fulmer steps up to the plate and starts making stern discipline decisions (like see ya bubba we don’t do that here) when dealing with program thugs Tennessee will slowly have more and more issues on the field. The record on the field defines what kind of coach he is … the record off the field defines what kind of man he is! Respect can only be earned … it’s not a statistic!

By DCDawg

September 30, 2005 10:42 AM | Link to this

Phillip Fulmer is not a good coach or a good recruiter. Tennessee has had a top 5 recruiting class for the past 10 years and has arguably had the most talent in the country. Neyland Stadium is the key to good recruiting, not Phillip Fulmer. He has done nothing in comparison to what he should have accomplished with that type of talent. He still runs that flashy 1990s type program where he has no control over his players and allows them to spout off to the media and say whatever they want without consequences. Most any coach in college football could have accomplished what Phillip Fulmer has.

By Reilly

September 30, 2005 11:04 AM | Link to this

Phil Fulmer does not get the respect that his win-loss record deserves because he is not a honorable person and he lacks class. I will just list a few example (Stealing the UT head coaching job away from Johnny Majors when Majors had to leave for medical reasons, constantly blaming losses on his players and never sharing it or taking all of the blame, his incredibly questionable recruiting practices, the UT tutors doing papers for players fiasco, his utterly juvenile snipping with Steve Spurier, The whole Alabama recruiting controversy, his complete lack of discipline over his unruly an consistently criminal players. And I am not talking about a college player caught drinking alcohol, I’m talking about a college player assaulting another student.) If you have to write an in-depth on the UT-LSU game, you should focus on Les Miles’s complete and utter choking and panic. Other than his horrible offensive play calling in the second half, did anyone notice that when LSU intercepted UT right before the end of regulation Les Miles tried to call a timeout!? Does he not know that in College Football a turnover stops the clock just like an incomplete pass or a run out of bounds? Only his own assistant saved him from either an embarrasing penalty or a wasted time-out. This is the most prime example of why LSU lost this game and all that UT had to do was calmly play smart football and watch the LSU players and coaches run around like chickens without heads for 4th quarter and the overtime period

By Nicholas Irwin

September 30, 2005 11:17 AM | Link to this

Phil Fulmer is quite simply one of the best coaches in college football. The lack of respect he gets, especially amongst Tennessee fans, borders on hilarity. Not only has he accomplished all the things Bradley mentioned, but when was the last time you saw Tennessee lose a game like LSU lost on Monday. Well if you’re thinking for awhile, that’s because it’s never happened. Hell, I can count on one hand the amount of times he’s lost games where he had a second half lead of any kind. Any coach in the nation could do what Fulmer has done? That’s the most laughable thing I’ve heard in quite some time. Are you telling me any coach in the nation could build the best program in the SEC over a 12-year period? I guess you got beaten nine years in a row by a ghost coach. Hell, some high school coach could’ve come off the street and beaten Georgia nine times in a row. After all, anybody could come in and do Fulmer’s job. I guess anyone could’ve beaten your overblown team in Athens last year. I mean, after all, anybody could come in and do Fulmer’s job. If you prefer to think you got beaten all those times by someone who doesn’t know what he’s doing, then be my guest. Prepare for another beating at the hands of the clueless fat guy in two weeks.

By Bob Harman

September 30, 2005 11:20 AM | Link to this

How he recruits the nation is a wonder. UT has only 1 player from Tenn on it’s strating Defense. If UT had as many Tenn players as the other SEC teams had from there states they would be Vandy, which by the way has more Tenn players than UT.

By Mark

September 30, 2005 11:46 AM | Link to this

Bob, why does it matter where TN gets their recruits? It is a known fact that TN high school football is not as good as FL, GA, or NC high school football. So they recruit nationally…that is a good thing. With playing Cal, Notre Dame, Miami, Oklahoma in OOC games, it helps recruit to a national audience. I would consider that a good thing…wouldn’t you?

By Mark

September 30, 2005 11:52 AM | Link to this

proteustein- I know you are not educated on the TN program but Fulmer has kicked numerous players of the team, even in the middle of the season. James Banks, Onterio Smith, Brandon Mitchell, and the list goes on. He handles his players. Why didn’t Richt kick Odell off the team after numerous off the field problems? Why didn’t Bowden kick Warrick of the team after his incidents at FL State? Oh that’s right…Richt comes from Bowden’s camp. They must have the same philosophy on discipline….should not hurt the team by kicking someone off …they’ll just run them.

By JC

September 30, 2005 02:04 PM | Link to this

Don’t forget that the VOLS ended the Miami Hurricanes (home) Orange Bowl winning streak a few seasons ago. Also, they won twice in a row at “The Swamp” before this season. It should also be noted that the sons of former NFL players Archie Mannning, Anthony Munoz, and Gerald Riggs have choosen to play for Fulmer.

By Jim

September 30, 2005 02:32 PM | Link to this

As a long time Vol fan and 10 year Atlanta Resident, I gave up on hearing a positive comment regarding Tennessee sports from newspaper sports writers who try to keep all high school talent in Georgia.

These are some of the nicest left-handed compliments Coach Fulmere has ever received.

By rich

September 30, 2005 02:56 PM | Link to this

POOR POOR FAT PHIL! He gets no respect because he got his job by stabbing his boss in the back while he was in the hospital! You couple that with the fact that he has more players arrested than graduate every year, his tendency to be involved in numerous coverups of players misconduct, his involvement in starting rumors about other teams coaches having affairs with players mothers to recruit them toss in an O’ we’re sorry for all the wrong doings ya caught us at - money for the Qb on that NC team and that is not even the tip of the iceberge and then you see why he isn’t respected in Knoxville or ANYWHERE!

By Vincent J

September 30, 2005 03:08 PM | Link to this

Phil is a back stabbing snitch. Because he does not get the recruit he wants he runs to the SEC on Alabama. Low-life scum just like Kobe Bryant and Jose Conseco. No honor among thieves!!

By hk

September 30, 2005 07:27 PM | Link to this

… coming from down 21-0 at the half to win over LSU, in Baton Rouge, at night, is a great great win, reflects on the head coach’s performance ….

By Michael

September 30, 2005 10:44 PM | Link to this

Screw that cheating jerk Phat Phil and the horse he rode in on. All he does is whine and moan to anyone who’ll listen (and everyone who won’t) about imagined slights against his program. And absolutely nothing is ever his fault. Here’s to him losing every game for the rest of this and every season he ever coaches.

By Tony

October 1, 2005 12:02 AM | Link to this

What other parts of the nation see is that UT wins. Fulmer has released. enough quality players for breaking team rules and getting into trouble to fill teams in most conferences. It is easy to see who wants to make excuses for their team.

By Troy Taylor

October 1, 2005 09:18 AM | Link to this

I continue to be amazed at the Ala fans that want to blame Fulmer for their problems. It wasn’t Fulmer that cheated in his recruiting efforts. It wasn’t just Phil that reported the illegal recruiting by Ala. There were several coaches in the SEC that reported the practice. Its like a murderer blaming his victom as the cause for the crime. Why don’t the Ala fans simply focus on the criminals and not the manner in which they got caught? It would seem much more valuable to focus their efforts toward having an honest program rather than flopping around attempting to find blame somewhere other than inside their own program.

By You gonna eat that?

October 1, 2005 10:59 AM | Link to this

You people need to get off my back. Just because I showed no loyalty to my boss and stole his job, or just because I have a bunch a thugs who seemingly never do enough to get the boot, just because I rat out other programs in the Conference, and just because we have University sanctioned cheating for our players does not make me a bad coach. GET OFF MY BACK PEOPLE!! Heeeyy, who ate that last pork chop — that was mine!!!

By proteustein

October 1, 2005 11:17 AM | Link to this

Mark (not Bradley) - I hate to disappoint you but you might be some what surprised how educated I am when it comes to TN football! My comments towards Fulmer were not emotional spouts of anger but I’m not going to get into a p*ing contest with you to prove that point … you might want to check your honor and dedication to the VOL nation long enough to see the writing on the wall or you might be in for a humbling experience down the road! Key words: Instability & Inconsistancy!

By Joe Roman

October 1, 2005 12:41 PM | Link to this

Beating a dead horse? An old issue? Yes on both counts, but here’s a little vignette on the illustrious history of Starkville, Mississippi. I was on the Kentucky freshman basketball team back in the early sixties. In the tiny Miss. State gym of that era, the fans were right up to the edge of the court. They would burn us with cigarettes when we inbounded the ball. They threw dead animals at our bench. Our ‘66 team got a bad rap for being all-white. Coach Rupp, the best of all time, by the way, was called a racist for not recruiting black athletes. Can you imagine what those Miss. State “fans” would have done if we’d had black players? You Starkville apologists can put that in your pipe and smoke it. To this day, not enough bad things can be said about Starkville.

By Bulldawg4life

October 1, 2005 01:40 PM | Link to this

Are You KIDDING me about that rip on Bama fans? Fulmer is the liar and backstabber for doing that to Alabama.

Porky Pig Fulmer is PURE UNADULTERATED EVIL. I am truly ill by all this Fulmer love.

What he did to Bama was the biggest crock in sports history—first, Tennessee is just as guilty of violations as everyone else. Second, to SAY that Fulmer did that for the “good of the game” is the biggest crock of sh— of all time. He did that because he competes with Bama for recruits every single year, bottom line. How can anyone but biased, blind Vols fans say ANYTHING different.

Mark Bradley’s columns should be banned from the AJC if he ever writes another good column about that fat, evil, liar, Porky Pig Fulmer.

I hope Fulmer has a LOT of bodyguards when he travels to Tuscaloosa because there is a thing called ‘justifiable homicide’. Just remember that, Porky Pig Fulmer.

By HOWARD

October 2, 2005 09:13 AM | Link to this

THE PROBLEM WITH THE COMMENTS POSTED ON THIS SITE IS NOT ABOUT FULMER, IT”S ABOUT RED NECK GA. FANS AND BAMA FANS THAT DON’T KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.YOU FANS CRY BECAUSE THE BIG ORANGE DOMINATE YOU AND GA.’S FANS WILL CRY AGAIN OCT.8TH. IN KNOXVILLE. ANOTHER YEAR NOT GOING TO PLAY FOR SEC.BAMA, YOUR THREATS TOWARDS FULMER ARE WORTH NOTHING, WE HAVE SECURITY AND WILL BEAT YOU ON YOUR HOME TURF.GO BIG ORANGE AND BEAT THE PUPPIES AND THE LOW TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By HOWARD

October 2, 2005 09:30 AM | Link to this

GET A LIFE BULLPUP4LIFE, YOU ARE MAD BECAUSE WE DESTROYED YOUR SEASON LAST YEAR. REMEMBER THIS SAYING: FULMER KNOWS FOOTBALL AND BAMA/DAWGS DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!GO AHEAD AND SAY IT,NOTHING SUCKS LIKE A BIG ORANGE. WE HEARD THAT PLENTY OF TIMES BUT,WE GET THE JOB DONE AND THAT’S WHAT YOU WILL NOT ADMIT. SO CRY ON AND WATCH FULMER HUG HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE AND DAUGHTER AFTER THE GAME. THAT’S A SIGN THAT MEANS ANOTHER WIN AGAINST 2 WANNA BE’S.

By Coach Fulmer

October 2, 2005 06:36 PM | Link to this

Whooo doggy, I am starvin’!! Anyone know of a Krsytal near by? Me sure could choke down a few dozen… mmuuummmm…them Krystal burgers is tasty!!!
Quick! Someone send Coach Sanders down to the Krispy Kreme, I have somehow run out of doughnuts…how does that keep happening???

By HOWARD

October 2, 2005 08:26 PM | Link to this

KRYSTALS SOUNDS GOOD TO ME,WITH A BARBARIAN CREME DOUGHNUT!!!!!!!!!!

By Paul

October 2, 2005 09:46 PM | Link to this

Mark, Thank-you for commending on coach Fulmer. He is a great coach. He has done a lot for the vols. Georgia fans are jealous because they haven’t one a National Championship since 1980. They want as long as they play these DIv II teams. This year the bulldogs are overated. Tennessee, Alabama and Florida have a schedule Georgia wouldn’t play. Every team they have played so far have losing records. Thats why the bulldogs are overated. Whenever Bobby Bowden retires from Florida State I look for Mark Richt to go there because they pay him a lot more than Georgia every would. So enjoy him while you have him

By Vols1

October 2, 2005 11:06 PM | Link to this

As a UT fan who has watched opposing fans attack Fulmer over the years I have one suggestion…..come up with something besides his obesity. Yes Fulmer is overweight…big deal…according to statistics a huge percentage of Americans (including many of you that post on this blog) are fat. Bill Parcells is heavy, Andy Reid is heavy, Mike Holmgren is heavy. We all have physical flaws. It has nothing to do with sports..all you are engaging in is hurtful personal attacks. Would you like it if some stranger walked up to your mom and called her a fat slob? Come up with something sports related if you don’t like Fulmer…but as posters above have mentioned UGA and Bama both have losing records to the big man so I guess fat jokes are all you have left to fall back on. Not only is that weak…it’s not creative and it’s not even intelligent.

By Rod

October 3, 2005 12:48 AM | Link to this

Nothin sucks like a big orange.

By godawgs311

October 3, 2005 09:37 AM | Link to this

I hate fulmer….and i will be dining on my famous FAT FULMER STEW this weekend…….ROCKY TOP YOU’ll ALWAYS BE SECOND IN THE SEC!!!! GO DAWGS!!!!

By Sigmond Freud

October 3, 2005 11:29 AM | Link to this

I can’t comprehend all the rage and personal attacks offered by Bama and Dawg fans. Then again, jelously is an emotion that if left uncontrolled can lead to unrational behavior.

By Coach Fulmer

October 3, 2005 12:23 PM | Link to this

Big Orange Nation — many thanks for taking up for the ol’ coach here. After watching a reply of the Saturday’s game, I saw that I had a gravy drippings on my coaching shirt, but is that any reason for these senseless personal attacks? I just don’t get it. No need to worry, these mean Dawg fans will get thiers this weekend. However, my only regret is that we are not playing in Athens. Me sure do love ‘dem Varsity chili-dawgs. Yum! Yum! Hey — I got an idea, any Vol fans coming to the game this weekend, would you mind haulin’ up a couple dozen chili-dogs walkin’ and about 4 orders of rings? Oh yeah, and a large FO, I know it will melt, but I can still drink that beautiful orange nectar that I dearly love!!

By Bama95

October 3, 2005 12:25 PM | Link to this

I agree. I hate to admit it, but before Fulmer, Alabama had beaten Tennessee 19 out of 24 years, and some years, with inferior talent. Since Fulmer, Alabama has beaten Tennessee twice in a decade. That’s the reason I can’t stand the guy. Leave aside what he may have done off the field. The guy just wins. He’s beaten Miami, he’s beaten Spurrier, he’s beaten FSU, he’s beaten everybody. He belongs up there with the General and the greats of the game. If the Tide wins this year, it will make it that much sweeter because we’ll have beaten a well-coached team.

By Coach Fulmer

October 3, 2005 12:29 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah, thanks for the encouragement Dr. Freud, but I have a question. My nutritionist quoted me the same advice and told me that my “appetite, left uncontrolled, can lead to unrational behavior.” Can you help explain what he is talking about? I don’t get the meanin’??? Plus, he is always real ugly towards me when he sees those empty doughnut boxes in my office. They are not mine, really!! I mean it! Honest! Actually, I think they are planted there by those scheming Tide and Dawg fans.

By Coach Richt

October 3, 2005 01:12 PM | Link to this

You dimestore fans are just giving bulletin board material to the Vols….

By Coach Donnan

October 3, 2005 01:18 PM | Link to this

One SEC title every 20 years doesn’t give you mutt fans any reason to think your program is any better off than it was under me. Come talk to me when you have done something with the same level of consistency as Phillip Fulmer has accompished in over 12 full seasons.

By CRDawg2

October 3, 2005 02:25 PM | Link to this

I’m pretty sure I could coach UT and win 80% of the time. Nothing against Fulmer as a person but as a coach, I think he is a bit one dimensional if not too conservative. I’ll be very surprised if the Dawgs lose to UT. Haven’t we won the last 3 out of 4?

Coach Donnan, here is a fact: UGA has more wins this decade than any other SEC team. Coach Richt has given us the success and consistency you speak of and we are proud.

By Vols 1

October 3, 2005 08:06 PM | Link to this

Here are a couple of other facts….Fulmer is 9 & 4 vs. your THREE UGA coaches. Fulmer is also the winningest active coach with at least ten years on the job by pct. Better than Bowden, Spurrier, Paterno etc…..and UT plays a real non conference schedule. UGA plays scrubs every year non conference….the bumble bees and two directional schools.

Keep up with your juvenile weight jokes. The “fat man” owns your school, has a national championship ring and makes 2 mil per season. A real “joke” don’t you think? Ray Goof on the other hand….now that guy was a great coach.

By Coach Fulmer

October 3, 2005 11:23 PM | Link to this

Okay Vol Nation, here is a little pick-me up tribute to yours truly, as done by the Missus, she is the creative one in the family. Anyway, you good folks have done me proud in standing up for your ol’ coach, so I thought you might enjoy this little show. So, grab some popcorn and let us kick back and watch the show. As for me, I gonna suck down a big old helping of hash browns, scatterd, smothered and covered - enjoy…

http://www.creedscove.com/sites/ut/images/slideshow/

By ken

October 4, 2005 10:15 AM | Link to this

Let’s not forget that the “Big Pumpkin” orchestrated the coup that sent Johnny Majors packing in 1992 while his boss was recovering from a heart attack. Real classy (sarcasm). Just like calling the NCAA about other schools.

“Et tu Brute”

i’m sure he still has the blood stained knife…

By RockyT

October 4, 2005 10:20 AM | Link to this

Guys, Sanford Stadium should be renamed to Neyland South. We own you in your own house, we own you in our house, we play a tougher schedule than you (annually), Smokey can kick UGA’s butt any day of the week, we got more SEC rings than you, more NC’s than you, checkerboard endzone (sweet), Rocky Top fight song (sweeter), and we are going to run off 9 more straight wins against you mutts, starting this Saturday with 2 in a row. With a QB that has 2 broken fingers, a bumm leg, and can’t throw over 10 yards.

By MIke

October 4, 2005 01:13 PM | Link to this

Ken, you sound like you know exactly what happened in 92…no one wanted Majors anymore. He was a drunk and kept losing to Bama every year…similar to Donnan and Goff losing to TN and FL. TN wanted and hoped for better results and got them from Fulmer.

The move was going to be made whether Johnny liked it or not. So please give it a rest that Fulmer betrayed him.

I believe GA and their athletic department knows about firing coaches and being classy…good hire on Donnan and Jirsa by the way. Oh yea, Goff and Harrick were excellent as well.

By Walt Miller

October 4, 2005 01:25 PM | Link to this

Lots of material above to consider. I am a UT ‘81 alumni. Fulmer didn’t steal Majors’ job. Majors had WAY worn out his welcome. When Majors was the coach — that’s when UT would lose games they seemingly couldn’t lose. Coach Fulmer was -such- a breath of fresh air and he remains a great coach and a great asset to a storied and accomplished football program.

Walt

By Mark Richt

October 4, 2005 02:01 PM | Link to this

Dawg Fans: I am constantly amazed by how easy you fans make my job. First, you talk about how many criminals and non-qualifying recruits end up at other SEC schools and never seem to realize that we have as many problems in Athens as anybody. Second, you think that winning 100 games in ten years at Tennessee means the coach is not good (or fat), but don’t care if I take the most talented team in UGA history to a 9-2 record and the OUTBACK Bowl. Thanks for your stupidity. Mark Richt

By David

October 5, 2005 12:42 AM | Link to this

Should I be shocked by all the Fulmer bashing? He beat Georgia for so many years. How many wins does Alabama have over him? That’s right he owns Alabama. I’m not a huge Fulmer fan, but you can’t ignore the number of wins. These people saying things about Fulmer are ignorant fans who sound like they are 12 years old. How would you like it if you had no chance of recruiting some of the best players in your state. Because money was being thrown around for a decade. It would make you mad. Alabama fans get over it. You cheated.

By Hobnail-Boot

October 5, 2005 03:58 AM | Link to this

Interesting take RockyT, considering the Fat One has not won in Neyland North since the 90s…you guys can continue to bring up Goff & Donnan, if that makes you feel any better, but guess what, they are no longer on the sidelines…the guy wearing the headset hung a 41-14 on you the last time he was in Knoxville and he is 3-1 overall against the Pumpkin and has never lost a game in the state of Tennessee…so, under your own definition of “own”-ership, I guess we know who owns who…see you in “Sanford North” on Saturday…

By Hobnail-Boot

October 5, 2005 04:03 AM | Link to this

By the way, if things get out of hand like they did the last time we played up there, you folks should stick around for the fun this time….by the middle of the 3rd quarter, it looked like the fire marshall had ordered an evacuation of Neyland stadium…the only ones left in the building were us Georgia fans and the players….that was sad…sad, but fun

By Ray Goff

October 5, 2005 08:12 AM | Link to this

Hobnail, It was equally as sad to see the two great Davids get beat by a Tennessee last year in your house. To see all your future NFL players not be able beat a weak little TN team lead by freshmen was really sad.

How are you going to score so many points that it is a blowout in the 3rd quarter? I guess if you keep kicking FGs like you did against the defensive powerhouse MSU, then you can will 12-0.

By Bulldawg4life

October 5, 2005 09:05 AM | Link to this

Does Aanyone else find it interesting that SO MANY Tennessee fans show up on an ATLANTA sports website/Blog? Hmmm, makes me think that people in the state of Tenessee can’t read & write so you show up here to bring up Donnana and Goff over & over.

Yeah, Tennessee lucked out and won a game in Athens last year. BIG F-N DEAL. Do any Vols fans care to remember that game? I don’t think anyone can say Tennessee ‘dominated’. You won because we played like dog sh— and I am happy to admit it. It had nothing to do with Tennessee playing great.

Dominance, my orange colored redneck friends, is 41-14 a— whipping in YOUR house, yes…SANFORD NORTH. Had you done THAT in Athens last year, then come into our house and smack talk.

Please, keep living off the Fulmer 90’s because Mark Richt has out coached and out recruited Porky pig since he’s been at Georgia. I live in the present. All of you orange flavored rednecks should try the same.

And believe me, I hope Georgia doesn’t completely crush your spirits this weekend. I look forward to Alabama putting the final nail in your sorry season in a few weeks. My Dawgs are just looking to set your sorry redneck butts up for the Crimson Tide.

By Walt Miller

October 5, 2005 09:13 AM | Link to this

Last year’s game? Ah, last year’s UT/UGA game. I well remember the AJC that morning had an 8 page insert extolling the many virtues of the soon to be champion Bulldogs.

Oops, there was a fly in the buttermilk. UT came to play and you didn’t.

And rather than wonder why so many Vols fans post here, you should wonder why so few UGA partisans do.

Walt

By Ray Goff

October 5, 2005 09:24 AM | Link to this

GA played bad last year as did TN, starting a true frosh against great David Greene. We had a TD call back and missed 2 FGs so we did not play that great as well.

“Oh we did not show up lsat year”…good excuse. Please, TN’s D, which is much better this year, used that OL of yours and was living in the backfield.

If we need to stop living in the past, then you can’t keep living off the 2003 game. In a series of streaks, you ended ours at 9 and we ended yours at 4. We started a new streak last year…may only be for 1 year, could be for 2?

Dominance is a 9 year streak, not 4 years or 1 game.

And Bulldawg 4 Life, better check your own spelling before you accuse anyone else of not being able to read or write.

By ken

October 5, 2005 09:59 AM | Link to this

Mike,

in fact i do know what happened, as I was employed as a sportwriter. And you mistakenly assume I am a Georgia fan, so your attempt to discredit me through UGA is in vain.

please do some research on this. 13 years later, the facts at the time have been glossed over as will anything that happened 13 years ago. If Dickey, Fulmer and Majors wanted to tell the truth, they would, now they just duck the issue and say its in the past.

By RockyT

October 5, 2005 10:01 AM | Link to this

Can you guys be a little more original?? Sanford North? Too funny!!In order for that name change to happen, you need to have a winning record in that stadium. Uh, hello; you don’t. We, the great UT, have a winning record against you in ours (Neyland) and yours (Neyland South..formerly Sanford).
And, PLEASE, no more LAME excuses why you got that butt spanked last year. Even the “great” Buck Beleu (sp) said Tennessee dominated the line of scrimmage. That’s where you win or lose the game. You were shut out for 3.5 quarters!!!! Well guess what, we got the same guys who dominated it last year back to do it again. This time, we’re meaner and nastier!!!! Honestly, you guys should show some humility, loosing 4 straight is not as bad as 9 straight. Now, puppies, altogether now, WHO’s ya DADDY??!!! say it, Say It, SAY IT!!

By Hobnail-Boot

October 5, 2005 11:22 AM | Link to this

“Sanford North” was not an attempt at creativity, it was a reference to your lame claims of dominance and “Neyland South.” As for “Ray Goff”, there was no prophesy of a 3rd quarter blowout for Saturday. Okay, here is your Reading Comprehension 101 course — the 3rd quarter reference was to the 3rd quarter mass evacuation of the in-bred, extra chromosome, trogladytic, Vol “fans” who broke thier necks fleeing from Neyland stadium while thier Casey Clausen led troops were getting thier 41-14 beat down.

By Greg

October 5, 2005 12:19 PM | Link to this

HAHAHA UThug and UGA are gunna battle it out to find out who sucks the worst this year. should be a great game! The War of the Overrateds!!

By johnugadawg

October 5, 2005 12:25 PM | Link to this

Fulmer is a decent coach but…He is a pumpkin-bellied, coonskin cap wearin’, flint-lock rifle shootin’, 12 sandwich eatin’, biscuit away from 400lb tub of lard!!!

By RockyT

October 5, 2005 01:01 PM | Link to this

Hobnail, “lame claims of dominance”?? You had to go to GA, dude you’re not too bright!!! WE…..OWN……YOU….we have a winning record at your house and at our house. To us, playing at Georgia is like playing at home. GET IT???!!! Now, like I said: WHO’s ya DADDY!!!!
Greg, your butt whipping is coming too, so don’t mouth off too much. VOLS 31, Pups 13.

By Greg

October 5, 2005 01:28 PM | Link to this

Yeah, it’s going to be a bad day for fatty phil when he comes to T-town this year. In case you haven’t heard, orange is out. Crimson is back.

By Alabuy-em Cheating Tide

October 5, 2005 02:09 PM | Link to this

Yeah wait tell fat Phill come to Tider town! We are gonna kill him just like the tim I shot my son when Bammer lost and he wanted to drive the truck!

By Chuck_Uuga

October 5, 2005 03:24 PM | Link to this

Mark, Nice article on Fulmer. I am a huge UGA fan, and because of my Chattanooga roots, UT is by far my biggest rival.

I don’t know Fulmer personally, but I suspect he is probably a nice guy. But I’ll tell you one thing, he will do anything and everything just shy of illegal to win. He believes his job is to win at UT despite the costs. No matter who it offends, no matter who he has to step on. Football is king at UT, not academics. Additionally, UT has BY FAR the stupidest fan base of ALL Division I football teams. Just look at the responses above. Some try to make light of a players breaking a kid’s facial bones from a sucker punch and compare it to Odell Thurman or a UGA player who gets suspended for driving without a license. Nice comparison genius. Then try and subtly accuse Richt of cheating because he has too many High School All-Americans on his roster. No genius, maybe these Georgia players actually want to play for a good coach at a great school, not one that features an erector set for a stadium (or is it heavily decorated scaffolding?) as their primary draw. I mean who wouldn’t want to play for a school in front of 107,000 fans, most of whom did not set foot in a UT campus classroom their entire life?! I can go on and on about how stupid the majority of Vol fans are, but all one has to do is read the above. This is why I root against UT despite Fulmer or my friends…because they don’t deserve a thing. I even root for Georgia tech against Tennessee. And we’ll see about October 8th now that Richt has had 4 full recruiting classes. All I know is the fact he has QUICKLY built UGA into a perennial Top 10 team, and their ain’t a dam thing any of you UT Vol morons can do about it. Mark this down, Richt will win at least around 70% of his games against UT as head coach, and he’s going to be in Athens a LONG, LONG time.

By Chuck_Uuga

October 5, 2005 04:09 PM | Link to this

P.S. Even Fulmer would admit that taking over the Tennessee job during down periods at Alabama and Georgia have helped his winning percentage, not to mention playing Kentucky, Ole Miss. Vandy and South Carolina annually (yes, losing to these schools is an embarrassment) while avoiding Auburn for the most part. On the other hand, the record against Spurrier leaves a lot to be desired. Then again, anyone that cannot win 9 games per year at Florida today given that State’s population of recruits hould not be involved in football. But for the few of you who know the history of SEC football, the tables turn every few years, and like it or not, Georgia and Auburn have risen from the ashes and Bama is well on it’s way.

By Chuck_Uuga

October 5, 2005 04:26 PM | Link to this

P.S.S. PLEASE, UT people, stop trying to belittle our team’s schedule. Boise State is no Div. II team. Nor is UAB or Marshall, two teams even YOU have played. You’ve also played UNLV (a basketball school) twice and Louisiana Tech, same as playing La.-Monroe. You ONLY play Notre Dame and Miami, Florida as marquee games while we play Georgia Tech, a pretty strong team that you apparently are too scared to re-schedule because they used to beat you quite often when you played them annually. And we’ve had Louisville, UCLA and one other mid-major CANCEL their games with us in Athens. That says a lot.

And Rocky T, you’ve won just as many NC’s as Georgia (two). Georgia should have been ranked #1 in 1927 and 1946, but the voters at the time were Big 1- homers who sniffed Notre Dame, Ivy League, etc. and ignored the teams from the South when voting. All informed college football historians know that.

By Hobnail-Boot

October 8, 2005 07:40 PM | Link to this

Okay UT losers, who ran thier sewers all week…come out of your hole…the Fat One is 1-4 against Richt and 0-3 in his own house….too freakin’ funny…as for all of that “we own you” crap and re-naming of stadiums looks pretty stupid right about now….once again, by the end of the game the Stadium only had UGA fans and the players left…the in-breds were running back to the hills…leaving thier team to get that tail spanked…nice job losers!!!!

By Walt Miller

October 11, 2005 04:45 PM | Link to this

Congrats to the Bulldogs on a great win.

Walt