Tennessee Volunteer coach Phillip Fulmer press conference open thread
by Joel on Nov 3, 2008 4:53 PM EST
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The Announcement in about five. Leave your thoughts here.
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Good Sign
Room is full of the players. When asked to make room for members of the media, they gave a resounding STHU (and yes, that H does stand for "heck"), we are the players and the media can find different seats.
by rblakeh on Nov 3, 2008 5:00 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I hope
That all of the jerks who’ve criticized him at every turn for being selfish and only caring about himself are watching this. This guy loves UT, and you can tell this is killing him.
by rblakeh on Nov 3, 2008 5:06 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
No kidding.
It’s not easy from this end either.
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by lawvol98 on Nov 3, 2008 6:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Good.
He has the option of staying at UT in some capacity.
Whether he wants to stay or to coach, he deserves the option.
by Hooper on Nov 3, 2008 5:07 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Give him the $6 million.
Toss another mil on top as a gesture of good faith, please.
by Hooper on Nov 3, 2008 5:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Two players are going to speak today, too
Eric Berry and who?
by rblakeh on Nov 3, 2008 5:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I'd guess Ayers.
If Fulmer hadn’t given him a second chance, the guy would be nowhere right now.
by Hooper on Nov 3, 2008 5:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He's a little bitter now.
Wanted to have been given the chance to fix this.
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by Gatorpilot on Nov 3, 2008 5:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Specific
Coach Fulmer named who he would take questions from.
I wonder if John Adams was even allowed in the door?
by rblakeh on Nov 3, 2008 5:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Dumb questions, though
The one about how it felt to see his players and family was decent, I guess.
by rblakeh on Nov 3, 2008 5:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Journalists aren't trained in appropriate questions.
by Hooper on Nov 3, 2008 5:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It would be nice...
If one of them would at least say thank you for giving them a job for 17 years ( or however long based on how long they’ve been in the business)
by rblakeh on Nov 3, 2008 5:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I just figured that out.
Josh Briscoe is the student-athlete representative from the football team. He dialogues with the athletic admin as a part of that role. He was the mouthpiece from the team to the students last year when the ticket prices were first announced.
In that role, it makes sense for him to be there and to have the liberty to ask a question.
And to feel betrayed (in the heat of the moment).
by Hooper on Nov 3, 2008 10:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The Foundation has just left the room
Wow.
Go Vols!
by Joel on Nov 3, 2008 5:21 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Yikes
Ramon is going to kill someone I think.
by rblakeh on Nov 3, 2008 5:23 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
What? Yikes
Eric, does this decision make you consider transferring?
“Next question.”
Go Vols!
by Joel on Nov 3, 2008 5:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Sad day on Rocky Top
Caught the 2nd half on WIVK internet. Sad day.
by Aerobab on Nov 3, 2008 5:25 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I think the players are going to picture John Adams's face within the Wyoming helmets.
And they’re dead men walking.
by Hooper on Nov 3, 2008 5:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Have we misunderestimated how important it is to have a coach that the players love?
by rblakeh on Nov 3, 2008 5:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Is there any way to capture this?
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Nov 3, 2008 5:27 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
No.
It’s silverlight. If it were just streaming through windows media player or something like that, I could hook you up. As it is, no.
Thank Microsoft.
by rblakeh on Nov 3, 2008 5:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, I'm watching
I just want the look on their faces forever.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Nov 3, 2008 5:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Try a screen capture while you're watching a replay.
It’ll be lower res, but you might get a freeze frame that way.
by Hooper on Nov 3, 2008 5:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I don't know
I hope it can be replayed. I just got home. Who is that with Berry?
by wvvol on Nov 3, 2008 5:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I don't know.
I’m guessing no, though; CBS will undoubtedly try to enforce copyright.
by Hooper on Nov 3, 2008 5:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If you remember how Hatfield was thrown out of Arkansas,
keep a close eye at UT now.
by Hooper on Nov 3, 2008 5:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I'm afraid I don't remember.
Was he thrown out because they stopped winning football games, too?
by wvvol on Nov 3, 2008 5:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No
He was thrown out because certain people had axes to grind. He was an amazing coach for Arkansas, but when things went down for one year, the knives came out and he was tossed. Arkansas has never really been close to the level he had the program at ever since. An occasional flash, but nothing more.
by Hooper on Nov 3, 2008 5:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That was really hard to watch !!
Phil,GO VOLS !!!
by bulldurham on Nov 3, 2008 5:32 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I darn near teared up listening to him...
I have such a mixture of sadness and hope.
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lawvol: Gate 21 - Life, the Universe, & the Bounce of the Ball
by lawvol98 on Nov 3, 2008 6:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Wow
Channel 5 (or 8 or whatever CBS is) actually tracked down Majors and interviewed him. He refused to comment on today’s announcement but said something along the lines that he is proud to be a Vol and that whoever the next coach is will find that UT fans are the best in the world. The poor kid interviewing him asked him some questions about today and the direction the program is headed in, and Johnny said he has said all he is going to say. “My tale is told.”
It was some tense television, but I can’t believe they tracked him down – it looked like they were outside Dale’s Winning Edge or somewhere in West Knoxville.
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
by birdjam on Nov 3, 2008 6:14 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
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