I cried when I saw the announcement on espn yesterday morning when I woke up. I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch the press conference yet. As a friend of the family, ya thats right people, you never know who is watching er reading. I obviously wanted him to get to stick it out, but oh well what can you do. They didn’t ask my opinion.

Hooper,
You’re wife is amazing. Did she use Adobe photoshop? I am taking a class in that and I am not even close to that good. She needs to give me some pointers!

Hooper, that is exactly what it felt like to watch. It was like watching a wreck in slow motion and just wanting it to stop. I felt so sorry for a man that I did/do admire so much !

I am very, very sad for him personally. That press conference was one of the hardest things I’ve watched in a long, long time. He is a good man and a class act and it’s obvious he loves the university dearly.

Professionally, it could turn out to be the right decision if the new hire is a good one. But that’s a big if. Tennessee is a harder job than Florida, Georgia or Alabama.

…did a great job on that, hooper. Oh, also I’m glad you took that obnoxious Fan Post down.

Even though I wasn’t one of the people with a torch and pitchfork (after recovering from a brief apoplectic seizure last year, that is), I kind of feel like as a fan base we’re the dog who spent years chasing cars and finally caught one.

He’s probably as responsible as the man who hired him for what happened to Fulmer.

It is truly a shame that things have changed so much in college football. College football used to be about tradition and honor, not just about wins and losses. It used to be that a man who gave his all for his alma mater not only as a player but as a coach was appreciated and given the benefit of the doubt. But college football has just become a big business, and “what have you done for me lately?” is all that matters these days.

Whoever takes this job should definitely watch his back – this athletic department is obviously only concerned with wins and losses and dollar signs. Years of service to the coach’s alma mater be damned. And to give him the axe mid-season? Just shameful.

(Note: I have been in a coma for 17 years. This is the first opportunity I have had to react to the athletic department’s shameful handling of the firing of Coach Majors. This new-fangled internet thing is amazing, by the way.)

Phil Fulmer has been Tenn football for the better part of my life, so it’s really weird for me to think of anyone else leading them. I’m sure the Bama fans are going to task giving you guys hell and making fun of Fulmer and “at least we blew them out his last two years” comments will be rampant. To me, Fulmer is the last of his kind. The man is Tenn football to the T. He gave 30+ years of his life to the University and you could see how painful it was for him to step down at the press conference (the man was fighting tears every third word and who could blame him?). I don’t think there will ever be another coach like him in today’s world of esacalating salaries and the “what have you done for me lately” attitude that ultimately did him in. Instead of Fulmer, now you have the Nick Sabans, Tommy Tubervilles, and the Bobby Petrinos of the world that will leave a team for a better paycheck or what they see as a better challenge or even leverage another job to get a pay raise at their current one. Bama fans may think Saint Nick is there for life, but he’ll get bored in a few years and want a new challenge. I respect the hell out of Phil Fulmer and I only hope that Mark Richt will be the coach for the Bulldogs as long as Fulmer was. It’s a sad day in Vol nation, but in this Dawg fan’s eyes, college football just lost a legend.