Phillip Fulmer is beloved by Tennessee Vols fans all over the country. I mean, the guy is basically a staple of program. Well, rumors and reports are trickling out all over Vol Twitter this morning surrounding whether or not Fulmer has had anything to do with this mess of a coaching search. Now, we’re getting some credible names reporting on it:
Courtesy of Saturday Down South:
According to college football insider Brett McMurphy, Currie was ready to hire Leach until former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer stepped in and sabotaged the deal:
Sources: John Currie was prepared to hire Mike Leach but university officials wouldn’t allow him to do so. Phillip Fulmer has been sabotaging search process in hopes to become Tennessee’s AD
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) December 1, 2017
Fulmer wanted to be the Vols’ next athletic director when they hired Currie instead, so it is possible he is angling to land that job now that Currie has been fired.
So, for those keeping score at home, Tennessee now has no football coach, no athletic director, and a former coach who may be working behind the scenes to land the AD job.
Things are an absolute mess in Knoxville and it doesn’t look like it’ll get sorted out anytime soon.
That is absolutely insane. “Absolute mess” is the only way to describe what is happening in Knoxville. It’s a full-on dumpster fire at this point.
First of all, if I’m a Vols fan, I am PISSED that all of this drama caused us to miss out on Mike Leach. That man is a national treasure and has completely revamped the Washington State program.
Second of all, rumors are swirling that this is actually working. Several people have tweeted that Fulmer will indeed be the new AD at Tennessee. That’s amazing. I never took Fulmer to be so conniving, but when we were all discussing this in the SoBros Slack (shout out to Slack, we should start charging for all of this advertising), Smokey shed some light on Fulmer’s past.
“lol… y’all do realize that Phillip Fulmer became head coach by doing the exact same play to Johnny Majors. Basically the story of how Phil Fulmer got the head coaching job goes like this: “There were a growing number of fans and power people who wanted a change and felt that Johnny Majors was too old and things had gotten stale. Johnny Majors was out for heart surgery, and it was thought that he could be out all season, so Fulmer “temporarily” took over. Well Johnny Majors tried to cut his recovery short only to find himself without a job””
Phil Fulmer just Cersei Lannister’ed the entire UT athletic department. pic.twitter.com/Yg5wagkejj
— Herbie Brooks (@SoBroHerbie_B) December 1, 2017
So, my question now is: did George R.R. Martin write Game of Thrones about Phillip Fulmer? If you stop and think about it, the man is not much different from Cersei Lannister. Except, of course, I’m presuming he’s been involved with a lot less incest and murder….but, you never know.
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