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PHIL FULMER OUT AT TENNESSEE
NBC Sports - College Football Talk —
Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer will not return in 2009. Fulmer, who signed a long-term contract extension this year, is expected to coach the remainder of the season and then be sent packing, ESPN is reporting . Tennessee is 3-6 overall and 1-5 in the SEC this season. Fulmer won a national championship at Tennessee in 1998 and is the longest-serving coach in the SEC, but in recent years several other SEC programs have passed Tennessee by, and he’s been under intense pressure from Volunteers fans. A formal announcement is planned for today.
Fulmer Agrees To Step Down
Roll 'Bama Roll —
... as the Vols' coach next year, multiple sources told ESPN.com.
An announcement is being planned for later Monday at Neyland Stadium. The Vols (3-6, 1-5 SEC) have lost four straight games and are in danger of suffering their second losing season in the last four years.
Well, damn, I suppose we all knew it would come to an end someday, but quite frankly it's a sad day for all of those who loate the puke orange. An announcement will be made later today.
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This Just In… ESPN & Basilio Report Fulmer to Resign
Gate 21 —
... 6 days ago, this morning Chris Low of ESPN.com and Tony Basilio are both reporting that Phillip Fulmer has officially reached an agreement with the ...
Report: Fulmer to step down
The Blog —
... ESPN.com's Chris Low breaks the news of the day: Phillip Fulmer won't return as the Volunteers' head coach next season. ...
Phil Fulmer is Done at Tennessee
The Big Lead —
... Fulmer Out at Tennessee: Hasta la vista, tubby. So sayeth ESPN.”An announcement is being planned for later Monday at Neyland Stadium.” ...
Fulmer to step aside at 5 p.m. EST
Third Saturday in Blogtober —
... wounds healed with Majors, Fulmer, and the University, but we will see whether Coach Majors is open to something of that sort now that there is some closure. I have a feeling he will be.
So, thanks Coach Fulmer for all that you have done for the Big Orange Nation, and thank you for doing the right thing this evening by stepping aside. It is time to usher in a new era of Tennessee football, and this is our first step into the modern SEC.
GO VOLS!!!
ESPN: Vols coach Fulmer agrees to step down as Vols coach ...
ESPN: Tennessee’s Fulmer Stepping Down At End of The Season
Statefans Nation —
carousel.jpg The Rumor Mill just got officially interesting for Butch Davis and David Cutcliffe: ESPN.com: Sources: Fulmer To Step Down Phillip Fulmer, who a decade ago brought Tennessee its first national championship in 47 years, will not return as the Volunteers’ coach next year, multiple sources told ESPN.com. Questions immediately come to mind: After the little matter of the national election tomorrow (in which we hope you’ve voted), things are going to get very, very interesting in college football between now and the bowl games. ...
Phil Fulmer Has Reportedly Agreed to Step Down as Tennessee Head Coach After 2008
FanHouse —
... But it appears, based on what ESPN is reporting, that Fulmer will no longer be the face of Tennessee, having agreed to step down as head coach of the Volunteers following a miserable 2008 showing. ...
'Multiple sources': Fulmer era goes dim this afternoon
Dr. Saturday —
... UPDATE: The Worldwide Leader also cites "multiple sources" that a press conference is coming this afternoon to give Fulmer the official boot, while ...
Fulmer toast at Tennessee
SmackCaster SmackBlog —
... According to ESPN.com and Volquest, Philip Fulmer will not return to Tennessee next season. The final nail came Saturday when the Vols were spanked, 27-6, by South Carolina and Steve Spurrier. This is one of the great football traditions in the land. A big job usually results in a big name. Wonder if David Culcliffe would be considered. The Duke head coach had success as the Vols’ assistant head coach and offensive coordinator. This is a hot spot fo a coaching derby. ...
FULMER: TOAST (ROAST?); KNS: DROWSY
EDSBS —
... But if there’s anything to celebrate here with complete joyful abandon (for me, campers, for me), it’s that Chris Low scooped the living hell out of the Knoxville News-Sentinel, a terrible paper with a simpering buffoon of a sports editor in John Adams. Save your preening, sir—you’ve had a public, exhausting vendetta against the guy for years and today you got beat. ABIGAIL Adams would’ve had that story first, and that bitch has been dead almost 200 years. ...
Fulmer Steps Down, Earth Rumbles
CollegeGameBalls: College Football at its Finest —
According to espn.com and Chris Low 2008 will be Coach Phi Fulmer’s last year at Tennessee
An announcement is being planned for later Monday at Neyland Stadium. Fulmer, who has won 150 games at his alma mater and is the dean of SEC coaches, met with Tennessee officials Monday morning, and they reached a mutual agreement that it would be best for all parties if Fulmer did not return next season.
I couldn’t help getting in one last fat joke.
Fulmer Will Not Be Back Next Year
The National Football Post » Hot News and Rumors —
Fulmer Will Not Be Back Next Year From Chris Low of ESPN.com : Phillip Fulmer, who a decade ago brought Tennessee its first national championship in 47 years, will not return as the Volunteers’ coach next year, multiple sources told ESPN.com. An announcement is being planned for later Monday at Neyland Stadium. Fulmer, who has won 150 games at his alma mater and is the dean of SEC coaches, met with Tennessee officials Monday morning, and they reached a mutual agreement that it would be best for all parties if Fulmer did not return next season. The sides also agreed ...
Fulmer out at Tennessee
Garnet And Black Attack —
Fulmer out at Tennessee
Phil has agreed to step down before next season.
H / T to Leftover Hot Dog for catching this story.
Report: Fulmer Will Step Down As Tennesse Coach
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... of adjustments I observed in the second half. Fulmer’s coaching staff failed to show the capacity to adjust to what little the Bruins could do on offense. After all these years at the helm, you would think X’s and O’s would be the last thing Fulmer would have to attend to. If the report is true, I do commend Fulmer for stepping down. He’s showing great deal more class than some of his SEC contemporaries have in the past (see Saban , Tuberville , Petrino ). Surprisingly though, the ESPN report doesn’t included the scheduled paraded in Knoxville later today.
Wait, Tajh Boyd Chose Who Now?
West BY GOD Virginia —
... Well, he has officially committed to Tennessee. A team that is mired in awfulness at 3-6. A team ranked 99th nationally in passing. A team who’s coach just agreed to step down after this year. But our (former) boy Tajh really likes their traditional I-formation offense. I hope he likes the next coach’s offense, too, since Fulmer just got his portly self fired. ...
The Answer For The Pistons?
Heavy Soul —
... Add this to the news that Phil Fulmer agreed to step down at the end of the season at Tennessee, and it is a pretty eventful sports morning, isn't it? ...
Phil Fulmer Stepping Down From Tennessee At The End of the Season [College Football]
Deadspin —
... isn't a single coach born in the state in which they coach and none of the 11 other SEC coaches are graduates of the school they now coach. A regional pursuit has gone national. Shortly before the Alabama game kickoff, Phil Fulmer stood in front of the dry-erase board and jotted down game notes. Finished, he turned around and walked over to me, "You picked a hell of a season to write a book, son" he said. In the end, as with most things in his career, Fulmer was right. Sources: Tennessee Volunteers coach Fulmer to step down [ESPN]
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Fulmer Out at Tennessee
Fanblogs.com —
... Multiple sources are reporting to ESPN that Phillip Fulmer will step down as Tennessee coach at the end of the year. Fulmer had a meeting with school officials this morning and it was determined that it would "be best for all parties if he didn't return next season", otherwise known as the hit the road, Jack, scenario... ...
Phil Fulmer To Step Down As Tennessee Head Coach, Not Retire, at End of Season
Midwest Sports Fans —
... Big news today out of Knoxville: Phil Fulmer has agreed to step down as the head football coach of the Tennessee Volunteers at the end of the 2008 season. ...
College Football Just Got Skinnier
SimonOnSports —
Talk about a bad day for fat college coaches. Two staples of the stomach will be out of their jobs at the end of the season. Earlier today, Tom Amstutz the fat coach of Toledo who got the fun win at the Big House, announced today that he will resign at the end of the season. And now the news out of Knoxville is that Philip Fulmer is also out and the end of the season. What a sad day for fat coaches everywhere. Amstutz while not prolific certainly shows the girth to make himself a household name in the future and this is certainly a setback. ...
Phillip Fudd... I mean, Fulmer not coming back to U of Tennessee
Sports Bastards —
First the story from Chris Low...
ESPNis link
The Tennessean (NashVegas)
The Local from Nashville
The Knoxville News Sentinel
From UT Land
Now what does this mean to you. If you're a Tennessee Homer, it's the end of an era. But it is what it is... Fulmer is sick and tired. He's been for a good while, since the expectations went up since the National Title. However, if you're a college football person who's outside of the state, it's the end of the SEC old guard.
Fulmer's reign is dead... Long live ...
The End Of An Era At Tennessee
The Redshirt Señior —
... The the surprise of no one, Phillip Fulmer is making 2008 his last as head coach at Tennessee, meaning another of the old guard will be missing from the coaching ranks. ...
Fulmer Reportedly Out As Vols Coach
Burnt Orange Nation —
Fulmer Reportedly Out As Vols Coach
Add another vacancy to the list of schools that might consider Will Muschamp as their next head coach. Phil Fulmer will reportedly resign his head coaching job at Tennessee, effective at the end of the season. No link, but I do ...
A Love-Hate Relationship Comes To An End, Let it Be Classy
Third Saturday in Blogtober —
... be relevant again?” I just pray the answer is the same. What needed to happen has happened, but this isn’t a happy day in Big Orange Country.
In fact, it’s just the opposite.
Here are some other reactions…
Brent Hubbs has the best one BY FAR on Volquest.com. Wow.
Clay Travis waxes poetic on Deadspin. Really good stuff.
Here is CLow reporting the jazz.
Bill Duff’s Love Child has ...
ALLEN IVERSON TO THE PISTONS FOR BILLUPS
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop —
... See, this is why I hate talking about breaking news like trades and coaches getting fired (or stepping down like Phil Fulmer). I end up talking about actual sports instead of calling people gay or gossiping about arrest records. In a related story, the name “Chauncey” is pretty gay. ...
Spencer Lanning named SEC Special Teams Player of the Week
Garnet And Black Attack —
Spencer Lanning named SEC Special Teams Player of the Week
Congratulations to Spencer on earning this award by playing a great game against the Vols. Other than following Eric Berry's interception, the Vols never had a short field. Spencer and his coverage unit's ...
Phillip Fulmer Steps Down as Vols Coach
Sports Blog - football, basketball, and baseball —
... What everyone knew would happen at the end of the year has happened today. Phillip Fulmer, who has been the head coach of Tennessee for 17 years and won a national title a decade ago, has decided to step down. ...
TS Monday Evening Dump
Sports —
The Detroit Pistons acquired Allen Iverson from the Denver Nuggets for Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess. The Nuggets are now a playoff team. The Pistons are now free agent players.
Hollinger loves it for the Nuggets. Chad Ford loves it for the Pistons.
Big body Fulmer agrees to resign after the season.
Barack Obama and John McCain are interviewed on Monday Night Football. Obama throws a better spiral.
The Big Lead speculates about the state of the Sports Guy and pimps Chris Fowler.
The ...
This Is The Business You Have Chosen
Signal to Noise —
... If Phillip Fulmer laments the way he is now going to leave the University of Tennessee, he has no one but himself to blame for how it ended. Not solely because of his team’s atrocious play this season; in past eras a season so poor might have slid under the table as an aberration. Now, a very public display of futility over the first 10 weeks of the college football season means the end of a coach who won a national championship a decade ago, and it may be even a little bit ironic considering how Johnny Majors was forced out. ...
The Cynic's Guide to College Football, Week 10
Hugging Harold Reynolds —
... How bad do people have to think you are that they’re willing to pay $6 million to make you go away? That’s the case with Phil Fulmer, who will be cashing a nice fat severance check from the Vols boosters as payment for not coming around anymore. Is Tennessee making the right move? Too soon to tell, although you have to wonder when your former offensive coordinator says, "No thanks, ...
