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Phildoe The Gopher?
Topic Started: Nov 1 2010, 07:49 AM (248 Views)
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James Bryant is reporting that Minnesota and Phildoe are talking turkey. It would be the best thing that could ever happen for UT football at this point.
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He doesn't need the money and Minnesota doesn't either, but I would bet my last dollar that we could raise the money for a ONEWAY ticket, make that two- one for Vickie. I imagine we would send him first class too.
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He needs 1st class. A friend was on a flight w/the duke of doughnuts several weeks ago and he used up 2 seats on a small commuter aircraft....said he must be at least 350.
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Just when I thought this season was a total loss.....

Phil and Chief reunite as the Go-Go Gophers from the old cartoon.


Whoopee doopie! We have um fun!

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The big question that I have if he gets back into the arena is, "will he have the necessary drive to recruit?" If he gets that drive back and gets some top notch assistants, then he might be successful in the Big Ten or Big Twelve or whatever they will be called. If he winds up with a group of assistants like he had towards the end of his career at UT and continues to micro-manage then it will be the same story as what we experience in Knoxville - only colder.
Edited by Michelangelo, Nov 2 2010, 03:41 PM.
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Fulmer isnt going to be coaching again. I doubt Minn would hire him...really doubt it...but even if they would, I also doubt he would take the job.
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I think that you guys are right.

Phildoe just wants to hear his name mentioned in conjunction with an opening. Then he can say that he turned down the opportunity. It's all about making himself relevant when he really isn't. He wants to pound his chest and say, I could have if I wanted to.
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How in the world an ex coach taking another job is determined to be the best thing for UT football is beyond me.

I hope he goes to Minnesota and dominates just for the meltdown on every UT board known to man.
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I covered the Gophers on my radio program in Minneapolis and still talk about them weekly (football, basketball and hockey) on Monday and Friday here in Fargo, ND. We're only three hours from the Twin Cities and there are many Gophers alums here. So for what it's worth, I can tell you a few things about the Gophers football program:

- The new facility, TCF Bank Stadium, is absolutely gorgeous. Seats very close to the field but the angle isn't very sharp. Still, it's noisy in there... when Wisconsin and Iowa fans are there. It would remind all of you of a miniature Neyland before seats in the north end zone were added.

- "U" fans / alums / donors are fed up. They have a lot of what UT fans have felt, only for the better part of 50 years. They've won more legitimate national championships (if we can call them that) than UT but their football glory days ended in 1960. There are a lot of major-money folks that are ready to pony-up with the right coach in place.

- When Glenn Mason was run out of Minneapolis, it was that he couldn't get them to the next level even though he took them to seven bowl games (if memory serves)... mind you, not great bowls, but for the Gophers, this was major progress. Their athletic director, Joel Maturi, is........what's the word I'm looking for........weak. Shortsighted. Those of you who don't like Mike Hamilton (I'm not one of those people), Joel Maturi could never........never.......handle a job like Tennessee. But it was the disastrous Insight Bowl - the worst collapse in bowl history - that was his downfall.

- Enter The Used Car Salesman, Tim Brewster. The only man in Minnesota Gophers history to ever sell the university a bigger load of crap was when Lou Holtz talked the university out of their great Memorial Stadium and into the Metrodome.

- This is an outstanding academic institution on both banks of the Mississippi that has had good athletic success in men's basketball (as you know), they have an outstanding women's athletic program and their marquee sport, men's hockey, is almost always a national championship contender (they've won 5 of them).

- This notion that you can't recruit to Minnesota is a bunch of crap. The problem here is that they've not had the right people in place (Joel Maturi) to hire the right people. At the "U" it's hockey, hockey, basketball, hockey and then football. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying or uninformed.

If Fulmer went here, I believe he'd be a good fit. He's a name that would bring far more credibility to their program than Tim Brewster. And as I mentioned earlier - there's a lot of folks with deep pockets ready to donate with the right guy in place.

Now, all that said... it's hard to shake the feeling that Phillip Fulmer still has "stuff" to bring to a program, especially one that needs a whole new direction. They are a program that is far worse off than Tennessee ever was, even in Fulmer's latter years. Does he want to go national at an even more aggressive pace and covering far more miles than he ever did at UT?

Maybe the question is this: Does his desire to coach again - maybe even be viewed as a savior (I know... it was hard typing it) - outweigh the miles he'd put on travelling everywhere?

I have a hard time seeing him in Minneapolis but tell you what - it would put to bed thoughts of his return to Tennessee and for many, that's not at all viewed as a negative.
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Nashville Channel 4's Sports reporter, Rudy Kalis, in Nashville is saying that Fulmer is going to Minnesota.
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