Phil Fulmer Meets With Jurich
Guy | Dec 02, 2009 | Comments 2
Is Tom Jurich getting serious about former Tennessee coach Phil Fulmer?
There were reports this fall of meetings between the Louisville AD and Fulmer and we reported two months ago that Fulmer may be interested in the Lousville job if Kragthorpe were fired, but according to VolunteerTV.com, the two met last night:
Former Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer met with University of Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich for half an hour Tuesday regarding the Cardinals’ vacant coaching position, a source tells the Sports Overtime team.
Fulmer is reportedly interested in the job after spending the 2009 season away from the sidelines as an analyst at CBS College Sports and as a partner at a local financial management firm.
Fulmer told Volunteer TV last week that he was interested in coaching at a program with a solid history and a commitment to winning.
I’ll leave it to Miller and Rohrer to opine fully from a UofL perspective, but I’m not sure I would be able to get excited about Phil Fulmer.
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You don’t have to be excited. But Phat Phil has a 75% career winning percentage. Tennessee was one of the top 5 winningest programs in the 90′s. That was a long time ago, you may say. He got fired in 2008 one season after his 10-3 team was beaten 21-14 in the 2007 SEC Championship game by National Champs LSU (in a much better game than the Nat’l champ game). The Vols played in 3 SEC championship games in this decade (all losses). A win in the 2001 SEC title game would have placed the top ranked Vols in the National title game.
Phil will never be sexy but he knows how to win. He had 2 losing seasons in his last 4 years at UT. His success in the 90′s was the standard by which he was held accountable. I thank Fulmer for the ’98 National Championship and ’97 and ’98 SEC titles. Louisville may hire a “hot/sexy” coach or a “pro” coach but Fulmer is the best “proven” college Head coach available.
There are 72 NFL stars that played under Fulmer. That’s pretty good recruiting.