Tennessee Volunteers Lose To Georgia – Philip Fulmer on Hot Seat
Tennessee’s 26-14 loss to Georgia last night left the Volunteers and head coach Philip Fulmer at 2-4 overall, and 0-3 in the SEC.
Volunteer fans, take a moment to catch your breath and step back from the ledge. Look on the bright side:
(…looking for the bright side…)
(…still looking for bright side…)
(…desperately trying to find anything that even closely resembles a bright side…)
Umm…we have Eric Berry?
The play of Tennessee’s sophomore defensive back Eric Berry has been about the only bright side thus far in a 2008 season of horrors for the Tennessee Volunteers and the Rocky Top faithful. In fact, the defense has played relatively well this season, somewhat keeping the Volunteers within shouting distance of some pretty stiff competition (Florida, Auburn, Georgia) that they have encountered thus far in the season. However, with the complete ineptitude of Tennessee’s offense, a 7-point deficit feels like a 28-point gap.
This is quite possibly the lowest point I have experienced since signing up to be a Tennessee fan when I fell in love with the play of a young Peyton Manning back in 1995. Overall, the last 13 years have been pretty solid. The Vols won a national title in 1998, they have won a few SEC titles, won the SEC East five times, and always provided fans with hope at the beginning of the year that they could compete for the SEC crown, and usually carried that hope through at least late November.
Not this year. Currently sitting square in the cellar of the SEC East, below even Kentucky, the Volunteers have officially hit rock bottom. And it begs the question: is it time for head coach Philip Fulmer to go?
