It should be "He really isn't" Fulmer was responsible for some bad football, but if the right coach was hired, no one brings up the 02 to 08 landslide
This. It wasn't good, but it wasn't in godawful shape. We had the '05 bust and respectable years in '06 and '07 before the cluster**** in '08. A good coach has the program back on it's feet in two years.
Was Mike Hamilton not essentially Fulmer's handpicked AD? Legitimate question to you or the board, I've always been under the impression that that was more or less the case.
He certainly supported Hamilton's promotion, as did Pat Summitt and Buzz Peterson. The real culprits are the damned fools who let the coaches choose the AD.