[Stoney]

Fallout from Fulmer's firing just beginning
November 5, 2008 7:10 PM
Posted by ESPN.com's Chris Low
As the reality begins to set in that Phillip Fulmer won't be Tennessee's coach next season, many of his former players are beginning to speak out.
A lot of them are angry at the Tennessee administration for the way it handled Fulmer's ouster and for attempting to "break up" the Tennessee football family.
David Douglas, who played for the Vols on the 1985 SEC championship team and later played in the NFL, said his son will at least explore the possibility of transferring. Tight end Aaron Douglas is one of the best young prospects on the team and was the top prospect in the state of Tennessee last year.
It's not just ex-players that have taken aim at Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton. Senior receiver Josh Briscoe lambasted the Vols' administration on Wednesday.
"The decision was unfair. The timing of the decision was unfair. The way it leaked out was unfair," said Briscoe, who has interned in the Tennessee athletic department the last two years. "(Fulmer) has poured his heart into Tennessee and has given everything back to Tennessee. To do it like that, it shows the lack of character and the insecurity this adminstration has."

[Stoney]

Tennessee has quit: Shame on the Tennessee players for their disgraceful performance Saturday in the 13-7 loss to Wyoming. The coaches deserve part of the blame. They're the ones getting paid. But this one is on the players, especially with how they reacted earlier in the week during the news conference to announce Phillip Fulmer's ouster. If they had shown half that much emotion on the field and played with a fraction of that much passion against Wyoming, the game wouldn't have been close. This is a proud program that is seeing a dismal end to a coaching career that will go down as one of the most successful in SEC history. But this particular team (more precisely this offense) is assuring that Fulmer's finale will go down as one of the worst seasons in school history. The Vols (3-7) have never lost eight games in a season.

[Stoney]

As if things can't get much worse this gets posted by FEMA...

FEMA predicted a large earthquake would cause "widespread and catastrophic physical damage" across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee -- home to some 44 million people.
Tennessee is likely to be hardest hit, according to the study that sought to gauge the impact of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in order to guide the government's response.
In Tennessee alone, it forecast hundreds of collapsed bridges, tens of thousands of severely damaged buildings and a half a million households without water.
Transportation systems and hospitals would be wrecked, and police and fire departments impaired, the study said.
The zone, named for the town of New Madrid in Missouri's southeast corner, is subject to frequent mild earthquakes.
Experts have long tried to predict the likelihood of a major quake like those that struck in 1811 and 1812. These shifted the course of the Mississippi River and rang church bells on the East Coast but caused few deaths amid a sparse population.

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Originally Posted by Stoney

Tennessee has quit: Shame on the Tennessee players for their disgraceful performance Saturday in the 13-7 loss to Wyoming. The coaches deserve part of the blame. They're the ones getting paid. But this one is on the players, especially with how they reacted earlier in the week during the news conference to announce Phillip Fulmer's ouster. If they had shown half that much emotion on the field and played with a fraction of that much passion against Wyoming, the game wouldn't have been close. This is a proud program that is seeing a dismal end to a coaching career that will go down as one of the most successful in SEC history. But this particular team (more precisely this offense) is assuring that Fulmer's finale will go down as one of the worst seasons in school history. The Vols (3-7) have never lost eight games in a season.

I bet with CLK and his attitude towards everything he has done lately, that the Wyoming game will be the last they quit in!