SomeGuy

Hogwash. UT didn't dump a winner, they dumped a loser. A backstabbing, scapegoating, entitled, lazy loser. Unlike Richt, Fulmer has had zero interest from other schools. Unlike Richt, Fulmer left the UT program in a sorry state with no talent left on hand.

You missed the most-egregious bad call of the day - the call that took a TD away from GA Tech and gave it to UGA. GT scored on the play and at worst had their forward progress stalled at the millionth-of-an-inch line. After the forward progress was clearly stalled a UGA player stripped the ball and ran it back the other way for a called TD. Replay wasn't 100% clear on whether the GT ball-carrier crossed the goal line but it was 100% clear that his forward progress was stopped and the play was therefore dead. Had GT lost that game it would have been a travesty.

Try to tell Tennessee fans that there is an SEC bias. Tell that to Johnny Majors who should have won the Heisman which was instead given to Paul Hornung who played for a sorry Notre Dame. Tell it to Peyton Manning who was bypassed in favor of a defensive back! Tell it to Pat Summitt who has had to contend with the open collusion between UConn and ESPN. The truth is that the national press corps is for the most part anti-SEC and have been for generations.

Lame Kitten actually had relatively few recruiting violations during his tenure at UT although I'm convinced he would have committed a major violation had he stayed around long enough. Kitten is one of those people who thinks that rules don't apply to him. Still, his infraction record at UT is better than many other SEC coaches during the same time period and that includes Saint Richt at UGA.

You people who think that there are no officiating problems in the SEC should actually watch an SEC game sometime. SEC football officiating is either the most incompetent officiating on the planet or hopelessly corrupt. And it's been that way for years now. People who watch the SEC regularly have been complaining about it for years and now outsiders are starting to notice as well and even worse bring it to national attention. The harm this outrageous situation is doing to the SEC in particular and to college football in general is potentially huge. Fans will only take so much before they write off the sport as fixed and therefore undeserving of their attention and their dollars.

Yeah, the 3 LSU players were just minding their own business and the UK kid came up jawing them at which point they politely pointed out that his behavior might upset some old ladies in the stands and to please hold it down and think happy thoughts. That's exactly what happened. The UK kid wasn't set upon by a group of LSU players and simply responded in kind.

It was a hard but clean hit. LSU fans need to shut up as they would be jumping up and down cheering such a hit made by one of their own. The UK player could have gone for the LSU guy's knees. That would have been unquestionably legal yet have ruined his career. I'm concerned that the understandable desire to limit injuries in football is getting out of hand to where eventually tackling and blocking will be outlawed, players will be forced to where giant inflatable suits that reduced their 40 times to 4.5 minutes instead of seconds, and the game will cease to be of even the slightest interest to anyone.

He is one of the worst and more importantly, as you point out, he's been bad for years. The worst thing is that he is typical of SEC football refereeing. SEC refereeing has been so bad for so long that it is getting impossible to think that it's just poor training, bad luck, or pure incompetence although the incompetence factor is surely part of if it. But the real scandal is that Mike Slime has done NOTHING to improve the officiating in all his years as SEC Commish. He may point to various things he's done but the proof is on the field. Officiating has stunk at the level that hints at fixed games at times and that has not changed and in fact has gotten worse during the tenure of Mike Slime. Why don't the SEC presidents do something about it before they kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?

Chizik is actually spelled "Cheatsik".

There was obviously some level of serious interest on Gruden's part in coming to UT. We know that for a fact because of the numerous people he contacted about potentially coming to work for him as an assistant at UT. The most likely explanation is that the clueless UT administration wouldn't pull the trigger on the deal, unlike the Bama administration did with Saban.

Nutt has nothing on Phil Fulmer during his "retirement" years of 1999-2008. But your description of Nutt fits Phildo Fulmer perfectly. The difference is that he was allowed to do it for so long that the damage was so bad that it couldn't be fixed as quickly as Freeze has done it at Ole Miss.