Football is a funny game. During the course of a game, the drama unfolds as it does in no other sport. The momentum of the oblong-shaped ball creates unpredictable bounces that change entire games. Sometimes it changes the direction and futures of an entire football program.
One such game, was the 2007 Tennessee-South Carolina game. Tennessee fan, AtlantaVol, reports that the University of Tennessee was on the verge of firing head coach Phil Fulmer and negotiating a deal with Wake Forest and their coach, Jim Grobe.
"Heard from a friend of mine and yours just yesterday, that the firing of PF was VERY imminent last fall and would have probably been done if we hadn't lucked out the USC game against Spurrier. Apparently the staff at Wake Forest was in pretty involved talks with the UTAD and they were under the impression the UTAD was about to pull the trigger on PF. So we went from there to winning the USC, Vandy, and KY games on almost pure luck and this translated to Fulmer and his Agent virtually getting to write their own contract on Fulmer's kitchen table! Fulmer literally went from a missed FG against USC (or the fumble recovery by McClendon) in being fired to being able to write his own contract with THE most favorable terms a HC could EVER get! Amazing thing for true UT fans!"
Fellow UT fan and avid follower of the UT program, LWSVOL, confirmed the information.
Fate is just like a football. You never know which way it is going to bounce. In this case, "fate's football" took a strange bounce that rewarded its beleaguered coach, Phil Fulmer, with a fill in the details contract that many believe will set the program back further than it has already fallen over the past nine seasons.
Someone send a memo to the front office to restrict Tinkerbell's ration of magic dust.
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