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A superstar coach in the SEC will resign/retire.
The league's coaching ranks have become too crowded with A-listers for everyone to survive. Five guys have won national titles: LSU's Les Miles, Florida's Urban Meyer, Alabama's Nick Saban, Tennessee's Phil Fulmer and South Carolina's Steve Spurrier. A sixth (Auburn's Tommy Tuberville) has a 13-0 record on his résumé. Three more (Georgia's Mark Richt, Arkansas' Bobby Petrino and Mississippi's Houston Nutt) have at least one 10-win season. One guy (Kentucky's Rich Brooks) has taken a team to the Rose Bowl. And we haven't even mentioned the league's reigning coach of the year (Mississippi State's Sylvester Croom). That leaves one school -- Vanderbilt, natch -- without a coach who has some big-time bragging rights on his résumé.

Problem is, not all the big winners can win big. And when this season is over, the guess here is that someone will decide (or be convinced) that it's time to get out of the sausage factory. Leading candidates: Fulmer and Spurrier.

Rich Brooks has already named a successor, so it is possible/likely his retirement could come soon. You see anyone else possibly hanging it up after this year?
 
What school did Rich Brooks take to the Rose Bowl? And also, IMO, Fulmer and Spurrier both will leave on their own terms, when they want.
 
shipley00 said:
Didn't they just sign Foolmer to a long term deal?

Boy I hope so!! :D I absolutely love him being the TN coach. Look at last years Alabama/Tennessee game to see one of many reasons why.
 
I can certainly see it out of Fulmer. Finishing third behind Georgia and Florida (at best) with not bode well for optimism for UT's future, and past police blotters are not enough to endear him to the masses. UT will still have strong drawing power for coaches and this may be the time for UT to make a move.

But can you imaging what level of coach they would have to get to make a splash in this conference?
 
Not only that, but he would probably have to be the best recruiter in the conference also. It isn't like UT is sitting in a hotbed of recruits. They have to go global. We all like to rag on Phatimus, but I'll admit that the guy has done one hell of a job for about 12 yrs. He has just run into a wall of other more competent coaches as of late. that plus the fact that UT has to search far outside their backyard for players makes him a dead man.
 
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