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Hey guys, don't hate on the Vols, after all Fat Phil is coming back!!! That's reason to celebrate.

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Lol before Arkansas game AD Mike Hamilton was rumored to have told Phil this game was a must win of he wanted to stay at TN, now we are in the SEC title game and there was an article in the Knoxville paper this week discussing a contract extension and raise!!!

As a UT fan and alumni I am happy to go support my Vols in Atlanta this weekend but would have been just as happy to lose to Ark and send Phil packing. Now we have to wait through a few more years of Phils plan to minimize the talent of a team with top 5 or 10 potential. Players under Phil are best as freshmen as he "dumbs them down" so by their upper class years they have lost a lot of the talent they brought to the picture. Some of Phils stats are:

(not including 2007 season)


Years without SEC title: 8
Years without BCS bowl: 7
Years without top 10 ranking: 5
Years without AP Top 25 ranking: 2000, 2002, 2005, (2006-25th)
Years with 3 or more losses: 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (6 straight years and 8 out of 9 )
Years with multiple losses to unranked teams: 2003, 2005
Years with loss in last 2 games of season: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (EIGHT straight years and counting)
4-8 (.333) vs. Spurrier: (2-3 since 1998 )
3-4 (.429) vs. Richt
1-3 (.250) vs. Tuberville
1-3 (.250) vs. Saban
0-3 (.000) vs. Meyer
10-17 (.370) 1999 - present vs. FL, GA, LSU, AUB (thank God for Zook!)
8-16 (.333 ) 2000 - present vs. FL, GA, LSU, AUB
6-15 (.286) 2000 - present vs. FL, GA, LSU, AUB excluding games vs. Zook
6-13 (.316) 2000 - present vs. FL, GA, AUB
4-12 (.250) 2000 - present vs. FL, GA, AUB excluding games vs. Zook
6-10 (.375) 2000 - present vs. FL, GA
4-9 (.308) 2000 - present vs. FL, GA excluding games vs. Zook
3-5 (.375) 2000 - present vs. GA
8-16 (.333) vs. Top 10 teams 1999 - present
1-6 (.142) vs. Top 10 teams at home 2000 - present
6-14 (.300) vs. Top 10 teams 2000 - present
18-21 (.462) vs. Ranked Teams 1999 - present
2-5 (.285) Bowl games since 1998 (all double digit losses)
2-7 (.222) Postseason record since 1998 including SECCG (all double digit losses)


With this type of performance, hell why not give him a raise? I love Tennessee and my blood runs as orange as ever but the university's love affair with Phil and his decade old acomplishments are getting old!!