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Tennessee Volunteer Head Coach Phillip Fulmer: 2005 Season a Perfect Storm

GoVolsXtra’s Mark Burgess has a sort of year-end review of the 2005 football season. An excerpt:

The gloom of a 5-6 finish hasn’t worn off from a season thought to have so much promise.

In Fulmer’s mind, it took a cataclysmic combination of bad luck, bad bounces, bad football and bad chemistry to send the Vols off course.

“It was kind of like the Perfect Storm,” Fulmer said Thursday as he prepared for a brief Christmas break.

“Really, it took a lot of different variables to happen at kind of the same time. Whether it be schedule, whether it be injuries, or quarterbacks or inconsistencies of the receivers or offensive front, or penalties — we just never ended up doing much.”

Like the “Andrea Gail” stuck in the “Perfect Storm” of October 1991, the Vols’ became a sinking ship.

Rest in peace 2005.

Uh-huh.

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One Response to “Tennessee Volunteer Head Coach Phillip Fulmer: 2005 Season a Perfect Storm”

  1. View from Rocky Top » Blog Archive » Catastrophic Change and the Season of Which We Do Not Speak says:
    August 13th, 2006 at 10:43 pm

    [...] Coach Fulmer was ridiculed when he characterized the season as the Perfect Storm. Some media and fans interpreted this statement as an excuse, but I took it more as an explanation, and I never got the feeling that Fulmer was denying responsibility for the outcome. [...]