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In case anyone has failed to notice, the once powerful University of Tennessee Volunteers college football team is having its worst season in over two decades.  With a current record of 3-7, the VOLS will not be appearing in a post season bowl game this year.  Their lack of offense has been the major contributor in the demise of what once was a perrenial national powerhouse in college football. 

 Not since 1988, when they began 0-6 before winning the remaining 5 games have the Vols faced such adversity.  The powers that be, the "boosters" placed enormous pressure on the UT Atheletic Department resulting in the forced dismissal of long time and former national championship coach Phillip Fulmer.  Fulmer took over the helm after a similar fiasco which led to then coach Johnny Major's resignation in 1991.  The result, to say the least, has left the Volunteer "Orange Nation" divided. 

Fulmer will coach the remaining games against Vanderbilt and Kentucky before vacating his position as head coach at UTK.  The situation has gotten so bad, that players have openly voiced disapproval of the decision which ends Fulmers tenure at UTK.  The university will pay Fulmer $6 million in the buyout of his contract.  The problems for UTK continue to mount as they have been rejected by South Carolina's Steve Spurrier, Duke's Butch Davis and other prominent coaches as well as the NFL's and Tampa Bay head coach Jon Gruden. 

Along with a miserable record, the Vols have fallen to the wayside in the recruiting wars for young high school talent.  These two items surely have led to Fulmer's dismissal, and a uncertain future for the Volunteer Football program.  In a season of pollitical change, change is sweeping across the Volunteer state and the UT Football program.