"Then there are those who were pulling for Fulmer to get the gig. Returning to Tuesday night's FCA banquet at the Colonnade off Battlefield Parkway will tell anyone all that needs to be known about how bitterly disappointed the Hall of Fame coach was at being passed over for the Vols AD post by new UT chancellor Beverly Davenport.
Fulmer was supposed to address the media before it became known that Currie had been hired. Afterward, he canceled all interviews, his emotions probably too raw to risk saying something he might later regret."
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/sports/columns/story/2017/mar/01/wiedmer-utc-should-be-happy-ut-chose-currie/415312/