Happy Leap Day! This comes around once ever four years, and for Tennessee football coaches recently, the ensuing season hasn’t been pretty. Each of the last three head coaches for UT had a very disappointing year following Leap Day, and it affected everything about their coaching tenure on Rocky Top.
Dating back to 2008, Phillip Fulmer got fired. A program that won the SEC East the year before stumbled to a 5-7 season and could never deal with the departure of David Cutcliffe. That was the year the Vols fell outside of the top 25 in the second week of the season and didn’t return for another four years.