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The subpoena served on Tennessee Coach Phillip Fulmer overshadowed any discussion of players and strategy at the Southeastern Conference football Media Days Thursday, and it remains to be seen how much of a distraction the legal proceedings will pose to the Vols' season. UT will play at Auburn on Sept. 27 for what is typically a big conference game, but two days earlier, Fulmer has been ordered to give a deposition in Birmingham, Ala., in a libel and defamation case brought by a Chattanooga car dealer accused of paying $10,000 to an Alabama football signee in 2002. Fulmer could ask for the date to be changed, but the cloud of controversy created by Thursday's very public serving of the subpoena is likely to linger over the program until the case is resolved. "This is not the place for that kind of thing," Fulmer told reporters during his appearance in Alabama early Thursday. "There are great fans that have great passion about the Southeastern Conference that are not interested in that kind of (nonsense). And I would have some other choice words if there weren't so many cameras in here." SEC Commissioner Mike Slive also criticized the timing.

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July 25, 2008  09:10 AM ET
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Wht kind of DOOOSH does that?

July 25, 2008  10:12 AM ET
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A Bama fan.

this just goes to show you how much Bama hates Fulmer b/c he did rat them out. I'd have to side with Bama on the matter, but giving a man a subpoena in front of the media is a bit dramatic.

July 25, 2008  10:36 AM ET
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I didnt know the story at all just seemed kinda low class

July 25, 2008  10:40 AM ET
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Good!!!! He is a horrible coach anyway... I predict he won't be the coach of the Vols with in the next 4 years!!

July 25, 2008  11:12 AM ET
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Wasn't this guy informed that he would be served with a subpoena when/if he ever again showed his face in the state of AL? I don't think he would be foolish enough to allow himself to forget that so he had to be expecting it at some point.

July 25, 2008  11:16 AM ET
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This has SEC written all over it.

July 25, 2008  12:03 PM ET
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Hey, this is the same coach who blew off this same SEC media day two years ago so he couldn't be served a subpoena in Alabama. (He went last year because there was no way to avoid being in the state in 2007, since they played in Tuscaloosa.)

July 25, 2008  12:47 PM ET
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Sweet... sounds like a 'Bama thing to do. I would have rather given it to him at the half time interview when he was playing Bama. I can see it, the ESPN camera walks over to him... SO coach, what kind of mid-game adjustments are you going to have to make... crazy fans runs from stands and serves subpoena live on ESPN before getting donkey punched by cops.

July 25, 2008  12:52 PM ET
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The problem is that Fulmer has been avoiding this for 2 years. Everyone knew it was going to happen and if Fulmer had just been a man about it and come down and taken care of it 2 years ago, it wouldn't have ended up this public. I don't really have a dog in the fight other than what I know of Fulmer and how he stabbed Johnny Majors in the back to get the UT job to begin with.

July 25, 2008  01:24 PM ET
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haha I heard they surrounded his car and threw the subpeona at him. HAHA that is classic

July 25, 2008  02:31 PM ET
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He didnt catch the papers cause they didnt have a sub rapped up in them.

July 25, 2008  05:59 PM ET
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Fullmer is a dirt bag. He cost Michigan an undisputed national championship in 1997 by getting his arse kicked by Nebraska and then voted "M" fourth in the final coaches poll. I guess he was upset Manning didn't win the Heisman and needed some retribution. There was no way any unbiased voter could have voted "M" any where lower than second, which would have been enough for "M" to atop both polls.

July 25, 2008  10:23 PM ET
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Michigan7011, don't hold a grudge or anything

That was a long time ago, let it go. It sucked, we should have been national champs in both polls, but give it a rest already and let it go.

July 25, 2008  10:55 PM ET
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it is sad the only way alabama could get players was to buy them maybe their mad ,because Fullmer cannot be bought

 
July 26, 2008  03:14 PM ET
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