You don't hire former coaches who were fired.
Fulmer gets fired by UTenn. He is subsequently hired and has now badmouthed UTenn and their former AD (who likely got fired in part because of this, although he did plenty to deserve it on his own), and now Fulmer completes the coup by becoming AD himself. They are officially the laughing stock of the sports world. I would prefer we don't enter that conversation by adding any of our former coaches back to the athletics department that we let go.
Fulmer gets fired by UTenn. He is subsequently hired and has now badmouthed UTenn and their former AD (who likely got fired in part because of this, although he did plenty to deserve it on his own), and now Fulmer completes the coup by becoming AD himself. They are officially the laughing stock of the sports world. I would prefer we don't enter that conversation by adding any of our former coaches back to the athletics department that we let go.