Chris Low is the latest writer to say that Phillip Fulmer made yesterday’s subpoena scenario worse by not just admitting that he’d received the thing and moving on.
Heck, he could have even mocked the silliness of it if he had wanted to and he would have gotten the support of the media, who also feel it’s silly.
But he didn’t. And Low calls him on it in his espn.com blog:
At one point I asked him specifically if he had been served a subpoena after he’d just finished telling a group of reporters that “somebody was just screwing around.”
Fulmer’s response was a very firm, “No, I haven’t seen anything.”
Then came another denial. Fulmer was asked if anybody came to visit him while he was getting out of his vehicle.
“No, I didn’t see anybody particularly that wasn’t a fan or wanting an autograph that I didn’t recognize. …I didn’t see anything. You guys are asking me about something I really don’t know anything about at this particular point.”
Low goes on to write, “Tennessee fans had better hope Fulmer handles his team better this season than he did this whole subpoena fiasco.”
Wow.
UPDATE — Keep your eyes right here on MrSEC.com for another new twist on the subpoena story that our Jimmy Hyams has uncovered in Birmingham.
According to UT sports information director Bud Ford (the man Fulmer supposedly handed the subpoena to yesterday), the paperwork received by Fulmer DOES NOT MATCH the paperwork received by the press.
Now, Tennessee officials are wondering if Fulmer was even presented with an actual LEGAL document.
More as it develops.
And whether the document was legal or not, Fulmer still could have come out smelling like a rose on this… had he only told the truth.
