Multiple sources have reported that University of Tennessee’s Phillip Fulmer will not be returning as the team’s football coach next year.
 

Fulmer has been a player, an assistant coach and a head coach for the Volunteers. As coach, he even led the Vols to the national championship in 1998. But a decade later, people want results they just aren't seeing.
 

ESPN has some of the specifics:

An announcement is planned for Monday afternoon at Neyland Stadium. Fulmer, who has won 150 games at his alma mater and is the dean of SEC coaches, met with Tennessee officials Monday morning, and they reached a mutual agreement that it would be best for all parties if Fulmer did not return next season.

The sides also agreed that the 58-year-old Fulmer would coach the remainder of the 2008 season, his 17th in Knoxville. He signed a new seven-year contract last summer that was worth $2.4 million this season. A buyout of the contract after this season would cost $6 million.

The Vols (3-6, 1-5 SEC) have lost three of their past four games and are in danger of posting their second losing season in the last four years.

This hardly sounds like a mutual decision. It seems "resignation" might just be a nice way of Fulmer's ass was fired. For more information, we’ll just have to wait for the official announcement this afternoon.

See ya Fulmer, it was fun while it lasted.