Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson offered some sharp criticism of Tennessee and its new athletic director Phillip Fulmer in an interview with CBS Sports' Dennis Dodd.

"The athletic department there is perceived there as a cluster," Anderson told Dodd, according to a story Dodd published Thursday. "Their athletic director, now Phil Fulmer, in the athletic director's world is a pariah. It is not a good situation."

Fulmer seized the athletic director's role on Dec. 1, the day that John Currie was ousted after eight months on the job amid Currie's chaotic football coaching search.

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Fulmer completed the 26-day search to replace Butch Jones by announcing the hire of Jeremy Pruitt on Dec. 7.

Anderson made a curious move of his own during the coaching carousel, hiring former NFL coach Herm Edwards, an ESPN analyst, to coach the Sun Devils.

Anderson is a former NFL agent. Edwards was his client.

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Anderson also announced a restructuring of ASU's program to more of an NFL model using a general manager structure, with Edwards serving as overseer of ASU's "New Leadership Model."

Fulmer is a first-time administrator. He won 152 games in 17 seasons as Tennessee's coach, a stint that ended in 2008.