Phillip Fulmer
Phillip Fulmer
Phillip Edward Fulmer, Sr.is a former American football player and coach. He served as head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers football team from 1992 to 2008, compiling a 152–52 record. He is best known for coaching the Volunteers in the first ever BCS National Championship Game in 1998, defeating Florida State University. Fulmer was the Volunteers' 20th head football coach...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 September 1950
CityWinchester, TN
He's probably going to have to go home,
dust fix magic
If I could sprinkle magic dust on it, heck, I'd fix it.
five handling last learned year
I learned a lot last year about myself, and about even these last five months, of handling this whole scenario.
days early guess stamp
I guess it will be real important. Going back to my early days that was a big deal. You put your stamp on a team, on a program.
decisions easily handed looks personnel season tough whatever
In my 13 years, I've not had a season like this. I have never had anything that was easily handed to me and this (season) is not easy. We'll make whatever tough decisions need to be made ... personnel looks that need to be made. We're going to get this thing back on track.
cleared couple days five issue six wait
The clearinghouse issue hasn't been cleared up. It may be cleared up in two days, five days, six months, I don't know. If it's just a couple of days he could come right back, but if it's too long he'll have to wait and come in January.
apparently both field muddy ours
The field was covered, ... Apparently it drains off really well like ours does. If it's a little muddy, it's muddy on both sides.
burst coaster control emotional happens intense lick lose roller time together win
The emotional roller coaster and the need to win is so intense that for the wives, who have no control over what happens on the field, there are times when you want to burst into tears, ... You don't have time to celebrate, and you don't have time to lick your wounds. We win together and we lose together.
extremely gotten group kids liked loves men quite staff talking worked
This is a group of very, very prideful men as a staff that we're talking about that loves the program, loves the kids and has worked extremely hard. We just, offensively, haven't been able to get it done quite like we would have liked to have gotten it done.
both business guys help injured positions
All the positions are not where we need them to be yet and, certainly, getting some of the injured guys back will help us. But I like the way our guys go about their business on both sides.
gets good guys kept nobody note plays sure three
I'm sure he's kept every note he's ever taken, and he was a very good note taker. We usually have two or three guys signaling in plays so nobody gets a bead on what we're doing, but this could be a distraction if we're not careful.