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
compete continue positions questions
Most of our questions are about second-team positions so ... you can continue to compete for those. The one or two that are first-team positions, yeah, we'd like to have those settled.
chris hope robert waiting
You keep waiting for that to happen, for Chris Hannon to come out of the pack, for Robert Meachem to come out of the pack. I hope they're all good.
neck serious somebody unless
Unless you've been around somebody that's had one of those serious neck injuries, you just don't know how devastating it can be.
tough work
We have a lot of work to do when we go back home. It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season.
chance chasing choice compete hostile obviously
We're obviously chasing now, but you really don't have any choice if you want to have a chance to go and compete in a very hostile environment.
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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.
dust fix magic
If I could sprinkle magic dust on it, heck, I'd fix it.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.