On Sunday, UT athletic director Phillip Fulmer did an interview on 99.1 The Sports Animal in Knoxville’s “The Nation.” In the interview, he discussed a range of topics, largely related to the SEC’s and Rocky Top’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak. But beyond COVID-19, there were some interesting takeaways related to Tennessee football as well.
Of all of Fulmer’s successes from his days as a head coach, he had two major strengths nobody could ignore. One was coaching in the trenches. That’s no surprise, as he was a captain and starting offensive lineman for three straight top 10 teams and an SEC Championship team in the late 1960s and early 1970s and then spent 19 years coaching linemen at three different schools.