Fulmer has contacted Tee Martin (Feldman)

[VolArmy74]

Better Tee than Tucker. I almost hate it for what it would likely mean for his long term career but he'd get set for life at worst.

 

[Smokey7]

Let's get it! "..have fun winning championships!" - Living legend Phil. It feels like 1998!
Go Vols! Make it happen!

 

[griddie]

Bring Tee home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As OC yes

 

[Bluetic]

Not as a HC but possibly as OC.

Wtf, would Phil be hiring coordinators? :blink:

 

[Carp]

 

[Cobb-Webb 1989]

Chill out. Fulmer had to call him for the future and to make sure the relationship is still good. Tee could be in the picture for the next time there is a HC hire or for the OC this time.

Thanks Vicky

 

[VEKZY]

Tee > Tucker > Steele

 

[GOVOLS 1]

Not as a HC but possibly as OC.

That's fine with me, just get him back

 

[Snapper58]

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[billwilson]

Oc imo.

Will Fulmer hire every coach on the new staff? Why stop at coordinators?

 

[rgvol]

No Poll needed bring Tee home

 

[GOVOLS 1]

It's funny how people don't think someone they don't even know is ready or not for a particular job

 

[slickvol]

Good, just hire Tee and be done with these other coordinators. If Phil is really going to roll the dice on UTs future then might as well be with one of our own.

You are right. If coordinator is going to be hired it might as well be Tee.

 

[Squatch_Vol]

This is all getting a little odd. Does anyone else something bigger may be happening? Why interview 2 DC's today for the 2nd time and then a report comes out that Tee Martin conversation was positive.

I’ve been thinking the same thing. Any chance Phil is actually helping put a staff together? Maybe some of these discussions are about assembling a staff for a head coach that’s already signed. (i.e. Les Miles)

 

[SDV]

Yes!!

 

[TexasVolfan1]

[twitter]https://twitter.com/treyw_radio/status/938126178547830784[/twitter]

 

[johnsonbrewer]

This is all getting a little odd. Does anyone else something bigger may be happening? Why interview 2 DC's today for the 2nd time and then a report comes out that Tee Martin conversation was positive.

Hes doing the public interviews for the HC who hasnt been named yet

 

[BJSforVols]

I don't want him for head coach, but that definitely needed to be done by Fulmer. Hope it was to gauge interest in the OC position under one of these defensive-minded coaches we'll probably be hiring.

Doubt it’s that. Fulmer will not interfere with the Head Coach hiring the staff he wants.

 

[KBVol]

[twitter]https://twitter.com/brucefeldmancfb/status/938122490030776320[/twitter]

Tamaurice Nigel “Tee” Martin.....bring him to me.

 

[johnsonbrewer]

Doubt it’s that. Fulmer will not interfere with the Head Coach hiring the staff he wants.

Maybe he's working with the new HC

 

[MT LeConte]

Just bring Tee back by tomorrow and let him start recruiting. There, was that so hard?

 

[UT_King]

Everyone > Tee > Steele

 

[Olive Branch Vol]

Better Tee than Tucker. I almost hate it for what it would likely mean for his long term career but he'd get set for life at worst.

I watched Memphis fans beg their AD to hire a beloved former Tiger, Larry Porter, who had been SEC recruiter of the year and had been part of an SEC staff that had won big. Despite some successes, his resume was thin. Coach Porter was hired and from day one he was outmatched. Loving Memphis wasn’t enough. He simply wasn’t ready for the big chair. It was a disastrous hire, nothing went right, and it nearly destroyed the man, to say nothing of what it did to Tiger football.

I don’t have a clue if Tee Martin is ready to be a head coach or not. I’d love to see him come to Knoxville and have great success. But I don’t want to see him live what I watched Larry Porter live. That would be awful.

 

[wmcovol]

Tee is OC in title only. Helton calls majority of plays and probably develops the game plan.

Please quit comparing Tee to Kirby Smart.
1) Smart WAS DC under Saban and coached the defense. Very clear watching bama play. He was DC for several yrs.
2) Smart inherited a program that was averaging 9 wins a season under Richt with a lot of talented players on campus. New coach at Tennessee isn't going to have that luxury.

 

[NuffSaid1618]

If it's for hc then it seems we had bigger names using the last AD

Yes. Bigger rumors. Lots of rejections. Dave Doeren rejected us for 5 years at $15 million under Currie. Let that sink in. P5 head coaches do not change that often unless there is already a connection there from the past. Fulmer knows that.