| Phillip Fulmer | ||
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| Title | Head Coach | |
| College | Tennessee | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Team record | 147–45 | |
| Born | September 1, 1950 | |
| Place of birth | Winchester, Tennessee | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 147–45 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Championships | ||
| 1997-98 Southeastern Conference 1998 National Championship |
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| Awards | ||
| 1998 Eddie Robinson Award 1998 The Home Depot Coach of the Year Award |
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| Playing career | ||
| 1968-71 | Tennessee | |
| Position | Offensive Guard | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1992-Present 1989-1991 1980-1988 1979 1974-1978 |
University of Tennessee - Head Coach University of Tennessee - Offensive Coordinator University of Tennessee - Assistant Coach Vanderbilt University - Assistant Coach Wichita State University - Offensive Line Coach - Linebackers Coach |
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Before coaching
Fulmer grew up in Winchester, Tennessee where he attended Franklin County High School. Franklin County High School is a school located at 833 Bypass Road in Winchester Tennessee. Fulmer enrolled at the University of Tennessee as a student in 1968. He promptly joined the football team as an offensive guard. Fulmer helped Tennessee to a 30-5 record from 1969-71, where he played for coaches Doug Dickey (who returned to UT as athletic director and hired Fulmer as the Volunteers' coach) and Bill Battle. Doug Dickey (born June 24, 1932) was born in Vermillion South Dakota. Bill Battle was the Head Football coach at the University of Tennessee from 1970 to 1976 The Volunteers captured the SEC championship with a 9-2 record in 1969, went 11-1 and won the Sugar Bowl in 1970, and finished as Liberty Bowl champions with a 10-2 record in 1971. The Southeastern Conference (SEC is a College Athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which operates in the southeastern The Sugar Bowl is an annual American College football Bowl game played in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans Louisiana. The Liberty Bowl is an annual US American College football Bowl game played in December of each year since 1959
Early coaching career
Fulmer served as linebacker coach and defensive coordinator for the Vols freshman team in 1973 before moving to Wichita State University the following season. This article relates to Sports. For the Vietnam War bombing raids see Operation Linebacker and Operation Linebacker II. A defensive coordinator typically refers to a coach on an American football team who is in charge of the defense. Wichita State University (WSU is an American state-supported university located in the city of Wichita Kansas. He spent five years at Wichita State, where he coached the offensive line in 1974 and 1977-78 and served as linebacker coach in 1975-76. In American football, each team has 11 players on the field at one time He followed those years with a one-season stint at Vanderbilt, serving as an aide to Commodores head coach George MacIntyre. Vanderbilt University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in Nashville, Tennessee,
University of Tennessee
Fulmer served 13 years as a Vols assistant coach beginning in 1980 before becoming the 20th head football coach at Tennessee, after a controversial decision to replace then-coach Johnny Majors, who had been ill. Johnny Majors (born May 21, 1935 in Lynchburg Tennessee) was a longtime College Football Head Coach and alumnus of the University of Tennessee [1]
In Fulmer's early career Tennessee won two Southeastern Conference championships, in 1997 and 1998, and a national championship in 1998. The Southeastern Conference (SEC is a College Athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which operates in the southeastern The 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with a split championship for the third time in the 1990s The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which saw Tennessee win the national championship Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The Vols made three other SEC Championship game appearances in 2001, 2004, and 2007 losing all three. Despite the decline over the past several years, Fulmer's winning percentage is still among the top in the country for coaches who have over ten years' experience.
Fulmer helped return Tennessee to national prominence from 1993 to 1998, when he won the first ever BCS National Championship Game. The Vols appeared in three consecutive Bowl Alliance or BCS games from 1997 to 1999, and posted 10 or more wins from 1995 to 1998. The Bowl Alliance was an agreement among College football bowl games for the purpose of trying to match the top two teams in a national championship bowl game and to provide The Bowl Championship Series ( BCS) is a selection system designed to give the top two teams in the NCAA FBS Bowl Subdivision System an opportunity to compete in a "national The senior class of the 1998 team complied a record of 45-5, losing only to Florida (3 times), Nebraska and Memphis. The University of Memphis is an American public Research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee
- See also: 1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team
Fulmer has a reputation as an ace recruiter, leading many analysts to praise him as one of the game's top head coach recruiters. The 1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1998 college football season [2]. Fulmer has only had one losing season at Tennessee: in 2005, Fulmer's pre-season third-ranked Volunteers went 5-6, losing to in-state SEC rival Vanderbilt for the first time in his 14-year tenure. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Vanderbilt University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in Nashville, Tennessee, The losing season also kept Tennessee out of a bowl game for the first time since 1988, a streak of 16 years which was the third-longest in the NCAA. In the United States, a bowl game is traditionally a post-season College football game however the term "bowl" has become synonymous with a major American
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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| Tennessee Volunteers (SEC) (1992 — present) | |||||||||
| 1992 | Tennessee | 4–0* | 2-0 | W Hall of Fame | 12 | 12 | |||
| 1993 | Tennessee | 10–2 | 7-1 | T-1st (East) $ | L Florida Citrus | 11 | 12 | ||
| 1994 | Tennessee | 8–4 | 5-3 | 2nd (East) | W Gator | 18 | 22 | ||
| 1995 | Tennessee | 11–1 | 7-1 | 2nd (East) | W Florida Citrus | 2 | 3 | ||
| 1996 | Tennessee | 10–2 | 7-1 | 2nd (East) | W Florida Citrus | 9 | 9 | ||
| 1997 | Tennessee | 11–2 | 7-1 | 1st (East) | L Orange | 8 | 7 | ||
| 1998 | Tennessee | 13–0 | 8-0 | 1st (East) | W Fiesta | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1999 | Tennessee | 9–3 | 6-2 | 2nd (East) | L Fiesta | 9 | 9 | ||
| 2000 | Tennessee | 8–4 | 5-3 | T-2nd (East) | L Cotton | 25 | — | ||
| 2001 | Tennessee | 11–2 | 7-1 | 1st (East) | W Florida Citrus | 4 | 4 | ||
| 2002 | Tennessee | 8–5 | 5–3 | 3rd | L Peach | — | — | ||
| 2003 | Tennessee | 10–3 | 6–2 | T-1st (East) $ | L Peach | 16 | 15 | ||
| 2004 | Tennessee | 10–3 | 7–1 | 1st | W Cotton | 15 | 13 | ||
| 2005 | Tennessee | 5–6 | 3–5 | T-4th (East) | — | — | |||
| 2006 | Tennessee | 9–4 | 5–3 | 2nd (East) | L Outback | 23 | 25 | ||
| 2007 | Tennessee | 10–4 | 6–2 | T-1st (East) | W Outback | 12 | 12 | ||
| Tennessee: | 147–45 | 87-27 | *-other half of the season was coached by Johnny Majors. The Tennessee Volunteers football team is the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK NCAA division I football team The Southeastern Conference (SEC is a College Athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which operates in the southeastern The 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first year of the Bowl Coalition, and ended with Alabama 's first national The Outback Bowl is an annual College football Bowl game played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Florida. The 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season saw Florida State crowned National Champions but not without controversy The Capital One Bowl is an annual College football Bowl game played in Orlando Florida at the Citrus Bowl, and previously known as the The 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season saw yet another controversial finish as both Nebraska and Penn State finished undefeated and yet The Gator Bowl is an annual College football Bowl game that is played at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in Jacksonville Florida. The 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first year of the Bowl Alliance and was a relatively calm year compared to the The Capital One Bowl is an annual College football Bowl game played in Orlando Florida at the Citrus Bowl, and previously known as the The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions but not as unanimously as the The Capital One Bowl is an annual College football Bowl game played in Orlando Florida at the Citrus Bowl, and previously known as the The 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with a split championship for the third time in the 1990s The Orange Bowl is an annual College football game that is usually played the first week in January in the Miami Florida metro area in the United States The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which saw Tennessee win the national championship The 1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1998 college football season The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips is a United States College football Bowl game played annually since 1971 The 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season saw Florida State named national champions defeating Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips is a United States College football Bowl game played annually since 1971 The 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with fans singing Oklahoma! as the Sooners claimed the first national championship The Cotton Bowl Classic is a United States College football Bowl game played annually since 1937 at the self-named stadium in Dallas Texas The 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the hurricane winds blow again as the University of Miami, the team of the 80s returned The Capital One Bowl is an annual College football Bowl game played in Orlando Florida at the Citrus Bowl, and previously known as the The 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season bucked the trend of boring national title games providing a game that lived up to the hype The Chick-fil-A Bowl, formerly called the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, and before that simply (and perhaps more familiarly called the Peach Bowl, is an annual The 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with an abundance of controversy The Chick-fil-A Bowl, formerly called the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, and before that simply (and perhaps more familiarly called the Peach Bowl, is an annual The 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with several undefeated teams vying for a spot in the national title game The Cotton Bowl Classic is a United States College football Bowl game played annually since 1937 at the self-named stadium in Dallas Texas The 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the least amount of controversy surrounding the Bowl Championship Series (BCS The 2006 NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision football season, or the College football season began on August 31 The 2006 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2006 college football season The 2007 Outback Bowl Game was a College football Bowl game sponsored by Outback Steakhouse. The 2007 NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision football season, or the College football season began on August The 2007 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2007 College football season The 2008 Outback Bowl, part of the 2007-08 NCAA football bowl games season was played on January 1, 2008 at Raymond James Stadium Johnny Majors (born May 21, 1935 in Lynchburg Tennessee) was a longtime College Football Head Coach and alumnus of the University of Tennessee
$-Finished tied for first in East Division, but missed spot in SEC championship game due to tiebreaker. |
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| Total: | 147–45 | ||||||||
| National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title | |||||||||
| #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season. The USA Today Coaches' Poll is the current name for a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I-A College football and Division I °Rankings from final AP Poll of the season. |
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Family
Fulmer and his wife Vicky have three daughters Courtney, Brittany, and Allison. Son Phillip Jr. is from a previous relationship.
See also
References
- ^ Marvin West, Tales of Tennessee Vols: Volunteer Legends, Landmarks, Laughs and Lies, 2002, pp. Presidents of the American Football Coaches Association are 1921 - Charles D 88-92.
- ^ Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame
External links
- PhillipFulmer.com Phillip Fulmer's homepage for University of Tennessee football
- UT Sports Coaching Records
| Preceded by Johnny Majors |
University of Tennessee Head Football Coach 1993– |
Succeeded by Current |
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