Tennessee’s Tee Martin talks about his new job as the wide receivers coach at Kentucky, why he thought this was a great coaching opportunity and how weird it will be running into Neyland Stadium wearing Kentucky blue (run time is 4:36; transcript below the jump).
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Tee Martin Podcast: Lobos Remain a Pack
Despite an 0-6 start and the suspension of head coach Mike Locksley for Saturday’s game vs. UNLV, former Tennessee QB and current Lobos quarterback coach Tee Martin says the players remain united. Run time is 5:08.
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Tee Martin: MWC Reaching New Heights
On the heels of Utah’s shocking win in last year’s Sugar Bowl and the conference’s battle for an automatic BCS bid, Tee Martin compares today’s Mountain West Conference to the SEC when he played.
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Tee Martin: Back in The Big Leagues
In his first season as QB coach at New Mexico, Tee Martin talks about being back at the FBS level of college football.
This was my first time running out there as a coach for a major college football game, and I was definitely excited.
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Tee Martin: Playing Behind Peyton Manning
Tee Martin spent two years as Peyton Manning’s backup at Tennessee before leading the Volunteers to the 1998 national championship.
The experience of playing behind him was awesome. I just felt honored to be around him and his dad, Archie Manning. We learned a whole lot.
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Tee Martin: June 8th Mailbag
Q: T!!! How close were u to Phil Fulmer and where do you see him landing as a coach??? – Cedric Coles
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Tee Martin: Always a Vol, Now a Lobo As Well
The transition to New Mexico has been good. I was living in Atlanta before we moved here. To move my family out and get right into recruiting has been great. I took the job and two days after that I was on the road recruiting and we put together a really solid class. We signed 20 players in a matter of about six weeks – that was about all the time our staff had to put the class together. Then we went right into spring practice. We had a lot to put in for our quarterbacks – our offense and our defense – and the kids learned it pretty quickly.
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Tee Martin: Always a Vol, Now a Lobo As Well
The transition to New Mexico has been good. I was living in Atlanta before we moved here. To move my family out and get right into recruiting has been great. I took the job and two days after that I was on the road recruiting and we put together a really solid class. We signed 20 players in a matter of about six weeks – that was about all the time our staff had to put the class together. Then we went right into spring practice. We had a lot to put in for our quarterbacks – our offense and our defense – and the kids learned it pretty quickly.
Coach Locksley and I have known each other for awhile and his son, Meiko Locksley, was one of my clients for a quarterback academy that I had – so I had trained him before. So coach Locksley knew me as a quarterback coach and also because I was on the road with Nike, doing these Elite 11 quarterback camps around the country for the last two years.
I had an opportunity to not only meet coach Locksley but college coaches around the country. And that kind of piqued the interest of a few coaches, including Oregon. And I was in the mix with Oregon. Chip Kelly and I have a good relationship. It came down to two schools. I spoke with coach Kelly and coach Bellotti, it was a good situation and a great school, but I would have coached wide receivers (Editor’s Note: Oregon eventually hired former Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost). And that was something I wasn’t looking forward to doing. And coach Locksley offered me the opportunity to coach quarterbacks so I interviewed and a couple days after that, I decided that to have the opportunity to coach quarterbacks in the spread offense was intriguing to me.
To come back to a Division 1 college is exciting. I played at a high level at Tennessee and I understand the expectations of the Division 1 level, especially for quarterbacks. I feel like this is the right position I’m supposed to be in. So I’m excited about the opportunity. I think we have a good group of quarterbacks and coach Locksley’s system is very explosive and we’re going to put points on the board.
We’re all ready to go!
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