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Phil Fulmer Autographed Football

Item Number: 211

Estimated Value: 250 USD
Sold: 165 USD to FourthOfSix1958

Number of Bids: 5 - Bid History

Item Description

Autographed Football by head coach of the UT Vols, Phil Fulmer.

The dean of Southeastern Conference coaches, Fulmer has claimed a national championship, two conference titles and seven divisional crowns while winning better than three-quarters of his games. He also retains his rank atop the winning percentage list for coaches with at least 10 years experience in major college football.

VOLS UNDER FULMER

Selection as National and SEC coach of the year in 1998.
The first Tennessee team to post 13 victories in a single season, a record in 1998 that included an SEC championship and Tostitos Fiesta Bowl win for the national title.
Back-to-back SEC titles in 1997-98 and five Eastern Division crowns in the last 10 years. The Vols have won or tied for the division title seven times under Fulmer.
A record of 45-5 from 1995-98, the most victories over a four-year span in school history.
Six seasons finishing in the top 10 nationally and 13 seasons ranked in the top 25.
Seventeen Tennessee players have earned first-team All-America honors, including offensive tackle Arron Sears and wide receiver Robert Meachem in 2006 and placekicker Daniel Lincoln in 2007.
Sixteen first-round NFL selections since 1993 and a total of 90 players selected overall. The team’s five first-day 2007 NFL Draft picks were the most of any school and UT has led the SEC with the most players on opening-day NFL rosters each of the last two seasons.
Fifteen bowl games have welcomed the Vols, including 12 January bowl invitations.
In two of the last three seasons, Tennessee football has led the SEC in Academic Honor Roll recipients.

Yet Fulmer’s most cherished responsibility centers around the teaching and guidance of young student-athletes. He has built Tennessee football on a platform of “Family First” – something UT’s players and coaches say is this program’s greatest attribute.

And while his on-field accomplishments – like advancing the Vols to the 2007 SEC Championship Game and claiming 10 wins for the ninth time in 15 full seasons – have obvious allure, it’s the personal relationships that register most sincerely for Tennessee’s native son.

Now suddenly and – as is his nature – without fanfare, Fulmer finds himself within reach of a coaching milestone that stands near and dear to the hearts of all Volunteers.

Gen. Robert R. Neyland finished a hall of fame career in 1952 with 173 coaching victories. Fulmer enters the 2008 campaign with 147 coaching victories. Twenty-seven more wins breaks the gold standard in Big Orange Country.

Fulmer and his relentless Vols played in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta last season for the fifth time in 11 years.