Tennessee Vols: Tee Martin Still Has Love For The Volunteers

Former Tennessee Vols quarterback Tee Martin is the offensive coordinator at USC.

Tennessee Vols fans will always have a special place in their heart for Tee Martin.

As well they should — Martin led the team to a BCS championship win in 1998.

But it’s understandable why some fans might wonder how Martin feels about his alma mater.

Martin was hired by Lane Kiffin in 2012 as USC’s wide receivers coach. That move immediately angered Vol fans, since Kiffin had just abruptly left Tennessee in 2010 to be the Trojans’ head coach.

If that wasn’t bad enough, Martin passed on taking the wide receivers coaching job at Tennessee in 2012 after Butch Jones was hired. Martin flew to Knoxville and spoke with Jones, but left without taking the job.

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Obviously there’s a lot more to taking a job than just the fact that Martin went to school at Tennessee, but it still left a bad taste in the mouths of some Vol fans.

At the end of the day, however, it just wasn’t a good fit for either party.

Martin may be committed to his job at USC, but he still has plenty of love for Tennessee, as evidenced by his response to a recent tweet.

Nice! https://t.co/2fNWE1KfMS
— Tee Martin (@coachtee17) May 11, 2017

Ok so it’s not that big of a deal, but it’s still nice to see that Tennessee means something to Martin.

Honestly, it seems silly to even question what UT means to Martin. National championship winning quarterbacks are few and far between. Martin is part of an exclusive group and he owes part of that to Tennessee.

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There’s no doubt that Martin, regardless of where he’s employed, will always be a VFL.

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