Philip Fulmer says Tennessee must continue to improve
KNOXVILLE — Life is a journey. So is a football season. From opening day to bowl day, a team hopes to keep getting better.
Tennessee’s opening day being a bust, the Vols came home to Neyland Stadium on Saturday anxious to move on down the road.
While a 35-3 victory over outmanned UAB on a sweltering afternoon wasn’t an unqualified success, it at least fell into the general category of progress.
“I do think we made improvement on some areas that we really worked hard on,” said coach Phillip Fulmer.
Moments later, though, Fulmer added an afterthought to set the mood for upcoming SEC battles with Florida and Auburn in the next two weeks:
“We can, we must, we will play better as we go along.”
That pretty well summed up Saturday’s script.
The Vols (1-1) led the 30-point underdog Blazers only 14-0 at halftime, thanks to a pair of Jonathan Crompton touchdown passes to Gerald Jones.
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9/14/08
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