Thursday, March 4, 2010

Tee Martin Joins UK Football Staff

We were partaking of lunch at Captain Woody's in Bluffton, SC, and I saw a guitar with the UK insignia and painted in the hue of blue. A moment pasted and I said to the staff, what's up with UK, nobody has covered! So, here it is, (better late than never) Tee Martin, former National Football League quarterback and national championship QB at Tennessee, is the new wide receivers coach at Kentucky, Coach Joker Phillips has announced.
“Tee has a great ability to relate and communicate with young people,” Phillips said. “I had a chance to watch him coach (current Wildcat) Matt Roark in high school and I was impressed with how he handled himself. I think he'll be a tremendous asset in recruiting. He is very well-known in Atlanta and other areas in the South.”
Martin comes to UK from the University of New Mexico, where he was quarterbacks coach during the 2009 season. Under Martin's guidance, Lobo QB Donovan Porterie threw for 2,411 yards and 12 touchdowns.
Prior to UNM, Martin was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at North Atlanta High School in the 2008 season. He was the QB coach and passing game coordinator at North Cobb High School (Kennesaw, Ga.) in 2007, helping the Warriors to a 10-1 record in the Class AAAAA ranks. Roark was the team's senior quarterback that year and he completed 72.1 percent of his passes for 1,552 yards and 15 touchdowns. Roark was the Cobb County Player of the Year and honorable-mention all-state by the Georgia Sportswriters Association and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Martin also has been a coach for the Elite 11 Quarterback Camps (2007-08), Nike football training camps (2007-08) and the Nike Combine Tour (2008). He has mentored and evaluated more than 1,000 quarterbacks, including more than 30 Division I signees. He also created the “Dual Threat” Quarterback Camp and Academy in Atlanta in 2008.

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