The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football program had something unique in the relationship between head coach Russ Huesman and Adam Fuller, the defensive coordinator who has accepted a job to help coach defense at Marshall.
Huesman and Fuller spent three seasons together at Richmond and four at UTC. Besides being good friends, they worked very well with each other because their thoughts on how to play defense were created together.
“Me and Adam kind of formulated what we wanted to do and how we wanted to do it,” Huesman said. “We researched it and developed a philosophy, and our philosophies are identical.”
Huesman said Fuller probably flew under the radar in the coaching world because they so often worked together. That limited Fuller’s exposure to other coaches.
“I think the reason Adam decided to do this and needed to do this is, it’s been me and him for a long time,” Huesman said. “Good coaches can go under the radar if that circle [of colleagues] isn’t very big, and thank goodness he’s gone under the radar as long as he has.”