KNOXVILLE — Sports may be over at the University of Tennessee, but athletic director Phillip Fulmer is not taking much time off.
Early last week, the former Tennessee football player and national championship coach, partnered up with Vols’ mascot, Smokey, to read to Knox County Schools students a bedtime story on April 28.
Fulmer read the story, alongside Smokey, that chronicles the blue tick hound’s vacation where he journeyed throughout the Volunteer State to see and visit Vols fans before football season.
Smokey’s vacation stops took him to Neyland Stadium, the Sunsphere and Zoo Knoxville and then on to Dollywood and to the Bristol Motor Speedway.
The mascot also made stops to Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, Nashville and Graceland in Memphis.