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NASHVILLE — Super Bowl champion quarterback Trent Dilfer is in his first season as head coach for Lipscomb Academy in Nashville.
Dilfer has guided the Mustangs to the playoffs in his first season.
Lipscomb Academy defeated Grace Christian Academy in the second round of the playoffs, 45-21.
Dilfer discussed becoming a head coach for the first time on Fox Sports Knoxville’s radio show ‘Tennessee Two-A-Days’.
The entire show with Dilfer can be listened to below.
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The former NFL quarterback also detailed his thoughts on Tennessee’s football program under second-year head coach Jeremy Pruitt.
“Give him a couple of more years and he will get this thing right where he wants it,” Dilfer said of Pruitt.
“They are tougher,” Dilfer continued. “They are better coached, more physical, they’re smarter. It’s a smart football team. They still do not have all their folks they need. I think it’s going to take a couple more years to get the ammunition, so to speak, but they play a good style of football – a smart style of football.
“They are well coached and you can see the toughness. That’s the biggest thing to me that jumps out under Jeremy’s leadership is how much tougher they are. That is probably the number one thing in the SEC, is you better be physically and mentally tough to go through the riggers of the SEC. That’s what I tell people and I think people are starting to see it.”