Chris Rumph is entering his first season as the co-defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach at Tennessee, and he’s bringing in more than just a decade-plus of coaching experience.

While meeting with the media on Thursday, Rumph shared his philosophy on working with student-athletes and how it involves much more than football. In fact, he cares more about the events that don’t take place on the gridiron.

“I just try to be genuine and let them know, ‘I love you, man. I care about you. It’s more than football. It’s life,'” Rumph said, per Austin Price of Volquest.com. “And I tell them all the time, ‘If the only thing you learn from me is how to tackle, how to sack and all that stuff, then I’ve failed.’ I don’t just want to be a guy that’s going to teach you how to do that. I might as well leave, I don’t want to do that.

“I’m going to teach them how to be a man, how to be a father, how to be a husband, how to treat your wife, how to treat your kids, how to treat people. That’s what it’s all about. If we can do that, the world would be great.”

Rumph spent the last three seasons at Florida and previously was an assistant at Alabama, Texas and Clemson. And during all the time he’s spent with college football players, he has continued to learn about what his role is.

“It’s about these young men and producing them, because they’re our future,” Rumph said. “Unless you want them kicking in your door at night robbing you. If you don’t want that, then teach them. So that’s what we’ve got to do, we’ve got to teach them.”

Rumph added that football is a way to make people “mentally tough,” and that combining it with the morals he previously mentioned can be beneficial in the progression of the players he coaches.

For all of Rumph’s comments, watch the video below, courtesy of Price: