Johnny Majors Fired!!!

[Jax_Vol]

Butch, I served with Jonny Majors. I knew Johnny Majors. Johnny Majors was a friend of mine. Butch, you're no Johnny Majors.

 

[vettefool]

dickey was our last great ad. it was all about football and winning. he couldn't give a crap about anything else.

I have mixed feelings about his a.d. tenure. He did put fulmer in as coach but wasn’t too good at hiring basketball coaches. Don’t think our minor sports excelled either.
Doug Dickey was arguely the second best football coach we’ve had. If he had not left us for florida I believe he would have eventually won a national champ ship. I’ll never forgive him for that. Always wondered the whole story as to why he left.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

I have mixed feelings about his a.d. tenure. He did put fulmer in as coach but wasn’t too good at hiring basketball coaches. Don’t think our minor sports excelled either.
Doug Dickey was arguely the second best football coach we’ve had. If he had not left us for florida I believe he would have eventually won a national champ ship. I’ll never forgive him for that. Always wondered the whole story as to why he left.

Dickey tried to hire a good basketball coach to replace Devoe. But after Lamar Alexander forced him to hire Wade, DAD probably said the hell with basketball. He was also jealous of Ray Mears when they were both UT coaches.

 

[ksgovols]

Major fail by ksgovols trying to teach us something he tried to learn from Wikipedia.

Can always count on a Majors apologist every time his coaching record is brought into question. No Wiki needed (or I wouldn't have messed up on the North Texas State deal). I lived all of this.

I liked Coach Majors in the moment, but Fulmer got us to the next level off of CJM's foundation. Butch probably shouldn't survive this season, but CJM survived plenty of similar seasons. 0-6 to start 1988 in year 12? Yeah, that gets almost any SEC coach fired these days.

 

[PEPPERJAX]

No, Butch never went 0-6. LOL

Butch never won 3 SEC titles but ok.

 

[114VOL]

Majors had lost the locker room. His years of hard drinking had caught up with him and he was in poor health.

Fulmer showed that the same team would play and win for him. When Johnny came back, they quit playing hard again.

I'm a Johnny Majors fan, but it was time for him to quit coaching. He really stayed on with Pitt longer than he should have.

Much like an old boxer that takes those last few fights that they shouldn't. Ali will always be "The Greatest". Elvis will always be "The King". But their time passed. It happens.

It's a false narrative that he was a "hard" drinker. He liked his bourbon but his drinking was nowhere near the problem as ignorant fans like you have made it out to be throughout the years. If he had drank as much as some say he did, he wouldn't be alive today.

He didn't lose the locker room either. It was split. Another completely false narrative that ignorant fans like you have perpetuated over the years.

Like another poster said, he got fired because he spoke out one too many times about the AD and boosters.

It didn't help that Fulmer privately campaigned for the job with then President Joe Johnson. Fulmer felt that Majors came back too soon from his surgery and disrupted the team, which was probably true. Majors bitterness is more directed at Fulmer than to the University.

Johnny was the only big name hire UT has made in my lifetime. Dickey wasn't a big name. Neither were Battle or Fulmer

 

[Jasongivm6]

Majors could out drink Pat Dye any day.

 

[ksgovols]

Majors could out drink Pat Dye any day.

Meh, a tie.

 

[UT Hill Man]

i know im in a minority here being older than most on this site , but im getting tired of all the johnny majors bashing here, I was coached by his dad and met him on occasion in winchester. We really need to show some respect for our great playes and coaches and let some things go. No one is perfect but he is and always will be a VOL.

You got that right. Johnny was a man. He could hold his liquor and stay out late, and answer the bell the next morning. Tough as nails he was. Maybe that's why the ladies liked him so much. They don't make men like Coach Majors anymore.

 

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[Thunder Good-Oil]

Can always count on a Majors apologist every time his coaching record is brought into question. No Wiki needed (or I wouldn't have messed up on the North Texas State deal). I lived all of this.

I liked Coach Majors in the moment, but Fulmer got us to the next level off of CJM's foundation. Butch probably shouldn't survive this season, but CJM survived plenty of similar seasons. 0-6 to start 1988 in year 12? Yeah, that gets almost any SEC coach fired these days.

It got a legendary, Bear Bryant defensive coordinator that was also a VFL fired. CKD was also the defensive mastermind behind one of the most beloved teams UT has ever fielded. CKD's game plan in the 1986 Sugar Bowl elevated TN to a level that they had not sniffed but once (1970) or twice (1967) in several decades. Majors reacted and fixed it. TN went on to one of the greatest runs in it's history after putting up that 0-6.

 

[Slydell]

It's a false narrative that he was a "hard" drinker. He liked his bourbon but his drinking was nowhere near the problem as ignorant fans like you have made it out to be throughout the years. If he had drank as much as some say he did, he wouldn't be alive today.

He didn't lose the locker room either. It was split. Another completely false narrative that ignorant fans like you have perpetuated over the years.

Like another poster said, he got fired because he spoke out one too many times about the AD and boosters.

It didn't help that Fulmer privately campaigned for the job with then President Joe Johnson. Fulmer felt that Majors came back too soon from his surgery and disrupted the team, which was probably true. Majors bitterness is more directed at Fulmer than to the University.

Johnny was the only big name hire UT has made in my lifetime. Dickey wasn't a big name. Neither were Battle or Fulmer

I was around during those times and saw things for myself. Majors was a hard drinker.