Johnny Majors Tribute ?

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I think it would be nice for UT to come up with some kind of tribute for Johnny Majors seeing how he did play football and coach there as well. I think the hatchet should be buried once and for all and we need to honor this guy at a home game (Gators) next season. The man is getting older.Let's not wait too late as we did Ray Mears.I don't recall any tributes he has had. Thoughts?
 
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I agree. Its a shame that we cant/wont do something for a person/family that has meant so much to our University, and has meant so much to him. I miss Johnny being a part of UT, and regardless of what anyone says, i dont think it was PF fault he got gone. There were many of us screaming for his head so to speak, but I wish it could have turned out better and the relationship could have been salvaged. I dont think its too late. And I think we should do something major for him, and also John Ward, while they are still here to enjoy it. Maybe a "Salute to Johnny Majors" gameday or something.
 
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92 was considered a rebuilding season with young players on that squad. The early upsets against Georgia and Florida that season raised the bar while Johnny was recuperating. The 3 straight losses were reason for criticism but an unjust reason for termination.
 
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utfantilidie said:
I think it would be nice for UT to come up with some kind of tribute for Johnny Majors seeing how he did play football and coach there as well. I think the hatchet should be buried once and for all and we need to honor this guy at a home game (Gators) next season. The man is getting older. Let's not wait too late as we did Ray Mears.I don't recall any tributes he has had. Thoughts?
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Reggie White
 
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1allvol said:
I agree. Its a shame that we cant/wont do something for a person/family that has meant so much to our University, and has meant so much to him. I miss Johnny being a part of UT, and regardless of what anyone says, i dont think it was PF fault he got gone. There were many of us screaming for his head so to speak, but I wish it could have turned out better and the relationship could have been salvaged. I dont think its too late. And I think we should do something major for him, and also John Ward, while they are still here to enjoy it. Maybe a "Salute to Johnny Majors" gameday or something.
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You know what, I used to laugh at the conspiracy theories about Fulmer playing any role in getting Majors pushed down the stairs. But with the way Fulmer and Hamilton have been acting lately, it almost gives you the impression that Fulmer would manipulate a situation out of avarice.

Not saying he DID do anything, but at this point, I'm saying that it wouldn't surprise me if he did. :ermm:
 
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We need to honor Johnny, but I don't see it happening until CPF is gone. And with inexplicable late-season team resurrections followed by contract extensions and pay raises, that could be a while.

Fulmer's ability to do just enough to stick around is uncanny.
 
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justingroves said:
I think Majors will tell Tennesee to go to hell as long as CPF is employed here.
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I don't think so. It's not like he hasn't been back. He was even on the field last year to be honored with one of the championship teams he played on (not what year that was). So I don't think he would oppose to some sort of tribute.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
You know what, I used to laugh at the conspiracy theories about Fulmer playing any role in getting Majors pushed down the stairs. But with the way Fulmer and Hamilton have been acting lately, it almost gives you the impression that Fulmer would manipulate a situation out of avarice.

Not saying he DID do anything, but at this point, I'm saying that it wouldn't surprise me if he did. :ermm:
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You may be right (i cant agree or disagree based on the fact I have no idea what "avarice" is, Ill have to look that one up) :)
 
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brg72 said:
92 was considered a rebuilding season with young players on that squad. The early upsets against Georgia and Florida that season raised the bar while Johnny was recuperating. The 3 straight losses were reason for criticism but an unjust reason for termination.
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Those three losses were not the reason for his termination...any criticism that one can come up with for Phil Fulmer can also be applied to Johnny but in spades...

1) Phil can't beat Florida - Johnny couldn't beat Alabama
2) Phil had 2002 and 2005 - Johnny had 1986 and 1988
3) Phil has only two SEC championships but Johnny only had one that Florida didn't actually win...
4) Phil had 1998 - Johnny didn't
5) It is well known that Johnny treated his assistant coaches like crap (especially db coaches for some reason) and had a high rate of turnover among them...
6) In the summer before his last season in '92 he used the Big Orange Caravan to lobby for a pay raise...that was the beginning of the end.
7) Fulmer was on the verge of a Head Coaching job somewhere and the UT administration was afraid he would take Cutcliffe and Chavis with him.
8) Former UT Pres Joe Johnson once said that Johnny didn't know how to treat people and he was right...

If people want to honor him because of his success as a player that is great but he was average as a coach...
 
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just looked it up and was surprised to see that johnny only had one winning season at iowa st, and other than the NC year at pitt (12-0) his best season before coming to TN was 4 losses.
 
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Might be nice to name a street after him on campus............one with numerous drinking establishments located on it.
 
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JagerVol01 said:
Those three losses were not the reason for his termination...any criticism that one can come up with for Phil Fulmer can also be applied to Johnny but in spades...

1) Phil can't beat Florida - Johnny couldn't beat Alabama
2) Phil had 2002 and 2005 - Johnny had 1986 and 1988
3) Phil has only two SEC championships but Johnny only had one that Florida didn't actually win...I think you mean Johnny had three.
4) Phil had 1998 - Johnny didn't. Majors had a National Championship at Pitt, people knew he was capable of doing it.
5) It is well known that Johnny treated his assistant coaches like crap (especially db coaches for some reason) and had a high rate of turnover among them...Much of the turnover was due to the fact that Majors hired the best guys he could get and he got rid of people who did not perform. Many of Coach Majors assistants went on to great carreers in the NFL and otehr D1A programs, often as head coaches. Most of Phil's assistants are still sucking off the hind tit of UTK somehow or another.
6) In the summer before his last season in '92 he used the Big Orange Caravan to lobby for a pay raise...that was the beginning of the end.
7) Fulmer was on the verge of a Head Coaching job somewhere and the UT administration was afraid he would take Cutcliffe and Chavis with him. And the Citadel has been grateful that we kept him in Knoxville ever since.
8) Former UT Pres Joe Johnson once said that Johnny didn't know how to treat people and he was right...

If people want to honor him because of his success as a player that is great but he was average as a coach...
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Again, compare the numbers over the past five years in Knoxville and Johnny's last five years on the Hill. If Fulmer were held to the standards that Majors was held to Phil would be gone. The Vols have actually lowered their standards for Phil. The BOT and the President need to reassert control of the AD, get rid of the good ole' boy hangers on who would all be out on their butts and replaced with another legion of good ole boys if Fulmer is ushered out, and restore some integrity and accountability to the program.
 
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tm3 said:
just looked it up and was surprised to see that johnny only had one winning season at iowa st, and other than the NC year at pitt (12-0) his best season before coming to TN was 4 losses.
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More than just numbers. He took over 2 programs left dead in the water. Iowa state only had 5 winning seasons since WW2 when he took over.

Here is a great article what he did at Iowa state.


"Although the Pitt program has been down for the better part of a decade, most fans can remember the glory years from 1975 through much of the '80s. Iowa State has no such glory years. Iowa State has been down for the better part of its history.

Johnny Majors won a national championship at Pitt in 1976, turning one of the worst programs in the country into the best in four seasons. Majors, understandably, remains widely revered by most Panthers fans. Majors is honored at Pitt with a retired locker, which is alongside other greats of the football program such as Tony Dorsett, Hugh Green, Dan Marino and Bill Fralic.

Majors coached at Iowa State before coming to Pitt. In four seasons he had a losing record, 19-24. But such was the lack of tradition at Iowa State that when Majors' teams went to bowl games in 1971 and '72, those were the first bowl games in which the Cyclones had played.

Majors is honored in a more obvious way at Iowa State, where they're mighty proud of their $2.3 million practice complex with one artificial and two grass fields. And their mighty proud that it's called the Johnny Majors Practice Complex.

This isn't to suggest Majors' accomplishments have not received their just due at Pitt. They have. It's to point out that merely going to a bowl game was and is an immense accomplishment at Iowa State. "
 
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JagerVol01 said:
Those three losses were not the reason for his termination...any criticism that one can come up with for Phil Fulmer can also be applied to Johnny but in spades...

1) Phil can't beat Florida - Johnny couldn't beat Alabama
2) Phil had 2002 and 2005 - Johnny had 1986 and 1988
3) Phil has only two SEC championships but Johnny only had one that Florida didn't actually win...
4) Phil had 1998 - Johnny didn't
5) It is well known that Johnny treated his assistant coaches like crap (especially db coaches for some reason) and had a high rate of turnover among them...
6) In the summer before his last season in '92 he used the Big Orange Caravan to lobby for a pay raise...that was the beginning of the end.
7) Fulmer was on the verge of a Head Coaching job somewhere and the UT administration was afraid he would take Cutcliffe and Chavis with him.
8) Former UT Pres Joe Johnson once said that Johnny didn't know how to treat people and he was right...

If people want to honor him because of his success as a player that is great but he was average as a coach...
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Dead wrong
 
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If we were to hold a tribute to Majors he would show up drunk, chew out the serving staff and embarrass everyone in the room and vol fans everywhere on TV with some drunken tirade about how he was being screwed.
 
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MontereyVol said:
If we were to hold a tribute to Majors he would show up drunk, chew out the serving staff and embarrass everyone in the room and vol fans everywhere on TV with some drunken tirade about how he was being screwed.
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I can't beleive you haven't been banned for posting this. It is in clear violation of numerous board rules.
 
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Majors should have had the Heisman in 1956 and he had a good career as the head coach. His two greatest moments to me were the Sugar Bowl in '85 and the ND game at South Bend in '91. He did have an eye for offensive talent. He seems to have softened somewhat toward the University and says Mike Hamilton has treated him well. Fulmer did not cost him his job, but it might be nice to honor him. I think he would be pleased. You should not stay bitter forever. Doug Dickey is the one that butchered the way the firing was handled. Time will tell if a special day for Majors occurs.
 
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