Majors or Fulmer

#51
#51
tennfanatic said:
Who was more conservative? Don't get me wrong they did great things for UT, but in many ways their conservative game plans cost us in many big games. I was watching the 1990 TN and Bama game and Majors basically gave them the game with his ultra conservative game strategy when we were clearly the better team. I think this is basically what kept these guys from being great coaches, they were good no doubt, but not great. Again I'm not trying to be negative because both guys were great ambassadors and loved their school, but that's just my thoughts.
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How many National Championships did Spurrier win?
 
#53
#53
leon said:
Are you sure this is true? I don't think the 51 championship team played this way. This style of football came into existence closer to the Bowden Wyat area.
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Single-platoon football was the way the game was played until the early 1940s. The NCAA loosened substitution rules during WWII because of the shortage of skilled players with the stamina to last a whole game. It stayed that way about a decade, until '54, when Neyland and others used their clout to get the rules changed back to single-platoon. It didn't shift back to freer substitution again until the mid-60s.

You're right about the '51 team. They played in that window of time ('41 to '54) that allowed more liberal substitution.

But Neyland hated it. He called it "chickensh!t football."

He preferred single-platoon, and that's what he coached most of his career ('19-'40). The only window of time in which he coached with two platoons was his postwar '46-'52 stint.
 
#60
#60
I wasn't around for Majors so I have to say Fulmer. With all the talent that he had we should have been an national championship dynasty. He recruited like Saban does now,
 
#61
#61
QuickSmurf said:
I wasn't around for Majors so I have to say Fulmer. With all the talent that he had we should have been an national championship dynasty. He recruited like Saban does now,
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You obviously wasn't around with Majors. He was very, very conservative.
And Fulmer recruited really well, but nowhere near Saban. I don't think anyone ever has in the modern era.
 
#62
#62
QuickSmurf said:
I wasn't around for Majors so I have to say Fulmer. With all the talent that he had we should have been an national championship dynasty. He recruited like Saban does now,
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No not exactly, no one has ever recruited the way Saban does. Butch, I believe, has the only consecutive top 5 classes in UT history.
 
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