Marvin West on Johnny Majors

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geez Marvin West looks like a civil war vet.
OK article I guess. Since it has been so many years, and two lossing seasons I dont believe many vol fans dislike majors.
The whole drunk thing is more toung and cheek i think.
 
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did a double take when i saw this. marvin west was writing for the news-sentinel when i was on campus (to give you a reference, nixon was early in his first term), and he was no spring chicken then. glad he's still alive.

p.s.: i was (and am) on the sunset side of the big muddy during the majors reign. at first i had high hopes, but after a decade, i became convinced that the best johnny would ever accomplish at u.t. was a higher level of mediocrity. the pittsburg n.c. was a mixture of fluke, suspicious recruiting, and tony dorsett. it was never gonna happen in knoxville.
 
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velovol said:
geez Marvin West looks like a civil war vet.
OK article I guess. Since it has been so many years, and two lossing seasons I dont believe many vol fans dislike majors.
The whole drunk thing is more toung and cheek i think.
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I can assure you, "The whole drunk thing is more toung and cheek," was NOT tongue and cheek. I saw it too many times first hand!
 
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Regardless...I am so glad to see Kiffin reach out to Majors to be a part of UT again. He contributed so much..as did his family. Glad to see the "Majors" name connected to UT. Well done Kiffin!
 
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It was great to read another Marvin West column. He, Tom Siler & Ben Byrd were "sportswriters" who educated, entertained & inpsired Vol fans a generation or two before. Good article, & so nice to see Coach Majors back on board the Vol Nation Special.
 
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Great to hear that our Coach Majors is back on Shields Watkins Field, even if it was just as a bystander and symbol of the greatness the Vols have been. Coach Majors was the hero of the Vols for years as both a player and a coach.
For us in grammar school and junior high during his Tailback Years, he was the one making us want to wear the Orange and White and bleed the orange blood. He was the bright light of the Bowden Wyatt years. After Johnny's years of running, passing, catching and punting the ball, Volunteer football fell into lacking mediocrity until Coach Dickey came in to revive the glory that had been the Vols.

When Johnny came back to the Hill in the mid 70's to pull the program from the decline of the latter part of Bill Battle's regime, he rekindled the pride and hope for a return to the glory years of the Coach Neyland reign. Even though he never quite got the Big Orange back to the dominance that Neyland gave us and even though he didn't get us a National Championship like Coach Dickey, he did build the foundation for what we experienced through our power years of the 90's. His Attack, Attack, Always Attack slogan was not just a cliche, it was the way Tennessee Football was and has been expected to be played ever since Coach Neyland took the field in the late 20's.

I am just one Orange Bleeding Fan but I am most happy that he has been invited back to support our VOLS. Maybe, just maybe, we can have Johnny and Phil join hands and make bygones be bygones with both serving as promoters of our VOLS again.
 
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His Attack, Attack, Always Attack slogan was not just a cliche, it was the way Tennessee Football was and has been expected to be played ever since Coach Neyland took the field in the late 20's.[/QUOTE]

Agree....but along the way Johnny took his eye off the donut and watched the hole....
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NEVolFan said:
His Attack, Attack, Always Attack slogan was not just a cliche, it was the way Tennessee Football was and has been expected to be played ever since Coach Neyland took the field in the late 20's.[/QUOTE]

Agree....but along the way Johnny took his eye off the donut and watched the hole....
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Well, he's kinda like the old WW2 hero who gets caught in a cathouse...he's paid his dues, so give him some respect.

He was, is, and always will be a Vol. That's good enough for me.

Go Vols.
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wonder how long before he shows up drunk,the over under is 30 days.my money is on the under (once a drunk always a drunk).another fine example of where the program is heading.
 
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posivol said:
wonder how long before he shows up drunk,the over under is 30 days.my money is on the under (once a drunk always a drunk).another fine example of where the program is heading.
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Just dumb
 
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posivol said:
wonder how long before he shows up drunk,the over under is 30 days.my money is on the under (once a drunk always a drunk).another fine example of where the program is heading.
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Does that mean that after a few years Fulmer will push him out of the way and then start showing up drunk himself?
 
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posivol said:
yeah sure,like you dont know his reputation for showing up at functions less than sober.

do you just live in denial or what (sic)
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I know exactly what you are alluding to . . . I just find it very lame that you alluded to it in that context.
 
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posivol said:
wonder how long before he shows up drunk,the over under is 30 days.my money is on the under (once a drunk always a drunk).another fine example of where the program is heading.
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Exactly, we need to keep the drunk people out of Neyland!
 
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posivol said:
wonder how long before he shows up drunk,the over under is 30 days.my money is on the under (once a drunk always a drunk).another fine example of where the program is heading.
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Yo there! You using the moniker "posivol" is like Adolf Hitler referring to himself as "community organizer"..

It is a shame that some folks can never see good in anything.
 
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Majors deserves to be on the field and I doubt that he was drinking before he went to the stadium....He deserves to be included and maybe he can again know that the Vols do love him and thank him for all he has done for the university....He and all his family.
 
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