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Everyone saw how emotional FSU was last night honoring Bobby Bowden and how fitting it was to come down to a missed kick. Was hoping it would fall FSU’s way.

Enter Saturday and UT honoring Majors, if UT does it right, could add some juice to the fans, atmosphere, and players. Will UT played inspired like FSU did? They can.
 
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secking said:
Everyone saw how emotional FSU was last night honoring Bobby Bowden and how fitting it was to come down to a missed kick. Was hoping it would fall FSU’s way.

Enter Saturday and UT honoring Majors, if UT does it right, could add some juice to the fans, atmosphere, and players. Will UT played inspired like FSU did? They can.
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Hopefully, but Johnny Majors is an icon to Pitt also while Bowden was not to ND.
 
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secking said:
Everyone saw how emotional FSU was last night honoring Bobby Bowden and how fitting it was to come down to a missed kick. Was hoping it would fall FSU’s way.

Enter Saturday and UT honoring Majors, if UT does it right, could add some juice to the fans, atmosphere, and players. Will UT played inspired like FSU did? They can.
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Problem is majority of players and folks remember and know Bowden well.
I’d say majority of players and half the fan base couldn’t tell you what years Majors coached here.

Bowden put FSU on the scene in the modern times. Majors not so much.

I don’t there would be a strong response to “get up and play for Majors” would occur from players.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Problem is majority of players and folks remember and know Bowden well.
I’d say majority of players and half the fan base couldn’t tell you what years Majors coached here.

Bowden put FSU on the scene in the modern times. Majors not so much.

I don’t there would be a strong response to “get up and play for Majors” would occur from players.
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Maybe they should show out team a clip of a Coach Majors pregame speech.The year Bo played for Auburn in Neyland would be good.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Problem is majority of players and folks remember and know Bowden well.
I’d say majority of players and half the fan base couldn’t tell you what years Majors coached here.

Bowden put FSU on the scene in the modern times. Majors not so much.

I don’t there would be a strong response to “get up and play for Majors” would occur from players.
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Agree. Bowden quit coaching in 2009 and Majors last coached at UT in 1992. None of the players were even born when Majors was coaching at UT.
 
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aaronvol said:
My last memory of Johnny in person was when he wore the orange pants in the Dooley era...and danced in them surrounded by the student section. Oh well.
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POSB shoulda been playing "Johnny B. Good", by Chuck Berry
 
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ftsandersvol said:
All our players need to know is he got robbed of the Heisman.
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The CDC cites 1956 as the initial outbreak of BVS.

There have since been numerous superspreader events, some occurring in Neyland's endzone, but 1997 being the most notorious among current fans.

There has been recent discussion that BVS should be reclassified from a mental disorder to a lifestyle. The CDC is expected to revisit that argument in January 2022.
 
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secking said:
Everyone saw how emotional FSU was last night honoring Bobby Bowden and how fitting it was to come down to a missed kick. Was hoping it would fall FSU’s way.

Enter Saturday and UT honoring Majors, if UT does it right, could add some juice to the fans, atmosphere, and players. Will UT played inspired like FSU did? They can.
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Now are we talking about Johnny Majors juice - aka Jack Daniels...????!!
 
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He most definitely was a Johnny Walker Red fellar, a bottle of black wouldn't be turned away either
 
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WillisWG said:
He most definitely was a Johnny Walker Red fellar, a bottle of black wouldn't be turned away either
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Unfortunately I was at Pitt for his second stint and not his first. But when I met him he couldn’t have been a nicer person. A legend for both programs and a great ambassador for the game. Looking forward to a good game and a great time this weekend. H2P
 
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secking said:
Everyone saw how emotional FSU was last night honoring Bobby Bowden and how fitting it was to come down to a missed kick. Was hoping it would fall FSU’s way.

Enter Saturday and UT honoring Majors, if UT does it right, could add some juice to the fans, atmosphere, and players. Will UT played inspired like FSU did? They can.
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To truly give a nod to Coach Majors the game would end up tied.
 
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I met him in person @ the Pitt - ND game in South Bend. Was wandering though the tailgates on the way into the game. And there he was! Bizarre! I shook his hand. He was wearing that big fat 76 Pitt NC ring.
 
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secking said:
Everyone saw how emotional FSU was last night honoring Bobby Bowden and how fitting it was to come down to a missed kick. Was hoping it would fall FSU’s way.

Enter Saturday and UT honoring Majors, if UT does it right, could add some juice to the fans, atmosphere, and players. Will UT played inspired like FSU did? They can.
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Hopefully Pitt can be the one to play inspired and come up just short like FSU
 
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Evergrenevol said:
Another red-neck, cowardly shot at a great man who gave his all for The University of Tennessee!
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One didn't have to be a historian to know that Johnny Majors liked a cocktail now and again. He was at UT when I was there and met him twice, once at the Volador - which for some who don't know, was the nice restaurant on top of the old Hyatt overlooking the river up on the hill by the Women's College BB Hall of Fame. Other time was Regas Steak House.
 
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I met Johnny once and by all appearances he was a very nice man. Bobby though...... the patron saint of all that was good with college football. The mold was broken when that man was created.

We may see more successful coaches at some point in time, highly unlikely they will be nearly as good a human being.
 
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