Johnny Majors, a legendary coach for the Tennessee football team and member of the College Football Hall of Fame, has died. He was 85.
Johnny Majors, a legendary coach for the Tennessee football team and member of the College Football Hall of Fame, has died. He was 85.
He won his national title at Pitt, so he may be more legendary there.
he was a .500 coach in 8 total years (2 four year stints) at Pitt....he was at Tennessee for 15 straight seasons....and Tennessee is where he played.Originally Posted by Boston Red
Johnny Majors is legendary at UT. He was the coach when I was at UT. Frankly Phil Fulmer lifted the program a notch above where Coach Majors had it but he still was a huge part of the football history in Knoxville. He was the star in a wing formation (no QB) so he passed, ran, punted, returned kicks and played defense in the mid 50s. Heisman runner up to Paul Hornung.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/spo...ry/2957824001/Majors ran, passed, punted, returned kicks and played defense. He was named the SEC Player of the Year in 1955 and 1956. He rushed for 1,622 yards and passed for 1,135 during his career.
Majors earned consensus All-America honors in 1956, when he rushed for 549 yards and seven touchdowns and passed for 552 yards and five touchdowns. He finished as the Heisman Trophy runner-up behind Notre Dame's Paul Hornung. Some thought Majors was more deserving of the award. The Irish went 2-8, making Hornung the only Heisman winner from a losing team. Meanwhile, Tennessee went 10-1 in 1956 and won the SEC championship.
Assembly Hall (06-04-2020)
Arch Manning looks like the next stud in the Manning family. He's going into his sophomore yr at his high school in New Orleans. He's already 6'3" and he threw 34 TD passes his freshman year. He's Cooper's son; Peyton and Eli's nephew
https://247sports.com/Article/Colleg...ing-147998185/
Assembly Hall (06-11-2020)
The beat goes on for coach Pruitt and my Vols. They just landed the #1 TE in the country and the #1 player in the state of Tennessee:
https://n.rivals.com/content/prospec...n-wolfe-231871
Class of 2021 rankings now show my Vols #2 in the country. Ohio State is #1. Those happen to be the two schools I attended
https://n.rivals.com/team_rankings/2...teams/Football
Iowa just fired their strength coach Chris Doyle after some former players accused him of making racist remarks.
http://www.espn.com/college-football...iased-behavior
And we have a Mike Gundy-Chuba Hubbard tiff after Gundy spotted wearing an OAN shirt. Amends do seem to have been made. Though in the “makeup” video Gundy never apologized (some will argue he shouldn’t have so let’s accept that) and Hubbard had that “hostage at gunpoint” look.
Speaking of beating Coach Pruitt and the Vols...
My Georgia State Panthers (2 grad degrees) hired former 3 star and 2 year starting QB Dan Ellington as an assistant coach.
https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...coaching-staff
I think Tennessee needs a strength coach. They lost theirs to the NY Giants this Winter. They ought to look this guy up
Well played...Speaking of beating Coach Pruitt and the Vols...
My Georgia State Panthers (2 grad degrees) hired former 3 star and 2 year starting QB Dan Ellington as an assistant coach.
https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...coaching-staff
If it took Tennessee losing to Ga St to right the ship then it's worth it
I do not want it to appear I am the guy always questioning your Vols....I am not trying to do that because I have no feelings about the Vols outside of I would rather them be relevant than not relevant....kind of in the same way that I prefer Nebraska to be relevant again. That said, I have never seen such a massive difference in the rating of a player by the rating outlets as the TE you reference above. I only looked him up because I follow 247 Composite and did not recognize the name...and that is because 247 Composite ranks him as the 225th player in the nation and the 9th (22nd by 247) best TE in the nation.....while as you said above, Rivals ranks him as the 40th best player in the nation and the #1 TE in the country. I am guessing they will be more similar later....but that is a huge difference....maybe the biggest difference I can recall in recent years.
https://247sports.com/Player/Hudson-Wolfe-46057681/
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”― Marcus Aurelius
The composite is the best metric to use. That said, TE U, OSU was hard after Wolfe. So yea, nice get for the Vols.
To be honest, I'm not sure how much we should put into recruiting numbers because the evaluations do vary. Regardless, it is a good get for the Vols
they are not perfect, but I have seen data charts and graphs that illustrate they are far better in recent years than they were a decade or so ago. I think recent drafts have shown a solid majority of 1st Round picks were high 4 and 5 Star recruits out of high school....and at the same time if you want your team to be a real playoff threat, your team probably needs a couple Top 10 recruiting classes before that is likely.
Personally, I have watched a lot of high school film and I can usually identify a legit 5 Star type player.....but I struggle to often see the difference between a high 3 Star kid and a mid 4 Star recruit. I guess that is where the real difference is between me and someone that gets paid to do it.
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”― Marcus Aurelius
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