Note: This is part of a series of posts remembering Johnny Majors and all that he accomplished for Tennessee football as a player and a coach.
By the time Phillip Fulmer took over for Johnny Majors in 1992, Tennessee football emerged once again as a national program, a dramatic improvement from where it was when Majors took over in 1977. A huge reason for that was the amount of national talent he finally was able to bring in.
Majors, who passed away at age 85 in early June, did not get to win a national championship as Vols’ head coach the way he did with the Pittsburgh Panthers.