JUDAS BRUTUS
Johnny Majors, creaking to the podium at the Little Rock Touchdown Club with an IV of Glenmore Gin, knows that when a man is down the kicking is as good as it’s ever gonna get. The recipient in this case is Phil Fulmer, who in addition to being very, very fat also succeeded Johnny Majors in 1992 after Majors’ less-than-amicable firing. Majors said:
“I don’t pull against those players up there,” Majors said. “But I don’t have any regard for Judas Brutus, who’s coaching up there.”
Majors then chuckled, wobbled, and fell over after the weight of his massive, pendulous old man ears knocked him off-balance and sent him and the gin IV crashing to the floor. No injuries were reported.
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Having watched Coach Majors fulfilling his gladhanding duties at Pitt for the last several years, I can assure you that it is whiskey not gin that he has IVed into him.
Comment by Chas Rich — November 22, 2005 @ 9:06 pm
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Every time he opens his mouth it starts a chat string on the Vols chatboard “Gridscape” with defenders of JM and critics.
If I were President of Pitt, I’d wonder where JM’s priorities are - fund raising for Pitt or bashing PF. JM is losing his legacy as a Tennessee favorite son at ever-increasing speed. I’m glad he’s gone - there’s more whiskey left in Knoxville for the rest of us.
Comment by Mike — November 23, 2005 @ 3:16 pm
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Mike, I agree that Majors makes an idiot of himself every time he speaks and that he is doing a disservice to Pitt (which did itself a disservice by bringing him back). I am perplexed, though, by you wondering where his priorities are. Can’t we all bash Phatlock while maintaining our “day jobs”? It’s pretty easy to do and should not divert concentration from other matters.
Comment by Barefeetbob — November 24, 2005 @ 11:31 am
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I have never read such disrespect for a great coach like Johnny Majors. These folks need to stay out of the juice themselves.
Comment by Shirley Caraway — January 2, 2006 @ 7:12 pm
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Johnny Majors was a very good player and and an even better coach. He is a very classy and caring human being that unfortunatly had his job as head coach at Tennessee stolen from him by Phil Fulmer during a time of illness.
I have never met a coach that has treated his players so well and truly cared about them and their futures. Unlike Fulmer who can’t let a quarterback play for more than 2 quarters before yanking him out of a game. Fulmer needs to get it through his head that sometimes you need to let a player play himself out of trouble on the field, that is why they are a player and he is a coach. The only good things that Fulmer has had going for him in his coaching tenure at UT is that “Majors recruited and got Peyton Manning and Tee Martin to play at UT” and that has got wonderful punts from the Colquitts that give him decent field position that gives him some hope of ever winning a game.
As for Coach Majors return to Pitt in 1993, it was a great move by the university, although he didn’t have a winning season after his return, he took a horrible Panthers team inherited by horrible Pitt coach Paul Hackett and turned the program around and once it was back on its feet on the field and off, he handed the reigns over to “HIGHLY UNDERATED” coach Walt Harris who led them to their first bowl game win in years and recruited the likes of Antonio Bryant, Larry Fitzgerald, Rob Pettiti, Tyler Palko, Kevan Barlow, and Rod Rutherford, whom all have had great college careers and went onto the NFL.
But in 2004 the media just kept pounding away on Harris eventhough after a horrid start to the 2004 season, he turned them around and led them to a bowl game against Utah in the Fiesta Bowl, eventhough they lost Pitt had mane great players returning for the 2005 season which would have done wonders under Coach Harris. But the media so hammered at him that they practicaly made him run to Stanford. Harris was hand picked by Johnny Majors and neither EVER get the respect that they deserve.
After Harris’ departure Pitt brought in Dave Wannstadt who couldn’t do anything with the players he inherited, even though 95% had won under Harris the previous year.
Johnny Majors is in the class of Bear Bryant, Joe Paterno, and General Neyland and should be treated with the respect that this honor carries.
Comment by Kevin Ervin — January 13, 2006 @ 12:21 pm