1993 Tennessee Team

[114VOL]

Fulmer > Majors. One is a first ballot HOF member and the other is not eligible for the HOF due to his winning pct being too low. Fulmer won two outright SEC Titles and Majors won 2 outright and one tri-championship. Further, in the two outright titles won by Majors, Florida had a better conference record but was ineligible for cheating. Also, under the old system (no championship game) Fulmer would have had 3 outright titles.

Majors did a good job at UT but he was never gonna win a national title at that point in his career. He was a total train wreck when he went back to Pitt. He was too hard headed and set in his ways to maintain any consistency by that point. The entire coaching staff was going to leave UT if Majors had been retained after the 92 season.

It was time for him to go.

Lots of uninformed opinions in this post

 

[114VOL]

Really? In Fulmer's last 5 years, the Vols played in 2 SEC Championship Games and 3 New Year's Day Bowls. And, he had a top 5 recruiting class on the line when he was fired.

And you blame him for the Kiffin and Dooley years? :loco:

LOL....the Vols weren't nationally relevant in any of those years. In other words, they weren't a national contender.

He's not at fault for the hires following him, but make no mistake, he is responsible for the slide in the program during the last seven years of his tenure..

It amazes me when fans try to spin his last few years as anything other than mediocre

 

[114VOL]

It took forever for Majors to "build the program up". Took til year 5 before he even got over .500 (was 21-23 after season 4). Good on him that he finally got the program some "winning consistency" his last 3 seasons, years 13-15 of his tenure.....prior to that it was an incredibly slow "turnaround" (I chronicled that in the first sentence) and pretty much one good year followed by one mediocre to bad year until 1989. Let's not act like he came in, immediately turned it around and just built a national power juggernaut. Most of his time as head coach at Tennessee was pretty mediocre. And don't forget his last season.....while Phil coached the first 3 and last games of the year and went 4-0, Johnny went 5-3 in the other 8. The program was in no way poised to win a national title when Fulmer took over in 1993.

You do realize that Fulmer didn't do much without Cutcliffe, right? So as much a Fulmer meant to Majors' success, Cutcliffe was the same to Fulmer.

Your last sentence is remarkably ignorant. The program was LOADED when Fulmer took it over. Spinning it as anything else is downright stupid

 

[Chief Vol 13]

Just went back and looked at some of the scores that year. Tennessee pretty much throttled every team they faced outside of Florida and Alabama. Could have very well been the best team in league that year. Don't know what happened against Penn State though.

 

[Wylo]

His winning percentage was that high because of the foundation Majors built!

Hi John...