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Johnny Majors, more than just a Tennessee football legend

Johnny Majors, Head Coach for the University of Tennessee Volunteers (Photo by Rick Stewart/Allsport/Getty Images)

Another legendary SEC coach is now gone with the passing of Johnny Majors.

With the passing of Tennessee Volunteers legend Johnny Majors just a few days after Auburn’s Pat Dye, it feels like the iron men of the SEC’s early glory years are falling like leaves from an autumn tree.

First of all, it’s only June, and secondly, who hurt 2020?

And can someone please check on Vince Dooley? Goodness.

Majors, who coached the Vols from 1977 to 1992 and died at the age of 85 today, was also a player at Tennessee beginning in 1953 as a tailback.