Legendary Coach Johnny Majors Dies

Johnny Majors, who coached the Pittsburgh Panthers to the national championship has died.  He also the head football coach at Tennessee when my wife was at that school.  As such, he has an unlikely link between my college days at WSU and my wife's at Tennessee.  

When I was a freshman at WSU, Jackie Sherrill was the rookie head coach, having previously been an assistant under Majors at Pitt.  At the end of the year, Majors would leave that school to become the head coach at Tennessee.  Sherrill abruptly left WSU to coach at Pitt,,the number one program in the country at the  time.  

Majors won 185 games as a head coach and had a 9-6 record in Bowl games.   Majors won 3 SEC championships at Tennessee.