Mountain Empire Football Hall of fame
Inducted 2023
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Randy Sanders
Randy Sanders was a Top 100 recruit as quarterback from Morristown East High School. He passed for 4225 yards and scored 35 touchdowns. Sanders played collegiately at the University of Tennessee from 1984-88, and was a 4-time All SEC Academic Honor Roll. Sanders was the offensive coordinator at the University of Tennessee when Tennessee won the 1998 BCS National Title. Sanders played a part in either coaching or recruiting a pair of No. 1 overall picks in the NFL Draft – Peyton Manning (1998) and Jameis Winston (2015). In his 29 years of coaching, Sanders has coached in 26 bowl games, and is the only person to coach in both the first and last BCS National Championship Game (UT and FSU). Sanders was a successful Head Coach at East Tennessee State University from 2018-2021. His teams hold a combined record of 258-105-2. |