Vanderbilt head coach Bobby Johnson was honored by his former school, Furman University, with the announcement he would inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Before coming to Nashville, Johnson coached at Furman for eight years and spent 24 total seasons there in some capacity. He had a 60-36 record as a head coach and took the Paladins to the playoffs in the Division I-AA system four times, with a national championship appearance in 2001.

Furman enjoyed winning seasons in six of his eight years at the helm, and many of the staff members from his team there came to Vanderbilt with Johnson when he was hired in 2001. Current running backs coach Des Kitchings also will be inducted into the Hall of Fame with Johnson.

Johnson is entering his eighth season with an overall record of 27-56, with 21 of those wins coming in the last four years. The 2008 season saw the Commodores enjoy their first winning season since 1982 and first bowl win since 1955, and also saw Johnson move up on the career wins list at Vanderbilt to fifth place. The Commodores won four conference games, the most since the Southeastern Conference split into two divisions in 1991.

Click here to read Chris Low's commentary on ESPN.com, who says that there's no more deserving coach in the SEC than Bobby Johnson. He now is the second-longest tenured coach in the conference behind Georgia's Mark Richt after both Tennessee's Phil Fulmer and Auburn's Tommy Tuberville were forced out by their respective schools after disappointing seasons.