It scares me that i am more excited about baketball season than i am about the upcoming football season.
Please explain the correlation between how excited you are and success on the field. What did excitement get you last year? A 7-6 record. A coach that betrayed UT... and a top 10 recruiting class that was maybe 3 or 4 spots below what it would have been had Kiffin not stabbed UT in the back 3 weeks before NSD.
I think it was because last offseason it was so exciting and we where in it for the best players in the country. i loved our staff and they knew how to go get kids and what they wanted to hear.
So you admit that you are basically pining for Kiffin. Let the man crush go... he's gone. He doesn't love you anymore... he never did. He was just using you to get what he really wanted.
So you effectively loved the staff because they lied to recruits?
FWIW, UT looks to be in on many of the same caliber of players that would have been realistic "gets" had the old staff stayed. This staff is just focusing on talent that's closer to home and not wasting their time chasing long shots.
I'm glad I suppose that it made you "feel good" that UT was "in on" guys who weren't going to sign with UT... I like the GA strategy myself.
with this new staff im worried thats all. dont hate on me because you know alot of people are.
I was worried about the old staff... You apparently weren't... and where did that get you?
I have not bought into DD. I had not bought into CLK. Both did/have done things I like and things I don't like. The best record at UT between the two of them so far is 7-6... and I find that completely dissatisfying.
bruce pearl is the model of what it taked to recruit and get attention to your school and to win.
Don't want to be too hard on you but BB recruiting vs football recruiting is an apples to oranges comparison. You can win a NC in basketball with one good recruiting class. You need 2-5 in a row for football.
coach dooley is a no nonsense type that doesint really come off well in front of a camra ( and before you say that doesint matter then you dont understand what kind of world we live in today.)
Yes I do and no it doesn't. Many different styles work. The most important thing for CLK was to make as much noise as possible. The most important thing for DD is to visit as many living rooms, kitchen tables, and coaches' offices as possible. There are different routes to the same goal.
While CLK was getting kicked out of schools last year, DD is building/reinforcing relationships with coaches at the some of the best FB HS's in the SE.
If it works to get talent and DD can coach then his method will yield the best chance for long term success. Face it, CLK was building a resume... not a program... at UT.
i think dooleys only chance is if he can come in and win with these players and really shock people. because if he doesint he will be so far behind flordia, alabama, auburn, LSU that he wont be able to recover. thats my 2cents
CLK was probably going to give UT 3 or 4 years. Maybe one championship but who knows. In his wake, someone else would still have to either do it exactly the same way or do what Dooley is doing and establish credibility with coaches and players in the SE.
It is very apparent that CLK recruited players to himself and not to UT. It was about CLK's success, not UT's. If he had built a team that way there would have been mass attrition when he left.
Your "fear" is misplaced. If DD fails it will be because he can't coach and not because he can't get the talent to win IMO. If he's fired in 3 years, he will leave the program at least as well off as it would have been had Kiffin quit after 3 years.
