peyton4heisman
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After watching today's Orange and White Game, I realized how much I miss Derek Dooley.
I miss the Orange and White games when he was the coach. Remember when you had to pay $10 to go to the game? It was so much better because with only 10,000 fans at the scrimmage, you could basically choose where you wanted to sit, and you didn't have to worry about your view being blocked by people in front of you.
Another thing I miss about Dooley's Orange & White games were the school yard style team picking his teams did. Sure, with the 1's and 2's and 3's and 4's all mixed into the same squads we couldn't gauge how good our team was going to be AT ALL, but at least the players got to pick their own teams. Not the coaches. It's really about the players anyways..
Speaking of the players. I miss Dooley's recruiting classes. OK, maybe they weren't ranked as high as Butch's (avg 17th over the 3 years he was here) but at least they were guys of high moral character and not the entitled players like we have today. Today we have players like Joshua Dobbs who study rocket science. If he was truly committed to football there's no way he would choose such a time-heavy major. But when we had Dools, we had players like Da'Rick and Tyler Bray. Sure, those guys may have had a few little off-field issues, but at least they didn't spend time on unnecessary stuff... like school.. Bray thought about football so much, he even practiced his throwing with his empty beer bottles! I guess they just don't make players like that anymore. Or at least now that Dooley is gone they go to GA and FL now.
And Dooley's players threw the KY game so they didn't have to go to a little bowl game. We had to watch the Vols play in the Taxslayer Bowl last season. If we still had Dooley, we could have been concentrating on our amazing Basketball program (led by the best coach in TN history - Donnie Tyndall) instead. But NO! Coach Jones will have us spending money to go to FL where the weather is warm just to watch us play a game against Iowa. Pfft.
Another thing that I miss is Dooley's willingness to level with the fanbase. He told us in his first year (year 0) that we shouldn't expect much from the team. He reassured us every single season that it was not our fault if we didn't go to a bowl game. Kiffin screwed us afterall. And Dooley made it very clear to us that because of Kiffin, we should not expect a bowl game for his entire tenure. Does Butch do that? No! He fills our heads with things like Championship goals. Kiffin screwed us! And Butch is talking about CHAMPIONSHIPS!?!?
Anyways, Butch is OK. I mean, I'll take him. We could definitely be doing worse. But it's days like today that I miss Derek Dooley.
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I miss the Orange and White games when he was the coach. Remember when you had to pay $10 to go to the game? It was so much better because with only 10,000 fans at the scrimmage, you could basically choose where you wanted to sit, and you didn't have to worry about your view being blocked by people in front of you.
Another thing I miss about Dooley's Orange & White games were the school yard style team picking his teams did. Sure, with the 1's and 2's and 3's and 4's all mixed into the same squads we couldn't gauge how good our team was going to be AT ALL, but at least the players got to pick their own teams. Not the coaches. It's really about the players anyways..
Speaking of the players. I miss Dooley's recruiting classes. OK, maybe they weren't ranked as high as Butch's (avg 17th over the 3 years he was here) but at least they were guys of high moral character and not the entitled players like we have today. Today we have players like Joshua Dobbs who study rocket science. If he was truly committed to football there's no way he would choose such a time-heavy major. But when we had Dools, we had players like Da'Rick and Tyler Bray. Sure, those guys may have had a few little off-field issues, but at least they didn't spend time on unnecessary stuff... like school.. Bray thought about football so much, he even practiced his throwing with his empty beer bottles! I guess they just don't make players like that anymore. Or at least now that Dooley is gone they go to GA and FL now.
And Dooley's players threw the KY game so they didn't have to go to a little bowl game. We had to watch the Vols play in the Taxslayer Bowl last season. If we still had Dooley, we could have been concentrating on our amazing Basketball program (led by the best coach in TN history - Donnie Tyndall) instead. But NO! Coach Jones will have us spending money to go to FL where the weather is warm just to watch us play a game against Iowa. Pfft.
Another thing that I miss is Dooley's willingness to level with the fanbase. He told us in his first year (year 0) that we shouldn't expect much from the team. He reassured us every single season that it was not our fault if we didn't go to a bowl game. Kiffin screwed us afterall. And Dooley made it very clear to us that because of Kiffin, we should not expect a bowl game for his entire tenure. Does Butch do that? No! He fills our heads with things like Championship goals. Kiffin screwed us! And Butch is talking about CHAMPIONSHIPS!?!?
Anyways, Butch is OK. I mean, I'll take him. We could definitely be doing worse. But it's days like today that I miss Derek Dooley.
:shaking2:
