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VolsDoc81TX said:
A different story about Dollywood:

When I was in Knoxville, Tennessee’s workers compensation program allowed employers to have a three doctor panel for injured employees to chose from. Since I am not a surgeon, the area companies were eager to have me on the panels. I got to go on manufacturing facility tours. It was cool getting to see all the different products being made. More importantly, I got to meet all the HR managers and could actually get things changed to help decrease injuries…

Anyway, the Dollywood HR department sends me one of their cowgirls with a clavicle fracture. Rarely surgical. I ask her how it happened and she fell off the Ostrich that she was riding. (They raced two Ostriches, one rider called in sick and she thought that she could do it) Ostriches can turn on a dime at full speed. Got the X-ray and realized that she needed immediate surgery. The proximal bone was shaped like a dagger and pointing down towards her lung. Any wrong movement could cause a pneumothorax.
The Orthopedic Surgeon that I worked for was operating at the time. I called down to the OR and told him (over speaker) that this patient needed to have surgery on her clavicle fracture. (He was a very talented surgeon, but an arsehole of a person) His response was that in 30 years of surgical practice he had never surgically repaired a clavicle fracture. His condescending tone pissed me off. I responded that if he would come up to the office between cases that I would show him why it needed surgery. He muttered that I didn’t know what I was talking about. I told him that I would bet my salary for a year. He would not have to pay me if I was wrong. He would double my salary when I proved him wrong. He just laughed at me. He hustled in between cases. Looked at the X-ray, said DAMN and added her to the end of his cases. I asked him when my paycheck would increase, and the SOB said that we didn’t shake on the bet. 😈
He never questioned my medical knowledge again. Signed a 3 year contract (length of a Pediatric residency) and counted down the days to get away from him…😐
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I worked closely with many doctors in my previous career. I can count one hand the number I consider to be good human beings and most are arrogant, narcissistic arseholes. I always kept them at arm's length. The fundamental problem is they're coddled and catered to their entire life. They are surrounded by people at work who tell them their sh!t doesn't stink. Even their spouses are subservient.

I'm thankful for skilled physicians; I'm not diminishing their education, intelligence, or drive. I've had several who saved my bacon.
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
We lived in Knoxville ‘97-2000 for my wife’s Pediatric residency.
During that time I was one of the doctors for Dollywood. At the beginning of each season, they would have me come up and watch all their shows. I would identify areas or activities of each show that had a high risk of injury.

Dolly was always in the Christmas season production. I was previewing the shows when she walks out on stage. She looks out and says that she needs our doctor to come up on stage. I go up on stage and she says Doc, I need your help. I need you to figure out why my back hurts. Then she gets a mischievous smile and says that you can’t blame these (pointing at her chest. (She was trying to playfully embarrass me in front of the performers). I said actually, I was going to blame your high heels. She laughed, gave me a hug and confessed that she was just having fun at my expense…I responded that I would still need to examine her to make sure AND then I turned red. When she saw how red my face was, she fell out laughing. Her laugh is contagious and genuine.
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My wife just confirmed - yup, that's Dolly. She was a couple years behind her in school. Grew up living near each other.
 
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Mike4Vols said:
I worked closely with many doctors in my previous career. I can count one hand the number I consider to be good human beings and most are arrogant, narcissistic arseholes. I always kept them at arm's length. The fundamental problem is they're coddled and catered to their entire life. They are surrounded by people at work who tell them their sh!t doesn't stink. Even their spouses are subservient.

I'm thankful for skilled physicians; I'm not diminishing their education, intelligence, or drive. I've had several who saved my bacon.
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My wife is a surgical NP and this is roughly her experience as well. The vast majority of the surgeons she has worked with have a combination of narcissism and autism (or at least some degree of sociopathy/utter lack of empathy) that makes them very good at their jobs and very awful as human beings.
 
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engineerVOL said:
Joe Milton is one of the worst QBs I’ve ever seen in orange. Yet I feel pretty good Heupel can make him serviceable. He’s so dang frustrating because he looks frickin’ intimidating and smooth. He just can’t throw at the right spot lol.
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Remember how bad Hooker looked in the Orange and White game…. Milton didn’t get here till the summer….. we have the best qb guy in the country working with him….. Milton looked much better late in the year and threw a pretty deep ball to Tillman in the Georgia…. Hopefully….. that is a sign that he is starting to figure it out….We definitely need someone capable of stepping up if Hooker goes down…. He has the best chance of anyone that we could have realistically brought in, imo.
 
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Aesius said:
My wife is a surgical NP and this is roughly her experience as well. The vast majority of the surgeons she has worked with have a combination of narcissism and autism (or at least some degree of sociopathy/utter lack of empathy) that makes them very good at their jobs and very awful as human beings.
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I’ve worked with 2-3 doctors that can’t figure out how to use their email…. That is the person that I want to trust with my life. LOL
 
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chargervol said:
Had the opportunity to spend time with her on multiple occasions and that she is, 100%. While only the minority partner in Dollywood, she's always been a VERY action partner, since helping to bail out "Silver Dollar City". Which, I assume, is why we're seeing more coverage at Dollywood than other Herschend properties.

But a lot of DW's 3000 "employees" are either non qualified employees of lease stores (like I owned, there), retirees, office workers with degrees and of course some - non college material. I'd be surprised to see 500 take advantage. Which wouldn't hit 5% of their average $350 million YP but will have the inside track on future graduates.
This idea will turn to gold like everything else she pushes. Just an incredible person and business mind.
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This ^.

We have an extended family member and friends who work there. Our SIL did security for a summer prior to being able to go into the academy. Over the last few years the work environment has really stepped up and improved. Most folks really love working there now.

The tuition/books idea is an extension of what other employers like Amazon are doing. You hope to retain the better ones and you are right - about 5-10% at most will take advantage of it. So many of their employees are older, retirees, contractors along with some transients sprinkled in.
 
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CRB is once again showing how good a recruiter and developer of talent he is. He finds guys that he can mold and/or fine-tune from all over the planet and brings them to a program where there has never been a FF appearance in a tough conference and has them consistently in the Top 25. What a blessing he has been for UT and this program and the whole time is doing it the right way.

The star assistant coach is Garrett Medenwald. Talk about guys who are in shape and willing to mix it up. Wow.

Their identity as a team is playing great D and their reward for playing it is being cleared by Barnes to take any open shot that fits their individual talent on the floor subject to the game situation. How they are playing in March is what matters most. Win 2/3 or better down the stretch and see what happens in the dance.

As I have posted before - what Barnes has done is the blueprint for Heup and one that I believe he clearly is executing. The other programs can do what they do. Let's be us and do what we do. Develop the players to the max and build the identity of the team around innovation. Instead of D with Heup - the identity is his high octane O. Get enough stops and forced FG's on D while scoring the ball at will.

We have a trifecta of great coaching at UT when you add in Voltello.

Good times.
 
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Vols4us said:
CRB is once again showing how good a recruiter and developer of talent he is. He finds guys that he can mold and/or fine-tune from all over the planet and brings them to a program where there has never been a FF appearance in a tough conference and has them consistently in the Top 25. What a blessing he has been for UT and this program and the whole time is doing it the right way.

The star assistant coach is Garrett Medenwald. Talk about guys who are in shape and willing to mix it up. Wow.

Their identity as a team is playing great D and their reward for playing it is being cleared by Barnes to take any open shot that fits their individual talent on the floor subject to the game situation. How they are playing in March is what matters most. Win 2/3 or better down the stretch and see what happens in the dance.

As I have posted before - what Barnes has done is the blueprint for Heup and one that I believe he clearly is executing. The other programs can do what they do. Let's be us and do what we do. Develop the players to the max and build the identity of the team around innovation. Instead of D with Heup - the identity is his high octane O. Get enough stops and forced FG's on D while scoring the ball at will.

We have a trifecta of great coaching at UT when you add in Voltello.

Good times.
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Good post. Love Barnes, El Heup, and Vitello. And I’m happy where our programs are.
 
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Vols4us said:
CRB is once again showing how good a recruiter and developer of talent he is. He finds guys that he can mold and/or fine-tune from all over the planet and brings them to a program where there has never been a FF appearance in a tough conference and has them consistently in the Top 25. What a blessing he has been for UT and this program and the whole time is doing it the right way.

The star assistant coach is Garrett Medenwald. Talk about guys who are in shape and willing to mix it up. Wow.

Their identity as a team is playing great D and their reward for playing it is being cleared by Barnes to take any open shot that fits their individual talent on the floor subject to the game situation. How they are playing in March is what matters most. Win 2/3 or better down the stretch and see what happens in the dance.

As I have posted before - what Barnes has done is the blueprint for Heup and one that I believe he clearly is executing. The other programs can do what they do. Let's be us and do what we do. Develop the players to the max and build the identity of the team around innovation. Instead of D with Heup - the identity is his high octane O. Get enough stops and forced FG's on D while scoring the ball at will.

We have a trifecta of great coaching at UT when you add in Voltello.

Good times.
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I love Rick Barnes. I hope he gets that final four monkey off his back before he calls it quits. Hopefully this year.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
I love Rick Barnes. I hope he gets that final four monkey off his back before he calls it quits. Hopefully this year.
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Same, if this team could string together 4 or 5 great performances in the tournament it'd be something special to see Barnes make the final round. Even if he didn't win, just to know he got to at least one championship game in his career.
 
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volbeast33 said:
Remember how bad Hooker looked in the Orange and White game…. Milton didn’t get here till the summer….. we have the best qb guy in the country working with him….. Milton looked much better late in the year and threw a pretty deep ball to Tillman in the Georgia…. Hopefully….. that is a sign that he is starting to figure it out….We definitely need someone capable of stepping up if Hooker goes down…. He has the best chance of anyone that we could have realistically brought in, imo.
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So many people on here forget how much Hooker struggled when he first got here.
 
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volbeast33 said:
Remember how bad Hooker looked in the Orange and White game…. Milton didn’t get here till the summer….. we have the best qb guy in the country working with him….. Milton looked much better late in the year and threw a pretty deep ball to Tillman in the Georgia…. Hopefully….. that is a sign that he is starting to figure it out….We definitely need someone capable of stepping up if Hooker goes down…. He has the best chance of anyone that we could have realistically brought in, imo.
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I pay no attention O-W games. They are useless. I do agree I like him as a backup.
 
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pierce60 said:
So many people on here forget how much Hooker struggled when he first got here.
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And it took him a couple weeks to get rolling after he got the starting job
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Remember how bad Hooker looked in the Orange and White game…. Milton didn’t get here till the summer….. we have the best qb guy in the country working with him….. Milton looked much better late in the year and threw a pretty deep ball to Tillman in the Georgia…. Hopefully….. that is a sign that he is starting to figure it out….We definitely need someone capable of stepping up if Hooker goes down…. He has the best chance of anyone that we could have realistically brought in, imo.
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Lol i was like

Hell naw on Hooker lol

But if you just watched game film on Hendon compared to Joe and Harrison then no question you would have leaned with Hendon
 
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