I still believed in Dooley before last night, and I still believe in him now. But I am on the edge of abandoning his ship.
Our offense played well as a whole, I thought. We ran the ball when we wanted to. Our first drive was excellent. CP is a monster.
Our defense has some playmakers, but looks lost alot. And much of that is the new scheme (which everyone agreed would take alot of getting used to).
If we didn't have a new defense and were still getting beat in these games, I'd say Dooley was the problem. But who really knows? I can't judge Dooley on a new defense, when we knew it would have problems in the first year.
Things need to get better though, and alot of the special teams and mistakes are on him.
He was in the pressbox which I'm sure wasn't the easiest thing. If Neal doesn't get hurt, DY probably doesn't get that carry or fumble the ball.
I understand the Florida loss after watching the recently, and I was impressed with how we played much of the GA game. This game, however, along with the Kentucky game last year have me believing Dooley may not be the Allen Iverson that we need.
Go Vols