Clay Travis Live Derek Dooley Interview Thread

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chargervol said:
What does anyone want him to say?
For once in his life act like the person in charge is supposed to. "I was the head coach it's all on me doesn't matter how it happened."
Not 2 hours of "well this guy did this and that guy did that"
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Did you want answers for what happened, or did you want a 20 minute interview where every answer was Dooley saying "I messed up. It was my fault"?

The head coach making the decision on what to do at the end of the game by watching the opposing sideline to make his decision based on their substitutions is pretty much exactly what I'd want my head coach to be doing. If Dooley didn't pay attention to their subs and left a goal line package in against a spread offense because he wasn't paying attention to LSU's subs, we'd have lost on that play without any penalty.

We got legit answers to things people have discussed in hypotheticals for years.
 
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drylo said:
I too heard it differently than you. With respect to the LSU game, I don't think he was exactly just blaming the assistants. He explicitly took the blame for it, for one thing. He explained that his role was watching the LSU personnel and making the call, not actually shoving guys out on the field, etc. But he seemed to blame the officials for not standing over the ball and just the general "perfect storm" of being all the way down on the goal line and having our players not being able to hear, etc., more than he blamed the assistants. And in addition to explicitly taking responsibility, he also implicitly reaffirmed that by talking about how they were prepared for that scenario in the UNC game (in contrast to the LSU game, where they weren't sufficiently prepared).

Dooley was a disaster here, but he wasn't that bad in this interview. He is crazy, though, to the extent that he really believes he left the roster in good shape.
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I'll give him credit, he is still a master spokesman.
Look at your post carefully.
You are explaining to me how he took full blame, then how he explained the perfect storm of refs and assistants.

I love all my Vol brethren but maybe the older guys are more correct than I give them credit for. This generation seems to have no clue what "responsibility" means.

I'll say it one more time and hope it registers with at least one person.
If he had truly taken responsibility, you guys wouldn't know anything about refs or assistants.
The is no "but" or "except" etc. if you are doing it right.
 
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crusse10 said:
Did you want answers for what happened, or did you want a 20 minute interview where every answer was Dooley saying "I messed up. It was my fault"?

The head coach making the decision on what to do at the end of the game by watching the opposing sideline to make his decision based on their substitutions is pretty much exactly what I'd want my head coach to be doing. If Dooley didn't pay attention to their subs and left a goal line package in against a spread offense because he wasn't paying attention to LSU's subs, we'd have lost on that play without any penalty.

We got legit answers to things people have discussed in hypotheticals for years.
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We got cheap sounding excuses.
And yes, it was periscope. I did expect a 20 to 30 minute interview.
 
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chargervol said:
I'll give him credit, he is still a master spokesman.
Look at your post carefully.
You are explaining to me how he took full blame, then how he explained the perfect storm of refs and assistants.

I love all my Vol brethren but maybe the older guys are more correct than I give them credit for. This generation seems to have no clue what "responsibility" means.

I'll say it one more time and hope it registers with at least one person.
If he had truly taken responsibility, you guys wouldn't know anything about refs or assistants.
The is no "but" or "except" etc. if you are doing it right.
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What's the point in him giving non-answers? Hell if he took the blame for everything, that'd basically be lying. Why lie? To appease you? At least this way we don't have to sit here arguing without any insight into what actually happened. We have answers from arguably the only person willing to tell it like it is.

Maybe it's possible that the demise of the football team over 3 years with Dooley at the helm had more failures than just the head coach?
 
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crusse10 said:
What's the point in him giving non-answers? Hell if he took the blame for everything, that'd basically be lying. Why lie? To appease you? At least this way we don't have to sit here arguing without any insight into what actually happened. We have answers from arguably the only person willing to tell it like it is.

Maybe it's possible that the demise of the football team over 3 years with Dooley at the helm had more failures than just the head coach?
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Oh good grief, 90% of your stories on here have been about you running around in your little band outfit hating Fulmer for destroying the program. At least he had some good years.
Hypocrisy at its best.
 
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chargervol said:
Oh good grief, 90% of your stories on here have been about you running around in your little band outfit hating Fulmer for destroying the program. At least he had some good years.
Hypocrisy at its best.
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Oh believe me. I hate Fulmer. I don't like Dooley either for what he did to the team.

If Fulmer gave an interview today in which he just said "Sorry, it's all my fault" for 20 minutes, I'd be pissed. I'd want actual answers instead of admissions of guilt.

It's not hypocrisy. It's appreciating getting answers for a lot of crap that happened in a short amount of time.

I'd like to know why Fulmer left the offensive line cupboard so bare that the Sullins twins were starters in the SEC. If he grabbed a microphone and said "hey, I'm sorry. It's my fault," I'd be yelling WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED I DON'T WANT AN APOLOGY I WANT AN EXPLANATION

This was all about explanations. We got some
 
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crusse10 said:
Oh believe me. I hate Fulmer. I don't like Dooley either for what he did to the team.

If Fulmer gave an interview today in which he just said "Sorry, it's all my fault" for 20 minutes, I'd be pissed. I'd want actual answers instead of admissions of guilt.

It's not hypocrisy. It's appreciating getting answers for a lot of crap that happened in a short amount of time.

I'd like to know why Fulmer left the offensive line cupboard so bare that the Sullins twins were starters in the SEC. If he grabbed a microphone and said "hey, I'm sorry. It's my fault," I'd be yelling WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED I DON'T WANT AN APOLOGY I WANT AN EXPLANATION

This was all about excuses. We got some
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Fixed your last sentence.

The man had a losing record at his previous stop also, remember?
At some point the evidence suggests it's you, not the surrounding circumstances.
"Ok not getting any lineman because we were so stocked"
He's lucky lightning doesn't really just blast.
 
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chargervol said:
Fixed your last sentence.

The man had a losing record at his previous stop also, remember?
At some point the evidence suggests it's you, not the surrounding circumstances.
"Ok not getting any lineman because we were so stocked"
He's lucky lightning doesn't really just blast.
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Dooley gave a play-by-play of the seconds ticking down in multiple scenarios that have haunted Vols fans' dreams for the last half of a decade, from inside the headsets and microphones. Can't get much more cut-and-dry, here-it-is explanation than that.

And yeah, I agree that he was not a good head coach for Tennessee. Do you think that I think he was an evil genius mastermind who was actually elite?

For years, Tennessee fans have argued that the refs should have stood over the ball against LSU. Suddenly when Dooley says it as part of his description of what happened (he was actually saying what he thought should be happening at that moment), it's just a big excuse.
 
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Frankly I'm upset that I didn't get an answer about Missouri. Also wanted to hear answers for how close Tennessee already was to flipping the likes of Hunter and Da'Rick before he showed up (ie if we'd have had a great shot at them no matter who took the job)
 
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crusse10 said:
Dooley gave a play-by-play of the seconds ticking down in multiple scenarios that have haunted Vols fans' dreams for the last half of a decade, from inside the headsets and microphones. Can't get much more cut-and-dry, here-it-is explanation than that.

And yeah, I agree that he was not a good head coach for Tennessee. Do you think that I think he was an evil genius mastermind who was actually elite?

For years, Tennessee fans have argued that the refs should have stood over the ball against LSU. Suddenly when Dooley says it as part of his description of what happened (he was actually saying what he thought should be happening at that moment), it's just a big excuse.
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No I just think a person can say,"I was fixated on the LSU sidelines,(then told why he was, like he did), I never noticed the extra men."

Do you see how that's giving a full answer without just throwing people under the bus for your failures?
All this "he had to, to give a full answer" stuff is b.s.
He hired the assistants and he recruited the players.
It is on him and not his job to expose others to excuse himself.
That's a really crappy thiing to do. And you definitely shouldn't get praise for throwing them under.
No wonder he will continue to pull big checks without having to shoulder any blame, these days people are more than happy to just hold their noses and dance in the bullshat.
 
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chargervol said:
No I just think a person can say,"I was fixated on the LSU sidelines,(then told why he was, like he did), I never noticed the extra men."

Do you see how that's giving a full answer without just throwing people under the bus for your failures?
All this "he had to, to give a full answer" stuff is b.s.
He hired the assistants and he recruited the players.
It is on him and not his job to expose others to excuse himself.
That's a really crappy thiing to do. And you definitely shouldn't get praise for throwing them under.
No wonder he will continue to pull big checks without having to shoulder any blame, these days people are more than happy to just hold their noses and dance in the bullshat.
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Considering he was doing the right thing, you don't get a full answer. Clay's follow-up would be "...so you're watching LSU to make the right move based on their move. They go 4 WRs. You immediately call for subs. What went wrong?"

Suddenly Dooley is saying everything he said.

Again, it's an explanation. The point wasn't to just apologize for all issues. It was to give his side on situations that occurred.

Also, who called for this interview? Did Clay decide he wanted to bring on Dooley? Did Dooley call Clay and say he wanted to come clean?
 
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crusse10 said:
Considering he was doing the right thing, you don't get a full answer. Clay's follow-up would be "...so you're watching LSU to make the right move based on their move. They go 4 WRs. You immediately call for subs. What went wrong?"

Suddenly Dooley is saying everything he said.

Again, it's an explanation. The point wasn't to just apologize for all issues. It was to give his side on situations that occurred.

Also, who called for this interview? Did Clay decide he wanted to bring on Dooley? Did Dooley call Clay and say he wanted to come clean?
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He could have told the same story without mentioning the assistants. And you know it, just stop. If assistants want to come forward and say they had caused something, that's admirable, it's not his job to throw them under the bus.
Yes Dooley is angling for something, he called clay.

People really do amaze me these days. "Well he moved when I told him not to, my friends put me up to it and I had a bad childhood, that's why I had to do it. But I take full responsibility"

Followed by praise.
Unbelievable.
 
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Just forget it.
There is a reason I heard about Bray, the assistants, the A.D, the fans,the media, the coach before him and the coach after him, and it's not called taking responsibility.


This is exactly how he did the players when he was coaching here. And some applauded him for "being honest" when he was throwing those guys under the bus also.
Some things never change.
Amazing how so many other coaches deal with an intense job and don't have to do this.
 
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BaldBiker said:
Never spent time in a fighting hole (if your lucky to have that) praying to God, thinking of family. wishing to be home and the only link was a Navy or Marine Corps pilot that happened to throw a bag of mail in his plane that just so happened to have a VHS tape of a UT football game addressed to you in it IMO......

More to life has many interpretations. Some of our interpretations may not be understood by all, but I bet there are those who know exactly what I mean.
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Figured everyone would see the sarcasm in my quote. Guess I should have used blue font.
 
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Just watched the interview.

My overall impression, leaving aside all the details about specific things he said and responded to, is this: he simply still does not get it.

He does not understand, to this day, the severe weaknesses he has as a leader. He can't see how far he is from what's required of a successful head coach. He simply does not understand the negative impact his personality is having on the people around him, the program.

And ironically, during the interview he mentions reading General Colin Powell's book. The book in which Powell shares his 13 rules of life for leaders. Rules that Derek routinely trampled while coaching at Tennessee. Amazingly, Dooley is utterly blind to the fact that he so regularly fails to meet those basic leadership tenets.

He's a bright guy. A funny guy. An engaging guy. Would be a hoot to have as a next door neighbor. But utterly unsuited to leadership roles.
 
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I just hope no AD in the SEC was watching. Obviously Dooley has an incredible grasp of the game, and he's now identified all potential pitfalls. We should all pray no opposing programs were watching because he could take over the league if hired by one.
 
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golfballs said:
Is this thing really 2hrs long??
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Well, you know Dooley. Ask him what time it is and he has to explain how they make watches and where they are made.

what part I listened to was about recruiting and he mentioned that during his time, they got every instate player they wanted, but they missed on some evaluations. Could it be because they were lazy ass and didn't do the work? Most likely. Sad truth is he actually only had 1 full recruiting class Thank God, the infamous one with 0 OL signed. His first class was mostly Kiffin guys and the last one, Butch pulled mostly from the fire less guys like JRM and Cam as Dooley's staff shut it down after October. Im not sure who in the world would have lined up in the OL in 2014 if Dooley had stayed another yr.

Also, when CBJ came onboard, Tennessee was way behind on Hurd, Barnett, wasn't on the radar for Robertson or many of the midstate guys at Tennessee now. Who knows who would be at RB today without a change but it sure as hell wouldn't have been JH....
 
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He actually came off better than I thought, but I didn't ealize he curses so much. Thought was pretty unprofessional
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Just watched the interview.

My overall impression, leaving aside all the details about specific things he said and responded to, is this: he simply still does not get it.

He does not understand, to this day, the severe weaknesses he has as a leader. He can't see how far he is from what's required of a successful head coach. He simply does not understand the negative impact his personality is having on the people around him, the program.

And ironically, during the interview he mentions reading General Colin Powell's book. The book in which Powell shares his 13 rules of life for leaders. Rules that Derek routinely trampled while coaching at Tennessee. Amazingly, Dooley is utterly blind to the fact that he so regularly fails to meet those basic leadership tenets.

He's a bright guy. A funny guy. An engaging guy. Would be a hoot to have as a next door neighbor. But utterly unsuited to leadership roles.
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That is very well put JP.

It's true I dislike him, but I really hoped to turn on the interview last night and see a changed man.A change from the kind of man that would blame players and compare them to confused German soldiers.
Much like a political speech, it seems different people heard different things. But one thing I can guarantee isn't true, I didn't hear what I wanted to hear. In fact, the exact opposite.
 
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