Daily Beacon article this morning...

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Excerpt from today's Daily Beacon:

"I glimpsed an intimate family moment after the team's loss to south carolina on saturday, and I'll never get that picture out of my mind. Dooley had just suffered a disappointing and potentially career-altering loss. He had just walked through the tunnel to the chant of 'Dooley-you're-fired.' He had just spoken with a broken-hearted team and he had just held a press conference for nosy journalists like me. His response was to go out and sit down on the pavement with his wife and son. He put his arm around his boy and gave his wife a reassuring nod. It was tragically beautiful." -Sports Editor
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Has the sympathy card been played? What is your take on this? Should we really feel sorry for Dooley? Or does he deserve the heat he's under right now?

EDIT: to clarify, I do genuinely sympathize with the man. It breaks my heart to see such a nice guy have such a bad turn of events. It really does...
 
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bigorangefan26 said:
Excerpt from today's Daily Beacon:



I've been waiting for the sympathy card to be played, and it looks like its here now. So what is your take on this? Should we really feel sorry for Dooley? Or does he deserve the heat he's under right now?
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I don't think that's a sympathy card being played. To me it sounds like the author of the article is sharing something that he noticed Saturday.
 
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Say what you will about Dooley's record and stats, but seeing a man fail should make anyone sad. Especially the HC of our football team.
 
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He's pointing out that Dooley is human, which people tend to forget. The way he's being treated by some fans is pathetic.
 
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bigorangefan26 said:
Excerpt from today's Daily Beacon:



I've been waiting for the sympathy card to be played, and it looks like its here now. So what is your take on this? Should we really feel sorry for Dooley? Or does he deserve the heat he's under right now?
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hahahaha he hugged his wife and son and said we just hit the lottery.lol
 
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That's not anything that CDD said or did.

CDD simply went to spend a little time with his wife and son after a very close game and a heartbreaking loss, then the press beating on him after he had to try and find something to say to his team to try and get them to hold their heads up and not give up.

It's really sad and pathetic to try and spin everything towards hate on CDD and Tennessee fans should have lots more class than that.

VFL...GBO!!!
 
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It is sad that he has failed. But, he is going to be paid handsomely for that failure.

I do like the guy, can't help it. He's just not right for us.
 
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Orangesmokey said:
I don't think that's a sympathy card being played. To me it sounds like the author of the article is sharing something that he noticed Saturday.
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If you read the entire article from their website it essentially makes an argument that vol fans should remember that he is a father/husband/etc...

I guess you could call it a human empathy card, but its effect is the same: it arouses feelings of guilt and sympathy for a man under stress about his job.
 
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davethevol said:
He's pointing out that Dooley is human, which people tend to forget. The way he's being treated by some fans is pathetic.
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Amen, brother. If people would just use half their brains, it would be nice. Dooley gave this his best effort. And he failed.

Is it the end of the world: No.

We should all have the following attitude: Thank you for the effort and good luck to you in the future. And then we move on.
 
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bigorangefan26 said:
Excerpt from today's Daily Beacon:



I've been waiting for the sympathy card to be played, and it looks like its here now. So what is your take on this? Should we really feel sorry for Dooley? Or does he deserve the heat he's under right now?
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Sympathy card?!? Step down from your platform of hate and vitriol for a moment and realize that he is a man with a family like many others. He has frustrations and failures just like you. Unlike you, he gets to share those with the world. Did he sign up for that, sure. It doesn't make it any easier for him, though, this isn't a sympathy card. It's the freaking reality of his life. Sympathy card.......sheesh, some people.
 
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Feel sorry for him? Hell no. The man was payed millions of dollars to take a job he shouldnt have had in the first place. He is going to get payed millions of dollars to be fired from said job.

That being said, I believe he is a good man. I have no doubt in my mind that he is doing the best he can do to try and succeed. I will tip my hat to him as he departs this university and wish him luck in his future endeavors.
 
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champyvol said:
hahahaha he hugged his wife and son and said we just hit the lottery.lol
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I hit like by accident. There is nothing to like about this post. Some people are not driven by money, they are driven by success, loyalty, honor, dedication. When a man falls short of those it is painful and money will never cure that.

The fact that so many people on here envy money enough to accuse Dooley of veritable prostitution says more about us than him.
 
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hard not to feel for the guy on a personal level. How many of us will have our failures shown to our family and friends on national tv? How many will have thousands of people calling you a failure while your kids watch?

doesn't change my opinion of his job performance but I do feel for him as a person and father
 
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Orange81 said:
Still hope we give him one more year tho.
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If he wins out and wins the bowl game i believe he'll get that one more year. What he'll do with it it subject to debate but there will be several good position coaches available to choose from.... Auburn appears poised to clean house. Demote (not fire) Sunseri... Pick up Van Gorder from Auburn and get a good special teams coach and things could be a lot different on the Hill this time next year....
 
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I like Dooley as a person (from what I can tell) and I wished he would've worked out. So I hate to hear stories like this (I am a sucker for human interest stories), but still doesn't change my view that Dooley needs to be fired. I just would never yell it at him or embarrass him in anyway.

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If he wins out and wins the bowl game i believe he'll get that one more year. What he'll do with it it subject to debate but there will be several goid position coaches available to choose from.... Auburn aooears poised to clean house. Demote (not fire) Sunseri... Pick up Van Gorder from Auburn and get a good special teams coach and things could be a lot different on the Hill this time next year....
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No next year will be just as bad and it could even be worse depending on who leaves for the NFL. Dooley has shown nothing to prove that he can win at a SEC level.

Also keeping a coach at Tennessee shouldn't be based on wins in November. Too weak of a schedule. Also bowl game will have to do with it. You don't wait for a bowl game to fire or keep a coach.
 
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AJeray4TN said:
Maybe he's just reminding people not to act like douche bags.
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Thank you ^^^

And OP...you must be a cold hearted SOB to take umbrage with this article and present it as you have.

And for the podunks hung up on his $5m buy out...you obviously have no concept of business or dealings at such levels...many here do/have, I'm sure...but there's so much backwoods in here sometimes...I keep looking for the stills (or pot plants these days).
 
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Negateer said:
We had no business being in the game. It should have been a blowout.
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Thats what i thought. Didn't have any business being in the game with the Dawgs neither. Maybe next year, but even then, i'd be pretty happy keeping it close.
 
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