Dan Patrick Show about Dooley's WWII Comment / Around the Horn too

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#28
Ha just when they were going to play it on 104.5, EAS broke in to issue Tornado Warnings.
 
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GoVols said:
Are you kidding me? He left ESPN high and dry BECAUSE of what they became.




Again, Dan Patrick is the complete opposite of "The Mothership".

You all should actually know what you're speaking of before you bash it, because you look completely ignorant to anyone who knows of Dan Patrick's work.

Stop being ignorant.
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Hit the nail on the head, my man!
 
#30
#30
Just curious, what did Dan Patrick have to say about this? DP is usually pretty funny, so I would imagine it would be pretty light hearted. CDD, imo, didn't say anything bad or insulting. He made an analogy that unfortunately makes a nice headline to catch people's eyes. Nothing more from my perspective.
 
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reeceb73 said:
Just curious, what did Dan Patrick have to say about this? DP is usually pretty funny, so I would imagine it would be pretty light hearted. CDD, imo, didn't say anything bad or insulting. He made an analogy that unfortunately makes a nice headline to catch people's eyes. Nothing more from my perspective.
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That would have made a better OP/Title. It only took 2 pages. Ha
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#32
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orange+white=heaven said:
Everyone's talking about Dooley.

Focus is off of the team.

Maybe not so dumb after all.
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:salute: People making way to big a deal out of this!! Why is CDD catching all this grief,Urban the Head Turd has lost 3 in a row and two of them in the swamp. What can't be? Not with all those 5* uberballers! But nope, media wants to shoot at CDD!! GO VOLS AND CDD!!
 
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Orangekush423 said:
No. The germans were dealt a hand THEY WEREN'T EXPECTING, and they folded in the heat of the battle. They waited on orders and such, instead of "just fighting".
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Hitler was taking a nap and didn't release the panzers. then when he was told he still held them back thinking patton was going to attack at the pas-de-calais. had he released them they would have drove the allies back into the sea. mis-management.
 
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Vols520 said:
So if the team is like German soliders, is he like hitler?

Instead of killing jews, is he just destroying our program?

That's the second part of the analogy.
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Nope Kiffin did that pretty well on his own he is just like the general that was left to put back the peices!!
 
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GAVol said:
oddly enough, you are right. This could actually unify the team on a strange sort of way.
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I hope both of you are right.

If it was the Alamo, maybe. German forces during WWII? Not a great "circle the wagon" rallying cry, IMHO.
 
#41
#41
There's nothing to rip. What he said is true. It's not Dooley's fault that people can't understand a military history analogy.

It's not like he compared a loss to a Sun Belt team to Pearl Harbor or 9/11, like another SEC coach did a few years ago.
 
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God I wish people were intelligent enough to understand what Dooley meant. There is nothing wrong with what was said, nothing at all. As a WWII buff, I think it was a fantastic analogy.
 
#45
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Dan Patrick has manged to join is fellow buffoon and friend, Keith Oberman, in the same place: irrelevence.
 
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EZE said:
Dan Patrick has manged to join is fellow buffoon and friend, Keith Oberman, in the same place: irrelevence.
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Hardly. A radio show that just had it's airing on TV get picked up in syndication all over the country. Hosts Sunday Night Football on NBC. That isn't really irrelevance. He is just like most national sports anchors/writers. Don't know anything about the program and read a quote, without seeing the context of it, or even seeing the actual words spoken. He showed that much when the end of his little thought on it was "Why don't you say something with American troops next time?" What the hell was he talking about?
 
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#47
Coach Dooley,

Contrary to what you may be hearing in the press, and possibly from within the University administration, I want to let you know that I completely agree with the analogy you made yesterday likening our current Tennessee football team to the German grunts staring out over the English Channel on 6 June, 1944. Seizing and maintaining the initiative in battle is critical….the side that does it wins, and the side that fails to do it loses. Football is no different.

Unfortunately, many will fault you for daring to compare combat and football. As you are aware, many of our nation’s greatest warriors have honed their skills on the football field. Generals MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower, and Neyland all understood that the fundamental characteristics and attributes that make a football player and team successful are also critical on the battlefield. It was precisely for this reason that General MacArthur, while Superintendant of the United States Military Academy, instituted a requirement for intramural athletics that remains to this day at West Point and has been followed in Annapolis and Colorado Springs. MacArthur’s belief that “Upon the friendly fields of strife are sown the seeds, that upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory” is, and will remain, true.

Generals MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower, and Neyland would have been rightfully frightened to take untrained, unprepared men, who lack the ability to exercise initiative to accomplish the mission, into battle. However, I am certain that these same men would have been loath to field a football team with those same characteristics, because they would lose on the field like they would in battle. That doesn’t mean that football is as important as combat, or that football players are performing as noble a duty as soldiers and Marines, it just means that the requisite characteristics and skills in both arenas are complimentary.

I love Tennessee football and I love the Marines I have had the good fortune to lead. I want both to fight and I want both to win. Sir, keep teaching these young men to seize the initiative and to never give up, drawing upon whatever historical lessons that may be necessary to do so, and worry not about what others might say. The victorious results we all want will follow.

Sincerely,

MoVolFan0203
USMC
USNA ‘97
 
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movolfan0203 said:
Coach Dooley,

Contrary to what you may be hearing in the press, and possibly from within the University administration, I want to let you know that I completely agree with the analogy you made yesterday likening our current Tennessee football team to the German grunts staring out over the English Channel on 6 June, 1944. Seizing and maintaining the initiative in battle is critical….the side that does it wins, and the side that fails to do it loses. Football is no different.

Unfortunately, many will fault you for daring to compare combat and football. As you are aware, many of our nation’s greatest warriors have honed their skills on the football field. Generals MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower, and Neyland all understood that the fundamental characteristics and attributes that make a football player and team successful are also critical on the battlefield. It was precisely for this reason that General MacArthur, while Superintendant of the United States Military Academy, instituted a requirement for intramural athletics that remains to this day at West Point and has been followed in Annapolis and Colorado Springs. MacArthur’s belief that “Upon the friendly fields of strife are sown the seeds, that upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory” is, and will remain, true.

Generals MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower, and Neyland would have been rightfully frightened to take untrained, unprepared men, who lack the ability to exercise initiative to accomplish the mission, into battle. However, I am certain that these same men would have been loath to field a football team with those same characteristics, because they would lose on the field like they would in battle. That doesn’t mean that football is as important as combat, or that football players are performing as noble a duty as soldiers and Marines, it just means that the requisite characteristics and skills in both arenas are complimentary.

I love Tennessee football and I love the Marines I have had the good fortune to lead. I want both to fight and I want both to win. Sir, keep teaching these young men to seize the initiative and to never give up, drawing upon whatever historical lessons that may be necessary to do so, and worry not about what others might say. The victorious results we all want will follow.

Sincerely,

MoVolFan0203
USMC
USNA ‘97
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Why, this is preposterous. You're trying to tell me that a serviceman is not completely offended by the analogy that Coach Dooley used to describe his team. I never would have guessed that, what with all these non servicemen telling me how offended servicemen would be.
 
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movolfan0203 said:
Coach Dooley,

Contrary to what you may be hearing in the press, and possibly from within the University administration, I want to let you know that I completely agree with the analogy you made yesterday likening our current Tennessee football team to the German grunts staring out over the English Channel on 6 June, 1944. Seizing and maintaining the initiative in battle is critical….the side that does it wins, and the side that fails to do it loses. Football is no different.

Unfortunately, many will fault you for daring to compare combat and football. As you are aware, many of our nation’s greatest warriors have honed their skills on the football field. Generals MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower, and Neyland all understood that the fundamental characteristics and attributes that make a football player and team successful are also critical on the battlefield. It was precisely for this reason that General MacArthur, while Superintendant of the United States Military Academy, instituted a requirement for intramural athletics that remains to this day at West Point and has been followed in Annapolis and Colorado Springs. MacArthur’s belief that “Upon the friendly fields of strife are sown the seeds, that upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory” is, and will remain, true.

Generals MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower, and Neyland would have been rightfully frightened to take untrained, unprepared men, who lack the ability to exercise initiative to accomplish the mission, into battle. However, I am certain that these same men would have been loath to field a football team with those same characteristics, because they would lose on the field like they would in battle. That doesn’t mean that football is as important as combat, or that football players are performing as noble a duty as soldiers and Marines, it just means that the requisite characteristics and skills in both arenas are complimentary.

I love Tennessee football and I love the Marines I have had the good fortune to lead. I want both to fight and I want both to win. Sir, keep teaching these young men to seize the initiative and to never give up, drawing upon whatever historical lessons that may be necessary to do so, and worry not about what others might say. The victorious results we all want will follow.

Sincerely,

MoVolFan0203
USMC
USNA ‘97
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One of the best posts I have seen in a long time. :hi:
 
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