Derek Dooley knows the expectations here....

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"I make mistakes all the time, but if it's not fourth-and-1 every day when you come to work, then you're not doing your job right. That's how I feel -- fourth-and-1 for the national championship every day. That's how it's got to be."

I love this quote. I don't know what to expect from Dooley in terms of championships and wins. What I do loving seeing is these two things:

1) He knows what the expectations are at UT and knows what the long-term goals should be.

2) He comes in with the attitude that UT should be a national title contender every year and that he will do what he can to bring it there. Whatever he does is to bring UT closer to the elite program status that it should be.

I love the attitude of Derek Dooley. I pray it translates to wins and championships.
 
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If he wins 7 games this year he is automatically a better coach than Kiffin. He faces much bigger obstacles than Kiffin.
 
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One thing I like about Dooley is that I've never heard the word 'heck' cross his lips.
 
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I wasn't keen on the Dooley hire until I heard his press conference when he was hired. The guy wants to be here and understands the passion and intensity of Tennessee football, not to mention the SEC in general. He tries to lead by example, not by getting out and running his mouth to the media. I understand some people saying that he wasn't the homerun we needed to hit with the hire and what not and just not being excited about him but I think we have reason to be excited about the future. Dooley wants to be here and wants to be contending for a National Championship year in and year out, we just have to show some patience and give him time.
 
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The more he talks the more I like him, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who just makes hollow comments just to please the media and the fan base.
 
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GahLee said:
The more he talks the more I like him, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who just makes hollow comments just to please the media and the fan base.
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Yep, and you can bet if he gets knocked down he'll just get up, dust off his britches and keep going!
 
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#10_Ainge_#10 said:
I wasn't keen on the Dooley hire until I heard his press conference when he was hired. The guy wants to be here and understands the passion and intensity of Tennessee football, not to mention the SEC in general. He tries to lead by example, not by getting out and running his mouth to the media. I understand some people saying that he wasn't the homerun we needed to hit with the hire and what not and just not being excited about him but I think we have reason to be excited about the future. Dooley wants to be here and wants to be contending for a National Championship year in and year out, we just have to show some patience and give him time.
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Amen.

It took over a decade for us to descend into the mess we are in now. It will take more than 2 or 3 years to climb out of it. I'm willing to give him time to straighten the mess, recruit kids who want to play for UT, and develop talent to bring us out of this funk we are in.
 
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GahLee said:
The more he talks the more I like him, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who just makes hollow comments just to please the media and the fan base.
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I agree. I wasn't impressed with his first press conference when he landed the job, but each time he speaks the better he sounds. I think he is a wise, wise man and I hope he has a great career here at UT.
 
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FittyElevem said:
Just a positive comment that you had to piss on...In reality you will sit there and take whatever coach UT decides to have on the sideline and deal with it.
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I didn't take it as a "piss on" of a good comment. That's part of the outlook Dooley needs to have. His thoughts should be "if I do not perform to the level expected of me, they will fire me and find someone who does." Instead of Fulmer's outlook his last few years.
 
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It's surprising how much can be accomplished when you know your job is on the line. Dooley knows that his job here depends on succeeding relatively quickly. He will try as hard as he can as quickly as he can and I hope he succeeds, UT doesn't deserve to be crappy. It just isn't right.
 
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zjcvols said:
"I make mistakes all the time, but if it's not fourth-and-1 every day when you come to work, then you're not doing your job right. That's how I feel -- fourth-and-1 for the national championship every day. That's how it's got to be."

I love this quote. I don't know what to expect from Dooley in terms of championships and wins. What I do loving seeing is these two things:

1) He knows what the expectations are at UT and knows what the long-term goals should be.

2) He comes in with the attitude that UT should be a national title contender every year and that he will do what he can to bring it there. Whatever he does is to bring UT closer to the elite program status that it should be.

I love the attitude of Derek Dooley. I pray it translates to wins and championships.
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Reading comprehension was never one of my strong suits, but it sounds to me like he is one given to excellence. We have needed a man given to excellence for quite some time. I do like your idealistic interpretation (and agree with you), but I didn't get that from what he said...
 
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The more I hear from him, the more comfortable I feel and believe he will turn the program around. His reputation with high school coaches in LA while recruiting for LSU was that he was a great compliment to Saban and that he paid attention to the little things. He sounds like a coach that belongs in the SEC...now let's see if he can develop championship level players.

Geaux Vols!
 
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FittyElevem said:
Just a positive comment that you had to piss on...In reality you will sit there and take whatever coach UT decides to have on the sideline and deal with it.
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How did I piss on that? This is Tennessee. Players, coaches, and fans of this program know that winning championships are the only things acceptable here. Failure to do so will result in termination.

Dooley realizes that.
 
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In that case, he knows he better win pretty quick. There's not going to be some long honeymoon period. He should get 2-3 years to turn it around.
 
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Special Ed said:
One thing I like about Dooley is that I've never heard the word 'heck' cross his lips.
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Let us hope that he also doesn't use that verbal crutch of the former, former regime, "we'll have to watch the film," or words to that effect.
 
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ole_orange said:
How did I piss on that? This is Tennessee. Players, coaches, and fans of this program know that winning championships are the only things acceptable here. Failure to do so will result in termination.

Dooley realizes that.
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I think that is how it should be. There is however a certain faction of the fan base that think worshiping individuals, whether it be coach or AD is the way to prosperity. I say scratch that, that thinking has us where we are now. Some have forgotten this is Tennessee and not some also ran program or also played, which ever way you like to put it. There is no reason that a program that spends this much money on facilities, recruiting and national exposure should expect anything less.
 
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I'll give Dooley this, he has gotten a better grasp on what the expectations for the UT program should be in seven months than Fulmer did in 16 years as the head coach.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I'll give Dooley this, he has gotten a better grasp on what the expectations for the UT program should be in seven months than Fulmer did in 16 years as the head coach.
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I'll say this, Dooley is in a much worse position thanks to Fulmer. Fulmer inherited a stocked program and ran it into the ground. Dooley is left to pick up the pieces of what's left.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I'll give Dooley this, he has gotten a better grasp on what the expectations for the UT program should be in seven months than Fulmer did in 16 years as the head coach.
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Fulmer knew. He just didn't give a ****. Probably figured that one NC would carry him until be broke Neyland's record.
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hatvol96 said:
I'll give Dooley this, he has gotten a better grasp on what the expectations for the UT program should be in seven months than Fulmer did in 16 years as the head coach.
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Expectations have to be high, there's no question in that. However reality is it took a long time to sink this program to the level it's at now. When you get the reputation we have for being a team full of criminals it takes years to get rid of that so we can get quality players instead of the ones teetering between College and the Federal Pen. The mommas of the good kids are going to want to see UT cleaned up before they allow their kids to go here.

Yes, most other schools have similar problems, but facts are ours in the last few years have become very public and a major source of embarrassment to the University, the Team, and something parents are questioning when UT goes recruiting.

If Tennessee were a donor state as far as producing SEC level talent from it's high schools then it would be a much less serious problem. The fact is we have to go out of state and lure kids here. When doing that we compete against dozens of schools trying to do the same thing.

Back in the 70's when Kentucky and Tennessee were pretty well equal one another Kentucky was in a similar situation. If Fran Curci could keep his players out of jail or get them out of jail in time to play the game Kentucky won, if not, they suffered greatly by not having their talent on the field.

A business suffers when it depends on employees who don't show up, get put in jail, dope around and come in hung over or high because the employees aren't giving 100% to whatever the job is. The same goes for this football team.

Dooley unfortunately has to deal with the kids on the team now who keep causing off the field problems that translate to them not being able to play. He can't send them packing because he has to first find replacements, he can't depend on them to do their part, and pretty much is stuck with them for up to 3 or 4 years as the case may be.

To bring in a better quality individual who won't cause problems it may be that in the near future he'll be stuck with sub par athletes that he isn't having to compete against top programs with better reputations.

The long and short is it takes a long time to build a good reputation and 1 mistake to destroy it. UT has had a lot of mistakes in the last few years that have destroyed our good reputation.
 
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ole_orange said:
If he can not produce, we will get someone who will.
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will muschamp and 4-5 other former potential candidates disagree.

we've hitched our wagon to CDD. not against it. but that's where we are for the forseeable future.
 
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