Dooley discussed buyout?

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This changes everything, if true.

I've been saying what Hart has to do this year is a piece of mercy, but looks like he should never been allowed back on the bus in Lexington.

We were a little hard pressed for time on the Kiffin announcement. But we've got time to take our mattresses, make effigies of Mike Hamilton, and burn them on Peyton Manning Pass this time around.
 
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We went through a whole season with a coach who did not even want to be here. Maybe we should have known that with the product on the field. The man is just waiting for his final payoff. A whole season wasted in an attempt to save money by the AD. Good call Hart.
 
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That kind of makes Dooley look like a **** because more or less he said screw you to all his assistant coaches.
 
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LebanonVolunteer said:
We went through a whole season with a coach who did not even want to be here. Maybe we should have known that with the product on the field. The man is just waiting for his final payoff. A whole season wasted in an attempt to save money by the AD. Good call Hart.
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Sounds like the Kiffen season also. The next guy has to a better option. Has to be.
 
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miggy4vols said:
Can't get to the article because it's blocked. Can someone copy/paste it here? Thanks.
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And apparently the coach’s survival was even an issue after last season, which puts yet another twist on this issue.

Two sources very close to the Tennessee program have told MrSEC.com that Dooley actually discussed a buyout with Hart and Tennessee after last season’s loss to Kentucky. A third source further confirmed that story yesterday.

Knowing that his team quit on him versus UK and that fan negativity was growing, Dooley — as the story goes — approached the school and offered to just hit the road if they’d give him his buyout. Tennessee officials reportedly told him they would not buy him out for $5 million since he was the guy asking out. Dooley wouldn’t negotiate down the buyout, UT tried to call his bluff by not offering contract extensions to his assistants, but Dooley stuck it out anyway, hired new seven assistants — who had to be given multi-year contracts anyway — and tried to fix his program.

If that information is correct it’s hard to imagine Dooley surviving in Knoxville. (Whether those discussions took place or not, don’t expect UT or Dooley to confirm them.)

But this is all part of the back-and-forth of Tennessee’s current “Dooley debate.” There are those in the Tennessee administration who feel it’s time to make a change. There are others who believe the school must give Dooley one more year in order to avoid jumping right back onto the coaching carousel.
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The Dooley Debate Rages At UT; Sources Claim He Talked Buyout Last Year
 
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spudvol said:
Explains all the asst coaches jumping ship.
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This.

If this is indeed what happened and Dooley pulled the end-around to get multi-year contract for his assistants anyway, then he should be shown the door today (well, that should happen anyway, but still). He clearly has the best interest of Derek Dooley in mind, not Tennessee.
 
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This changes everything.

I now understand why there has been no progression with this team beyond the expected time in the system and natural maturity.

Also explains why we wound up with Sal instead of a real DC - we simply didn't want to pay for it. I sure hope Hart and the rest of this admin are hard t work negotiating with DD over this buyout.
 
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Wow this is big news. Sometimes drama is fun, but I sure am ready to be 6-1 or 7-0 and worried about a huge national television game coming up.
 
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LebanonVolunteer said:
We went through a whole season with a coach who did not even want to be here. Maybe we should have known that with the product on the field. The man is just waiting for his final payoff. A whole season wasted in an attempt to save money by the AD. Good call Hart.
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We don't even know if theres any truth to this. Right now it's just speculation.
 
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It is one thing to say Dooley will be fired; it's another thing to say Dooley wanted to be bought out and then after not being bought out he decided to go buy 7 new assistants to shove it back in the University's face. Really guys?
 
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FearlessFreep said:
This.

If this is indeed what happened and Dooley pulled the end-around to get multi-year contract for his assistants anyway, then he should be shown the door today (well, that should happen anyway, but still). He clearly has the best interest of Derek Dooley in mind, not Tennessee.
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Always did. The sad part is that some fans also think that way.
 
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VOLracerx said:
This changes everything.

I now understand why there has been no progression with this team beyond the expected time in the system and natural maturity.

Also explains why we wound up with Sal instead of a real DC - we simply didn't want to pay for it. I sure hope Hart and the rest of this admin are hard t work negotiating with DD over this buyout.
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That is the thing I don't quite get. We did not get a real DC, yet we DID actually paid for it. VERY few DC's make 800 grand a year. Chavis makes only 900. We are paying top DC money for a LB coach.
 
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