Dooley said it best

#76
#76
No he didn't answer my question..Thanks for playing though.

I heard him say go with an interim coach.. I wanted to know who we were going to get after that debacle was over? I said it before and I will say it again.. No coach with any chance to go to a better situation would come here with the mess we are/ were in.

Everyone wanted Kelly.. That seems to be working out real well for ND right now huh..

Right now.. Are you listening? Right now if this were a boxing match, we would have a hard time winning if we had Floyd Mayweather Jr's corner working for us.. Why? Because it would be like a bunch of midgets trying to fight Mike Tyson in his prime..
 
#78
#78
webleedorange said:
No he didn't answer my question..Thanks for playing though.

I heard him say go with an interim coach.. I wanted to know who we were going to get after that debacle was over? I said it before and I will say it again.. No coach with any chance to go to a better situation would come here with the mess we are/ were in.

Everyone wanted Kelly.. That seems to be working out real well for ND right now huh..

Right now.. Are you listening? Right now if this were a boxing match, we would have a hard time winning if we had Floyd Mayweather Jr's corner working for us.. Why? Because it would be like a bunch of midgets trying to fight Mike Tyson in his prime..
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Maybe not great, but it's sure a hell of a lot better than the abomination of a hire we made.
 
#79
#79
tvols75 said:
One thing that has pissed me off is the questioning of the heart. Yes, you can in Oregon when we visibly quit in the 2nd half. But other times it's just stupid to question heart when it's the fact that we aren't that good. Who on offense showed no heart yesterday? Because the majority of the problem was the young o-line not having experience or depth. Just because they aren't that good right now doesn't mean that the O-line doesn't have heart. The main problem on the D yesterday was our slow, small LBs, our lack of DL depth, and Art Evans and Prentiss Waggoner. Reveiz can't help that he's small and slow but to say he doesn't heart is a big reach. Prentiss Waggoner and Art Evans are just not that good, we have seen that since they've been here. Not being good does not equal not having heart. Joseph Ayres cannot help that he is the starting DT as a walk-on Freshmen at 260 lbs. Him getting pushed around is not a lack of heart and instead if a lack of talent.

So before you question a player's heart think about whether what you saw was just a young, inexperienced, depleted team or a team that is out there with no heart.
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Great post :hi:
 
#80
#80
clevelandvolfan said:
Yes I can expect them to bring it hard every week. Thats Dooleys number one job,to get the kids ready to play every week. We may not have the talent level,but that is no excuse for not having the heart to play hard every play.
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You are wrong. No team plays hard every week.
 
#81
#81
bleedorange0037 said:
Maybe not great, but it's sure a hell of a lot better than the abomination of a hire we made.
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Well, I don't know for sure, but if I had to make a blind bet I would guess their talent level and number of scholarship players puts them in a much better position than we are in.

So I guess with everyone else logic on here, that would make Kelly a huge underachiever this year already.
 
#83
#83
VolBeef88 said:
Yes we suck. But it IS THE COACHES job to make sure they are playing to the best of their own ability and to at least have the right number of players on the damned field.
Not to mention lining up right or knowing their assignments (heaven forbid they know where to line up). I can take getting beat (don't like it) by a better team. But 3 weeks in a row with having the wrong # on the field AND not lining up right and not knowing their assignments AND not playing full tilt is on the coaches. I don;t give a damn how you or the other Dooley lovers want to spin it. He is making millions of dollars and he should be able to at least field the right number of players.
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Your right! I bet they've never even told them where to line up or what packages they're in. It's all coaching a 20 year old kid should't be expected to remember what to do. Good Gawd comments like this KILL ME!:banghead2:
 
#84
#84
VolBeef88 said:
Yes we suck. But it IS THE COACHES job to make sure they are playing to the best of their own ability and to at least have the right number of players on the damned field.
Not to mention lining up right or knowing their assignments (heaven forbid they know where to line up). I can take getting beat (don't like it) by a better team. But 3 weeks in a row with having the wrong # on the field AND not lining up right and not knowing their assignments AND not playing full tilt is on the coaches. I don;t give a damn how you or the other Dooley lovers want to spin it. He is making millions of dollars and he should be able to at least field the right number of players.
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:cray: Waaaaaa!! :cray: Waaaaaa!!
IMHO...you just need to get over it. It is what it is. We simply aren't a competitive team this year. Doesn't matter who is coaching this team this year...NO ONE would have won more than 4-5 games with the talent on this team.

I want to win just as badly as anyone, but we are all going to have to reserve judgment on CDD and staff for the time being. Surely all the Dooley "sheep" and Dooley "haters" can at least agree on that point, can we not?

BTW, I am a fan of CDD and the entire staff...given a couple years and recruiting classes, Tennessee football will be right back where it belongs--battling it out with Florida and Georgia(and maybe even S. Car.) for the east and in the conversation for an SEC title year-in and year-out.
 
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#85
#85
Vols033 said:
"We are just not very good right now."

This quote sums it all up. We have depth issues, experience issues, and talent issues, but that one single quote sums it all up. We have played with tremendous heart some games, but you can't expect a college team to bring it every single game as hard as they can. Never has happened and never will. We just suck right now and that's it. Here's looking forward to the future and hoping Dooley is the man that gets us there. Go Vols!!
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and we are not going to be good for a long time.
 
#87
#87
golf437 said:
You are wrong. No team plays hard every week.
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Ok so it isnt Dooleys job to have the kids ready every saturday? Well crap what are we paying him for.? Here I thought thats what his job was to make sure the kids knew what to do and when to do it.
That was the point I was trying to make.
I will admit expecting the kids to play hard every game is asking alot, and I have slacked at work too. That was a little harsh I guess.
 
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