Dooley - The Coach We Needed But Didn't Deserve?

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VolforFootball said:
Did we get rid of Dooley too fast? I'm beginning to think we should have given him the time to learn and grow with the job. Tennessee may just be in a much better place today were Dooley still at the helm.
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I LOVE it

Why not Doofy too? Shouldn’t he deserve time to “rite the ship?” Heck he didn’t get a ton of great players so he should have been given “more” time to get enough of “his” players.
 
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JoAllan said:
I LOVE it

Why not Doofy too? Shouldn’t he deserve time to “rite the ship?” Heck he didn’t get a ton of great players so he should have been given “more” time to get enough of “his” players.
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I'd have to agree. Looking back it's clear that our offense was among the best we've ever had when Dooley was coach. He and Chaney seem to be a solid combo.
 
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VolforFootball said:
Did we get rid of Dooley too fast? I'm beginning to think we should have given him the time to learn and grow with the job. Tennessee may just be in a much better place today were Dooley still at the helm.
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Dooley and Pruitt are apples and oranges. Not on paper right now, I get that, but Dooley didn’t even check any of the right boxes. Pruitt does. JMO
 
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JoAllan said:
I LOVE it

Why not Doofy too? Shouldn’t he deserve time to “rite the ship?” Heck he didn’t get a ton of great players so he should have been given “more” time to get enough of “his” players.
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You act like this is such a ridiculous concept. We kept getting worse under Dooley, even when he got “his players” on the roster. By year 3 we knew what we had and the right choice was made.

Butch’s teams got better, but woefully underperformed. He had the talent, it was the in-game coaching that was hindering the talent. By year 5, we knew what we had and the right choice was made.

We don’t know what we have in Pruitt yet. Does the team seem to be getting worse? Yes it does, but the sample size is still small. In year 3 he will have “his players” on campus to run his system, then we will know what we have. Right now the majority of what he has are bad players, specifically a huge chunk of upperclassmen.
 
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knox-townVOL said:
You act like this is such a ridiculous concept. We kept getting worse under Dooley, even when he got “his players” on the roster. By year 3 we knew what we had and the right choice was made.

Butch’s teams got better, but woefully underperformed. He had the talent, it was the in-game coaching that was hindering the talent. By year 5, we knew what we had and the right choice was made.

We don’t know what we have in Pruitt yet. Does the team seem to be getting worse? Yes it does, but the sample size is still small. In year 3 he will have “his players” on campus to run his system, then we will know what we have. Right now the majority of what he has are bad players, specifically a huge chunk of upperclassmen.
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Just sarcasm at people who “blindly” suggest Pruitt deserves “years” for no real reason.

I can see how some may have hope. I can see that some may think Pruitt can do better next year.......nothing too wrong with that (although for me I’ve seen enough); however there are some who seem to have “blind faith” and spout “years”......which is ridicules.......I think my post showed it was ridiculous (all be it with a different coach).
 
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Here. This is not hard:

All we have to do is hire an actual Head Coach....of a power 5 football team...that has consistently won games he wasn’t supposed to win.

That should be the criteria of hiring a head coach. It’s not that hard. There are like 4-5 guys that do that right now. Literally out there living their lives. Breathing. Eating. Drinking. Coaching football that doesn’t suck. They aren’t actually unicorns. They exist.
 
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VolforFootball said:
Did we get rid of Dooley too fast? I'm beginning to think we should have given him the time to learn and grow with the job. Tennessee may just be in a much better place today were Dooley still at the helm.
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CDD should've NEVER been hired.... he was the inexperienced and insufficient hire of an impatient and idiotic AD who had the NFL experienced Kippy Brown ready to be named interim HC.
But that arrogant SOB AD wouldn't hire Brown as an interim because of his ties to Fulmer.

It's only opinion, but mine is that we would be in a much better place if Hamilton would've hire Brown.
 
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We were good offensively because we had Tyler Bray who could sling it. Yes, he was immature mentally, but the guy had crazy arm talent. That helped attract great receivers and we had a O-Line that was great at pass blocking.

Flash forward to now: With a talented QB, this whole team would be different. We would be 3-1 or 4-0 now.
 
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JoAllan said:
Just sarcasm at people who “blindly” suggest Pruitt deserves “years” for no real reason.

I can see how some may have hope. I can see that some may think Pruitt can do better next year.......nothing too wrong with that (although for me I’ve seen enough); however there are some who seem to have “blind faith” and spout “years”......which is ridicules.......I think my post showed it was ridiculous (all be it with a different coach).
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What if there are some that think Pruitt may or may not do better next year? What if some of us have no blind faith in him or anybody else, for that matter? Maybe we just think it's right and fair to give a guy a fair shot. Is it a fair shot to give a guy walking into a dumpster fire one plus years to fix things? What about two? My feelings are, we should know for sure by mid-next season---two full years, plus a half.
 
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Based on this, we need to give Jeremy some more time. By time, I mean way longer than we want too!!!!
 
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I will say, we probably should have given a 3-4 defensive coordinator more than one year to install a defense thats built more on mental strengths than straight up physical ones. But even if not, Dooley was really just a decent DC from having a solid team.

EDIT: For clarification, i'm talking Sunseri. I know it was the worst defense, but i just have learned a lot about 3-4 over the years, and it really does seem like its a bit too complicated for college players, but pays off if you can address the correct recruits. Going from 4-3 to 3-4 with 4-3 personnel just doesn't work. The initial hire of Sunseri was probably just wrong.
 
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