Favorite Excuse for Dooley?

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Okay, so it's the dead period. The coaches have been hired and not alot is going on at the moment, so I thought we might have some fun looking back a past silliness.

In the past year, we saw alot of excuses from the Doolovers as to why their idol couldn't win. What was your favorite?

I'm going with the guy who claimed that Tyler Bray was throwing games so he could get Gruden. A close second is probably the poster that argued our program is historically the same as South Carolina.

What excuses still make you chuckle?
 
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The repeated chant of it takes time regardless of whatever fool move he made over and over
It seemed for awhile like a cult chant like if we just said it over and over it would be true
 
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"We're just not a very good football team right now"

And he didn't just say it once. He said it after almost every practice in "year 0" and the next season as well.
 
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How about this: I don't give two craps about Dooley anymore.

Another thread about him doesn't do anything to 'spice up' the dead period, either.
 
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But I was big on saying we need to be patient no matter who the coach is. There is a segment of our fanbase, and not the intelligent part, but the opposite. And for the benefit of that part of the fanbase, let me make it clear that I mean the dumbass part. The dumbass part of the fanbase thought all we had to do was jettison Fulmer and we could instantly start going 11-1 or 12-0 and competing for the NC every year. Their logic in thinking this apparently consisted of saying that Urban Meyer did this at Florida and Saban did this at Alabama, while completely ignoring how unusual the success of both those coaches was and is.

So if we jettisoned Fulmer and got that dumbass Kiffin and then Dooley, the people most upset with Dooley are likely the same mouthbreathing cretins that assume firing Fulmer will lead to instant success.

Thus, those people need to have their faces rubbed in JUST HOW BAD it can be, and maybe learn to be a bit more patient. Or, better yet, get the hell out of the fanbase.

So I defended the team for a long time, not out of love of Dooley, but to counter the idiots in the fanbase who don't understand that a coaching change is fraught with risk. Wanna get rid of a coach that won the NC and is 0.750. Oopps! Didn't work! So now you wanna get rid of the current coach? Nope. Enjoy losing for awhile, and let it soak through your thick skull that you're a knuckle dragging moron, and should probably start rooting for Vandy or Bammer. In other words, enjoy the Dooley era! You thoroughly deserve it!
 
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DD is in the rear view mirror , the only positives of his tenure were the VFL program and the establishment of the 10 second run off rule.
 
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oregonvol said:
Okay, so it's the dead period. The coaches have been hired and not alot is going on at the moment, so I thought we might have some fun looking back a past silliness.

In the past year, we saw alot of excuses from the Doolovers as to why their idol couldn't win. What was your favorite?

I'm going with the guy who claimed that Tyler Bray was throwing games so he could get Gruden. A close second is probably the poster that argued our program is historically the same as South Carolina.

What excuses still make you chuckle?
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No offense dude...but i'm tired of everyone blaming Dooley for everything. Always saying he didn't do this or that.
Truth is i think Dooley is a good person that really cared about the University of Tennesse and he really wanted to succeed here. He was just in over his head. It's not his fault he was not qualified for the job.
I blame Hamilton for hiring him in the first place.
 
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This thread is pathetic. You wanna feel like you won because Dooley (and by extension, Tennessee) failed -- and this is just another poorly-disguised victory dance. Bad form, IMO.
 
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I blame Hamilton end of story but the classic for me is to be an intelligent person the DA couldn't count to 11 in even in his 3rd year
 
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Hacksaw said:
This thread is pathetic. You wanna feel like you won because Dooley (and by extension, Tennessee) failed -- and this is just another poorly-disguised victory dance. Bad form, IMO.
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No we (Tennessee) won because that clown is gone and now we can get back to winning.

He will go down as the worst football coach in Tennessee history.
 
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San Diego Vol said:
No we (Tennessee) won because that clown is gone and now we can get back to winning.

He will go down as the worst football coach in Tennessee history.
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3 consecutive losing seasons and having to fire the head coach and start all over again is winning in your book, huh? Not mine. I was never sold on Dooley, but I would rather he had been successful. I don't care about being right, if it means the Vols have to lose.
 
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San Diego Vol said:
. . .He will go down as the worst football coach in Tennessee history.
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We can only hope so!

Although, I think LK was worse. If he'd been given a few mores years, he'd have had a record of 0-40something because the NCAA would have taken all the wins away.
 
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Hacksaw said:
3 consecutive losing seasons and having to fire the head coach and start all over again is winning in your book, huh? Not mine. I was never sold on Dooley, but I would rather he had been successful. I don't care about being right, if it means the Vols have to lose.
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He wasn't going to be successful, ever. You just want him to stay there until he finally has a winning season?
 
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BanditVol said:
Wanna get rid of a coach that won the NC and is 0.750. Oopps! Didn't work!
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Clearly should have retained that .750 coach who, in his last eight years-two graduating classes, managed to beat the big five in the SEC 12 times while losing to those five 22 times, not .750 of course, but merely .352, and who had a 29-21 overall record his last four years while going 17-15 in SEC play, not .750, but .531. Definitely a poor decision in retrospect.
 
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Hacksaw said:
Uh...

You know what? Nevermind. Congratulations on your big achievement and have fun spiking the football.
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I take it you was one of the Doolites that thought he had this program moving in the right direction and deserved another year ?
 
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