I challenge anybody to defend Derek Dooley.

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I challenge anybody to defend Derek Dooley today. Find me one positive that you saw out of him today.
I have been defending him all year but it stops today. Youth is not an excuse for not being prepared to play mentally or physically. The coaches nor the players were ready to go.
 
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You are correct about today.

However, you don't fire a coach based on one game.

I believe Fulmer won a National Championship two years after losing to Memphis.

Fulmer also go the team into the SEC Championship two years after losing to Vandy for the first time in a quarter century.

Majors fielded one of the most talented teams in UT history (1990) after starting the season 0-6 including a loss to Duke.

Everyone on here needs to step away from the ledge and go have a nice bourbon drink. The sun will rise tomorrow.
 
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BigOrangePredsFan said:
You are correct about today.

However, you don't fire a coach based on one game.

I believe Fulmer won a National Championship two years after losing to Memphis.

Fulmer also go the team into the SEC Championship two years after losing to Vandy for the first time in a quarter century.

Majors fielded one of the most talented teams in UT history (1990) after starting the season 0-6 including a loss to Duke.

Everyone on here needs to step away from the ledge and go have a nice bourbon drink. The sun will rise tomorrow.
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Isn't bourbon made in Kentucky?
 
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BigOrangePredsFan said:
You are correct about today.

However, you don't fire a coach based on one game.

I believe Fulmer won a National Championship two years after losing to Memphis.

Fulmer also go the team into the SEC Championship two years after losing to Vandy for the first time in a quarter century.

Majors fielded one of the most talented teams in UT history (1990) after starting the season 0-6 including a loss to Duke.

Everyone on here needs to step away from the ledge and go have a nice bourbon drink. The sun will rise tomorrow.
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You seriously said bourbon after today? It's TN Whiskey or nothing. Credibility destroyed....
 
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BigOrangePredsFan said:
You are correct about today.

However, you don't fire a coach based on one game.

I believe Fulmer won a National Championship two years after losing to Memphis.

Fulmer also go the team into the SEC Championship two years after losing to Vandy for the first time in a quarter century.

Majors fielded one of the most talented teams in UT history (1990) after starting the season 0-6 including a loss to Duke.

Everyone on here needs to step away from the ledge and go have a nice bourbon drink. The sun will rise tomorrow.
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Hush, you. We don't need people quoting silly things like facts to distract from a perfectly good irrational meltdown.

The truth has no place on a message board.
 
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BigOrangePredsFan said:
You are correct about today.

However, you don't fire a coach based on one game.

I believe Fulmer won a National Championship two years after losing to Memphis.

Fulmer also go the team into the SEC Championship two years after losing to Vandy for the first time in a quarter century.

Majors fielded one of the most talented teams in UT history (1990) after starting the season 0-6 including a loss to Duke.

Everyone on here needs to step away from the ledge and go have a nice bourbon drink. The sun will rise tomorrow.
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He sucked vs Vandy also.. he has sucked all year.. he is the worst timeout caller in the game.. horrible at all facets of the damn game. He is on a 6 game streak calling timeout in the 3rd QTR.
 
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BigOrangePredsFan said:
You are correct about today.

However, you don't fire a coach based on one game.

I believe Fulmer won a National Championship two years after losing to Memphis.

Fulmer also go the team into the SEC Championship two years after losing to Vandy for the first time in a quarter century.

Majors fielded one of the most talented teams in UT history (1990) after starting the season 0-6 including a loss to Duke.

Everyone on here needs to step away from the ledge and go have a nice bourbon drink. The sun will rise tomorrow.
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Yes sir...It will...
 
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CoachDoubleDD said:
Im not calling for him to be fired. It would set the program back massively but no one can defend today.
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All coaches have days like today. Fulmer in 1996 against Memphis, Vandy 2005, Wyoming 2008.

Doesn't make them bad coaches but shows that even the best have bad games and bad years.

However if this continues then Dooley will not be here and rightfully so.
 
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I don't think anybody is defending Dooley anymore.

The divide is between those who realize canning him now would nuke the program with no possibility of recovery in sight, and those who somehow got the idea in their heads that we can just dump him and hire an Urban Meyer or somebody of that caliber.
 
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CoachDoubleDD said:
I challenge anybody to defend Derek Dooley today. Find me one positive that you saw out of him today.
I have been defending him all year but it stops today. Youth is not an excuse for not being prepared to play mentally or physically. The coaches nor the players were ready to go.
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His hair looked nice the whole game.
 
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CoachDoubleDD said:
I challenge anybody to defend Derek Dooley today. Find me one positive that you saw out of him today.
I have been defending him all year but it stops today. Youth is not an excuse for not being prepared to play mentally or physically. The coaches nor the players were ready to go.
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I agree.....it looked like a Fulmer coached game minus the talent laiden roster to overcome poor play
 
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CoachDoubleDD said:
Im not calling for him to be fired. It would set the program back massively but no one can defend today.
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Serious question: Can we really be more set back than losing to KY who btw had a WR starting his 1st game in college at QB that threw for 15 yards?
Lose 7 SEC games for the 1st time in history?

Think about it. This is pretty much rock bottom.
 
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milohimself said:
I don't think anybody is defending Dooley anymore.

The divide is between those who realize canning him now would nuke the program with no possibility of recovery in sight, and those who somehow got the idea in their heads that we can just dump him and hire an Urban Meyer or somebody of that caliber.
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The program was nuked the Monday before homecoming against Wyoming in 2008. The sooner you rascals figure that out, the sooner we start winning some games around here.

TO THE HILL!!!
 
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How could firing Dooley set this program back any further it's hit rock bottom Dooley said it himself after that sorry excuse of a game!
 
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GetEmVols said:
He sucked vs Vandy also.. he has sucked all year.. he is the worst timeout caller in the game.. horrible at all facets of the damn game. He is on a 6 game streak calling timeout in the 3rd QTR.
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With the state of the program you're hung up on use of timeouts?.....nice
 
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Well sorta there is a near 100% chance of rain tomorrow.....(reference to the sun coming up tomorrow)

As far as Dooley goes he is very close to successfully reuniting the Tennessee fanbase once more. Not the way he planned but united non the less.
 
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JayVols said:
Serious question: Can we really be more set back than losing to KY who btw had a WR starting his 1st game in college at QB that threw for 15 yards?
Lose 7 SEC games for the 1st time in history?

Think about it. This is pretty much rock bottom.
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It can absolutely get worse. Right now, UT is on track to find a suitable replacement for Dooley for 2013 or 2014. Dude can't coach a lick but his recruiting efforts seem to be at least setting the table for the next guy. On top of that, Fulmer's buyout should be up by then and Dooley's should be manageable.

If he gets fired now, all of that gets supremely ****ed up, possibly irreversibly.
 
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CoachDoubleDD said:
I challenge anybody to defend Derek Dooley today. Find me one positive that you saw out of him today.
I have been defending him all year but it stops today. Youth is not an excuse for not being prepared to play mentally or physically. The coaches nor the players were ready to go.
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One positive. We held Kentucky to 15 yards passing. :clapping:
 
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BigOrangePredsFan said:
You are correct about today.

However, you don't fire a coach based on one game.

I believe Fulmer won a National Championship two years after losing to Memphis.

Fulmer also go the team into the SEC Championship two years after losing to Vandy for the first time in a quarter century.

Majors fielded one of the most talented teams in UT history (1990) after starting the season 0-6 including a loss to Duke.

Everyone on here needs to step away from the ledge and go have a nice bourbon drink. The sun will rise tomorrow.
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True, but weren't most of those bad losses surrounded with very promising futures? I know we lost to Memphis, but we were still on the right track with Manning and the crew. It was obviously a fluke loss to anyone with football knowledge. The same was the case with the Vandy loss. Those Clausen bros were giving us 8+ wins easy every year.

It doesn't seem like there's anything to be excited about with this team - especially after today's abortion of a game.
 
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