Is Sunseri Dooley's Clawson?

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volmaniac18

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In Fulmer's last year, our offense was abysmal. The offseason prior was when Fulmer decided to hire Dave Clawson as his OC. It's pretty fair to say the Clawson hire was pretty detrimental to Fulmer's job.

This past offseason Dooley hired Sunseri, so far the DC hire has been crippling to Dooley this year.

Both guys were trying to implement an offense/defense that was new to Tennessee. It seems to me that a head coach who is in dire need of a successful season should not hire a coordinator that needs to overhaul one side of the ball before he can run his scheme successfully.
 
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volmaniac18 said:
In Fulmer's last year, our offense was abysmal. The offseason prior was when Fulmer decided to hire Dave Clawson as his OC. It's pretty fair to say the Clawson hire was pretty detrimental to Fulmer's job.

This past offseason Dooley hired Sunseri, so far the DC hire has been crippling to Dooley this year.

Both guys were trying to implement an offense/defense that was new to Tennessee. It seems to me that a head coach who is in dire need of a successful season should not hire a coordinator that needs to overhaul one side of the ball before he can run his scheme successfully.
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right on
 
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Fulmer did it to himself. Clawson was the victim of Fulmer's mess and failure to maintain the program at a high level. There's a reason one of those guys found work immediately and the other didn't.

Sunseri does appear to have been a bad hire but whose guy was he? Hart's or Dooley's?
 
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It will be his ultimate undoing. If Wilcox was here, I'd bet we were 6-2, 5-3 at worst. Too drastic of a change in a make or break year for Dooley.
 
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Sheik Yerbouti said:
You know what's sad about this one? He made a lot of other coaching hires, and most of them are working out great.
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I agree, except for the fact we have two DB coaches. Really seems unnecessary. Especially with how poorly our secondary has been playing. Would have been just as well off to let the DBs coach themselves.
 
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It's similar from the standpoint that it was an absolutely horrible personnel decision in a year where immediate results were needed.

There's no one else to pin this on, just as there wasn't with Fulmer. They made the decision themselves - that's what they're being paid for. A very large part of being a head coach is putting together the right staff. Dooley has failed repeatedly in this aspect.
 
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I posted the same thing during the game. I agree with op. It seems stupid to do a major change like that during a serious hot seat year
 
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The sad part is we all heard during the off-season that it'd take a couple of years to get the 3-4 where it needed to be. When Sunseri was hired, it was even speculated that we might not see much of the 3-4 at all this year. Pretty sure no one expected it to be this awful but it is and someone has to answer for that. To be a smart man, I think it was pretty foolish of Dooley to take a gamble like that with his job on the line.
 
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I didn't know who Sal was before he was hired. Then i saw all this booom, explosion crap on the board and thought we must have done ok. So attention all volnation members. Please save the boom reference to people that are going to do something special instead of every player that commits and every coach that signs a contract with the vols.
 
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volmaniac18 said:
In Fulmer's last year, our offense was abysmal. The offseason prior was when Fulmer decided to hire Dave Clawson as his OC. It's pretty fair to say the Clawson hire was pretty detrimental to Fulmer's job.

This past offseason Dooley hired Sunseri, so far the DC hire has been crippling to Dooley this year.

Both guys were trying to implement an offense/defense that was new to Tennessee. It seems to me that a head coach who is in dire need of a successful season should not hire a coordinator that needs to overhaul one side of the ball before he can run his scheme successfully.
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Is the sky blue? Water wet?
 
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normalfootballfan said:
I posted the same thing during the game. I agree with op. It seems stupid to do a major change like that during a serious hot seat year
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This. Sunseri may not be a bad hire given the possibility that his system may be effective when enough time has passed for the players to be comfortable playing it. But with Dooley on such a short leash, I think it was too big of a risk to take, because Dooley simply does not have a couple years for the defensive scheme to try and take hold.
 
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Blood Runs Orange said:
This. Sunseri may not be a bad hire given the possibility that his system may be effective when enough time has passed for the players to be comfortable playing it. But with Dooley on such a short leash, I think it was too big of a risk to take, because Dooley simply does not have a couple years for the defensive scheme to try and take hold.
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Agreed. I feel like when the defense is lined up correctly and they know their assignments, they look pretty good. Don't get me wrong I refuse to feel bad for the coaches but the players have quit on them so neither will I.
 
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volmaniac18 said:
In Fulmer's last year, our offense was abysmal. The offseason prior was when Fulmer decided to hire Dave Clawson as his OC. It's pretty fair to say the Clawson hire was pretty detrimental to Fulmer's job.

This past offseason Dooley hired Sunseri, so far the DC hire has been crippling to Dooley this year.

Both guys were trying to implement an offense/defense that was new to Tennessee. It seems to me that a head coach who is in dire need of a successful season should not hire a coordinator that needs to overhaul one side of the ball before he can run his scheme successfully.
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I think Dooley is Dooley's Clawson.....:hi:
 
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