Karl Dunbar

#53
#53
"Hired by former coach Brad Childress in 2006, Dunbar coached a defensive line that finished among the top two in rushing defense in his first four years behind the vaunted "Williams Wall," Kevin Williams and Pat Williams.

The Vikings fell to 11th in rushing defense this season and tied for the league lead with 50 sacks, with much of the disruption caused by defensive end Jared Allen. Allen finished the year with a franchise-record 22 sacks, a half-sack short of Michael Strahan's NFL record set in 2001. "

Yeah, 50 sacks and an above average rush defense on a terrible team is just unacceptable.

/sarcasm

\reality

Sign this guy up CDD
 
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#54
#54
Fired for his defense ONLY being 11th ranked in the league against the run and ONLY tied for the league lead in sacks?!?!?! And that is after a run of 4 years of having a top 2 defense in the league against the run. He did not coach their pathetic secondary, geez. This is a pretty clear picture of scapegoat.
 
#56
#56
From a recent article...



"With Dunbar's exit complete, one thing is certain: There is a defensive line coach vacancy for Frazier to fill.

This past season, despite the Vikings' many defensive struggles, Dunbar was in charge of the unit that arguably was the most consistently productive on the team.

Dunbar said Friday he couldn't diagnose all that went wrong during a disastrous 3-13 season.

"I'm a position coach," he said. "I'm not a coordinator. I'm not a head coach. When I look at what I did with the Minnesota Vikings, my piece of the puzzle was to make the defensive line play as well as they could.

"We played well against the run. I think we finished No. 11 against the run. And we finished No. 1 in sacks [with 50]. And the guy I coached [Jared Allen] led the league in sacks with 22 on a team that really didn't have a lead the last eight games of the year. So I thought that was my piece of the puzzle. I can't worry about running backs, defensive backs, receivers, linebackers. When you do it, you focus on your job, put your piece of the puzzle in and go from there."

Asked whether he felt he had gotten a raw deal with his firing, Dunbar took the high road.

"No sir," he said. "No sir. You get what you're given. And I spent six great years in Minnesota. So there's no raw deal. They didn't kill my wife and they didn't kill my family. They took care of my family. So no, I didn't get a raw deal. Leslie is a good man who treated me fairly."
 
#57
#57
vol66 said:
From a recent article...



"With Dunbar's exit complete, one thing is certain: There is a defensive line coach vacancy for Frazier to fill.

This past season, despite the Vikings' many defensive struggles, Dunbar was in charge of the unit that arguably was the most consistently productive on the team.

Dunbar said Friday he couldn't diagnose all that went wrong during a disastrous 3-13 season.

"I'm a position coach," he said. "I'm not a coordinator. I'm not a head coach. When I look at what I did with the Minnesota Vikings, my piece of the puzzle was to make the defensive line play as well as they could.

"We played well against the run. I think we finished No. 11 against the run. And we finished No. 1 in sacks [with 50]. And the guy I coached [Jared Allen] led the league in sacks with 22 on a team that really didn't have a lead the last eight games of the year. So I thought that was my piece of the puzzle. I can't worry about running backs, defensive backs, receivers, linebackers. When you do it, you focus on your job, put your piece of the puzzle in and go from there."

Asked whether he felt he had gotten a raw deal with his firing, Dunbar took the high road.

"No sir," he said. "No sir. You get what you're given. And I spent six great years in Minnesota. So there's no raw deal. They didn't kill my wife and they didn't kill my family. They took care of my family. So no, I didn't get a raw deal. Leslie is a good man who treated me fairly."
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The more I hear about this guy the more I like him. He sounds like a great coach and role model. Lock him up Dooley.
 
#59
#59
Be a good hire. Coaching wise he's definitely an upgrade, at least on paper. Dooley's been putting A LOT of emphasis on recruiting prowess though. Wonder what his recruiting ability was at OSU and LSU?
 
#60
#60
PermaVol said:
Be a good hire. Coaching wise he's definitely an upgrade, at least on paper. Dooley's been putting A LOT of emphasis on recruiting prowess though. Wonder what his recruiting ability was at OSU and LSU?
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He was the S&C coach for one year at LSU so he would not have recruited there.
 
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#67
Jackson_Harris said:
It's called vitiligo...the guy I worked with looked kinda like this...except it just keeps getting worse...and he was more spotty than this photo.

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Yup the man in the picture there is a news anchor and they use make-up to cover it up most of the time. They did the same with Michael Jackson but his was all over -- face, body, fingers, and because he was performing/dancing for hours under hot lights in show costumes he'd sweat his makeup off. Eventually MJ's got to the point where the make-up was the only thing making him look brown so they decided to "bleach" away (the process is not really bleaching like the over the counter crap you see on store shelves) the few remaining brown spots so he could be one color.

Unlike with lightening creams, once that's done, you have no pigment and have to be super careful about the sun.

Vitiligo shows up in both black folks and white folks but it's much more noticeable on black folks and many inevitably end up getting the same treatment to even the color out MJ did -- it's progressive so there does come a point when you just have to accept the new you is a different color than the old one.

HS recruits CAN be that immature and often are BUT at the same time once they get to know someone with vitiligo then it changes and you see them standing up to any kind of smack talk/bullying.
 
#68
#68
Wait a minute, before he should be considered as a coach, we need to know the answer to this one important question: does he own land here near Knoxville?
 
#70
#70
DeMen7ed said:
Here something to think about...
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First of all, no defense looked even remotely good this season. The Packers, Saints, Patriots, and Giants were all at the bottom of the league in pass defense. Nobody played good defense this year.

The drafting in Minnesota has been laughable at best. And to blame the DL coach for taking an endless stream of 4th, 5th, and 7th-rounders and not turning them into Pro Bowlers is pretty sorry. Take bad players from your lousy drafting and see what you can do with them! I guess they will now.

On to Tennessee. I think what we're gonna hear from every new candidate is that the guy is personable and people really like him. Also that he's a really good recruiter. While I don't know much about Dunbar's ability to recruit, I do know he's a very popular guy.

I'm rather shocked that he got canned, to be honest. Then again, the Vikings are one of the worst-run teams in the NFL. Too bad you can't fire the owner.
 
#71
#71
Does he cuss like a sailor? I like a coach who isn't afraid to light up someone if they need it.
 
#72
#72
Dunbar or Davis would be my pick to fill the spot. Curious to see who this board would prefer out of the two?
 
#73
#73
I always had a high opinion of him when he played and coached here at LSU. If we can't get a former Vol like Hobby, then I'd be happy for us to get Dunbar.
 
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