Since I cant start a thread, and this is my 1st post here I'll just post my comments in here. First off I would like to congradulate you guys on this hire, you could not have picked a better coach to go after. As much as I am dissapointed and the fans of La Tech in loseing Dooley, I know he made the right decision in being a Vol. He is a first class individual, he doesnt mess around at all, he has a one strike policy, I know stuff has happened at Tennessee this past season, but if that would of happened at La Tech or if it would happen again at Tenn, you could kiss those players goodbye, he doesnt play around with off the feild problems and I think alot of that comes from he also being a athletic director also.
His family is extremely important to him, not a sunday goes by after home games in which he isnt sitting in church sunday morning, rather it being the late mass cause of road games on a sunday night and he getting back late sunday he will still make it there. He is a very special coach, if you would glance at him on the feild and off of it, you wont think hes the same guy, hes very laid back and doesnt mess with the media like alot of certain coaches do, but on the feild he is as intence as you can get, he isnt afraid to get into a players face and tell him what he thinks. Hes a coach that will get the best out of every athlete he has on your roster.
La Tech is by far a way better place then what it was when he arrived 3 years ago, no one knew what to expect from a coach who had no head coaching experience and was just a highly considered assistant and a recruiting cordinator. He turned the town of Ruston around, he got out in the community and also showed his face around so people would know who he was and what he was like, he will make Tennessee a better place. High School coaches around the state of Louisiana loved him, he got in good with those and basically hit it off from the beginning, he has a great snese of humor and loves to joke around but he can be dead serious when it comes to football. I would expect him to take Coach Terry Jospeh with him to Tenn, Coach TJ(which alot of people know him by), is also a great recruiter, he is hands down tell you like it is and gets fired up when it comes to sitting in a living room telling the parents that he wants your kid.
All in all, best of luck this season, I will being pulling for you guys along the way, I was a La Tech fan for many years before he came here and I am a bigger one now since he left, but I am a HUGE Dooley fan and I will become a Tenn fan from now on.