Louisiana Tech Minus Dooley

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Let me apologize first, as I strive not to be a negavol. I prefer to look at statistics and results before I make my judgement. It is out of frustration with our current state in Tennessee that I decided to take a look at how Louisiana Tech has done without Dooley over the past few years...

What I found was very interesting. They hired Sonny Dykes who was an offensive coordinator at Arizona. He has worked under Mike Leach at TX Tech and Mike Stoops at Arizona. Look at these improvements in LA Tech's performance in his first year:

"In his first season Dykes put his high octane offense into effect, resulting in him being one of only four of the nation's 22 new head coaches to improve a team's conference record from the year before. Dykes' exciting brand of offense improved in several areas of the NCAA statistical ranks including passing offense (91st in 2009 to 62nd in 2010) and total offense (66th to 52nd) while the team's average offensive national rank improved from 65th in 2009 to 54th in 2010."

In the Coach's Poll they are ranked 33rd. They are also going bowling this year. Their record this year is 8-4 (6-1 in conference). Two of those four losses were decided by 2 pts or less. One loss was decided in overtime. Easily could have been a 10 or 11 win team this year.

I know their conference is weaker than Tennessee's, and their schedule is nowhere near our strength of schedule. However, LA Tech does not have the facilities, money, and name recognition Tennessee football has. It just goes to show what a talented/knowledgeable coach can do with young football players on the field.
 
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Spectator said:
Let me apologize first, as I strive not to be a negavol. I prefer to look at statistics and results before I make my judgement. It is out of frustration with our current state in Tennessee that I decided to take a look at how Louisiana Tech has done without Dooley over the past few years...

What I found was very interesting. They hired Sonny Dykes who was an offensive coordinator at Arizona. He has worked under Mike Leach at TX Tech and Mike Stoops at Arizona. Look at these improvements in LA Tech's performance in his first year:

"In his first season Dykes put his high octane offense into effect, resulting in him being one of only four of the nation's 22 new head coaches to improve a team's conference record from the year before. Dykes' exciting brand of offense improved in several areas of the NCAA statistical ranks including passing offense (91st in 2009 to 62nd in 2010) and total offense (66th to 52nd) while the team's average offensive national rank improved from 65th in 2009 to 54th in 2010."

In the Coach's Poll they are ranked 33rd. They are also going bowling this year. Their record this year is 8-4 (6-1 in conference). Two of those four losses were decided by 2 pts or less. One loss was decided in overtime. Easily could have been a 10 or 11 win team this year.

I know their conference is weaker than Tennessee's, and their schedule is nowhere near our strength of schedule. However, LA Tech does not have the facilities, money, and name recognition Tennessee football has. It just goes to show what a talented/knowledgeable coach can do with young football players on the field.
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They have 36 upperclassmen in the 2 deep. Pretty easy to figure out.
 
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Although not sure on Dooley's on-field abilities, he does appear to be a good talent evaluator.
 
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Dykes put his high octane offense into effect

This.

Tennessee/Dooley does not have a high octane offense.
 
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I think these stats do speak to some of Dooley's recruiting but not his coaching abilities. It is obvious some of his players are really contributing under the new coach.

Some of their top offensive players are young... the quarterback for example is not Dooley's. He's a freshman.
 
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Looks like another poster who is mad at how the season turned out so it's time to stir the pot.
 
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GmanTN said:
Looks like another poster who is mad at how the season turned out so it's time to stir the pot.
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I cannot understand how you are not upset with how the season turned out? Could have been much better. Maybe not in the Win/Loss column. But I am talking competitiveness, improvement, passion, etc.

Plus, if you read my first post I admitted that I was disappointed with our season. If you weren't, well that's just telling me how low we have sunk as a fan base. I hope to never be content with a losing record.
 
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The OP needs to look at their roster at all the RS sophmores, jrs and seniors who are starting, there is an advantage when you have guys who have been thru strength and conditioning for a few years instead of raw freshmen and sophmores who have been forced into action because we had no one else to play.

But don't let facts stand in the way of a futile attempt at stirring the pot, you discovered a work around by showing everyone that their new coach is winning.
 
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Spectator said:
I think these stats do speak to some of Dooley's recruiting but not his coaching abilities. It is obvious some of his players are really contributing under the new coach.

Some of their top offensive players are young... the quarterback for example is not Dooley's. He's a freshman.
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I don't keep up with this stuff but my understanding was a majority of their major contributors were injured in DD's last year there so improvement should have occurred if true. Unfortunately it's eerily similar to what happened here this year.
 
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This team didn't play Auburn, LSU, Boise State, Navy, California, etc. Two of Dooley's teams played WAY better competition. When Dooley had an easier schedule in 2008, he did pretty well too.
 
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