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big harry

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Our team started the season showing improvement but we still had little depth, so when devastating injuries happened to key players that went away.

Other coaches know that. If we fired Dooley, why would a coach worth his salt that would have other options want to come here when we are that trigger happy?

Let the man coach one year with talent and depth he built. Then if he doesn't win, I'll hop off the ban wagon.

He's here for one more year for sure anyway. Lets cheer on our coach. Who's with me?
 
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Ol' Precious might want to take his excuse filled ass down to Jay Graham and beg to teach this team to run the ball. If he doesn't, better get that resume updated.
 
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big harry said:
Our team started the season showing improvement but we still had little depth, so when devastating injuries happened to key players that went away.

Other coaches know that. If we fired Dooley, why would a coach worth his salt that would have other options want to come here when we are that trigger happy?

Let the man coach one year with talent and depth he built. Then if he doesn't win, I'll hop off the ban wagon.

He's here for one more year for sure anyway. Lets cheer on our coach. Who's with me?
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Injuries and youth aren't good enough excuses to justify going 1-7 in the SEC.
 
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Domestic Silence said:
Ol' Precious might want to take his excuse filled ass down to Jay Graham and beg to teach this team to run the ball. If he doesn't, better get that resume updated.
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You're right. Lack of depth and key injuries were a part of our imagination. Why don't you take your negative, arm chair QB ass to the doc and get some anti-depressants.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Injuries and youth aren't good enough excuses to justify going 1-7 in the SEC.
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Never ever at Tennessee. now if you are talking Vandy, Kentucky, Ole Miss then sure thats an ok season that you didn't go winless. Vols too proud a program!
 
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Escape Goat said:
Worth his salt. What does that even mean?
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Sorry Im a Nerd and had to look it up...

Meaning

To be effective and efficient; deserving of one's pay.

Origin

Sodium chloride, a.k.a. salt, is essential for human life and, until the invention of canning and refrigeration, was the primary method of preservation of food. Not surprisingly, it has long been considered valuable.

To be 'worth one's salt' is to be worth one's pay. Our word salary derives from the Latin salarium, (sal is the Latin word for salt). There is some debate over the origin of the word salarium, but most scholars accept that it was the money allowed to Roman soldiers for the purchase of salt. Roman soldiers weren't actually paid in salt, as some suggest. They were obliged to buy their own food, weapons etc. and had the cost of these deducted from their wages in advance.

Salt continues to be important enough to feature in the language for many centuries. Other phrases that would have been known to the mediaeval mind were take with a grain of salt, the salt of the earth and below the salt. The ancient roots of 'worth one's salt', and its similarity to the 13th century 'worth one's weight in gold' and the 14th century 'worth one's while' (i.e. worth one's time), give the phrase a historical air. Nevertheless, 'worth one's salt' didn't exist in Roman Latin or even in mediaeval English and dates from as recently as the 19th century.

The earliest citation of the phrase that I have found in print is in The African Memoranda, a report of an expedition to Guinea Bissau, by Philip Beaver, 1805:

"Hayles has been my most useful man, but of late not worth his salt."

It's worth pointing out that, although English is replete with phrases of a nautical origin, none of the above salty phrases has anything to do with the sea.
 
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big harry said:
Our team started the season showing improvement but we still had little depth, so when devastating injuries happened to key players that went away.

Other coaches know that. If we fired Dooley, why would a coach worth his salt that would have other options want to come here when we are that trigger happy?

Let the man coach one year with talent and depth he built. Then if he doesn't win, I'll hop off the ban wagon.

He's here for one more year for sure anyway. Lets cheer on our coach. Who's with me?
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Operating on a healthy patient is one thing, but trying to save a limb with gangrene is losing proposition. Dooley had no credentials to be hired in the first place. Because of this choice among many blunders, Hamilton is out.

This is why you sometimes have to pull the trigger faster than you might otherwise. Same thing in Ole Miss. They hired him to fix a sinking ship, not make sure it went completely under. Dooley is in the same predicament, yet even less qualified than Nutt was.
 
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big harry said:
You're right. Lack of depth and key injuries were a part of our imagination. Why don't you take your negative, arm chair QB ass to the doc and get some anti-depressants.
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I make use of the ignore button for shoelace counters like that, at least that's what we use to call them with thier heads always down.
 
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Mason72 said:
Sorry Im a Nerd and had to look it up...

Meaning

To be effective and efficient; deserving of one's pay.

Origin

Sodium chloride, a.k.a. salt, is essential for human life and, until the invention of canning and refrigeration, was the primary method of preservation of food. Not surprisingly, it has long been considered valuable.

To be 'worth one's salt' is to be worth one's pay. Our word salary derives from the Latin salarium, (sal is the Latin word for salt). There is some debate over the origin of the word salarium, but most scholars accept that it was the money allowed to Roman soldiers for the purchase of salt. Roman soldiers weren't actually paid in salt, as some suggest. They were obliged to buy their own food, weapons etc. and had the cost of these deducted from their wages in advance.

Salt continues to be important enough to feature in the language for many centuries. Other phrases that would have been known to the mediaeval mind were take with a grain of salt, the salt of the earth and below the salt. The ancient roots of 'worth one's salt', and its similarity to the 13th century 'worth one's weight in gold' and the 14th century 'worth one's while' (i.e. worth one's time), give the phrase a historical air. Nevertheless, 'worth one's salt' didn't exist in Roman Latin or even in mediaeval English and dates from as recently as the 19th century.

The earliest citation of the phrase that I have found in print is in The African Memoranda, a report of an expedition to Guinea Bissau, by Philip Beaver, 1805:

"Hayles has been my most useful man, but of late not worth his salt."

It's worth pointing out that, although English is replete with phrases of a nautical origin, none of the above salty phrases has anything to do with the sea.
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Top 10 post.
 
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We have Thompson now. He's an upgrade over wilcod. wilcod was a kid with a tude.
Thompson is mature and a leader. wilcod was a baby>> bye bye little baby
 
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I'm just growing old of seeing these same threads all the time. Everyone is pretty much decided on where they stand on Dooley, so a thread like this isn't going to go over anything or stir up any conversation that VN hasn't had before.
 
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Escape Goat said:
Worth his salt. What does that even mean?
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Funny you should ask. Actually reading about salt in a Christmas gift book. Roman soldiers were sometimes payed in salt. The origin of the word salary from sal. A good soldier was said to have been worth his salt. Sal is the Latin origin of the French word solde (to pay). This is the origin of the word soldier.

I claim none of this information as my own. Very interesting book on the topic, though. Salt: A World History. Mark kurlanski. I know. I'm a nerd
 
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KingNick865 said:
I'm just growing old of seeing these same threads all the time. Everyone is pretty much decided on where they stand on Dooley, so a thread like this isn't going to go over anything or stir up any conversation that VN hasn't had before.
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k. What chu want 2 talk about?
 
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Escape Goat said:
Worth his salt. What does that even mean?
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Basically saying a man's work is worth what you pay him. It refers to the practice of Roman soldiers sometimes being paid with salt. Thus, "worth his salt" could be translated to, "worth his wages."

Edit: aaaaand Mason72 beat me to it.
Edit2: aaaaaand so did NeylandArmy...
 
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VOLorNuttin said:
Operating on a healthy patient is one thing, but trying to save a limb with gangrene is losing proposition. Dooley had no credentials to be hired in the first place. Because of this choice among many blunders, Hamilton is out.

This is why you sometimes have to pull the trigger faster than you might otherwise. Same thing in Ole Miss. They hired him to fix a sinking ship, not make sure it went completely under. Dooley is in the same predicament, yet even less qualified than Nutt was.
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We get it....Dooley has, does, and will forever suck......hire Saban or bust.....ok, ok, ok....enough already. I have a life to get to. OUT.
 
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