We should have listened to Dooley

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JazzMaster001 said:
The Dooley years were some of the most hopeless times for me personally as a Vol fan. Too bad we didn't hire a real coach after him.
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It did not become hopeless to me until after the Kentucky game. And then there was him bragging about beating Vandy
 
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He talks about his time at Louisiana Tech as if it was a success. He was 17-20 in 3 seasons with a 12-12 record in the WAC. His best season was 8-5. His last two recruiting classes in '11 and '12 were a disaster. He didn't sign even one single offensive lineman in the class of '11. What does he mean nobody was listening to him? What did he ever say that was worth hearing? "Let's use 14 men on this goal line stand and see if we can get away with it?"
 
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THIS guy was the Head Coach of Tennessee

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What went wrong? Well lets see. First off, we fured a HOF coach who went 152-52. Then we hired a loser who had never coached college football, then got in trouble. Then we hire an even bigger loser who was more concerned with shower etiquette than actual coaching. Finally we hired a pop warner coach who drove the program into a ditch. Oh and how could I forget that we have an administraton who literally does whatever one big booster says.

But its just as easy and accurate to say that what went wrong with Tennessee is Jimmy Haslam.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
What went wrong? Well lets see. First off, we fured a HOF coach who went 152-52. Then we hired a loser who had never coached college football, then got in trouble. Then we hire an even bigger loser who was more concerned with shower etiquette than actual coaching. Finally we hired a pop warner coach who drove the program into a ditch. Oh and how could I forget that we have an administraton who literally does whatever one big booster says.

But its just as easy and accurate to say that what went wrong with Tennessee is Jimmy Haslam.
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Somebody over there apparently thinks that the University leadership needs to be comprised of people from the agricultural department at the University of Florida. I never have figured out how they got the idea that that would work. That would be almost as bad as electing Paris Hilton to be president of the United States. What is it with Dipietro I have never heard of a more absent University president in my life.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
He talks about his time at Louisiana Tech as if it was a success. He was 17-20 in 3 seasons with a 12-12 record in the WAC. His best season was 8-5. His last two recruiting classes in '11 and '12 were a disaster. He didn't sign even one single offensive lineman in the class of '11. What does he mean nobody was listening to him? What did he ever say that was worth hearing? "Let's use 14 men on this goal line stand and see if we can get away with it?"
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Ha! That's the same thing I thought about LA Tech but was too lazy to look up his record there.
 
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We just didn't have proper sandwich discipline. Who knew we were a few slivered onions away from multiple SEC titles.
 
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37620VOL said:
We just didn't have proper sandwich discipline. Who knew we were a few slivered onions away from multiple SEC titles.
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I think we've learned a thing or two about what incompetence looks like at the highest level of coaching.

Dooley and Butch both. They look at guys like Saban, who talk about minute details, and they think that's the key to it all. The reality is that Saban only moved on to those things because the football fundamentals are so ingrained in the program from the top down, he has the luxury to focus on proper cleat lace tying technique.

It's really no different than an office job. The guy who complains about everyones email formatting probably isn't earning his paycheck with whatever his job actually is.

Jmo. Anyway, all I learned from that article is that Dooley still doesn't get it, and is more than likely going to squander the hell out of the one of the best QBs in the SEC this year.
 
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The players didn’t listen to him because they didn’t understand what he was talking about. I think DD would have been better off staying in a career path outside of sports.

Our last 2 coaches have sunk our program so low that it was almost embarrassing to be a Tennessee fan. From Opportunity Nowhere to stupid porcelain dogs to Champions of Life to 5 star hearts.
 
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wtmvol said:
The players didn’t listen to him because they didn’t understand what he was talking about. I think DD would have been better off staying in a career path outside of sports.

Our last 2 coaches have sunk our program so low that it was almost embarrassing to be a Tennessee fan. From Opportunity Nowhere to stupid porcelain dogs to Champions of Life to 5 star hearts.
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Dooley got hired AND RETAINED by an NFL team as a coach. He's now been hired by Mizzou as an OC though I think most of us are pretty dumbfounded by that.

Dooley took over a train wreck. Fulmer's decline had left the roster in awful shape. They had practically no DL's worth anything and had to rebuild the OL Then Kiffin left the program with even more problems.

Purely as a football coach.... IMO Dooley is considerable better than Jones. Obviously by his own unintentional confession, he wasn't the leader to get everyone around the football program headed in the right direction. But he gets beaten up more than he deserves.

It is possible that UT had to go through what we've been through to get Fulmer as the AD and some of the problems in the AD purged out?
 
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