What does this mean?

#26
#26
Actually, hearing that quote makes me like Dooley even more. Coaches shouldn't be about rebuilding, if they go out, do what they're supposed to, have their players prepared and get all they can out of every last one of them, then the rebuilding will take care of itself.
 
#29
#29
preacherwebb said:
Look, I am a UT fan to the core, therefore I am a Dooley fan to the core (until we start going 5-7 a couple times, then my fandome to UT overcomes my fandome to the coach). Anyway, I am puzzled by this quote by Dooley in the Knox News Sent.

"That process got rolling with a team meeting Monday in which Dooley told the team "he's not about rebuilding" according to a Twitter update from defensive end Willie Bohannon."

He's not about rebuilding? What does this mean? What is he thinking? He didn't inherit a bunch of world-beaters. He inherited some talent, a brutal schedule, and a fragile fanbase.

The only positive way I can take this statement, is that he meant something like, I'm not about rebuilding, I'm about skipping rebuilding and just winning. I just don't see that happening though. I just don't know. Somebody expain this to me.
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Only thing I can explain to you and every other sensitive "fan" out there is be patient. This is the SEC but we are Tennessee. It may take some time.

Interesting thing about your post is that you are a Dooley fan until we go 5-7 a couple of times. Funny how this statement is..... Considering the last coach to take us 5-7 a couple of times, also brought us a National Championship Trophy to Knoxville and a 152-52 record.

Just saying.
 
#30
#30
preacherwebb said:
"That process got rolling with a team meeting Monday in which Dooley told the team "he's not about rebuilding" according to a Twitter update from defensive end Willie Bohannon."
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sounds like he hasn't gotten around to looking at tape on returning roster yet. Might have a different statement after that. :)
 
#31
#31
I guess some of you would prefer CDD to say " the guys we have suck and until we recruit players better than you we will not win". It tells me that he has confidence in his players and coaches. Unlike CLK who constantly harped on the lack of talent building in excuses for losses and poor coaching. Let's see the final product before we make our judgements.
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#32
#32
It means that Dooley understands that "rebuilding" talk doesn't fill Neyland.
 
#33
#33
Attendance has been an issue for quite a few seasons. I am not going to beat the dead horse on why. We all know why. It will continue until we beat the likes of UF and Bama which is a couple seasons off.
 
#34
#34
Regardless of what fans, analysts, or anyone else believes... the players and coaches must believe that they can win right away. If Kiffin did nothing else well, he had an urgency about winning NOW.

Fans can afford excuses. Fans can afford a couple of years. Players and coaches can't.

After CPF's demise, Briscoe was very vocal about the fact that one of the coaches had confided to him DURING THE SEASON that Clawson's system took awhile to implement and that they were on a 2-3 year program to rebuild the offense. How do you imagine that made the Srs and even Jrs feel?

If Dooley gave even the slightest hint at "rebuilding", he'd lose his upper classmen from the get go.
 
#36
#36
It just means that Dooley is going to do what he can to win now. Tennessee is Tennessee, and is expected to win.

If he was just about rebuilding, we wouldn't have been involved with so many junior college prospects. Realistically, Dooley probably knows his goal for 2010 is to get this team bowl-eligible, but he's not going to set the bar that low for his players. There are 12 games on the schedule, every one of them starts 0-0, and he's rightfully going to tell his team he intends to win them all.

Because sometimes, if you go out there and believe you can beat a team that's better than you, you just might actually do it.
 
#37
#37
Kiffin had said that he was rebuilding and needed top-notch players. So I think what Coach Dooley was saying was that he wasnt rebuilding, there was top-notch players already on this team. I think Coach Dooley has way more confidence in our team than "Dirtbag" Kiffin ever had. I`m so glad the jerk is gone!!!!:rock:
 
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#38
#38
After signing day he has a team meeting, and what I heard from his remarks was we are better off than most think.

Hounddog
 
#39
#39
preacherwebb said:
Look, I am a UT fan to the core, therefore I am a Dooley fan to the core (until we start going 5-7 a couple times, then my fandome to UT overcomes my fandome to the coach). Anyway, I am puzzled by this quote by Dooley in the Knox News Sent.

"That process got rolling with a team meeting Monday in which Dooley told the team "he's not about rebuilding" according to a Twitter update from defensive end Willie Bohannon."

He's not about rebuilding? What does this mean? What is he thinking? He didn't inherit a bunch of world-beaters. He inherited some talent, a brutal schedule, and a fragile fanbase.

The only positive way I can take this statement, is that he meant something like, I'm not about rebuilding, I'm about skipping rebuilding and just winning. I just don't see that happening though. I just don't know. Somebody expain this to me.
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so he's supposed to say "you guys suck, and i can't see myself winning with you?
 
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