Who would be on Your list of top 5 worst SEC Football Coaches you've seen?

[Vol4life25]

That is flat out ridiculous.

Chaney called plays in every game
Sal called the Defense scheme in every game.

Dooley basically just set there and watched the game

So what exactly changed?

So you're saying we beat Kentucky because Dooley wasn't on the side lines watching?

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

I fully understand Vol fans being angry or offended by the course of Tennesee football during Dooley's tenure, but I will have to strongly disagree with your assertion that there is "no question Dooley will go down as the worst in the history of the SEC." With the exception of his SEC record, Dooley does not begin to approach the following "accomplishments" of Bear Bryant's immediate predecessor, Jennings B. Whitworth (1955-1957), at Alabama:

(1) Overall record: 4-24-2 (.166); SEC record: 3-18-1 (.159). See .List of Alabama Crimson Tide head football coaches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

(2) 17 consecutive losses (from 11/13/54-10/20/56), 19 consecutive games without a victory (10/30/54-10/20/56). Included within that streak were back-to-back losses to the Commodes (21-6 and 32-7) and Tennessee (20-0 and 24-0). During that 19-game span, Alabama was shut out NINE times.

(3) For all of the great teams that Alabama has fielded over the years, let us also raise our glasses to the perfect record of the 1955 Crimson Tide, a squad that went 0-10-0 and scored only 48 points all year. A job well done. See Alabama Historical Scores.

Considering that the op was asking for the worst SEC coach you've seen, I'd say it's fair enough to say that the vast majority of VN posters aren't old enough to remember this guy.

 

[allvol123]

Chaney called plays in every game
Sal called the Defense scheme in every game.

Dooley basically just set there and watched the game

So what exactly changed?

So you're saying we beat Kentucky because Dooley wasn't on the side lines watching?

The guy who had just gone winless in the SEC, was the first guy to lose to UK in a quarter century, does not get the victory. It is retarded to even suggest otherwise.

 

[NashVol11]

In three years, Derek Dooley managed to:

- Alienate almost every high school coach in Tennessee
- Lose to Vandy AND Kentucky
- Somehow get progressively worse every season, even as his team got better and better in the talent department
- Compile a 4-19 SEC record, with all 4 wins against Ole Miss (pre-Freeze), Vandy, and Kentucky
- Turn SEC royalty into an 0-7 punchline
- Make an ass of himself by throwing a hissy fit and refusing to release players who had no desire to play for him
- Turn Tennessee into such a joke that assistants viewed Washington as an upgrade
- Make his career losing record even worse, now at 32-41
- Preside over some of the most fractured teams I can remember in any sport
- And, perhaps most embarrassingly, snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with his inability to count past 10.

And we still have people saying he's "not a bad coach?" It's amazing to me how a southern twang and a cool last name will buy you this many second chances with some of our fans.

 

[ProfessorD]

Chaney called plays in every game
Sal called the Defense scheme in every game.

Dooley basically just set there and watched the game

So what exactly changed?

So you're saying we beat Kentucky because Dooley wasn't on the side lines watching?

Well if that is the case then that makes my point that he is a terrible coach. What are you even trying to argue anymore? Tell you what give Dooley that win if it makes you feel better but now he is a coach that sat on the sideline and watched the game and was 5-19 in SEC play. Still a terrible terrible coach!

 

[sctide]

Someone mentioned the run that Tennessee had against Alabama in the mid-fifties. "Ears"Whitworth, the Alabama coach from 1954-57 should be the leader in this poll, or at least co-leader with John L. Smith. Smith was at least "interim" but "Ears" had the job for it seemed like forever.

He was the coach who could not win a game one season with Bart Starr as his QB.hmy:

 

[WoodstockVol]

Someone mentioned the run that Tennessee had against Alabama in the mid-fifties. "Ears"Whitworth, the Alabama coach from 1954-57 should be the leader in this poll, or at least co-leader with John L. Smith. Smith was at least "interim" but "Ears" had the job for it seemed like forever.

He was the coach who could not win a game one season with Bart Starr as his QB.hmy:

Bart Starr wasn't first or second team SEC all three seasons that He played

 

[Volosaurus rex]

According to this information, Starr was used sparingly at Alabama for various reasons:

"As the Korean War was fought during Starr’s freshman year, the Southeastern Conference – of which Alabama is a part – allowed freshmen to play varsity ball. Starr did not start for Alabama his freshman year, but did play enough minutes to earn a varsity letter. His high point of the season was in the Orange Bowl, where in quarterback relief he completed eight of 12 passes for 93 yards and a touchdown.

Bart Starr entered his sophomore year as Alabama’s starting quarterback, safety and punter. His punting average of 41.4 yards per kick ranked second in the nation in 1953 behind Zeke Bratkowski. Alabama recorded a 6–2–3 record and lost in the Cotton Bowl to Rice by a score of 28–6. Starr completed 59 of 119 passes for 870 yards, with eight touchdowns that season.

In May 1954, Starr eloped with Cherry Morton. The couple chose to keep their marriage a secret. Colleges often revoked the scholarships of married athletes in the 1950s, believing their focus should remain on sports. Cherry remained in Jackson, Alabama, while Starr returned to the University of Alabama. That summer, Starr suffered a severe back sprain while punting a football. He rarely played during his junior year due to the injury. The back sprain would occasionally bother him the rest of his football career. After a disappointing season of 4–5–2, Red Drew was replaced by J.B. Whitworth as coach of Alabama.

Whitworth conducted a youth movement in Alabama for the 1955 season and only two seniors started for the team. While healed from the back injury, Starr rarely played in his senior season either. Starr played briefly in the Blue–Gray bowl of 1955" (Bart Starr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

Although things definitely worked out well for Starr in the NFL, he would have been better served, in the short term, to have attended Kentucky, a school to which Starr gave serious consideration and which was then coached by some fellow named Bryant.

 

[tennfever]

Dooley 5 times it was one of the worst of all time in college football no way was he related to Vince