Will Dooley ever beat Alabama?

Will Dooley ever beat Alabama


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You keep going on and on about how the 2009 team had so many holes and were avg at best but Kiffy made them better. Based on your prior post the 2011 team is far more talented and its Dooleys fault they underachieved. I think you are reaching and reaching hard
What about my previous post indicated that?
 
Really? How many walk-on's were starting on the 2011 team?

Regarding personnel, the 2009 team was better in some units, but the 2011 team certainly had advantages as well. The 2009 team had much better coaching.

You guys are hilarious. Say what you want about draft picks, but the 2009 roster absolutely sucked. There were some good players, but there were so many gaping holes it was scary. Eric Berry was basically playing linebacker.

I think Saban will be at Bama longer than Dooley will be at Tennessee.


Other than Berry, everyone on the team that was drafted in 2010 can either thank Kiffin and his staff for getting them to the NFL or improving their draft stock.

I don't know man I guess I just made it up:ermm:
 
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You said prior post. I thought you were referring to my saying that the 2011 team was more than a player away from competing for the national title.

But yes, I do think Kiffin got more out of his team and I do think Dooley is underachieving and won't be at Tennessee too much longer.
 
2011

QB- Simms, Worley, or a hurt bray for 75% of the games
RB- Pool avg/ Lane True Fresh
WR- Hunter missed most of season so Da'rick and freshmen
TE- Rivera and Freshmen
OL- Young but talented. Underachieved Ill give you that
DL- Young with no depth
LB- FB starting a MLB and 2 true freshmen
DB's- Depleted by injuries and lost best player before the season(kiffy recruit) to drug use
ST- Freshmen Returner/Punter and Palardy


YEP no holes in that group:good!:

You said prior post. I thought you were referring to my saying that the 2011 team was more than a player away from competing for the national title.

But yes, I do think Kiffin got more out of his team and I do think Dooley is underachieving and won't be at Tennessee too much longer.

How is he underachieving with that group? (the quoted post above)

I give you that we should have beat KY but other than that he's doing about what most expected him to do with that group. He was already kinda screwed with 65 players being either Sophomores or Freshmen but then to lose his starting QB and #1 WR and FS before the bulk of the SEC schedule (who just happened to be the 3 most talented players on the team) he really didn't have a chance. Ill give you this though 2012 he gets no excuses. He's coaching upperclassmen who have played alot of snaps and has decent depth. Anything less than 8 wins in 2012 is unacceptable.
 
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didn't bother voting simply because the OP is a true a**hat,,but love seeing the results. Keep the faith VolNation - CDD will bring this team back to our winning ways.
 
How is he underachieving with that group? (the quoted post above)
You mean other than arguably fielding Tennessee's worst team ever?

Ill give you this though 2012 he gets no excuses. He's coaching upperclassmen who have played alot of snaps and has decent depth. Anything less than 8 wins in 2012 is unacceptable.
8 wins is pretty mediocre, too. It just won't look so bad because he set the bar so low with his performance this year.
 
You mean other than arguably fielding Tennessee's worst team ever?


8 wins is pretty mediocre, too. It just won't look so bad because he set the bar so low with his performance this year.

But how is it Dooleys fault that the team is so bad? How do you lose your 3 best players, one of which is your QB, and coach a team of Sophomores and Freshmen to 7-8 wins in the SEC??? Your blame should be placed on Hamilton, Kiffy, and Fulmer. Dooley came into an impossible situation. He is a coach not a miracle worker.
 
But how is it Dooleys fault that the team is so bad? How do you lose your 3 best players, one of which is your QB, and coach a team of Sophomores and Freshmen to 7-8 wins in the SEC??? Your blame should be placed on Hamilton, Kiffy, and Fulmer. Dooley came into an impossible situation. He is a coach not a miracle worker.
It's not just the team was bad. It was that it was historically bad and embarrassing. The talent on the team wasn't as bad as the performance indicated.
 
It's not just the team was bad. It was that it was historically bad and embarrassing. The talent on the team wasn't as bad as the performance indicated.

Your right the talent wasn't but the inexperience was. Give him 1 more year before you give up on him. I think he is going to prove alot of people wrong in 2012. :hi:
 
Your right the talent wasn't but the inexperience was. Give him 1 more year before you give up on him. I think he is going to prove alot of people wrong in 2012. :hi:
He has a good opportunity to do so. That still doesn't change the fact that 2011 was a coaching disaster.

In the end, no one will care about a few games in the mediocre years. There isn't much meaningful difference between 5-7 and 7-5. They both suck, period. The thing is that UT going 5-7 last year was underachieving, and it makes me skeptical about Dooley's ability to win championships in the future.
 
I'm not saying he was awful, I'm saying he sucked going into 2009 and most people weren't expecting him to be great. As for why he actually did get drafted, it's because the coaching staff did very well with him. I'd love to see Bray coached by Kiffin.

Do you really think it was all Kiffin? Chaney had a lot to do with it too and Hinshaw has done great with Bray. Better than anyone expected.
 
You said prior post. I thought you were referring to my saying that the 2011 team was more than a player away from competing for the national title.

But yes, I do think Kiffin got more out of his team and I do think Dooley is underachieving and won't be at Tennessee too much longer.

Your in the minority because Kiffin lost 2 games he was favored in and Dooley only lost one in 2 years.
 
USC hired Kiffin because he was familiar with the program and was there just 3 years before. Your acting like Kiffin was their first option.

And because they thought he could win, which he has.

Dooley will never get an offer close to the one he got here at UT again.
 
And because they thought he could win, which he has.

Dooley will never get an offer close to the one he got here at UT again.

He won with 4 first round picks in a very weak league with the most talented team. There was 4 head coaching changes this year to prove that.

Maybe not, but Kiffin has never had to rebuild two teams like Dooley has.
 
Will Dooley ever beat Bama? Doubt it. I personally don't think he'll be around long enough to beat Bama with the current state of our program. I think he's gone either after this year or after 2013. Call me negative if you want, but I don't have any faith in the man's ability to turn this thing around, because he's never shown the ability to do so. Only he can change my opinion, and he hasn't exactly got my hopes up, especially after what will forever be known in my eyes as the 2011 coaching fiasco. Say what you want about injuries and youth, they have an obvious impact, but his team was not a well-coached one, and it was obvious in nearly every single game.
 
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Wow, an overwhelming yes to this point. A good indicator of just how delusional the support for Dooley is.

Why is it that even though the majority of people are saying he will, that those people are called the "delusional" ones?? I would say the people that aren't supporting Dooley are the delusional ones.
 
We all should know,on any given day,any team is beatable. Witness Bama last year going into SC not ready and losing their 1st game of the year. It may be a year or two in the making,but it will happen
 
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