I don't see how he can complain about anything these players and coaches do after he threw the Kentucky game because he didn't want to go to a low level bowl game.
This is pure revisionist history. He earned every ounce of his bad reputation.
You don't win on just having good 1's in this league. You have to be Two deep across the board to compete. We had some pieces on offense. Not enough to beat good teams though. We were also hamstrung by Dooley's lack of in game coaching.. Looked brain dead at times. His whole tenure was a big fat joke and a FU to the fan base by Mike Hamilton and whoever made the decision to hire that clown.You are right about the defense but Lane and Neal both averaged 5 yards a carry(Hurd averages 4.5)..problem was the defense was so bad that we had to pass to catch up
we averaged 36 points a game but gave up 35
2012 Tennessee Volunteers Stats | College Football at Sports-Reference.com
He was a young and dumb college kid. He did some dumb stuff but wouldn't it be safe to say that Butch has a stronger grasp on the kids and Dooley just let them run wild because he frankly didn't care? Do you think if Butch coached Bray he would have been more behaved or the same? I'm not challenging you, just interested in your opinion.
The defense was terrible and the Oline was seriously overrated. Tennessee beat nobody while Dooley was here. Mainly becasue of his coaching , depth and lack of talent. We could score some points but couldn't stop anyone, nor could we run the ball when we needed too.
No. Dooley was bad football coach, but I'll never agree that he just didn't care. Tyler was immature and a terrible representative of the Big Orange throughout his time on Rocky Top. Tyler may now be coachable, but he wasn't then - not by anyone. If anything, had Butch been his coach Tyler would have found himself holding a one way ticket down the Riley Ferguson Expressway -- which is probably why Tyler decided not to return for his final season.
It would've been very smart to start throwing the ball all over the field. It's not like we were physically man handling them and wearing them out and controlling the clock, field position and pace of the game.
Surely anyone can see that we were in a very desperate situation and we really needed to take chances and throw the ball a lot!
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He's right but there's an unwritten rule amongst the hashtag VFL lovers that you can't criticize anything a program is doing in any way because you're not a VFL if you do that.
Last night was a good win and it very easily could've been much worse score-wise but you've gotta be able to put games away against bad teams. Tennessee had four drives after going up 19-0: punt, punt, punt, and punt.