Coach Dickey

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would give anything to have him back as either coach or AD. However that ship has passed but we desperately need someone of his skill sets.
 
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Dickey was an a$$ to most people but he kept UT out of trouble!
 
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An example of what the old Neyland coaching tree could give back. Dickey's coach at UF was Bob Woodruff. DD was an assistant to Frank Broyles at Arkansas, who was himself in the Neyland line serving as a coach for Bobby Dodd. By the time he got to Knoxville, Dickey was well-versed in Tennessee's tradition and approach to football. He also recognized the need to mesh those values with a more modern approach--especially on offense. He may have been a Gator. But he served us well for several years because he actually understood Tennessee and knew what he was doing. I'd take him and men like Jack Reese, Ed Boling, Lamar Alexander, and Joe Johnson over the Drake Group morons currently ruining the show at Tennessee.
 
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knoxvols1 said:
photovol said:
I disagree, Dickey was indeed a Vol.....so was his son[/QU Agree his son was/is but Doug never was! When they recognized him at halftime of that game in 04 never heard so many booos!
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So he wasn't a Vol because a bunch of clueless people booed him? Dickey may not have had the Vol "gene" but he did alot of great work for this University. There were some uncalled for hard feelings when DD left to go back to Florida after the 1969 season but he was a very good head coach here and an even better AD.
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orangefloyd said:
Dickey was never a Vol never will be.
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I don't care what he was. All I know is that I was a student at U.T. during his last 3 years there, 1967,68, and 69. I sat in Neyland Stadium for every game during those years and saw U.T. lose one game(Auburn 1968) , and tie one (Georgia 1968).

During those 3 years, we had a record of 26-6-1. Our conference record was 15-2-1. We beat Alabama and Bear Bryant all 3 years. We went to the Orange, Cotton, and Gator Bowls in those 3 years. Unfortunately, those were 3 of our 6 losses. The 6 losses were Oklahoma, Texas, and Florida in bowl games, and Ole Miss(Archie Manning), and UCLA away. The only home loss was to Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan and Auburn. I believe it was 10-9 in 1968.

Then , I fast forward to 1985, when Doug's son Darryl Dickey took over for the injured Tony Robinson atQB, and led Tennessee to a bunch of victories, culminating in a blowout of Miami in the Sugar Bowl in one of Tennessee's finest moments.

So, please excuse me if I don't share others' disdain for Doug Dickey and his son Darryl.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I don't care what he was. All I know is that I was a student at U.T. during his last 3 years there, 1967,68, and 69. I sat in Neyland Stadium for every game during those years and saw U.T. lose one game(Auburn 1968) , and tie one (Georgia 1968).

During those 3 years, we had a record of 26-6-1. Our conference record was 15-2-1. We beat Alabama and Bear Bryant all 3 years. We went to the Orange, Cotton, and Gator Bowls in those 3 years. Unfortunately, those were 3 of our 6 losses. The 6 losses were Oklahoma, Texas, and Florida in bowl games, and Ole Miss(Archie Manning), and UCLA away. The only home loss was to Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan and Auburn. I believe it was 10-9 in 1968.

Then , I fast forward to 1985, when Doug's son Darryl Dickey took over for the injured Tony Robinson atQB, and led Tennessee to a bunch of victories, culminating in a blowout of Miami in the Sugar Bowl in one of Tennessee's finest moments.

So, please excuse me if I don't share others' disdain for Doug Dickey and his son Darryl.
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I would like to make a correction to this post. My memory is not quite as good as I thought. The 10-9 Auburn/Pat Sullivan loss was 1971 under Bill Battle. The Doug Dickey/Auburn loss in 1968 was at Auburn. So, I stand corrected. I went to 16 home games in 1967, 68 & 69 when Doug Dickey was the coach and Tennessee did not lose even once at home during those 3 years. There was the one tie in the first game of the season in 1968 to Georgia. It was also the first game on the new Tartan Turf.

I never saw a Doug Dickey coached team lose at home in those 3 years, and I went to every game. The Cotton, Orange, and Gator Bowls were 3 of the top 5 bowls at the time, and one, The Rose Bowl, was a Big Ten/Pac 8 affair. The teams that we lost to were some of the top teams in those years.
 
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This Dickey thread got me to thinking about how many games that I saw Tennessee lose at home during my time at U.T. I just remembered one. I looked up the 5 football seasons when I was at U.T. In 1967, 68, 69, 70, and 71, Tennessee played 30 home games, The record was 28-1-1 under Dickey and Battle combined at Neyland. The one loss was by one point to Auburn, and the tie was to Georgia. Now I know how spoiled I was being a U.T. student back then. I went to the games KNOWING we were going to win, no matter who we played. I hope we can get back there.
 
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1972 Grad said:
This Dickey thread got me to thinking about how many games that I saw Tennessee lose at home during my time at U.T. I just remembered one. I looked up the 5 football seasons when I was at U.T. In 1967, 68, 69, 70, and 71, Tennessee played 30 home games, The record was 28-1-1 under Dickey and Battle combined at Neyland. The one loss was by one point to Auburn, and the tie was to Georgia. Now I know how spoiled I was being a U.T. student back then. I went to the games KNOWING we were going to win, no matter who we played. I hope we can get back there.
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That's a good run. During my four years on the Hill we lost at home to Vandy, North Texas State, Bama (twice), Auburn, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Florida, Cal, UCLA, and a few others. Oh, we tied powerhouse Oregon State as well. So times like we are having now don't scare me.
 
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ZZ13 said:
That's a good run. During my four years on the Hill we lost at home to Vandy, North Texas State, Bama (twice), Auburn, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Florida, Cal, UCLA, and a few others. Oh, we tied powerhouse Oregon State as well. So times like we are having now don't scare me.
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Not too good!
 
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Coach Dickey became a Vol. His wife wanted to go back to FL and he went. If it were his decision, he would have remained at UT. He returned. I was honored to be on his team.
 
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photovol said:
I disagree, Dickey was indeed a Vol.....so was his son
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Son is WAY different case than his daddy.

I mean, his dad was a good coach for us, no doubt, but then we played Florida in a bowl ... and he left us to go to ... Florida, from whence he came. He didn't have to do that, but he chose to. Yes, he came back ... but I wouldn't ha' took him at that point.

Conversely, am so glad Darryl was here when T.Rob went down; a Tennessee legend there.
 
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OrangeByBirth said:
Coach Dickey became a Vol. His wife wanted to go back to FL and he went. If it were his decision, he would have remained at UT. He returned. I was honored to be on his team.
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I knew a couple who played for him when I was at U.T. Gary Wright, Herman Weaver, Dick Williams, Charlie Rosenfelder, Vic Dingus, Neal McMeans, Johnny Mills, and Jack Reynolds. I guess you know these guys. I am honored that I got to sit in the stands , and watch a TEAM play.
 
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OrangeByBirth said:
Coach Dickey became a Vol. His wife wanted to go back to FL and he went. If it were his decision, he would have remained at UT. He returned. I was honored to be on his team.
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Dickey returning had nothing to do with his, "supposedly becoming a Vol." Instead, it had to do with a former teammate of Johnny Majors, Tommy Bronson, if I remember the reports correctly, being the choice for AD and business interests or some other issue prevented him from taking the AD job, thus we wound up with Dickey, who, to his credit, knew a "golden calf" when he saw it.
 
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Doug Dickey is a Vol....Again, his son Daryl was a decent QB for us in 85. Daryl is not doing so hot as a HC at West Ga I think it is. We should have reached out to him to be an asst? IMHO.....
 
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Coach Dickey is my earliest memory of UT football. I was in elementary school when he took over. I have no memories of UT's single wing days.

Coach Dickey probably made one of the worst all-time decisions of any coach who left one job for another. The Tennessee post was the second best job in the conference at that time. Leaving the way he did to go "back" to Florida was a disaster for him coaching-wise. He had the Tennessee program at the top of the conference. Bama had not embraced the importance of the black athlete (pre-USC beatdown in Birmingham) to their program and they were reeling. The Florida job was years away from being much of a job.

Tennessee could have had an amazing run for many seasons if he had stayed. The way he departed for that job was handled so poorly. Could you imagine that happening in today's ESPN-world...2 quality teams in the same conference playing in a high level bowl (the Gator was just below the Rose, Sugar, Orange and Cotton at that time) and the losing coach bolting to the other school especially when his team was favored...wow.

Being an AD, Dickey had to make many executive decisions that rubbed some the wrong way. Coach Woodruff was more of a good-ole boy type. The aura of big business had clearly become the focus of college sports during Dickey's reign as AD. Again, he made a bunch of tough decisions as AD and some folks did not seem to agree but that comes with being the boss. His decision to fire Don Devoe crushed the men's BB program for years. Well, at least, the replacements that Dickey hired did. I loved Coach Devoe but his style seemed to make recruiting difficult....but he sure got a ton out of his talent.

It be would great if Coach Jones could turn this football program around the way Dickey did...and at least we will not have to worry about him leaving to return to his alma mater within the conference.

I would guess that in his heart that Coach Dickey knows he made a poor decision to leave UT for UF. But hindsight is and will always be 20/20. Of course, it seems that very few of the posters on this board have hindsight issues. Many have all the answers.

I think that my feelings for Coach Dickey are that of much sadness for what we could have been in football if he had not left. The run could have been amazing. I did not live in the city/state during the majority of his run as AD so my thoughts are more clouded in that area.

To '72 grad who spoke of the one tie w/Georgia....you probably feel the way that I do (I was at that game as a 12 year old with my Dad) about that game....the best "tie" of my lifetime, cause when you score that late and then get the 2 point conversion...it feels like a win. Remember the helmet rolling on the field from the UG sideline during Jake Scott's punt return for a TD earlier in the game and NO flag.
 
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easleychuck said:
Being an AD he had to make many executive decisions that rubbed some the wrong way. Coach Woodruff was more of a good-ole boy type. The aura of big business had clearly become the focus of college sports during Dickey's reign as AD. Again, he made a ton of tough decisions and some did not seem to go so well. The Don Devoe firing crushed the BB for years. Well at least the replacements that Dickey hired did.
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Dickey did irritate some/many with his personnel decisions. Those decisions clearly show that DD
couldn't have cared less about basketball, or minor sports in general. After all, DD gave us Wade Houston, followed by Kevin O'Neill, followed by Jerry Green, and ending with the incomparable Buzz Peterson. He also gave us Rod Delmonico who had "some" success after losing seasons his first three years in conference play and only two winning seasons in conference play his last ten seasons. So, DD was only slightly better, if at all, than MH who was absolutely horrid. And to top it off, DD also gave us the very incompetent Mike Hamilton, as he recommended him as his successor. So DD is himself controversial. Many like him and many do not.
 
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sjrobert said:
Dickey did irritate some/many with his personnel decisions. Those decisions clearly show that DD
couldn't have cared less about basketball, or minor sports in general. After all, DD gave us Wade Houston, followed by Kevin O'Neill, followed by Jerry Green, and ending with the incomparable Buzz Peterson. He also gave us Rod Delmonico who had "some" success after losing seasons his first three years in conference play and only two winning seasons in conference play his last ten seasons. So, DD was only slightly better, if at all, than MH who was absolutely horrid. And to top it off, DD also gave us the very incompetent Mike Hamilton, as he recommended him as his successor. So DD is himself controversial. Many like him and many do not.
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It's a business. He made money.
 
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