Coach Dickey

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Doug Dickey, I still have mixed feelings about him, loved him as coach and AD, hated him for leaving us and going back to the gators. There was a song around when I was at UT, 1970-1975;"Trickey Dickey a former qb, trickey dickey felt us to get more jack,". Thats all I can remember of the song, the major issue that I had/still have was the way he coached us when we played the gators in the bowl
Darryls victory over Miami is still one of the top games in my book, we spotted them 7 and beat them like the drum. We, UT, can't be anything but proud of the Dickey family's time on the hill
 
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Chuck, you raise one of the great rhetorical/hypothetical questions pertaining to Tennessee football: what would the course of Tennessee football have been if Dickey had not responded to his alma mater’s call? Personally, I believe that he could have carved out a legacy comparable to Vince Dooley’s: 250 career victories, a half-dozen SEC titles and, perhaps, a national title or two. We almost certainly would not have experienced the dark days of the mid-late 1970s and early 1980s, and Dickey’s impact would have lessened the severity of Bear Bryant’s reign of terror in the 1970s.
 
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There have been tremendous changes in college football since DD left UT and left Florida as well. In general, it isn't as easy to turn a program around as quickly as it was in DD's day. He had instant success, turning the UT program around after one transition season. Even in that first season Dickey had a winning record at midseason and only a collapse in his last three games prevented a winning record. After that, all his teams were ranked and he left Battle well stocked for three years, until Battle's recruits started a downhill slide.
 
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GLDunlap said:
knoxvols1 said:
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.[/QU No and I agree with the rest. He did keep UT out of trouble and off probation. But, his hand holding of Fulmer, the Majors firing and the lie he told Volntion about not interviewing for the Fla job then throwing the bowl game and leaving for Fla the week after... That's why people bood him!
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utvots said:
Doug Dickey, I still have mixed feelings about him, loved him as coach and AD, hated him for leaving us and going back to the gators. There was a song around when I was at UT, 1970-1975;"Trickey Dickey a former qb, trickey dickey felt us to get more jack,". Thats all I can remember of the song, the major issue that I had/still have was the way he coached us when we played the gators in the bowl
Darryls victory over Miami is still one of the top games in my book, we spotted them 7 and beat them like the drum. We, UT, can't be anything but proud of the Dickey family's time on the hill
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When your alma mater calls, you come. Dickey did the right thing. Tee Martin could take a lesson from that. He'll have plenty of time to think about it when he's fired next year.
 
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iluvsmesumdooley said:
When your alma mater calls, you come. Dickey did the right thing. Tee Martin could take a lesson from that. He'll have plenty of time to think about it when he's fired next year.
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knoxvols1 said:
GLDunlap said:
knoxvols1 said:
But, his hand holding of Fulmer, the Majors firing and the lie he told Volntion about not interviewing for the Fla job then throwing the bowl game and leaving for Fla the week after... That's why people bood him!
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DD definitely wasn't truthful about the Florida gig and he apparently was playing golf with the UF Prez or some other official and negotiating to go to UF without UT knowing and before the bowl game. Still he was allowed to coach, "and lose," the game.
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sjrobert said:
There have been tremendous changes in college football since DD left UT and left Florida as well. In general, it isn't as easy to turn a program around as quickly as it was in DD's day. He had instant success, turning the UT program around after one transition season. Even in that first season Dickey had a winning record at midseason and only a collapse in his last three games prevented a winning record. After that, all his teams were ranked and he left Battle well stocked for three years, until Battle's recruits started a downhill slide.
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Quite true. Most importantly, there were virtually no limits on scholarship numbers in those days. Dickey was also ahead of the curve on integration. Once it became widespread, the unique vulnerabilities of our position in terms of local recruiting would be revealed. I have every faith, however, that Dickey could have maintained the program which he restored to national prominence.
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
Quite true. Most importantly, there were virtually no limits on scholarship numbers in those days. Dickey was also ahead of the curve on integration. Once it became widespread, the unique vulnerabilities of our position in terms of local recruiting would be revealed. I have every faith, however, that Dickey could have maintained the program which he restored to national prominence.
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Dickey may have been ahead of the curve on integration, but I don't remember but 3 blacks who contributed under him. Lester McClain, Jackie Walker, and Andy Bennett. Bennett didn't run the ball a lot, but the other 2 were stars. If there were others, I apologize for leaving them out.

Dickey left after 1969, which was still early in SEC integration. I think only the 2 most northern schools, Kentucky and Tennessee were integrated then. The rest soon followed.
 
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That was a special time in UT football when Dickey was coach and AD.....now we are predicting 1 or 2 Conference Wins for 2013.......Man Oh Man......Tough times are indeed here
 
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VolsRule said:
if dickey had stayed at UT instead of taking the fla job, he may have won the national title.
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He won one in 1967. Google Litkenhous National Championship 1967. They named U.T. champs after the finish of the regular season.
 
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The end of the game in the Gator Bowl in Dickeys last game says it all.Ran Watson up the middle from the 3 yard line which would have given UT the win before Doug moved to Florida the next year.
 
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1972 Grad said:
He won one in 1967. Google Litkenhous National Championship 1967. They named U.T. champs after the finish of the regular season.
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BUT, almost no one recognizes that so-called title. It might be useful to use that fact on an airport factoid, which I think Knoxville's McGee Tyson Airport has done, but otherwise that rating might as well be nonexistent.
 
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1972 Grad said:
He won one in 1967. Google Litkenhous National Championship 1967. They named U.T. champs after the finish of the regular season.
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Back to the Litkenhous N.C. decree back in 1967, on Basilio's interview with CBJ yesterday, BJ mentioned the "SIX,"..............count them......that's
"SIX".........N.C.'s UT has won in its 117 year FB history. Must have been some creative names for those N.C. titles back in the days prior to the N.C. in 1951.
 
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Some of ya'll have very short memories of how Doug Dickey sunk a big purple shaft into the UT football program dumping us for the Gators back in the day and flopped from that point on until he got into administration. His son Darrel, good guy I have a lot of respect for him, his father? If Doug were on fire I wouldn't walk across the street to leak on him to put him out , ya feel me?
 
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Remy said:
Some of ya'll have very short memories of how Doug Dickey sunk a big purple shaft into the UT football program dumping us for the Gators back in the day and flopped from that point on until he got into administration. His son Darrel, good guy I have a lot of respect for him, his father? If Doug were on fire I wouldn't walk across the street to leak on him to put him out , ya feel me?
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And I bet that you wanted Tee Martin to return to his alma mater.
 
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TennTom said:
It's comical how wrong you are, not to mention embarrassing.
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Actually, the statement "ISN'T" comical OR embarassing. Why? Because many, many people have that same opinion of Dickey, and while the dislike (in some cases, hatred) of Dickey has waned a bit since the Florida exit debacle, he still engenders strong negative feelings in many quarters. Not embarassing? Of course not, because it is simply an expression of one person's opinion, something one is entitled to.
 
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sjrobert said:
BUT, almost no one recognizes that so-called title. It might be useful to use that fact on an airport factoid, which I think Knoxville's McGee Tyson Airport has done, but otherwise that rating might as well be nonexistent.[/QU Unless your Alabama!
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knoxvols1 said:
sjrobert said:
BUT, almost no one recognizes that so-called title. It might be useful to use that fact on an airport factoid, which I think Knoxville's McGee Tyson Airport has done, but otherwise that rating might as well be nonexistent.[/QU Unless your Alabama!
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Yeah, what is Alababa up to now in N.C. claims, 37 or so?
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