Coach Dooley, I salute you!

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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
I salute him for taking the job when no one wanted it. I salute him for the VFL program.

I have no doubt that he gave his all for Tennessee. However, at the end of the day, it was not enough. I wish him and his family well. Go in peace Derek.
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Quite a number of coaches would take a $2mil/year job as an SEC head coach. Lets not congratulate him on something 90% of coaches would have jumped at the chance to do. His finest (and only) contribution was the VFL program. Other than that, he can kick rocks.
 
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
I wanted the guy gone as much as most of you. My problem is with the piling on, the name calling, and overall classlessness this forum is showing right now.
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Most are just venting three years worth of frustration with Dooley. I'm just as guilty about it as others, but it will pass and most will admit that he did do a couple of good things for UT.

The biggest being the VFL program.
 
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I have a hard time feeling sorry for anyone who is that bad at their job and gets over 10 million in salary and buyouts to do it.
 
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Larkin said:
The whole point of the OP was to salute Dooley...not debate the coaching search.

As a fanbase, we are not responsible for saluting a failed head coach.
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As a fan base we are responsible for showing our next coach a bit of class. Now would be a good time to start.
 
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Exfix said:
Quite a number of coaches would take a $2mil/year job as an SEC head coach. Lets not congratulate him on something 90% of coaches would have jumped at the chance to do. His finest (and only) contribution was the VFL program. Other than that, he can kick rocks.
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This. This is the point.
 
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So we need to be happy about Dooley further plunging the program into the sh***** and being wildly incompetent---and I guess the pluses were he was Southern, he set up the VFL program (which by the way he couldn't even run that right because he fired the first guy he hired) and he "took a bullet" and coached our program when no one else would?

Wow, how the mighty have fallen.
 
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carolinaviking said:
You came to Tennessee when we were in the abyss. You inherited a bloody awful mess and got no breaks along the way. Yet you kept trying when most men (many of whom criticized you ruthlessly) would have folded under the pressure. The good things you did have improved the program and will go a long way to returning us to prominence. Unfortunately, those are not the things that bring in the money or the recruits and we all recognize the nature of this beast. It is my hope that you will not leave with overwhelming bitterness, that you will come to realize that many UT fans respect the heck out of you and genuinely rooted for you. You may not have been the most successful UT coach, but YOU WERE A COACH OF THE TENNESSEE VOLS!! There are very few men who can claim that. I salute you and I hope you will remain a VFL.
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Nice post!
 
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KoachKletus said:
As a fan base we are responsible for showing our next coach a bit of class. Now would be a good time to start.
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Don't have any problem showing class, just stop the "Dooley was the only coach who would come" nonsense. It's simply not true.
 
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carolinaviking said:
You came to Tennessee when we were in the abyss. You inherited a bloody awful mess and got no breaks along the way. Yet you kept trying when most men (many of whom criticized you ruthlessly) would have folded under the pressure. The good things you did have improved the program and will go a long way to returning us to prominence. Unfortunately, those are not the things that bring in the money or the recruits and we all recognize the nature of this beast. It is my hope that you will not leave with overwhelming bitterness, that you will come to realize that many UT fans respect the heck out of you and genuinely rooted for you. You may not have been the most successful UT coach, but YOU WERE A COACH OF THE TENNESSEE VOLS!! There are very few men who can claim that. I salute you and I hope you will remain a VFL.
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Second! Well said CV!! :good!:
 
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TacomaJPP said:
I don't have any hate for Dooley. There is no need in that. It doesn't do anyone any good.

It was a tough chapter in the history of the Vols and it wasn't all Dooley's fault. He just didn't make the most of it. A better coach and leader could and will do better. I wish him the best, but I'm glad he's leaving.

There is no need in feeling sorry for him. The volatility of college coaching is the reason they get enormous salaries and buyouts. However, I ask that VFLs remain classy in his departure.
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Yeah, this. Feeling sorry for him is not my point. We should respect that a VOL has fallen and a VOL family is now going through a lot of pain. No need to add abuse and humiliation on top of that.

DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
I wanted the guy gone as much as most of you. My problem is with the piling on, the name calling, and overall classlessness this forum is showing right now.
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Yup.
 
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
I salute him for taking the job when no one wanted it. I salute him for the VFL program.

I have no doubt that he gave his all for Tennessee. However, at the end of the day, it was not enough. I wish him and his family well. Go in peace Derek.
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I agree...He's is a very good person with alot of high qualities. Its a shame that it worked out like it has for him....he's the kind of person you would like to have as a head coach, but at the end of the day it comes down to winning football games and he hasn't got alot of W's to brag about.
 
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KoachKletus said:
As a fan base we are responsible for showing our next coach a bit of class. Now would be a good time to start.
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As a fan and graduate of Tennessee, I support and show class to those who deserve it. Dooley isn't deserving.

I think our next head coach would come in seeing a fan base starving for success and someone who doesn't go down in flames blaming everyone but himself.

Go and watch his last (thankfully) post game presser and tell me Dooley is full of class.
 
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I wish him the best in whatever life has next for him, but this should have happened way before now. There is absolutely no need to sugarcoat what he's been passing off as "ut football" these past 3 years, because this era has been nothing short of a full on embarrasment for everyone involved with the program.

He took a job where he was way in over his head, and he has built up a better roster than the one he started with. But also at the cost of borderline destroying the image of our tradition rich history along the way. He has ridden this football program into the ground to the point that we are the worst that we have been in a century. It is what it is at this point.
 
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As has been said a million times, Dooley is a good guy and brought character and class to UT, but coaching is not his strong suit. I wish him the best and I am glad it is over.
 
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
I wanted the guy gone as much as most of you. My problem is with the piling on, the name calling, and overall classlessness this forum is showing right now.
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right now??? You know this place has been doing this for a while now. It helped bring cdd down. Wasn't expecting anything less from the losers on here that weren't given enough love and hugs a children.

It's pathetic and just sad to see the type of people that r in this world. Smh
 
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Cdd is still blaming everyone else and not the coaches.... he suxs and until he understands he is the problem he will never get better. Bottom line he knew he was in trouble after the Kent game n tried to book on us.. everyone wanted to hang lk for leaving us but dude was going to do the same thing. Is that a vfl??
 
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Oskie Volum said:
right now??? You know this place has been doing this for a while now. It helped bring cdd down. Wasn't expecting anything less from the losers on here that weren't given enough love and hugs a children.

It's pathetic and just sad to see the type of people that r in this world. Smh
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Out of touch with reality Oskie...the problem with people like you is that it's ALL about love and hugs. Performance, competence, responsibility??? Nah, that's not important.

This is a PROGRAM, not "Everybody gets a gold star for participating" event.
 
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By the way, if I hear "Year Zero" come out of his mouth one more time, I'm going to puke.

Back to the OP, I'll salute a guy when he owns that which he is responsible for.
 
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I don't salute him I wish him well. It has been a tough time to be a Vol fan ever since he was here. I wish him and his family well but he was not qualified, his qualifications mirrored Daryl Dickey or there about.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Kevin Sumlin. He seems to be doing pretty well. Cutcliffe also would have come back yet didn't agree to the restrictions of staff put on him.

And you're missing the point.....several big names didn't want the job, but you're crazy if you think there weren't several other "Dooleys" out there that would have taken the job. You guys are acting like Dooley is the ONLY coach that would do it, and that's crap. Don't tell me there were several other mid-major coaches with just as good of (if not better) records as Dooley that would would have said no to the contract he was given.
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Sumlin yes, Cutt no (per a high level Duke donor, they would have made it worth his while to stay), and if there were several other "Dooley's", why not this Dooley? If Bray had as much desire as Cam Newton, we would not be having this conversation. Chizik is the next one gone this year. Although, from what I hear, AU isn't interested in dropping the money to get rid of him this year.
 
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Larkin said:
As a fan and graduate of Tennessee, I support and show class to those who deserve it. Dooley isn't deserving.

I think our next head coach would come in seeing a fan base starving for success and someone who doesn't go down in flames blaming everyone but himself.

Go and watch his last (thankfully) post game presser and tell me Dooley is full of class.
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I see my post flew right over the top. Dooley is gone. Like him or not, what good does it do to propagate hate? Does it show our next coach how "classy" our fan base is? A poster on here last night said the HC of the Tennessee Volunteers should be stabbed. I'm as disappointed in the past few years as anybody, but good or bad, I guess a few of us still prefer to hold our heads high. Stay classy. GBO.
 
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