Dooley to SMU?

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When he was fired I stated one day he will walk back into this stadium and butt hurt us. I would be carful about what you wish for and be carful underestimating him.
 
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vols4evah said:
I don't understand all this hate for a guy who just wasn't a good coach, people act like he beat their kids with a baseball bat or something. When he just wasnt ready to coach a big time program but that doesn't mean he cant learn and improve.
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Barbara is that you? It's one thing to be a bad coach but he took a kings ransom and sat on his butt. You should educate yourself on how truly bad this cat was and what a dumpster fire he left here.
 
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TXA&M07 said:
I doubt SMU offers anyone a $1mil+ contract for any good length of time. They were barely able to pay June. That job should be something like $750,000 plus incentives based on performance. Bowl game appearance +$100,000, 9-10 win season +$100,000 ect...
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Barely able to pay? SMU has the money if they want to be committed to it. I agree that they don't have to pay a huge amount, but they can. Nonetheless, I am not sure you want to invest much in Derek Dooley.
 
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VolGee4 said:
Barely able to pay? SMU has the money if they want to be committed to it. I agree that they don't have to pay a huge amount, but they can. Nonetheless, I am not sure you want to invest much in Derek Dooley.
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Their lack of commitment is their only restriction. I should have clarified that. They were "barely" able to justify paying June and therefore I doubt they spend equal to or greater than he was getting.
 
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Dave1967 said:
Hopefully Tennessee schedules SMU in the future. I'd like to see how Derek Dumbass would be received in his return to Neyland Stadium!:eek:lol:
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Dooley should not be recieved poorly here. He didn't win, but we booted him. He's not Kiffin, he didn't turn tail and run out of nowhere, taking our entire coaching staff and poaching our recruits.

Dooley just wasn't good. Kiffin intentionally screwed us.
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
Dooley should not be recieved poorly here. He didn't win, but we booted him. He's not Kiffin, he didn't turn tail and run out of nowhere, taking our entire coaching staff and poaching our recruits.

Dooley just wasn't good. Kiffin intentionally screwed us.
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What Dooley did during his tenure here is indistinguishable from someone deliberately sabotaging the FB program. By the it's all said and done he will have received $16M+ for those services. I think any poor reception is easily justified.
 
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vols4evah said:
I don't understand all this hate for a guy who just wasn't a good coach, people act like he beat their kids with a baseball bat or something. When he just wasnt ready to coach a big time program but that doesn't mean he cant learn and improve.
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I must be in LA_LA land. The guy was a horrendous recruits, burned bridges with former players and high school coaches everywhere and you want us to pat him on the head with a that a boy? Screw him!
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
I really get irritated how often our own fans talk about this game like this. WE OUTPLAYED SOUTH CAROLINA. That was not a game we just happened to win because "a bunch of breaks went our way". At one point in that game my wife turned to me and said "I know I don't know a lot about football, but we just look like a very good team right now." My wife could see it and some Vol fans can't. That's sad.

North's catch wasn't luck, he makes crazy catches all the time. The only "break" we got was Shaw going out, and that wasn't until the very end of the ball game.

We outcoached, outmanned, and outplayed them. I don't know why so many Tennessee fans struggle with this. The Dooley Era is over, this team is capable of competing whether you want to believe it or not. Sorry, end rant, carry on.
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Where can I get the Orange tinted glasses you have? We played the game of our lives, had every break go our way, and barely won.
 
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TXA&M07 said:
Their lack of commitment is their only restriction. I should have clarified that. They were "barely" able to justify paying June and therefore I doubt they spend equal to or greater than he was getting.
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Why do you think they are lacking commitment? Not doubting you just curious because I believe they could really make some noise if they really put in the effort.
 
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My guess is that SMU will try and emulate their hire of Larry Brown, the HOF basketball coach. They'll look around for a former pro head coach who has retired but still wants to coach and doesn't want the pressures of the pros or at a Big5 conference.
 
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vols4evah said:
I don't understand all this hate for a guy who just wasn't a good coach, people act like he beat their kids with a baseball bat or something. When he just wasnt ready to coach a big time program but that doesn't mean he cant learn and improve.
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To add to that, he took the program over at the lowest point that it had ever seen. He tried and failed but how can you hate the man for that? He made mistakes but if he had stuck with the 4-3 and never hired Sunseri he would still be the coach today.
I honestly hope Dooley has success in his future endeavors. He was always a play or two away while he was at Tennessee maybe his luck will change in the future.
 
#90
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Dooley was more worried about his teams hygiene and his hair than putting time into recruiting and teaching. Go for broke SMU
 
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This is from the Dallas paper

"June didn’t all of a sudden become lousy at Xs and Os. He lost a little desire, apparently. Or maybe a lot. Symptoms of this affliction surface first in recruiting. There’s the usual complaint about a disconnect with South Dallas, which goes back to the Death Penalty days. How much of that is June’s fault, I couldn’t say. But he didn’t do much to correct it, either. In fact, he went opposite field. According to Mark Followill, whose researcher came up with this number while doing play-by-play for the Oklahoma State-Texas-San Antonio game this week, there are 68 Texans on SMU’s roster, lowest total of any of the 12 FBS schools in Texas."

Yeah, if I were the AD of a school that had trouble with relationships with in state high school coaches, I would run to Derek Dooley, LMAO.
 
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Daloth said:
Where can I get the Orange tinted glasses you have? We played the game of our lives, had every break go our way, and barely won.
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It's pretty simple actually, to get my "orange tinted glasses" that tell me the South Carolina win wasn't just a bunch of luck, all you have to do is know what you're talking about when it comes to football. That's pretty much it.
 
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utvols74 said:
Never have I seen such incredible incompetence (winning record anywhere?) and arrogance ("...we're just not a very good football team...") gone rewarded as is the case with Dools. $12M buyout from UT (after making $2M+ a year)...only to start working with the Cowboys at approximately $250,000 a year (+bonus) and now a probable head-coaching position at a salary probably north of $1M. Never have I seen such incompetence rewarded....never.
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TXA&M07 said:
Their lack of commitment is their only restriction. I should have clarified that. They were "barely" able to justify paying June and therefore I doubt they spend equal to or greater than he was getting.
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Maybe. I was born in Dallas, and my dad did business with SMU back in the day. As a Texan, I am sure you know they have wealth. I heard a Texas reporter on radio here in Memphis, and there were some very interesting names being thrown out. They will need money- Chad Morris, Brent Venables, Rhett Lashlee, OC at Baylor.
 
#100
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They've mentioned wanting Jake Spavital from us too. With success comes turn over in regards to coordinators.
 
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