If Dooley had beaten South Carolina last year...

[arkyvol]

if the point was to keep the vols saddled with the worst coach in d-1 football by getting dooley to .500 (a major achievement in his so-called career), then I say not only no, but hell no!

 

[gunner]

If a couple plays went differently and we had beaten South Carolina last year, would you have considered it a good season? Would you have wanted Dooley back? This is assuming the rest of the season went exactly as it did otherwise (i.e. we lose to Vanderbilt, Missouri, etc. but beat Kentucky and end up 6-6).

I'm curious.

Absolutely not! The Vols had enough talent last season to win 8 or 9 games! Anything short of eight wins and Dooley was destined for the unemployment line. He should have been fired immediately after the loss to Ky 2011!

 

[InVOLuntary]

He effectively lost the team (if he ever had it) after the SC game. If he had managed to pull that game out, he may have wone a couple more. And....He'd still be walking his orange dog over there.

 

[Aesius]

Dooley could have won 10 games last year and firing him still would have been the right decision.

Remember Mike Shula won 10 at Bama in 05 and people thought they were back.

 

[lionfoorest]

The simple fact that 3 ppl just from the offensive side of the ball is already in the NFL and who knows how many of the line goes say 3 of them which is a good chance that means that he had 6 of 11 offensive players that's good enough for the NFL and only won 5 games? And if he woulda beat SC still don't matter with that kinda talent u should win 9 games easy! Put a decent coach in last year and we won 9 easy IMO

 

[Gandalf]

Would not have been a good season because Dooley would not have done anything to build for the next one. Every game that went forward, Dooley caused the players with talent (who were recruited by others) to get worse, IMO - meanwhile, he was unable to recruit any talent himself. So a 6-6 season would have felt better but would have delayed the inevitable reckoning we would have faced this year.

 

[VolsDeep]

With the amount of 1st and 2nd round talent on that team last year, we SHOULD have beaten south Carolina, mizzou, and miss. state at least. Dooley wasn't a good coach, plain and simple.

 

[Eddie Vol Halen]

No, that idiot lost to Kentucky. He should have been fired on the way to the bus.

One of the many reasons Dave Hart needs to go, either in front of or just behind Jimmy Cheek.

This is a VERY scary thread, and Halloween is over. If Dooley doesn't somehow claw defeat out of the jaws of victory against Mizzou last year, he is still feeding the Orange Dog and watering the bamboo in 2013.

Let that sink in. And then ask yourself, is Hart really the right man for this job?

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Thing is, a large number of posters here were still in Dooley's corner and still said he could turn things around up until the Missouri game. In fact those that remember, the Missouri game thread was hilarious. Up until about the 4th quarter, several were crowing about how the game proved Dooley was turning it around....oops.