Is this the Worse CFB Coach ever?

[volbound1700]

How do you get blown out by G5 teams as a major SEC program? This has to be the worse Coaching EVER in College Football. 4-20 over 2 years. Coaches like that should be fired with 0 buy-out and have to pay the fans damages for how pathetic the performance of the team was.

 

[VolPack22]

Only full-time Arkansas coach without a conference win and worst record by a non-interim coach in Arkansas history. Yeah definitely one of the worst. He should have stayed at SMU. They improved their win total every year he was there.

 

[05_never_again]

I'm not sure he knew completely what he was getting into as an SEC head coach. I read that his family never moved to Fayetteville with him and during high school football season he commuted back to Dallas to watch his son play football.

 

[Pennheel]

Who was this? I'm drawing a blank. That's absolutely horrible. Yeah, when you got a good thing going,don't get in over your head at another school that's a huge uncertainty. I'd wait it out for the right job even if I was wanting to challenge myself. Pittman is still finding it difficult.

 

[Boston Vol]

Who was this? I'm drawing a blank. That's absolutely horrible. Yeah, when you got a good thing going,don't get in over your head at another school that's a huge uncertainty. I'd wait it out for the right job even if I was wanting to challenge myself. Pittman is still finding it difficult.

Chad Morris

 

[Boston Vol]

The only defense for Morris is that he was taking over a team from Bielema that was built for the power run game. Arkansas didn’t exactly have the type of players to run his his offense.

 

[VAVol85]

SJSU and WKU are pretty embarrassing, but maybe we shouldn’t highlight the loss to the Green Wave…just saying.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

SJSU and WKU are pretty embarrassing, but maybe we shouldn’t highlight the loss to the Green Wave…just saying.

WKU and North Texas were 9 win teams. What's worse: losing to a team that went 2-10 the year before (GA State,) while you were in process of committing nearly 200 NCAA violations and nearly 20 major violations..

 

[volbound1700]

WKU and North Texas were 9 win teams. What's worse: losing to a team that went 2-10 the year before (GA State,) while you were in process of committing nearly 200 NCAA violations and nearly 20 major violations..

It wasn't just that they loss, they got blown out by Sunbelt teams. That was bad. Sure, fluke last play losses happen sometimes to Sunbelt teams. La Tech beat Alabama in 1999 on a last catch and Alabama won the SEC that year.

Georgia State was embarrassing but it was the only time that this happened to Tennessee since Fulmer. Arkansas lost 3 of these games in a 2 year period and two of them were blowouts. (Also Georgia State went 9-3 the year they beat Tennessee).

I do agree though that an SEC Coach (at least at a major program) is a failure if they lose to a wimpy G5 team with a fraction of the talent and money.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

It wasn't just that they loss, they got blown out by Sunbelt teams. That was bad. Sure, fluke last play losses happen sometimes to Sunbelt teams. La Tech beat Alabama in 1999 on a last catch and Alabama won the SEC that year.

Georgia State was embarrassing but it was the only time that this happened to Tennessee since Fulmer. Arkansas lost 3 of these games in a 2 year period and two of them were blowouts. (Also Georgia State went 9-3 the year they beat Tennessee).

I do agree though that an SEC Coach (at least at a major program) is a failure if they lose to a wimpy G5 team with a fraction of the talent and money.

Georgia State went 4-4 in the SunBelt and 7-6 overall in 2019. We scored a last second cosmetic touchdown not to lose by 15...

Pruitt was every bit as bad as Morris was considering the schools involved and the NCAA issues in his wake....

 

[volbound1700]

Georgia State went 4-4 in the SunBelt and 7-6 overall in 2019. We scored a last second cosmetic touchdown not to lose by 15...

Pruitt was every bit as bad as Morris was considering the schools involved and the NCAA issues in his wake....

Morris went 0-16 in the SEC and lost 3 games equivalent to Georgia State. Pruitt was bad, I agree. Chad Morris took it to a new level of crap.

 

[DaddyChad]

Georgia State went 4-4 in the SunBelt and 7-6 overall in 2019. We scored a last second cosmetic touchdown not to lose by 15...

Pruitt was every bit as bad as Morris was considering the schools involved and the NCAA issues in his wake....

Idk. The fact that we’re even comparing them though speaks to how bad Pruitt was. Georgia state like you said wasn’t a fluke loss; they dominated us on both sides of the trenches that game. We could’ve played ten games against them and Pruitt would’ve lost nine of them.

 

[volbound1700]

Idk. The fact that we’re even comparing them though speaks to how bad Pruitt was. Georgia state like you said wasn’t a fluke loss; they dominated us on both sides of the trenches that game. We could’ve played ten games against them and Pruitt would’ve lost nine of them.

Georgia State wasn't even Pruitt's most embarrassing loss IMO.

Kentucky was #1 followed by West Virginia at #2. In both games, we just were not competitive at all. You could also argue Florida, Georgia, and Alabama but they were just better programs overall. BYU was pretty embarrassing as well. Funny thing is, if he had beaten BYU and Georgia State, Tennessee could have been 10-3 that year.

The cheating was pretty embarrassing as well. Pruitt was a disaster all around for our program and was rock bottom (even over the 4-8 year with Jones).

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Idk. The fact that we’re even comparing them though speaks to how bad Pruitt was. Georgia state like you said wasn’t a fluke loss; they dominated us on both sides of the trenches that game. We could’ve played ten games against them and Pruitt would’ve lost nine of them.

Big difference in the programs too. A good coach at Tennessee has a team that is playing nationally relevant football in Nov/Dec. A good coach at Arkansas has a ceiling of 9-3 or maybe 10-2 with all the breaks and a light NC sched...

Morris was awful but Dooley and Pruitt weren't far behind him.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Georgia State wasn't even Pruitt's most embarrassing loss IMO.

Kentucky was #1 followed by West Virginia at #2. In both games, we just were not competitive at all. You could also argue Florida, Georgia, and Alabama but they were just better programs overall. BYU was pretty embarrassing as well. Funny thing is, if he had beaten BYU and Georgia State, Tennessee could have been 10-3 that year.

The cheating was pretty embarrassing as well. Pruitt was a disaster all around for our program and was rock bottom (even over the 4-8 year with Jones).

The 2020 Kentucky game and 2018 Vandy was an embarrasment because the team quit on Pruitt both times. The WVU game was embarrassing because of the ineptitude and lack of prep. But GA State whipped us on both sides of the ball ...

 

[EasternVol]

We had this guy named Lyle that squandered all kinds of talent and opportunities over several seasons, then tanked his last year here to get a payout. I'd say that last year was the worst coaching in the history of the SEC.

 

[DaddyChad]

Big difference in the programs too. A good coach at Tennessee has a team that is playing nationally relevant football in Nov/Dec. A good coach at Arkansas has a ceiling of 9-3 or maybe 10-2 with all the breaks and a light NC sched...

Morris was awful but Dooley and Pruitt weren't far behind him.

I think Dooley was much better than Pruitt. Dooley had a good offense when he was here. What did him in was the defensive side of the football. Pruitt was supposed to be a defensive specialist; we sucked even on that side of the ball. Both were absolutely terrible though.

 

[EasternVol]

Big difference in the programs too. A good coach at Tennessee has a team that is playing nationally relevant football in Nov/Dec. A good coach at Arkansas has a ceiling of 9-3 or maybe 10-2 with all the breaks and a light NC sched...

Morris was awful but Dooley and Pruitt weren't far behind him.

Historically Pig and UT aren't so far apart. They were about as good as we were in the late 90's.

 

[volbound1700]

I think Dooley was much better than Pruitt. Dooley had a good offense when he was here. What did him in was the defensive side of the football. Pruitt was supposed to be a defensive specialist; we sucked even on that side of the ball. Both were absolutely terrible though.

The key stat behind Dooley was that the SEC was very strong when he coached. There was one season where all but 2 of the SEC opponents he played finished in the top 25. This was during the time when Vandy was good under James Franklin. You had Bobby Petrino at Arkansas and they were on the schedule, etc.

EDIT:

This was the season in question:

Florida went 11-2 and Finished 9th
Georgia went 12-2 and Finished 5th
Miss State went 8-5
Alabama was Alabama and went 13-1 and won the title
South Carolina was 11-2 and finished 8th
Missouri was 5-7
Vandy was 9-4 and finished 23rd (James Franklin)
Kentucky went 2-10 and we won that one so go figure

 

[DaddyChad]

The key stat behind Dooley was that the SEC was very strong when he coached. There was one season where all but 2 of the SEC opponents he played finished in the top 25. This was during the time when Vandy was good under James Franklin. You had Bobby Petrino at Arkansas and they were on the schedule, etc.

EDIT:

This was the season in question:

Florida went 11-2 and Finished 9th
Georgia went 12-2 and Finished 5th
Miss State went 8-5
Alabama was Alabama and went 13-1 and won the title
South Carolina was 11-2 and finished 8th
Missouri was 5-7
Vandy was 9-4 and finished 23rd (James Franklin)
Kentucky went 2-10 and we won that one so go figure

Pretty much. The other huge issue with Dooley is he was the worst recruiter in the past couple of decades.

 

[salutethehill]

Idk I know he stood on the sidelines while his team won a title but Larry Coker was given the keys to the kingdom and he drove it straight into the ground.

 

[gohogs14]

The worst part about that WKU loss was that the QB for Western Kentucky was a former Arkansas QB, Ty Storey.

It would be like if Brian Maurer came back to Knoxville and beat Tennessee 45-19. Pretty much the nail in the coffin.

 

[Dirtyhairies]

Chad Morris

Sad Chadd

 

[LouderVol]

The worst part about that WKU loss was that the QB for Western Kentucky was a former Arkansas QB, Ty Storey.

It would be like if Brian Maurer came back to Knoxville and beat Tennessee 45-19. Pretty much the nail in the coffin.

I remember that now. just came back and outplayed his old team.

 

[LouderVol]

wasn't it Dooley who lost to Kentucky playing a WR at QB in his first college start?

IIRC that was also our first loss to Kentucky in 20 something years.