hatvol96
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Don't kid yourself. If RC, Dickey, and Hamilton are all from the same pool of candidates, RC is still going last every time.
Lucky for you guys, RC will be retiring in 2012 with Raines right there too. On the bright side, no matter who you hire, they can't really do much worse than the current establishment.
I'm a bit surprised by that, to be honest. Dickey improved the football team and won one of the schools claimed national titles, even though I'm not sure how big of a deal a Litkenhous title was.Dickey was always pissed that UT fans embraced Mears more warmly than him when they were both here. That's why he always treated basketball like a second class citizen. He was hellbent to make sure no UT football coach was ever less popular than the basketball coach again.
Hat may have a deep seated hatred for Pearl for all his lying, womanizing ways but he confirms my suspicions that hat knows who is the better coach. I said COACH, not person. I've been snakebit by so many poor hires that I'm at least willing to wait and see how bad or good things turn out. I wouldn't want too, but we made wind up having to turn Pearl loose.I'll take Pearl.
If you were around for the Dickey years you wouldn't be surprised. I despised Dickey for his treatment of our basketball program as much as hat despises Pearl.:frown:I'm a bit surprised by that, to be honest. Dickey improved the football team and won one of the schools claimed national titles, even though I'm not sure how big of a deal a Litkenhous title was.
I'm talking about Dickey's tenure as a football coach. I'm not sure how many on here can remember that, but I would have thought Dickey would have been popular.If you were around for the Dickey years you wouldn't be surprised. I despised Dickey for his treatment of our basketball program as much as hat despises Pearl.:frown:
By all accounts of people who were there, Dickey was immensely respected for reviving the football program. Mears was beloved. Period. There's a big difference.I'm talking about Dickey's tenure as a football coach. I'm not sure how many on here can remember that, but I would have thought Dickey would have been popular.
I understand the difference, I just feel like that even if Pearl didn't have the NCAA issues against him, a football coach that could come in and win a couple conference titles would be praised much more in Knoxville. Just my opinion, though. I could be wrong about that, and the attitudes towards the sports may be different than they were 40+ years ago.By all accounts of people who were there, Dickey was immensely respected for reviving the football program. Mears was beloved. Period. There's a big difference.
Dickey's personality wouldn't allow him to be beloved. He had a major impact on the football and the basketball programs,only in opposite directions. He was a football first man and made it a priority to drive the basketball program into obscurity. Pearl and Hamilton have brought it out of obscurity. I've said for years that if emphasis had been placed on basketball, i.e, facilities updates on TBA, we could be a first class football and basketball school. We were on our way when all this mess came up. Oh well! Wait and see.By all accounts of people who were there, Dickey was immensely respected for reviving the football program. Mears was beloved. Period. There's a big difference.
By all accounts of people who were there, Dickey was immensely respected for reviving the football program. Mears was beloved. Period. There's a big difference.
By all accounts of people who were there, Dickey was immensely respected for reviving the football program. Mears was beloved. Period. There's a big difference.
By all accounts of people who were there, Dickey was immensely respected for reviving the football program. Mears was beloved. Period. There's a big difference.
Pardon my ignorance, but were there/have there been rumblings or accusations that Dickey may have thrown the game? (As best he could try)
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Yeah, why fault him for hiring one of the five worst coaches, inclusive of all sports, in the history of the SEC?Not so fast, my friend. Mears wasn't half the coach that you lead people to believe. He won one SEC championships and tied for two more in an era when only two school in the SEC actually played competetive roundball (UT and Kentucky). The few times he made it to the NCAA tourney his team was bounced out in the first ro or second round.
Hypomanic Ray was the coach when I was at UT, playing in Stokley, running his slowdown offense scoring forty points a game with Jimmy Hahn holding the ball for a minute at a time at the top of the circle, with half of the student body booing.
Conversely, Doug Dickey was the best coach, IMO, post General Neyland to present. He won two SEC championships and national championship in just six years at the helm at a time when B. Bryant,S. Jordan and V. Dooley were competing coaches. Not to mention the paradigm shift of changing from a single wing to the T formation when he arrived. The talent level was every bit as low as when Derek Dooley came in.
I have no argument that the hires of Buzz and O'Neil were terrible, but I have never faulted him for hiring native son Wade Houston, who should have been recruited to play at Tennessee in the first place. Also UT was under pressure from Lamar Alexander to hire Wade Houston.
Not so fast...RC's current contract is up at the end of 2012. He has mentioned it several times but not once has he said he will retire or plans on it. RC is not the problem. Shirley Raines is the problem with athletics and the Ath. Office. They couldnt find their a$$ with their own two hands.