Naz Oliver...

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volquest86

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Why hasn't he played hardly any until today??? Given all our secondary struggles and injuries we had why not play him??? He played actually well today from what I saw.
 
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Dooley was a control freak. If the head coach didnt like you for whatever reason.. You didn't play.
For example, look at how Channing fugate lit up the FB position his freshman year then was reverted to being a special teams guy.

... I believe all coaches do this but I was glad to see the positive attitude today from the team and Chaney. Hope he keeps his job
 
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volquest86 said:
Why hasn't he played hardly any until today??? Given all our secondary struggles and injuries we had why not play him??? He played actually well today from what I saw.
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I was wondering the same thing when I saw him make that play. I know he's struggled with injuries in other years, but I was excited when Kiffin and crew signed him.

I think at the very least he had good speed we could've used to run down the gajillion long plays we gave up this year.
 
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Dooley had a lot of good player sitting on the bench who would provide good depth. He ran off a lot of good players for that reason like the Jacob guy who got a scholly I don't think he deserved it as much as Jaron Toney. I think our biggest problem was.coaching cause for us to still not have a solid two deep after three seasons was horrible
 
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I think we are going to find out a lot next year, about how much talent was really on this team. Naz has one more year.
Kudos to Chaney for getting all the seniors involved on the offensive side. Within the first couple of series, Bartholomew, Rodgers, and Rivera had catches.
 
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zidanefan said:
I was wondering the same thing when I saw him make that play. I know he's struggled with injuries in other years, but I was excited when Kiffin and crew signed him.

I think at the very least he had good speed we could've used to run down the gajillion long plays we gave up this year.
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I believe he had medical redshirt last yr but was healthy this yr
 
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volquest86 said:
Why hasn't he played hardly any until today??? Given all our secondary struggles and injuries we had why not play him??? He played actually well today from what I saw.
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Whatever Dooley's reason was for not playing him was dumb. With our secondary as bad as it was DD should've put his ego aside & played him.
 
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#27VFL said:
Dooley was a control freak. If the head coach didnt like you for whatever reason.. You didn't play.
For example, look at how Channing fugate lit up the FB position his freshman year then was reverted to being a special teams guy.

... I believe all coaches do this but I was glad to see the positive attitude today from the team and Chaney. Hope he keeps his job
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The Fugate move was like the second thing that made me suspicious of Dooley..first being having to google him.
 
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Naz tweeted this Nov. 19:

With changes in the program, I'm happy to finally be getting the opportunity I deserve to show what type of player I am this weekend#blessed
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Sounds like DD wasn't willing to give him a chance.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
The Fugate move was like the second thing that made me suspicious of Dooley..first being having to google him.
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And Greg King ... was finally getting over ailments and was making some plays this summer at LB, then when TE got thin, they moved him there and he was never heard from again. ???
 
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UTProf said:
Naz tweeted this Nov. 19:



Sounds like DD wasn't willing to give him a chance.
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I saw that. Makes me wonder the reason DD wouldn't play him and Chaney would. I'd hate to think Naz is better than the guys that actually played but DD was too stubborn to play him.
 
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Sandman 423 said:
because our secondary looked so much better with him today?:crazy:
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Oliver actually tackled and kept his man decently covered all game. I don't think people are saying he would have saved this D but who knows if one of the many crucial big plays our D had let up would have happened had he been in there.
 
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Neyland2nd2none said:
I saw that. Makes me wonder the reason DD wouldn't play him and Chaney would. I'd hate to think Naz is better than the guys that actually played but DD was too stubborn to play him.
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It would be pretty bad if DD was too stubborn to play him over a personality conflict or something silly like that and really show he wasn't up to the task of being HC.

I've often wondered if Dooley's youth and even younger looks didn't have something to do with his hardline stances/overcompensation by controlling everything. When I started out at UT, I taught kids who looked my age - most were within my age range or even older than me - and I couldn't take the same approach as an older professor. I knew that to be taken seriously acting like an old hard@ss wouldn't help me. So I acted my age and didn't try to hide my youth or even my inexperience while earning their respect with my knowledge.

I also saw other young profs, lecturers, and GTAs take the opposite approach and fail miserably. It's a great way to breed resentment to act like something you're not.
 
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surprised DD was involved in not playing him since he spent zero time on the defensive side of the ball the first 7 or so games of the season.
 
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People need to wake up to just what a doofus that Dools was.

They did it to Anthony Anderson last season. Three years of many productive snaps at D-back and they move him to 3rd string WR for his senior season. Poor Fugate has been jerked around as much as any. There was your starting FB/H-Back for next season moved to 3rd string LB. Frickin stupid. Naz and Jaron available - do they play? Jaron half way through the season at dime before he beats Gordon out of nickel; after having been a walk-on RB for his first two seasons. Naz at D-back and hurt. Recovers and is moved to 4th string WR last season. Bring him back to D-back and sit him while the CBs getting scorched all season. Teague goes from a good slot WR as a freshman to a bad CB as a soph - where he stays and plays bad the rest of his games. No telling how good he would have been on O with all the things he could do like Reggie Cobb. Former option QB in high school. There were more - Hood, Jacques Smith, Z-Ro, etc. etc.

Posters should learn the game before making comments about how good or bad coaches are if they want to be taken seriously. It starts with player analysis and development. Dools was bad at it and surrounded himself with coaches that were equally bad or of whom he refused to listen. The result is we get a new head coach and staff after 3 years of the worst football in UT history.
 
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Vols4us said:
People need to wake up to just what a doofus that Dools was.

They did it to Anthony Anderson last season. Three years of many productive snaps at D-back and they move him to 3rd string WR for his senior season. Poor Fugate has been jerked around as much as any. There was your starting FB/H-Back for next season moved to 3rd string LB. Frickin stupid. Naz and Jaron available - do they play? Jaron half way through the season at dime before he beats Gordon out of nickel; after having been a walk-on RB for his first two seasons. Naz at D-back and hurt. Recovers and is moved to 4th string WR last season. Bring him back to D-back and sit him while the CBs getting scorched all season. Teague goes from a good slot WR as a freshman to a bad CB as a soph - where he stays and plays bad the rest of his games. No telling how good he would have been on O with all the things he could do like Reggie Cobb. Former option QB in high school. There were more - Hood, Jacques Smith, Z-Ro, etc. etc.

Posters should learn the game before making comments about how good or bad coaches are if they want to be taken seriously. It starts with player analysis and development. Dools was bad at it and surrounded himself with coaches that were equally bad or of whom he refused to listen. The result is we get a new head coach and staff after 3 years of the worst football in UT history.
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thanks coach(jk)

actually i agree completely, it was just to easy
 
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