Quote by Coach Dooley on Recruiting

#227
#227
g8terh8ter_eric said:
How do you know we will suck for 4 years?? Your putting a lot of unneeded pressure on a man before he starts even coaching his first game here, trying to predict the future. There are just too many Miss Cleo's here nowadays.
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Sounds like the exact opposite argument we heard when Bama hired Nick Saban. "Oh, there's no way to know for sure that he'll be successful."
 
#232
#232
hatvol96 said:
How is that predicting the future? If a five star restaurant hires a guy who failed managing a Wendy's, does it take any great soothsaying powers to know that's going to be a disaster?
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you can't predict the future, no matter how you spin it. we shall see what he does in a couple of years.
 
#233
#233
tvolsfan said:
As opposed to having the next guy just get off to an earlier start?
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OMG.

Ok, check this out, no matter who the coach is, when you get a new coach, high profile or not, you still have to gain the trust of these HS kids. Now, since you have only been the coach of a program for let's say 4 months, and you are going after guys that other schools have been going after for let's say 3 years, then how far behind are you?? Over 2 years!! That's how it works, you don't magically hire someone and sprinkle some pixie dust on some recruits and they come to you because your some great coach. It takes time, trust, and results each year to convince these kids, and when you have ZERO of everything I just mentioned, you stay behind the wall until you do.
 
#234
#234
Lord Vader said:
besides him signing the #9 class in the country in 2 weeks and hiring a solid staff? ok, then.
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He did okay, but he wasn't near where Kiffin would have been. Either way, stealing a bunch of players from bad teams and signing a good prospect the previous guys had worked on doesn't change the fact that we brought in a coach with mediocre WAC success to challenge two coaches who could end up being considered as two of the all time greats.
 
#238
#238
g8terh8ter_eric said:
OMG.

Ok, check this out, no matter who the coach is, when you get a new coach, high profile or not, you still have to gain the trust of these HS kids. Now, since you have only been the coach of a program for let's say 4 months, and you are going after guys that other schools have been going after for let's say 3 years, then how far behind are you?? Over 2 years!! That's how it works, you don't magically hire someone and sprinkle some pixie dust on some recruits and they come to you because your some great coach. It takes time, trust, and results each year to convince these kids, and when you have ZERO of everything I just mentioned, you stay behind the wall until you do.
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It does take time. It just won't take a good coach 4 years to get people to realize he's good.
 
#239
#239
g8terh8ter_eric said:
And you have NO body of work here at UT to say he will or won't either. Your ready to hire the next guy, step back and let's see if this guy can do what he says he wants to do.
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Then we should just pick coaches out of a hat. Since what they've done prior to coming to UT is irrelevant, it's all one big crapshoot. We could save a whole bunch of money. I'm sure the guy at Catawba would love to get a shot here.
 
#244
#244
g8terh8ter_eric said:
OMG.

Ok, check this out, no matter who the coach is, when you get a new coach, high profile or not, you still have to gain the trust of these HS kids. Now, since you have only been the coach of a program for let's say 4 months, and you are going after guys that other schools have been going after for let's say 3 years, then how far behind are you?? Over 2 years!! That's how it works, you don't magically hire someone and sprinkle some pixie dust on some recruits and they come to you because your some great coach. It takes time, trust, and results each year to convince these kids, and when you have ZERO of everything I just mentioned, you stay behind the wall until you do.
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Yeah, just look how long it took Saban to get that "trust" at Alabama. I wonder when their recruiting will recover.
 
#247
#247
tvolsfan said:
I'm not faulting him for that, but I'm not going to pretend it makes the hire better.
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For all the people that bish and moan about the Dooley hire can thank Kiffin for leaving when he did. I don't fault him for leaving, but he effed us over either way.
 
#249
#249
This is usually the time when someone asks Hat what he does for a living...

In regards to Dooley, I would recommend that everybody save their energy defending him. Nothing you type is going to change one opinion on this board right now. He is going to lose about a third of the fanbase this year regardless of what happens. Those are the cats that expect the Vols to win 9 games every year and start talking about miracles in August.
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#250
#250
As much as people here talk Dooley up, I have little doubt that we'd rejoice him being hired by Bama or Florida.
 
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