Send the man out with respect.

#27
#27
I have watched TN games coached by Bill Battle, John Majors, Phil Fulmer, Lane Kiffen and Derek Dooley.

By far the worst job of all was this abomination that Dooley put together. I like the man as an individual, but he sucked worse than any coach we've ever had in the last 75 years.
 
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Wow we really are a classy group. I admit the guy wasn't the top tier SEC coach but he gave his heart to this team. Now let him move on with dignity. I'm sure he threw all the balls and caught every catch, or was the guy sulking on the sideline after he threw an INT.. but it's over and he's gone. If anything I remember how great lane kiffin was supposed to be and the mess he left. HOPEFULLY this time we take the time and select a good coach based on skill and not the good ole boy network or some NFL commentator that basically got a SB ring with the team the guy before him left behind. Take a lesson from Texas A&M... there are tons of good coaches out there we just missed out trying to be loyal and cheap!
 
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99gator said:
tennessee has not become better with him

they won 3 sec games his 1st year

they have won 1 sec game in the last 2 years

where does the better come into play?

some of you better come to grips with this because, whether tennessee makes a good hire or not, the beatings will continue for awhile
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Thats totally false, if we can get a big hire I have full confidence he will have a 7-9 win season next year with THIS TEAM. There is a lot of talent that just isn't used right.
 
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99gator said:
tennessee has not become better with him

they won 3 sec games his 1st year

they have won 1 sec game in the last 2 years

where does the better come into play?

some of you better come to grips with this because, whether tennessee makes a good hire or not, the beatings will continue for awhile
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Speaking of beatings I would like very much to beat your @$$ to a pulp , Gator sucking troll. :aggressive:: moon2::::pukeb: :crap2:
 
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VFL 24/7 said:
Then why would we hire a guy like him in the first place? Because all the guys we wanted declined our offer, a prime example is Muschamp and look what he is doing at UF.
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The real truth is that nobody else we asked would take the job in the second week of January. UT could have chosen to wait to hire a coach during the hiring period the next year and ride it out with an interim for a year like Ohio State did. Look how that worked out for them. Look how hiring Dooley worked out for us. Don't paint Dooley as some brave knight in shining armor just because Mike Hamilton made a terrible decision to take the first person that would say yes to him 2 weeks before signing day. Anybody would have said yes to a 1000% pay increase.
 
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I am afraid the Vol fans have become so jaded or their so young and immature they don't know how to send him out with class. Speaking generally here of course!
 
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tennrich1 said:
I am afraid the Vol fans have become so jaded or their so young and immature they don't know how to send him out with class. Speaking generally here of course!
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Are you suggesting that it's not rational to expect a coach to compete in the SEC (with 5 teams in the top 10) within three years after replacing a hall of fame coach with a disgraced fired unknown one and out coach.

No, this mess is all Dooley's fault.
 
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The word of importance on this board is "IF". IF we had done this & IF we had done that. Seems to me UT was inbetween a rock and a hard place when they hired Dooley. This place blew up all over the place cause of what Kiffy did to us by leaving in the middle of the night 3 weeks before NSD. To save the recruits we had in place & to stabilize the football program Dooley was hired at a hard & difficult time. "IF"we had waited..."IF"we had fired Hammy first...Blah Blah Blah. Like OP said send the man out with "some respect" cause you would won't the same done to you. After last nights game, I'm glad he got the boot...just have some class about yourself.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
The real truth is that nobody else we asked would take the job in the second week of January. UT could have chosen to wait to hire a coach during the hiring period the next year and ride it out with an interim for a year like Ohio State did. Look how that worked out for them. Look how hiring Dooley worked out for us. Don't paint Dooley as some brave knight in shining armor just because Mike Hamilton made a terrible decision to take the first person that would say yes to him 2 weeks before signing day. Anybody would have said yes to a 1000% pay increase.
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Ill do as I please Bobby.
 
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1allvol said:
Not one Vol fan is happy about the way this season has gone. You can talk about "he gets 5 million..." And I agree he is not in the financial bind most of us would be in if we lost our job, but he invested a lot into the program, and he tried to do things the right way and it is a better program outside of wins and losses than it was when he got here, and for that we at least owe him some gratitude, at the very least we owe him some respect. Some of the things being said by some of our fans is rude, ridiculous and embarrassing. We need to show some class. IMO.
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What would be classy is if he refuses the 5 million. Use it for scholarships for the needy at the University. What say you to that?
 
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tennrich1 said:
or their so young and immature they don't know how to send him out with class. Speaking generally here of course!
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their so young???

You mean "they are" or the contraction "they're" don't you?

Speaking generally here of course.
 
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I concur with the original poster. Based on Dave Hart's comments, he does as well. No matter how measured or carefully selected his remarks may have been, he stated essentially that the program is stronger, in terms of overall talent and depth, than the situation Dooley inherited. And, quite frankly, he "wasn't given a very long stick to get the job done." At the same time, he conceded that this is a results-driven profession, particularly in the Southeastern Conference, and the results, in terms of onfield performance, dictated the decision to terminate Dooley.

Personally, I am not so vain as to think that our collective contributions to this forum would significantly impact the interest level of prospective coaching candidates. However, one could erroneously conclude, based on the acrimony expressed in dialogue on this board, that the Big Orange Nation is a pit of vipers that canibalistically consumes its own. Hart hinted at this in the most diplomatic terms when he stated that "we are blessed to have such a passionate fanbase. That passion, of course, assumes many forms."

I can understand the venom that has permeated so much of the recent dialogue here . . . if it was directed at our SEC adversaries. We need to conduct ourselves, particularly in communication with each other, with the class and dignity of the champions we have so often been. After all, as my brother has so often said, God only made 108,000 perfect people; the rest he made Gator, 'Bama, Georgia and, perhaps, most contemptible of all, Vanderbilt fans.
 
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I agree he's done a lot for UT and for those things he does deserve some respect.

1. He salvaged a recruiting class when Kiffin was hell bent on either destruction of our class or taking them with him to USC.

2. He got the USC sh!t out of the office and reestablished our identity and even became entranced by it.

3. Decent recruiting classes every year and depth finally ready to go.

4. Has a positive impact on his players beyond football.

5. Has left us as the best job available rather than the worst as it was when he signed on.
 
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