What was the moment?

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I know alot of you all who are dyed in the wool big orange fans who bleed orange and didn't like the Dooley hire from the get go are pleased. I'm not one of them. After the Kiffin fiasco, I thought UT needed a name and Derek Dooley came with his father's name recognition. He has recruited above average and seemed to be a promising coach. Question: What was the defining moment for all of you all who believed in the process of him developing into a good coach that made you want him fired? For me, it was having the ball on your own 40 yd line with 40 seconds left in the Missouri game and two timeouts and let the clock run out. That was just plain quitting!! Not even trying!! If I was on that team, I'm looking elsewhere. End of Story. Add in the worst stretch of football since 1909-11 and losing to a so so Vandy team by a large margin spelled the end.
:whistling: Go Big O!!
 
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For me, it was the Akron game this year. When I saw us busting on defense against Akron, I had a pretty good idea that we were going to lose some games we shouldn't.
 
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When the team quit in Lex last year...I knew they would eventually quit this year too.
 
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When it got to the point that every time we had a chance to win a big game, I knew something would happen and we wouldn't. Every time.
 
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I realized it was not going to work after the Mississippi State game. I'm still not sure it means he is a bad coach, it just means everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong and he simply couldnt overcome it in time...
 
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I was pretty pissed after the Akron game, and I felt like Florida was going to eat our lunch (and dinner, and the next day's breakfast). I tried to not defend DD, but give him benefit of the doubt, even after he went for the FG against Bama vs. going for a TD.

But, my graciousness fell through at then end of regulation of the Mizzou game. Usually I'm a pretty patient person, but that's what did it for me and finally made me jump ship.
 
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LSU 2010: He didn't get it done!
Georgia 2011: serious doubts he can get it done.
Kentucky 2011: He can't get it done.
Florida 2012: He is done.
 
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Mississippi State game. I drove to the game. I had made up my mind earlier that week that the game was going to be my cross-roads as a fan in support of him staying. I thought that was the defining moment of our year. I felt if we won down there we would have momentum for the remainder of the year. I felt if we lost the game it would set a tone of just more negative things to come. I tried to go into that game pretty neutral although I was still in support of Dooley. I will say that I didn't give up as a fan in support of the team and program in general, though. You ask for the moment and that was my moment!!
 
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For me, it was the Florida game. Same old ****. Play them tough for one half, then fall apart. No improvement from Tyler Bray, in tough games, he just seems to quit. He really needs a great QB coach to get a grip on him. But the way we allowed one of the worst offenses in the SEC just run through us........I just wanted to vomit.

It was all over for me, at that point.
 
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The Florida game.

Thats when I lost confidence in him to be a success here, but I didn't necessairly want him fired before the season was over. After Miss State I wanted them to fire him, name an interim, and get a head start on a new coach.
 
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I had been waivering for a while, but the final ounce of support that I had left in me diasapeared at the end of regulation against Mizzou.
 
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Lexvol said:
When the team quit in Lex last year...I knew they would eventually quit this year too.
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Yep, that's when I knew Dooley was a crap coach and he STFU for a couple of months after that game instead of talking to the fan base.
I wish him well and i wish it had worked out, but he really, really sucks as a head coach.
 
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GAVol said:
For me, it was the Akron game this year. When I saw us busting on defense against Akron, I had a pretty good idea that we were going to lose some games we shouldn't.
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Why didn't he open his eyes to the total cluster mess of the defense after the UF game?

I never thought he was really that stupid. When I saw the contract for Sunseri I never thought Hart was that stupid either.

It DD a long time to come over to the defense.

I am still not convinced he not promised/guaranteed another year.

The Sunseri hire smelled from the get go.

I really think DD was building for championships and had a plan that was squashed.
 
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I saw things last year that made me have doubts.. Vandy game last year was a badly managed game..

This year it was Miss St.. I knew after we dropped that one they'd most likely not win a game in October.. After the Missouri game that was pretty much the final nail in this season.. Vandy just got the leftovers..
 
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During the second half of the Florida game. I knew they'd have a losing season and I was fairly certain Dooley was done. The Missouri game, that one really cemented my thoughts even more so. Pathetic coaching.
 
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First half of Miss St. game. Had two weeks to prepare and the defense came out looking totally confused. Thought there would have been some fixes in place by that time. If Dooley had known how to repair the defense (and realized what a disaster Sunseri was), he would have intervened by that game. Well...
 
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I knew it would be OTJT the second his name was announced and everybody had to Google it. I knew it wasn't going to work out after the UK debacle last year. Still, I hoped he could do enough for us to keep him another year for stability. After UF, I knew it was all over but the firing. A horrible hire, an insane buyout and three wretched years have divided the fanbase and taken the program to unprecedented lows.

I still can't believe he couldn't ride the raw talent of this team to a 7-5 season. Hart practically said he would have kept Dooley if he'd just beaten Vandy and UK to go 6-6. How you can't get there with five gimmes and the draftable talent we have is just unfathomable.
 
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I wasn't thrilled with the Dooley hire to begin with, but I knew he wouldn't be coaching after 2012 following the State game. The only point where I really wanted them to straight up fire him was after the Mizzou debacle. That was absolutely inexcusable.


I like Derek Dooley, but he's just not the coach for Tennessee.
 
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