What was the moment?

#26
#26
Duh, Kentucky game last year when the team quit, of course they have quit in a few more as well..
This team will be known as the Imitation Vols!
 
#27
#27
I started giving up on Dooley after the UK game last year, then after the NCST game, I thought well maybe. Then came Akron and after letting them hang around for 3 quarters, I was at my breaking point again.

Finally after two weeks to prepare for Miss St and we came out looking like we did, I was done for good.
 
#28
#28
Tumbleweedvol said:
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!!
Click to expand...

1 Field
2 Teams
1 Play
23 players

LSU Wins
 
#29
#29
Tumbleweedvol said:
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!!
Click to expand...

That is the exact time my son and I said we had had enough. I agree that it showed that it was alright to not take advantage of an opportunity and I think many of the players were disappointed they did no try to score
 
#33
#33
I started to really question him after the UF game. After the Miss St game I knew it would never work.
After the Mizzou game I just wanted to knee him in the face.
 
#35
#35
Tumbleweedvol said:
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!!
Click to expand...

That was exactly when I went back to work and said this guy has got to go
 
#38
#38
UTVOLKeith said:
Why didn't he open his eyes to the total cluster mess of the defense after the UF game?
Click to expand...

Easy to see in hindsight, but at the time I don't think we had any idea just how bad we were on defense. Even in that game, we looked at least slightly competent for 3 quarters.
 
#40
#40
JCSvol said:
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.
Click to expand...

Same here. Week to week my disgust would fade by Friday but then return every Saturday. By the end of regulation in the Mizzou game I had seen enough.
 
#41
#41
MSU game. Two weeks to prepare and we acted like we were lost on both OFF and DEF for two quarters. Then on the 3rd and 7 play after a timeout my 14 year old son asking why a backup safety was man up on their best player, my son a qb himself says that is were I am throwing it. First down, game over, done with Dooley.
 
#42
#42
Tumbleweedvol said:
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!!
Click to expand...


I fail to see how he seemed to be a promising coach.
 
#43
#43
Arkansas game last year when Dooley burned Worley's redshirt. Pure desperation...
 
#44
#44
Definitely the team quitting against Kentucky. Anytime a team quits on their coach, there's a major problem.
 
#46
#46
Well most all posting in this thread are referring to things happening in the 2012 season, but for me it was in the spring of 2011 when in an interview Dooley was asked what his big priority would be for spring training and he said "I have to teach some members of the team a little shower discipline."
 
#47
#47
After we lost to Missouri after having so many chances to win it that's when I was through with Dooley
 
#48
#48
Derek may be the unluckiest coach I have ever seen. His first season he loses the LSU and UNC games then in 2011 and 2012 he draws the 3 best and 2 of the 4 best teams from the west. He may still have a job had he managed to draw Auburn or Ole Miss the last two years. At some point even if you don't believe in luck you quit standing under ladders. I say when we fumbled against Miss State I realized his luck was never going to change.
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top