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orangepeopleeater

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I know in the morning we will start hearing the Dooley supporters come out saying that there is no way Tennessee can fire him. The excuses will range from

"If you fire Dooley now the program will take a hit and may not recover"

"The university can not fire Dooley. They do not have the funds to cover his buyout"

"If you fire Dooley it will kill our recruiting class. We will be a top 10 class"

The truth is the program has already taken a hit. If this keeps up, the program can not afford to keep him. It happened during the end of the Fulmer era and it will happen again. The recruits are not blind. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see a sinking ship. Especially if it's plastered on news columns, radio, and tv.
 
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I think coach Dooley is a smart, nice, good person. He just is not capable (at this time) of winning in the SEC. If he continues to coach somewhere, he will be succesful at some point. Unfortunately it won't be here.
 
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i dont know why anyone is worried about it now........recent poll shows 95% in favor of firing (i voted to fire by the way)
he is obviously gone........just waiting on the right time to announce i guess.
 
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volomon said:
I think coach Dooley is a smart, nice, good person. He just is not capable (at this time) of winning in the SEC. If he continues to coach somewhere, he will be succesful at some point. Unfortunately it won't be here.
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I used to think that. Not so much anymore. Not for me to judge though
 
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If we win the next 2 games Dooley will be 17-20 just like he was at LaTech...you get what you pay for.
 
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All of these people who claim that Derek Dooley is a nice guy, do you know him? How much time have you spent with him? Or do you just believe that the way people act in front of cameras is the same way they act all the time?

Not saying he's not nice, but I don't know him personally, so I can't say. But I read it so much on here, I have to assume that alot of you guys spend a good amount of time with him.
 
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IDT Dooley will be a successful coach at a major program. He doesn't seem to have much natural coaching ability, and he certainly hasn't been a quick study. He has bad instincts, he makes poor decisions, he can't fix problems or make speedy adjustments and he has been unable to develop talent. With time and effort, he might get by at a smaller program, but IDT he's HC material in the bigtime.
 
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There is so much negative pub going on right now around him that we have little chance of signing a good class if he stays. My guess is the competition starts picking off the best we already have committed.
 
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DD just needs to go to a mid major and coach there get out of the big schools and see if he can recover from his horrendous coaching career before there is nothing left and noone hires him to coach anywhere and then he is stuck as an assistant somewhere or even an AD at a small school....
 
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I think he may be done as a football coach after this. Maybe on his own volition (no pun intended)
 
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Nice or not doesn't matter. Most successful HC's aren't rah rah guys. They are task masters that most everyone would hate to be around. Kinda of like that old English teacher we all had in school that nobody liked yet actually made you learn something. You don't appreciate them until later on. Hope he does well down the road but the Dooley experiment is over.
 
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Man I thought if by some miracle we won out and went 7-5 you would have to carefully consider retaining Dooley depending on the bowl game. No way, no chance now. Got to go. We were lucky to beat Troy after they came back from being down. Mizzou came back from two touchdowns down and beat us today. It's by shear freakin' luck we have four wins. Gotta send him packing...
 
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orangepeopleeater said:
I know in the morning we will start hearing the Dooley supporters come out saying that there is no way Tennessee can fire him. The excuses will range from

"If you fire Dooley now the program will take a hit and may not recover"

"The university can not fire Dooley. They do not have the funds to cover his buyout"

"If you fire Dooley it will kill our recruiting class. We will be a top 10 class"

The truth is the program has already taken a hit. If this keeps up, the program can not afford to keep him. It happened during the end of the Fulmer era and it will happen again. The recruits are not blind. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see a sinking ship. Especially if it's plastered on news columns, radio, and tv.
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FYI-Doolands don't care about recruiting :hi:
 
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orangepeopleeater said:
I know in the morning we will start hearing the Dooley supporters come out saying that there is no way Tennessee can fire him. The excuses will range from

"If you fire Dooley now the program will take a hit and may not recover"

"The university can not fire Dooley. They do not have the funds to cover his buyout"

"If you fire Dooley it will kill our recruiting class. We will be a top 10 class"

The truth is the program has already taken a hit. If this keeps up, the program can not afford to keep him. It happened during the end of the Fulmer era and it will happen again. The recruits are not blind. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see a sinking ship. Especially if it's plastered on news columns, radio, and tv.
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Like 0-6 in the SEC isn't a hit. :lolabove:

Like UT doesn't have donors lining up to take care of the buyout. :lolabove:

Like recruiting isn't taking a dive already. :lolabove:

News flash, we're taking a hit now, we have donors who want to buy Dooley out, and recruiting is taking a major dive. Those are indisputable facts at this point.
 
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Obama was reelected and Dooley has to be cut because of Obamacare....anything, something. Use any reason or excuse. Just PLEASE get the man out of here.
 
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1. garry petterson
2. charlie strong
3. gus mulzan .....good coach no big time wins but have a good feeling bout him
4. kirby smart project/ could be like dooley experiment ..... i say no
5. patino if all wr's and qbs come back he would have a perfect fit for his high octan O
6.david cutcliff/or good ole phil .... look at what synder has done at k state i think fulmer would be able to turn ship around if he were to keep channey and get chavis keep graham and pittman then goo get tee martin keep dooley on for vfl program hahaha
 
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orangepeopleeater said:
I know in the morning we will start hearing the Dooley supporters come out saying that there is no way Tennessee can fire him. The excuses will range from

"If you fire Dooley now the program will take a hit and may not recover"

"The university can not fire Dooley. They do not have the funds to cover his buyout"

"If you fire Dooley it will kill our recruiting class. We will be a top 10 class"

The truth is the program has already taken a hit. If this keeps up, the program can not afford to keep him. It happened during the end of the Fulmer era and it will happen again. The recruits are not blind. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see a sinking ship. Especially if it's plastered on news columns, radio, and tv.
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Really...what good is a top 10 class when 7 of the ones ahead are SEC teams...INCLUDING VANDY?
 
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Our coach is an idiot. Our players are slow. Our uniforms are outdated and ugly. Our AD is clueless. Everything that could go wrong is going wrong. I always say it's great to be a Tennessee Vol, not anymore, it sucks.

Tennessee needs an overhaul. Tear it all up and rebuild it. Change is good.
 
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If Dooley stays:

This coaching staff isn't going to put a top 30 recruiting class on the table if they are retained.

If Bray, Hunter, Patterson, James have any sense, they are looking to jump to the NFL. Throw in Rivera and Thomas graduating, and a good core group of the offense is gone.

How doe we look with a new QB, 1st year starting WR's, and replacing a 2/5 of the O line?

The defense has somehow managed to regress from the first of this season to right now.

Sal has managed to turn a top 30 defense under Wilcox into a historically bad defense despite getting an influx of better players in Lathers, McCullers, Sentimore and additional depth. It's a laughing stock and there is no end in sight.

He's had three years to replace Palardy and hasn't been able to do it. The only reason the kickoff return team looks good in the stats is that they have had more opportunities than most other SEC teams. The only reason Palardy's numbers look serviceable is because they hadn't tried a FG over 40 yards until today and that was the worst miss I have ever seen.

The schedule gets much more difficult. Road games against Oregon, UF, and Bama off the top of my head.


I'll say it again, anyone who thinks Dooley should stick another year for whatever reason is either a fool or a liar.

And spare me the financial analysis, they will lose a minimum 5000,000(12,5000 empty seats every Saturday at 40 bucks a seat and that is conservative) per home game in lost ticket revenue along with who knows how much in donations to buy those overpriced season tickets.
 
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Well we know the history here. Dooley didn't walk into the best situation at TN when he arrived. TN was already in a bad place. But since he has been coach this program has been knocked back. It isn't the program it once was. It is a toss up between KY and TN as the worst program in the SEC. Tennessee used to be an all time top ten winning program, but not any longer. So they fire Dooley...I have no reason to think the university really cares about the football program anymore. I am not really sure they understand the economics in play here and how much money it has cost the university to put this dismal product on the field. But it isn't like that because of the players. There are four games that were lost this year and not because of the players. I hope the players on the team can take away something positive from their time at Tennessee. I know I was glad to see them play for UT.
 
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