Worst hire in college football history

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WriterVol said:
There's a difference between expecting a different outcome and hoping for a different outcome. The hire was made, and not a single person on this board had any say in it.

People look for bright spots in dark situations. I don't know why that's so shameful these days.
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It was shameful because of the way many on here defended Dooley against all reason and logic and insulted anyone who actually used any critical standards to evaluate him.

It was shameful because many preferred to ignore and denigrate UT football history (I heard so many "well we can't expect to compete with the Florida and Alabamas anyway" or "no one else would possibly consider coaching us", etc. during Dooley's tenure) to prop up a coach they were inexplicably infatuated with (anyone else remember the guy who went off about how he hoped Dooley would come back with a new team and beat us?).

It was shameful because the general fan complacency surrounding the hire and the lack of standards for his first season (where people were happy enough that he almost won a couple of games that mattered), led to the AD awarding him a contract extension and a huge buyout that will hamper the budget for years to come.
 
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TNRazor said:
I felt like I was gonna throw up when I heard who the hire was. I still don't know how you hire a coach who had never been a coordinator and had a losing record as a head coach. It was the worst hire in UT history in an sport.
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Todd Raleigh just called. He said, "WTF!".
 
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rlstone11 said:
Cuts offenses are not boring. He may end up in the ACC championship game with Duke. Imagine that.:ermm:
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If we could of gotten Cut & Chief back as DC. I bet we would have been great. Everyone should see that when Fulmer had both of them we were great teams, but when Cut left we became a average team with Sanders and Clawson. CPF main problem was not getting the correct OC hire.
Coach Cut may have DUKE in the ACC Championship game. Yes DUKE. You can't tell me he wouldn't have been better than Doofus!
 
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beneVOLence said:
If we could of gotten Cut & Chief back as DC. I bet we would have been great. Everyone should see that when Fulmer had both of them we were great teams, but when Cut left we became a average team with Sanders and Clawson. CPF main problem was not getting the correct OC hire.
Coach Cut may have DUKE in the ACC Championship game. Yes DUKE. You can't tell me he wouldn't have been better than Doofus!
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Yep. I was calling for Cut. Wasnt going to happen b/c of Hamilton. He wanted to purge all things Fulmer and do it "his way". Hamilton was always the problem. Doofus couldnt coach a lick but who could blame him for taking the money? He is set for life now.
 
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I ain't mad at Dooley.

Wish we didn't have to even look at crap like this.

He wasn't what UT needed, but its not like he didn't try. Had he not tried, I'd be mad.

If the current AD wanted to hire me for 3 million a year I'd take the job too. I know im not qualified but that wouldnt stop me from taking the job.
 
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oregonvol said:
Yep. Why anyone expected differently with his resume when hired, I don't know. But alot of you did, that's for sure. Why is it that after the introductory press conference, 90% of volnations' ability to think critically about a coach goes out the window?

Also, Dan Hawkins is far too low on that list.
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90% of volnation can't think critically anyway.
 
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KingtUT said:
I ain't mad at Dooley.

Wish we didn't have to even look at crap like this.

He wasn't what UT needed, but its not like he didn't try. Had he not tried, I'd be mad.

If the current AD wanted to hire me for 3 million a year I'd take the job too. I know im not qualified but that wouldnt stop me from taking the job.
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He pretty much didn't try. Ask any high school football coach in TN.
 
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Dooley was bad, but nowhere near #1 out of this group. Ron Zook, John Blake, Mike DuBose, Charlie Weis, Dan Hawkins, Ty Willingham, and Paul Hackett were all worse. Many of those guys inherited great situations and managed to turn things south very quickly.

On paper, Ron Zook's win-lose record is better than Dooley's, but consider how much talent Ron Zook had! He easily had amongst the top 3 most talented squads in all of college football and still managed to go 8-5, 8-5, and 7-5 in his three years. The SEC was also significantly easier back then than it has been the past several years.

Urban Meyer followed Zook and went 9-3 in Year 1 and 13-1 in Year 2, mostly with Ron Zook's recruits. It wasn't a huge surprise, because everyone knew Meyer was sitting on a goldmine that Zook could never use properly.

If Dooley had coached Zook's Florida teams, I think he would've been 8-4 or 9-3 at least. Maybe even 10-2. It's hard not to win with all that talent. It's likely that Dooley would've been good (but not great) for 2-3 more years, and then would've slowly deteriorated. But Zook was so terrible, he managed to take some of the greatest talent assembled in college football and would still lose 5 games every season.

Dooley was a poor coach, but let's be honest: he inherited a bad situation. His biggest sin was not turning it around, and in fact, making it slightly worse.
 
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GAVol said:
Gerry Faust should be numbers 1-10. It was insane to hand a program like Notre Dame to a high school coach.
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I agree with you 100%.
Hands down, ND hiring a High School coach beats em all.
 
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Interesting that ND has 4 of the 20.

And don't they have the highest total of national championships?
 
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I hope the writer doesn't have a known address...betcha oskie and TGVol are loading up at the hardware store :)
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tm3 said:
Interesting that ND has 4 of the 20.

And don't they have the highest total of national championships?
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And that list didn't even include Bob Davie who inherited a much better team from Holtz than what he left behind for Willingham....This must have been an oversight Davie was much worse.
 
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