re: Dooley's conference titles

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No matter how you slice it we have never been an elite program. 1980-83 is as close as we ever came record wise but elite programs are not one man shows.....

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Yeah, now that I don't view Dooley with the kid glasses that grew up in the 80's worshiping him he was a good, not great coach.

I've always said that he didn't have to coach in the internet message board/ESPN era. He was on a hot seat going into '80. Look at the '79 season. Joker started 0-3 with a season opening loss to WAKE FREAKING FOREST. If Herschel doesn't show up he is toast. And we would probably view him historically as slightly better than Wally Butts. For the entire decade of the 70's he was 75-38-1 with 1 SEC championship and that 3 year period between the '76 and '80 teams he was 20-13. That's not elite.

So right now for the last decade the Richter has 1 SEC championship and is 74-40, not counting this season as it's not complete. Once again not elite.