re: Haters Said UT Didn't Have A Chance In Hell.......

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Link then please. I do not mind being wrong. I am sure Dooley being in the hot seat all season may have worried Hurd a bit, but Hurd grew up a UT fan and once UT got a solid HC he was going to UT especially UT was selling him on RB. The reason he dropped UA before Dooley was fired because UA was recruiting him as an athlete.

Kelly's parents would of had him at UT no matter what.

Again though link.

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You're wrong. Dooley shutout UT's lettermen, insulted HS coaches all over the state and N. GA and to the point where they went so far as to voice their complaints and utterly unload on him in the press after he left (he didn't bother recruiting the tri-state area), and treated people like crap. The fact that he also sucked meant no one would push their kid there, even Dillon Bates' father Bill Bates wouldn't have pushed Dillon to UT had Dooley still been there.

Todd Kelly Jr.:

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He also had scholarship offers from Florida State, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, Ohio State, Southern California, Clemson and others, but the arrival of Butch Jones and his staff to Tennessee, Kelly said, made a "huge difference" in his recruitment.

"If he wasn't here," he said. "I probably wouldn't be a commit. I wasn't a big fan of Coach [Derek] Dooley. I was looking to go elsewhere. I was really thinking about going to Alabama. The Tennessee fans probably don't want to hear that, but I'm a Vol, 100 percent."

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Hurd:

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“I really wanted to go to UT,” Hurd told The Tennessean. “Last year, they weren’t in such a good position for me to go there, but with Coach Jones and the new staff, I think it’s the best place for me to go.”

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Hurd had also said he didn't have a good relationship with Dooley and his staff.