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Posted on 10/9/14 at 8:03 am to Prof
Posted on 10/9/14 at 8:03 am to Prof
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That's fantastic and I bet he absolutely loves it. I know I sure would.
Yeah he does. When they play UK in Commonwealth, we have to get a picture of him standing beside their equipment truck. It's his favorite part.
When UK broke the streak with UT a few years ago, as the game ended and we watched the student pour onto the field, I turned to him in the stands, and he was doing a casty head shake. It was pretty funny.
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Posted on 10/14/14 at 12:41 am to kywildcatfanone
Note: Bottom portion's TLDR details our disasters and stuff few know about (interesting imo but feel free to skip) and also translates to: Stoops and Butch rock - doing it how it should be done.
That's actually really cool, imo. Of course, I'm football junkie who loves every aspect of the game - a foosball nerd, if ya will.
Casty was prolly the universal look at the end of that game and during most of it. Not just due to the steak - our team played dreadful and uninspired. And the weird thing is that, we were ranked 28 in total defense that year plus an offense that despite the performance at Kentucky could score at will throughout the season. UK deserved to win that game, IMO.
Ok imma bout to rant but in hindsight - damn that game signified so much and not in a good way.
Wilcox, our then-DC had us humming as did WR coach Charlie Baggett (one of the best, most respected, WR coaches in the country who decided to to abruptly retire after that loss). Wilcox was considered an up and comer DC (one of the the best) and while it was no secret he and Dooley didn't get along, he was also open to staying until UK and had every intention of staying. We also lost LB coach Peter Sirmon. (Wilcox and Sirmon were our 2 best recruiters and even though Sirmon was a great recruiter he'd been named LB coach as a grad asst in 2010 because the LB coach abruptly left!). We lost 7 assistants post-UK 2011 (during the offseason/after the game which should tell you a LOT about Dooley).
A list of those lost in the offeseason/directly after (much of this had to do with personality conflicts with Dooley BUT by the UK game our team had such a toxic environment that Bray, Da'Rick and other ruled the roost and they "didn't want to go a shitty bowl):
---- *Special Teams coordinator - Eric Russell
---- *Defensive Coordinator - Justin Wilcox
---- *WR Coach/Assistant Head Coach Charlie
---- Baggett (his departure/retirement was
---- abrupt and being Asst. Head Coach makes it
---- all the more striking)
---- *Offensive Line Coach - Harry Hiestand
---- *DBs/Recruiting Coordinator - Terry Joseph
---- *TEs/Special Teams - Eric Russell
---- *Linebackers - Peter Sirmon
---- *Defensive Line - Lance Thompson
****Jay Graham was added to the staff by Dooley in 2012. It's notable that Dooley has NO RB COACH in the prior 2 years. Yes, in the SEC DOOLEY had no fulltime RB coach!****
And there's more if I went back (Dooley was promoting grad students he was so hard up). Strength & Conditioning coaches were pitiful (one didn't even make the team work out - they signed their names). Ja'wuan James, former UT RT, who was recently drafted in the 1st round by Miami, admitted this last season - said it was a team wide issue. And a senior Dlineman said he regretted not putting in the work and instead signed his name because he realized now (now being last season) that it really short changed the team as well well as himself but he was hardly alone.
I'd say that Dooley lost control but imo he never had control to begin with. THAT is one of the many reasons why both Stoops and Jones have been nothing short of a fresh air. I've followed both closely and both tolerate no BS. They're building programs for the long haul, imo and part of that is establishing discipline and consistency.
The other route can build short-term success and/or a quick boost but these two are doing things the right way.
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Yeah he does. When they play UK in Commonwealth, we have to get a picture of him standing beside their equipment truck. It's his favorite part.
That's actually really cool, imo. Of course, I'm football junkie who loves every aspect of the game - a foosball nerd, if ya will.
quote:
When UK broke the streak with UT a few years ago, as the game ended and we watched the student pour onto the field, I turned to him in the stands, and he was doing a casty head shake. It was pretty funny.
Casty was prolly the universal look at the end of that game and during most of it. Not just due to the steak - our team played dreadful and uninspired. And the weird thing is that, we were ranked 28 in total defense that year plus an offense that despite the performance at Kentucky could score at will throughout the season. UK deserved to win that game, IMO.
Ok imma bout to rant but in hindsight - damn that game signified so much and not in a good way.
Wilcox, our then-DC had us humming as did WR coach Charlie Baggett (one of the best, most respected, WR coaches in the country who decided to to abruptly retire after that loss). Wilcox was considered an up and comer DC (one of the the best) and while it was no secret he and Dooley didn't get along, he was also open to staying until UK and had every intention of staying. We also lost LB coach Peter Sirmon. (Wilcox and Sirmon were our 2 best recruiters and even though Sirmon was a great recruiter he'd been named LB coach as a grad asst in 2010 because the LB coach abruptly left!). We lost 7 assistants post-UK 2011 (during the offseason/after the game which should tell you a LOT about Dooley).
A list of those lost in the offeseason/directly after (much of this had to do with personality conflicts with Dooley BUT by the UK game our team had such a toxic environment that Bray, Da'Rick and other ruled the roost and they "didn't want to go a shitty bowl):
---- *Special Teams coordinator - Eric Russell
---- *Defensive Coordinator - Justin Wilcox
---- *WR Coach/Assistant Head Coach Charlie
---- Baggett (his departure/retirement was
---- abrupt and being Asst. Head Coach makes it
---- all the more striking)
---- *Offensive Line Coach - Harry Hiestand
---- *DBs/Recruiting Coordinator - Terry Joseph
---- *TEs/Special Teams - Eric Russell
---- *Linebackers - Peter Sirmon
---- *Defensive Line - Lance Thompson
****Jay Graham was added to the staff by Dooley in 2012. It's notable that Dooley has NO RB COACH in the prior 2 years. Yes, in the SEC DOOLEY had no fulltime RB coach!****
And there's more if I went back (Dooley was promoting grad students he was so hard up). Strength & Conditioning coaches were pitiful (one didn't even make the team work out - they signed their names). Ja'wuan James, former UT RT, who was recently drafted in the 1st round by Miami, admitted this last season - said it was a team wide issue. And a senior Dlineman said he regretted not putting in the work and instead signed his name because he realized now (now being last season) that it really short changed the team as well well as himself but he was hardly alone.
I'd say that Dooley lost control but imo he never had control to begin with. THAT is one of the many reasons why both Stoops and Jones have been nothing short of a fresh air. I've followed both closely and both tolerate no BS. They're building programs for the long haul, imo and part of that is establishing discipline and consistency.
The other route can build short-term success and/or a quick boost but these two are doing things the right way.
This post was edited on 10/14/14 at 1:06 am
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