What year will Dooley be fired?

Im still confused on why simms got benched and you burned a true frosh's redshirt

Dooley is god awful on gamedays. He is 0-22 in his career when tied or trailing at the half. He just makes random decisions with timeouts, onside kicks, who to play at QB, etc.

Last night's display takes the cake. I have tried to block out 2005-2008, but I can't remember a worse coached game at Tenneseee in the last 20 years than Dooley coached last night. Just gave the game away.

I think he's gone after next season if Tennessee finishes 4th or 5th in the east again. I don't think the AD or alumni will be patient enough to give Dooley time to turn it around.

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Why are you talking about Dooley being fired already? He has one of the youngest defenses in the nation, without a QB, roster problems from past bad coaching, etc etc etc. If you step back and take a look at the problems UT has you'll see Dooley didn't stand much of a chance to succeed in his early years.

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Dooley had plenty chance to succeed last night. It was a game that was butchered by Dooley. I am not expecting him to be anything more than competitive every now and then. He is simply not a competent coach.

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Dooley is god awful on gamedays. He is 0-22 in his career when tied or trailing at the half.

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Yea, I saw that last night during the game. But honestly, has he had the talent to dig himself out of a hole and come back to win ?


I've watched 3 full UT games this year. UT v UF, UT v 'Bama, UT v SCAR. I would agree and say that some of the 4th and 1 calls were awful. Like the 4th and 1 call at 'Bama.

Last night when it was 4th and 1 at midfield. I thought he should have went for it. It's 1 yard, I THINK you were tired or losing by a TD at the time, and you are playing at Neyland. Why not.

I think there are some crappy coaches on the staff though. Charlie Baggett is the best position coach on the staff.

I like that play he runs sometimes with an extra man or two.

Dooley may not make it 5 more years, but in the short term it is not his fault that UT's 2 best offensive weapons got hurt, their "best" remaining WR can't catch TD passes, or that he inheritted a depleted roster.

He may not be the best gameday coach, neither was Shula, but Shula didn't recruit as well as Dooley is, and Shula managed a 10 win season. The next 2-3 years will be interesting on Rocky Top.

Wilcox's scheme is pretty good imo. The defense is getting better and better week to week.

Joseph needs to go as well imo.

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Joseph needs to go as well imo.

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Again his lack of talent is noticeable.

CB is below average group. Waggner and Coleman are the best ones.

Safety is requiring a baseball player, juco and rod wilks to play.

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I somewhat agree about the gameday coach comment. However, his hands are somewhat tied due to the roster.

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Tennessee had no way to win that game -- unless USC gave it to them with turnovers; which we almost did. The fact the Vols were unable to manage more than a field goal shows how bad their offense is without Bray. And you have to give a lot of credit to USC's defense.

The bigger problem for Dooley is recruiting. He recruits decently well -- but not as well as he needs to for Tennessee to become a powerhouse again. The recruiting advantage Tennessee had years ago when on the traditional teams were on TV has evaporated. They can't overcome the lack of in-state talent. They will never again consistently match UGA and UF in the East, nor will they match USC so long as Spurrier is there.

Dooley cannot make up for the talent gap with coaching or scheme -- in fact, his scheme requires his talent to be as good or better than the opposition.