Jesus, this is incoherent.
However, there is one mistake that Dooley looks back on and admits it was the biggest one he made during his tenure in Knoxville.
““There’s an old saying, ‘Don’t let the shit creep in,’” Dooley said. “Shit can start creeping in, and you’re not really paying attention to it, you wake up one day, and you’ve got a bucket full. I look back, I probably wasn’t as hard on them. I made excuses for them, because they’re young, let’s work with them and help them. Compound that with, we had injuries. All that is sort of a firestorm brewing. It only hits you when it hits you (which was against Kentucky).”
Evidently, this is supposed to mean SOD recognized that his team wasn’t mentally prepared to play a game against Kentucky that it wound up losing.
“This is, 100 percent, my worst mistake, and I was the sole reason for that loss. It only hits you when it hits you, and when I walked out there in pregame, we’d just had an emotional win over Vandy, and everybody thought we were getting back to a bowl, can win seven, the whole deal. In pregame, I knew it wasn’t right. I could feel it. It was the worst, most surreal feeling in me. I’ll never forget it.
“Watching our team, I could see it. Everything I had done since the offseason, making excuses, looking the other way, brushing aside, we need these guys, it kind of all came to a head. It was a terrible, terrible loss. … Our team wasn’t ready to play mentally and emotionally, and that was my fault.”
You just had an emotional win over Vanderbilt, for goodness sake? Dude, the shit was deeper than you comprehend.
How in the world did Tennessee hire this guy?
My thoughts at the time were his connections to GA. UT’s ’98 team had some key GA boys from what I can remember…..I guess they hoped to re-open that area…
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Plus, he was part of that Saban tree…I guess. He had that going for him 😏
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Better than an emotional loss to Vandy. Like, say, on Homecoming.
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’94???……Dawgs gave up that day, never have seen that happen before (entire team). I was then convinced it was time for a change.
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Gave up? Nope. Laid down intentionally is a better phrase for it.
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What is the difference between the two??
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Laid down? I have no memory of that game. Please explain what you mean by “laid down”.
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The rumors flew that the team literally threw that game due to the make-up of the homecoming court that year.
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Wow. Now that you mention it, that does sound familiar. I guess I had banished it from memory. Those are not very fun memories.
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I always thought if it could have been proven the team threw a game over something like that, Dooley should have fired Goff that Monday morning.
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link takes me to a 404 page. . . Sad, cause I wanted to read something incoherent about Tennessee. . .
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They took the page down, for some reason. The quotes are still in my post, though, so read away.
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Where in the world is SOD these days?
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WR coach with the Cowboys. I’m sure Dez just respects the shit out of him.
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Has he been working with the WRs’ personal hygiene in Big D?
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Ok that made me laugh out loud.
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I do what I can when I can.
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probably thought they were getting a DoD attack from GTP 🙂
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DoS, doh!
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He got hired because of his last name.
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I think they hired him because some boosters just wanted to see Barbara dressed in orange. Gives me the shivers thinking about it.
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Might I suggest the song “Creepin” by Grand Funk Railroad.
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“How in the world did Tennessee hire this guy?” I dunno, but we just hired his clone last season.
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