Vince Dooley has passed away.
Between his 25-year coaching career and his lengthy stint as athletic director, the man leaves behind an enormous legacy.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
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DGD!
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Somebody check on lorin
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Time to honor him by beating Florida like he so often did.
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Right before the WLOCP. #FTMF
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90 years is a great, long life. I know he had as about as good a life as you can lead. He leaves behind a legacy off the field that can’t be beat even before you consider his legacy as an Icon of the University of Georgia. I hope there’s a garden for Vince to tend up there in heaven. A DGD deserves that much.
May your soul be lifted to heaven on the wings of angels, Coach Dooley! You will be missed!
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Rest In Peace, Coach. Damn good Dawg!
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Man this sucks. Shit
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Damn, that’s a shock. He was synonymous with GA football from my earliest days as a fan. RIP coach.
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Damn. Erk, Larry and Vince…all gone now. Every vestige of my childhood UGA fandom, save the players, are no longer…
In fond remembrance, beat those damn gators down, as Vince almost always did.
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Today’s coaches should act with the class of Vince Dooley. Now he and Munson can worry together “about that big back. How are we going to stop him, coach?
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Dooley knew exactly how to stop that big back. He convinced his players they could stop that big back. He was trained as a coach in the era when coaches purposely reduced the fans’ expectations.
Dooley made his players believe that if they did what the coaches wanted them to do they would win.
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Say Hi to Larry And Lewis Coach. They’ll be in the bar waiting.
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Erk will be waiting too.
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I know many complained about him as AD but he hired winning coaches. And he was a great coach in his time. Disciplined teams that didn’t beat themselves and always managed to steal a game we shouldn’t have won.
The man was a legend. I’m glad he got to see the field named after him.
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Greg McGarity made Dooley’s tenure as AD look even better than we thought it was when Dooley was AD.
The overall program won a lot more national championships during Dooley’s years than after Adams got him out.
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Honor him by beating the piss out of Florida.
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Rest In Peace, Marine. A Damn Good Dog.
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rah
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I can’t believe I didn’t know ol’coach was a Jarhead.
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I’m crying like a baby. The Dooley’s were friends of my family growing up. My dad was AVP for Development and Alumni Relations. I used to cater (when I was in school in the 80’s) to all the coaches and families at Coach Dooley’s home after the game. Herschel (their black lab) and I would hang out watching the game in Coach’s study waiting for them to come home while I watched the game on TV from Coach’s recliner. Great coach, great family. Barbara used to call me on my birthday. Great lady. She and Coach were so great to my family. The Dooley’s are great people and it breaks my heart for their loss. I hope the Dawgs put VD on their hats and bust some Gator ass in his honor. #FTMF
Godspeed Coach. Thanks for your life!
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I talked to him at Coach Henderson’s funeral. He was telling stories about Johnny and being nice and personable as always. RIP Vince.
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Sad news. Prayers for his family. So glad he got to go the national championship and see the DAWGS win it all again.
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Man. This is tough.
RIP Coach Dooley
You’ll be missed by all of us Dawg fans.
Praying for peace and comfort for the family.
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DGD
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My freshman year was his last and I did my redcoat duty but watched his every move knowing how strong his presence was. I am proud to have been witness to his last season on the sideline and I am one of those people that think he could have been AD for much longer. What a great man. Definitely choked me up a little a few minutes ago.
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And to be honest, I hope CKS relays to the team and recruits that every head coach at GA chose to stay in Athens after their time. It’s truly a special place no matter what you do in life.
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RIP Coach! and THANK YOU!
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A fine southern gentleman…be at peace, Coach and peace be with your family…
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Seemed a decent man. Rest in peace.
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A true genuine person let alone a great coach. RIP
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At least he got to watch the DAWGS win another NC and see them Kirb stomp Auburn one last time. He had a hell of a run. I still remember rushing home from church on Sundays to watch The Vince Dooley Show before the NFL games kicked off. That was usually the only UGA football I got to see. RIP Vince.
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I still remember the music to his show like it was yesterday. My dad and I never missed it.
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What was the hotdog commercial that Barbara did? “You might even call them the Dooley’s other dogs”
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RIP Coach.
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S/Fi Marine.
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Great man – sad day.
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Damn Good Dawg
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Had the honor to meet him a few times, some fairly recently. Always a gentleman with a good self-deprecating joke at the ready. VD deserves every honor he has and will receive. Rest in Peace, Coach.
Damn Good Dawg.
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This makes me reminisce about the first games I went to as a kid in the 80s. My parents would take me and for years we tailgated in the Gumby’s parking lot with college friends and family and I would always hear stories.
I listened to Larry Munson almost every game from about 85 until his last. He and Scott Howard pulled up and parked a couple spaces down from us at the Peach Bowl for “Ray’s Last Game”. The only thing I said to Munson was “Hello, Mr Munson…got a prediction?” “Close one. Gotta watch that kicking game.”
The Gumby’s lot got contracted out but one of our tailgating people had bought a rental property and we tailgated there until 2015.
So many of these people who eventually made it about more than just football are gone. Going to game was a family reunion for years.
Rest in peace, Coach Dooley and the the other Dawg Greats. Even those who were never on the sideline or in the booth.
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I delivered for Gumby’s when I was in grad school. I was the hit of every party, plus we would trade pizza for beer at the local bars or liquor stores.
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I know you were! I lived on a Gumby’s diet for at least a year. When we tailgated there it was tucked in behind a Subway and a bank. Then they moved and then they went out of business. Rip to them, too.
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I know Vince and Barbara were hoping Vince would outlive Michael Adams so they could attend Adams’s funeral. Not to honor Adams but to make sure the Son of a Bitch was really dead.
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FTMF!
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The only way to properly honor CVD’s passing on this particular weekend is an absolute beatdown of the gators he loved to beat so much! My 1st memory of him was a home game against Ole Miss in the rain in the 70’s as a kid. A man in our church invited me to go with his family. Before the game started, the friend pointed out the coach and said, “That’s Coach Dooley. A great coach & a great man.” Never forgot that & that man that took me is still a dear family friend & the main reason I’m a lifetime Dawg!
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Was that Ole Miss game the 49-0 UGA victory in…’74? ‘75?
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I remember that game vividly. The 49-0 beatdown was 1974 in Athens. We played Ole Miss in Athens in both 1973 and 1974. We won 20-0 in 1973. We played in Oxford in 1975 and 1976 and list both.
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‘74 was my freshman year. I remember that late in that game the Ole Miss cheerleaders were doing a cheer that went, “Pork chop, pork chop, greasy, greasy, we’re gonna beat you easy, easy.”
Maybe they were math majors and got the sign wrong.
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I believe it was the 20-0 game. I remember it was a pretty close game, definitely not a beat down. To be honest, my clearest memories are of Coach Dooley on the sidelines, & my falling in love with UGA cheerleaders for the first time.
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42-3 vs. Ole Miss in 1978 was my first home game.
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All Dawgs go to Heaven.
Man, this hit me hard. Growing up, when I thought of UGA football, I thought of Coach Dooley. He was a good man and a good leader of men. He will be long remembered and greatly missed.
“Jesus said unto her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”
John 11:25-6
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A good man and a life well lived.
Happy that he was able to celebrate the national championship on the floor of Lucas Oil and his 90th birthday being serenaded by 70,000 in Mercedes-Benz.
Go honor Coach Dooley’s memory and legacy by beating the hell out of the Handbags tomorrow, Dawgs.
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On our way toward Amelia this week from Baton Rouge, we spent the night in Mobile simply because it must be quite a town to have birthed both Vince Dooley and Hank Aaron. We lived in Athens when Coach arrived in 1964 bringing a new excitement to a program in dire need of one, but he was not just a coach at UGA. He was a community leader, a student of history and agriculture and an author. UGA football and athletics would not be where they are today without Coach’s influence, nor would college football in general as he led the charge to allow individual conferences to negotiate television broadcast packages. As athletic director, he hired some of UGA’s most successful coaches bringing our beloved university national acclaim and prestige. I can’t claim to have known Coach myself, but he never failed to ask me how my “poppa” was whenever I saw him at an event. I treasure the last photo I have of them two of them at a Bulldog Club event where he famously claimed that while he supported his son as coach at UT, he would “never wear that ugly ass orange.” He was a gentleman and a scholar and will be missed more than any of us can express, and I am grateful that the administration at UGA finally gave him his due by naming the field at Sanford Stadium for him, especially while he could still be personally honored.
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When I’m a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in…
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Got damn hippie
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🤣
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One of my favorite Mobilians. Such a sad day. Godspeed, Coach.
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God bless Vince, a man in full, and then some.
Larry’s reserved his parking spot for the red & black chariot, just south of the pearly Arches, where there are 3 pieces of nattie memorabilia awaiting him: 1980, 2021 & a Nattie Light.
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Hell, if they drink Natty Light in heaven, I ain’t going.
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Every fan base, no matter how trashy is their school, has its share of folks with a modicum of class. I was fortunate to befriend Mr Frank Prewitt’s family when I was stationed at Ft Jackson/Columbia,SC. He and his sons, Kenny and Greg, are Gamecock supporters. They are Old South. Always polite and greet you with an offer of a cocktail. We were bound by our mutual disgust and contempt for Clemson and have been great friends for 37 years.
Last night Greg sent a respectful text of condolence for Coach Dooley and reminded me of our meeting him one spring Saturday in the late 90’s riding around with the top down looking at azaleas in Five Points.
Greg stated, “Never forget pulling up in front of his house heading to dinner and him walking out to say hello to you. That was class, Russ.”
That was Coach Dooley. Always the Southern gentleman. I met him in 1982 and he remembered my name 15 years later and thereafter, which I consider remarkable. Now I know what a rough individual he could be. I was friends with enough Junkyard Dogs and heard stories and he was a damn Jarhead. But in a social setting Coach Dooley always comported himself with grace and class. He never embarrassed our University or himself. He was a great Man and I’ll miss him and think fondly of him and smile.
RIP Coach.
Rest In Peace Kenny Prewitt.
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He was a tough bird. One of his nephews told me that he was visiting the Dooley home once in August during fall practice. Vince had instructed the boys to plant some bushes in his garden because he would be working late. They didn’t do it, and Vince woke them up that night and gave them a couple of shovels and watched them do the job with the only light coming from the headlights of his car. Met the man twice, and he could not have been nicer.
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“I always will remember these words that my daddy said. He said, “Buddy, when you’re dead you’re a dead peckerhead.”
I hope to prove him wrong. That is when I get to heaven.
🎵’Cause I’m gonna have a cocktail
Vodka and ginger ale
Yeah I’m gonna smoke a cigarette that’s nine miles long
I’m gonna kiss that pretty girl
On the tilt-a-whirl
‘Cause this old man is going to town”
-John Prine
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John Prine was a hell of a songwriter. Hilarious and brilliant right up to the end. Cannot listen to “Tree of Forgiveness” w/out tearing up.
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In Jacksonville this morning thinking about rolling down the aisle after Lindsey Scott crossed the goal line, then we took the field where we heard Ga Tech had tied Norte Dame and we were #1.
It was the most perfect day ever, including the two next times we stormed the field in Auburn and New Orleans! Coach Dooley had his finest moments against our three biggest rivals, Tech, Auburn and the hated Gators! It will seem strange today to morn his passing but can’t think of a better place to do it! Many glasses will be raised to Vince today and mine will be one of the first!!
RIP Vince at least you get to listen to Larry call the Game!!
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RIP Coach Dooley.
St Mary pray for us!
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His memory is a blessing!
My pregame ritual my freshman and sophomore year (1979/1980)was to roll downhill from Milledge Hall to the tracks, have a few brews and wait for the arrival of the DAWGS on the buses from Stegman Coliseum.
The buses had DOOLEY’S JUNKYARD DAWGS on them for gameday. He’d get out of the first bus and wave to the trackies, then Erk would step out and wave. Great memories of two DAMN GOOD DAWGS!
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A little moment from my freshman year (1990): some buddies and I were driving though south campus one afternoon and spotted Coach Dooley walking in the Vet School parking lot. We yelled, “Hey, Coach!”, startled him a bit, but he quickly smiled and waved back. I was kinda awestruck, living legends just walking around campus like that.
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My first three years at UGA his last seasons as head coach. It felt very strange without him on the sidelines my senior year – after all, he’d been coach longer than I’d been alive. And, sure enough, he wasn’t easy to replace. All told, what impressed me most about Coach Dooley was his graciousness. As others here have noted, he was genuinely friendly to fans and seemed happy living in the real world with them. He was an institution but remained open and accessible.
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R.I.P.
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What a life. Will never forget the sheer joy on his face after Ringo’s pick 6 during the natty. So glad he was able to witness Kirby reaching the mountaintop.
We are not losing today.
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