Tennessee Head Coach is Actually, Derek Dooley

[EmpireWF]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4829107

Louisiana Tech football coach Derek Dooley, son of legendary coach Vince Dooley, has been hired as Tennessee's new coach, sources close to the situation told ESPN on Friday.

 

[Woy]

Has Dooley done anything with that program other than take them to one bowl game?

 

[Sharkweather]

Vince's son coaching one of our rivals?

:smh:

 

[JeremyHight]

If this pans out, this is a terrible hire. Its not that he is a bad coach, but he is in no way qualified to coach at Tennessee. There isn't a single reason why they couldn't go after one of the many qualified assistants out there, who would be a much better hire.

 

[Prodigal Son]

Will we be seeing "rioting" at Louisiana Tech?

 

[NAHSTE]

Dooley's resume is actually fairly solid. He's arguably more prepared for the job than Kiffin. He coached under Saban at LSU, is a great recruiter, and has like 3-4 years of college head coaching experience. Kiffin was a bigger risk than this IMO.

I think he'll do fine, and bring way less scrutiny and embarrassment to the program than seen in the "Lane Violation" regime.

 

[Herm]

He brought in quite a few 3 star kids to La Tech, so he should be able to bag enough 4 and 5 star guys to be competitive as a bcs school

 

[Youk]

Army beat Louisiana Tech last year.

This hiring is invalid.

 

[NAHSTE]

Army beat Louisiana Tech last year.

This hiring is invalid.

Air Force came within a 2 pt conversion of beating Tennessee with the best coach they've had in the last 20 years.

Tennessee is invalid.

 

[Prodigal Son]

Tells you how bad it is when coaches prefer to stay at Air Force and Duke then coming to Tennessee.

UT really fucked up with Fulmer.

 

[Herm]

Air Force came within a 2 pt conversion of beating Tennessee with the best coach they've had in the last 20 years.

Tennessee is invalid.

Fat Phil outcoaches Lame Kiffin every day of the week. He is 10x the coach Lane ever was.

 

[FirstTimer]

Tennessee it's not too late to still take Love Smith!

 

[Prodigal Son]

Lol, a black man coaching in Tennessee. Yeah, he'll definitely get a fair shot.

 

[FirstTimer]

Lol, a black man coaching in Tennessee. Yeah, he'll definitely get a fair shot.

Don;'t care.

Just want Lovie out of Chicago.

 

[Marley]

they best not hope Kentucky and South Carolina overtakes them while this program gets sorted out.

:homieslol:

 

[Marley]

with the way Kiffin left and everything following It wouldn't surprise me if Vandy over the next 3-5 years becomes better. Kiffin left this university in a hole big time. If Dooley is any good, they'll be 4th place and occasionally finish ahead of south carolina in the East but its not likely in my mind. They hired a coach that was 5-7 IN THE WAC. Come on...

I can't see Tennessee being too far behind as long as they're the recruiting power that they are now. From what I've heard Dooley is a good recruiter. They won't be great statistically for a while under Dooley, if ever, but they will still be very far ahead of SC, Vandy, and Kentucky recruiting-wise.

 

[Herm]

Lol, a black man coaching in Tennessee. Yeah, he'll definitely get a fair shot.

The State of Kentucky has black head coaches at all 3 D1 schools, why not Tennessee?

5 of the Nations 8 black coaches reside in Southern states, the rest of the Nation needs to catch up.:inlove:

 

[NAHSTE]

The only problem I can see, is that Tennessee pretty much has to recruit nationally. They have to steal kids from Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, etc.

It's really hard to do that without a good selling point, and I'm not sure Dooley has one other than his last name. But we shall see, I think he's a solid coach and has a good recruiting history. It just might not be good enough to succeed in a talent-poor state like Tennessee.

Especially with Saban locking down Bama and Paul Johnson continuing to emerge as a 2nd threat in Georgia.

Kiffin pissed a lot of people off with his brashness, but coaching at Tennessee is gonna piss people off either way, because in order to get talent you have to raid other state's resources. It will continue to happen with Dooley, but hopefully his methods are a little more diplomatic, if you will.

I wish him luck, because he's a former LSU coach and his dad Vince is a legend. But I think it will be an uphill battle in the Nat'l recruiting circuit for now.

 

[Prodigal Son]

The State of Kentucky has black head coaches at all 3 D1 schools, why not Tennessee?

5 of the Nations 8 black coaches reside in Southern states, the rest of the Nation needs to catch up.:inlove:

My comment has more to do with a black coach taking over a football dominant school in the South. Sorry, but outside of Miami, how many of those coaches are in jobs where the football team is the schools pride?

 

[NAHSTE]

I'll go ahead and call a win against Kentucky along with your list, and I'll go out on a leaf at the end of your limb and call a win against Georgia, Ole Miss, and either Alabama or Florida if not both. So I can see an 8-4 or 9-3 season ahead. But, like any true fan of a team, I expect a NC! GO VOLS!!!!

:shifty:

You'll have a better shot vs. LSU then Alabama. But I think we're gonna get up for that one, seeing as how Janzen carJackson needs to learn a lesson. Btw, I hope he's happy over in Knoxville, and that his dad gets the coaching job Kiffin promised him. Oh wait...