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There is only one solution that I can see:
JOHN CHAVIS
Does he resent us for the Fulmer thing? Even so, wouldn't he consider coming home to TN as the HIGHEST paid head coach in the NCAA? The perfect answer. Nobody can tell me we don' have $9M year. We just put up that $2B football castle!

(Sorry if this is a duplicate)

There is one answer. It pleases everyone. JOHN CHAVIS !!
Even if he is still mad over the Fulmer thing, surely he would come home as the HIGHEST paid coach in college football!
AD has the cash to do it.

and we haven't?

Listen, we got whipped by the number 1 team in the country and it's okay. Alabama is good, real good. It's not the be all, end all of this football team. I agree this team has to get over the hump. They've got to find a way to make it happen.

Dooley can't stop Bray from throwing an interception in the end zone. He can't force Hunter to make that catch towards the end of the first half. Players have to make plays....period.

In my opinion, 5 years. Can't continue to have an unstable situation. He seems pleased to have his coaches in place. Now go recruit for those positions. People like stability.

Would you go work for a company with an unstable management environment?

Having been a volnut since the mid-50's, I agree. There have been periods of greatness and doldrums over the decades, but until the past six or eight years, I haven't seen the degree of instability, carping and lack of loyalty among the Vol nation. You hit the nail on the head, instant gratification, in spite of key injuries, defections to a low life coach and playing underclassmen. It is an insult to the players and coaches to suggest a firing of the head coach when he hasn't even filled out his team. Sure, spend $5 million to buy out Dooley, then spend another $5 million a year to hire a new one who will demand an even bigger buyout due to our reputation of dumping coaches. Dumb.

you say lack of instate talent but it sure is funny how just about every other SEC team has players from Tennessee and most of em look pretty damn good. We need to start looking at the instate talent and getting more of it on the team.

Unfortunately, UT makes other teams look very good, especially those teams that score points. The Mizzou game could be a shootout. I have no confidence that Tennessee will stop them. If the UT offense sputters, as it typically does against teams who score first, then Mizzou will probably take it. Mizzou is playing in a new league, with nothing to lose because everyone expected them to struggle in the SEC. UT, late in this season, looks like it has a defeatist mentality as a whole, especially under center. That does not bode well for the Vols.

Of course, giving Worley a chance to play could shake everything up and give Bray a chance to have a sober look in the mirror. Despite his level of talent, he needs to develop his character. That takes tapping into inner strength. Often people don't do that until their outer strength is exposed as just that: outer strength and lack of character.

Inner strength is the difference between talented players and true leaders.

I am a UT fan. However, most of the fans including the stooges on the Sports Animal do not have a mentallity. Dooley is a young coach. Saban at his first position as head coach of Michigan State took six years to turn that program around. Majors at Tennessee took another six years to get the vols in a position of dominance in the SEC. Don't say that it was thirty years ago because even thirty years ago the fans wanted to fire Majors. The money may have been smaller but was equivalent to what the coaches are making now. The difference is mentality and greed. UT has been so greedy soaking people for donations to the athletic department in addition to ticket prices which have increased significantly over the years. Get rid of the "donations" and maybe you will sell more tickets.
Most of Tennessee fans are not alumni. When you look at a program it is not just winning football games. It is inegrity. Here you have a coach who took over an out house full of problems and who has the academic and personal integrity to win now coaches of Bobby Petrino (who quit on the Atlanta Falcons in the middle of the season) and Lane Kiffin can only read about. Contrast that with a coach who cared more about his team and who within one day of surgery was back trying to help that team. And who also traveled with his team and did not take pain killers in order to help them .
So for those who do not understand anything about class and integrity you can take a lesson from Dooley. Also, you can take a lesson from a man who inherited very little talent and has upgraded it significantly. Finally, Tyler Bray needs to sit. He is imatture and does not have the drive and intensity to win. Unless you are competitive you will never had the fight to win the close games. Hunter is playing not to get hurt but in doing so his NFL stock has been diminished. Bray stock has been significantly diminished. Patterson is a player and with all of his effort he will be gone. I just wish the other two had his drive and compassion.

I was patient with Dooley and said I would not judge him until this year. Well, I've seen enough. Clay Travis was right all along. UT's facilities alone could get 3 star recruits. We need a coach that can get the blue chips and coach them. Two and a half years IS long enough to figure out if angry can coach. The last 3 weeks has proven that Dooley is not ready. We're going to be battling Arkansas and Auburn for a big time hire. The sooner we start, the better our chances.

Dooley needs to stay for stability, but Sanseri and Chaney need to go. The defense and play calling are terrible. There is no quick fix until some more 4-5 star talent can be persuaded to come to UT. I still say the Vols should recruit more of the good northern players who are going to Wisc. Notre Dame, Michigan etc. I believe some of these athletes would love to compete in the SEC.

Right now, we're at 2.5 yrs into rebuilding and people were even calling for his head last year, I'd say that's a fan base looking for instant results! Nobody in the fan base likes to see games against our hated rival like last night. But it's a rebuilding process and it's difficulty is magnified when you're top rivals are #1 and #2 currently.

This is in response to a question that was asked about when would the time be right to replace our coach. I messed up and didn't respond in the area the question was asked

good question. haven't seen much in the past to address the stance of giving Coach Dooley more time to right the ship except the one for stability of the program.. I guess you could say that recruits might not want to come because a of a new coach but yet they might be more likely to come if the new hire was a definite upgrade. But a recruit might not come now because of the uncertainty of our coach's job security.

We don't want instantaneous results we just some results art some point and 1-11 in the SEC isn't coming close