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I'm not as concerned about this recruiting class as I am 2014. 2014 has a lot of UT legends sons. If we keep Dooley one more year he will at best be 7-5 with a class full of Seniors. All the other coaches will push that Dooley is getting fired sometime between now and the end of next season so we probably lose some of this years recruits anyway.
If you wait until next year then you won't get a big name coach because the bulk of the starters will be leaving.

If you look at the big picture, you either keep Dooley for 3 more years or you cut him after the loss next week(assuming you already have a big name lined up). Not really much else you can do. We will lose next week. At South Carolina and they will be amped up about this weeks loss. Our coaches know the problems but don't seem to have the knowledge to scheme around them. That's what good coaching will bring you, scheming around your shortcomings.

I'll agree with you that 1-11 in the SEC isn't acceptable by any measure. But this is a tricky situation for everyone involved. Dooley had to make some big changes after the 2011 season, and while several of them have already paid off (Jay Graham and the running game, the OLs continued improvement to name a few), some of them seem to be leaving more questions than answers.

If a coaching change is made after this season, then Hart has no choice but to go after either a top-caliber HC like a Saban or Miles, or an up and coming assistant like Kirby Smart. I know some people have mentioned Petrino as a possibility, but that guy has a track record of screwing over every program he's been at (yes, his antics in Fayetteville screwed over the Arkansas program). The question is what top-caliber coach would even want to take over this program?

I'm assuming you meant FCS rather than D2 there. I don't even think D2 games count towards bowl eligibility, and even the # of FCS games is limited.

Oh no. That sounds alot like Hamilton. Hart should have learned that if doesn't write the BIG check then Tennessee will continue to have a LITTLE coach, and a TINY future.

Perzackly right. This ain't the Hambone Amateur Hour any more. Trust Hart. If he says Dooley's the man, great. If he's not, he'll get someone who is. Either way the long Vol Nation nightmare is going to end sooner than later.

Leave Dooley alone , we will never be where we want this program to be by firing Dooley . Did Paterno always win at Penn State ? No Did Bowden always win at Florida State ? No There is something to be said for stability, the constant turn around with not lure recruits to the hill it will drive them away . We have become a results driven society we want we want and we want it right now . Well , I want to go back to glory days of 1998 as much as any true Vol does however firing Dooley is not the way to get there . Am I frustrated , do bears crap in the woods ?
Here's my thoughts we switched to the 3/4 without all the personnel to run that system . The 3/4 is a complicated system to grasp and master usually does not happen in one season and it requires a few specific types of players some we have and some we do not. The main thing it requires is corner backs that can cover and are fast we are lacking this. Dooley seems to have a staff in place that get us where we want to be , we need the players to buy into it and play, some have some have not . Mainly Tyler Bray, he seems to lack the work ethic ,maturity and drive to win . Remember Peyton ,How many back to back bad games did he have ? None that I can remember , He spent the time in the film room preparing himself for what the other was doing and what they would show him and how to counter it . Does Bray ? I'm not seeing it . We need to make changes , demoting players even it means you lose a game might be worth it . Playing time is not a right you have to earn it. Bench Bray and Hunter next week. Worley can play , move Patterson over to Hunter's spot and stick Howard or another young WR in there . Something has to give .

The last part is correct, but everything else you just posted is pure speculation...

lol guy with one star and 18 posts sure sounds credible....

dont feed the trolls....

It hits the unintelligent, classless and clueless right on the head....
We have fired all of the coaches that we have at Tennessee basketball, baseball, swimming and track next. The issue is that the only thing that most of these people have in their lives is football and that is the biggest if not only thing in Knoxville. I am a graduate of UT and lived there. These people that compain about Dooley do not have any appreciation for integrity, class and what it takes to build a clean football program. Their only whine is I want to win now. The program is better off today then when Dooley arrived while inheriting Fulmers last 35th ranked recruiting class, Kiffin renegade recruiting program with a boatload of promises but obviously short on delivery and a team that he is expected to hold together two weeks before signing day.
These whiners and red necks need to get a life and if they can't find one in Knoxville there is a whole big world out there.

Sure the sky is falling, Donald Trump will win the election and I'm married to Kim Kardiasian . Got any proof to to your claims ? That's what I thought. Gruden baaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh ! Sure he is ! So who is going to be the OC and DC ? Peyton is going to retire from the NFL and be the OC and Reggie White is going to come back from the dead to be DC .