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pcorange writes:

in response to NeylandWest:

Thanks Coach Sal! You took a risk and you tried. When other coaches (7) decided to bail on us after last season, things did not look good for Vol Nation.

I'll go back further. When Dooley was hired, zero big-named coaches were beating down our doors begging to coach here. It drives me crazy that people overlook that!

No, I'm not a "Dooley fan". I am a TN alum and a TN fan. I want what is right and just. I wish people would remember that Dooley didn't kill this program. It was poisoned years earlier. And Dooley just had the audacity to come in here and take a risk, try to fix it and do what no one else wanted to do at that time.

Coach Sal tried the same thing. I applaud them for their efforts and wish them the best. I'm sorry it didn't work out for them and for us.

Best of luck to this staff! Hope all of Vol Nation has a great Thanksgiving. Say a prayer for me and the boys over here in Asscrackistan. A special thanks to the USO and others that take care of us and make deployments easier, especially when they give us tv's to watch the games back home.

Y'all take care and Go Vols!

It wasn't that there weren't good coaches that would have taken the job, they weren't going to take it at $2M a year. For a good, SEC caliber coach, $2M is about a third of what they can get. If we had been serious about competing, getting a coach instead of a bargain would have been our priority. I hope we've learned a lesson so that we don't repeat our mistakes of the past.

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