Comments by rockytopwestone

Written on Tyler Bray has moved beyond 'stupid mistakes' at Tennessee:

in response to tovolny:

People on here keep knocking Dooley's coaching. I had problems with accepting the kicking game coaching, and I didn't like the coaching of the DB's. However, Dooley seemed to be a good person and he seemed to be very likable. But actually, he never had much to work with. He had spots of great talent but the depth and range just wasn't there. Given a little more time, I believe Dooley would have been successful. You know, you can't teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Really..... I MEAN REALLY ? Did you happen to watch the Mizzo game last year or the Kentucky game the year before or any Tennessee Football the last 3 years ? Unbeleiveable !

Written on Tyler Bray's father says NFL draft was 'brutal':

in response to borovol1956:

I do not think Bray could overcome the problems created by two words: Derek Dooley. The situation was a mess the entire time Bray played.

Love it ! You are correct Sir !

Written on John Adams: Butch Jones turns up volume at scrimmage:

in response to spvol:

I believe we have a COACH.

I do to !

Written on With big hits looming via graduation, Tennessee on the prowl for linemen to sign in 2014:

Dooley = the gift that keeps on giving !

Written on Mack Brown wins Neyland Award; Lee Corso the Lindsey Nelson Broadcasting Award:

in response to ACWLY:

I don't agree with Brown being awarded but I can live with that... but awarding Corso anything is a disgrace, he was NEVER a good or even decent coach and he is pathetic as an announcer and as a human being. Maybe John "Crimson Red" Adams is on the election team! VFL

" Not So Fast " my friend, why so much hate for Corso ?

Written on A look at Tennessee's 2014 class after 3 new additions, including 4-star Todd Kelly Jr.:

in response to jacobsvolfan:

See above....post of the year!

You got that right !

Written on A look at Tennessee's 2014 class after 3 new additions, including 4-star Todd Kelly Jr.:

If Coach Jones could somehow get Jalen Hurd, the Berry Twins and a few more good ones such as Bill Bates son he might be able to get things turned around in a hurry !

Written on Mike Strange: Vols' tournament hopes derailed:

in response to hikerdude:

The difference in this game and the previous six-the Vols made their shots in the win streak. Last night, not so much.

You are correct Sir, The Dawgs played well but the Vols shots did not fall !

Written on Marsalis Teague added to NFLPA Collegiate Bowl :

Marsalis Teague gave his all for Tennessee and has allready graduated ! He was out of position from day one when the idiot Dooley arrived. I wish nothing but the best for Mr. Teague. BTW I saw our former Head Idiot on ESPN Tuesday morning expressing his stupid opinion on Lord Knows What. I immediately changed the channel and now think less of espn. Anyone who doesn`t see Dooley as a fool didn`t watch the Mizzou game ! And while I am at, govolsdid, you Sir are a idiot also !

Written on Derek Dooley finds words for Twitter :

in response to GlennFordsFoible:

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Oh My GleenFordsFoible, He at least to whoever`s credit has come from winning programs which is more than can be said for Doolfus. I am not going to say you are wrong, I just hope you are !

Written on Derek Dooley finds words for Twitter :

You can hate Vandy with all the mite of your orange bleeding hearts. You can feel the same way about Franklin for a thousand different reasons. But you can`t argue with his results, 2 years and the first 9 win season in 97 years ? I hope Coach Jones can do half as well ! But don`t tell me a real Head Coach can`t make a difference.

Written on Derek Dooley finds words for Twitter :

He absolutely should have been fired after the Kentucky game last year. We went the whole season and the team got better at nothing ! One whole season wasted. Yet people get on here and say stupid stuff like if he hadn`t changed the defence we could be 9 and 3. Yea and we would still have a idiot for a head coach !

Written on UT football coach Butch Jones savvy in utilizing Twitter for benefit of program :

in response to pingkr62:

I think this guy is light years ahead of the last guy. I'm expecting big things from Coach Jones. G.B.O.!!!

Looking back on it now the last guy may have had his lights on but there was nobody home !

Written on John Adams: Cordarrelle Patterson will leave highlights, regrets behind :

in response to tennesseeduke:

They don't play defense! CDD made a bad hire and decision to go 3-4 with SS. Imagine if the defense would been in the top 35 like last years? We'd be 10-2 and headed to a big bowl game and CDD would still be coaching. Offense was great and CDD was here. Look at it for what it was and stop bashing CDD it's over.

GBO

Tennesseeduke

The problem was Derek Dooley was not coaching ! He was just a idiot standing on the sidlines in orange pants !

Written on Tennessee AD Dave Hart says Butch Jones offers 'new beginning' for program :

A few weeks ago a friend showed me a picture of a glossy black helmet with a orange power T outlined in white. I`m all for tradition but that thing looked cool !

Written on Tennessee snaps scoring slump, beats No. 23 Wichita State, 69-60 :

in response to MooseandSquirrelVol:

100% of your posts come from an idiot.

I was gona call him a idiot to and tell him state missed alot of theirs but your comment is better ! lol

Written on John Adams: Martin homecoming will have to wait :

Man alot of the people on here just need to chill out! Some of you act like you want to throw Tee off a cliff and if you can`t do that you want to jump off yourself. This program will rise or fall whether Tee Martin is here or not!

Written on John Adams: An SEC coaching leap isn't for everybody :

I guess we will find out John !

Written on Mike Strange: Butch Jones dreamed of a job like Tennessee :

in response to chuckfromwoodberry:

What Vol fan wouldn't love a coach who only a few days ago was "half bear the other half cat!"

Outstanding Chuck !

Written on Ad for Vols' head coach posted on Craigslist:

in response to titletownz:

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Three years ago when Dooley was hired !

Written on Ad for Vols' head coach posted on Craigslist:

in response to BigOrangeRock:

Time to brig Fulmer back and shut up people like DoltaCharlie3.

Fulmer can beat Muschump.

I would not have a problem with that. Coach Fulmer has served his time in jail. No one loves Tennessee nore than he does. He still may have that " play not to lose mentallity " but you can bet his attitude would be different this time around. The Kids would be motivated and ready to play and for sure they would have the thing they lacked with Dooley : GOOD COACHING !

Written on Louisville coach Charlie Strong meets with players:

in response to OLROCKYTOP:

There is an underlying reason why no one wants this job. What is being hidden from the fans and media? Makes me wonder.

I have wondered the same thing ever since we went down the list all the way to Kiffen !

Written on Vols take coaching change in stride:

But can he recruit ?

Written on Do you think UT has made its decision to fire coach Derek Dooley?:

in response to tenndave:

As far as a new coach. Here would be my first set of questions if I were a candidate. 1. Justin are you staying. 2. Tyler are you staying. 2. Cordelle are you staying. If 3 yeses, then a good coach will come because he will have a NC caliber offense. Go back to the old 4-3 and recruit 2 Eric Berry's. Find one more big linebacker and 2 corner backs and you are on top. But if there is a bus load of defects leaving early, then maybe we can get Western Ky coach or maybe La Tech's coaches and we will have 4 more years of misery.

Not saying you are wrong tenndave but Sonny Dykes at LA. Tech is doing better with Dooley`s players than Dooley did !

Written on Mike Strange: Vols have to make room for a new SEC rivalry with Missouri :

Well Mizzou, welcome to the SEC.

Written on Tennessee cornerbacks coach Derrick Ansley facing alma mater Troy on Saturday :

I wish they played as well as he supossedly coach`s.

Written on Derek Dooley: 'We got whipped by a great football team' :

in response to Icthus:

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I don`t care what your politics are, this statement is completely accurate ! If you can`t see that then you are ignorant !

Written on Phillip Fulmer, 1997 Tennessee team honored :

in response to cdldoc#211897:

Stupidiest thing we ever did at UT, firing Fulmer. Have all the haters realized yet that we do not have a good recruiting base? That is the main reason no one wants this job. We would be lucky if he would come back.

It may well have been stupid to Fire Coach Fulmer but when it`s all said and done he looked in the mirror every morning and he saw his own worst enemy. He brought his being fired upon himself by his own actions and inactions !

Written on Derek Dooley: 'We got whipped by a great football team' :

in response to MikeNPS:

Sorry, Glory Days, but Dooley took over a football program that had already been destroyed by the two previous coaches, and Obama took over a country that was already in a state of disaster due to the previous President. Each inherited a bad situation from the guy who was in the job before him and neither has been successful in turning around the bad situation.

You absolutely speak the TRUTH sir !

Written on Mike Strange: Should Vols beware a MAC attack? :

in response to jobrando#216494:

Vols 62 ZIPS 0
Vols 35 GA 3

Man ! What are you smoking ? I think I need some.

Written on Tennessee's secondary shake-up will open doors for young players Saturday:

in response to sameolvolalum:

Has he or has he not been observed and contacted by UT's coaches? Are you guys guessing, or has he actually been overlooked thus far. If somebody actually knows.....please chime in.

I do not know but I can quickly think of one who was : Patrick Willis from Bruceton, he played for Ole Miss and look at him now with the 49er`s.

Written on Tennessee's secondary shake-up will open doors for young players Saturday:

in response to exlineman:

All of you Vol fans need to take a look at the best running back in the state with over 1600 yards in 5 games. Jalen Hurd age 17 a junior but has enough credits to graduate this year. He is 6ft. 3in. and 210 and has speed in the 4.3 area. He plays for Beech high school in Hendersonville, Tn. They have had only one close game keying on Jalen was Mt. Juliet ranked 9th in 6a. Beech; is ranked 1st in 5a.
Jalen is smart and a good kid with enough credits to graduate this year, if he chooses to do so. Everybody wants this young man and we need him bad.

Ex former greats at UT could help in getting some of these great athletes as some of them are brothers, sons, nephews and cousins. You think Al. doesn't call upon previous greats to recruit for them.

One of the problems Tn. has is that alot of these high school coaches in Tn. have Al. connections, as well as alot of their parents come here to make a living in Tn. and hate Tn.
It is extremely hard to get some our own instate athletes because of these situations in many cases. It is time for some of our ex greats to step up to the plate and within the NCAA guidelines help Tn. in getting these kids to Tn.

Jalen Hurd might just be the best back not only in Tn. but the nation as well. Take a look at him by pulling up his name and his stats.

I watched Henry County play Beech a few weeks ago and you are correct, he is special. The state of Tennessee may not have the number of D1 recruits that some states around us have.That said it is sad that the University of Tennessee does not go after all of the good ones we do have!

Written on Geoff Calkins: No point in looking back for Tennessee:

Same ole Tennessee Football, Florida beats them and THEN they try to make some changes !

Written on Vols fans to get more food choices at Neyland:

Wonder how much the $4.00 a box popcorn will come down ?

Written on Antone Davis: VFL resource for present Vols and link to former ones :

in response to VOLS_SEC_RULES:

UT played Virginia in the '91 Sugar Bowl. Antone played that year. Was Dooley still playing for UVA that year?

Yes he was and the N C State coach was on the UVA staff!

Written on Mike Strange: Tennessee's win over N.C. State wasn't freshman orientation :

in response to BigOrangeFever76:

I see your point, but if you are in that big of a hurry....don't walk through where there are hundreds of fans. It was like he was doing my daughter a big favor to take a pic that he clearly did not want to. Plus no other fans even approached him as they walked away.

The good part is that we beat NC State! GBO!

Phillip Fulmer had reached the point in his coaching carrer that many folks do in their lives. When he got up in the morning and looked in the mirror he saw his own worst enemy.

Written on Big game, plays: Vols beat N.C. State, 35-21 :

No matter what you think of this win tonite no one can deny that that was a heck of a debut for Patterson !

Written on Da'Rick Rogers: Failed drug tests led to departure from UT :

in response to born2ride:

I wish Dooley would fail a drug test so we could get rid of him.

Time will tell if I agree or not but that is funny I don`t care how you feel !

Written on NC State: CB Wilson not listed on 2-deep vs Vols:

in response to IdahoVol:

And who is Wilson (other than the volleyball in "Cast Away")?

That`s preety funny Idahovol !

Written on Tennessee scrimmage gives backup QB Justin Worley chance to run offense :

in response to Rumblefish:

This overconfidence from the coaches and players is unsettling

I agree with you man. I hope we are concerned about nothing !

Written on Marsalis Teague gets a fresh start with new UT cornerbacks coach:

in response to RockyToptoNeyland:

Marsalis Teague reminds me of a tennessee player who was a big recruit, came in and laid an egg, and was a horrible secondary player. That player eventually got dismissed, what a shock, but I want Teague to prove me wrong this year. When he comes into the game, I don't want my first words to be uh oh....And yes, I was talking about Brent Vinson.

Just keep in mind Marsalis Teague was recruited as a wide receiver, a position he played very well under Kiffen as a freshman. Dooley is the reason he is on defence. M T is smart and has a high GPA. Without further injury I think you will be proven wrong this year !

Written on Marsalis Teague gets a fresh start with new UT cornerbacks coach:

in response to RaineyVol:

I love Teague, but the man gets beat evey game all game.. too slow. #VFL .. Good luck friend

Frist of all you are incorrect. Marsalis Teague has covered and broken up many passes during his time on defence as a Vol. Secondly your "speed" would have been decreased if you had suffered from turftoe for over a year.

Written on Derek Dooley to ‘reshape’ Vol for Life with Andre Lott gone:

My My I guess time will tell !

Written on 'Typical' first scrimmage for Vols:

in response to MilitaryBrat:

I feel that most Vol fans have the upmost respect for Coach Fulmer. And I also feel that a good percentage want Dooley to succeed. (Even if it is tainted due to - if Dooley wins, then UT wins)

But what bugs a lot of the posters on here, that are Pro-UT, are the fans that are Pro-Fulmer, that they can't get behind Dooley, (or whoever is the coach at UT), because the coach isn't Fulmer. It is like they want him to fail, just so they could say - 'see you shouldn't have fired Phil'

Personally, I think he just couldn't keep up with way the game changed. We needed a change to keep up with hot new coaches. But it should have been handled better. Fulmer deserved better treatment for what he had done for the University. He made Tennessee a team to be feared.

As for Dooley. I feel he fits "culture wise" at UT. He is a southern boy. If he wins here, I feel he will stay no matter who comes calling. He looks like he is a man that wants to make his own destiny. He will never be a head coach at Georgia, because he will always be compared to his dad.

Do I think that Dooley will make it?
I don't know if he does or not, but I feel he has the pieces now to show us.
But he needs to show much improvement.
Because of the new coaches that pretty much assures him another year. I feel they don't have a number of wins for Dooley to stay or go. But he needs to be in every game. If he gets blown out by three teams, he seat will be pretty hot.

My main request is lets wait and see what happens this season. Get behind the Coaches at UT, and hope they win, instead secretly wishing they would fail
so they can fire someone.

What would it take For You or Anybody that don't like Dooley,
to be Proud to have him as UT's Head Coach?

How bout a motivated well coached football team that shows up ready to play for 4 quarters ?

Written on Mickie DeMoss' exit could start makeover :

in response to OwensboroVol:

I think that with her illness its probably a good idea for Pat to take some kind of a different position at UT. The Lady Vols rivals will use Pat's Illness against her in recruiting, and staying will only cause the program she loves to begin dropping in quality. Holly Warlick has labored in Pat's shadow for many years and I think its time for her to spread her wings and fly. It would be nice if Pat could help out in some kind of adversary position. This is a hard thing to do or to see happen. My wife had a progressive disease and We spend the last years of her life very close. We both died a little bit every day, her physically and me mentally. There isn't any good to come of it. I watched the person who I had met on Cumberland Ave. when we were 19 slowly lose her battle for life. I have never been so helpless. My soul ached and still does. I miss her everyday of my life and look forward to the day that I might be with her again. I will never be whole again until then because half of me is gone.

How wonderful it must be to have had a partner that you loved so much !

Written on Uncertainty a reason Eric Russell left UT :

in response to OwensboroVol:

This is why you attempt to hire former Tennessee Players who have entered the Coaching Profession. The University has more loyalty to them and they have more loyalty to the University. I don't believe that this next year is make or break for Dooley. Should there be a total collapse and the team only win 2-3 games, of course a change would have to be made. However, I think most everyone agrees that 8 wins are probable and 9 wins possible next year. I guess the gray area is if the team wins 4-7 games. I don't think that is going to happen. I believe next year is going to be Dooley's and the Vol's breakout year. I am betting that we win every game we are suppose to and some we are not. I would not be surprised with a 10-2 record and a East Division Championship.

I apperciate your positive attitude, I just wish I could share it !

Written on If given the same choice as Tee Martin, would you have::

in response to dvol:

Go Tee, can't wait till you and Peyton are back in Ktown coaching the Vols. Say what you will about Kiffin the man knows talent. Wish we had someone who knew talent.

I wish we had a coach that knew how to coach the talent he does have !

Written on Derek Dooley says John Palermo 'most respected defensive line coaches in the nation':

in response to OwensboroVol:

I still believe that Peyton will be retiring very soon from the Colts. I believe the Colts are ready to go separate directions because they do not want to pay the 28 Million due on March 1. I don't think Peyton will want to play for another team and will go ahead and retire. He will then spent the 2012 Football season as a QB coach somewhere in the NFL. He will then be named as UT Head Coach next December. I know I may be dreaming, but can you blame an old man?

Sounds GOOD to me, He may be the only hope we have left!

Written on The react to Tennessee's loss to Kentucky:

in response to volcop:

I don't know how much money it would take to get Manning to coach here; but if I were the AD I'd pay it
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No amount of money could hire Peyton Manning. He is no doubt worth millions of dollars allready. If he took the job it will be because he loves Tennessee and is sick of the mess it has become. He is unproven as a coach but he would beable to recruit like wildfire ! Think about it, What young man would not give at least some consideration to signing with Head Coach Peyton Manning and the University Of Tennessee !

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