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in response to joseph_mccarthy:

Hey Charlie, UT Knoxville isn't the only game in town! Heck there are many more attractive schools than UT. Of course it does have one of THE ugliest campuses around.

in response to Volunteer-Varmint:

That is unless they were dismissed.

in response to USnavyFEvol8251:

Why does nobody talk about John Chavis?

in response to tnoutlaw2001#228008:

I think Gary Patterson has to be option 1, pay him and get him here, he fits everything (Athletic dept.)said we want. There's nothing keeping him tied to TCU except loyalty. Then maybe Butch Jones option 2. He has been a head coach a few years now, and if he keeps up what Kelly has done (he's followed him as HC twice now). Then UT might be a great fit and be very happy.

I don't think Gundy would ever leave his Alma Mater and 3.2 million. Plus I'm sure they would pay more, or make someone else pay 5 million to steal him, that's if he wanted to leave.

in response to fredricks:

Franklin would be an excellent candidate to replace Dolley if we can't get a big name coach.

in response to florida-volfan:

Mike Hamilton and others including Jimmy Cheek gave this guy a contract like he was a top notch proven coach who has won games. Yet he never had a winning record and was a head coach at La Tech. Even Wil Muschamp at Florida does not have that kind of buyout, Florida will hardly owe him anything if they were to let him go now. In my opinion anybody associated with this hire should be fired and let go with the rest of the coaching staff, it was a horrible business decision. The question is...does UT have enough money to buy out this overpaid coaching staff, and bring in another high paid coaching staff next year, because you know Dave Hart has to hit a homerun with this next hire or it could be him on the chopping block

in response to arkyvol:

7-5 in and of itself doesn't mean spit. what's important is the composition of 7-5. this season had five wins built into it (ga.state, akron, troy, vandy and kentucky). take those out of the equation and you're looking at 2-5 (I'm being optomistic here as vandy is no gimmee and we all know what can happen to a dooley coached team against kentucky). if the vols lose to vandy and mizzou and upset kentucky, their real record is 1-7. i won't even go into things like ranked teams and sec teams. if that's not enough to get the boy who should never have been hired fired, then the vols ought to discontinue football.

in response to FWBVol:

As I stated in a post on another story, let's be realistic about the three straight years of starting 0-5 in SEC play. Yes, that number is a fact, but there's more to it than a blanket statement condemning Derek Dooley and the program.

Two years ago, Dooley's first year, we had zero experience on the offensive line and at QB. Dooley was left with one offensive lineman, Dallas Thomas, that had ever started a game and he only had something like three or four starts. The rest of the offensive linemen were freshmen in 2010 and that line has now become a strength of the team.

The 2010 UT squad was the youngest team in the nation and was playing several players under the alotted number of scholarships allowed.

Back up to last year. We played the toughest schedule in the SEC. We were the only team from the East to play Alabama, Arkansas and LSU from the West and we still had to play Florida and Georgia. Speaking of Florida and Georgia, Hunter tears up his knee on the first offensive series against Florida and Bray breaks his hand against Georgia.

This year has been frustrating because the defense has been awful, but our five SEC losses have all come to teams that, other than Mississippi State have been ranked in the top five at one time or another this year and MSU was undefeated coming into tonight's game with Alabama that the Bulldogs are losing.

I'm not going for moral victories and I'm tired of close losses, but this is a game we played well enough to win. The horse-collar call in the second quarter on what would have been a Tennessee fumble recovery in USC territory was a bad call and the no call on what should have been an intentional grounding penalty a few plays later was even worse.

Our schedule has been front end heavy and back end light for years. Move the Georgia or Florida game to November and move Vandy, Kentucky or Missouri to the front of our schedule and in none of the last three years would we have started 0-5 in SEC play.

It's easy to spout off what the TV talking heads are pointing out, but let's look at the big picture before going into our Chicken Little and the sky is falling routine.

Am I satisfied with where the program is now? No. Do I think Dooley needs to win now? Yes, the time is now. We can still win out and make a decent bowl game and next year will be the key for Dooley.

Derek Dooley took a Tennessee job nobody seemed to want and has laid a foundation for success. We do need more players that will make plays on defense. And if Dooley does survive this year, next year will be the year for him to turn things around or get fired.

in response to OrangePride:

Yes....well, this is all potentially true. But any team on any loss can usually point to a few plays and say, "if only." But therein lies the difference between the really good teams and the ones who sit home at bowl season. We can fix alignment and tackle better..those are possible improvements. But we can't coach or improve speed and THATS been a HUGE problem in this secondary. Whether its closing speed, coverage speed, or read speed....it ain't been there on way too many occasions. About all you can do on that is change personnel, or put them in different positions where they won't be so exposed, or scheme it to minimize the weakness. We will see if the changes and coaching will survive Saturday's test. Make no mistake, MSU will be fighting and scratching all day. We will need our very best effort to prevail....but the good news? We have the talent to do just that and win this game. So go do it. GO VOLS!!

in response to Rich_Is_Re-born:

$5million. Drops to $4million in feb.