https://www.stltoday.com/sports/coll...bf5356a02.html
It was a dead-end job, he said.
When I got there I told my wife, I just ruined my career.
https://www.stltoday.com/sports/coll...bf5356a02.html
It was a dead-end job, he said.
When I got there I told my wife, I just ruined my career.
He could have said somethine to the effect of:
"I knew I had my work cut out for me."
"It was a challenge"
"I'm thankful for Tech for giving me a shot"
etc....
He is such an ASS. His message could have been the same without taking a dump on the school who helped jump-start his ultimately lackluster coaching career. What a douche.
When did he tell his wife? Did he talk about getting caught running around on her?
Some of what he said is unarguably true. But, come on. He's been going out of his way to frame it as harshly as possible to Tech and in the most-unflattering way since the day he left.
Meanwhile, his record in his three years here (which is what we fans actually care about) is 17-20. The first three years of the 2 coaches before and after him? Crowton 21-13. JB3 18-16. Dykes 22-15. Holtz 22-17. You could (I suppose) fairly make the argument that the later two benefited from his work to improve the program, but you couldn't say that about the first two. I guess you could argue that the later half of JB3's time had backed us up some, but it isn't like he or Crowton had more money to work with or better comparative facilities.
I'm looking forward to the opportunity to cheer for his opponents.
From what I have seen on this board, Dooley only told the truth. The athletic department was starving for funds, getting no support from the administration. He was the one who raised the awareness that has led to the improvements we have seen since then. He ended up saying things got better at Tech because people listened to him which was not the case at Tennessee.
Probably has an ego nearly the size of the US President, but I don't think he intended to trash Tech. But that is just my opinion.
Dead end? Didn't he get his Tennessee job based on what he did at Tech? What killed his HC career was the fact that he's a bad HC. Tennessee found that out, but not before they paid him a small fortune.
His boring O won't fly at Mizzou.
Precious will soon be job hunting again.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
About the Tech job before Dooley: Aillet is in the Hall of Fame. Lambright will someday join him. Brewer left Tech for Ole Miss. Williams retired from Tech a winner. Peace was offered the Mississippi State job but turned it down because his father, Raymond Peace, was ill at the time. Crowton left to become OC for the Chicago Bears. And if Bicknell had the types of schdules we have today, or that Dooley had for that matter, he would have eventually gotten the BC job.
So it was actually one of the best jobs in what is now the G5. Facility issues and all.
Yep, starts of trashing the state of the program when he arrived.....which was not good and then says it got better thanks largely to him (which is true). I don't think he needs to be quite as harsh as he is, but it's mostly accurate besides the coaching graveyard comment.
Bicknell was no great coach, but if he had the schedules that we have had more recently I have no doubt he would have gone on to bigger things. His schedules were brutal and he still managed to make some noise every once in a while. Swap a sure loss for a winnable game for most of his seasons and he would have been to a few more bowl games and looked quite a bit better.
He moved and shook early on. He coached a great game against lsu. His attitude toward the fans took a 180 from his first 6 months to his last year. He went form engaging and hustling to ignoring the small people. I suppose that is better than the guy we have now who started out ignoring most everyone, then learned who to ignore by getting close to only a few of the money people.
FWIW, Dooly was the first coach to screw with the helmets (stripe) and who gave us the stupid logos and puppy dog. His branding ideas were HORRIBLE.