Vonn Bell's coach on Ainge show this a.m

Dave Hart is an ugly combination of arrogance and idiocy who likely would not have made a move if not forced by others and Dooley's colossal incompetence. I am convinced that man gives not one damn about the success of Tennessee athletics. He makes me sick.

Sorry for the rant, but I really loathe that man and his role in decimating UT football.

 

Considering Dooley's nonchalant attitude about in state recruiting, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

 

I have a lot of trouble believing that Hart was not aware of all of Dooley's incompetence. As long as the money keeps flowing in .......

 

You only have to listen to Dooley talk about recruiting for 4 or 5 minutes to tell that he borderline hated it.

 

That's probably why he was the recruiting coordinator for Saban. He was good at the obsessive admin details and didn't have to do much actual leg work.

 

He will transfer, take a mental note

 

Me either. I buy many of the negatives about Dooley, but if Bell wanted to be a Vol, he'd be a Vol. He was recruited hard enough by Jones to make it happen. I personally dn't blame him seeings how Jones is a bottom feeder SEC coach, but saying that wouldn't go over too well. The radio interview was to assuage Vol fans who he disappointed.

 

Eggzactly

 

I don't think there's anything you can say about Dave Hart that requires and apology.

 

We asked him to make a gigantic commitment, probably the biggest of his life to this point, after basically treating him like a CAK walk-on quality player for the last few years. At some point he just said, "screw it". It would be like if someone offered you season tickets at a fairly good price the day after we lost to Kentucky. Maybe 5 years ago you buy 6, but he'd just had enough and wasn't willing to make the sacrifice anymore.

 

There was no continuity to the people who treated him like a walk on. Completely new faces

 

There was a continuity to the people that were treating him like a rock star.

 

Kiffen has/had a big name, not that has done much. But people were excited, he came from the NFL and everyone thought he'd be sending first round draft picks to the league for years. Same would have applied for Gruden. I don't think anyone can say the same for Mr Jones.

 

Kiffin, having Orgeron and Monte in tow, had a advantage.

Being a couple of years removed from USC's little run and having NFL background didn't hurt either.

 

I've said all along that Jones comes across as that long-winded rah-rah high school coach that actually believes his own psycho-babble, yet every player on the team knows he's really just full of shit.

I remember watching him when we played Cincy and thinking, "This guy is so over the top that he's comical." He also came across as an annoying whiner. Hope I'm wrong. It's still early, but nothing has changed my initial impression yet.

 

He wasn't a self professed OSU or Bama fan, though. Who "always wanted to attend UT" and "UT is where his heart is"

 

Its like the motivation speaker HR always wants to bring in to increase moral, and all you want to do is kick him in the balls.

 

Been there too, huh?

 

Yup, and because of budget cuts, no krispy kremes and bagels.

 

Those cheap bastards!