Happy New Year gang.
From the “Mama McNabb stage at the Al Davis Studios” here we go.
Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley looks during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against the Alabama, Saturday, Oct, 22 2011 in Tuscaloosa Ala.More UT headaches
We’re not saying the wheels have come off of the Derek Dooley regime in Knoxville, but the lug nuts are certainly wobbling. Wow, defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox and up-and-coming linebackers coach Peter Sirmon left the Vols for similar jobs at Washington. That’s the UNIVERSITY of Washington, mind you, and not the Washington Redskins. Ouch-standing.
Coupled with the mismanagement of DeAnthony Arnett’s transfer request (Background: Arnett’s dad is ill, he want to be closer to him in Saginaw, Mich., and requested a transfer; Dooley said OK as long as it’s not Michigan or Michigan State, per the school’s policy, and UT came out looking rather petty and harsh in the whole deal; it was not a P.R. win by any stretch of the imagination; plus it’s the same type of transfer situation that allowed at least three Vols – Tyler Smith, Alex Bullard and Brandon Warren – in the last six years to come to Knoxville and play right away), this has been a trying 10 days, especially when UT fans remember that they weren’t in a bowl game.