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. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)If you’re a Tennessee football fan these days, you presumably vent because you care.
Some of you vent to attack second-year coach Derek Dooley now that the Vols are 0-5 in the Southeastern Conference with three league games to play. Some of you vent because you believe 21 games — albeit 12 of them losses — is not nearly enough time to judge a coach’s worth.
Especially not when he’s the third coach this year’s seniors have played for in four years.
So the more cautious and realistic among you believe and write — as one reader did Sunday:
“Us realistic fans understand that if you take away the top two offensive players and top two defensive players from ANY team, you’re going to have trouble winning games. Especially when one of the players is your ONLY decent QB on the roster. Dooley will win at least nine games next season when [Tyler] Bray, [Justin] Hunter and [Herman] Lathers return and stop this negative propaganda.”