Dooley-isms

“I make mistakes all the time, but if it’s not fourth-and-1 every day when you come to work, then you’re not doing your job right. That’s how I feel — fourth-and-1 for the national championship every day. That’s how it’s got to be.”

“Where’s Rommel?”

My brother doesn’t just drive up from Atl and walk in the door. He says "Hey, Derek, I’m coming to Knoxville." Okay, see ya, boom!

I’m not a take the coaches on a canoe trip guy. I see those guys enough. I want to see my family when I’m not coaching.

Dooley on his offensive and defensive philosophy:

I believe in scoring a lot of points and not letting the other team score.

And my personal favorite. . .

Sometimes you can put in a stinky QB, and all of a sudden the RB will break three tackles and the WR will jump up one-handed and eat peanuts off the head of the corner, and it’s the human intangible. Moxie.

 “You’ll have to talk to our trainers about that. Are our trainers allowed to talk to the media?”

[he is informed that the trainers are not allowed to speak to the media]

“Well then you may have a difficult time getting an answer to that question”

I shouldn’t have quoted. I"m paraphasing. But the actual quote was in a recent post.

- a sack of potatoes analogy
- When he was trying to illustrate Tyler’s personality, he used a hypothetical conversation of him informing Tyler Bray that his house was burning down and Tyler responding with “Oh, I think I left some things in there”

There are soooo many more. Is there a way to get transcripts of his press conferences. It would be a lot quicker to read through those than to go back through and watch all the pressers.

But there was communication from you to the box that there were 13 at some point?
“No. Not to me. Because my headset is off. Boom, snap. It was chaotic.”

Matt Simms has been sacked now 16 times.
“That’s a lot.”

Gerald (Jones) said he went up to the offensive line and said, `Do you know what your job is?‘
“What’d they say?"

Is there anything new on Cody Pope?
“The longest stinger injury in the history of college football. That’s what’s new. It might be because he doesn’t eat meat. I’m starting to think red meat and chicken is the cure for stingers. That’s my conclusion. We’re out of any other medical options. So I’m going to try to force a steak down him tonight.”

We were gonna freeze ‘em, see maybe if we would get lucky, they would jump offsides. Didn’t work. Usually never does. Everybody knows we’re doing it. But you still gotta do it in case you got one moron over there.

regarding Punt return

We try to make it exciting. I think next time we’ll put up a tent because it’s a circus back there.

Dooley on Vols run game at Vandy: “We played good, cause we’re not good. We played really well (for) being not good. It was average.”

We implemented the “no returner” the other night. So we still have that. In case we need it.

Then asked if he’d ever used it before, he said “I’ve never used it. Are you kidding me? I’ve never used it.”

Also loved this one:

He’s where coaches are. When you don’t have the off week, and your opponent does, it’s a tremendous advantage for them. They get to rest. They get two weeks of schematic preparation. They get more reps. So it’s a tremendous advantage for Kentucky, and it puts us at a disadvantage. Now, had we had the off week, and we’re playing a team that doesn’t, I would say this is bad, because we’re hot, it’s getting us out of our rythym, alright. And I don’t know how the players are gonna manage it. I’m just being honest with you, the coaches just shape it, whatever benefits them. The reality is, back to what I concluded originally, you don’t know. It might help Kentucky, it might hurt Kentucky. I don’t know. It all goes back to how they manage it.

Just wanted to show them how easy it is to catch. Next I’m going to show them how to catch punts.

Have you figured out the mystery (celebration)?

“To the crazy deal? I never know if they tell me the truth. They say they’re just going crazy, you know, out there. I told them I do that in the office when I watch the film and I see them line up wrong. In October, I spent a whole month doing this (gestures). I may do it when they mess up, and they can do it when they do well; then we’re even. I don’t know. If that brings them juice, then I’m all for it. I guess it’s kind of like, what was it, Nuke LaLoosh, when he was wearing the ladies’ undergarment?”

I love most about Derek D is he hasn’t mastered the art of coach speak. He says things that are off wall, yet direct to the point. After years of hearing the same coach speak by his predecessors it has been refreshing to listen to the post game pressers and the Vol calls show to here him talk. My contribution goes back to the preseason camp. He stated after a practice. Our team was distracted today at practice for two reasons: One they are nervous because classes start Monday. and the other is natural because girls have returned to the university. I can’t ever see Coach Fulmer admitting those two points. He would have given us some coach speak about the team wasn’t focused today.

Dooley-quoted article from the Beacon

Written by Matt Dixon-Wes Rucker’s intern.

Dooley: “Obviously Luke didn’t think we were going to a bowl game. Sounds like he met me and said, ‘No way we’re going to a bowl.’”

http://twitter.com/wesruckerCTFP/status/15090156319019008