UPDATE: The KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL reports Derek Dooley has been hired by Tennessee as head football coach.
Though ESPN is reporting that Kevin Sumlin is still “in the mix” for the job, the KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL reports “Derek Dooley will reportedly be named Tennessee’s next head coach even though the Vols still have one interview left to conduct.”
I’m guessings Chuck Neinas and Mike Hamilton were probably not among the 37,143 who screened this video of Dooley striking a Louisiana Tech player in the head during a 2007 game vs. Cal before reportedly making the decision to hire Dooley as Tennessee’s new coach.
So why Dooley, if he is indeed the guy? A source tells me he’s the first decent candidate Hamilton interviewed who agreed to take on the six assistants UT contractually owes $3M to. Dooley will only hire four of his own assistants.
2:45 pm on January 15th, 2010
He has a helmet on!
Brooks drinks Zima!
2:55 pm on January 15th, 2010
Brooks, come on, you’re splitting hairs here. Every coach has smacked his players in the head when their helmet is on.
Geeze, you’re almost as bad as perez.
2:57 pm on January 15th, 2010
Agreed, CL. Dude is wearing a lid, so BFD.
3:21 pm on January 15th, 2010
Yeah, Brooks has been in Soft Cali a little too long. My wife hits my son that hard on his hockey helmut when she congratulates him on a well-played game.
He’s ten.
3:46 pm on January 15th, 2010
thats why jim levit got fired at usf
4:05 pm on January 15th, 2010
good grief, get a grip. it’s football for pete’s sake
footbaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww!
4:36 pm on January 15th, 2010
can football coaches stop being fired for being football coaches?
and
can tattletale babies stop getting D1 football scholarships?
4:49 pm on January 15th, 2010
Amen. Let’s get over football coaches being physical with players. It is football by the way, not soccer.
As a Vol fan I am a lot more concerned about hiring a guy with a less than .500 record in the WAC, for crying out loud!!! I am afraid we will be paying out another contract in 3 years just to get this guy to go away.
Will someone please fire Mike Hamilton and put him out of our misery!!!!
5:26 am on January 16th, 2010
spoiled little rich kid, can’t even beat little ole, play nobody, Boise State, heck he can’t even win half of his games in the cream puff WAC, and your moron AD is giving him your football program, boy you guy have things really messed up, no wonder the other coach left so soon
10:48 am on January 16th, 2010
FIRE HAMILTON FIRE HAMILTON FIRE HAMILTON
12:13 pm on January 16th, 2010
yeah brooks, and that LB that hit the same player with a forearm to the grill the next play should have his scholarship wanked.