Tennessee fires football coach Derek Dooley

By STEVE MEGARGEE (AP Sports Writer) | The Associated Press – 7 minutes ago



KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Derek Dooley is out at Tennessee.

The university announced the anticipated firing Sunday after Dooley posted the storied program's longest run of consecutive losing seasons in over a century .

What's newsworthy in this country is filtered by the media. Yesterday there were between 70,000 and 200,000 people in Paris alone marching in protest of new same sex marriage laws. Many more in Lyon and Marseilles. Not even a mention of it on CNN Europe. That is not just irresponsible, it's censorship. Now if it were a protest in favor of the law, I'm sure it would be the lead story for days...

I guess being an outsider reading tea leaves the answer is somewheres in between. Bar says team and you say circle. If you look at the circle back past moak you see many of the same team back well into the C2K years. I'm not saying that we never have turnover but many of the same team/circle was here before moak and not all in DFW ;)

My memory is shot but it seems like the positions have been swapping around since C2K and that the cyclical gains of our contracts and the economy swinging through recessions dictate the next leader. Maybe someone can whip a graph up for mec chairman vs contracts and economy. There was a roadshow slide with the bad things that happend to airlines and the contracts and airlines making money. Noted change has/hasn't worked out well in the past and I'm just wondering if the AP was right and it makes a difference to anyone at all?

There's none of the C2K negotiators, but there are 2 of the 3 post-C2K negotiators with positions at the MEC today. All 3 of their follow-ons are there today. Their successors have been there even longer and have made that roadshow chart change the way it looks. Some part of that team may be a circle but they seem to have done the lionshare of the team work for many years. The chairman elect was a com guy and treasurer for nearly all the same time. He's as much of the omalley circle/team as anyone as near as I can remember. I think Bar has it right with the hope that we see some of the team remain and that the outside politics of the country aren't offering change for change sakes. Something subtle happened and a newspaper story made me notice it.

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The press ignores us when we need help and writes about us when it makes no sense but at least we can sit back and watch WN's Cellos Fly Free campaign next :confused:

I have only held a line once in the last few years, so this may be a really basic question. Is it possible to pick up an out of base trip off the swap board? I tried to do it and got denied, is there a way to do it or am I out of luck? Thanks guys.

Welcome back. :D

I don't think you can do it off the swap board. I believe you can swap with the pot though, it just has to be within a few days (maybe just one) of the trip.

With their god awful season, I hear Lane Kiffin can be had for cheap. :D

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ah... just patiently waiting for scheduling to take my thanksgiving off away.