... January 16, 2010, news came out that I didn't expect to hear. Could an SEC school, steep in tradition, really be hiring a head coach from a small Western Athletic Conference school?

The answer to that was yes and the guy was former Louisiana Tech head coach Derek Dooley. He said all the right things during his press conference, and he's done all the right things through their recruiting period as well as leading up to just weeks before the college football season kicks off.

He didn't have much time to work. He was thrown the fire and handled the heat better than I expected he would. I will admit, I was wrong about him. I questioned the hire, even looked at it cross-eyed. Now, seven months later, ...

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