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I know 78 wasn't a big fan, but Jack Hairston rotting away in his grave is still a better writer than Dooley.Dooley was around even when I was at UF. I largely ignored him even then.
Was he ever competent? Did he once have sources and actual insight? He obviously, astonishingly, doesnt know much about the game but that I guess seems to have been common for that era when the qualifications seemed to be that you were comfortable getting drunk at any sort of sporting event (Verne Lundquist types). However I do wonder if he got lazy in his old age and if he was once good at his job. Anyone have opinions?
Look at this passage from the article on the front page about our offensive line:
“It’s been (getting tougher),” he said of the line. “We’re coming off the ball. We’re taking a step forward and not backward. I’m excited about that. We’ve got, as with all positions, a long way to go, but I like their approach. They’re playing fast. They’re getting up and getting set, and they’re coming off the ball.
I mean, you've got to be kidding me. That's obnoxious.
If they aren't going to take the time to properly edit their work and make sure it's posted in a normal, coherent manner, I'm not even going to bother reading it. Especially when I can usually get much better info and writing from Zach at SEC Country.
I can't believe the decline of Gatorsports that I've witnessed over the past few years. You would think it would be a top Gator site by default just because of their proximity to the program and all the connections built up over the years by their senior staff. Yet, it appears all the critics against whom I defended the site for so long were right, after all: it's just a bunch of fat, lazy slobs running the show who'd rather stuff their face with wings and listen to iTunes while the younger generation like Zach runs circles around them. Pat's not even trying anymore - he's become entirely predictable and cliche. Just look at the Back Nine (if you can even read it with all those technical errors) - it's the same as last year's around this time: the same tired references to the Masters as the "toonamint" and humble-bragging about his stupid, insignificant one round there like 30 years ago with media hacks, waxing poetic about how fortunate Gainesville is to have all the sports occurring at this time (Florida Relays, gymnastics, Spring Game, baseball series, softball, etc.)...the same recycled garbage over and over.
There's no point wasting my time with it anymore. I'm done. Not sure how it will affect my posting habits on here, but I would think I'll be posting a lot less now that I won't be frequenting the site as much to read the latest articles and listen to podcasts.
To all the posters with whom I've gone back and forth, I wish you guys well. I know I don't always see eye to eye with everyone on the direction of the program, but, at the end of the day, we all just want to see Gator Football back in its rightful place atop the mountain. I hope everyone has a healthy, happy spring and summer, and let's hope 2017 is the year offense finally returns to our program.
All the best,
Lawrence
When Dooley was a cub reporter at the Sun, he protégéd under Jack Hairston, who was the Sports Editor when I was in school at UF. Hairston was far and away the worst sports editor I've witnessed in my half-century walking this earth. Hairston was lazy, formulaic and trite, brutally mundane and redundant, and had, for years, developed a sports page that was almost unreadable. He knew he was the only game in town. There was no internet then, and the Gatorbait tabloid was still in its infancy, publishing only sporadically.
, Hairston also got on the wrong side of Charlie Pell and that caused some interesting things to happen. And Hairston also followed my favorite SE, Joe Halberstien. I was a kid but loved his stories of SOS playing and the super sophs. And that Gatorbait paper once a week was fantastic to me. It had multiple writers with different viewpoints.
Dooley did become fat, but it's clear the road his career took him down has made him far from happy. His bitterness toward his readers and former readers is present in nearly every passage he types. The declining readership and 1950s journalistic style have made him a laughing-stock and an easy target for internet message boards like ours. Pat Dooley is nothing more than a punch line at this point; a sad visage in an outdated Hawaiian shirt with a 1980s haircut, trying to prop up a dying sports page in a dying industry in a town and era that have completely passed him by. Dooley certainly is the worst writer in your universe. I suspect many of you critics come from large cities with good sports editors. I only know a few. Tom Mcewen from the Tampa Trib was good. I liked a few of the Jax Times union guys. What do you think about Robbie Andeu?
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He'd still end up getting a head coaching job offer from somebody.
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Posted 06 April 2017 - 11:31 AM
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Also, Dooley will probably need to use Shands in the Future. I have had surgery there -, what an avid, rabid Gator place that is. After waking up from surgery full of the euphoria of the anesthesia, My table was being pushed by a group of medical cheerleaders. I immediately yelled "Go gators!" Immediately, and even louder, the same words were rejoined across the entire floor of the hospital.
Yeah, I pretty much ONLY read the Alligator. That's probably why I really have no memory of him. I seem to recall however that he did give flak to Fooley being a itchy vagina during during Earnest Graham-gate.Meanwhile, the understaffed and inexperienced writers at the Alligator were doing all the heavy lifting.
Two questions:a sad visage in an outdated Hawaiian shirt with a 1980s haircut,
Dooley is a perfect example of why I no longer listen to any sports radio as he is the most prime example of "just b/c you cover sports does not mean you know anything about sports or that you should get a radio gig."
So the great Namedropper is at it again, blaming critical fans. Personally, I wish Grier well and I hope the Chump continues to stink it up but more importantly, I wish Fooley a miserable retirment for hiring him in the first place.In his column he pondered what would pizzz some of you off more. Champ winning the SEC EAST title or Grier winning the Heisman this year.
Still waiting for some intrepid reporter from the Sun ( ) to do a ground breaking investigative piece on that mysterious and as of yet unsolved "Hawaiian Guy" shooting in Gainesville.