My day job is to talk about sports. It’s a pretty swell gig. But when you talk about sports for a living, you’re bound to be wrong. A lot.
And I was wrong about Derek Dooley.
I didn’t like the hire when Barry Odom named Dooley the offensive coordinator. I thought it was uninspired. We saw him flame out at Tennessee. The Dallas Cowboys were exactly throwing money his way when he left.
But Missouri hired him anyway. They hired him to coach quarterbacks and call plays. He had never done either of those jobs. Missouri made a hire which appeared desperate on the surface.