New Tennessee coach Derek Dooley said several things during his late night introduction Friday to distinguish himself from the not-so-dearly departed Lane Kiffin — but almost as distinct as what he said might have been how he said it.
The Important Thing About Derek Dooley: The Accent
↵Any Southerner knows that there’s no such thing as a “Southern accent.” There’s an Alabama accent and a Georgia accent and a South Carolina accent and even different accents in different parts of the same state. But having lived in the South all my life, I still can’t quite place Dooley’s very pronounced twang.
↵There’s some country Georgian in there, no doubt. A dash of Louisiana, maybe. At times, he sounds like a generic old-school country music star. It’s a little bit of everything and sort of its own thing at the same time.
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Whatever it was, it sure wasn’t the bland, faintly Midwestern flavor in that previous guy’s voice. No, Mr. Dooley is SEC people.
↵Now if someone could just teach him to stand still …
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