Ex-College Football Coach Announces Run for Senate — Gets Promptly Roasted With Montage of Insane Quotes

Tennessee Volunteers head coach Derek Dooley watches his team warm up before an NCAA college football game on Sept. 22, 2012, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

A former college football coach’s run for the U.S. Senate resulted in social media bringing up some of his most ridiculous past quotes.

On Monday, former Tennessee Volunteers coach Derek Dooley announced his campaign to challenge Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in the 2026 midterms. In his announcement video, Dooley praised President Donald Trump and promised to bring back “good old-fashioned Georgia common sense.” He also slammed Ossoff as being a “professional politician” who’s “the problem.”

Not long after Dooley’s announcement was reported, a video montage showing some of his most outrageous quotes from his coaching days went viral.

In the first clip of the video, Dooley compared his team to “the Germans in World War II,” adding:

You know, right now, we’re like the Germans in World War II. All right, here comes the boats. It’s coming. You know the binoculars? Like, oh my god, the invasion is coming.

In another clip, Dooley revealed to the press that he held a “clinic” with his players to teach them how to bathe properly:

So we did a clinic yesterday on proper shower technique and soap and using a rag. We put some new rags in. Y’all think I’m kidding.

In what was arguably the most puzzling quote, Dooley tried to connect his punter’s kicking ability to the Pythagorean theorem:

He hit two punts and he cross kicked them, and they went 60-something; but I think they were about — if you did Pythagorean’s theorem, you know, A-squared plus B-squared equals C-squared — I bet it was about a 75-yard kick.

Naturally, social media had a field day with those comments. Some users even compared him to football great-turned-politician Herschel Walker.

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