Missouri Tigers QB Drew Lock blasts Vol Twitter in support of Derek Dooley hire

Phil Kaplan | Knoxville

Show Caption Hide Caption Dooleyisms: Memorable sayings from former UT head coach Derek Dooley Derek Dooley may not have had success on the football field, but one thing he always won was the ability to leave memorable quotes during a press conference.

Missouri quarterback Drew Lock hit back at Vol Twitter in support of Derek Dooley after the Tigers crushed Tennessee 50-17 on Saturday night at Neyland Stadium.

The senior was 21-of-30 for 257 yards and two touchdowns to beat the Vols for the second consecutive year.

Dooley was fired by Tennessee in 2012. He had a 15-21 record in three seasons. He is in his first season as Missouri's offensive coordinator.

Missouri hired Dooley on Jan. 5 after spending the previous five seasons as the wide receivers coach for the Dallas Cowboys.

"I still had Twitter at that time and I was getting tagged in all these tweets from all these Tennessee people — oh, Drew Lock’s got Derek Dooley now," said Lock. "Here he goes down the drain. Blah, blah. There goes Missouri hiring Derek Dooley, what are you guys doing? Blah blah blah. All these 'Orange and White’ accounts, all these Volunteer dot orgs and 247 Vols and stuff. And now we’re here, and this happened today. It's just like, you know there are words that go with it."

Dooley led the Vols to a bowl game in his first season, but failed to reach the postseason in his next two.

Dooley has been a source of ridicule by Vol fans, especially on social media.

Lock said beating the Vols "meant a lot to him."

"At the time, when we hired Coach Dooley — I thought about this when I was on the sideline. (Backup QB Taylor Powell) in there. Just thinking about the big picture of this game."

Dooley watched the game from the coaches' box, but made his way down to the field in time to greet players as they made the way through the tunnel after the game.

"I actually saw him on the field for the first time after the game," Lock said. "Normally I wait to get to the locker room and that's where he's at. I think he wanted to be able to come step foot on that field after he put a little 50-ball on his old boys"