Gary Danielson: "Vols Are Soft"; Pruitt Perfect Hire

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The perfect example of what he is talking about was the Florida game when we tried to pass on first down from the half yard line. Didn't need to scheme or try to trick anybody there with a pass. You just line up a ram it in if you can't do that you are definitely soft.
 
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It's classic how the last few months have unveiled what a total joke we were with Butch Jones, and how frustrating it was to see all of the clueless TN fans who continued to support him throughout last fall.
 
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It's classic how the last few months have unveiled what a total joke we were with Butch Jones, and how frustrating it was to see all of the clueless TN fans who continued to support him throughout last fall.

The same fans who have fallen in love with our new coach before he has coached one game as head coach in college anywhere. They also believe Fulmer will guide him in the right direction. We can all hope they’re going to be right. It good to be optimistic, but let’s not get carried away.
 
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It's classic how the last few months have unveiled what a total joke we were with Butch Jones, and how frustrating it was to see all of the clueless TN fans who continued to support him throughout last fall.

There's a difference between clueless and loyal. Not loyal to the coach, but loyal to this University.

The majority of us had been very critical of Butch since the very beginning for many things (goal line shotgun, the chart, champions of life, brick-by-brick, misuse of Kamara, injuries, etc), but we still remained LOYAL.

Your comment seems quite off base and not representative of what actually occurred.
 
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So last year's team be like

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It's classic how the last few months have unveiled what a total joke we were with Butch Jones, and how frustrating it was to see all of the clueless TN fans who continued to support him throughout last fall.

There's some of that, but there's also the typical thing that happens whenever anybody gets fired where everything gets blamed on them.
 
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or first and goal with 1:20 left at Florida last year and throw 3 straight times after running it thru them the last 2 drives...only to leave enough time on the clock for them to beat your ass.......
 
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There's a difference between clueless and loyal. Not loyal to the coach, but loyal to this University.

The majority of us had been very critical of Butch since the very beginning for many things (goal line shotgun, the chart, champions of life, brick-by-brick, misuse of Kamara, injuries, etc), but we still remained LOYAL.

Your comment seems quite off base and not representative of what actually occurred.

Good catch. We don't see that kind of stuff here often, hard to spot.
 
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The same fans who have fallen in love with our new coach before he has coached one game as head coach in college anywhere. They also believe Fulmer will guide him in the right direction. We can all hope they’re going to be right. It good to be optimistic, but let’s not get carried away.

I'm not sure how many are getting "carried away" w/ new crew. Been burned too many times, and I have cautious optimism, because everything really "sounds different", and structurally, we've finally cleared out a lot of nonsense w/ Fulmer coming in, along w/ a staff that's all about football, leaving the fluff stuff behind. You know Pruitt has plenty of bulletin board material for summer and fall workouts, coming out of media days. Doesn't mean we're going to be successful, but it does feel different, to me.
 
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There's a difference between clueless and loyal. Not loyal to the coach, but loyal to this University.

The majority of us had been very critical of Butch since the very beginning for many things (goal line shotgun, the chart, champions of life, brick-by-brick, misuse of Kamara, injuries, etc), but we still remained LOYAL.

Your comment seems quite off base and not representative of what actually occurred.

Cluelessness was still thinking Butch Jones would ever come close to winning the SEC after his 4th year, and continuing to justify & excuse major red flags in the name of 'loyalty'. True loyalty is taking off the blinders and demanding change to make the program better.
 
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There's a difference between clueless and loyal. Not loyal to the coach, but loyal to this University.

The majority of us had been very critical of Butch since the very beginning for many things (goal line shotgun, the chart, champions of life, brick-by-brick, misuse of Kamara, injuries, etc), but we still remained LOYAL.

Your comment seems quite off base and not representative of what actually occurred.

The "majority"? Nope. At least not on this board. The majority defended Jones and dismissed his shortcomings... and attacked those who pointed them out.

There are STILL a couple here that deny that HC's decisions impact injury rates. Jones had a pattern of higher than normal injuries each year. One particular poster defends Jones by claiming that if we as fans cannot pinpoint the particular coaching failure... that we can't say it was his failure. If that logic worked then you could never hold a coach accountable for ANYTHING.

The truth is that Jones road the coattails of a good coach until he got to UT and actually had to build something himself. He doesn't have the coaching talent to do that.
 
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The "majority"? Nope. At least not on this board. The majority defended Jones and dismissed his shortcomings... and attacked those who pointed them out.

There are STILL a couple here that deny that HC's decisions impact injury rates. Jones had a pattern of higher than normal injuries each year. One particular poster defends Jones by claiming that if we as fans cannot pinpoint the particular coaching failure... that we can't say it was his failure. If that logic worked then you could never hold a coach accountable for ANYTHING.

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EXACTLY! and then call anyone who disagreed with them Disloyal.
 
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Gary is right about us being soft LAST YEAR...
WE will not be soft this year...
We will finally get to see what all this talent can do with real coaching and development...
I am excited for this year...
GBO
 
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It's classic how the last few months have unveiled what a total joke we were with Butch Jones, and how frustrating it was to see all of the clueless TN fans who continued to support him throughout last fall.

I don't think it's the fans fault. What goes behind close doors and off the field isn't necessarily available to most of the fan base. If you look at it, it looks like Butch was improving year by year. Then his 4th year he stumbled at the end and by mid ways of last season he was exposed.
 
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Cluelessness was still thinking Butch Jones would ever come close to winning the SEC after his 4th year, and continuing to justify & excuse major red flags in the name of 'loyalty'. True loyalty is taking off the blinders and demanding change to make the program better.

You act like the majority of fans were excusing what Butch was doing. I'm saying I didn't see that. In fact, I saw the majority of fans (at least on here), start getting FED UP with Butch as early as the Appalachian State game in '16.

But you can have a cookie for being right about Butch.
 
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