Pruitt not happy with Spring Game attendance

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BloomuVol said:
When he is trying to tell recruits that Tennessee isn't the doormat they have grown up knowing it to be, yeah fans screaming in the stands sure helps him sell a sleeping giant.
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Until tennessee wins games they are the doormat they have grown up watch. No amount of fans at a spring practice changes that.
 
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volfannbama said:
Until tennessee wins games they are the doormat they have grown up watch. No amount of fans at a spring practice changes that.
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Oh come on now your saying no amount of fans at one of the hottest recruiting weekends we have matters ? So if 12k showed up in a 102k seat stadium it wouldnt reflect poorly at all on the program or the confidence in the staff ? Now you are just making up stuff .
 
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volfannbama said:
Until tennessee wins games they are the doormat they have grown up watch. No amount of fans at a spring practice changes that.
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I agree, but if you go read the interview by wanya Morris about the orange and white game, you would find out that that was the only live action he saw at Neyland, so having lots of fans there helps, considering he was talking about the fan response to him, I just wish he got to see it when 102,000 pack it out.
 
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0nelilreb said:
Oh come on now your saying no amount of fans at one of the hottest recruiting weekends we have matters ? So if 12k showed up in a 102k seat stadium it wouldnt reflect poorly at all on the program or the confidence in the staff ? Now you are just making up stuff .
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Yes, im saying until we win we are the doormat of the sec. Fan attendence at a practice doesnt change that. Recruites are not basing their decision to attend a school based on spring game attendence.
 
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BloomuVol said:
I agree, but if you go read the interview by wanya Morris about the orange and white game, you would find out that that was the only live action he saw at Neyland, so having lots of fans there helps, considering he was talking about the fan response to him, I just wish he got to see it when 102,000 pack it out.
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Have we ever been close to that? I highly doubt he goes to nebraska uga or alabama and however else had higher attendence based on the crowd size of the spring game.
 
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volfannbama said:
Yes, im saying until we win we are the doormat of the sec. Fan attendence at a practice doesnt change that. Recruites are not basing their decision to attend a school based on spring game attendence.
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I see what your point about the wins are but your lack of awareness about big recruiting days and all the ways to sell recruits on a program is surprising .
 
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#985
It's a spring game for crying out loud.

Tell Pruitt which part of your posterior he can kiss.
 
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0nelilreb said:
I see what your point about the wins are but your lack of awareness about big recruiting days and all the ways to sell recruits on a program is surprising .
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We had the 5th largest crowd in the country after a winnless sec season and whats probably about to be another rough season. Not shabby, still a big recruiting weekend.

Funny yesterday Pruitts alabama and fsu rings was enough to lure in those recruits, you know, all he has to say is he is a 5 nc winning coach.
 
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0nelilreb said:
Oh come on now your saying no amount of fans at one of the hottest recruiting weekends we have matters ? So if 12k showed up in a 102k seat stadium it wouldnt reflect poorly at all on the program or the confidence in the staff ? Now you are just making up stuff .
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It does not matter a single bit.
 
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0nelilreb said:
Neither does what CJP said yesterday unless you are overly sensitive and I believe that’s pretty much what the whole thread is about .
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you are correct. it does not matter either.

Win and he's fine. lose and people will remember this kind of thing.

Of course, if he is successful, i doubt he'll care about spring game attendance again either.
 
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0nelilreb said:
Neither does what CJP said yesterday unless you are overly sensitive and I believe that’s pretty much what the whole thread is about .
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Again, most people just think it was stupid. Dont see many folks mad, outraged or whatever else. Most people dont want him fired, dont think it ruins out season, runs off recruits, put us on probation, gets Rick or Holly fired, no houses are being burned down, no one is popping shots at neyland, throwinf away their orange clothes, kicking their cat and breaking their tv. It was just a stupid comment that didnt need to be said.

Most people and recruits would think 65k for a practice is a good thing. So why bring negative attention when nothing negative in the first place? That is a dumb practice.

You know whats not dumb? Preds up 2-0 woop woop
 
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99gator said:
you are correct. it does not matter either.

Win and he's fine. lose and people will remember this kind of thing.

Of course, if he is successful, i doubt he'll care about spring game attendance again either.
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When shark humper was hired, were you guys calling him a nc winning coach? Pointing to all his alabama rings as assured success etc? Just curious.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
No, that's not what "donors overall" think. It's what YOU think. Big difference.

I think this entire conversation is more amusing than anything, and I don't mind that some of us disagree with others of us.

I'm personally of the mind that CJP said nothing wrong, and folks who took offense shouldn't. *shrug*
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Ones I know do. But also understand he has never been a HC at this level before. Still a fan but was a slight misstep. He needs to win games period. Think he will but he’s not perfect.
 
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volfannbama said:
When shark humper was hired, were you guys calling him a nc winning coach? Pointing to all his alabama rings as assured success etc? Just curious.
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I was with you up until the point where you said they assured success . I don’t believe I saw that anywhere in the debate on if Pruitt earned his rings or just was given to him because his head coach’s allowed it after they single handedly won the NC
 
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volfannbama said:
When shark humper was hired, were you guys calling him a nc winning coach? Pointing to all his alabama rings as assured success etc? Just curious.
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No.

People actually put more stock in the improvement that took place at Colorado State than his time as an assistant at Alabama.

Coaches are about as hard to evaluate at Alabama as players. Which assistant coach hasn't succeeded at Alabama? How do you know which guy is really a cut above or is just another guy reaping the rewards of coaching that kind of talent?

Florida has had two great head coaches. None of Spurrier's assistants went on to do anything noteworthy except Bob Stoops and he wasn't really a "Spurrier guy". He was a hired gun Spurrier found when looking at an NCAA stat book to find a d-coord (I'm not joking). The only one of Meyer's assistants that I know of who is of note would be Dan Mullen (and we don't know whether he will fail or succeed at his first big job).

So, it's hard to know. Working next to a genius doesn't necessarily make you a genius. Hello, Bill Belichik assistants.
 
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OriginalCoach said:
LMAO. Rookie mistake? Hell, even Stoops had one NC and played in 3 other title games and still called out his fan base for Texas Tech. Rookie my ass. Like I said, he's the HMF in charge of football. Like his comment or not, it doesn't really matter.
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Once you have won like that then you can do what you want. When you have 0 wins, you can’t. Thanks for making the point you were trying to defeat.
 
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99gator said:
No.

People actually put more stock in the improvement that took place at Colorado State than his time as an assistant at Alabama.

Coaches are about as hard to evaluate at Alabama as players. Which assistant coach hasn't succeeded at Alabama? How do you know which guy is really a cut above or is just another guy reaping the rewards of coaching that kind of talent?

Florida has had two great head coaches. None of Spurrier's assistants went on to do anything noteworthy except Bob Stoops and he wasn't really a "Spurrier guy". He was a hired gun Spurrier found when looking at an NCAA stat book to find a d-coord (I'm not joking). The only one of Meyer's assistants that I know of who is of note would be Dan Mullen (and we don't know whether he will fail or succeed at his first big job).

So, it's hard to know. Working next to a genius doesn't necessarily make you a genius. Hello, Bill Belichik assistants.
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This I agree with and very well put .
 
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0nelilreb said:
I was with you up until the point where you said they assured success . I don’t believe I saw that anywhere in the debate on if Pruitt earned his rings or just was given to him because his head coach’s allowed it after they single handedly won the NC
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We have fans assuring success.
 
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99gator said:
No.

People actually put more stock in the improvement that took place at Colorado State than his time as an assistant at Alabama.

Coaches are about as hard to evaluate at Alabama as players. Which assistant coach hasn't succeeded at Alabama? How do you know which guy is really a cut above or is just another guy reaping the rewards of coaching that kind of talent?

Florida has had two great head coaches. None of Spurrier's assistants went on to do anything noteworthy except Bob Stoops and he wasn't really a "Spurrier guy". He was a hired gun Spurrier found when looking at an NCAA stat book to find a d-coord (I'm not joking). The only one of Meyer's assistants that I know of who is of note would be Dan Mullen (and we don't know whether he will fail or succeed at his first big job).

So, it's hard to know. Working next to a genius doesn't necessarily make you a genius. Hello, Bill Belichik assistants.
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Yeah, i notice that trend as well. Iasked several times in this thread how many saban assistants are considered good, of course noone will answer.
 
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