Fulmer offers state of Tennessee football address

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Quote from the News Sentinel report:

Fulmer listed Pruitt's toughness, his communication skills and his passion among his coaching assets.

"He pushes the kids," Fulmer said. "I'm surprised we haven't had more kids ..."

He stopped in mid-thought, backtracked and said, "I'm surprised we haven't had more kids being upset."

Wonder what he was going to say before he caught himself.

My guess is "transfer."
 
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SKBubba said:
Quote from the News Sentinel report:

Fulmer listed Pruitt's toughness, his communication skills and his passion among his coaching assets.

"He pushes the kids," Fulmer said. "I'm surprised we haven't had more kids ..."

He stopped in mid-thought, backtracked and said, "I'm surprised we haven't had more kids being upset."

Wonder what he was going to say before he caught himself.

My guess is "transfer."
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Leave, transfer is my guess too.
 
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OrangeByBirth said:
Fulmer gets it. He will make Pruitt a great coach in the long run.
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Just as important, is truly the communication throughout the university up to the president and chancellor. When everyone pulling in same direction with clarity, and have a competent coach that everyone supports, where Pruitt not having to look over his shoulder, there will be positive results. Even Butch, with all his faults, was hamstrung in a lot of ways in budgets to hire assistants and decisions which needed to be made. That's all gone now...or has the appearance that it is.
 
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njvols said:
Just as important, is truly the communication throughout the university up to the president and chancellor. When everyone pulling in same direction with clarity, and have a competent coach that everyone supports, where Pruitt not having to look over his shoulder, there will be positive results. Even Butch, with all his faults, was hamstrung in a lot of ways in budgets to hire assistants and decisions which needed to be made. That's all gone now...or has the appearance that it is.
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Yea, I don't believe that's accurate.
 
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njvols said:
Just as important, is truly the communication throughout the university up to the president and chancellor. When everyone pulling in same direction with clarity, and have a competent coach that everyone supports, where Pruitt not having to look over his shoulder, there will be positive results. Even Butch, with all his faults, was hamstrung in a lot of ways in budgets to hire assistants and decisions which needed to be made. That's all gone now...or has the appearance that it is.
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No one wanted to work for Butch and the smart ones got out early
 
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SKBubba said:
Quote from the News Sentinel report:

Fulmer listed Pruitt's toughness, his communication skills and his passion among his coaching assets.

"He pushes the kids," Fulmer said. "I'm surprised we haven't had more kids ..."

He stopped in mid-thought, backtracked and said, "I'm surprised we haven't had more kids being upset."

Wonder what he was going to say before he caught himself.

My guess is "transfer."
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“Quit”, “cry”, “complain”

If we get into next spring without more than a few guys crawling home to mommy I’ll be pleasantly surprised. They would be an idication of grit. Something I hadn’t seen until the Georgia game.
 
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You don't fix the Titanic overnight. It's going to take awhile to fix the talent level,culture and mental thinking back into being a SEC power. Just because we're "Tennessee" we can't just flip a switch with a new coach and go back to winning 10 games. Pruitt is a good coach and comes from a great coaching tree, that along with having Fulmer at his side will get us back in the right direction. Just be patient VN.
 
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I was expecting him to say that we are
0-10 in our last 10 SEC games and 6-11 since the beginning of last year.
 
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Why did he say that Kelly, McKenzie, and Gaulden should be here? All 3 of those guys were drafted, would not have increased their draft stocks by staying, and risked getting injured and hurting their draft stocks by staying.

I suppose I can see the argument for McKenzie (IMO, he was really lucky to have gotten drafted, and not even at the position he played in college), but there was really no reason for Kelly or Gaulden to stay.
 
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as a Vol fan we're always in it for the long haul...gonna take some time...just hang on..."my state of the program"...:D

GO VOLS!
 
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njvols said:
Just as important, is truly the communication throughout the university up to the president and chancellor. When everyone pulling in same direction with clarity, and have a competent coach that everyone supports, where Pruitt not having to look over his shoulder, there will be positive results. Even Butch, with all his faults, was hamstrung in a lot of ways in budgets to hire assistants and decisions which needed to be made. That's all gone now...or has the appearance that it is.
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You also need to get the major boosters in line.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
You don't fix the Titanic overnight. It's going to take awhile to fix the talent level,culture and mental thinking back into being a SEC power. Just because we're "Tennessee" we can't just flip a switch with a new coach and go back to winning 10 games. Pruitt is a good coach and comes from a great coaching tree, that along with having Fulmer at his side will get us back in the right direction. Just be patient VN.
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I hope we can look back 10 years from now and NOT use the Titanic (which was never "fixed" and still lies at the bottom of the Atlantic) as an analogy for the Vols football program, but more like the USS Enterprise.
 
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I posted in another thread - not to turn this into another Pruitt vs. Butch bashing thread - but this is the biggest improvement I see between the two.
One KNOWS what it means to have 100% effort, 100% of the time and the other just tries to sell it.
Fulmer knows as well.

Now we just have to see if Pruitt can get his men to know what it means...stayed tune boys and girls.
 
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