Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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jave36 said:
I was criticizing Pruitts judgment. I'm aware that the coach chooses his coordinator.
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Ah, gotcha. I’m not sure that’s fair either.

You hire the guys you’re comfortable with and who you think can do the job. Jeremy Pruitt has much more invested in whether Tyson Helton is successful than any of us do.

His salary is high and I think he’s had some growing pains, but you have to give him a few years to get his style of player before you make a full judgement.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Ah, gotcha. I’m not sure that’s fair either.

You hire the guys you’re comfortable with and who you think can do the job. Jeremy Pruitt has much more invested in whether Tyson Helton is successful than any of us do.

His salary is high and I think he’s had some growing pains, but you have to give him a few years to get his style of player before you make a full judgement.
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For that price, I feel like we could have gotten someone with a higher ceiling and fewer growing pains. Just my opinion. I've been wrong many times about coaching hires. But I've been right some too, and this hire just doesn't feel like it was the best Pruitt could have done.
 
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jave36 said:
For that price, I feel like we could have gotten someone with a higher ceiling and fewer growing pains. Just my opinion. I've been wrong many times about coaching hires. But I've been right some too, and this hire just doesn't feel like it was the best Pruitt could have done.
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For sure. I feel the same way.

I certainly support questioning coaches instead of giving them the blind support that so often happens around here.

My point, and I’m not sure you’re doing this, is that it does no good to blow Helton out after this year. Give him a couple years to see if the offense improves.
 
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Someone on Volquest posted this. Since just 1 person won the mega millions if you would split it up to give yourself payout of the cash payout over 20 yrs.... it would be about $100,000 a DAY after taxes. Unreal.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
For sure. I feel the same way.

I certainly support questioning coaches instead of giving them the blind support that so often happens around here.
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Well you’re the polar opposite of “blind support” since you “wallow and scrum to find fault”...so you’re part of the cosmic balance. Add a bonus self-high five to the customary one you issue yourself. 😎
 
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Charlotte game aside. This is how I'm feeling about winning the remaining SEC games.

Wins-Chance
0 - 5%
1 - 40%
2 - 30%
3 - 15%
4 - 10%

Admittedly, it's a little on the pessimistic side.
 
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JCLawyerVol said:
Everybody knows the way you get better year to year is you fire your coordinators after every season. Cmon y'all.
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Fire the OC! Then do it again next year! Send the message to recruits that nothing has changed in Knoxville! Don't get the players to compete! Then repeat until you fire the coach! Then complain because the top coaches in the nation don't want to come join the repetition.
 
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People are way too caught up in worrying about certain play calls right now with Helton. It's yr 1 of a philosophy change coming off a historically bad offensive scheme the previous yr. if you don't see the fundamental differences in last yr to this yr then I don't know what to tel you. You can see the potential in this scheme. You couldn't in the Larry scott offense. I see plenty to be positive about from a design standpoint From Helton once he has all the tools. He has to call a lot of the same plays because his QB or OL can't handle too much. You need at least one of those to be dependable to check the other into the right call. Chryst can handle more mentally and you saw some new plays called. JG just isn't good presnap which isn't a good combo with a patch OL to be a complicated offense. Do you really think Helton wants to run his head into a brick wall so much or be predictable?

This guy was not only Pruitts first target but he was Kirbys too. They saw something. He is no scrub. I have seen plenty of improvement regardless of what people say here
 
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I'm completely new to football and recruiting. Is it common for a new staff to require more than a half season to install a completely new system with players recruited for a different system, and who the fan base routinely pans for lacking talent? Just curious.
 
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WriterVol said:
OC is right behind the starting QB for person needing the most replacing.
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Looks like coach is more concerned with recruiting an elite OL so the OC is able to do what's necessary to build a championship team. I think he made it clear this year would not be pretty, but the players would play hard. It's easy to blame the OC and QB when the offense doesn't click.
 
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