Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

Status
Not open for further replies.
#44,604
#44,604
Post from Rucker on 247 board...

I spent some time over the weekend talking to someone very close to the Tennessee football program. This guy has been around the program with several head coaches over the years, and he's gotten to see their strengths and weaknesses, and he's always been pretty candid with me.

This guy marveled at the way Jeremy Pruitt conducts himself on a daily basis.

Having a great work ethic is one thing — most head coaches and a vast majority of assistant coaches at this level have a great work ethic — but knowing how to use that energy is something else. That's something a lot of guys just don't get. Butch Jones, for example, spent so much time thinking and worrying about things a head coach at Tennessee didn't need to be thinking or worrying about. Pruitt absolutely does not do that.

This wasn't the first time I've heard things like this about Pruitt, but this came from someone who DEFINITELY would know, and he just marveled at Pruitt's laser focus on football from the time he wakes up until the time he goes to bed, and how he maximizes that time. He knows what a head football coach should care about and not care about, and what is and isn't worth his time.

I'm not sure that guarantees anything, but I know it's a really, really important trait that good head coaches (and good leaders in any business) have, and Pruitt has it.

Thought y'all would like to hear that.
Click to expand...
 
  • Like
Reactions: Vol464, 85SugarVol, barrylee and 16 others
#44,606
#44,606
nicksjuzunk said:
How do you guys handle SEC rival players in the NFL if they didn’t do something jerkish against Tennessee... except for winning?

I mean, we all know how we feel about Tabor, and some others, but are you able to move on and not hold college allegiance against players like Gurley, etc.?
Click to expand...

Don't follow near as much, but never bothered me.
 
#44,607
#44,607
BruinVol said:
It's so funny how sooo many people here say they are in a wait and see mode all year but when areas of legit concerns are expressed that's somehow being anti coaching staff.


The simple fact is this years success or failure is riding on Saturday. If we win it's been a good year and that will give the staff some motmemtum going forward and much needed extra practice

If we lose this season is a failure anyway you look at it.

Either way the success overall of Pruitt isn't going to be defined by year1. He simply gets more patience if year 1 is a success.

You guys can call it whatever you want but that isn't being a nega in my mind
Click to expand...

I would call 5-7 a disappointment but not a failure. Counting this coming Saturday the Vols will have played 9 teams better than they are this season, and I don't mean who has more 4 star players, I mean the better football team this season. All 8 SEC teams UT will have played was the better team this season, plus WVU, but UT would still have managed to win 5 games, with the 2 upsets against ranked teams. So I will be disappointed in the team not getting 15 extra practices plus a shot at a winning season in Pruitt's first season, but I won't consider it a failure.

But to each his own. If you consider it a failure that is no problem to me. Everybody has their own expectations. I just know if you are outmanned on the LOS in the SEC, you are starting way behind the 8-ball.
 
  • Like
Reactions: SmokinBob and SugarCC
#44,610
#44,610
Crazy Ivan said:
I would call 5-7 a disappointment but not a failure. Counting this coming Saturday the Vols will have played 9 teams better than they are this season, and I don't mean who has more 4 star players, I mean the better football team this season. All 8 SEC teams UT will have played was the better team this season, plus WVU, but UT would still have managed to win 5 games, with the 2 upsets against ranked teams. So I will be disappointed in the team not getting 15 extra practices plus a shot at a winning season in Pruitt's first season, but I won't consider it a failure.

But to each his own. If you consider it a failure that is no problem to me. Everybody has their own expectations. I just know if you are outmanned on the LOS in the SEC, you are starting way behind the 8-ball.
Click to expand...
Was going to reply to the OP the same way earlier, then decided what's the use, why waste my time. Yes, a disappointment; far from a failure.
 
#44,621
#44,621
BruinVol said:
Yes

I say 6-6 is a success


I say 5-7 is a failure
Click to expand...

Agreed, if only for the fact that it’s Vandy standing in the way. There were many ways to get to 5-7, and not all of them are failures. But in my opinion, a 5-7 season with a loss to Vandy is on the failure side no matter how you slice it.

Battle vs. war, though. Season vs. year. Sign at least a top ten class and year 1 is a success.
 
#44,622
#44,622
Darth_Shiveman said:
Got it now. You meant to say "competing for trips to Atlanta," not being "top 3 in the East."



I guess I just don't see much difference in saying you've seen nothing to get excited about from a staff and saying you don't think a staff has a very high ceiling. Either way, I still think it's premature. I get that we live in an instant gratification society and hot takes have become the norm, but I just think we're in a situation right now where (as difficult as it is) we have to wait and see to know what we've really got. Anything else is basically just a hunch at this point.
Click to expand...
Good morning, Darth.

I've posted many times I'm not giving up on this staff. Just because I've not seen anything that excites me doesn't mean I've come to the conclusion that they're doomed to failure.
 
  • Like
Reactions: engineerVOL
#44,624
#44,624
InVOLuntary said:
Good morning, Darth.

I've posted many times I'm not giving up on this staff. Just because I've not seen anything that excites me doesn't mean I've come to the conclusion that they're doomed to failure.
Click to expand...

This explains my opinion well. I like Pruitt as the head man. This assistant staff has been a lot of sizzle and no steak however.
 
  • Like
Reactions: InVOLuntary
New posts
Status
Not open for further replies.
Advertisement



Back
Top