Sure, but I don’t think it’s a 1:1 correlation.
Well, if you have one foot out the door on Pruitt, you might as well say you have one foot out the door on the football program. Who would be willing to come to this program now? With each year that he is here with more and more of the players he has recruited that won't quit on him, and he gets the staff he doesn't want to run off, the better the program is going to be to get a better coach. He's never had players quit on him before. I taught school. Sometimes when you're a demanding perfectionist you get amazing results. Sometimes you get nothing but moaning and complaining. The moaners and complainers feed off each other. The fewer you have the more you can accomplish. It's easy to sit back and pick apart everything that seems to have been done wrong. It's not always easy to see why some choices were made over other choices. It's way too early to be deciding if he will be a successful head coach even if you're uncomfortable with some of the choices made.
Well, look at it this way: there was reason to think Dooley would be a success based on year 1. He was one game worse than Kiffin with massive tumult and a bust of a roster. There was also reason to think Butch would be a success based on year 1. He won an additional SEC game over Dooley’s last two years and was working with a joke of an OL and one of the slowest teams I’ve ever seen.
You said Jones wasn’t the standard but here you bring him up. So let’s compare. Wasn’t there like 32 kids in that class? How many composite 5 stars? Pruitt will land at least 2 composite 5 stars this year. I think Jones landed 3 his entire time at TN.
