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nicksjuzunk said:
Tee Martin at the helm excites me like saltless potatoes. Yes, I know what we have now, but that’s not the answer either
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If Tennessee has a season that is so bad that they have to fire Pruitt, Tee Martin would easily be in the top 2 coaches that would be willing to take the job. Not saying Martin would be a good coach, but nobody is touching this place if Pruitt gets fired in year 2.
 
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Haven't been in here in awhile.

That was truly disgraceful to watch. I don't have any faith in our QB. I've defended him in the past, but he does nothing that worries defenses. He takes what they give him and never asks for more. We will always come up short with him under center Imo. Not sure the young guys will be better but man it would be fun to see somebody that tested defenses sometimes. Put some pressure on them. Something. I can't think of one play that he made that was impressive yesterday. Even his completions were frustrating. Everything is dumped off and safe giving a guy nowhere to run. The ball would be behind the receiver so he would have to slow down to catch it. He would run and look good but slide in front of the first down marker. Ugh. GTFO.

The coaching staff has a big job ahead of them. This program is more damaged than any of us likely thought. I think they were probably just as blindsided by the mental errors as anybody. Footballs just bounce weird sometimes. And we had way too many freshman and inexperienced guys out there to expect none. Hopefully having Bituli and maybe Thompson back will help with some of that. Not sure our Dline is good enough for that to matter tho. We need WAY more from that whole unit to even compete in this conference.

We're not firing Pruitt today. There's no reason to turn on him. Lower the expectations for this season for sure. But I'm gonna keep looking for the improvements and see if he can learn from this. He may not have been ready to be the coach here when we hired him. But that doesn't mean he can't get better. He's not doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again. He's shown in the past he will change. Butch wouldn't learn and that was ultimately his downfall. I think Pruitt is different but we'll see. Gonna take time. His seat will now be hot until he can prove that it shouldn't be.

I would like to see him take back over the defensive playcalling honestly. Think that's what he does best and no reason for him to be delegating that. Delegate the other stuff he's less good at.

I have a hard time investing any time at all thinking about this team during the off-season or during most of my week any more. I used to obsess over every detail. But I'm done with that. I'm not going to waste years of my life being grumpy about something I have zero control over. Eff that.

I will keep watching. But I'm not expecting a win against anybody ever again. I'll just take games one at a time and appreciate the wins when they come. Maybe someday we'll have a bunch of them and it will be fun again. Today is not that day.

Go big orange forever
 
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Volnut said:
If Tennessee has a season that is so bad that they have to fire Pruitt, Tee Martin would easily be in the top 2 coaches that would be willing to take the job. Not saying Martin would be a good coach, but nobody is touching this place if Pruitt gets fired in year 2.
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I think Tee would be even more of a disaster than Pruitt.
 
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Volnut said:
If Tennessee has a season that is so bad that they have to fire Pruitt, Tee Martin would easily be in the top 2 coaches that would be willing to take the job. Not saying Martin would be a good coach, but nobody is touching this place if Pruitt gets fired in year 2.
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I bet Leach would still come here.
 
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Big Gucci Sosa said:
There’s literally nothing to look forward to this season besides getting our brains beat in almost every week and getting laughed at
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Honestly, best case scenario, besides a miracle of winning a bunch of games this fall, is that we lose every game and UT is forced to fire the staff and start over. A coaching search this fall would be the only thing worth looking forward to as a Vol fan.

Go hire Mike Leach this November. Offense would be fun and press conferences would be even better.
 
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chargervol said:
Haha, and the part where the game plan looked too much like Helton's to be coincidence and even solid calls being executed poorly.

Doesn't matter, even if we had won with better offensive calling/execution, if Ga state can hang 38 on us, what will SEC teams do.
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Break out the mercy rule.
 
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I think lowering expectations is the worst thing we could do. No free passes in Year 2. We need accountability and commitment from the HC down. Lowering the bar doesn't elevate performance-- just the opposite. If they fail to meet team goals, let them own it.

The HC doesn't need to be the DC or the OC; he needs to be the HC. That's his job. If he can't do it, we have the wrong guy.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
Heard the same tired crap about Nathan Peterman.

Backup QBs are always all Americans until they get thrown to the wolves. It’s totally possible (probably likely) that Shrout and Maurer suck too.

I’m not against throwing them out there for the hell of it, especially if we lose next week and the season is basically over anyway, but expecting high level play out of any of QBs at this point is just asinine.
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I’m picking up what you’re putting down.but here are the differences.

1.)Week 2 isn’t Florida
2.)Peterman and Brian are two completely Different qb’s
3.)As bad as peterman was,he still
Made it to the NFL because of a different coaching staff
4.)Brian from start will be a lot better I think more so than whatever you consider JG to be.same goes for shrout but his issue is,he likes throwing a $hit ton of balls to the defense.
5.)JG has had 3 years.nothing has changed
 
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LA Vol said:
The thing I think is true about the coaching stuff is that Chaney has been coaching the OL and hasn't been gracious about it. Don't blame him one bit. And I think Chaney and Tee were beyond frustrated today, which is exactly what they should be. But Tee is very excited to be back at UT and he's not looking to leave. He's looking to stop the humiliation and drag the program out of the gutter, which I'm sure he takes more personally than others on staff.
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Fire Will Friend NOW
 
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Volnut said:
If Tennessee has a season that is so bad that they have to fire Pruitt, Tee Martin would easily be in the top 2 coaches that would be willing to take the job. Not saying Martin would be a good coach, but nobody is touching this place if Pruitt gets fired in year 2.
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No thanks.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
Honestly, best case scenario, besides a miracle of winning a bunch of games this fall, is that we lose every game and UT is forced to fire the staff and start over. A coaching search this fall would be the only thing worth looking forward to as a Vol fan.

Go hire Mike Leach this November. Offense would be fun and press conferences would be even better.
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Leach or Luke Fickell if he has another really good year.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
Honestly, best case scenario, besides a miracle of winning a bunch of games this fall, is that we lose every game and UT is forced to fire the staff and start over. A coaching search this fall would be the only thing worth looking forward to as a Vol fan.

Go hire Mike Leach this November. Offense would be fun and press conferences would be even better.
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Holy hell dude. This is the first time I've ever agreed with you. I'm on board with this.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
Honestly, best case scenario, besides a miracle of winning a bunch of games this fall, is that we lose every game and UT is forced to fire the staff and start over. A coaching search this fall would be the only thing worth looking forward to as a Vol fan.

Go hire Mike Leach this November. Offense would be fun and press conferences would be even better.
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I like this idea too.
 
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Agree with Volnut. If UT was to fire Pruitt in year 2, there is not a coach in the country that would want to come here. We couldn’t sniff a Dooley or Butch.
 
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