volfanhill
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Mostly the same. And same ****** result and effort.
And I’m sure Neyland and Fulmer would both share that one game doesn’t define a career or program.
If you really have the program’s success at the top of the list, you’re not firing Pruitt after the first game of the season in his second year unless you want to set the program back another decade. Because doing that means you are begging coaches to come here and they would be coaches of mid major schools, not coaches that are hot commodities across the country at other programs
If you believe Fulmer gave Pruitt the free ride you want to grant him for what happened on Saturday, then I think you are in for a surprise.
Neyland would not hesitate to let a man go who failed to have his team prepared to compete at the end of a second year where you are truly accountable and responsible for the product on the field in all regards.
And here you are wanting to give him multiple years to turn this team into the modern-day SEC equivalent of Sewanee.
You lose like that to Georgia State because your team was unprepared to play and you should be put on notice that things had better get better and fast. You earned that much with the team you put on the field and the effort they put into it.
But once again, it’s not the same roster or locker room. Additionally, the 2019 season still has 11 games left. You’re sitting here saying that 3 games out of 13 with 11 more to go somehow speak for the whole picture.
Unless you can guarantee what will or won’t happen, you really have no idea what you’re talking about. Because the crowd saying fire Pruitt now are the same ones guaranteeing a 1-7 stArt this year. Everyone lives life with zero guarantees but in Tennessee, we can guarantee everything that will happen and need to make irrational decisions based on those blind assumptions.
It’s also abundantly clear that none of you guys calling for Pruitt’s immediate firing have zero experience in running a business or being in management with all these kneejerk reactions.
But once again, it’s not the same roster or locker room. Additionally, the 2019 season still has 11 games left. You’re sitting here saying that 3 games out of 13 with 11 more to go somehow speak for the whole picture.
Unless you can guarantee what will or won’t happen, you really have no idea what you’re talking about. Because the crowd saying fire Pruitt now are the same ones guaranteeing a 1-7 stArt this year. Everyone lives life with zero guarantees but in Tennessee, we can guarantee everything that will happen and need to make irrational decisions based on those blind assumptions.
Have your staff unprepared to do their work and see how long your boss allows you to stay on that job.
What are you gaining from keeping Pruitt 5 more years?
How in the world does keeping a HC that hasn’t shown any improvement help us in the long run?
One unprepared day doesn’t even come close to defining the year. Not that hard to understand. And making a decision on an employee given the current state of affairs financially on one said Day is something no one would do.
Naw man. Just know that blowing everything up after one game into the season isn’t gonna result into some magical success all because we have some hormonal fans pms’ing
I have a team of 726 who work for me.
It is not one day. It is an evaluation of a season of development, of preparation, of conditioning. These are the fundamentals a head coach must control to be successful.
The one day in question, the defeat at Georgia State, is the end product of multiple months and days of failure to do the basics necessary to actually say you are in forward momentum in a rebuilding process.
It's one of about 15 problems we have. But you aren't wrong. Pruitt was elite at that in the past. Also last year against Auburn. I'd still fire him though at the end of the year unless he really shows evidence of us improvingPRUITT Needs to go back to calling the Defense; (HIS FORTE, BTW) Let Chaney call the offense; put Tee on the sideline. That's the trouble I see.
So after one game into the season, you can forecast how the rest of the season will go?
You’re sitting here saying that you can guarantee how each remaining game will result?
If you can say yes to that question, then sure, fire Pruitt. But if you can’t, you’re showing complete stupidity by trying to legitimize the argument for cutting Pruitt loose now.