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The narrative of Fulmer being a coach in waiting or "is it time to move on from Pruitt" is being perpetuated by the media. When I say media its not the Swain's or the Ainge's its the outsiders who are fan boys looking to make a pay check off click bait. Us as fans read it and carry it to the message boards or twitter.
 
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"Pruitt isn't developing any of the players argh Fahr him!" Meanwhile Bumphus has gone from 4th team to first team DL and was one of the best players on the field Saturday... Oh, and the OL played better Saturday than any time last year.

We really are inexperienced and we lack depth. Pruitt talked about this today in the press conference. We had 7 returning starters on defense. Well, we lost Thompson, Gooden, Bituli, and Baylen so we were left with only 3 starters returning. As far as depth, right now we have 4 scholarship ILB's that can play: Ignont, Henry, Reid, and Banks. Of those, Henry is a freshman, Reid has never played at TN until this year, and Banks has never played the position period. We have two scholarship running backs right now that can play outside of Beasley. It shouldn't surprise us that we are struggling with some things this year.

This also tells us that we are going to get better as we get more experience and as Bituli and Thompson come back.
 
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I’m reasonable enough to know we aren’t going to fire Pruitt.

I’m also reasonable enough to know we probably should fire Pruitt.


With that said there was something about his demeanor in that presser that gave me confidence. I know he still believes in himself and doesn’t have the deer in the headlight look. Strangely I liked what I just saw from him
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
I’m not pro JG, but I also don’t think we can do better with the back ups. That said, I would absolutely play them to see what we’ve got. You never know for sure till the lights come on
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This 100%. I believe we will see them this week. We just not had the opportunity to insert them yet.
 
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volinbama256 said:
Not with JG at QB Bass, and we all know it... so basically this season will be our worst probably in program history as long as he is the guy behind center, so if you are good with that and actually think recruiting isn't going to go off the cliff, you are drinking too much orange kool-aid I'm afraid...
I know you said you didn't think recruiting would take a hit, but no way these high tier kids we are in the mix with are going to pull the trigger on this...
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Yes, JG is hindering this team, no doubt. But he's gone after this year. I don't think recruiting is going to go off of the cliff for the most part. Bailey isn't going anywhere. If you read the article from VQ, he and the guys who are committed talked about how much they need to stay in this class, and they all agreed. We might lose 1 or 2 guys committed, but I don't think this is going to fall apart. If we don't finish strong to the season, and there's still a chance that we can, then we probably won't land the Jarrett's or Gilberts. But this class can still be a strong class to help us because I think we get Baron and Hardy in this class no matter what. We have BJ already in, we have our QB of the future, and we have some good skill talent in this class. So I don't think recruiting is going to die unless something really crazy happens like a loss this weekend or a 2-10 season. But I don't believe that either of those things are going to happen.

The recruits know this is a rebuild
 
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JAllen18 said:
"JG is the starter and willl remain the starter. We need to find a backup QB, but opportunity hasn't presented itself". - Pruitt
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He makes it so hard to support him as the head coach.maybe he’s not watched film yet👀🤷🏽‍♂️ I don’t know.but you can sit here and convince me that the other two QBs we have are worse than JG.he literally left 3 or 4 guaranteed touchdowns off the board because the lack of vision and missed throws .as the head coach you’ve got to see that changes need to be made to win going forward.
 
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UTSuave’ said:
Lol....ok compare for yourself.but in this case the numbers are not better or worse.they are the same identical numbers.
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Soooo by that logic JG would be above average in that he doesn't drop off like almost every other QB from HS to college.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
"Pruitt isn't developing any of the players argh Fahr him!" Meanwhile Bumphus has gone from 4th team to first team DL and was one of the best players on the field Saturday... Oh, and the OL played better Saturday than any time last year.

We really are inexperienced and we lack depth. Pruitt talked about this today in the press conference. We had 7 returning starters on defense. Well, we lost Thompson, Gooden, Bituli, and Baylen so we were left with only 3 starters returning. As far as depth, right now we have 4 scholarship ILB's that can play: Ignont, Henry, Reid, and Banks. Of those, Henry is a freshman, Reid has never played at TN until this year, and Banks has never played the position period. We have two scholarship running backs right now that can play outside of Beasley. It shouldn't surprise us that we are struggling with some things this year.

This also tells us that we are going to get better as we get more experience and as Bituli and Thompson come back.
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November Vols will look a lot different than August/September Vols.
 
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