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mr.checkerboards said:
Not this year, but does anybody have the confidence that Pruitt will be able to make it happen next year.
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He’s given us nothing to have confidence in.
His personnel decisions suck.
Game plan sucks.
The defense, which he hung his hat on, has regressed since he got here.
We don’t tackle well, we’re out of position a lot.
If defense is your bread and butter and that’s where you made your bones, as a head coach, that unit has to show something. And I don’t see it.
Do you guys see it?
dline, backers, and secondary all look worse. How?!!!!
Pre snap penalties, lining up wrong, guys confused and looking around for signals. We have no direction.

If we were losing, and looking competent, I’m all for letting him stay and supporting him. But he and his staff have given us NOTHING to look forward to the future about
 
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UTProf said:
Maurer has enough moxie that I don't think playing him against UGA would hurt his development one bit. Nothing seems to phase him. If he ever settles down and improves his accuracy he could be a good QB. I don't think failure is something that crushes him.
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UTProf said:
Maurer has enough moxie that I don't think playing him against UGA would hurt his development one bit. Nothing seems to phase him. If he ever settles down and improves his accuracy he could be a good QB. I don't think failure is something that crushes him.
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Never have I seen anyone get as much love as Maurer has with such little evidence. I agree try him out but I'm not going to declare him to be a world-beater just on the extremely limited evidence that he is shown to be a quarterback. He has so far less than Keller Christ did last year.
 
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chargervol said:
I agree which is why I'm not as quick to jump on firing automatically. Some good posters here making good points about red flags.
The problem is no one here has given me a legitimate reason why it'll be different this time.
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Because nothing's the same as it was. UT now plans for contingencies and is prepared to execute. If you look at the past leadership and the current leadership, it's night and day.

The current leadership has been thrown two monkey wrenches in two marquee programs-- Holly Warlick and Rick Barnes-- and I think they handled them well. They evaluated the situation, found a solution and allocated the resources to execute it. If you want to stick with football, Pruitt had a problem with Helton. UT had invested big in Helton to appease Pruitt, but Pruitt wanted a redo. So Fulmer worked behind the scenes and helped Helton find a soft landing, making his HC happy and saving UT a big buyout. Pruitt was floundering with his OC replacement, so again, Fulmer stepped in and helped him, working it behind the scenes and paying what it took to get Chaney.

I think the current UT leadership has shown they can manage change and are willing to allocate resources when and where it makes sense to do so. If you don't think those thorny situations were well-handled, you might feel differently. But there is no way DiPietro, Hart or Currie would have handled any of that with the grace and efficiency Boyd and Fulmer have shown. Boyd and Fulmer are fixers, and they love UT. We're lucky to have them.
 
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Pepe said:
Never have I seen anyone get as much love as Maurer has with such little evidence. I agree try him out but I'm not going to declare him to be a world-beater just on the extremely limited evidence that he is shown to be a quarterback.
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He tries and moves the offense. More than anyone can say about the other guy.
 
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I4Jay said:
He’s given us nothing to have confidence in.
His personnel decisions suck.
Game plan sucks.
The defense, which he hung his hat on, has regressed since he got here.
We don’t tackle well, we’re out of position a lot.
If defense is your bread and butter and that’s where you made your bones, as a head coach, that unit has to show something. And I don’t see it.
Do you guys see it?
dline, backers, and secondary all look worse. How?!!!!
Pre snap penalties, lining up wrong, guys confused and looking around for signals. We have no direction.

If we were losing, and looking competent, I’m all for letting him stay and supporting him. But he and his staff have given us NOTHING to look forward to the future about
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Yep. If I grant you we don’t have the talent to be competitive - which I think is iffy at best - we should still see these guys playing smarter, faster and harder week by week.

We haven’t seen it since Auburn in the middle of last season.
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
Would Gary Patterson come here under the new regime?
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I don’t think anyone is getting Patterson out of Fort Worth. He basically has or gets everything he wants at TCU, including a stadium renovation this year. The fan base there enjoys the football experience, but don’t live and die with game results like we do, so he’s never going to be one bad season away from the hot seat. They’ve already built a statue of him there. 22D396E8-8AA1-4364-A8E2-3F3A7E158E3C.jpeg
 
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Pepe said:
Never have I seen anyone get as much love as Maurer has with such little evidence. I agree try him out but I'm not going to declare him to be a world-beater just on the extremely limited evidence that he is shown to be a quarterback. He has so far less than Keller Christ did last year.
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I don't think anyone is calling him a world beater. but hes shown that he plays with a certain attitude and confidence rather its warranted or not. He is also going to get better with more experience. The chances of you keeping both him and shrout are slim to none so might as well see which one is better. you Know JG sucks and isn't leading your team anywhere
 
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LA Vol said:
Because nothing's the same as it was. UT now plans for contingencies and is prepared to execute. If you look at the past leadership and the current leadership, it's night and day.

The current leadership has been thrown two monkey wrenches in two marquee programs-- Holly Warlick and Rick Barnes-- and I think they handled them well. They evaluated the situation, found a solution and allocated the resources to execute it. If you want to stick with football, Pruitt had a problem with Helton. UT had invested big in Helton to appease Pruitt, but Pruitt wanted a redo. So Fulmer worked behind the scenes and helped Helton find a soft landing, making his HC happy and saving UT a big buyout. Pruitt was floundering with his OC replacement, so again, Fulmer stepped in and helped him, working it behind the scenes and paying what it took to get Chaney.

I think the current UT leadership has shown they can manage change and are willing to allocate resources when and where it makes sense to do so. If you don't think those thorny situations were well-handled, you might feel differently. But there is no way DePietro, Hart or Currie would have handled any of that with the grace and efficiency Boyd and Fulmer have shown. Boyd and Fulmer are fixers, and they love UT. We're lucky to have them.
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Is our situation fixable with Pruitt?
 
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JCP201 said:
Pruitt does need to manage the clock better. Went to the half with all his time outs (or maybe two of the three?) We were with in striking distance and it boggled the mind. End of the game, same thing. If he gives up, then why would the players play hard for him?
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I didn't notice anything wrong with the end of half was handled. Do you really want him extending the last few minutes down by 31 and risk injury to a team with depth problems? We already had Wanya go down.
 
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HankHill said:
I don't think anyone is calling him a world beater. but hes shown that he plays with a certain attitude and confidence rather its warranted or not. He is also going to get better with more experience. The chances of you keeping both him and shrout are slim to none so might as well see which one is better. you Know JG sucks and isn't leading your team anywhere
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I haven't seen very much evidence of that
 
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LA Vol said:
Because nothing's the same as it was. UT now plans for contingencies and is prepared to execute. If you look at the past leadership and the current leadership, it's night and day.

The current leadership has been thrown two monkey wrenches in two marquee programs-- Holly Warlick and Rick Barnes-- and I think they handled them well. They evaluated the situation, found a solution and allocated the resources to execute it. If you want to stick with football, Pruitt had a problem with Helton. UT had invested big in Helton to appease Pruitt, but Pruitt wanted a redo. So Fulmer worked behind the scenes and helped Helton find a soft landing, making his HC happy and saving UT a big buyout. Pruitt was floundering with his OC replacement, so again, Fulmer stepped in and helped him, working it behind the scenes and paying what it took to get Chaney.

I think the current UT leadership has shown they can manage change and are willing to allocate resources when and where it makes sense to do so. If you don't think those thorny situations were well-handled, you might feel differently. But there is no way DePietro, Hart or Currie would have handled any of that with the grace and efficiency Boyd and Fulmer have shown. Boyd and Fulmer are fixers, and they love UT. We're lucky to have them.
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How confident are Fulmer and Boyd that Pruitt will turn it around?
 
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Pepe said:
Never have I seen anyone get as much love as Maurer has with such little evidence. I agree try him out but I'm not going to declare him to be a world-beater just on the extremely limited evidence that he is shown to be a quarterback. He has so far less than Keller Christ did last year.
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I agree. Don’t see what others are seeing. We are so starved for production, our eyes are deceiving us.
 
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LA Vol said:
Because nothing's the same as it was. UT now plans for contingencies and is prepared to execute. If you look at the past leadership and the current leadership, it's night and day.

The current leadership has been thrown two monkey wrenches in two marquee programs-- Holly Warlick and Rick Barnes-- and I think they handled them well. They evaluated the situation, found a solution and allocated the resources to execute it. If you want to stick with football, Pruitt had a problem with Helton. UT had invested big in Helton to appease Pruitt, but Pruitt wanted a redo. So Fulmer worked behind the scenes and helped Helton find a soft landing, making his HC happy and saving UT a big buyout. Pruitt was floundering with his OC replacement, so again, Fulmer stepped in and helped him, working it behind the scenes and paying what it took to get Chaney.

I think the current UT leadership has shown they can manage change and are willing to allocate resources when and where it makes sense to do so. If you don't think those thorny situations were well-handled, you might feel differently. But there is no way DePietro, Hart or Currie would have handled any of that with the grace and efficiency Boyd and Fulmer have shown. Boyd and Fulmer are fixers, and they love UT. We're lucky to have them.
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This is all encouraging to hear and I am truly rooting for Fulmer, but at the same time, Fulmer is the one who picked Pruitt, who now is supposedly in so far over his head that he’s going to wash out in year two. If Pruitt is so unqualified/incompetent shouldn’t Fulmer have figured that out? He also passed on Mel Tucker, who is off to a very impressive start at Colorado (although it’s too early to judge that hire either). And if we move on from Pruitt are we also going to dump Chaney, a guy that Fulmer apparently was instrumental in hiring?
 
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TrueVolsGBOInsider said:
It boils down to ethics, and urban has zero.
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it’s a business and that business is winning football games. Urban isn’t some devil-man. Has made mistakes like everyone else here. Only his mistakes are subject to public shaming. Bring him in. Win a lot of football games over 3-4 years. Top 5 recruiting classes. He leaves UT in premier shape for the foreseeable future.
 
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