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[KnoxRealtorVOL]

Pruitt was a terrible hire we had 3 other better qualified coaches that wanted the job but Fulmer had to hire this bum cause god forbid a better coach outdo Phil. Pruitt will he gone hopefully by the end of 2020 along with Foolmer. Pruitt will not field one winning team in 3 seasons either my prediction.

Serious question... you really, truly, honestly think this is why Fulmer hired Pruitt? Dead serious?

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

Serious question... you really, truly, honestly think this is why Fulmer hired Pruitt? Dead serious?

Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me. Please name me any other schools that were interested in Pruitt but us.

 

[Dudleys87]

We shouldn’t recruit jr college guys
We haven’t had a complete class work out in years

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

Leach, Brohm, Tucker, even Schiano would’ve all been better hires.

 

[Dudleys87]

Pruitt was a terrible hire we had 3 other better qualified coaches that wanted the job but Fulmer had to hire this bum cause god forbid a better coach outdo Phil. Pruitt will he gone hopefully by the end of 2020 along with Foolmer. Pruitt will not field one winning team in 3 seasons either my prediction.

Please name the 3

Please.

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

Please name the 3

Please.

Mike Leach, Jeff Brohm, Mel Tucker

 

[TJSVOLS]

If Tennessee is still this bad in December 2020 Jeremy Pruitt should be canned and Phil Fulmer should be canned for hiring him.

Now I can agree with you 100% on that.

 

[Dudleys87]

Leach, Brohm, Tucker, even Schiano would’ve all been better hires.

Brohm is the only legitimate argument and even then you can’t say it would be any better

Leach is 10 over .500 at a school with no expectations. The pressure and stress would have been much higher here and his record would be worse. He’s never been known for Defense other than 1 year. His offense works great when teams don’t play defense but when they do it wouldn’t get going fast enough and we’d never catch up.

Schiano said Knoxville is to hostile to work in and he quit a week after he was hired in NE. So you really want to dump money into someone who’s
a wildcard at best? The only track record he’s got is Rutgers. No thank you.

 

[Ten_Titans]

The thing I find most interesting about this is every year the media and pundits make their preseason predictions and it’s the same story.

They just hate Tennessee and couldn’t name 10 players on the roster. They are just going by last year. Etc, etc, etc.

How the heck did anyone not know this stuff before the year that people are just noticing this now? I mean to the point where you’re penciling in wins like it was a given

And secondly, that still doesn’t excuse not knowing where to line up and the level of play they have shown this season. It explains why they are not SEC title material. It doesn’t explain why guys don’t know what they are doing

The over-under for wins from everyone outside Knoxville for this team was 6.5 or 7.

As you obviously know, the expectations here are higher than they are for non-fans.

Only now do people want to play pretend like they knew all along 3 wins was the ceiling.

I get it. It's not like we haven't seen it before. The mentally weak have to believe in the coach right up until he's about to be fired because, as Beldar puts it, they can't stand to watch the program "Run 100 mph in the wrong direction".

 

[TJSVOLS]

Taylor is third string now? Brutal

Warrior should be.

 

[Dudleys87]

Mike Leach, Jeff Brohm, Mel Tucker

Covered. No thank you.

 

[1TheCoach1]

You don't remember a team damn near revolting against it's HC?

The players were revolting against Butch.

 

[hog88]

The players were revolting against Butch.

Dooley

 

[Dudleys87]

The over-under for wins from everyone outside Knoxville for this team was 6.5 or 7.

As you obviously know, the expectations here are higher than they are for non-fans.

Only now do people want to play pretend like they knew all along 3 wins was the ceiling.

I get it. It's not like we haven't seen it before. The mentally weak have to believe in the coach right up until he's about to be fired because, as Beldar puts it, they can't stand to watch the program "Run 100 mph in the wrong direction".

Mentally weak...

“Firing a coach when things don’t turnaround right when they want them to”

 

[Dudleys87]

Dooley

Both?

 

[1TheCoach1]

Dooley

It was both Dooley and Butch.

 

[Quaint88]

Pruitt isn't winning for two reasons:

1. We don't have enough Butch recruits on the roster.
2. We still have too many Butch recruits on the roster.

 

[ShoalCreekVol]

How confident are we in the accuracy of this list? Didn't look it over entirely, but at first glance I see Aubrey Solomon labeled as junior college. First of all, why color junior college players in the first place? But I really didn't think Aubrey went to a junior college between Michigan and here.

 

[ShoalCreekVol]

It certainly didn’t look like it, Jack off

Absolutely unnecessary, photo.

 

[JohnnyJava]

And quit acting like Pruitt walked into anything other than a dumpster fire

In isolation, it’s pretty meaningless. All it shows is that classes degrade over time with players that didn’t make it transferring or retiring. You could put together a similarly depressing-looking spreadsheet for Clemson, Bama, and Georgia. The difference is that those teams win. Also, Gibbs and Solomon are not JUCO guys.

 

[Mike Moffett]

And quit acting like Pruitt walked into anything other than a dumpster fire

Didn’t Dooley have a bunch of Kiffs recruits leave the team as well?

 

[njvols]

And quit acting like Pruitt walked into anything other than a dumpster fire

So, this explains why we're always the youngest team in football. However, kudo's may initially being in order for minimal defections from Pruitt's classes. That's a good sign.

Just my opinion, but you can be a very average coach and do pretty well if you can figure out how to have an OLD team...like MZ has apparently figured out. They sign 2-3 star guys, but they stay in the program, play for four years, and by the time they're juniors and seniors, they may not be Bama/UGA/LSU type players, but they're better than five star Frosh starting across the line from them.

 

[johnsonbrewer]

Pruitt isn't winning for two reasons:

1. We don't have enough Butch recruits on the roster.
2. We still have too many Butch recruits on the roster.

 

[Carl Pickens]

And quit acting like Pruitt walked into anything other than a dumpster fire

Can you imagine the line they’d have if Jack Jones and Chance Hall had stayed healthy? Those guys played well as freshmen

 

[VolsSportsFan]

The thing I find most interesting about this is every year the media and pundits make their preseason predictions and it’s the same story.

They just hate Tennessee and couldn’t name 10 players on the roster. They are just going by last year. Etc, etc, etc.

How the heck did anyone not know this stuff before the year that people are just noticing this now? I mean to the point where you’re penciling in wins like it was a given

And secondly, that still doesn’t excuse not knowing where to line up and the level of play they have shown this season. It explains why they are not SEC title material. It doesn’t explain why guys don’t know what they are doing

Exactly.

Before the season nobody was talking about how bad Pruitt had it. It was almost a given around here that we were going bowling and that we would show great improvement. If you suggested otherwise you were shouted down and called a "NegaVol". Then suddenly after 2 games it's "What did you expect, Pruitt inherited a dumpster fire!!!!!"