Pruitt seemed a bit frustrated today, both in his post practice media appearance and tonight on Vol Calls. Obviously the day didn’t start off the way at least many here expected but Pruitt said we also had a bad practice today which was an outlier for this year. In the past I’ve heard him say in postgame comments after a loss that our performance in the game was a reflection of our practice that week.
He said we only have 63-64 healthy scholarship players right now and I assume some of those are guys who haven’t really played yet. On Vol Calls he said you have player led teams and coaches led teams. Most of the year so far he’s praised the leadership of our players; tonight he said when the players who are leaders step back we go back to being a coaches led team. He said we’re a coaching led team right now and we need our coaches to get their guys going.
Maybe the guys on the team were just as disappointed as the fans in the early morning news but Pruitt has that fight on mentality and he seems to be pushing both his staff and his players to pick it up and get ready for the game this Saturday. Assuming we've gained even a little bit of maturity over the past year I've got to believe we'll shake this off and come out on Saturday focused on the game at hand. jmo.