Hurd would have been a Heisman candidate under Pruitt. I have always believed Jones' mismanagement of Hurd was criminal. The guy could have gone anywhere and was probably more responsible than Jones in bringing in that great class. He wanted to be coached hard. He wanted to be made better. Jones failed on every count.Idk, don’t kill me for saying this but I don’t think Hurd makes it under Pruitt. I think they’d knock heads faster than CBJ did
I would like to see Dwayne Hendrix and Jalen Hurd under this coaching staff, as opposed to cBJ.
Pruitt doesent quit. Whether we all agree or not Tennessee needed the team of Fulmer and Pruitt and thankfully we got both at the right time
Agree 100 percent. Crazy thing is, we have Beverly Davenport to thank for this! Unbelievable it took her being in that role, at that very moment, to make it happen! Just glad it went down the way it did.
Tee Martin said Hurd was soft. Of course I was one of those who torched Tee about it at the time, turns out he was correct.
There is a huge mentality difference.....Coach Pruitt is a very knowledgeable, experienced, demanding, hand-nosed coach that has won at the highest level versus Butch who is the exact opposite. To be honest, when talking about football and football coaches, Butch does not belong in the same conversations as Coach Pruitt.
The thing that got me about the anti Tee backlash is that Tee was just showing that he still cared about the Tenn program after he had moved on with his career. Also everyone reacted as if Tee had been doing it for the cameras, when it was clearly just an open mike situation ESPN was just eavesdropping.Tee Martin said Hurd was soft. Of course I was one of those who torched Tee about it at the time, turns out he was correct.
Excited about winning 8 games when you had a 10 win schedule?
SO RIGHT. That was downright embarrassing. We once had an honest to God battle hardened general and legendary coach here. Wonder what Neyland would have thought if he’d witnessed a Tennessee coach falling to the ground , busting out in tears? And then fetching coffee for a Bama coach after being fired? Would love to hear Neylands take on all that.Remember how Butch reacted after the Hail Mary at UGA? Now could you imagine Pruitt reacting that way? There is no way in the world that I could see him doing whatever that was...
This is complete BS. It was fortunate that we got 8 wins at all. Nobody on here thought we would beat Miss State, Mizzou or Vandy. Even Kentucky was considered a probable loss. Nobody is high fiving over an 8 win season like it's the best thing ever. When you consider the start of the season it's pretty amazing how things ended that's what gets people a tad excited. Just to see the team headed up and finally getting some breaks. It was never going to be a 10 win season. Had we showed up and beaten Ga State and BYU there's no guarantee things would have ended the same on the rest of the schedule.
Didn’t expect to beat a Miss St team starting a Freshman QB? Didn’t expect to beat a Mizzou who lost to Vandy? Who here doesn’t expect to beat Vandy every year? I guess you’ll say everyone here expected to lose to Indy also. Your post is BS.
Stole my thoughts, DD. Strength & conditioning now is truly a strength, & it's obvious.
Thats exactly right. Practically no-one here on VN expected to beat any of those teams after the disastrous losses to Georgia State and BYU. Go back and look at all the whining. Most people were expecting the worst season ever. There was one poster who after the BYU loss correctly picked every win and loss to come and he was laughed out of the place then after the Indiana game somebody quoted his prediction. No-one expected to beat Vandy or Mizzou who had win streaks against us and everyone thought Ms State was the better team on paper.