If you honestly believe that this season is not some what in the books. Feel free to live in that alternative reality If you ever have coached the game, as I have, a qb controversy is exactly what is needed to bring out the best in the competitors. JG knows he has no competition and is free to shred the vol tradition.
Poll: Should JG be benched?
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That's stupid. If you "saw" then you would have actually SEEN the skills that can be honed into a good QB. Raw skills. But instead... you harp on a stat taken out of context.
You actually have no idea about who is doing what in practice.
No. You are simply not an honest person. That... we continue to see.
LOL... his "up" isn't good enough. His "down" is catastrophic.
And no, an experienced and inconsistent person is NOT preferable to putting work into a talented but less experienced person. If Pruitt doesn't learn this concept and right quick... his tenure is going to be much shorter than most of us hoped.
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Let’s see..... BM started 4 games last year.
UGA he played better than Pruitt indicated he would. So there’s one good game.
MSU he made two mistakes in a game being dominated by our defense. Otherwise put on a show. Two good games.
Alabama he was 6/7 before taking a cheap shot to his head in a game he shouldn’t have even been playing in. Three good games
Seems like he was improving with every game. Go figure! Not to mention he energized the team and kept fans on the edge of their seat. In comparison BM was a Ferrari, JG is a go cart and Pruitt is scared of speed.
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You know, I got to thinking about all the times I've seen the fans clamoring for a Freshman quarterback and the coaches resisting. Fans will boo a team when they want the freshman quarterback to come out. In all the cases I can think of, the fans always won and they're always proved right. FWIW (not much).
@K-town Vol Fan has an incredibly bad habit of assuming things that he does not know and presenting them as facts... while denying obvious things that he should know.
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Here is my take on this - will be unpopular (or worse 
) given the current sentiment after last couple of games but since I did vote that JG should not be benched here are my reasons (I evolved to this position yesterday - was completely done with JG after first half against UK and was ready to be done with UT football at least for the remainder of this season).
1. Coaching staff is still 100% behind him. CJP is not a proven HC so just like most others I have question marks about his judgement (especially on offensive side of the ball), but I have a lot of trust in Chaney and the rest of the staff (they have a lot of experience). On one of the pay sites for UT football one of the contributors reported to have privately reached out and spoken to most of the assistants on the staff and that every single one strongly believes JG still gives us the best chance to win in spite of all the recent disasters - this is because he is the only one who knows the playbook and without him you have to strip too much stuff out from the playbook which will not fly against the type of competition we are facing this year - given we are playing only against SEC competition).
2. How many of you would have asked for JG to be benched at halftime of UGA game? He played pretty well against one of the best teams/defenses in the country - obviosly until the disasters in the 3rd quarter - but he had no turnovers and 2 TD's and we were in position to win the game early in the second half - so it's not like he is completely incapable of playing well (we have seen this last year as well where at times he performed well). If he can clean things up and get back to that level we could still win some games this year. This is the main point - I came to believe that this is more likely than one of the other QB's stepping up and surprising us if they can't even impress the coaching stuff enough to give them a chance.
3. If Maurer is healthy and coaches feel he is ready to play I would definitely support starting him - he showed he could provide some excitement (fearless) last year and probably is closest to JG in terms of knowing the playbook. Of course who knows where he is mentally and physically after those concussions ...
4. Just like everyone else I hope HB is the future but don't want to see him turned into sacrificial lamb just to appease angry fan base. We can criticize the staff for not developing him more rapidly but given current situation with covid I guess I'm willing to reluctantly give them a pass at this point (in terms of having legitimate excuse as to why he is not more prepared to step in).
) given the current sentiment after last couple of games but since I did vote that JG should not be benched here are my reasons (I evolved to this position yesterday - was completely done with JG after first half against UK and was ready to be done with UT football at least for the remainder of this season).1. Coaching staff is still 100% behind him. CJP is not a proven HC so just like most others I have question marks about his judgement (especially on offensive side of the ball), but I have a lot of trust in Chaney and the rest of the staff (they have a lot of experience). On one of the pay sites for UT football one of the contributors reported to have privately reached out and spoken to most of the assistants on the staff and that every single one strongly believes JG still gives us the best chance to win in spite of all the recent disasters - this is because he is the only one who knows the playbook and without him you have to strip too much stuff out from the playbook which will not fly against the type of competition we are facing this year - given we are playing only against SEC competition).
2. How many of you would have asked for JG to be benched at halftime of UGA game? He played pretty well against one of the best teams/defenses in the country - obviosly until the disasters in the 3rd quarter - but he had no turnovers and 2 TD's and we were in position to win the game early in the second half - so it's not like he is completely incapable of playing well (we have seen this last year as well where at times he performed well). If he can clean things up and get back to that level we could still win some games this year. This is the main point - I came to believe that this is more likely than one of the other QB's stepping up and surprising us if they can't even impress the coaching stuff enough to give them a chance.
3. If Maurer is healthy and coaches feel he is ready to play I would definitely support starting him - he showed he could provide some excitement (fearless) last year and probably is closest to JG in terms of knowing the playbook. Of course who knows where he is mentally and physically after those concussions ...
4. Just like everyone else I hope HB is the future but don't want to see him turned into sacrificial lamb just to appease angry fan base. We can criticize the staff for not developing him more rapidly but given current situation with covid I guess I'm willing to reluctantly give them a pass at this point (in terms of having legitimate excuse as to why he is not more prepared to step in).
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There are lots of reasons you are choosing to ignore that the "best" option might not be the current starter.
The most benign and obvious is... that everyone makes mistakes even college head coaches. The question isn't really any longer whether Pruitt made a mistake by sticking with JG so long. The question is if and how much it will cost him in the long run. It has already cost him multiple winnable games. It has already brought his credibility into question with fans, media, and other more qualified observers. It could easily result in a season that hurts recruiting. It could cost him Chaney and other quality assistants. It could cost him the respect of his team (appears to already be starting).
So how long does he hang on to these bad ideas?
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Change the da-n playbook, it ain’t working.Here is my take on this - will be unpopular (or worse
1. Coaching staff is still 100% behind him. CJP is not a proven HC so just like most others I have question marks about his judgement (especially on offensive side of the ball), but I have a lot of trust in Chaney and the rest of the staff (they have a lot of experience). On one of the pay sites for UT football one of the contributors reported to have privately reached out and spoken to most of the assistants on the staff and that every single one strongly believes JG still gives us the best chance to win in spite of all the recent disasters - this is because he is the only one who knows the playbook and without him you have to strip too much stuff out from the playbook which will not fly against the type of competition we are facing this year - given we are playing only against SEC competition).
2. How many of you would have asked for JG to be benched at halftime of UGA game? He played pretty well against one of the best teams/defenses in the country - obviosly until the disasters in the 3rd quarter - but he had no turnovers and 2 TD's and we were in position to win the game early in the second half - so it's not like he is completely incapable of playing well (we have seen this last year as well where at times he performed well). If he can clean things up and get back to that level we could still win some games this year. This is the main point - I came to believe that this is more likely than one of the other QB's stepping up and surprising us if they can't even impress the coaching stuff enough to give them a chance.
3. If Maurer is healthy and coaches feel he is ready to play I would definitely support starting him - he showed he could provide some excitement (fearless) last year and probably is closest to JG in terms of knowing the playbook. Of course who knows where he is mentally and physically after those concussions ...
4. Just like everyone else I hope HB is the future but don't want to see him turned into sacrificial lamb just to appease angry fan base. We can criticize the staff for not developing him more rapidly but given current situation with covid I guess I'm willing to reluctantly give them a pass at this point (in terms of having legitimate excuse as to why he is not more prepared to step in).
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That it one option. But how about instead try to execute what you have in current playbook without messing up (seems like that same playbook worked reasonably well in first 2.5 games)? Seems more likely to be able to fix it rather than invent somethign new at this point if you want to have any hope of salvaging the rest of this season. Also, Chaney's playbook is pretty damn good when he has the players who can execute it (we have already seen what he can do back when he was with Kiffin and Dooley).
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Those boys aren’t just some steak you throw to dogs to keep someone else from getting bit! If Maurer plays, he plays the following week. If Shrout plays he plays the following week. Same for Bailey. The point is to ALLOW someone to grow from where they are now for the future of the program. The question is how many people trust Pruitt at this point to choose the right one? Because whoever it is, the other ones gone.
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