Pruitt Is Done

#127
#127
If we are gonna fire JP, this is the year to do it because the potential of having everyone come back given the free year of eligibility. The cupboard won't be completely bare. Gives some breathing room if recruiting takes a hit.
 
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EODVOL said:
If we are gonna fire JP, this is the year to do it because the potential of having everyone come back given the free year of eligibility. The cupboard won't be completely bare. Gives some breathing room if recruiting takes a hit.
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If we could choke down Fulmer's massive warrantless extension, then yes. We at least have a non empty cupboard that a good coach could build with
 
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#135
#135
From September last year, emphasis added...

SKBubba said:
Pruit grew up in football and has worked for some great coaches. It's in his blood. He has moved around a lot, though, and doesn't seem to stay in one place very long.

He seems to have some decent basic principles about discipline, leadership, teaching, practice, and recruiting. But he doesn't seem to have developed much of an overall vision and philosophy that puts all that together, and may not be as flexible or able to adapt to circumstances. Maybe that will come with experience.

Mostly, He dosen't seem to have the personality, style, vocabulary, intelligence, management skills, polish or charisma to be CEO of a multi-million dollar operation with lots of moving parts. He was plucked out of middle-management ranks and thrust into the spotlight. He inherited a mess, possibly before he was ready or able to clean it up..

Of course it was a great opportunity for him and of course he jumped on it. It's possible he's having regrets. He may have been in denial about the enormity of the task, and may now be starting to realize he isn't experienced enough and maybe not even cut out for the job. Fulmer can help him grow into it if Pruitt will let him and if he can put aside any stubborn pride. We can only hope it's not another example of the Peter Principle in action.
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I now know how Kentucky felt for so many years. This program is in a 💩 hole right now. I don’t think Myer could even get us out of this hole.
 
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YankeeVol said:
If there's not improvement next year (LOL I know), I can see him being gone after '21.
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I just don’t think my university will spend the money.
A total collapse is what we’re looking at now. And it doesn’t seem to make since. We were terrible early last year then learned how to fight. We seemed to continue that this year for the first couple games the the Kentucky disaster happened and we’re back to this. It looks like the end of the Butch Era where we would play ok-good for the first half and then give up.
having said that I find it unlikely my university cares enough about winning to make a change. We will find enough wins next year for the university (not the fans) to justify one more.
 
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#139
EODVOL said:
Lyle's buyout is up after this season.
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Great. But we still aren’t forking over 12 million to fire Pruitt while putting up another 12-15 million on a new coach. Especially considering there is no way we go cheap route again if we fire Pruitt
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Great. But we still aren’t forking over 12 million to fire Pruitt while putting up another 12-15 million on a new coach. Especially considering there is no way we go cheap route again if we fire Pruitt
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We will absolutely go the cheap route again next time
 
#143
#143
I'm not trying to be a Pruitt pumper, but think about this. I thought we should have tried the field goal. Down by 11, we needed two scores to tie. The kick was well within his range, and even though his previous kick looked a bit questionable, he made it. The reality is that we could have missed the kick and we would have been in the same boat, so what do you do...

If you look at what happened though, it was pass interference, and we should have gotten the call. If we get the call, continue the drive and march it down and score, we are all singing a different tune. We would all be chanting about what a gutsy call it was to go for it on 4th down. I've got to believe that Pruitt and/or Chaney saw something and went for it. It didn't work out and we paid the price.

I just don't know how you fire ANY coach in this year of COVID. There is plenty of blame to go around, but the reality is that we have no idea how our or other programs are handling this thing. This year doesn't count for eligibility - honestly it doesn't count for much of anything. For whoever wins their conference championship and the national championship, the record books will always have an asterisk next to it for 2020.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
You mean if anyone at Tennessee is hiring the next coach. we clearly don’t know what a good coach looks like
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I do....
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#146
SprocketRocket said:
I'm not trying to be a Pruitt pumper, but think about this. I thought we should have tried the field goal. Down by 11, we needed two scores to tie. The kick was well within his range, and even though his previous kick looked a bit questionable, he made it. The reality is that we could have missed the kick and we would have been in the same boat, so what do you do...

If you look at what happened though, it was pass interference, and we should have gotten the call. If we get the call, continue the drive and march it down and score, we are all singing a different tune. We would all be chanting about what a gutsy call it was to go for it on 4th down. I've got to believe that Pruitt and/or Chaney saw something and went for it. It didn't work out and we paid the price.

I just don't know how you fire ANY coach in this year of COVID. There is plenty of blame to go around, but the reality is that we have no idea how our or other programs are handling this thing. This year doesn't count for eligibility - honestly it doesn't count for much of anything. For whoever wins their conference championship and the national championship, the record books will always have an asterisk next to it for 2020.
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I thought fg too, but in reality it was a good call and good play and should have been pi. Reminded me of 98 Syracuse pi that kept the winning drive alive.
 
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#148
Is it possible to move to a coordinator and put another in at head coach? If we have to continue to pay him, might as well reap his defensive mind. Not being smart, just asking?
 
#149
#149
A lot of posters in here act like if we just get over ourselves we could hire Freeze in one phone call. Like we always land our number one target. Like USC, Michigan, Texas, Auburn, South Carolina aren't putting feelers out there. Maybe we get a chance to hire our #2 that's actually a proven coach. There are a few out there. Even still, it wouldn't be the superstar coach a lot of you are salivating over
 
#150
#150
Is it just me. When Pruitt decides to make a change at QB due to injury or it's just over and it's mop up duty time it seems to me he's just trying to run the clock out to get the hell out of dodge. Run, run, run. Throw to the middle of the field. Additionally he's running up the gut with rbs not built to do that.
 
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