Pruitt support

#53
#53
Lurkerin said:
My question is who all gave Butch more time that are now out on Pruitt?
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Just a guess, but Butch at least gave the appearance of an upward trajectory through his first three seasons both on the field and in recruiting and year four was set up to be special if he’d not lost to Arky and Vandy. Pruitt has regressed and nothing really looks better now.
 
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tnktm said:
2020 has been a crapshoot with COVID. Hiring is a crapshoot no matter how good you think they are - see Harbaugh, Herman, and Frost. If Pruitt can work out an offensive identity we know we’ll have a good defense (eventually). Surely as he gets more experienced the administration part of being a HC will get easier. Curious to see the rest of the season, how recruiting finishes, and his offseason moves. Hopefully even if COVID is still around they’ll figure out how to have spring practice and summer workouts so this will be the only asterisk year. Pruitt could still end up being a good coach for us.
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If Pruitt wants to save his job, He needs to stay completely out of the offense, he can focus on ST and Defense. Chaney is intelligent and experienced, and can run the offense without any interference by Pruitt. They need to name Bailey the starting QB going forward.
 
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Pruitt probably didn't think we'd have a season. Maybe with virus numbers rising they'll cancel the season.

He should of kept S&C coach.

Tee Martin being there is no good. Pruitt likely feels that Fulmer wants Tee as head coach.

I'm not gonna say anything more than Pruitt is a damn genius compared to Tee.

He inherited a team of losers with a defeated mindset, but he had them believing and playing great defense. I don't care if the teams weren't ranked, previous staffs would have lost to UK and Mizzou last year.

We have to get better in the trenches and we need to be versatile on defense. Tampa 2 should be used let them catch it underneath and get these young players to unleash some frustration.
 
#56
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He’s proven he is not a good head coach. With that said don’t worry about him. The UT admin likes to hang on to guys a year past their expiration date and miss out of quality coaches so they can hire another cheap loser.

Pruitts safe until they can give him another big buyout contract to supplement his salary at another program.
 
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TartanTurff said:
You avoid crapshoot with leadership in the athletic director's position, who should be a shrewd businessman in today's big business college sports environments, has an uncanny ability to put the right people into the right situations, yes you need success within the football program to drive revenue for the non revenue sports and to meet the title 9 obligations that go with the operation of any programs at a university, arrogance, ego and a business mind stuck in the 1970s won't get it in today's ultra competitive college sports environment.

I attribute a lot of the success at all programs at Florida to Jeremy Foley, recently retired, but their programs have excelled nationally and in conference quite regularly, also, until the Adidas pay to play mess cost everybody at Louisville their jobs, Tom Jurich assembled competitive programs across all sports and carefully navigated the school's journey from the old Metro Conference to the All American Conference to the Big East and into the ACC, quite a feat for an urban university which was historically men's basketball. Not every school can be a founding member of the SEC before games were broadcast on radio and light years before most of the games were streamed live across your smartphone.

The consensus best AD in the country currently is Joe Castiglione at Oklahoma, then probably the guy at Ohio State who hired Luke Fickell as the interim, before Urban Meyer and then Ryan Day, you need a business man, not an old football coach, although Barry Alvarez has done well at Wisconsin, nor an inexperienced bean counter, nor a wash out has-been like Handsome Dave Hart, you will not find Fulmer on any lists of the top ADs in the country and many of the university's flailings in sports are directly attributable to the lazy and inept leadership in the athletic department and the sooner we put excellence in that role, the sooner we will see excellence on the field and across all sports at Tennessee.

It all starts at the top.
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Very well said. There are many aspects of this I liked. I liked the idea of a strong change at AD.....at least an innovator if not proven excellence. It is a business and one would benefit from a business man. However, this too has a small percentage of success IMO.
 
#58
#58
We’re in the third year and got the hell kicked out of us by Kentucky and Arkansas. I do not give a damn to give someone time when they show zero progress and look clueless doing it. Pruitt is in over his head and it’s obvious at this point.
 
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Elhanan said:
He’s proven he is not a good head coach. With that said don’t worry about him. The UT admin likes to hang on to guys a year past their expiration date and miss out of quality coaches so they can hire another cheap loser.

Pruitts safe until they can give him another big buyout contract to supplement his salary at another program.
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Couldn’t have said it better. We always burn at least one recruiting class in the process.
 
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tnktm said:
2020 has been a crapshoot with COVID. Hiring is a crapshoot no matter how good you think they are - see Harbaugh, Herman, and Frost. If Pruitt can work out an offensive identity we know we’ll have a good defense (eventually). Surely as he gets more experienced the administration part of being a HC will get easier. Curious to see the rest of the season, how recruiting finishes, and his offseason moves. Hopefully even if COVID is still around they’ll figure out how to have spring practice and summer workouts so this will be the only asterisk year. Pruitt could still end up being a good coach for us.
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That's JP's problem thinking that the SEC is still a defensive based game. The SEC is now a highly developed offensive game. Look at UGA. Very good defense. Got hosed by Bama and UF. Why? Great offense.
 
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I have never seen Tennessee football be so non-competitive. Think of the worst stretches of the worst coaches. Have any of them had as many 26+ point losses? I thought Dooley losing 10-7 to Kentucky after the multiple overtime loss to Missouri was the low water mark. How about just getting taken to the woodshed by traditional losers? Folks, this is as bad as it gets.
 
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RiverVol said:
COVID-19 is a variable, but it is equitably applied to every team.

It is not an excuse; moreover, it identifies yet another shortcoming in leadership - in how they have failed to navigate this obstacle as well as other coaches. COVID-19’s effects matter but not how some folks want them to matter.
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Agree. Covid sure hasn't effected Bama, UF, A&M. Ole Miss. They are scoring points in bunches. UGA is not a bad team. They just have their own JG clone at QB.
 
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tnktm said:
2020 has been a crapshoot with COVID. Hiring is a crapshoot no matter how good you think they are - see Harbaugh, Herman, and Frost. If Pruitt can work out an offensive identity we know we’ll have a good defense (eventually). Surely as he gets more experienced the administration part of being a HC will get easier. Curious to see the rest of the season, how recruiting finishes, and his offseason moves. Hopefully even if COVID is still around they’ll figure out how to have spring practice and summer workouts so this will be the only asterisk year. Pruitt could still end up being a good coach for us.
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What proves he will be any good? Have you been watching the same team I have. We are worse now than we were his first season. The real problem is Fulmer. He will not hire a coach that can win in today's football. Last I checked there is only one defensive minded coach who wins and he now has one of the best offenses. We have to hire an offensive mind or we will continue to under perform.
 
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PowerT83 said:
Pruitt probably didn't think we'd have a season. Maybe with virus numbers rising they'll cancel the season.

He should of kept S&C coach.

Tee Martin being there is no good. Pruitt likely feels that Fulmer wants Tee as head coach.

I'm not gonna say anything more than Pruitt is a damn genius compared to Tee.

He inherited a team of losers with a defeated mindset, but he had them believing and playing great defense. I don't care if the teams weren't ranked, previous staffs would have lost to UK and Mizzou last year.

We have to get better in the trenches and we need to be versatile on defense. Tampa 2 should be used let them catch it underneath and get these young players to unleash some frustration.
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What? No. Tee doesn't even want to be at Tennessee. The only reason Tee is here, is because USC fired him, and since he's a pretty crappy coach, no one was going to hire him except for nostalgic Tennesseee.

If Tee got a west coast job offer, he'd be gone before the ink could dry.

He's a lifetime position coach who will never make OC.
 
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Pruitt isn’t going anywhere after this season unless he resigns or get another job. Neither one of those is likely to happen. So it is what it is.

The ‘21 season will be the litmus test. I don’t know where the bar is set, but I do believe that Pruitt will enter next season on the hot seat.
 
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None to offer here. Not sold on him and never was.. another bad hire by UT. Just waiting for the inevitable.
 
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#73
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jwilliams said:
It disgusts me how many of you trash fellow fans for being optimistic. Disagree/debate... sure, no problem. But some of you are straight up, rude P'sOS.
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There's a pretty massive difference between being optimistic because there is actual evidence to support some level of optimism and being Baghdad Bob/Chief Wiggum/Burning Room Dog.

OP is the latter.
 
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#75
GreyWolf1129 said:
Pruitt isn’t going anywhere after this season unless he resigns or get another job. Neither one of those is likely to happen. So it is what it is.

The ‘21 season will be the litmus test. I don’t know where the bar is set, but I do believe that Pruitt will enter next season on the hot seat.
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I agree. If they have a "normal" spring and fall camp, and the team is not notably better in 2021, then he has to go. We should see Fulmer "retire" as well. I am not going to speak one way or the other as to my confidence of that happening because it doesn't matter.

I will say that I don't think the team is as far away as lot of people on the board think it is. I believe the defense would play (and has played) much better if/when the offense could compete in time of possession and actually score enough to keep the team in the games. The offense's issues are obviously manifested in the QB play, but I am not sure if QB play is dictating philosophy or vice versa. It is a chicken or the egg sort of situation.

Of course, all of this falls on the shoulders of the HC, and he has yet to prove anything. But, I disagree with those that see the program in total disfunction.
 
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