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coskramer said:
From Brad Shepard on 247. Long but great read

He is a great defensive coordinator who has proven he is not a good head coach. He is not going to ever relinquish the play-calling duties on defense, and he is too immersed in everything to ever be a good CEO coach. There have been a couple of times this year where, in the postgame press conference, he mentioned "that was a bad play call by me."The scariest part to me is, despite his intimate involvement with the defense, it's still not very good. The secondary has failed to guard the middle of the field all season, and the defensive line has regressed since he took over. The pass rush is nonexistent. In the offseason, it was very obvious he sacrificed coaching prowess for recruiting ability, and where has it gotten us? To the point where the product on the field is so bad, the recruiting is being negatively affected. It's the most ridiculous thing you can do, and it's cost him.Those two things, to me, are the biggest indictments of the Pruitt coaching regime. The most glaring, however, is his mismanagement of the quarterback position, and that's why he's in such hot water. How many times have we seen mass coaching turnover as the final band-aid on a gaping wound? We see it every year. We saw it with Dooley. We saw it with Butch. We saw it with Herman last year. We saw it with Muschamp last year. It never helps. It's delaying the inevitable. I've seen the posts on "stopping the endless cycle," blah blah blah, but if you KNOW he isn't the answer, you have to pull the plug. At the very best, you keep Pruitt and demand he makes wholesale changes. Again, it never, ever works. Also, who can you realistically get who wants to board a sinking ship?For Tennessee to be in this position after an eight-win season is not OK. This is year 3. If he's still too stubborn to relinquish responsibilities at this point, there's no hope for him. If he's still flipping assistants every year, nobody wants to work for him and nobody works out, there's no hope for him. If you put your true freshman quarterback in game nine, and he's completely not ready because he's not really been developed and not had game reps because you've kept the least-clutch player in school history going out there every game, there's no hope for him. When college football these days is won with offense, and you have arguably one of the five most stagnant units in school history and I'm sitting in my living room predicting the play calls, there's no hope for him.Everybody has dealt with COVID-19. That's no excuse. Yes, it's going to cost a fortune, but if you keep Pruitt, how much more will it cost? People say the talent has been upgraded, but really has it? Where is the evidence of that? Do we look bigger? Stronger? Faster? Do we look like we're developing players? Are players getting that much better? On the other hand, when you bring in your own players and you're still playing Butch's players, what does that say about your confidence in the players you've brought in? The truth is, regardless of what the rankings say, Pruitt has not recruited that well. He still can't recruit kids from the state. He's thinking he's going to go to war with Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Clemson and get kids, and he doesn't. We continually lose out to them and settle.I could go on and on. The in-game coaching decisions are maddening. The lack of adjustments is inexplicable. The fact that we've gotten exponentially worse in the second half is a huge, glaring red light that should be blinking over and over again. I want to be wrong here, guys. But I'm not. We have to pull the plug. Moreover, there's a situation where you've got Hugh Freeze openly lobbying for the job, Billy Napier leaking to reporters he really wants the Tennessee job (he's a Tennessee boy), and the hottest coach in the country, Jamey Chadwell, hailing from East Tennessee and has a son named Heath who he named after Heath Shuler. You have to go make a few guys like Matt Campbell and some of the retired Whale Names tell you no (they will), but your FLOOR is three guys who would walk on broken glass to get here. Do we know they'd do a good job? No. There are no home runs, and that's scary. But we know the answer is not who is on the sideline right now for the Vols. How do you keep trotting out the same product on the field every week and think he's the answer? Fulmer's biggest mistake as a head coach was loyalty to his assistants. If he is the same way with Pruitt, we're just going to be dealing with this again next year when the candidate pool is perhaps not as strong.What do you guys think?
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Atlanta VOL said:
Ain’t no way I am gonna read through all these posts since Friday 😂

Was great seeing my man Ob this weekend though no matter the outcome of the game!
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No need. We're all just venting on how we need a new head coach. Any progress on that front. Have minds begun to change yet?
 
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05_never_again said:
We need an offensive-oriented coach that has had success at the P5 level.
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Do we really though?🤔

I agree with the offensive minded coach part. Absolutely. But the power 5 stuff is blown out of proportion to me. In this day and age of college football, we need an articulate, well-spoken, personable leader who cares about the well being of his players physically and emotionally while being able to speak a simple vision of where he wants the team to go and build a staff that wants to go in that same direction. He needs a DC and OC that are experts at their craft and a team of good recruiters that are also able to communicate his vision in parents living rooms as if he himself is sitting there. The modern HC needs to be the CEO.

Dooley, Butch nor Pruitt fit this mold. Shockingly, Butch came the closest to this but he lacked the humility and willingness to let his coaches coach while he focused on growing the T. And he was just an idiot. (He let the players decide way too much. That’s not a leader.) A head coach has got to be a good decision maker, a risk taker at the appropriate times and motivator.

In my opinion, he doesn’t even have to be the best coach on the team.

I’d rather follow the Dabo model than Saban. Not saying I’m right, just saying that’s what I see. This isn’t 1973 anymore.
 
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GojiraVol17 said:
I think Jay would stay even with a new staff unless he’s forced out. He loves this university
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He left on his own last time this happened. I’m sure he’ll stay if he meshes with the new staff. But if Pruitt stays I bet Jay leaves. Why wouldn’t he? Pruitt will just be fired next year anyway and a good friend of his (Beamer) is offering him a secure job for the next few years.
 
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TrippieRedd said:
The jokes are funny for awhile, but get old quick. Let’s stop, before I clown you.
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First, there's absolutely nothing wrong if you did wake and bake. If not for my health conditions, I'd do it myself.

Second, go ahead and try and clown me. Is that some kind of threat? Am I supposed to be scared? lmao
 
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Volfanatic_20 said:
AP seems pretty confident that Jay isn't going anywhere. They are close so I am going to ride with Austin on this until he does leave.
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Hope so. I don’t mind being wrong - all this stuff sways in the wind.

I trust who I spoke with, that they would know he was planning to leave, so I choose to believe, maybe out of my own optimism, that Fulmer put the breaks on it because there’s a chance Pruitt will be replaced.
 
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