Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[Leeleesteeth]

Wow . Got 10 pages behind. Lot of Catboning going on this fine morning. Also a lot of people who turned up their noses at Napier and Chadwell are freaking out because Vandy and LSU might hire them. Strange times.

 

[BucVol98]

And here is our resident say too much poster telling us our staff is tampering with LSU players

This is the reason your post count is 2.5x higher than your like count.... js

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

What chaps my ass the most, we've only landed 2 of the top 10 in this year's in-state class, and zero of them are in the top 5.

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To be fair, they only wanted Pennington and Colson. But at this point I'm not trusting their evaluations so...

 

[Kingston Vol]

What chaps my ass the most, we've only landed 2 of the top 10 in this year's in-state class, and zero of them are in the top 5.

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They'll pretend like scrubs from Alabama and Georgia are better than Tennessee players.

 

[gordonr24]

John Brice on Swain Event Says mega-money people are very frustrated. Says the question is does it cost more to fire him now or to have a lost year next year. Says it's no longer a Fulmer decision.

TIFWIW

Not even a question. It’ll cost more to keep Pruitt.

 

[Vols2DaWall]

He acted like this to six-figure donors his first year here. He is what he's always been. All those things people hate about him now have always been there. He can't juggle the many demands of the HC job, he isn't a great face of the program, he doesn't like fundraising or community events, he isn't great at personnel management, he's terrible at PR, he desperately needs delegation skills and he would be well-served to surround himself with the best people he can get and trust them do their jobs. Yet the players like him. Really like him. And so do the recruits.

All of this is the same in year 3 as in year 1. People are just over-the-top now at what's been there all along. And the red flags were there before he was hired.

If he cannot function as a head coach then he does not need to be a head coach. If UT knows that, has seen it for 3 years, has seen no improvement on that, then the decision is incredibly obvious.

 

[Volsdeep4]

John Brice on Swain Event Says mega-money people are very frustrated. Says the question is does it cost more to fire him now or to have a lost year next year. Says it's no longer a Fulmer decision.

TIFWIW

Please not another year of this ****ery

 

[SLICKYINC]

Chadwell would kill it at vandy

He would kill it here too, I believe.

 

[james_govols]

Do we suddenly not play football in the SEC?

Yeah and I get that, but the coach directly making payments?

How often does this actually happen?

Maybe I'm ignorant when it comes to this stuff.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

This staff will play it off that they do not like the instate kids like they have done for most of the past 3 years.

I mean last year we snagged 6, but oddly enough of the 6 we grabbed Cooper, Omari, & Baron are the only ones who have seen real playing time. This year's group though there are 2 OLBs, 2 TEs, 2 OLs, 3 WRs, and a Safety....all positions we need to recruit.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Chadwell would kill it at vandy

I think so too... he's a young, energetic coach that's hungry and getting his 1st big shot at a SEC school. If this is true, then I can see Chadwell getting them back to how they were when Franklin was there. He could be a pain in our butts in a couple of years. His team this year is fun to watch and they play hard. I hate to say I'd be jealous of Vandy (gag), but if they get Chadwell, I will be. I like it when football is fun.

 

[tn88volfan]

Yep. Pruitt is well-liked by his players, I have no doubt.

But it's easy to be well-liked when you're handing them bags of money.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

John Brice on Swain Event Says mega-money people are very frustrated. Says the question is does it cost more to fire him now or to have a lost year next year. Says it's no longer a Fulmer decision.

TIFWIW

DO IT!

 

[KPT_VFL]

I’m afraid HB is going to leave.

 

[scvolfan7]

He would kill it here too, I believe.

He’d do even better here

 

[scvolfan7]

John Brice on Swain Event Says mega-money people are very frustrated. Says the question is does it cost more to fire him now or to have a lost year next year. Says it's no longer a Fulmer decision.

TIFWIW

Great news. Need more of these types of rumblings/rumors

 

[BruinVol]

This is the reason your post count is 2.5x higher than your like count.... js

Yea the truth isn’t always popular

 

[Kingston Vol]

Yeah and I get that, but the coach directly making payments?

How often does this actually happen?

Maybe I'm ignorant when it comes to this stuff.

I'm not talking about him directly. I just think it's silly to say "recruits really like him." Butch recruits liked Butch. Dooley recruits liked Dooley.

It's how that relationship works.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

To be fair, they only wanted Pennington and Colson. But at this point I'm not trusting their evaluations so...

If Notre Dame, Michigan, Clemson, Ohio State, and Georgia are willing to take these guys then we should be too. The two you mentioned though were the first two I would want to flip though. Positions of need, Size, and highly rated.

 

[LA Vol]

No, I've heard/read that a few times over the years but not so much recently. Specifically that he wanted to make UT a top 25 public university and some people said it would happen at the expense of football.

Almost everybody would like to make UT a top public university, especially in core disciplines like business. It takes more than money to do that. The Haslams have enough money to endow both academics and athletics. But the Haslams aren't even UT's wealthiest donors.

 

[HankHill]

I’m afraid HB is going to leave.

It doesn’t matter. If he was a generational talent we would know it by know. Dumb coaches or not.

 

[SLICKYINC]

He’d do even better here

Some people down playing him on a possibility of him coming here are scared to death about a possibility of him going to Vandy. Just saying.

 

[Kingston Vol]

 

[Volfanatic_20]

But Skoal can is the secondary whisperer. Poorest unit on the team by far.

 

[scvolfan7]

I think so too... he's a young, energetic coach that's hungry and getting his 1st big shot at a SEC school. If this is true, then I can see Chadwell getting them back to how they were when Franklin was there. He could be a pain in our butts in a couple of years. His team this year is fun to watch and they play hard. I hate to say I'd be jealous of Vandy (gag), but if they get Chadwell, I will be.

Bingo!

Keyword in all of this is “fun”. Jeremy Pruitt’s teams are not fun or interesting to watch which is the only unique thing about his program. Every Saturday I watch other football teams play hard and have at least a couple interesting plays. We do none of that.