Would you put in money to pay for a Pruitt buyout if we had a conditional deal with Hugh Freeze?

Would you contribute to a buy out to fire Pruitt and hire Hugh Freeze

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WhenUrVolUrVFL

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It's what we should be doing...right now.

The writing is on the wall....Pruitt is done. We're going to have the exact same year next year that we had this year.

Let's just hurry up and start the next chapter of Tennessee football. We all know Hugh Freeze is going to be the guy. Let's make it happen.
 
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WhenUrVolUrVFL said:
It's what we should be doing...right now.

The writing is on the wall....Pruitt is done. We're going to have the exact same year next year that we had this year.

Let's just hurry up and start the next chapter of Tennessee football. We all know Hugh Freeze is going to be the guy. Let's make it happen.
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I, you nor anyone else knows if H Freeze or for that matter anyone is going to replace Pruitt anytime soon.....
 
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Link a GoFund Me and lets get this thing done.

$2,975 committed as of 9:30am Friday morning.
 
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It's been well documented that Vol Fans Will Donate to a Go Fund Me Buy Coach Pruitt Out Effort. Ready for it to happen.
 
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hog88 said:
he's probably learned his lesson and won't make the same mistakes
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On that end, its possible.

Keep in mind, that didnt even get brought up until he tried to throw Houston Nutt under the bus over rules violations that were coming with penalties and his lawyer got to digging around.

Earlier this year, Ole Miss self-imposed a one-year postseason ban following a notice of allegations from the NCAA over multiple rules violations. Bjork said Thursday night that Freeze’s departure had nothing to do with those violations and was based on a “pattern of personal misconduct.”
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Hugh Freeze resigns as Ole Miss head coach
 
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Do you guys understand how stupid this sounds? I mean no offense, but the idea of giving the school money as regular ordinary fans for them to spend on firing a coach is on the same level of sappery as the kids who were giving that one Kardashian chick money so she could become the first female billionaire.

I'm gonna pay the restaurant to hire the staff and buy the ingredients. THEN, I'm gonna go in sit down and buy a meal on top of that? No. The cost of the food and the staff is included in the bill.

If the product on the field is good I will pay them to watch it. If it isn't, they will get nothing from me. That's my contribution to the University. They have plenty of money, and if everyone did that, they would have plenty of incentive to stop being a joke of a program.
 
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There I was walking down Cumberland Avenue, and there was this bunch of people lined up at a table set up in front of the Student Union. So I walk up to the back of the line and ask what's going on, and the person in front of me tells me it's someone collecting money for to buy out the head corch of the Tennessee Volunteers. So I stay in line for a few hours and finally when I get up to the front of the line and I ask the guy behind the table what the suggested amount was for folks interested in chipping in for Pruitt's buyout. He tells me, "About $3.50." Now it was about that time I realized that I wasn't talkin' to a man but instead a eight-story-tall crustacean from the Paleolithic era that come out of the Tennessee River. I exclaimed "Got'dam, Loch Ness monstah! Ain't no way I'm giving you tree-fitty, get your own Got'dam money!" and I walked down to Gus's for a sammich.
 
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GAVol said:
Where's the "Hell no because risking millions on a guy too stupid to use a burner phone is a dumb financial move" option?
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WhenUrVolUrVFL said:
It's what we should be doing...right now.

The writing is on the wall....Pruitt is done. We're going to have the exact same year next year that we had this year.

Let's just hurry up and start the next chapter of Tennessee football. We all know Hugh Freeze is going to be the guy. Let's make it happen.
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We just need a QB to step up and be the unquestioned leader... nothing else. I’m tired of this **** of people thinking this coach or that coach can fix everything. Quit romanticizing that Freeze is the only answer.
 
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WhenUrVolUrVFL said:
Uh...to make it better?
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I truly laughed; loved the response.

So here'smy honest question: what makes you think this action will make it better?

I have 15 years of data that suggests under a 'myriad' of different leadership, the result has been the same. The only difference being that the cost of the ineptitude has increased each iteration.
 
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GVol1966 said:
Liberty says hello from the top 25.
Liberty, yeah turns out they do have a football team,.......I never new
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They're not in the cfp top 25. The rankings this season are really skewed anyways. No way these mid majors get ranked with a regular season
 
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I'm having a hard time with this one. My knee-jerk reaction is to answer 'Yes: Over $100'.

Here is my quandary:
  • I genuinely like the guy. He's down-to-earth and real. I believe that with Pruitt - what you see is what you get. I know that the issue with some of you is that you don't like what you see, but the truth is - I do. His candid nature is very refreshing to me.
  • I feel like we have invested three years in his HC development and I really hate to see that time and financial investment go to waste.
  • He's had three years so far. I think about what he has had to deal with:
    • He's never been a head coach. He has had to learn what it takes to be one. Seeing what it takes and doing it are different. It was expected to be a steep learning curve - without a doubt it has been one. This lesson has been through the school of hard knocks. Honestly - I feel like it is still a work-in-progress. I'm just not sure how long we here in VolNation are willing to wait.
    • A roster filled with gigantic holes where the most important pieces are. This was always going to take years to fix.
    • As much as I hate to say it, UT had developed a culture of losing. Changing this culture may have been his biggest challenge, It may have taken a step backwards this year.
    • A pandemic that scrubbed the off-season of what many of us believed could be a water-shed year, what with a talent-laden OL, a returning tailback in the vein of an Alvin Kamara, and most importantly, a hot-shot freshman QB who most believe has the talent to be really good.
Now the other side of the coin for me:
  • I see some of VolNation refer to him as a Gomer. No coach is EVER going to make all fans happy, but IMO all that matters is results on the field. If he was winning championships we would be calling him a Genius - not a Gomer.
  • I feel like the current roster is much better now than three years ago, but we aren't completely there yet. I also really believe that he connects with his players. I'm just not sure that is enough. If the next recruiting class takes a step backwards, that could be the final straw.
  • Three years. Is that long enough given all of the circumstances? You can compare records of other coaches in similar circumstances, but I'm not sure that ANY coach has had to deal with all of this, all at the same time. Does the pandemic grant him a pass for another year?
  • With all of that said, I just don't understand the decision to continue to play JG at QB this year after all of the turnovers. If he were a RB putting the ball on the carpet that many times, he would never play another down. This is not intended to be another down-with-JG comment, but I'm sorry - I just don't get it. Why would ANY head coach continue to do that. This one is hard for me to get past.
That leads me back to my quandary. Would I take Hugh Freeze over Pruitt? My honest answer is yes, but VolNation - I just don't see it happening. I remember the rush to get rid of Fulmer so we could land Lane Kiffin while he was available. We all know how that turned out. I believe Fulmer will have no part of it.
 
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