Is the mob flooding social media with negativity?

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Rickyvol77 said:
It’s a vicious cycle. The fans are not just at fault but social media DOES have an impact on recruits and their families and other potential coaches
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Once again, please provide one ounce of proof that it has to do with the fans and not the fact the program is in shambles. Y'all keep stating it like it's a fact yet the only backup you have for your statement is basically "I don't like it when people make fun of my ****** team".
 
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Rocky Top Raby said:
Once again, please provide one ounce of proof that it has to do with the fans and not the fact the program is in shambles. Y'all keep stating it like it's a fact yet the only backup you have for your statement is basically "I don't like it when people make fun of my ****** team".
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If you can’t grasp the simple concept I can’t help you
 
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Most of the fans are not going to support an unproven coach for very long without seeing big wins on the field and in recruiting. If the AD thinks fan negativity towards the head coach is an issue, he needs to make a change.
 
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BeardedVol said:
You seem to be confusing people not being fans of a bad coach with not being fans of the team.

Once you let go of the coach-worship, it will be a easier to differentiate between the two.
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Criticism is fine. Bringing up the same dead horse posts over and over in every thread and stating dumb things is just pointless. And the people cheering for UT to lose so a coach will be fired are not and will never be true fans
 
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BeardedVol said:
You seem to be confusing people not being fans of a bad coach with not being fans of the team.

Once you let go of the coach-worship, it will be a easier to differentiate between the two.
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Also I think Pruitt has done a bad job this year and it mainly is because of the JG decision. But I still know basic understanding of the team issues and know that some of the negavol posters here are over the top ridiculous with some do their posts. Just because someone doesn’t go along with the “we suck Vandy will kill us” or “cornbread is an awful person and I hope we lose out” posts doesn’t make us a “coach worshipper”
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Criticism is fine. Bringing up the same dead horse posts over and over in every thread and stating dumb things is just pointless. And the people cheering for UT to lose so a coach will be fired are not and will never be true fans
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Why? Who made you end-all, be-all of 'true fan' status? That's the schtick of all the settler apologists. WE'RE the real fans. Give. Me. A. Break.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Also I think Pruitt has done a bad job this year and it mainly is because of the JG decision. But I still know basic understanding of the team issues and know that some of the negavol posters here are over the top ridiculous with some do their posts. Just because someone doesn’t go along with the “we suck Vandy will kill us” or “cornbread is an awful person and I hope we lose out” posts doesn’t make us a “coach worshipper”
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Last time I checked, @VOLINVONORE made no delineation in his post, and instead reinforced the farcical belief that fans in general are somehow responsible for the debacle that Pruitt's tenure has become.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Also I think Pruitt has done a bad job this year and it mainly is because of the JG decision. But I still know basic understanding of the team issues and know that some of the negavol posters here are over the top ridiculous with some do their posts. Just because someone doesn’t go along with the “we suck Vandy will kill us” or “cornbread is an awful person and I hope we lose out” posts doesn’t make us a “coach worshipper”
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I think we will win. I don’t know what kind of person Coach Pruitt is but, like all people I don’t know, I assume he is decent. I also think Pruitt is currently the worst non-interim head coach in the conference and I will cheer when they finally fire his Gump ass.
 
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tastycar said:
Good gawd, you are full of yourself. Keep on settling, Ricky.
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Settling for what?. I’ve said that Pruitt has underachieved and will likely be fired next year if he doesn’t turn it around. How is that settling? Just because I’m an adult who doesn’t call coaches and players childish names and yell about how we would lose to a high a high school team or other idiotic posts doesn’t mean I’m settling for anything.
emotional intelligence is a real asset in life, some here should try it
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Settling for what?. I’ve said that Pruitt has underachieved and will likely be fired next year if he doesn’t turn it around. How is that settling? Just because I’m an adult who doesn’t call coaches and players childish names and yell about how we would lose to a high a high school team or other idiotic posts doesn’t mean I’m settling for anything.
emotional intelligence is a real asset in life, some here should try it
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Thank you for proving my pedestal comment with this. Sounds like you've been hitting the Tony Robbins a little hard. I'd scale back a bit.
 
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BeardedVol said:
You can play the "I've been a fan for X years" card all you want. It still will not change the fact that keeping an underperforming head coach, will do nothing to right the trajectory of a program. How does Missouri having a little more money to spend on recruiting, change the fact that we are bringing in top-15 recruiting classes, and the coaching staff can't develop them to even get top-50 results?

You are literally looking for every other reason possible for an explanation for the bad product being put on the field, except the direction of the one person with the greatest impact on that product: Jeremy Pruitt.

Go ask Alabama if firing bad coaches was a bad thing. Ask Florida if firing bad coaches is a bad thing. Go ask Notre Dame if they wish they'd fired Charlie Weiss earlier even though he was the third head coach they'd had in 5 years when they'd hired him.
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Both Alabama and Florida had a rough time hiring a good coach. In fact, Florida first good coach was Doug Dickey and they hired him away from Tennessee. Other than Neyland and Majors, what other ”good” head coach has Tennessee hired from outside our own program? You can not say that we how failed to attempt to hire very established good head coaches from other football programs. We have tried and have been turned down. If you want to see our program continue as we have for the last 12 years, then we will continue down the same path we know far too well with our previous three coaches. Florida and Alabama both through they had hired good coaches and they they turned out to be busts. Alabama finally got Saban and Florida got Urban Liar. Oklahoma may found a good coach by hiring an assistant on their own staff. Old good coaches fade away and finally retire. New good coaches have to be developed before they become good. New good coaches usually have to learn the ropes and that takes a few years. We fire them before they have had the time to develop.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
Both Alabama and Florida had a rough time hiring a good coach. In fact, Florida first good coach was Doug Dickey and they hired him away from Tennessee. Other than Neyland and Majors, what other ”good” head coach has Tennessee hired from outside our own program? You can not say that we how failed to attempt to hire very established good head coaches from other football programs. We have tried and have been turned down. If you want to see our program continue as we have for the last 12 years, then we will continue down the same path we know far too well with our previous three coaches. Florida and Alabama both through they had hired good coaches and they they turned out to be busts. Alabama finally got Saban and Florida got Urban Liar. Oklahoma may found a good coach by hiring an assistant on their own staff. Old good coaches fade away and finally retire. New good coaches have to be developed before they become good. New good coaches usually have to learn the ropes and that takes a few years. We fire them before they have had the time to develop.
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And none of what happened with Alabama's or Florida's failed or successful coaches, had anything to do with fan sentiment, negative or positive.

Regardless of how you feel personally about those schools or their coaching searches, in recent history, they have had no qualms about firing underperforming coaches, and throwing the bank at a successful coach.

Until UT learns that the path to success doesn't involve offering below market contracts, to coaches with below market coaching skills, we'll continue to hire and fire coaches every few years, most likely a year or two too late.

Fan dissatisfaction will have no more effect on our program, as it did back for any of those schools that learned how to reach success.
 
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A big difference in now and back then is the internet. When Dickey was at Florida there wasn't fan based websites for people to freak out on. Yes this has been a very disappointing year. But, to say we could not beat a high school team, or to hope we get beat by Vandy is just plain stupid. I have heard people post over and over that we will get beat by Vandy. But when I ask if they would like to make a bet NO ONE has offered to do so. That tells me they really don't believe the crap they are posting they are simply stirring the pitty pot this place as turned into. Yes, Pruitt is in over his head now. He knows football but he really needs to trust his staff or replace them if he can't trust them.
He will learn to be a good head coach. He just won't be given time to learn it here. UT with it's recent lack of success is not a patient place and NO one would be given time to learn to do the job.
We need a proven head coach and God help him if he can't hold up to our expectations for a season. Heck, he better worry if he has a losing streak in mid season. I want to win and win now as much as anyone. I just don't see a bunch of PROVEN WINNING coaches lining up for the job.
 
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