Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[Skizer41]

And he won’t develope one so they can make a difference

FYP

 

[HankHill]

I hate that my main streaming hour for Vol radio is ainge and Brian rice. I turn it on and they are on the “we don’t have one player that could start for everyone in the SEC”. Ainge back on the candy again i see

 

[TrippieRedd]

We literally just won 8 games last year, so no.

Remember that? Everyone said Jeremy became a Vol and we all loved him?

Short memory having fickle fans.

Quick riding Pruitt, it's embarrassing.

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Hubbs, AP, Hyams, TB prolly...

Exactly. And AP said the “things change every 30 minutes” bs line again.

9.95

 

[BigOrangeVols]

There’s gonna be a lot of salty Tennessee fans crysterbating to the Vols when we win 8-9 games with Pruitt at the helm next year.

Thanks, I needed that today

 

[jakez4ut]

Does that include 3-4 blowout losses? If so it still isn't good enough. Beating South Carolina, Vandy, Mizzou and some G5 teams still isn't good enough in year 4.

8 wins? With losses to Bama, UGA, and Florida? In year 4?

Extremely unimpressive... and would mean Pruitt is retained for beating the Vanderbilts and Kentucky's of the world. If you all were women, you'd be impressed by 5"

you both are talking about a program that didn't go 3-7 the previous season.

he wins 8 games next year, with the staff turnover, the roster turnover, new QB and just the perception of TN football right now, and the criticism he personally has endured... etc......

lol. there'll be some out there talking about potential coy stuff. the story would be "what a turnaround, gotta give pruitt a lot of credit for turning that around, especially after how toxic the end of 2020 was".

and remember............the whole point is to fix it. it does not matter who fixes it. just that it happens.

now, debating whether or not pruitt is capable of doing that, fair game...my confidence isn't high. but if he does.....gonna be hard to argue against it.

 

[HankHill]

I think Kellen Mond said it best.

“Texas A&M has no quality wins," Mond added. "All of these SEC teams that are 'MEDIOCRE' in the media’s eyes would run the table in some of these other leagues. Only a few teams out of the SEC can really play in the SEC."

Mediocre or bad teams are just mediocre or bad.... conference doesn’t matter. Look at the non conf losses for SEC last year.

 

[Power T-Rev]

That guy is a known dullard

 

[AllVol11717]

Seems that way. I won’t go hard in the paint defending him. Other than to say I’d like to see what he can do with a QB.

Seems to me every coach is mediocre until they get a legit QB.

Should he, in year 3, have had a better QB? Sure, but that’s another discussion.

We might have one now in Bailey. Salter looks like a future star.

I mean, everyone wants to point to Arkansas and yeah their turnaround was impressive. But what anchored it? QB play. Felipe Franks completed almost 70% of his passes and had a 17-4 td/int ratio.

Put JG on Arkansas and they’re a 1-2 win team.

In the same boat as you at this point. My biggest gripe with JP though is his defense is supposed to be his bread and butter, and we have consistently looked lost on that side of the ball.

It could get better, but if it doesn’t even a good QB won’t be able to bail him out.

 

[Catbone]

Mizzou will likely wax us. 6-6 is the ceiling under Cornbread.

Ole miss too

 

[TrippieRedd]

Lol, UGA trying to get Tank Bigsby to transfer

 

[BigOrangeVols]

That guy is a known dullard

I fixed the issue that I thought was obvious

 

[Power T-Rev]

We literally just won 8 games last year, so no.

Remember that? Everyone said Jeremy became a Vol and we all loved him?

Short memory having fickle fans.

We lost to BYU and Georgia State. That win streak last year was fools gold. Who did we beat of significance?

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Quick riding Pruitt, it's embarrassing.

So is the irrational hatred for him. And the grown men circle-jerking over Gruden Freeze.

I’d be all for a change - but it isn’t happening.

 

[TrippieRedd]

We lost to BYU and Georgia State. That win streak last year was fools gold. Who did we beat of significance?

^^^^^

 

[BigOrangeVols]

We lost to BYU and Georgia State. That win streak last year was fools gold. Who did we beat of significance?

I'm not sure how we squeaked out those wins. The only game we actually played well was against USC.

 

[Alwaysopen711]

Seems that way. I won’t go hard in the paint defending him. Other than to say I’d like to see what he can do with a QB.

Seems to me every coach is mediocre until they get a legit QB.

Should he, in year 3, have had a better QB? Sure, but that’s another discussion.

We might have one now in Bailey. Salter looks like a future star.

I mean, everyone wants to point to Arkansas and yeah their turnaround was impressive. But what anchored it? QB play. Felipe Franks completed almost 70% of his passes and had a 17-4 td/int ratio.

Put JG on Arkansas and they’re a 1-2 win team.

Sure better QB play would be nice and would have helped... but can’t completely forget about the lack of defensive pressure created by our front 4, inability to cover backs out of the backfield by our Lbs, and that we can’t cover or create turnovers in the back end. A lot of that should fall on the shoulders of a defensive head coach who has had many of these players in the system for 2-3 years now... It would be different if it was just offensive problems/issues. However our defense was horrid majority of the year and saw no improvement.

 

[Skizer41]

Mercy.

Reality is always somewhere in the middle and Vn doesn’t do the middle at all. This place is either the coach is the savior, he’s just fishing in different waters and going to catch them all or this take.


Pruitt has been a solid recruiter and we continue to be if he stays. He will land a number of these 22 in state guys. It won’t be as many as we wanted but it damn sure won’t be zero

Not sure if that is CJP "landing" them or they are just that diehard? Take Salter for example. He said he committed to Tennessee, not a coach.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

This is just false....

Pipe down, the adults are talking

 

[Volsfaninva917]

That guy is special needs

 

[snowvols]

Lol, UGA trying to get Tank Bigsby to transfer

Side note, but Napier's brother was one of his high school coaches.

 

[Voltrapnbama]

So is the irrational hatred for him. And the grown men circle-jerking over Gruden Freeze.

I’d be all for a change - but it isn’t happening.

But, but, the insiders here said it was

 

[HankHill]

Closing the gap may be my new pet peeve phrase. Ainge and deer park showing their ass hard right now

 

[Voltrapnbama]

That guy is special needs

But yet knows as much as anyone on here.

 

[Deebowbear]

you a comedian now?

So we now know Pruitt is coming back for sure next year