If this is the plan Pruitt has just now figured out going into year 4. We are totally screwed! He should have been fired after Kentucky and Fulmer should have been fired for extending him!I think the primary focus is on reshaping the offense. Pruitt needs to figure out an offensive identity and philosophy before he can hire the right assistants. He can replace Brumbaugh and add another defensive guy. He needs to be more of a HC and not a defensive coach, so adding another guy on that side would (theoretically) help. They've been running through scenarios-- but the top choices might not be available or willing to come.
You can’t just “write a check” these days......you have folks at UT that would take the money and spend it on gender studies of crickets in Indonesia instead of football.
Surprise. No one wants to move to Knoxville to work for a lame duck coachI think the primary focus is on reshaping the offense. Pruitt needs to figure out an offensive identity and philosophy before he can hire the right assistants. He can replace Brumbaugh and add another defensive guy. He needs to be more of a HC and not a defensive coach, so adding another guy on that side would (theoretically) help. They've been running through scenarios-- but the top choices might not be available or willing to come.
I’ll reiterate that I still believe in Pruitt. Coach Fulmer, Boyd and Plowman do as well. The three have examined the situation thoroughly, and it appears as if they feel bringing Pruitt back is the best option. It’s not as easy as many people think to just go out here and hire some big time coach. The notion that Tennessee won’t spend money and they don’t care about winning is pure nonsense. This AD wouldn’t provide coach Pruitt with every tool necessary to win like they have over the last 3 years if they weren’t concerned with winning.I’m sure you’re right and that’s the problem!
If Freeze, Napier, Chadwell or anyone else decent has another good year and is available next year, we will lose out on them to a team in a better situation to win now. Fla St, Michigan, LSU or some other surprise school coaching position is going to open up next year and that opportunity will be better than UT because they didn’t let their programs be run under the ground before they made a change. Then UT will struggle once again to find a coach and end up with a third tier dud like Dooley, Butch, or Pruitt.
I bought into the hype and ignored how awful we were at the beginning of last year because of our easy end of year schedule. But this year looked exactly like the beginning of last year. So after three seasons under Pruitt we have been terrible most of the time. Even games we won we usually looked terrible most of the game yet somehow won.
This is Tennessee’s direction under him and more time isn’t going to change that. By the time we fire him we will replace him with... someone just like him.
I am an Alumnus of UT and will always bleed Orange. But all hope is gone. All of it. I’m tapped out. Pruitt doesn’t have IT. And all indications are that our administration doesn’t either.
So let’s give Pruitt more time to hire terrible assistants and have a terrible 2022 recruiting class and lose lots of games next year THEN fire him and we can all meet back here to talk about the rumor that Vegas has fired Gruden and we are going to finally hire him.
GBO
5-5 wouldn't have had elite coaches flocking here, either. The cumulative effect of a dismal decade impacts every part of the program.
Chaney was listed as the OL coach and Cregg was listed as TE's and Tackles.
For sure he does. We have ran 3 different offenses through 3 years with Pruitt. He needs to figure out what he wants to be.I think the primary focus is on reshaping the offense. Pruitt needs to figure out an offensive identity and philosophy before he can hire the right assistants. He can replace Brumbaugh and add another defensive guy. He needs to be more of a HC and not a defensive coach, so adding another guy on that side would (theoretically) help. They've been running through scenarios-- but the top choices might not be available or willing to come.
You folks need to get used to the idea that coach Pruitt will be back next year. While this season has been the worst Tennessee football season of my lifetime, I still believe Pruitt is a good coach. The Phillip Fulmer bashing on this board has been absurd. Phillip has dedicated over half of his life to this great university and I trust him to do what he feels is best. He’s smarter than 99% of the folks on this board. Jeremy is going to shake the staff up again, bring in another solid recruiting class along with a couple of attention getting transfers, and we’re going to have a solid 2021 season. Let’s ride.
Freeze, Napier, and Chadwell will most likely be there for the picking this time next year as well. Especially Freeze and Chadwell. Give the Reverend another year to make sure he can run a clean program, give Chadwell another year to make sure this year wasn’t a fluke. If Jeremy can’t get it done next year, go ahead and bring one of those guys in. However, I still have confidence that coach Pruitt can get this program turned around if given proper time. We need stability, and those at the top feel the same way. Boyd, Plowman and Fulmer seem to all be on the same page. I’ll trust those three over anybody on this board. I’ve been a lurker for a long time, but it seems apparent to me that the critical thinking skills on this board collectively aren’t too good.
To bad the administration and other boosters can't see this and have the courage to make the change. So we continue to swim in the kiddy pool of mediocracy
I don’t think that’s how it works..... to hire the dream coach.... it is more about the dream coach wanting your job and opportunity...... urban Meyer always coveted the Ohio state job..... nick Saban was dying to get out of the NFL when Alabama opened up( before that they had Shula, dubose, price, rich Rodriguez)..... Texas A&M got Fisher( who I’m still not 100% sold on) bc he was getting ready to lose his job at Florida state..... Michigan hired what was considered an amazing hire in Harbaugh( he craved that job) and look how that has turned out..... Florida has went through several coaches before getting to Mullen who doesn’t appear to be a championship level coach.... it doesn’t matter how much we pay a coach.... we just need the right coach...the program won’t be destroyed if Pruitt stays but the next hire needs to be the right hire and we have to let that coach build the program.Imagine if they had just went out and opened their check book up and hired a real coach. More than likely this program would not be in the shape that its in and probably have saved money. No, they want to run out here and pay 3-4 million and expect Saban results with these dollar tree hires. Its costing them more money to flat out suck. Dont want to hear, who was they going to hire. Money talks. If Pruitt is here this year and I am sure that he will be. Then you can turn the lights out on this program.
Any idea if Chaney will make the OL hire? Just seems like you would want the OC to get someone he knows.I think the primary focus is on reshaping the offense. Pruitt needs to figure out an offensive identity and philosophy before he can hire the right assistants. He can replace Brumbaugh and add another defensive guy. He needs to be more of a HC and not a defensive coach, so adding another guy on that side would (theoretically) help. They've been running through scenarios-- but the top choices might not be available or willing to come.