Patience

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BeardedVol said:
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Can't you see that Pruitt is playing 3D Chess while everyone else is playing Yard Darts?! He is lulling the rest of the SEC into thinking that he indeed has been consistently out coached by much less inferior teams but really they are slowly being boiled alive like a frog in a hot tub. Soon, when we are 12-0 they will realize they have all been duped by CJP but it will be too late.
 
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Boogievol said:
I'm pretty sure this guy works in the utad which really helps explain why it is so poorly ran. The worst part is that he really believes he's smarter than any one of us.
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It's the same attitude John Currie had when he tried to force Greg Schiano on the fans of Tennessee.
 
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landscapingvol said:
Can't you see that Pruitt is playing 3D Chess while everyone else is playing Yard Darts?! He is lulling the rest of the SEC into thinking that he indeed has been consistently out coached by much less inferior teams but really they are slowly being boiled alive like a frog in a hot tub. Soon, when we are 12-0 they will realize they have all been duped by CJP but it will be too late.
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Hey man, can't you read? This is not about Pruitt. JP said so, numerous times in his post.

No, this is about you, bettering yourself, by following the example that JP has been trying to set, by learning how to be infinitely patient, just like he is.

You can reach this state of infinite patience if you just start working on getting your head to fit into your own anus, then you too will know the glorious patience that JP knows.
 
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99gator said:
So, getting beat every week and playing bad football is part of some grand design?
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Listen, alligator. Fan of some other school.

They need you over at gatorzrulez.com or wherever you come from. You know, to talk about stuff like this:

"Oklahoma is a good matchup but they're not on our level. They're not SEC. They're not the Florida Gators. So we should put on a good show."
-- Florida LB James Houston IV on playing Oklahoma in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.
 
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There’s a lot about the program that is not palatable right now. I disagree with anyone who doesn’t support the players or disparages the volunteer name, but that doesn’t mean you have to support the coach. He’s incompetent, illiterate and an as*hole. You can be an as*hole when you’re a winner, but when you’re a loser it makes you a sore one. Not to mention the alleged cheating going on. Anyone who supports this man at this point in time is incompetent. Period.
 
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Some people have Stockholm syndrome. They’ve become accustomed so much to losing they now defend it.

Then some people just like being the prison butch if the SEC.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Okay, here's how predictable some folks are on VN.com. Folks who believe they're witty. Bearded, for example. At some point, even though he's fighting it right now because I can predict his every move, at some point he's going to post in this thread. And what he intended to say, before I called his shot, is "oh, here we go, it's today's installment of JP's defense of Pruitt." He'll probably shift his message just to "prove me wrong," but we all know that's where he would've gone. Heh.

Patience.

This thread is not about Pruitt. It's not about Chaney. Not about Fulmer. Not about Butch. Not about any specific person or event. Not about any specific time frame.

It's about you. You and me.

There's a fictional movie about one year's NFL draft. It's called Draft Day. Has Kevin Costner in the lead role. A lot of us have seen it. For those who haven't, I do recommend it; far better than any movie about such a constrained topic should be. Here's the first of a series of 10 short youtube clips leading up to the climactic scene:



I'll summarize. Costner, the general manager of one NFL team, takes a series of seemingly nonsensical decisions in preparation for draft day. Then, over the course of the day, he seems to double down on the bad choices until, at the end, all the weirdly-shaped pieces of his plan suddenly fall into perspective and his genius is revealed.

Okay, so what? That's just Hollywood making up a feel-good story.

Well, here's what. Costner's character was smarter than the folks around him. The folks trying to give him advice. He knew exactly what he was doing. He had a plan, and he executed it. Even if they couldn't see how it would work until near the end, even if the team gathered no fruits of their labors until the very last minute, he knew what he was doing. He was smarter than everyone around him on his business, his job.

Now what if a Tennessee coaching staff knows their subject better than you and I do? What if they know a bit more about college football than us? About recruiting kids, developing them, forming a team out of them, and winning games and championships with them? What if they know every piece of that better than us?

When did we start assuming they don't?

Where did we lose the ability to wait and see? Where did we lose the ability to give a subject matter expert some leeway, some rope? Sure, they might just hang themselves, but...given that they're probably smarter on the topic than we are...they might just see further ahead to a brighter outcome than we can.

When did we lose patience, as a fan base?

Because I can assure you, we have zero of that now.


END NOTE: no,, this isn't about Pruitt. This is just as much about how we treat the coach after Pruitt, or the coach after that, as it is about how we treat him. This is about US, and a serious flaw we've developed as a community.
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Well-spake. Thank you.
 
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99gator said:
You tell me.

The argument is be patient. It may not look like they know what they’re doing, but just wait. For what?

This isn’t one year. One offseason. He’s been there 3 years and what’s gotten better. Anything?
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There has been major improvement in the most important area, the roster. The roster is much bigger, faster and more talented than it was three years ago.
 
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99gator said:
You tell me.

The argument is be patient. It may not look like they know what they’re doing, but just wait. For what?

This isn’t one year. One offseason. He’s been there 3 years and what’s gotten better. Anything?
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that awkward moment when the forum gator has more sense than the sunshine pumpers here.
 
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I support the University and appreciate the OP's passion and sentiments. I agree that most of those who post, me included, have far less insight into coaching and managing an SEC caliber football team than CPF, CJP, and the rest of the staff and administration. I am sure, and I know CPF, that no one wants us to be playing for national championships more than he does. I do believe, and I am guilty, that non-stop sharing of the negative side of the situation is not helping, I am going to support my team, my alma mater, and those working hard to get us back into the NCAA football top ten on a regular basis. Want to keep pounding those trying to fix things, fine. Want to replace the coach and/or staff, fine. Just remember to read Freak's guidelines again as I did this morning. Try to help and not dump on the team, players, and VFLs. Thanks and carry on.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Okay, here's how predictable some folks are on VN.com. Folks who believe they're witty. Bearded, for example. At some point, even though he's fighting it right now because I can predict his every move, at some point he's going to post in this thread. And what he intended to say, before I called his shot, is "oh, here we go, it's today's installment of JP's defense of Pruitt." He'll probably shift his message just to "prove me wrong," but we all know that's where he would've gone. Heh.

Patience.

This thread is not about Pruitt. It's not about Chaney. Not about Fulmer. Not about Butch. Not about any specific person or event. Not about any specific time frame.

It's about you. You and me.

There's a fictional movie about one year's NFL draft. It's called Draft Day. Has Kevin Costner in the lead role. A lot of us have seen it. For those who haven't, I do recommend it; far better than any movie about such a constrained topic should be. Here's the first of a series of 10 short youtube clips leading up to the climactic scene:



I'll summarize. Costner, the general manager of one NFL team, takes a series of seemingly nonsensical decisions in preparation for draft day. Then, over the course of the day, he seems to double down on the bad choices until, at the end, all the weirdly-shaped pieces of his plan suddenly fall into perspective and his genius is revealed.

Okay, so what? That's just Hollywood making up a feel-good story.

Well, here's what. Costner's character was smarter than the folks around him. The folks trying to give him advice. He knew exactly what he was doing. He had a plan, and he executed it. Even if they couldn't see how it would work until near the end, even if the team gathered no fruits of their labors until the very last minute, he knew what he was doing. He was smarter than everyone around him on his business, his job.

Now what if a Tennessee coaching staff knows their subject better than you and I do? What if they know a bit more about college football than us? About recruiting kids, developing them, forming a team out of them, and winning games and championships with them? What if they know every piece of that better than us?

When did we start assuming they don't?

Where did we lose the ability to wait and see? Where did we lose the ability to give a subject matter expert some leeway, some rope? Sure, they might just hang themselves, but...given that they're probably smarter on the topic than we are...they might just see further ahead to a brighter outcome than we can.

When did we lose patience, as a fan base?

Because I can assure you, we have zero of that now.


END NOTE: no,, this isn't about Pruitt. This is just as much about how we treat the coach after Pruitt, or the coach after that, as it is about how we treat him. This is about US, and a serious flaw we've developed as a community.
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Your posts get more insane by the day. This fan base has been patient for well over a decade...waiting on a HC to just show some semblance of competence! And Pruitt has shown little to none of that. So we have a right to express our displeasure at the UT administration for trotting out one dunce after another.

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