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Tennessee is just in a terrible spot right now, like legit we are screwed with anything we do right now. Say we do keep Pruitt, he knows the lack of support, so how will that affect his coaching? Will he just coach with a “f*** it, fire me” attitude, or will he actually want to turn it around? Also with us not even interviewing assistant coaches right now we won’t have a lot of the top candidates available by the time we would get around to interviewing them. And who would even want to come here with the uncertainty facing us?

on the flip side, say we do fire Pruitt. What if we do have a mass exodus of players, where would we go? It would be too close to NSD to fill up the final few spots, this program would be set back as well. If we do take the risk of keeping Pruitt we would have to win minimum of 7-8 regular season games to at least prove to the c/o 2022 guys that Pruitt has a shot at winning here
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
I hope you're right. They said Howell is talking to Crouch every day, they said there are players considering not coming back until late semester start because they don't want to play for anyone but Pruitt
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We can't live in fear nor what if's. What;s the difference in facing it next year than right now. Let's start fixing it now.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
I'm torn. Listening to the VQ podcast has me feeling a certain way. Is it really a good idea to fire Pruitt this year?

Imagine firing Pruitt and then Henry, Crouch, Bailey, Wright, Key, Beckwith, Hyatt, and others transfer and Brooks asks out of his LOI. Talk about setting back the program. This roster is just an average roster right now, you're killing the new coach if that happens. The new coach then starts with a significant deficit in roster numbers, a serious lack of talent, and very little time to add transfers, especially any good ones, who can help. Such a UT thing for this to be happening when that transfer rule is about to take affect. Just like waiting until 2017 to fire butch the first year of the early signing period.
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So we wait to next year to fire him and still lose all the above mention guys plus whoever we have on the hook in the 22 class that will be committed/signed with Pruitt ? Its a double edge sword however you spin it. At this point all we are doing is delaying the inevitable by keeping him. I vote we get out front of this while we are basically the only fish in the sea looking for a coach.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
Only wanting to play for Pruitt? So they like losing? Fine, they can transfer then. But I don’t actually believe that’s reality. Sure they like Pruitt but they’ll like a new coach too.
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Do you think those coaches will want our job with everything going on or hold out for better opportunity?
 
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HoleInTheRoof said:
Didn’t Mullen cover up rape?
Didn’t Dabo cover for an assistant who used the N-word to players?
Doesn’t Kirby rock a bowl cut?

Sorry a 20 year old wearing a bad costume doesn’t make him a racist and I sincerely doubt it’ll be an effective negative recruiting tool.
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you wouldn’t understand lol. Like i said, go paint your face brown and go to the next football game dressed as al Wilson.
 
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volbeast33 said:
No one expects him to be perfect but the way he acts comes off very fake.... some of the most evil people in the world have hidden behind religion.... TV evangelicals are some of the main ones.
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Freeze is one of the most evil people in the world?........
 
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quadlee21 said:
So we wait to next year to fire him and still lose all the above mention guys plus whoever we have on the hook in the 22 class that will be committed/signed with Pruitt ? Its a double edge sword however you spin it. At this point all we are doing is delaying the inevitable by keeping him. I vote we get out front of this while we are basically the only fish in the sea looking for a coach.
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Yes, this is a good point.
 
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volbeast33 said:
Freeze is a fake Christian that uses it as a front to things he does in life.
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And Joel Osteen is the leading example of pure Christian, right?

So many damn hypocrites.
Never do anything wrong
Walk the line
Be pure
Your going to hell if you don’t
Your body is a temple
God only forgives if it’s minimal

All garbage.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
I hope you're right. They said Howell is talking to Crouch every day, they said there are players considering not coming back until late semester start because they don't want to play for anyone but Pruitt
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Players always say that. But most come back and love the new coach. It does make it tricky with the one time transfer coming and I think that could make it harder to keep kids, but most would still probably stay.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
I'm torn. Listening to the VQ podcast has me feeling a certain way. Is it really a good idea to fire Pruitt this year?

Imagine firing Pruitt and then Henry, Crouch, Bailey, Wright, Key, Beckwith, Hyatt, and others transfer and Brooks asks out of his LOI. Talk about setting back the program. This roster is just an average roster right now, you're killing the new coach if that happens. The new coach then starts with a significant deficit in roster numbers, a serious lack of talent, and very little time to add transfers, especially any good ones, who can help. Such a UT thing for this to be happening when that transfer rule is about to take affect. Just like waiting until 2017 to fire butch the first year of the early signing period.
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Never as easy as some of us make it out to be. The thing is I have my doubts that many, if any of these guys would leave. The transfer rule can cut both ways. A dynamic hire might bring more players in. Just an unknown variable right now. The thing I can't get passed is the appearance that the staff can't work together, the HC can't manage a staff and that the AD, while a great HC in his day, appears to let his ego and stubborness get in the way. IF Pruitt is retained , these things have to be dealt with.
 
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