Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[volinbama256]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

as assistants? Would take all day... Heck I'd take Herman with them or even Gus and them...

 

[orangerush]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

In three years, Pruitt has shown no evidence he can get the coaching staff working together.

 

[TrippieRedd]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

No because we will get lazy and promote Steele once Pruitt is gone.

 

["It's Time"]

But some on VN say, “Our fans are not hurting our image.” Coaches, recruits and VFLs see it.

I hope we are hurting our image. This program is a dumpster fire, and the day the fans stop raising hell demanding better than this sh!t show is the day this program is officially dead.

 

[Chuckie]

Power T Tape guy threw Herb Hand out there as a possibility at OL

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

Depends on who the OL/QB coaches are...

Steele would be a huge upgrade at DC and be a great one for Ansley to learn under/with. And Garner at DL is probably better than most candidate names being thrown around.

I'm assuming Steele would be Co-DC and ILB coach or something?

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

Would it have me intrigued sure, but there are still half a dozen issues on offense that need to be fixed. In other words. #BringBackLane

 

[Devo182]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

This is 100% Pruitt's defense. He isn't hiring someone with their own ideas. Ansley is the best we'll ever have because they are on the same page on defensive scheme and calls. DC doesn't matter much here, it's Pruitt's calls at the end of the day.

Also seems weird to have a defensive Xs and Os guy...who is awful at big picture stuff...and bring in an independent DC. At that point, why is Pruitt even here?

Nor are great coaches coming to a lame duck stint. That's a pipedream imo unless we over pay by nearly double.

 

[Weezer]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

Not really. I don't think he gets fired this year, but I think he deserves to be fired after such a miserable, unpromising year. I saw zero progress. In fact, we saw a degree of regress. And I don't think COVID is a viable excuse for that regression. Not to mention, there were some notable recruiting failures IMO. Not talking about individuals they missed on, that happens, but rather notable positions of need that went unaddressed. There was massive failure by this staff in year 3 that should not be acceptable. But we're UT, so of course our admin will accept it. I don't think next year will be much better, and I'm not sure it matters who Pruitt hires.

 

[DustyRockSolid]

It’s more fun to hope and dream than accept a miserable reality?

Nah. Once I accepted the fact that we suck and we will never be relevant again.... I quit being so frustrated.

 

[Weezer]

To be fair, I wouldn't want to be coached by Friend either.

To be fair, he plays DL not OL so Friend wouldn't be coaching him anyway.

 

[MrVolton]

You would be completely wrong in this particular case in regards to being a good team mate.

Go look up Travis Stephens career numbers at UT and compare them to Ty. Keeping in mind Travis played behind some really good OLs with steady QB play that had to be accounted for, while Ty played with pretty much the opposite. And Stephens was considered a good back here.

Its easy to blow off guys that havent played on teams that have been successful.

That last line has applied to the Vols often. Big reason why we have a few VFL starters in the NFL that weren’t drafted.

 

[barrylee]

This is for the Twitter experts, isn’t there supposed to be a check mark beside his name? This is what I was trying to ask a few posts back..

 

[orangesoda]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

H3LL NO

 

[MoCo_Vol]

This is 100% Pruitt's defense. He isn't hiring someone with their own ideas. Ansley is the best we'll ever have because they are on the same page on defensive scheme and calls. DC doesn't matter much here, it's Pruitt's calls at the end of the day.

Nor are great coaches coming to a lame duck stint. That's a pipedream imo unless we over pay by nearly double.

I think Steele would be happy to come to UT, if he was able to push Gus out and get serious consideration at Auburn for a HC job...why wouldn't he be willing to try it here? Connection with Fulmer, already got an interview once, and Pruitt is more likely than Gus to fail and get fired so it wouldn't even require any backstabbing.

 

[drvenner]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

No even remotely potential assistant hires would make me rethink retaining Pruitt. I get trying to be positive, but keeping him here is simply delaying the inevitable and putting us further behind.

 

[SLICKYINC]

This is for the Twitter experts, isn’t there supposed to be a check mark beside his name? This is what I was trying to ask a few posts back..

No

 

[Weezer]

Depends on who the OL/QB coaches are...

Steele would be a huge upgrade at DC and be a great one for Ansley to learn under/with. And Garner at DL is probably better than most candidate names being thrown around.

I'm assuming Steele would be Co-DC and ILB coach or something?

I'd rather have Bo Davis than Garner.

 

[Ten_Titans]

Ansley is probably the safest coach on our staff if Pruitt is retained. Zero chance Kevin Steele comes here. No idea on Garner, but he will most likely follow Kevin Steele.

 

[DustyRockSolid]

Caught my wife trying to dress my 6 month old daughter in a missouri outfit. The nerve of that woman.

 

[HankHill]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

No. Not at all Bc i don’t even think Steele is that great of a DC. He’s solid.

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

Only if they convince Jay Hardy to enter the transfer portal and actively recruit him here only to not accept him at the last minute because I hold petty grudges.

 

[Ten_Titans]

This is for the Twitter experts, isn’t there supposed to be a check mark beside his name? This is what I was trying to ask a few posts back..

Twitter told him if he wanted a check mark he had to change that junior high profile picture and he refused.

 

[Tennessee Stud]

Does the possibility of Steele and Garner cause you to rethink firing Pruitt?

Would make for a very strong staff. This has been Pruitt/Fulmer’s plan for awhile now.

 

[hep]

Caught my wife trying to dress my 6 month old daughter in a missouri outfit. The nerve of that woman.

My wife and I are both VFL (met while students at UT) and our 4 year old son wears an Arkansas hat all the time because he loves “wild boars.”