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#106
For me it wasn’t a single moment but when he continued to trot JG out there without even having a qb competition you just slowly began to realize how dumb the guy was. If you don’t have a qb you don’t have anything. And I guess he was just stuck on JG’s recruiting ranking or play in practice? Just bizarre that no matter what happened on the field he wouldn’t swap. We had Krist, maurer, amd shrout. All of those guys were plenty capable.
 
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Volsfannn said:
He is a bama guy through and through. Not a fit at the University of Tennessee. That was the sign for me. I could never get over the fact Fulmer went to bama for a leader for the program.
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Yeah he was all Alabama. I said that the other day and got roasted by an apparent former Pruitt supporter. Can't believe thier still out there lol
 
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HuntlandVolinColo said:
Count me as a late bloomer.

I thought he had the program heading in the right direction until the Kentucky game and I knew then. Also a good hint in the Georgia second half.

Before that I just thought he was missing key pieces to the team.

I'm waiting for Friend to be named best OL Coach in the SEC now that he is free of CJP micromanagement. That will be telling if he does.
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I was in same boat.. Just thought one more recruiting class and we'll be competing again. Boy was I wrong lol
 
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Really, how could anyone actually think we could get a decent coach after the fiasco of Curry and company? Then, placing Fulmer in as a stop gap to try to save the chancellor from losing her job. Did no one realize he was probably the single worst person we could have hired as AD? Come on man!
 
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Year 1, Vandy........that should have cued everyone as to what was to come.

He screwed up big time the very next year......then everyone wanted to give him a pass, because Tennessee beat a bunch of weak teams in a row.

Terrible head coach, terrible “game” coach, and terrible development........and gets you into trouble............there was/is NOTHING to like about him as Tennessee’s HC.

Losing is one thing.......but when the team quits on a coach in a game......that says a lot........I saw the team quit on him a lot.
 
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#112
It was in year 2, but I was still in denial and wanted to see how year 3 played out. Last year it was a gradual thing for me. The way he handled the QB situation, how the defense played, controlling the offense etc. You could just tell he wasn't the right guy, we just hoped he would be.
 
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Vollifer1949 said:
Forgive me if this this has been posted before. But for you folks who correctly predicted Pruitt would fail (I was very much on the Pruitt bandwagon) What was your clue that he would be a disaster?
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Getting curb stomped by an okay WV team while the team failed to line up correctly or legally multiple times. That should have been a clue.
 
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tbh i didn't know.

he was a damn good coach. that D was hitting like ut hadn't for 20 years. those kids were smash mouth. they would smack you into next week. Pruitt just wasn't a head coach. he didn't know how to run a program. the 2020 signing class made it too obvious something funny was happening. the "recruiter of the year" brought him down.
 
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Volsfannn said:
He is a bama guy through and through. Not a fit at the University of Tennessee. That was the sign for me. I could never get over the fact Fulmer went to bama for a leader for the program.
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Fulmer’s FAILURE! 🤬
That’s what Pruitt was and that’s the way I’ll always remember him………

GaSt game told the tell
 
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I would say the Kentucky game last year was the sign. There's just no way in hell you can come back from getting beat down by Kentucky in your THIRD YEAR AT HOME. I still was somewhat hopeful until that game. There was no coming back from that.
 
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Behr said:
I would have killed to get Chip Kelly. Florida wanted him, UCLA wanted and got him and I'm sure other schools wanted him. Turns out everyone is wrong sometimes....except "some of us" here on Volnation, they know errthang.

My point is I don't know why some people make such a big deal about being right or wrong about a coach. It's really weird how the "some of us" crowd always seem so happy and satisfied after a coach fails, just like they said he would.

Yay.
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I really thought he would succeed, but unfortunately I was wrong. If you read my posts I did not like the Heupel hire, so maybe, just maybe, I can be proved wrong again.
 
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ftsandersvol said:
I really thought he would succeed, but unfortunately I was wrong. If you read my posts I did not like the Heupel hire, so maybe, just maybe, I can be proved wrong again.
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I didn't like the idea of CJH. I hated the fact that I had to Google him to find out everything else about him besides where we hired him from. I also hated the fact it wasn't a "Rock Star" hire like I've always hoped for and still didn't know any better from the past that it wasn't gonna happen. I had nothing against CJH. Still don't.

Yeah blah blah blah, nothing new there. As always whether I'm excited about the man or not, I am excited about the upcoming season. A blind squirrel eventually finds a nut. Right? Right? Please say yes.
 
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Vollifer1949 said:
Forgive me if this this has been posted before. But for you folks who correctly predicted Pruitt would fail (I was very much on the Pruitt bandwagon) What was your clue that he would be a disaster?
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He was a Hail Mary decision by Fulmer. I got the impression Fulmer liked the "aw shucks, cornbread" routine. But it was mainly two things for me. 1-Nobody else wanted him, then or before, as a head coach. 2- When I looked at his track record as a defensive guy ( that could actually be point 3 ) he seemed to me to be a talent reliant coach. He needed the best players to be any good, which he had had everywhere he'd been successful.

Add to that the facts that he was wholly unlikeable, and media ignorant...it seemed doomed from the start.
 
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