Eddie Vol Halen
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The longer Pruitt remains as head coach, the more damage he will do to the current roster and the longer the rebuilding process. If you lose to GA State with Tennessee talent in the first game of the season (with GA State being more physical than your team) you are not a head coach. I'm not sure how Pruitt became top choice but the coach hire in 2017 made the collapse of Lehman Brothers look organized and rational. On the field and off the field in interviews / pressers - he is not getting anything done and inspiring confidence only in our opponents. I don't think there is any world where a coach loses to GA State in his year 2 but has the wherewithal to create and coach a championship football team.
We need to take the bye week to organize the buy-out and the interim plan. We then need to name an interim coach who can bring back the joy of the game to these players in light of a challenging gauntlet of a season that promises few to no wins. That interim coach must come from the current staff. It can't be Chaney; it has to be Fulmer. I don't know the rules but regardless of the mechanics, whether we have an interim AD, Fulmer will remain the top influence in AD office as well.
This is nothing but risky for Fulmer and his legacy. There are no guaranteed wins left this year and plenty of almost certain losses. A team of millennials is not the Junction Boys. As far as I can tell we have three players who know the maxims within themselves and bring them to the field as a matter of personal pride / team pride. Building that is the work of Spring and Fall. However, the later we start the process, the longer we keep Pruitt on the sidelines as the Head Vol, the longer we will stumble in the Dark Age of our years .AH (after Hamilton).
If Fulmer were to do all this on his AD salary in order to organize the finances (or something well below SEC market rate for HC), it would put him just about on par with General Neyland in Tennessee lore and would essentially de-risk what happens with the team in 2019.
Fulmer helps rebuild the team and recruiting. He makes sure Bailey comes. It's an interim coaching position and we are courting a true and proven HC winner all the while. I see two homerun hires (Gruden and Meyer) but believe there are others who could bring championship football back to Knoxville, although I couldn't name them at this time. We accept that recruiting our homerun hire may be a two year process.
We may need Fulmer to be HC of the 2020 while we execute a proper HC search and organize the finances for it. If we improve through the year, if the recruiting class comes together, I'm fine with HC Fulmer 2020. While I doubt we win the East, we would at least start looking like an SEC football team again and demonstrate we are back on the up.
We fans deserve better. These players deserve better. Pruitt can't believe where he landed and if not for the cluster that was that coaching search would never be TN HC. I wish him well but we need to cut him loose mid-season.
We need to take the bye week to organize the buy-out and the interim plan. We then need to name an interim coach who can bring back the joy of the game to these players in light of a challenging gauntlet of a season that promises few to no wins. That interim coach must come from the current staff. It can't be Chaney; it has to be Fulmer. I don't know the rules but regardless of the mechanics, whether we have an interim AD, Fulmer will remain the top influence in AD office as well.
This is nothing but risky for Fulmer and his legacy. There are no guaranteed wins left this year and plenty of almost certain losses. A team of millennials is not the Junction Boys. As far as I can tell we have three players who know the maxims within themselves and bring them to the field as a matter of personal pride / team pride. Building that is the work of Spring and Fall. However, the later we start the process, the longer we keep Pruitt on the sidelines as the Head Vol, the longer we will stumble in the Dark Age of our years .AH (after Hamilton).
If Fulmer were to do all this on his AD salary in order to organize the finances (or something well below SEC market rate for HC), it would put him just about on par with General Neyland in Tennessee lore and would essentially de-risk what happens with the team in 2019.
Fulmer helps rebuild the team and recruiting. He makes sure Bailey comes. It's an interim coaching position and we are courting a true and proven HC winner all the while. I see two homerun hires (Gruden and Meyer) but believe there are others who could bring championship football back to Knoxville, although I couldn't name them at this time. We accept that recruiting our homerun hire may be a two year process.
We may need Fulmer to be HC of the 2020 while we execute a proper HC search and organize the finances for it. If we improve through the year, if the recruiting class comes together, I'm fine with HC Fulmer 2020. While I doubt we win the East, we would at least start looking like an SEC football team again and demonstrate we are back on the up.
We fans deserve better. These players deserve better. Pruitt can't believe where he landed and if not for the cluster that was that coaching search would never be TN HC. I wish him well but we need to cut him loose mid-season.
