Additional Comments From Pruitt About Players....

[82_VOL_83]

My take away:

"We'd be about a D, which is not their fault," Pruitt said. "There are lots of things we're coaching. Not only are we installing an offense and a defense, but we're teaching them how to practice, teaching them how to compete, teaching them how to lift (weights). I could fill up a wall with things we're teaching them here. There's lots of things to learn. I think our guys have learned enough this spring that they will do a good job this summer when the other guys get in here."

They got a D because they are overwhelmed. It's an honest grade that he expects to be better in the summer. He is teaching an entire team this system. Next year, he will still be teaching some but mostly just the incoming guys. The vets will help the new guys learn and they in turn will pass it on. I believe that he is starting from ground zero with some talent but nothing else.

 

[ptcarter]

I know you can't stomach it, but if you watch the second half of both the LSU and the Vanderbilt game last year, you can CLEARLY see a team that has given up. I questioned why I was in the stands watching.

As we were playing Vanderbilt, Auburn was playing Alabama and giving them hell. I was saw some of it on TV on the strip. I thought, gee, Isn't it great to watch a REAL game?

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

Maybe you prefer a trumpet playing, smoke-blowing, cliche spouting, used car salesman who allows “bad habits, bad attitudes, and bad effort,” as someone else said.

I knew it wouldn’t be long before Pruitt was criticized for his southern dialect. I don’t think it’s any kind of “schtick” as you said in your original post, I think it’s who he is.

I don’t give a damn how he talks as long as he gets the program turned around. Time will tell. I like his no-nonsense, says what he means and means what he says approach.

You do realize that the guy you're responding to is a gator, right?

 

[greazy1722]

I’m not being sarcastic, but what does it mean to clean house at the college level? Can coaches pull scholarships and kick players off the team?

Scholarships are a year to year deal. You have to earn your scholarship every year. Fall semester is a new term and its no guarantee that some of these kids are going to be here. Clean house!!lol

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

I know you can't stomach it, but if you watch the second half of both the LSU and the Vanderbilt game last year, you can CLEARLY see a team that has given up. I questioned why I was in the stands watching.

As we were playing Vanderbilt, Auburn was playing Alabama and giving them hell. I was saw some of it on TV on the strip. I thought, gee, Isn't it great to watch a REAL game?

Same thing in the Missouri game. Tennessee was a team that didn't want to be there by the end of the season last year and it showed. Whether the residual effects of that mentality are lingering will play a huge role in what kind of season we have this year. CJP will either get them to buy in or show them the door.

 

[Russdaddy2027]

Pruitt has a chance to be a fine coach, time will tell.

But at some point, he’s gotta stop sounding like Clem the auto mechanic trying to explain why your tires “ain’t no good when they don’t got no tread on them.”

Good grief, I get the hard-nosed, southern-fried country coach schtick, but eventually you also have to sound like you could hold your own in front of a room full of CEO’s or big time boosters, right?

Or how about in the living room of inner-city recruits? Not sure how well the Cletus Goober persona plays in that environment.

Again, time will tell.

Guess he could put away the Cletus Goober costume & look a little more like this for that inner city situation

 

[SaintLouisVol]

Pruitt has a chance to be a fine coach, time will tell.

But at some point, he’s gotta stop sounding like Clem the auto mechanic trying to explain why your tires “ain’t no good when they don’t got no tread on them.”

Good grief, I get the hard-nosed, southern-fried country coach schtick, but eventually you also have to sound like you could hold your own in front of a room full of CEO’s or big time boosters, right?

Or how about in the living room of inner-city recruits? Not sure how well the Cletus Goober persona plays in that environment.

Again, time will tell.

Pruitt is as much a reflection of his culture and upbringing as anyone else. He should not be pressured to change it anymore than anyone else should be pressured to do so.

For example, should one make the same observation about an African American coach with a pronounced "urban" dialect and mannerisms, how do you think that would go over?

 

[TnAngler]

Pruitt is as much a reflection of his culture and upbringing as anyone else. He should not be pressured to change it anymore than anyone else should be pressured to do so.

For example, should one make the same observation about an African American coach with a pronounced "urban" dialect and mannerisms, how do you think that would go over?

Exactly and the Inner City comment, the players don’t care what the coach sounds like. If the guy can coach and demonstrates that he cares about them, he could be a mute. Look at Coach Fulmer, he is a hive as it gets but his players loved him.