Additional Comments From Pruitt About Players....

#76
#76
sounds like Coach Pruitt was chewing out azzes all over the place...there were supposedly around 63,000 fans that showed up, but that wasn't enough for Coach Pruitt...he ain't pulling any punches...:)

GO VOLS!
 
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#77
#77
Jaws,we've had our time with glib,perfect english,be from our last "coach".This time,we have a COACH who will tell the recruits and their families what their son could be a part of.And the whohaa's who worry about correct renunciation can reminisce about the well spoken 4 x and 8 record.Pruitt can coach.Leave the nitpicking to the fleas on the grammar police squad.
 
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#79
#79
He will find out who wants to play and who wants to talk pretty quick after yesterday.
 
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#80
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Jaws said:
Danny Ford hasn’t been relevant for two decades, and Bear Bryant was from an entirely different generation. Times have changed drastically since these two roamed the sidelines.

Steve Spurrier was/is a little twangy, but he never came across as a twig-chewin’, straw-hat wearin’, wintergreen Skoal sucking redneck. Spurrier was notoriously good in front of microphones and with the media. It may have happened occasionally, but I can’t recall very many “the players don’t got no passion” type remarks from him. Same for Dabo Swinney, he’s never struck me as uneducated or backwoods.

Jimbo Fisher may be your best comparison. He definitely needed polishing after his first few years. I think he got better as he went and the version of Fisher now at Texas AM is much better than his early days at FSU. Same can happen for Pruitt if he’s willing to try.

My point is, in this day and age of constant social media, the SEC Network, etc, is it too much to ask for a coach to polish up his presentation? Do UT fans want Pruitt on the microphone at SEC media days talking about “I ain’t got no time to lose games” or “fumbling the ball in games won’t do you no good” or the “the fan base ain’t got no passion.” He’s a little too 1970’s Danny Ford in a 2018 world, in my opinion. But he can improve and polish up, if he wants to. Just my opinion.
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I totally disagree with and reject your opinion.
 
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#82
#82
Jaws you are a idiot. Pruitt has proven to be a coach players gravitate towards. He is a down to earth real guy, he may not sugar coat things but he has their interest at heart. You seem to be implying that players may not like his country style and you my friend are by and large wrong. Players don't like phony's, the respect real. Players realize quickly if you really care about them, that is the most important thing. A football coach that cares and can actually coach that is all the players care about. GBO and GO Coach PRUITT!
 
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volfan102455 said:
At least we all now know who he is going to blame after a loss ... and it is not going to be the coaches.

He just threw the players and the fans under the bus. What about the coaches? They should be inspiring the players to give 100+ percent. They did not.
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Who exactly did he throw under the bus? Got any names for us? Seems to me he was just evaluating his players, said some were giving effort and doing their best, while a few “just flat out quit”......after observing last year’s team, anybody with even half a clue understands there are guys on this team who are “corrupted”, who aren’t exactly ideal and conducive for a winning team, and they need to either get with the program or move on.

Also, throwing someone “under the bus” involves assigning blame.....who exactly did he blame and what did he blame them for?

You’re trying way to hard to convince people that Pruitt is a bad guy, the wrong guy here. Little too transparent, it ain’t working.
 
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#85
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This is a coach that knows what he is doing. I'm not saying he will be successful, it's too early for that. But he is doing the right things and he is doing them the right way. As far as his obvious southern good ole boy manner I can take that if he gets results.

In my job (many years ago) I worked for a rapidly expanding company. We grew very fast organically but also through acquisition. As time went on I became the guy that had to go manage the new companies we bought. Some were okay but most were not and we had to make them profitable and fit our corporate culture. We had a way of doing it that was humane but very direct. And if the employees didn't "buy in" WE were very quick to get rid of people that didn't fit. The funny thing was if you were honest about why you were there, the fact they weren't very good at their jobs as a team, then you could get most of them headed the right direction. But if you blinked, even for a second, you were quickly going in the wrong direction. The quicker you could cut the deadwood and get rid of the bad actors the quicker the turnaround. I did a "greenfield plant" that grew to 900 employees in 3 years. And that was much easier than some of the turnarounds that were much smaller.
Like I said, he knows this is a turnaround, and he is not going to waste time with marginal players unless they give him 100%, and after Butch most of them have no clue what 100% looks like. I AM OPTIMISTIC.
 
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#87
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jlawso21 said:
This is a coach that knows what he is doing. I'm not saying he will be successful, it's too early for that. But he is doing the right things and he is doing them the right way. As far as his obvious southern good ole boy manner I can take that if he gets results.

In my job (many years ago) I worked for a rapidly expanding company. We grew very fast organically but also through acquisition. As time went on I became the guy that had to go manage the new companies we bought. Some were okay but most were not and we had to make them profitable and fit our corporate culture. We had a way of doing it that was humane but very direct. And if the employees didn't "buy in" WE were very quick to get rid of people that didn't fit. The funny thing was if you were honest about why you were there, the fact they weren't very good at their jobs as a team, then you could get most of them headed the right direction. But if you blinked, even for a second, you were quickly going in the wrong direction. The quicker you could cut the deadwood and get rid of the bad actors the quicker the turnaround. I did a "greenfield plant" that grew to 900 employees in 3 years. And that was much easier than some of the turnarounds that were much smaller.
Like I said, he knows this is a turnaround, and he is not going to waste time with marginal players unless they give him 100%, and after Butch most of them have no clue what 100% looks like. I AM OPTIMISTIC.
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Interesting analogy and one I can relate to.

Pruitt's got one heckuva turnaround confronting him.

Fact is, if he cuts loose all the waste of scholarships (much of the waste due to incompetence of the Jones era at player development) there may not be enough players left to have a full scrimmage.
 
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#88
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Jaws said:
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.
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The guy was the nations top recruiter several times. I think he'll be fine in the living room.
 
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#89
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jim pique said:
Jaws,we've had our time with glib,perfect english,be from our last "coach".This time,we have a COACH who will tell the recruits and their families what their son could be a part of.And the whohaa's who worry about correct renunciation can reminisce about the well spoken 4 x and 8 record.Pruitt can coach.Leave the nitpicking to the fleas on the grammar police squad.
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Butch was never well spoken nor did he use perfect English, just made different errors from Pruitt. I do agree with your priority on winning football over grammatical perfection, in which very few coaches excel.
 
#90
#90
I'd rather go ahead and clean house now at the beginning. I am sure the coaches know who is trying and who isn't. This staff has a lot of titles on it's resume and knows what it takes to get there. Coaching effort can't be part of the job the individual has to have that within himself.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
I'd rather go ahead and clean house now at the beginning. I am sure the coaches know who is trying and who isn't. This staff has a lot of titles on it's resume and knows what it takes to get there. Coaching effort can't be part of the job the individual has to have that within himself.
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Coaches no doubt already have their minds made up, which players have to go, which ones are "keepers" and which ones may get another chance. To be a fly on the wall in the locker room. It is happening now, a process that will play out over the days and weeks ahead.
 
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#92
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Volfan2012 said:
I'd rather go ahead and clean house now at the beginning. I am sure the coaches know who is trying and who isn't. This staff has a lot of titles on it's resume and knows what it takes to get there. Coaching effort can't be part of the job the individual has to have that within himself.
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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?
 
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#93
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KBVol said:
Wow. He’s got some house cleaning to do. Curious to see how many leave the program in the next few weeks.
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It's been evident the last 2 seasons for sure we had some kids just showing up, even as starters. That is now over and I'm happy about it.
 
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If any of you have ever actually played the game can you recall ANY football coach known for winning during a spring or early fall set of practices happy or satisfied with the teams effort? Especially in a scholarship situation, new coaching staff, is it reasonable all players are as committed as the new staff wants and needs them to be? C'mon, 85 players, what 10% maybe are either malcontents, underperformers, or not that talented? Pruitt doing what he does so far and saying what he has seen so far is simply college football coaching 101 IMO.
 
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#98
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Jaws said:
If he were my coach, I’d like to see him grow and improve and polish-up his presentation.

Look, he has no problem demanding an awful lot from UT fans who are way more invested into UT football than he is at this point. He wants to offer his advice to UT fans about passion and how to support their team and how to change, why can’t UT fans ask the same of him?

You want me to be a better fan? Fine, I want you to sound like a 2018 head football coach, not a NASCAR Dad shooting the breeze at the local hunting club every time you get a microphone or camera in front of you.

Even more, since UT fans are paying HIS sizeable salary, and financially keep HIS program afloat, the fans should be the ones making all the demands instead of the other way around.
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Because nobody cares besides you
 
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volfan102455 said:
At least we all now know who he is going to blame after a loss ... and it is not going to be the coaches.

He just threw the players and the fans under the bus. What about the coaches? They should be inspiring the players to give 100+ percent. They did not.
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You certainly are predictable. Always the same old shtick from you..
 
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