AV dropping discouraging news...

[SouthpawTN]

AV? He is MIT_Beaver to me. Don’t know why y’all give him any credence.

It’s obvious it’s going to get worse. That’s no insider info. He never gives any specifics.

Blah blah blah

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Pruitt is gone. I’m sure the “going to get worse” part is bowl ban, scholarship reductions, etc...

Keeping Pruitt is essentially a bowl ban...

 

[BeardedVol]

Keeping Pruitt is essentially a bowl ban...

 

[Birdie]

Not really. Never have cauterized the enormous gapping wound at the center of this whole mess. Probably never will. Tennessee football is dead until people like Fulmer and Haslam stop having undue influence. There’s still several of our moron fans that think Fulmer has done a fantastic job as AD.

How has he done worse than Hamilton or Currie?

 

[loservol]

How has he done worse than Hamilton or Currie?

Hired a guy with 0 head coaching experience that no one else wanted?

 

[DaddyChad]

How has he done worse than Hamilton or Currie?

Worse? When did the bar become doing better than Mike Hamilton?

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

Is Bailey really a top notch player?

No, just a maybe at this time.

 

[HollowaytoSeivers]

True. The problem is we burn it all down again every 3 or 4 years

And with each rebuild, it seems to burn far easier than the last one.

 

[Rocky Top Raby]

He was so wrong during the Grumors that I fully believe he is just a troll.

 

[Birdie]

Hired a guy with 0 head coaching experience that no one else wanted?

Who was the better option?

Bad hire, not sure how that 11th hour hire can be held against him with so little options. Standing by Pruitt now.. that's an argument I could see.

 

[ProudVOLfan]

Yes it actually can have you not been watching UT football the last 10 years?

Naw, it's my first day

 

[Birdie]

Worse? When did the bar become doing better than Mike Hamilton?

The extension and standing by Pruitt are the only real missteps I've seen.. big ones for sure though. First AD to actually open the checkbook since Dickey though.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

How has he done worse than Hamilton or Currie?

Extended a coach with 13-12 record with a GSU loss and absolutely no leverage during a pandemic...

Negotiated no offset language in Pruitt's contract

 

[Birdie]

Extended a coach with 13-12 record with a GSU loss and absolutely no leverage during a pandemic...

Negotiated no offset language in Pruitt's contract

Very big mistake. Or, I wonder if he did that for this very reason today..thought it would protect Pruitt and guarantee a 4th year regardless what happened this season.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

The extension and standing by Pruitt are the only real missteps I've seen.. big ones for sure though. First AD to actually open the checkbook since Dickey though.

Other than F'ing up the most important hire in the department, negotiating a bad agreement with that person, and then EXTENDING that deal for no reason, he's done an OK job.

Its like saying other that eating people, Dahmer wasnt a bad guy

 

[MKEvol]

AV? He is MIT_Beaver to me. Don’t know why y’all give him any credence.

It’s obvious it’s going to get worse. That’s no insider info. He never gives any specifics.

Blah blah blah

He also speaks in vague terms so that if he ever gets close to breaking news he can claim it as "inside knowledge." Worst case, he ends up being mostly wrong and pivots to the ever bulletproof "Something changed, my info was correct before {said unknown change} occurred."

 

[vol94]

Sometimes, to rise again, you just gotta burn it all down.

Well, the Hill has been a blazing for yrs so one would think we are due for some good fortune. U to think it’s time to clean house from the top down and remove and disallow influence from many of the boosters.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Very big mistake. Or, I wonder if he did that for this very reason today..thought it would protect Pruitt and guarantee a 4th year regardless what happened this season.

You extend a contract for performance or to get back leverage. Neither item existed here so that's pure incompetence...

 

[checkthetape]

Who was the better option?

Bad hire, not sure how that 11th hour hire can be held against him with so little options. Standing by Pruitt now.. that's an argument I could see.

Thats the thing.. A man in Fulmer's position has to posture publicly.. People can scoff at the notion, but Fulmer and another set of people are largely responsible for this investigation that is transpiring.. There are a lot of people that think/thought that Fulmer was the gilted ultimate VOLUNTEER that returned to be the new blood savior when he rode back into town this time but there have been plenty of back pats over the years..

Bottom line we need new power players and administrative professionals that are forward thinking and pulling in the same direction..

You can look across the country where those types of institutions are located

 

[TheMookieMonster]

I couldn’t care less what AV has to say. My biggest concern is the lack of decisiveness from the administration.

It was reported tonight that Dan Mullen has an interview with the Jets. We’re going to keep farting around, the Florida job is going to open up, and as usual we’ll be picking up the scraps.

Just fire Pruitt already before this gets worse. I’m over the ineptitude.

 

[DaddyChad]

I couldn’t care less what AV has to say. My biggest concern is the lack of decisiveness from the administration.

It was reported tonight that Dan Mullen has an interview with the Jets. We’re going to keep farting around, the Florida job is going to open up, and as usual we’ll be picking up the scraps.

Just fire Pruitt already before this gets worse. I’m over the ineptitude.

You know I want to agree with you. That said Florida and Tennessee are shopping from a different barrel of coaches. I doubt they have any effect on who Tennessee gets

 

[Illinoisvolfan2]

Real problem, is we can't see past the 90's.

Which is now 20+ years ago

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

You know I want to agree with you. That said Florida and Tennessee are shopping from a different barrel of coaches. I doubt they have any effect on who Tennessee gets

They shop for coaches from the top shelf and we shop from the bargain bin....

 

[ftsandersvol]

Sometimes, to rise again, you just gotta burn it all down.

What our administrators see.

 

[DaddyChad]

They shop for coaches from the top shelf and we shop from the bargain bin....

It’s not just that. Elite coaches want to play for a well ran program. We’re a clown show and everyone knows it, even bargain bin coaches are going to want elite contracts to come here.