Basilio saying Fulmer/Chaney want a new QB

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Proud Army Wife said:
Chaney is the oc. Didn't Pruitt hire him? If you hire a man to run the offense, trust what he tells ya and let him run the offense. Good grief. If this is true, Pruitts doing a good job planning his own demise.
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there's not a chance in hell this is true. Fulmer hired Pruitt and Pruitt hired Chaney. That would suggest that they are in alignment. Pruitt and Chaney would know best how each QB ACTUALLY performs and if BM and JT suck in practice the chances of them being good in games is slim.

there's zero incentive that Pruitt has to start a QB that he didnt even recruit unless he believes fully that there currently isnt a better option.

NOW, I believe fully that one of the other QBs needs to start the second half of the Chatt game unless somehow UT hasnt salted it away by then. We NEED to see these guys in game action. Period. Unless Pruitt can throw a redshirt on BM, then play him Saturday.
 
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TitanVol82 said:
Not surprising if true. You can tell Chaney has to cut the play book in half with JG starting. Pruitt is being stubborn to a fault and it will likely cost him his job in the near future.
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Have to disagree, If you watched Chaney coach at UGA, it was the same offense and he had a 5 Star QB under center, he is more of a Run OC than pass, I honestly don't think he would be any different with any others behind center.
 
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MWAVolfan said:
there's not a chance in hell this is true. Fulmer hired Pruitt and Pruitt hired Chaney. That would suggest that they are in alignment. Pruitt and Chaney would know best how each QB ACTUALLY performs and if BM and JT suck in practice the chances of them being good in games is slim.

there's zero incentive that Pruitt has to start a QB that he didnt even recruit unless he believes fully that there currently isnt a better option.

NOW, I believe fully that one of the other QBs needs to start the second half of the Chatt game unless somehow UT hasnt salted it away by then. We NEED to see these guys in game action. Period. Unless Pruitt can throw a redshirt on BM, then play him Saturday.
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They most certainly better. Plan for the future. JG gets injured and you're putting a kid out their with no game experience. Personally I think this is the dumbest decision he's made by far.
 
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Booker512 said:
That’s what I’m saying. I don’t think Pruitt is necessarily married to JG. But I think he has a serious tone deafness when it comes to making a new QB start his first game in the swamp. He clearly has not paid attention to TN over the past few years before he got here. Maybe he just doesn’t view FL as some road block bc he’s always coached on teams that beat them easily. But I think he’s woefully unaware of the serious mental block this team has with Florida and ESPECIALLY with playing in Gainesville
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I don’t think so. I attribute us getting rdy for then Florida game for our two current losses.

Pruitt has been getting this team ready to face Florida since the beginning of Fall Camp. He was literally posting how hot it was in Florida as the Vols were practicing. I think Pruitt thought our team was good enough to sleep walk against Georgia State and BYU and pull out victories.

Pruitt has to beat Florida in the swamp to atone for the first two losses of the season.
 
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Behr said:
I'm concerned about him flipping, but I do wonder how he views Pruitt's commitment to his QB? I try to put myself in his shoes to see what I would think/feel/do, but I can't, haha.
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I mean, I guess in one light it could be viewed as admirable, but if Pruitt has promised him that he was going to start day one, and is still willing to sacrifice this season on the altar of JG, I'm not sure that I'd trust that promise if I were him.
 
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Pride85 said:
Gotta love it. Once again, posters running amok with an unconfirmed rumor from an unreliable source.
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To be fair, he did just pass along what Bassillo said, kinda the point of internet message board. People are still allowed to make up their own mind. Im mean, folks run around here all day claiming Pruitt is a great head coach with absolutely no evidence what so ever....lol, goes both ways.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
Pruitt should not be vetoing anything Chaney wants to do on offense. In fact Pruitt should not even spend a second of thought on the offense until the defense is just a good as it was wherever he was DC.

I said it in May. If you want someone to come in and be the new Helton, there are 1000 people you can put in that role. There's no reason to go get Chaney just to handicap him.
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It's really hard for me to imagine Chaney agreeing to come here if he knew or suspected that Pruitt would micromanage him. If Pruitt hired Chaney and isn't letting him do his job, that's going to eventually lead to Pruitt's firing. And I totally agree with you - you don't pay an OC $1.5m/year to come here then put a straitjacket on him. Surely, surely, he is being allowed to run his offense and make decisions, but then again this is Tennessee we're talking about.

The day Pruitt was hired I said that the performance of his offenses would determine his success or failure here, because prior to this job he had zilch offensive experience. The early returns on offense have been anywhere from bad to awful. I know we're only 14 games into his tenure here, but it doesn't bode well for his future. At all. Which is a shame, because unlike Butch or Dooley I think Pruitt actually understands football.
 
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05_never_again said:
True, although Georgia currently has no QB commit for 2020. If Fromm goes to the NFL, and the only other QB on their roster next year is a transfer, Bailey theoretically could have a chance to go there and start immediately. Surely Georgia signs a QB in 2020 though, right? They almost have to.

If he stays committed to Tennessee, not only does he walk into a s**tshow, but he has a senior starter (who is terrible) and 2 backups ahead of him on the depth chart. Although at this point almost surely Shrout or Maurer is going to transfer. Especially if Bailey stays committed.
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Carson Beck. HB isn't flipping to UGA
 
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Here's what I've seen, Chaney and Tee Martin sure as heck look very frustrated in the booth.
Does that mean they suggested a change and Pruitt vetoed it? No it doesn't, however it's quite obvious they are not happy with the offensive production.
If Chaney is calling the offense that " he" designed it's the most conservative offense he's every ran.
Tee's a QB, if anyone thinks he and Chaney don't what to stretch the field and throw the ball more you probably need to push back from the Jim Beam a bit. Those two are currently wondering wth they've gotten themselves into.
 
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The AD telling the coach to do a better job is exactly what the AD is supposed to do. However, if he is saying to play a different QB just because he( Phil) wants to see it then that's crossing the line. Merely suggesting a change would be within his boundaries.
 
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cHiZzLeVOL said:
I don’t think so. I attribute us getting rdy for then Florida game for our two current losses.

Pruitt has been getting this team ready to face Florida since the beginning of Fall Camp. He was literally posting how hot it was in Florida as the Vols were practicing. I think Pruitt thought our team was good enough to sleep walk against Georgia State and BYU and pull out victories.

Pruitt has to beat Florida in the swamp to atone for the first two losses of the season.
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I genuinely think this also. If he goes to Gainesville and genuinely pops off against Florida and just whoops their a$$. I’m back on board 100%. Maybe he knows that’s the key to getting momentum here. Gotta punch your rivals in the nose.

You get a big win in Gainesville, you’ll see smiling faces in Knoxville sure as sh&t.

I’ll believe it when I see it tho.
 
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BeardedVol said:
I mean, I guess in one light it could be viewed as admirable, but if Pruitt has promised him that he was going to start day one, and is still willing to sacrifice this season on the alter of JG, I'm not sure that I'd trust that promise if I were him.
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I don't know what's been said between the two, I'm just going by what I know, which is obviously nothing but what I see.

And, I wasn't trying to "sell" you on anything, the fear of him flipping is very real with me. I just hope he thinks he's the answer to all of our problems and is determined to prove it.
 
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BeardedVol said:
I mean, I guess in one light it could be viewed as admirable, but if Pruitt has promised him that he was going to start day one, and is still willing to sacrifice this season on the alter of JG, I'm not sure that I'd trust that promise if I were him.
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i don't think any promieses like that have been made, and up to this point, HB has maintained his committment and is said to still be working on this class.

i wouldn't never say never on this stuff....but HB seems to be pretty darn solid at this point.

i think what we'll find out headed in to 2020 is htat at least 1 QB currently on our roster transfers...maybe two. and we'll ride in to 2020 with at least one of our two FR, Hill, and Bailey....which should make for a pretty good QB competition next off season

at this point, i'll be a little surprised if JG sticks around for a RS Sr. year. he can grad transfer and play somewhere else right away.
 
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VN please give little credence regarding anything TB says. He is most likely just stirring the pot with no inside knowledge or trustworthy source. He is funny but is rarely correct with any of his conspiracy theories.
 
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Look, let's just ride out JG until Bailey gets here next year. JG grad transfers home, we have a 4 way battle between Bailey, Hill, Shrout, Maurer.
 
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I could believe a story about a disagreement between a HC and OC over the QB but unless the AD is attending practices on the QT every day how would he know?
 
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Booker512 said:
Clemson doesn’t have a great #2 QB behind Lawrence....who will be gone for sure after next season.....

Sit a year on the bench behind Lawrence...get plenty of playing time in second half’s while they’re up by 35 points....then game over after he goes to the NFL at the end of the season....

Pruitt better fix his sh#t....and quick. Because it wouldn’t be the first time that pastor Dabo swooped in an netted up a buncha guys that were headed to Tennessee but we screwed the pooch so bad they flipped.
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This scenario doesn't work either. Dabo has D.J Uiagalelei #1 QB in the rankings committed to the 2020 class. HB wont flip to there.
 
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Pruitt maybe doesn’t have to listen to the AD, but he sure as he!! should listen to his OC, especially when he is a defensive coach.
 
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KBVol said:
I don’t believe this for one split second. Pruitt isn’t up there to make sure JG plays QB, he’s up there to win games. And if he thought for one second one or both of the other guys gave him s chance right now to win they’d be playing.

Also, Pruitt hired Chaney to be the head coach of the offense, to run it from top to bottom. Nobody’s gonna convince me that if Chaney went to Pruitt and recommended a change that Pruitt would say “nah, we’re sticking with Jarrett”. Just don’t believe that, makes zero sense.

Finally, I wish these idiot media members would stop trying to insert Fulmer into everything in an effort to create controversy. He’s being portrayed as some evil administrator/boss trying to micro-manage everything and orchestrate his return as head coach, and there’s just no way any of that is true imho.
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Your right KB it's not true at all, Coach Fulmer is not telling Pruitt how to run his program or telling him who he needs to play it's all false information and if Basilio does indeed have an "insider" his insider is incorrect
 
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