Coaching

#26
#26
UrbanCryer said:
Doesn’t matter what I think about Pruitt he’s here at least three years.
I DO support him cause he is Tennessee coach. All I’m saying is if he makes dumba** decisions and there are obvious flaws I’m not defending him.
Go look at my old posts. I did that with kiffin. I did that with Dooley. I did that with Lyle until his last year.
I’ve been following the Vols since 86 so please don’t call my fandom into question because I won’t praise a coach for dumb moves and regression.
Some things are better, some are worse. After the past 10 years of misery I’ve turned into a “I’ll believe it when I see it” guy.
Btw, I don’t boo 18-22 year old kids. That’s some dumb s*** right there. I do boo multimillion dollar coaches however.
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When you boo how do the kids know the difference?
 
#27
#27
UrbanCryer said:
Offense- The qb was crompton. A five star that couldn’t get on the field until kiffin took over and that was by default. The backup was Stevens, iirc, so it was crompton or bust. He schemed to make the qb and offense work. The o line had two walk ons and a freshman starting. They did have Hardesty and stocker but other than that I can’t remember much.
Defense- The d had McCoy, berry and Williams but Williams wasn’t even a starter at that point. Name a corner off that team. Yeah, I can’t remeber one either. Get your google out.

This years team does not have any walk on linemen. They do have a 5 star left tackle so what’s the problem with the o and blocking. Guarantano has more or equal talent to crompton. Hardesty is the better of the backs but rotating 4 guys doesn’t help with a back getting into rhythm. We have better wrs now. A good te we don’t use. Wolf is non existent in this offense and the boy can play.
Not really gonna get into the d cause I feel we’re better there. They just get wore down from non existent offense.
Sorry for the book.
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One of our starting cbs was Masalous Johnson, a buddy I went to high school with. He wasn’t a stunner but held his own against the likes of deshaun Jackson from Cal and syndney rice from South Carolina that year.
 
#28
#28
Johnnyreb#VFL said:
One of our starting cbs was Masalous Johnson, a buddy I went to high school with. He wasn’t a stunner but held his own against the likes of deshaun Jackson from Cal and syndney rice from South Carolina that year.
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Edit: we didn’t play cal that year, rather UCLA
 
#29
#29
Whoever said Kiffin did more with less....he inherited Fulmer's guy. Are you ACTUALLY mentally deficient??????????? or just throwing tantrums because your fairweather pride can't handle it? Pruitt inherited a bunch of guys with zero discipline, terrible S & C...as evident to the most injuries to a team in the league 2 years running and the inability to play more than 30 minutes, AND play calling so vanilla my brothers grasscutter team could figure out the plays pre-snap. "I BEEN HERE X YEARS BY GOD I DEMAND YOU DO GOODER, I DUN CARE HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS, YOU OWE ME FOR MY LOYALTY". Stop talking, no one owes you jack. Certainly not a bunch of 18 year old kids who weren't even alive the last time you posted something positive about the team. It says alot about the guys who talk about supporting the team for 2-3-4 decades through all that crap and THIS is where they decide to draw the line. Laughable. Let me go find the link to the Bama memorability website real fast, you might as well start now.
 
#31
#31
Not to hijack the thread but it was mentioned Fulmer was coaching on the sidelines last week. When asked about it Pruitt responded “I’m excited to have an opportunity to work with Coach Fulmer,” Pruitt said. “He really has been a benefit for me to lean on in some decision making. There are lots of things besides the X’s and O’s that you have to do as a head football coach so it’s good to have somebody that’s done it before and they’ve actually done it at the job you hold. I’m excited to work with him.”

My question is are we glad Fulmer is stepping in or does it feel like a possible too many cooks in the kitchen type thing?
 
#32
#32
UrbanCryer said:
I’ve been hearing this crap for 10 years. I’m done following coaches erblindly no matter their obvious flaws.

I backed kiffin. I backed Dooley. I backed jones. Still waiting on the “right” coach.

I know everybody hates kiffin but he did more with less than any coach we’ve had. Went to a bowl game with a less talented team than we have now. If he had a kicker he would have beat bama at bama that year.

My point is coaching matters and ours is lost right now and I’m gonna call it out when I see it.
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Says the UrbanCryer
Ok
 
#33
#33
Hawkeye4588 said:
Not to hijack the thread but it was mentioned Fulmer was coaching on the sidelines last week. When asked about it Pruitt responded “I’m excited to have an opportunity to work with Coach Fulmer,” Pruitt said. “He really has been a benefit for me to lean on in some decision making. There are lots of things besides the X’s and O’s that you have to do as a head football coach so it’s good to have somebody that’s done it before and they’ve actually done it at the job you hold. I’m excited to work with him.”

My question is are we glad Fulmer is stepping in or does it feel like a possible too many cooks in the kitchen type thing?
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I for one, praise Pruitt's decision to get Fulmer's opinion on some football related matters, it shows maturity on Pruitt's part
Go Vols
 
#34
#34
jboyinmiss said:
I am truly sorry that you are so cynical, but hes working with what hes got and I see improvement from the first game. I knew Butch was in over his head when he blew 2 score leads in back to back games against Fla& Oklahoma. But Pruitt seems to be getting these young men to fight for a win. And all I was saying is fan boards everywhere want to blame the coach when their favorite team loses. Well its a fact somebody has to lose, but I do believe the breaks are going to start falling our way and I have hope for the last half of this season once we get past Bama. But you will continue to moan and groan bcos you love Rocky Top and always will so you might as well tighten those boot straps cos its gonna be a tough ride for awhile. And think about it, outside of Saban who has the longest tenure at a school in the SEC? Stoops at Kentucky and Malzahn at Auburn and both of those schools seem to be doing really well right now. Stability in a program means a lot. Recruits see fans booing the team and leaving games sends a message to them and they think do I really wanna play here. Wake up and support your team. You can be critical but you have never been in those shoes either, so give the man a chance.
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So blowing a lead is worse than getting blown out?

ok
 
#35
#35
ATLVols said:
I think most of us are giving Pruitt a long leash because he’s proven everywhere he’s been that he’s a great coach (at least defensively). We will give him time.

He’s going to have to figure out how to get the offense going more (whether it’s better players and/or better coordinator) if his program is going to move forward.
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The offensive line is not going to improve in any material way for at least a couple of years, which limits what the entire offense can do. Pruitt is having to start really young, inexperienced guys there and Drew Richmond is simply awful; he'll presumably be replaced with a young/inexperienced guy himself next year
 
#36
#36
Unfortunately I have come to the realization that its going to be a while. We are going to have to just live with small improvements this year. If the OL can get over the stupid mistakes we might actually look decent after AL slaughters us.
 
#37
#37
windrider said:
When you boo how do the kids know the difference?
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you actually took that a little to literally. i dont boo at all. i just sit there in stunned silence most of the time.
my point was the kids dont deserve the criticism but the coaching does. theyre the one telling the kids what to do. if they wont do what their told get someone in there that will.
my main complaint is with the joke of offensive play calling. other than that im fine with pruitt.
 
#40
#40
jboyinmiss said:
You take one sentence and nitpick about it. Are you a snowflake cos you sure act like it.
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I'm not sure; define snowflake.

If you mean that me pointing out a discrapancy in your thought process makes me a snowflake, I guess I am.

But in your process of trying to validate your feelings of wonderment for the new shiney coach at UT you said something sort of dumb and then got mad when it was called to your attention.


hmmmm...snowfake... trying to see who that label fits more. Personally I'm thinking you.
 
#41
#41
IMO, the coordinators are calling plays based on good players. We don't really have those, so it's not working. Pruitt is used to having good players. Job number one then is to recruit good players. Jones did that pretty well. Job number two is to develop them. This is why we are failing so far. I'm not prepared to put this on coaching yet.

Though multiple 3rd and long runs up the middle are making me wonder...

I'm not a coach and I don't get paid millions, so I could be wrong.
 
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