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Question. If you are a previous Coach that built a Dynasty, played at that School, and became the AD. Would you idlely sit back and watch or would you get your hands dirty, while staying within NCAA regulations.
Answer. Yes........Pretty much No Brainer....
GREG FROM MURFREESBORO
Question/comment: "Coach, how is it to have a national championship-winning coach out on your playing field while youâre practicing all the time? How much do you converse with him? Do you ask him for advice? I know heâs not going to tell you what to do, heâs going to wait to ask you what to do."
Pruitt: "You know, me and Coach Fulmer have a really good relationship. We kind of grew up in the same kind of background. We both want the same thing. We want the Tennessee football program to be the best program in the country. We have a plan and weâre working together. It takes everybody involved. Being the head football coach, itâs very important to have the support of your administration. We definitely have that. So I think Coach Fulmer knows as good as anybody, when things were going really well at Tennessee, what was the reason. And when things have not gone the way we want it to, he probably knows the answer there. If youâre asking me if Iâm going to be the head football coach at Tennessee, who would I want to be the athletic director? I would have picked Coach Fulmer."
Kesling: "Itâs of interesting, when Coach Fulmer took over, Coach Dickey was the AD. So Coach Fulmer could go down the hall and get a lot of advice from Coach Dickey on how to do some things, and you have that luxury with Coach Fulmer."
Pruitt: "Yeah, and we do. Again, we have a great relationship. He stops by and sees me all the time. And if I have a question, I ask it. For instance, last night he just popped in the defensive staff room. And weâre just sitting there talking, actually we were watching a little tape. He probably stood there for two minutes and he was about to leave. I said, âHey coach, I want to ask you a question. If we played this front or this front, what gave you the hardest time to block?â There are lots of athletic directors that canât answer that kind of question."
Fulmer, Pruitt, Helton, and Friend should go to every classroom and dorm on campus.
Find the biggest guys they can and ask if they like football.
Then, put some pads on them and see if they can still walk upright.
The first five that can should start on the offensive line on Saturday.
I don't see him supporting the team and the coaching staff as undermining anything, and I bet the players and coaches dont see it that way either. They all want to win and I am sure that they will take the added expertise and commitment from whoever will lend a hand. This is like saying that CJP undermines his players by saying he will recruit 25 guys to never get embarassed again. It is just what you so when you want excellence. You use every available resource at your disposal and maximise everyone's potential from players to coaches. I think he is right where he should be.Are you calling Pruitt a boy? While we are reading the praises of CPF, please keep in mind the guy hasnât coached football in 10 years. Has he forgotten how to coach? Probably not, but I donât want the guy interfering with the current coaches either. If he doesnât like the staff then he should replace them. His involvement has the potential to undermine the current staff and create divisions between players, between coaches, and between the interaction of players and coaches.
It was rumored that bob woodruff tried to give coach Dickey âsuggestionsâ, and that was one reason he left for Florida. Bill battle was supposedly gifted with ideas from woodruff. Didnât work out for him. Woodruff wouldnât hire majors after Dickey left because he knew majors wouldnât put up with his meddling. That was the rumors and gossip at the time. That was before this web site Existed so we will never know for sure.Not sure how much Neyland ever got involved in coaching after he left here, but he's the only person I can recall who fits this description who worked here.