Does Pruitt’s grammar matter at all to you?

#51
#51
His grammar skills leave a LOT to be desired but they don't keep me awake at night.....however, his Head Coaching skills have caused me lots of angst and heartburn. :mad:
 
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I dont care if he is the banjo playing kid from Deliverance, if he gets us back competing for chamionships I'll embrace him as our head coach..........maybe not ACTUALLY embrace, but I'll support him. :)

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#56
#56
I don’t really care either way. He’s not an elected official or business leader so I could careless
 
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NATHAN05 said:
I dont care if he is the banjo playing kid from Deliverance, if he gets us back competing for chamionships I'll embrace him as our head coach..........maybe not ACTUALLY embrace, but I'll support him. :)

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He starts winning championships I'll embrace him, hell I'll give him a big 'ol sloppy tongue kiss.
 
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I have posted on this before. Not looking for a Rhodes Scholar but Pruitt is a high, if not the highest, profile representative of the University. His grammar is atrocious. Elementary school dropouts speak better. It's embarrassing. And you are right: if he's winning a bunch of games not many people will care, but it still grates. It reflects badly on UT IMHO.
 
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Vfl2407 said:
My feeling is that it matters more at 0-2 than 2-0.
I will say, as someone with family members who were teachers, that it does bother me.
To claim to be an institution of higher learning, you’d think we could get him an English tutor.
But being honest, if he upsets Florida and gets us to a bowl game, I won’t care how he “done” it.
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Yes. People will say we’re just being unnecessarily critical, but it’s embarrassing.

It’s like we are perpetuating the National stereotype we’ve been fighting for years.

But if that is my main complaint about Pruitt, I’m not paying enough attention.
 
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I cringe every time I hear CJP speak. However, he seems to relate well to the players and their families. If he is successful as a coach, people will overlook his public speaking. If he continues to lose, no amount of training or education will be enough to save him.
 
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I like to separate critiques of spoken and written English, and he seems pretty fluent in the vernacular of the area which he is from. I like that, because never deviating from written norms makes spoken language dull. That is why Butch Jones sounded like a robot to us. Not that he was perfect grammatically, but he limited himself much more than your average Southerner who would grow up telling tales and boasting.

It must also be said that many norms in English are highly arbitrary as well; the bad decisions of 14th and 15th century printing press loaders (type-setter?) in London are now considered the only correct way to write something.

Many times people making fun of country speech are ignorant of these histories. Ever hear an old person put an a' before a gerund? That comes from a common practice in Elizabethan English wherein poets would add an a' to fill out a line of iambiac pentameter. I'll admit that "I'm a'fixing to go do x or y" phrases aren't exactly Shakespeare, but they are the product of the fact that many of our Scotch/Irish/Welsh ancestors came to these shores with highly developed ears for the musicality of language.
 
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thegasman54 said:
Players love him —— all that matters
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They loved Butch, too. That may be the problem, often times “players” coaches are not successful. Players don’t need to love you or like you, they need to respect you. Based off of the last four games, they certainly do not respect him because 3 out of the 4 have been embarrassingly bad effort wise.
 
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This is an interesting question. I was talking to some friends about this the other day.

His grammar alone doesn't bother me, but I wonder if it represents a broader issue. It seems to me that most of the really great coaches are highly intelligent. I desperately want Pruitt to succeed and still hope that he does; however, since his first press conference I've questioned whether he's smart enough to do this job. It's a big job to manage an entire organization.

Grammar alone, no worries here, but I'm afraid it may be symptomatic of whether he's smart enough for the job in this modern era.
 
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The Original Fade said:
Yes it does. People make internal judgements about your intelligence level based on the extent of your vocabulary and how well you communicate ideas. That’s a fact.
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Absolutely correct, this generation thinks you can talk and type like you text. Employers of high salaried positions are not going to hire someone who cannot compose a competent complete thought.
 
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Tennesseefan2019 said:
Bear Bryant sounded a lot worse than Jeremy Pruitt and look how many games he won at Bammer
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Bryant had a Southern drawl as thick as sausage gravy, but he didn't sound like a peckerwood. Having said that, I'm more concerned with the content of what Pruitt says than I am with how he says it.
 
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I mean, I have a hard time following him sometimes. He has a very difficult time making his point. Other than that no, I don't care how he talks as long as he can coach aight?
 
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