Fire Pruitt [merged]

[JPL]

1 game does not make or break a coach. We were not playing for a title, just a bowl game so this doesn't change that. A mid day against a crappy team and the guys didn't show up. The staff gets a week to fix it before BYU. If they dont get off the bus for that one then something has to give.

Ummmm no. This was a total failure according to any measurement. This is NOT one game, this is a continuation of the show we saw with Mizzou & Vandy!

 

[AllVols]

The program is as low as it can go, other than to not field a team. Aka uab.

 

[Billy Ratliff]

What have you seen to vote no?

Beat two top 15 teams in year one. Our best players are mostly Fr.

 

[volmoon]

Tee Martin. He damn sure couldn’t be any worse. Pruitt had absolutely no energy today and that showed. I was jealous watching the ya state coach work the sidelines because I saw a guy with energy and passion. And it’s infectious. 3 things that defined this game...

jg slides short of the sticks on our third possession (when we had the momentum). We end up punting and they take it right down our throats.

Jg misses a wide open Palmer for a td at the end of the first half

Ga state had 2 4th and short plays in the first half and go for it (and convert) both times.

We had 4th and short twice in the first half also and punt it both times (the crowd booed the second time because we’d seen them convert in the same situation twice.

Pruitt doesn’t have the passion or communication skills to be a great head coach. We’ve now seen jg for 3 seasons do the same thing. Always check down (never taking ***** down the field), not have good football iq or awareness often throwing shot of the sticks on important possessions, and with an absolute terrible pocket awareness/clock

For a coach to be unable to recognize this or unwilling to make a change...his career is over at ut. So why not go ahead and make a change? Tee is a Tennessee guy and might inject some life into this team

I feel sorry for Tee.

 

[Voltrapnbama]

I voted no on firing because I want to see how he and the team responds next week, if they come out flat and get blown out again, you fire him on the spot, promote Martin for the rest of the year and start making phone calls.

If he trots JG back out there as QB, Pruitt should be fired after the first offensive series.

They ****ing got beat by Ga state

 

[DWright39]

Don’t think Tee is the answer either

 

[Hyperion]

i am so starved for a winning football team that i want to back the brinks truck up to urban meyer's front yard.

Why not. It seems like a guaranteed solution.

 

[UCVOL]

He's not fiery enough. His demeanor is way too laid back and the team/coaches have taken on his personality. There was no sense of urgency the whole game. He's not head coaching material.

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

I noticed that in the first game last year against WV

 

[Butch s]

Don’t think Tee is the answer either

No way in hell Tee could be worse

 

[Rockytopvol86]

Five star heart

I accidentally voted no.

 

[JPL]

Can you give us a list of acceptable candidates? TIA.

Below would be my first 3 calls in order...With a laser focus on Urban Meyer. With a great pitch he just might listen. If Saban could do it Meyer could-win a Natl Championship with two different SEC teams.
-Urban Meyer (ret)
-Chris Petersen (WA)
-Gary Paterson (TCU)

 

[landscapingvol]

Winning.

Which starts with a QB change.
The defense needs to know they have a QB that can win.

Also. Jerrod Means played way to much today. No Bituli or Roman Harrison.

But most importantly if Pruitt doesn't want to lose his job, he will play Brian Maurer.

Bituli is hurt

 

[ZombVol]

What a stupid title for this thread. 2 different questions in the title and poll. I say yes we should carry on with Pruitt. So I voted yes thinking the poll question would be the same.

 

[lifeisdeep]

Freeze would come here today. And we would be a better team within a month. Within a year we would be better than we have been in ten years.

 

[LittleVol]

Bituli is hurt

And Harrison. I know.

 

[FSUReb]

Ok, let’s say they fire Pruitt, what coach in his right mind wants to come into the atmosphere here?

 

[GBO97]

He deserves till the end of the year to see if we can turn it around. But it’s not looking good. If we miss a bowl (which looks very likely) he should be fired on the spot.

 

[GrizzlyVol]

We have no choice but to keep going forward no way you can fire him, that would be 2 fired coaches and a new coach on the payroll and that absolutely can not happen

 

[BSAvol]

Anyone who thinks Pruitt isn’t safer than Fort Knox thru year 3 at minimum doesn’t know Coach Fulmer or is short on brain cells.

I don't think Fulmer needs to feel safe,

 

[VonVol2]

Ok, let’s say they fire Pruitt, what coach in his right mind wants to come into the atmosphere here?

Pee Wee Herman. Who gives a damn? It can't get worse. Did you watch the game?

 

[UTwild82]

Do you Know what the worst thing about it is? Our kids will view Tennessee the way we view Minnesota. Used to be really good (like 6 NCs and 18 BTCs) but who remembers any of it?

 

[mpfvol]

Hell

Hell, rehire Jones. Is it possible to do worse than what we just saw?

PS fahrfulmer

Can you see JG doing that dam Option play 20 times a game knowing he can not run at all LOL

 

[zjcvols]

Y’all blaming JG for the program’s woes when the DEFENSIVE HEAD COACH lets 2-10 Georgia State score 38

 

[T2Vol]

Pruitt’s comments after the game - “They done everything better than we did”

Real life.