Here is some real truth

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thistime

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We all want to win and we want to win now, I do as much as the next guy but we are never going to get back to the top if we keep doing what we have been doing for the last 12 years. We can blame it on everybody from the Big time donors, the AD, the school Administrators, hell the water boy for that matter and maybe all of those are the problem even we as fans have had something to do with it.

This should give you an idea of what our coaching searches look like: Tennessee coaching search timeline: A series of wild events from Butch Jones to Jeremy Pruitt

Please tell me what great coach would want to come here knowing from the day he signs the contract he has no more than 3 years at the most before we must be back to where we were in the mid to late 90's.........25 years ago !!!!

We all bleed ORANGE and we all want nothing but the best for OUR VOLS but this merry go round will never stop until we give a coach a chance and or pay the big bucks for a big time coach and saddly if our past history is any indication neither of those things are going to happen any time soon.
 
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You can’t lose to Kentucky and then pull this dumbass excuse about how fans expect too much. Our expectations are so freaking low it is not hard to surpass them. If the coach can’t meet the EXCEEDINGLY LOW expectations we set for them, that’s not the fans fault that is the coaches’ fault.
 
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thistime said:
We all want to win and we want to win now, I do as much as the next guy but we are never going to get back to the top if we keep doing what we have been doing for the last 12 years. We can blame it on everybody from the Big time donors, the AD, the school Administrators, hell the water boy for that matter and maybe all of those are the problem even we as fans have had something to do with it.

This should give you an idea of what our coaching searches look like: Tennessee coaching search timeline: A series of wild events from Butch Jones to Jeremy Pruitt

Please tell me what great coach would want to come here knowing from the day he signs the contract he has no more than 3 years at the most before we must be back to where we were in the mid to late 90's.........25 years ago !!!!

We all bleed ORANGE and we all want nothing but the best for OUR VOLS but this merry go round will never stop until we give a coach a chance and or pay the big bucks for a big time coach and saddly if our past history is any indication neither of those things are going to happen any time soon.
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I agree with some of the things you say, but it’s time for someone to take some responsibility for the **** product we trot out on the field every week. We suck. This team is terrible, yet has a lot of talent on the field.

We underperform week in and week out and lack consistency. Why continue to make excuses for the staff and the team?
 
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thistime said:
We all want to win and we want to win now, I do as much as the next guy but we are never going to get back to the top if we keep doing what we have been doing for the last 12 years. We can blame it on everybody from the Big time donors, the AD, the school Administrators, hell the water boy for that matter and maybe all of those are the problem even we as fans have had something to do with it.

This should give you an idea of what our coaching searches look like: Tennessee coaching search timeline: A series of wild events from Butch Jones to Jeremy Pruitt

Please tell me what great coach would want to come here knowing from the day he signs the contract he has no more than 3 years at the most before we must be back to where we were in the mid to late 90's.........25 years ago !!!!

We all bleed ORANGE and we all want nothing but the best for OUR VOLS but this merry go round will never stop until we give a coach a chance and or pay the big bucks for a big time coach and saddly if our past history is any indication neither of those things are going to happen any time soon.
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What coach do you think takes a job expecting to be allowed to fail for 5 or 6 years... destroying the recruiting base... before being fired? Bama went through a series of 3 or 4 year coaches before hiring Saban.

The last two years of Jones denied someone else a great opportunity to take the program forward. He is the POSTER child for what you get by tolerating incompetence in the name of "stability". He underperformed his talent. Recruits and rival recruiters saw it. Good players stopped coming... and he left the roster about as bad as it was when Fulmer was fired and this frustrating cycle started.

The RIGHT coach will NOT be a guy afraid of being fired because he loses too much. The RIGHT coach won't need to find excuses for blowout losses or losses to teams that should have been put away by half time.

I'm not calling for Pruitt to be fired yet. But he needs to take a "retreat" and put things in perspective during the off week. He needs to figure out that playing a younger QB now while he may not give you the absolute "best chance to be successful" now... is an investment in future wins. Whatever is going on on HIS defense... needs to be fixed NOW.
 
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thistime said:
We all want to win and we want to win now, I do as much as the next guy but we are never going to get back to the top if we keep doing what we have been doing for the last 12 years. We can blame it on everybody from the Big time donors, the AD, the school Administrators, hell the water boy for that matter and maybe all of those are the problem even we as fans have had something to do with it.

This should give you an idea of what our coaching searches look like: Tennessee coaching search timeline: A series of wild events from Butch Jones to Jeremy Pruitt

Please tell me what great coach would want to come here knowing from the day he signs the contract he has no more than 3 years at the most before we must be back to where we were in the mid to late 90's.........25 years ago !!!!

We all bleed ORANGE and we all want nothing but the best for OUR VOLS but this merry go round will never stop until we give a coach a chance and or pay the big bucks for a big time coach and saddly if our past history is any indication neither of those things are going to happen any time soon.
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Same ole “Who would want to come here BS”
Fact is none of the last 3 coaches have showed in year 3 that there is definitely a chance that in year 8 that we would be any better.
Just the opposite, each one has shown a good bit of evidence that we could be worse.
 
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Here’s some real truth. This is a proud program that’s been down for a long time and the fans deserve to see wins. When you’re just a qb away from at least competing with the big boys and your HC refuses to give them the opportunity to grow, it naturally gives a foul taste in your mouth.
 
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I argue it’s more expensive keeping the wrong coach too long than it is to fail fast and get Hugh caliber coach in here.
 
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thistime said:
We all want to win and we want to win now, I do as much as the next guy but we are never going to get back to the top if we keep doing what we have been doing for the last 12 years. We can blame it on everybody from the Big time donors, the AD, the school Administrators, hell the water boy for that matter and maybe all of those are the problem even we as fans have had something to do with it.

This should give you an idea of what our coaching searches look like: Tennessee coaching search timeline: A series of wild events from Butch Jones to Jeremy Pruitt

Please tell me what great coach would want to come here knowing from the day he signs the contract he has no more than 3 years at the most before we must be back to where we were in the mid to late 90's.........25 years ago !!!!

We all bleed ORANGE and we all want nothing but the best for OUR VOLS but this merry go round will never stop until we give a coach a chance and or pay the big bucks for a big time coach and saddly if our past history is any indication neither of those things are going to happen any time soon.
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Butch Jones was here most of 5 seasons; after his Year 3 most were pretty excited.
 
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thistime said:
We all want to win and we want to win now, I do as much as the next guy but we are never going to get back to the top if we keep doing what we have been doing for the last 12 years. We can blame it on everybody from the Big time donors, the AD, the school Administrators, hell the water boy for that matter and maybe all of those are the problem even we as fans have had something to do with it.

This should give you an idea of what our coaching searches look like: Tennessee coaching search timeline: A series of wild events from Butch Jones to Jeremy Pruitt

Please tell me what great coach would want to come here knowing from the day he signs the contract he has no more than 3 years at the most before we must be back to where we were in the mid to late 90's.........25 years ago !!!!

We all bleed ORANGE and we all want nothing but the best for OUR VOLS but this merry go round will never stop until we give a coach a chance and or pay the big bucks for a big time coach and saddly if our past history is any indication neither of those things are going to happen any time soon.
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We dont expect to be back in 3 years.

We do expect not to lose to Ga state and get blown out by KY in year 3.
 
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Here’s the real truth: we’re a bad football program and will be for a long time. Only thing fun about this anymore is the traditions.
 
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