If you ran into Butch Jones..........

#301
#301
Yeah look at A&M. They paid way too much for an overrated coach. Pruitt has the skills to be a better coach thanJimbo is. Time will tell and many will look foolish in the doom and gloom they are predicting now.
 
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#302
If I was to run into this guy, I would let him know what a loser he is. I would also let him know how pissed off I am about watching all this bowl season and our VOLS are not even playing. smh.
 
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volsportsfan said:
I don't like having a guy who trained on the job for 5 years, had a winning record, then gets replaced by another guy who will require as much or more on the job training. Just not smart.

Prove me wrong Pruitt, please!
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His “training” led to the worst season in Tennessee history. He should have been gone two years ago, for Pruitt or just about anyone else.
 
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hexnut said:
Yeah look at A&M. They paid way too much for an overrated coach. Pruitt has the skills to be a better coach thanJimbo is. Time will tell and many will look foolish in the doom and gloom they are predicting now.
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Wow you are all in.
 
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volfan102455 said:
And yet some folks are willing to write off 2018 and give Pruitt 4 to 5 years to be successful.

More than likely we will have this same thread in a few years with a different name.

Many Vol fans have no patience.
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Butch Jones got a full 3 year honeymoon....and it was more than the fraud deserved.

Nobody remotely held him accountable for anything that happened in his first year, 2013. Not the 59-0 run we gave up vs Oregon, not the beatdowns vs Alabama and Auburn...not even the bad loss at home to an average at best Vandy team. We understood the program was in pitiful shape and that it was gonna take some time to get it turned around. Jones, in his first 2 years here, was wildly supported, almost universally with no conditions. It wasn’t until year 3 that many of us began to fully realize that he lacked substance, wasn’t the guy, was way in over his head, was little more than a carnival barker. You otoh still haven’t figured that out.

JP will get a similar honeymoon/grace period and, like was done with Butch Jones, he will be given a tremendous amount of leeway in year one, as he should be, since the program is in similar, rotten shape after 5 years of Sgt Carter as it was after 3 years of Derek Dooley.

JP will be given 3 years, as he should be, to see if he can make this a winning, championship program again. If he’s either won a championship (division, conference or national) at that point or has has the team playing at a championship level, something your boy Lyle never even got close to, then fans will be even more patient and understanding and thrilled that we actually have the right guy since Phil Fulmer.

If not, he’ll get people calling for a change in years 4 and 5, just as happened to your man crush LAJ.
 
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I would ask how the trash can was doing. Maybe get him to sign my charts. Let him know Sanders is probably still working on a staff at ETSU.
 
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Doyle Hargraves said:
Tennessee hasn't hired a proven coach since Majors.
So, we were all insane to expect anything different this go around.
Still, you can't simply stick with proven failure and might as well gamble on the next guy.
Let's just hope we get lucky this time and hope for the best.
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Problem with Jones was that he lost the team mid-year. Not sure they would have played for him next year.
 
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