If you're not listening to the Swain Event, you're missing out.

#30
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salutethehill said:
The same Fulmer who let Arian Foster give it to him on the sidelines?
The same Fulmer who had a laughing Josh Briscoe on national TV as they're getting their butts kicked?
Yeah, I don't understand either.
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Haha, yea I'm not a big Fulmer fan, but I don't hate him and he did it right enough to win a bunch of games and some championships.

This seems to be bigger than just being able to win games and I'd think an AD especially with his ties and background, ought to be able to help.in some way.

Maybe he is and we don't know, maybe he is and he's making it worse or maybe he don't know what to do either. Maybe he's part of the problem.
 
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Booker512 said:
I think that’s the issue. I think you have dozens of players not buying into the new staff. Personally, I think the Auburn and Kentucky games should have been buying in moments...but maybe that’s only for guys who get tons of playing time. Guys 2-3 on the depth chart...under freshmen....often times feel some type of way about things like that.

Hard pill to swallow. But now I guess you know why Pruitt has been out there saying things like “we will find guys that want to play...” and other snide comments about his players over the past few months.
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Hey, it's the same in business. My experience in the working world is this. If you get re-orged into a situation with a new boss, and as the years pass, he hires new employees, in some (not all) cases when it comes time for layoffs, the boss has a tendency to stick with his hires. Why? In a way, letting them go could be admitting you made a mistake, plus there is some kind of bond "he's one of mine" thing.

So maybe Pruitt has an affinity towards the newer, younger less experienced guys. The new guys are getting playing time and the old heads are seeing the bench. It sort of becomes a self fulfilling prophecy to slack up when the handwriting is on the wall that you are "redundant". Maybe not fair to the old guys. Heck I'm an old guy and have seen this in the working world, however - bottom line is, when you can't give your all and someone else can, you are going to get culled. And yes, it's a cancer for a football team just as it is in the workplace. Only thing that gets you over the hump is letting the chips fall where they may and give it time to reach equilibrium.
 
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tennvols77 said:
No option but to get rid of whomever is not bought in. Take our lumps, we're used to them, hopefully will pay off for the kids that get to play.

If there is a group of Jr's, tell them they can matriculate elsewhere with their football career and can from this second on be free from Tennessee football, finish their academic year in December or after spring, and can move into another dorm today. Make sure this is a conference call with their parents as well.
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Easy to say but what if a couple of players go down with injury? No one left to plug in. Plus, a kid who is simply not ready physically gets thrown onto the fire and his redshirt is burned. Not very fair to kids like that.
 
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tennvols77 said:
No option but to get rid of whomever is not bought in. Take our lumps, we're used to them, hopefully will pay off for the kids that get to play.

If there is a group of Jr's, tell them they can matriculate elsewhere with their football career and can from this second on be free from Tennessee football, finish their academic year in December or after spring, and can move into another dorm today. Make sure this is a conference call with their parents as well.
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This might be the only thing to save Pruitt. It is obvious that this season will be a disaster. If he cleaned house, he stands a better chance of seeing next season.
 
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hog88 said:
Leach was ready to take our roster on.
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I feel confident saying we'd be 1-0 if we'd hired Leach. Bond that...who knows. According to posts in the rf, some of our best commits and prospects for the 2020 class are now looking around. If Pruitt doesn't have a top 10 class, he's toast. It may take a couple more years to replace him but he won't have the talent to dig out.
 
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BadgerVol! said:
So if I’m drawing from what Swain is saying accurately this internal division is so deep that his options were “play this out a year or so, or be a hard a$$ and dump everyone who’s a problem and honestly we wouldn’t win a game.”

If it’s that bad I do have some sympathy for him as a H.C.
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Me too, it was painted as being very bleak for a period of time.
 
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EZE said:
This might be the only thing to save Pruitt. It is obvious that this season will be a disaster. If he cleaned house, he stands a better chance of seeing next season.
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I'd have to think Fulmer is well aware of what Pruitt is up against. Unlikely he'd fire a coach under these circumstances. I'm also pretty sure Fulmer knows that rebuilding the roster is going to take several years. Pruitt isn't going anywhere.
 
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Behr said:
Haha, yea I'm not a big Fulmer fan, but I don't hate him and he did it right enough to win a bunch of games and some championships.

This seems to be bigger than just being able to win games and I'd think an AD especially with his ties and background, ought to be able to help.in some way.

Maybe he is and we don't know, maybe he is and he's making it worse or maybe he don't know what to do either. Maybe he's part of the problem.
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Would you be happy with a coach that in 15 1/2 years only managed 2 SEC titles and 1 NC?
 
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Behr said:
Haha, yea I'm not a big Fulmer fan, but I don't hate him and he did it right enough to win a bunch of games and some championships.

This seems to be bigger than just being able to win games and I'd think an AD especially with his ties and background, ought to be able to help.in some way.

Maybe he is and we don't know, maybe he is and he's making it worse or maybe he don't know what to do either. Maybe he's part of the problem.
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Some looney person I heard on a call-in show earlier in the week suggested Phil has a master plan to fire Pruitt and take over as head coach himself.
 
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led0321 said:
Pruitt inherited an absolute broken and busted program. Too early to judge him IMO.
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Georgia St bro....lol

Remember then good ol days where people said Butch recruited pretty good and the just couldnt put it together. Many here said the next coach that came in would be able to win right way and all that.

Man, those days seem so long ago.
 
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Behr said:
What does that mean? Honestly, Ive read it several times and can't figure it out.
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It means if we had a solid roster there would be no reasson to look for another coach but, that coach brought in some soft players soft as booty meat and know they are getting exposed under new leadership.
 
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