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

[BigOrangeTrain]

We had Mike Leach! He had our offer in his hand. Fulmer got Beverly and Currie fired and killed the Mike Leach deal!

how would you like to have a do over on that day?

Leach was within a whisker of having freaking Wash. St. in the final four last year. WASHINGTON STATE!!!

Lol. So if Leach is so good, then why hasnt he landed a big time gig at a big time school? Look at the list of schools that have had job openings in the past 5 years:

OU, UF, PS, FSU, UGA, LSU, Miami, Texas, VT, UCLA, Nebraska, TAMU, Yet not one hired him.

 

[TNnative]

Tennessee needs to stop worrying about hiring the "right fit" (clearly we're not good at it), and resign itself to hiring the coach that can and has done more with less. Mike Leach would have been a great hire. At this point, a few 7,8,9 win seasons would be a welcome change and is a goal Mike Leach is well capable of.

At this point? I wish we had gotten Georgia State's coach. Doing more with less? If he does well there, he may be getting offers at the end of the season. They don't have another D-1 program on the schedule, so we funded their entire season this year. But if he wins out, his telephone will be on the hot seat.

 

[tbones0711]

Absolutely not that. He's playing the best players he can at all positions. You don't think he wants to win? His career depends on it. It just happens that a bunch of the newer players are better than some of these Jrs.

You need to be corrected on that. He, himself personally said he doesn't know who the best linemen are and that's why all the shuffling around is going on during a game. That doesn't make sense to a lot of us but I guess it's the Pruitt way. I'll be glad when he settles on a starting line-up myself and I think the players will too. I think this is confusing them.

 

[TNnative]

Lol. So if Leach is so good, then why hasnt he landed a big time gig at a big time school? Look at the list of schools that have had job openings in the past 5 years:

OU, UF, PS, FSU, UGA, LSU, Miami, Texas, VT, UCLA, Nebraska, TAMU, Yet not one hired him.

In Leach's case, none of those schools want this.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Have any of you listened to the Volunteer Roadshow recently? It had Fred White, Billy Ratliff and Eric Westmoreland. Moreland made a point I think many fans need to understand. He said he is tired of people blaming only the coaches. He said coaches are definitely responsible but so are the players. Thats a former great Vol player that said that. Ratliff and White agreed. But hey, what do those guys know?

 

[hog88]

Have any of you listened to the Volunteer Roadshow recently? It had Fred White, Billy Ratliff and Eric Westmoreland. Moreland made a point I think many fans need to understand. He said he is tired of people blaming only the coaches. He said coaches are definitely responsible but so are the players. Thats a former great Vol player that said that. Ratliff and White agreed. But hey, what do those guys know?

When players start getting paid and buyouts after being cut I'll start laying more of the blame on them. It's the coaches job to get the players ready, end of story.

 

[Frozevol]

Need to get Gray and Chandler in space. BYU is slow on the edges and in the secondary. They have some strong guys on the interior. We would be better served not to attack there until later in the game. They wore down pretty bad vs. Utah in the second half when Utah gashed them.

What part of -2yds rushing against GSU do you not understand?

 

[PEPPERJAX]

What part of -2yds rushing against GSU do you not understand?

UT is not going to abandon the run. We surely can't pass every down.

 

[Jersey Moonshine]

Do you think Jeremy Pruitt regrets taking the job at Tennessee? Tennessee being viewed as a "career killing" job does not bode well for us.

On the flip side, we're also made a lot of guys rich enough that they don't need a career after we fire them.

 

[BigBadVol]

Oh I see we still have people using 1 or 2 moments to define or speak for someone's entire career.

The Woke Crowd never disappoints.

Underrated post!

 

[MikeVol44]

Sorry but I'm not giving you an opinion. This is a fact. Leaders may change environments. They may change the culture and expectations. They do not change people. You can kill yourself with stress believing that you have the power to change people who do not wish to change by just finding the magic formula. I know from experience. I was taught that failed concept in college. I became a successful leader after discovering that people change or they don't. You can influence them. You can change the "economics" of their choices.... but ultimately the decision to change is theirs alone.

People who won't... you have to give an invitation to go work somewhere else.

THIS is just the truth!!!

Leaders seek to equip and enable folks with the best training and support possible---but if that person isn't motivated or remains obstinate--show 'em the door.
Those people are like cancer and destroy the organism from inside out--and they ALWAYS recruit others to poison the operation.

The real debate is over how much time to allow them to change--that's the test of a true leader.

Some people just LIVE to constantly stir up drama and oppose the process.

 

[thegasman54]

I don't think that is all that looney at all. Fulmer probably still thinks he should be the HC. I have heard enough from his luncheons, or "excusefests" to know he still feels confident in his coaching ability. Remember that violation he got for coaching up linemen during practice? He should have known an AD can't do that with the press watching.

I am not going to accuse him of having a "master plan" to return to coaching. In the time he had to make the hire between Pruitt, Steele, and Tucker, I believe he felt he made the best hire of those 3. He didn't have time to get a proven coach. But since Barry Alvarez did fill in for Wisconsin at least once, I feel if he fires Pruitt midseason? He will do exactly that. And I am sure there are some on here will want that. I don't. Fulmer built upon a ready made program, he didn't build it up from ruin. Majors could, but it took time. Nowadays, that level of patience from supporters just seems a thing of the past. But Fulmer is going to do what Fulmer is going to do.

People this ignorant shouldn’t be allowed to post ... good grief are you REALLY this dumb ?

 

[MobTownVol]

Swain's show is ok, better than most, I guess. There is a lot of pointless rambling like all the radio shows. He doesn't really break news and then speaks in a veiled way about things that are already common knowledge... I CANNOT STAND listening to his co-host pretend like he knows anything about sports and then go on to parrot Swain’s thoughts and butcher big words. The show was better with Stokes and even Burris. All that being said, Pruitt’s poor leadership is as much of a problem as the lack of leadership on the team. He needs to get it together asap!

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

We had Mike Leach! He had our offer in his hand. Fulmer got Beverly and Currie fired and killed the Mike Leach deal!

how would you like to have a do over on that day?

Leach was within a whisker of having freaking Wash. St. in the final four last year. WASHINGTON STATE!!!

Bring Washington St. to the SEC. You're talking about someone not getting in at that point.

 

[McDad]

Have any of you listened to the Volunteer Roadshow recently? It had Fred White, Billy Ratliff and Eric Westmoreland. Moreland made a point I think many fans need to understand. He said he is tired of people blaming only the coaches. He said coaches are definitely responsible but so are the players. Thats a former great Vol player that said that. Ratliff and White agreed. But hey, what do those guys know?

You know what is really odd? Former coaches are blaming coaches. Former players are blaming players (according to your post).

 

[njvols]

Need to get Gray and Chandler in space. BYU is slow on the edges and in the secondary. They have some strong guys on the interior. We would be better served not to attack there until later in the game. They wore down pretty bad vs. Utah in the second half when Utah gashed them.

I think we will probably score on them but after listening to review of their offense with a scrambling qb who can pass and funky schemes, I’m quite sure we’re going to have more head scratching moments again...stopping them will be a problem unless we chew up the clock running the ball...oh, wait, never mind.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

You know what is really odd? Former coaches are blaming coaches. Former players are blaming players (according to your post).

Which just proves my point. Everyone is to blame for the state of the program. FTR, the former players also blamed Pruitt. Rightfully so.

 

[I40flyer]

If Pruitt is still dealing with this during year 2, thats on him . Truth is results on the field turn players away quicker than fans complaining about a terrible loss.

Great point! If he hasn't solved this problem by kickoff- BYU -Saturday we're going to see another GS....

 

[MiramarVol]

That makes no sense. Why would we have to settle for Pruitt if we didn't need to look for another coach? What am I missing here?

The point is the roster, not the coach. If the coach HAD a good roster, we wouldn't need to look for a coach. Butch's problem wasn't the roster, the talent was there. It was his coaching.

 

[I40flyer]

Need to get Gray and Chandler in space. BYU is slow on the edges and in the secondary. They have some strong guys on the interior. We would be better served not to attack there until later in the game. They wore down pretty bad vs. Utah in the second half when Utah gashed them.

Great plan!! Our guys looked great the second half of the GS game, with that type of drive and athleticism, we should be able to put up 40-50 points, as long as we use your tactics! I think there is going to be another "gashing" during the UT-BYU game, but who gets Gashed is still not decided.

 

[Gandalf]

Someone quoted Swain earlier saying that there were a group of Juniors who were problem attitudes on the team. I just listed all the scholarship Jrs on the roster. It is kind of scary if that is a "big" group considering how many of these guys are in the two deep rotation.

He did> When he said it though, it didnt seem like he was saying it was a LARGE group but maybe 6-8. The problem is that these guys are the more senior players and therefore should be on the field more than new guys. All it takes is for one or two on each side of the ball to slack a bit and boom the opponent extends their drive, makes the catch, etc.

Also he said the amount of vitriol on twitter, etc from fans to players is not good for recruiting. He thought this should be something the team takes care of internally. He didnt give the coaches a free pass on the game but basically said the locker room stuff is best handled by the players themselves and that they need to lest these slackers mess up everyone's opportunity.

 

[Kinglberry]

Oh I see we still have people using 1 or 2 moments to define or speak for someone's entire career.

The Woke Crowd never disappoints.

Fulmer was not there disciplinarian. That was Cut, when he left, the team exerted control, when he returned that went away until he left again.

 

[dcm3w]

Would you be happy with a coach that in 15 1/2 years only managed 2 SEC titles and 1 NC?

Uhhh Yeah. Dude won games.

How many winning seasons have we had in the last 10 seasons? You're acting like a NC is easy to achieve as a HC.

 

[BIGORANGEBUBBA]

When players start getting paid and buyouts after being cut I'll start laying more of the blame on them. It's the coaches job to get the players ready, end of story.

And it's players that make plays

 

[volbo11]

Sounds like Swain is calling for a Code Red