In an exercise of being objective, let’s at least talk about some of the good Pruitt has done

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knox-townVOL said:
We’re frustrated, and justifiably so, but I do sit firmly in the “Pruitt gets 5 years” camp, mostly because I’m sick of playing musical coaches. We have a decade of evidence that it doesn’t work. To at least see all sides of the picture (and give us a much needed change of pace), let’s talk a bit about some of the good so far in Pruitt’s tenure.

To go ahead and address some pre-rebuttals:

-Yes, I’m aware Butch and Dooley did some good things too.

-No, none of these are job-saving, that’s not what I’m arguing.

-Yes, we seem to have regressed this year and now the bad probably outweighs the good, or it’s close.

The good things:

1. Pruitt got Jennings reinstated. Never forget, the Butch/Hoke admin kicked Jauan freaking Jennings off the team. Pruitt rectified that mistake.

2. Pruitt ended the ridiculously unjustifiable Muschamp curse, and he did it in style by throttling him in 2019.

3. Pruitt ended the SEC West drought. Before Pruitt’s arrival, we hadn’t beaten an SEC West team since Dooley beat Ole Miss in 2010. True story.

4. 8 game win streak, our second longest win steak since 1998.

5. 8-5 record in year 2, our second best record since 2007.

6. Took the actual worst team in Tennessee history and in year 1, when most teams go backwards, improved the W/L and conference record.

7. Brought Cade Mays home (although so far he hasn’t lived up to expectations).


Again, not arguing for Pruitt, but let’s at least not be one-dimensional in our overall opinion of the job he’s done. There have been some really good things here. Flame away, I’m sure it’s coming.
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I eagerly read through your post in anticipation of reading one, single good thing that Pruitt accomplished this season. Of course, there wasn't a single one.
 
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OrangePlasma said:
I'm in the camp of giving him 5 years. No more extensions! Then if he hasn't shown significant improvement i.e. beating Ga, Fla and Bama(at least 1 of the 3)
and not getting blown out by the aforementioned then fire his a$$ and spend the money on a proven coach. Make that guy an offer he can't refuse with the money saved from JP's buyout.
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“No” to 5 years unless he changes Qb’s now as in this weekend. If he is not smart enough to see the #1 problem with this team now then he will never be smart enough to take the Volunteers to football relevance.
 
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For all you guys saying how well he has recruited, well, where is the proof? Pruitt signed 75 players over the last 3 years, and as far as I can see, they evidently aren’t very good. And for you that wil say year 1 doesn’t count, it does, he ran off Penix for JT Shrout and let Martinez go. He chose to coach Bama in the playoffs instead of recruiting here, so he owns that, no pass.
 
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1) UT has only lost 8 games in a season once in its history. We’re in real danger of doing it again... in a 10 game season.
2) Pruitt inherited the worst UT team in our history, and that team would beat Pruitt’s year 3 team by 10 points.
3) We were sold hard this dude was a straight up football coach. Yes, he’s only had two of his recruiting classes, but any player on this team that’s younger than a redshirt junior has only had Pruitt’s coaching
4) This team has been practicing for at least 10 straight weeks and still looks like crap. The “no spring practice/Covid season” excuse is no longer valid
5) I agree switching coaches every few years isn’t good, but this guy is terrible. If you’re going to go 2-8, at least be somewhat entertaining to watch
 
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knox-townVOL said:
I do sit firmly in the “Pruitt gets 5 years” camp, mostly because I’m sick of playing musical coaches. We have a decade of evidence that it doesn’t work.
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Ok, I'll just hang out here while you list the evidence that keeping a pathetic head coach does work.
 
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The best thing about Pruitt since this is his first time being HC it’s possible he figures out something maybe with staff turnover or managing style that starts clicking (ala Dabo) in year 4 or 5 and we’ve got a tough football defensive guru who’s a good recruiter. Of course that might not happen 🤓. I’m going to hope for the best while he’s our coach, and if somebody else becomes our coach I’m going to hope for their success.
 
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knox-townVOL said:
Depends on what you call year 3. Dabo coached 7 games in 2008, 2009 he went 9-5, 2010 he went 6-7.
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Dabo was a wide receivers coach that was named interim mid year. He hadn't been making staff choices, had no control over the playbook that had been in place, how practice was ran outside of wide receivers, had very limited roster control etc etc. He didn't control the direction program had been heading coming into his interim time as head coach. Fulmer's first year was 1993, not 1992 and he had more influence on Tennessee as a coordinator than Dabo did as a WR coach.
 
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We always harp on JG but how about a defense that completely melts down and allows long td drives in the 2nd half..along with long td passes where our secondary look like OVC level lame azzes....when the secondary is supposed to be the mildly retarded cornbread eating Conehead looking burka wearing clown Pruitt's strength? Get the ball back...run for a yard...run for 2 yards....overthrow a receiver in the middle of the field then punt. A ton more wrong with this dumpster fire than just the QB. Pruitt is absolutely clueless. He looks and talks like he's a mentally retarded backwoods...burka wearing moron. No offense against the mentally challenged disabled community.
 
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hog88 said:
Hey just wait until he gets his guys kids.
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Well, that's another thing. It's one thing to get "his guys" and yet another to get juniors and seniors that are "his guys." Realistically that takes 5 to 8 years to get enough of them that actually pan out that far into their careers.
 
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knox-townVOL said:
Uh ok... Dabo Swinney had a losing record in year 3, just like we’re about to. And it wasn’t even during a worldwide pandemic.
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That's not even really accurate, but let's pretend like it is for a moment. He had also won the division by then.

he was able to get teams prepared for games, had a coherent strategy going into the games, could manage a game without embarrassing people, and didn't say stupid things in the post game press conferences. Dabo was never a pathetic head coach. I used the word pathetic above because the one we have now is failing at literally every area of being a head coach.

Show me an example of someone with all the problems and inability to do pretty much anything that we've seen so far with this one who later became successful. And then, for it to be evidence that keeping them works, it would have to happen at a frequent rate. It has not, and you know it.
 
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