Intel on Pruitt situation

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Water_Rat said:
$12m won’t happen(2020), $8m improbable (2021), $4m has good odds (2022). Only way I see $8m happening is if a really strong candidate will sign and continued QE from the Federal Reserve (seriously).
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I could be wrong, but I think your numbers are low.

Pruitt is signed thru 2025. If fired, we owe 60% of his remaining contract, right? 2021-2025 Pruitt earns $4.2M a year. Fired at the end of 2021 leaves 4 seasons, $16.8M x .6 = $10M. Fired at the end of 2022, he gets roughly $7.5M, and so on.

Plus we will owe $2M to $3M in contracts to assistants?

Latest figures I can find show we have $11M-$12M in reserves. The 2020 season-that-wasn’t will devour that money and more. We’re hosed....again.
 
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Water_Rat said:
Let me know if you have an insider that would disagree with my two original statements.
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Your 2 statements are pretty vague and neither provable or unprovable.

Hearsay is called hearsay for a reason.
 
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Water_Rat said:
I don’t know why it was D Line coach, I just know it was Boosters who met with Pruitt and forced the change. I don’t know if the boosters wanted D Line coach to take the bullet or if that piece was Pruitts decision.

I also agree that boosters are part of the problem, lots of big money guys with egos but not great football acumen.
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So the boosters met Pruitt in the middle of the game?
 
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Water_Rat said:
1. Group of Boosters forced Pruitt to fire D Line coach. This was not Pruitts decision, several boosters are extremely weary of Pruitts performance and demanded change.

2. Big boosters are as factional as they were 3 years ago. Only way buyout of Pruitt will happen within the next 2 years is if UT can get a big time potential hire that incentives boosters to invest in the expensive $12m+ buyout. There is desire to get Pruitt out but there has to be exit strategy to a much better coach. The $12m will not be paid to go get another unproven Coach.
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#2 sounds like a good plan.
If we only had someone competent enough to make it happen
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
Its to imply you do you and tell your own stories. You made the claim so you're the one with the burden of proof. I'm simply choosing to say I don't believe you because no one has been right on this board so thats not changing now
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Then your not as smart as you pretend. I made no mention of intel being given. I simply stated the facts and that is I am the nephew of one of the major donors and am close to several boosters. Not sure what my burden to prove is. Just because you have no one in such position does not mean others can’t. So, you do you.
 
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Water_Rat said:
Nothing I wrote was intended to cause internal conflict here. I don’t know which booster/s had the meeting except they were influential enough to actually force a change.
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Yep. He’s a Russian. Get him out of here.
 
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Oh for FS! Are you kidding me?? I miss the beaver. At least he was half way entertaining
 
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Water_Rat said:
I don’t know why it was D Line coach, I just know it was Boosters who met with Pruitt and forced the change. I don’t know if the boosters wanted D Line coach to take the bullet or if that piece was Pruitts decision.

I also agree that boosters are part of the problem, lots of big money guys with egos but not great football acumen.
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I’m calling BS. Get this guy out of here.
 
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treecejc said:
Oh for FS! Are you kidding me?? I miss the beaver. At least he was half way entertaining
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Coaching searches have been the only entertainment and excitement around Tennessee football for 14 years. With that said, this Intel has nothing to do with which coach would people want or who we could get rather only facts around the current situation.
 
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Water_Rat said:
1. Group of Boosters forced Pruitt to fire D Line coach. This was not Pruitts decision, several boosters are extremely weary of Pruitts performance and demanded change.

2. Big boosters are as factional as they were 3 years ago. Only way buyout of Pruitt will happen within the next 2 years is if UT can get a big time potential hire that incentives boosters to invest in the expensive $12m+ buyout. There is desire to get Pruitt out but there has to be exit strategy to a much better coach. The $12m will not be paid to go get another unproven Coach.
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I was informed by a person on the staff that the D-Line coach was fired because it was Pruitt's decision. When a mistake was made on the defensive side, Pruitt would go to the coach on the sidelines and cuss him out and tell him "high school football coaches are better than you!"
 
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tnbelle98 said:
I was informed by a person on the staff that the D-Line coach was fired because it was Pruitt's decision. When a mistake was made on the defensive side, Pruitt would go to the coach on the sidelines and cuss him out and tell him "high school football coaches are better than you!"
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Pruitt may have aimed the gun but it was 100% Boosters meeting with him and forcing a change on the coaching staff.
 
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Water_Rat said:
1. Group of Boosters forced Pruitt to fire D Line coach. This was not Pruitts decision, several boosters are extremely weary of Pruitts performance and demanded change.

2. Big boosters are as factional as they were 3 years ago. Only way buyout of Pruitt will happen within the next 2 years is if UT can get a big time potential hire that incentives boosters to invest in the expensive $12m+ buyout. There is desire to get Pruitt out but there has to be exit strategy to a much better coach. The $12m will not be paid to go get another unproven Coach.
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I call this bull shat, I’ve heard these big booster tales for years and then suddenly these big boosters are NoWhere to be seen, when a coaching search comes around
They vanish
 
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Water_Rat said:
1. Group of Boosters forced Pruitt to fire D Line coach. This was not Pruitts decision, several boosters are extremely weary of Pruitts performance and demanded change.

2. Big boosters are as factional as they were 3 years ago. Only way buyout of Pruitt will happen within the next 2 years is if UT can get a big time potential hire that incentives boosters to invest in the expensive $12m+ buyout. There is desire to get Pruitt out but there has to be exit strategy to a much better coach. The $12m will not be paid to go get another unproven Coach.
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1. Is absolutely, 100% false. Pruitt made the change himself, against the advice of his AD.

2. "Boosters" are given way too much credit on message boards. The last two times UT has had an opening, the money has not been an issue in trying to hire a coach. Getting someone worth the money to say yes has been the issue. I don't think that changes.

Secondly on the boosters, remember that the pandemic has affected their businesses and portfolios as well. UT is already asking money folks to go above and beyond their normal number just so they can come close to budget. Facing a $40 million deficit, nobody is coming up with an extra $20 million to blow out the staff this year.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
1. Is absolutely, 100% false. Pruitt made the change himself, against the advice of his AD.

2. "Boosters" are given way too much credit on message boards. The last two times UT has had an opening, the money has not been an issue in trying to hire a coach. Getting someone worth the money to say yes has been the issue. I don't think that changes.

Secondly on the boosters, remember that the pandemic has affected their businesses and portfolios as well. UT is already asking money folks to go above and beyond their normal number just so they can come close to budget. Facing a $40 million deficit, nobody is coming up with an extra $20 million to blow out the staff this year.
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I love when you post. Thank you. One of the few people I can trust on this board to bring good info.
 
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