Is Mullen more attractive to recruits?

#51
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Achilles said:
Let's be unbiased. Do you guys really think Pruitt's going to be more attractive to a recruit vs. Mullen?

It's obvious he can't hold a candle vs. Saban or Smart but now we have to compete with Mullen too.

I see Georgia and Florida out recruiting us year after year.
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Doesn't look like it....
 

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#52
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jakez4ut said:
you wanted gruden. everyone else is underwhelming.
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Except Gruden wasn’t my only candidate I had on my list.

And no, he’s not nor will he ever be the only potential candidate that could have succeeded here.

The Gruden thing is over with.
 
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Achilles said:
Let's be unbiased. Do you guys really think Pruitt's going to be more attractive to a recruit vs. Mullen?

It's obvious he can't hold a candle vs. Saban or Smart but now we have to compete with Mullen too.

I see Georgia and Florida out recruiting us year after year.
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Offense may go to Mullen but we will get defense.
 
#55
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Achilles said:
Let's be unbiased. Do you guys really think Pruitt's going to be more attractive to a recruit vs. Mullen?

It's obvious he can't hold a candle vs. Saban or Smart but now we have to compete with Mullen too.

I see Georgia and Florida out recruiting us year after year.
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DUH..........again, Florida and Georgia out recruit us because they are in some of the talent rich areas in the nation. Just look at Florida alone. With Miami, UF, FSU, CFU, FIU and Dade Co. Appliance Repair = they ALL get numbers of Florida Players and then you look around nation and almost every program has skill players from the sunshine state...
NUMBERS pure NUMBERS....
 
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Achilles said:
Let's be unbiased. Do you guys really think Pruitt's going to be more attractive to a recruit vs. Mullen?

It's obvious he can't hold a candle vs. Saban or Smart but now we have to compete with Mullen too.

I see Georgia and Florida out recruiting us year after year.
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Cry much??
 
#57
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Achilles said:
Let's be unbiased. Do you guys really think Pruitt's going to be more attractive to a recruit vs. Mullen?

It's obvious he can't hold a candle vs. Saban or Smart but now we have to compete with Mullen too.

I see Georgia and Florida out recruiting us year after year.
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Honestly, he's the best recruiter we had a shot at. Not sure what the point of this thread is.
 
#58
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And let us not forget.............coach butch jones had great recruiting classes by the rankings.......i dont give a crap about the number of stars and class rankngs.........coach'um
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
Except Gruden wasn’t my only candidate I had on my list.

And no, he’s not nor will he ever be the only potential candidate that could have succeeded here.

The Gruden thing is over with.
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Petersen? Patterson? Fuente? Franklin? Harbaugh?
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
Petersen
Fuente
Patterson
Leach
Venables
Gruden

Realistic or not, I was most confident in these coaches.
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ok, and i'm really not trying to be argumentative here, but none of those really were realistic, until Currie hit panic mode and got close to Leach when he went rogue.

Venebles had some steam, but i think it's still more of the same with him, as far as having real ambition to be a head coach.

if you think any of those were realistic, and we just whiffed with the offer or actually pursuing...well, then ok....i'm not gonna argue with ya.
 
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Achilles said:
Let's be unbiased. Do you guys really think Pruitt's going to be more attractive to a recruit vs. Mullen?

It's obvious he can't hold a candle vs. Saban or Smart but now we have to compete with Mullen too.

I see Georgia and Florida out recruiting us year after year.
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Except he was the DC of FSU when they won a Nat'l Championship. So he has contacts in Florida.

He was DC at Georgia for 2 years. So he has contacts in GA.

He was one of the recruiting coordinators at Bama and coached with them during a Nat'l Championship season, so he has contacts everywhere that Bama recruits.

He hasn't even had a recruiting season here yet. Slow your roll and at least see what happens. Next year if he's looking to have a 50th ranked class you can b*#&@ and moan to your heart's desire. Dan Mullen hasn't won anything significant since he's been a HC (and don't give me the garbage about "but it was Miss. State, winning 6-8 games is like winning the Natty every year". No its not, he did well there for Miss State, but it wasn't stellar). Fuente has won what exactly? He lost to Butch, we saw that happen. Smart is still living off Richt's recruits and Nick Chubb in his 12th year of eligibility (honestly it feels like he's been with GA since 2005), we don't know what he will do when all he has is his roster. Venables is the exact same gamble as Pruitt, a DC who's won championships, but how well would he do as a HC? Patterson was never coming here. Petersen is a no brainer, but he doesn't look like he really wants to leave the west coast. Pruitt has only worked around winning programs, even as a HS coach. He has a better resume than most of the HC options (Miles won 1 Natty with Saban's players, Petersen has never won a Natty, Patterson has never won a Natty, Fuente hasn't even sniffed a Natty, Leech hasn't won anything except the award for locking a player in a closet and being a pirate, Sumlin hasn't even won a major conference championship).

Pruitt seems hungry. Much like Smart. And wants out of the shadow of greatness to show that he can be great too. Lets sit back and see if he can. His resume shows winning, at every level he's been at. If we were going to try to hire an up and comer, then at least this guy is up and coming from programs that are power 5 and win. Florida is risking a lot on a guy that has to prove he can be something more than middle of the road. GA took a shot at a DC from Bama and they are in the playoffs. I am willing to give this hire more of a shot than any of the "well they were average everywhere else but they could be great here!" hires.

I am not saying I'm sold on Pruitt. I'm never sold on coaches till I see what they can do wearing orange. But I'm not ready to jump off a cliff like I was when they announced Drooley and Botch. This guy has a pedigree that most coaches would be envious of. I never felt that Dooley would do well. I knew that Butch was selling snake oil the first time he opened his mouth. But with Pruitt, what he has accomplished at multiple schools (FSU, GA and Bama) not just and only under Saban, is pretty impressive. He could actually be the diamond in the rough we were promised with Dooley and Butch. This coaching search was never going to make every Tennessee fan happy. No coaching search ever makes everyone happy. But Pruitt isn't some Southern North Dakota State Technical College for the Blind coach either. This isn't a no-name throw away. Again this could fail or this could be huge. We won't know till it happens, but at least Fulmer swung for someone who knows what winning SEC teams are supposed to look like. And he's not some damned yankee, so that's another plus side to Pruitt, even if he's from the land of red toilet paper, laundry detergent and mentally deficient elephants.
 
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#65
#65
People need to do their damn research before posting. Can we add homework that posters must complete before starting a thread on our new head coach?
 
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#66
#66
Ole boat anchor from Vandy kicked our tails with his recruits and player development. I am sure Pruitt will do even better and we will win our share of games versus the other big boys. I'm excited for the future.
 
#67
#67
Florida has multiple things to offer to recruits compared to Tennessee. As Bryant once said many years ago, if UF figures out what they have and get the right coach, they will be dangerous.

Even with coaches like Muschamp and McElwain, UF managed to stay at a high level for recruiting.
 
#68
#68
Pruitt. One one the best recruiters in the nation. Mullen has never been known as a top recruiter.
 
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