Is now the time to help recruiting by polishing Pruitt's language skills?

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VolTexas said:
Moms want to know that a university can polish their child to help them succeed outside of football.

What does it say about the educators at Tennessee as a school if they can't polish Pruitt's English?

He makes a few systematic errors. A good "speaking coach" could fix it in 1 hour a week over 4 weeks.

Does Tennessee have anyone like that?

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They will understand when he explains he's the coach here but all his book learning came from the Gump school.
 
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Jack Burton said:
It’s distracting for me too OP but he’s from Alabama. He’s here to coach football. He doesn’t teach grammar because that is up to middle/high school teachers. Most curriculums require speech classes in college and he won’t be teaching those either. I wouldn’t worry about it.
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And he apparently had some damn fine middle school teachers... hahaha

I personally don't care what he sounds like if in his press conferences he is discussing wins.

Although if we keep losing we could get an interpreter at the press conferences just for entertainment and distraction purposes. Get an English major to repeat everything he says in some flat-assed ugly Midwestern accent. Maybe the beatdowns and boatraces would be less painful if we knew there was a free show after the game.
 
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SobeVol said:
We’ve had a eloquent lawyer who rambled about Rommel etc...
We’ve had a BS band member snake oil salesman wanna be mason both who could talk a good game.
How’d that work for us.
Pruitt has won at every level he’s been in.
Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt, and see how he does.

Ps- a certain higher learning Vandy coach just said “ we done beat Tennessee” .
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He hasn't won as a head coach yet.
 
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hmanvolfan said:
Going for two early in the game is always wrong. At one point Tennessee would’ve been behind by fourteen points but instead had earlier gone for two so they then had to go for two again to tie. Should’ve been 17-31 in your example.
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What are you talking about? This isn't a fictional or hypothetical example. Late in the game we scored to make it 13-31 pending the extra pt/2 pt conversion. Simple math should have told him we needed to go for 2 to be down by 16 - to make it a 2 possession game. But he wasn't ready to do that and instead called a timeout bc he figured it out too late in the play clock. Burning a timeout there should be very worrisome to everyone. It absolutely speaks to his intelligence and coaching acumen.
 
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I want to hear one, just one recruit or his family say that he won't play here because of Pruitt's "language skills"
 
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VolTexas said:
Moms want to know that a university can polish their child to help them succeed outside of football.

What does it say about the educators at Tennessee as a school if they can't polish Pruitt's English?

He makes a few systematic errors. A good "speaking coach" could fix it in 1 hour a week over 4 weeks.

Does Tennessee have anyone like that?

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Bring Dooley back. He talked real nice like to maws and paws.
 
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chattavol420 said:
It's very important for pruitt to come across as an intelligent guy when talking with parents. When he says things like we trying to win but they just done better than us...that doesn't come across well. The thing that's so frustrating is that he's a college educated guy that certainly knows how to speak proper English. He just uses "slang" because that's the way a lot of people he grew up around speak I'd guess. To me it's weird that a grown man and professional that makes over 4 million dollars a years is intentionally trying to sound dumb. I don't get it.
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EXACTLY!!

Check out this excerpt from last nights presser...

Say what you will, but can you really say you’ve ever heard a head coach speak like that in an audio or written interview? Does not put us “Tennessee hillbillies” in the best light . A UT grad would never speak that way .
 

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I'm going to ride the fence a bit I guess for my worthless 2 cents. I do like that he isn't full of bull like previous coaches, so I want him to speak truth, instead of cliche. I would also like him to put in the same effort at his job he demands from his players. His job is coaching, and speaking. We all, or most of us, listen, watch, read the press conferences and everything else. That being said, speaking with more than a ninth grade education in Alabama would be a plus. I don't need professor level, or English major. His great teacher and professor of football is a dick, rude and many other things, but he does speak like he earned his diploma.

All that being said, winning sure does make you ignore faults. Losing, however will get you burned by them.
 
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Zues1 said:
Maybe we should get him a nice hair piece to go with his new wardrobe and speach coach
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Hahaha!
While you’re at it maybe send him a (simple ) memo pointing out the new invention of shirts w sleeves!!! They can be a lifesaver when it gets “plum chilly out”.
Maybe he just is clinging to a goal of being a barber or a dentist w that smock. Ugggh.
 
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SobeVol said:
He won two games against top 25 teams, more than any current sec coach including Saban! He will be fine
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That stat was wrong but for some reason everyone keeps regurgitating it. Smart beat 2 top 25 teams last year. Others did it as well their first year. Miss St's coach did it this year as well I think.

Plus, rankings when you play a team only tell a fraction of the story. Are we really going to keep thumping our chest about beating an average to bad Auburn team and a one dimensional Kentucky team? Is this how far we have fallen? Hanging our hat on beating Kentucky?
 
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FiremedicVOL127 said:
We're Tennessee, deep in the heart of the great smokey mountains of East Tennessee. I find it refreshing to finally hear a coach speak with the language n accent of this region instead of a danged ole northerner trying to fit in.
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Not everyone from this region sounds like CJP. I often cringe when listening to him speak, but I suppose it does play well in the South. I am curious how well the accent works outside the southeast.
 
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#119
Why don't some of y'all scholars chip in and buy him one of those there double negative shock collars.
 
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#120
He is a football coach, not an English professor. I’m pretty sure most moms are aware of that fact. These mothers that follow and support their son’s football careers from peewee and up, get that fact. As a parent of three athletes that have had many coaches, I can tell you that grammar is not on the top of my punch list when it comes to evaluating a coach... I understand that it was a disappointing season and it’s going to be a long off season, but relax a little. The world has not ended.
 
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The fact that you actually believe these kids parent(s) are hoping they get a good "education" and the football coach directly reflects the quality of that "education" makes me think you dont know any actual football players..
 
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VolTexas said:
Moms want to know that a university can polish their child to help them succeed outside of football.

What does it say about the educators at Tennessee as a school if they can't polish Pruitt's English?

He makes a few systematic errors. A good "speaking coach" could fix it in 1 hour a week over 4 weeks.

Does Tennessee have anyone like that?

[Edited about 5 times based on constructive feedback. Thank you.]
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LOL this is your concern after this season? LOL
 
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