Is this Phil saying Pruitt will be back?

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Never heard the word patience associated with Tennessee football before. Never heard the next year is our year deal either. If they go back to full capacity next year it will be bad by mid year. This team isn't ready to compete with the upper crust and no signs they will be any time soon.
 
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You know what is sad, my wife won’t let me watch the UT games live anymore. I never cuss or threaten the TV...but you guessed it, except when UT is playing “cornpone” ball. I am so fortunate I’m old and my aim is off...
 
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OrngeJuiceJones said:
Fulmer: Vols better than 2-5 record, patience needed with Pruitt

We have seen enough Phil.
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Yes, in my opinion this is Phil saying Pruitt will be back. Some excerpts from the article I found striking-"Recruiting is the key. We know how to practice, we know how to prepare for a game, we know how to play physical." "...we’re not taking care of the ball and protecting it like we should and we certainly haven’t gotten the takeaways that you would think a normal aggressive defense would get. ...Coach Pruitt’s said it a bunch of times, we’ve offensively and defensively just can’t have those catastrophic plays that we’ve had that have cost us games.”

We have lost 2 very good recruits recently and it's just the beginning if Pruitt doesn't turn things around quickly and I mean beating FL, A&M, and Vandy which seems as likely as Trump overturning the election. The fact that Pruitt has relentlessly put JG out there after repeated catastrophic game costing mistakes is inexplicable. At this point he needs to start HB and play him the rest of the way win or lose. Why he has continued to play JG in spite of his own comments about protecting the ball and not having catastrophic plays that HAVE cost us games I honestly don't understand.
 
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CoachClick said:
Fulmer IS the problem.

Until he is retired to the Golf Course for good, we are what we are.
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Could be right, but I don't remember Fulmer being involved during the Kiffen, Dooley, and Jones years. I do remember the $hit show coaching search the last time. Just keeping it real here, I blame Fulmer for not keeping up with the times as HC, but we didn't exactly have 'em lining up for the job when he became AD. Not sure with the exception of Freeze there are many sure fire winners ready to jump in right now either. Jones blew it with GA and FLA being down during his tenure, they are both top 10 now.
 
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beamerman said:
I found that funny as well. Fulmer inherited a program Johnny brought back. Are we seeing history repeat, a coach riding the coattails of the prior coach and becoming the savior?
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I really don't see any savior in sight for this program as it stands. Just more spinning of the wheels in mediocre to bad football and ridiculous buyouts for those results.
 
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Hacksaw11 said:
We lived through those early Majors years which were equally bad with Fulmer as OC. Our problem is that we are perpetually rebuilding and never get to a position of stability with a solid foundation. Before you realize it, a decade of futility extends into the second decade with historical records of failure. A program has to have hope in order to endure. Two years from now we will be looking back and hearing the same ol worn out excuses.
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While I agree with most of what you said, fulmer was not the oc in majors early years.
 
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TNbuc2 said:
Could be right, but I don't remember Fulmer being involved during the Kiffen, Dooley, and Jones years. I do remember the $hit show coaching search the last time. Just keeping it real here, I blame Fulmer for not keeping up with the times as HC, but we didn't exactly have 'em lining up for the job when he became AD. Not sure with the exception of Freeze there are many sure fire winners ready to jump in right now either. Jones blew it with GA and FLA being down during his tenure, they are both top 10 now.
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Fulmer lobbied for Hamilton to get teh AD job. Hamilton probably wouldn't have been AD without Fulmer's endorsement.
 
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JoAllan said:
Talk about Majors........Majors Tennessee teams improved each of his first 3 years.

Majors Tennessee teams were also only beaten twice by 20 or more points in his first 3 years.

Pruitt almost has as many blowout losses as he does wins.

There is no comparison.......and Majors certainly wasn’t coaching the lights out....but dang if Phill thinks this is like “that”......I’m sry Phill.......it’s not even close.
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Might want to check what happened in 1981 losing by 40 points in back to back games, not to mention the absolute embarrassing losses to Rutgers and Virginia, when UVA was begging UT to cancel the game because they were about to drop football
 
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Guys (and gals)!! This is simply the dreaded "Vote of confidence speech" that we hear from every AD or GM right before the firing. I'm still not convinced that Pruitt is lock-tight safe this year.
 
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It should be expected that Fulmer would come out with full support of CJP. Not surprised at all and he should to show recruits the AD is backing the coach. However, it is ridiculous to compare Majors to Pruitt. Really Phil? You may want to compare the resumes of both coaches prior to their arrival in KTOWN. Then Phil throws out the comment of us being a young team in a lot of ways. Where is all this youth?
 
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Majors was picking up the pieces from the disaster of the Battle era. The better comparison here would be with Bill Battle, who shares more in common with Pruitt in terms of experience and program trajectory than he ever will with Coach Majors.

Fulmer notes the inconsistencies in the article in terms of performance. A coaching staff in their third year of a rebuild should put a product on the field that at a minimum should be better than what was accomplished in year one of the project.

The numbers do not lie. Pruitt's program is simply not as competitive as it was in earlier years. That is not progress. That is failure.

If Majors, or someone like him, were our coach now, considering the proven experience in rebuilding situations, then you could justify a stance of patience with some degree of confidence the coach would get the deal done.

But Fulmer hired a boy to do a man's job. If the boy proves beyond reasonable doubt he isn't mature enough to be a head coach, then extending this out another year will only make things worse for the program and its ability to attract the kind of proven commodity this job requires.
 
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Pruitt is not going anywhere this year. All the bitching, moaning and threats will not change that.
All we can hope for is a new starting QB and some assistant changes. JMHO
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Might want to check what happened in 1981 losing by 40 points in back to back games, not to mention the absolute embarrassing losses to Rutgers and Virginia, when UVA was begging UT to cancel the game because they were about to drop football
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Majors started coaching at Tennessee in 1977. 1981 would have been his 5th season.

Read my post.
Phil was comparing first 3 seasons.
 
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