Jeremy Pruitt segment today on 104.5

[FleeceItOut]

Speak for yourself, I’m not thinking this at all.

I’ll be paying attention every single day, as always, to who we’re recruiting, to which grad transfers we may bring in, to when the players report this summer, to Pruitt and our players at SEC Media days, to everyday of Fall camp....and I’ll live and die with the guys all through what is likely to be a fairly rough 2018 season. Why would anybody who’s a Vols fan want to sleep through any of it?

I think we’re about to see the rebuilding of a once great, blue blood program beginning right about now....we only get so much of this program that we’re all so passionate about, and I don’t plan on missing any of it.

You can get hype over pressers and interviews all you want. This happens every year and from every coach.

I’m ready for them to win. I do not care what they say off the field. I want the results on the field.

 

[McDad]

Let's play a game. Phil had "work like heck" and "watch the tape." Butch had...I won't even repeat his stuff.

Besides "aight," what are our thoughts on what his go-to phrases will be?

Hotter than a two dollar pistol.

The salt lick is out but the cows ain't coming.

Slicker than boiled okra.

Too much jelly for one biscuit.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

You can get hype over pressers and interviews all you want. This happens every year and from every coach.

I’m ready for them to win. I do not care what they say off the field. I want the results on the field.

There are a whole lot of Tennessee fans who share your supposed perspective.

Practically none of them are on VN.com.

This is the refuge of fans who can't get enough just paying attention on game days. The folks who want to hear and see Vols football a lot more than 12-15 days a year.

By being here, and taking part in these conversations, you undermine the claim that you only care what happens on the field on game days.

 

[Behr]

You can get hype over pressers and interviews all you want. This happens every year and from every coach.

I’m ready for them to win. I do not care what they say off the field. I want the results on the field.

You'll have to wait until they actually play a game so they can win, I'm ready for it too.

I'm gonna get hyped over pressers and interviews just like I do every year. That's what I do. I enjoy football as entertainment.

Guess we're all gonna do what we want.

 

[McDad]

Guess we're all gonna do what we want.

Where do you get the gall to tell me I'm gonna do what I want? I am a married man, sir!

 

[VFL-82-JP]

Where do you get the gall to tell me I'm gonna do what I want? I am a married man, sir!

You speak for many of us, McDad. :good!:

 

[Behr]

Where do you get the gall to tell me I'm gonna do what I want? I am a married man, sir!

Sorry, I meant everyone but you and JP.

 

[KBVol]

I think the point is that talk is cheap. Maybe not, but from what I read, it’s kinda like I’m ready for you to prove it and tired of losing. I don’t think any of us are going to ignore the ins and outs.

Talk is cheap, no doubt, but that’s not what Fleece said and you agreed with. He essentially said he wouldn’t be paying any attention to the Vols until they were good again. Just saying I don’t agree with that at all and I don’t think anybody else around here does either. Now it looks like you don’t either.

 

[butchna]

"But but, you're just setting yourself up for disappointment"


Lulz, I often wonder if some people just can't handle the little disappointments in life that don't really effect their lives..

There’s a frantic street preacher “We die today at 8!” element to these posts that we see EVERY DAY.

 

[KBVol]

You can get hype over pressers and interviews all you want. This happens every year and from every coach.

I’m ready for them to win. I do not care what they say off the field. I want the results on the field.

Im not getting “hype” right now, very few of us are given the last decade, especially after 5 years of Lyle. I’ve said over and over again that I’m cautiously optimistic with an emphasis on cautiously.

But unlike you evidently, I’m interested in seeing all the growth, all the nuts and bolts, all the processes along the way. I’m not dropping the Vols and finding “better things to do” until somebody gives me the heads up that the Vols are good again in a year or two. Everybody can “fan” however they want, we just disagree on how.

 

[KBVol]

What if we win fewer than 4 games? Or if the defense just looks awful? If it looks even worse than last season, despite Pruitt's reputation for being a defensive genius (Bob Shoop, white courtesy phone...).

No matter how bad it is, it can always get worse.

At least you can hope so anyway....

 

[Blanton's Vol]

Let's all be honest... He said the same exact things that Derek Dooley and Butch Jones used to say. He's just a little bit more country.

 

[VolinMC]

Let's all be honest... He said the same exact things that Derek Dooley and Butch Jones used to say. He's just a little bit more country.

Not only them but just about every head coach when they start a new job. It's called "coach speak". I never put too much stock in it whether it's something positive or negative.

 

[FleeceItOut]

There are a whole lot of Tennessee fans who share your supposed perspective.

Practically none of them are on VN.com.

This is the refuge of fans who can't get enough just paying attention on game days. The folks who want to hear and see Vols football a lot more than 12-15 days a year.

By being here, and taking part in these conversations, you undermine the claim that you only care what happens on the field on game days.

I don’t think you understand what my perspective is.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

I don’t think you understand what my perspective is.

I'm sure I don't, Fleece. Especially if you do a poor job of explaining it.

I can only go from what you say. And what you just said was, "You can get hype over pressers and interviews all you want. ... I do not care what they say off the field. I want the results on the field."

That sounds like a person who cares only to watch the games (the "results on the field") and claims to ignore everything else ("what they say off the field").

If that's not your perspective, then don't blame me. Clarify what you really meant. :good!:

 

[Hacksaw]

At least you can hope so anyway....

Incorrect.

 

[RavinDave]

Speak for yourself, I’m not thinking this at all.

I’ll be paying attention every single day, as always, to who we’re recruiting, to which grad transfers we may bring in, to when the players report this summer, to Pruitt and our players at SEC Media days, to everyday of Fall camp....and I’ll live and die with the guys all through what is likely to be a fairly rough 2018 season. Why would anybody who’s a Vols fan want to sleep through any of it?

I think we’re about to see the rebuilding of a once great, blue blood program beginning right about now....we only get so much of this program that we’re all so passionate about, and I don’t plan on missing any of it.

Love your enthusiasm KB... don't never change!

 

[RavinDave]

Not my point at all. He's being given credit for his honesty and for not sugar-coating how bad we are. But his "honesty" could also be interpreted as lowering expectations or preparing a ready-made excuse if he doesn't get results. I just don't see how that is so refreshingly honest. Seems not all that different from things previous coaches have said.

I don't see that Hacksaw. He sure ain't sugar coating anything but it don't sound a bit like excuse-making to me.

 

[RavinDave]

Hotter than a two dollar pistol.

The salt lick is out but the cows ain't coming.

Slicker than boiled okra.

Too much jelly for one biscuit.

Pretty good! Let's just hope he ain't all hat and no cattle.

 

[Hacksaw]

I don't see that Hacksaw. He sure ain't sugar coating anything but it don't sound a bit like excuse-making to me.

And maybe it's not. I'm just pointing-out that it could certainly be interpreted that way. And I don't see how it's particularly brave or refreshingly honest of him to make the point that he's inheriting a mess. Everyone knows that already.

I'm not criticizing him for saying it. I'm just trying to understand why people are applauding him for it. Seems like it can only benefit him to remind everyone that he's got a tough job ahead.

 

[Vol Main]

Man, they were bending over backwards not to say the wrong thing and get on Pruitt's bad side. Then when he said, "You don't want me to be honest?" they fell over themselves with the "We LOVE it!" response.

I don't get how Pruitt being "so honest" (so honest it's refreshing) equates to not making excuses. His "honest" assessment so far seems to be that we suck. How are we supposed to interpret that as not limiting expectations?

Today the team sucks. Tomorrow it won't.

 

[Iam4utalways]

And maybe it's not. I'm just pointing-out that it could certainly be interpreted that way. And I don't see how it's particularly brave or refreshingly honest of him to make the point that he's inheriting a mess. Everyone knows that already.

I'm not criticizing him for saying it. I'm just trying to understand why people are applauding him for it. Seems like it can only benefit him to remind everyone that he's got a tough job ahead.

I think by CJP giving an honest assessment about the players is a way to get them to work more and harder. We had an issue with the players not taking advantage of their "free time" in the past. Now it seems some aren't even putting forth their best effort the whole time during the structured time. The good news is they quit "giving all" which means they were "giving all" that he expected but then stopped "giving all". He has to get them to 'give all" the whole time.

Why did they stop "giving all"?

Even tho he has assessed this team as being smaller than he wants and not always giving the effort that he wants I've yet to hear him say the expectations are any different than to win every game. It's on him and his staff to figure out a way to get "all" from everybody "all" the time. It's on him to come up with game plans to win every game even with smaller men than what he is used to having. We are in the heavy weight division with middle weight men, it's on him to figure out our strengths to exploit and our weaknesses to hide.

 

[Unconditional Surrender]

Grammar aside, Pruitt's IQ is likely 30-40 points higher than Butch's (I'd put Butch in the 90 range if I had to guess). He actually has the ability to process new information and give thoughtful uncanned answers. Of course we know (from Dooley) that intelligence alone aint gonna get it done. Still it's better to have above average intelligence than below average intelligence.

Does Ferris State still maintain academic accreditation after the Lyle Jones diploma-mill scandal?

 

[Unconditional Surrender]

Man, they were bending over backwards not to say the wrong thing and get on Pruitt's bad side. Then when he said, "You don't want me to be honest?" they fell over themselves with the "We LOVE it!" response.

I don't get how Pruitt being "so honest" (so honest it's refreshing) equates to not making excuses. His "honest" assessment so far seems to be that we suck. How are we supposed to interpret that as not limiting expectations?

Saying 6 wins won't cut it is extremely refreshing. Can you imagine those words escaping Butch Jones's lips? It is safe to say that Pruitt understands expectations.

 

[Hacksaw]

I think by CJP giving an honest assessment about the players is a way to get them to work more and harder. We had an issue with the players not taking advantage of their "free time" in the past. Now it seems some aren't even putting forth their best effort the whole time during the structured time. The good news is they quit "giving all" which means they were "giving all" that he expected but then stopped "giving all". He has to get them to 'give all" the whole time.

Why did they stop "giving all"?

Even tho he has assessed this team as being smaller than he wants and not always giving the effort that he wants I've yet to hear him say the expectations are any different than to win every game. It's on him and his staff to figure out a way to get "all" from everybody "all" the time. It's on him to come up with game plans to win every game even with smaller men than what he is used to having. We are in the heavy weight division with middle weight men, it's on him to figure out our strengths to exploit and our weaknesses to hide.

That's a good point about him trying to motivate the players. That makes sense. And if that's part of his strategy for player improvement, then I certainly hope it works. But if it doesn't, you can bet that fans will look back on it and call it excuse-making.

I'll say one thing for Pruitt. I prefer his delivery and demeanor to any coach we've had since Fulmer (and maybe even including Fulmer). Our recent head coaches seemed to speak publicly in a sort of made-up voice that's easy to imagine they don't use in their normal everyday lives. I definitely got that sense with Dooley and Butch. And Kiffin looked and sounded like an idiot with a microphone and camera in front of him -- then again, maybe that was who he really was.

Pruitt seems more natural. Maybe it's the drawl, but he doesn't seem to be putting on an act or trying to present himself as something he isn't. I hope that's a good sign.