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Can you imagine how hard it must have been for CPF to stay quiet while Butch brought in these lightweight O linemen. He had to know that won’t work in the SEC.Just another stupid thread full of emotion. I THINK Coach Fulmer made a good hire and I plan to give him the time he needs to rebuild this mess.
I love how you type all these words, and come up with this big scenario just to cover up the fact that your precious little feelings got hurt because a grown man didnt say that doing something was the greatest thing ever, you have even said he could lie and you wouldn't care. My question is do you want a coach or someone to fluff your ego? Gtfo with this stupid ******** of some beta ass male not liking the coach because he is too alpha and wont take your feelings into account.
I'll take a groundhog personality that can develop players and teams instead of a snake oil salesman who cant recruit SEC capable lineman or QB's.Deep down in my heart I don`t think Pruitt will get it done here like TN fans expect. He has the personality of a ground hog. I think we have another mediocre coach.
When another team scores 50 points on you, something is bad wrong. Unless it is Bama.
You people that put these threads together like this DISGUST me. Pruitt is an excellent coach. He will be very successful here. You don't have a clue as to what it takes to be a good coach. Your stupid attendance stats above are, well STUPID!! You have no clue of how good the SEC is. You have no clue how good Missouri is. They are the 3rd or 4th best team in the SEC. You take away the two turnovers, the game would have been close. Tennessee probably would have lost, but it would have been a close game.I know a lot of you are internet tough guys and actual conversation is far less likely than getting flamed. I don't hold it against you, it's just the East Tennessean fighter blood that flows through your veins. And no, this isn't a "knee jerk" reaction after a loss thread. This is a legitimate question/concern/conversation/get the gears in your head turning thread.
Do any of you guys actually like our coach? I know winning cures all. But I mean do you actually like the dude? Dig deep. Actually think about the question. Are you proud to call Jeremy Pruitt the coach of our beloved Vols? Or did Fulmer and our university totally just whiff the hell out of this thing the way they always do?
It would be fair to wait until the end of the season to judge, and even then seems a bit premature. But I'm not necessarily talking about his win/loss record. I'm talking about him as a representative of our program. Forget the 5-6 start. I can look beyond that.
Most of you are going to throw hateful things in my direction and tell me to go back to my momma's basement, but some numbers tell me that others may feel the same.
2009, Lane Kiffin's first and only season. 7-6 record. We averaged 100,000 fans in the seats.
2010, Dools first season. 6-7 record. We averaged 100,000.
2013, Butch Jones first season. 5-7 record. We averaged 96,000.
2016, Butch Jones best season. 9-4 record. 101,000 average attendance.
2018, Jeremy Pruitt's first season. 5-6 record. 92,869 average attendance. 3 games didn't even hit 90k.
There should be a spike in enthusiasm for a coach's first season, so why such a large drop in attendance? Lane obviously got fans excited. I remember it vividly. He was the first coaching change I had experienced and it was a feeling of new blood and a new era. Dooley received far less enthusiasm from the fans, but it was expected given the sudden and strange departure of Kiffin. Butch came in and really had the fan support. He said all the right things, knocked recruiting out of the park, beat Steve Spurrier in his first season. Hell, he crushed it.
Pruitt. It irked the hell out of me the way he answered Bob's question in the 2nd episode of The JP Show regarding running through the T for the first time. I stated that it bothered me right after it happened in the JP Show thread and caught some heat for it. Guess what? It still bothers me. Even more so now that we're 5-6. "It was uhhh....different", was the line. Mind you, this episode was following a win. It wasn't after getting straight whipped by West Virginia. No. It was after beating lowly ETSU, Pruitt's first win as the Tennessee head coach. His attitude sucks, and it's not good for business.
Do I like Pruitt more than Schiano? You're damn right I do. Do I like him more than Mike Leach? Not even close. Les Miles? Nope. Dan Mullen? Hard to say. Butch Jones? I don't think so. Dooley? I'm not sure.
Win, and of course, I'll shut up. But Coach Pruitt, you're making $4,000,000 a year to coach football. Ideally, you're supposed to win the games. If you don't, however, at least give us the impression that you're a good dude and that you're happy to be in Knoxville. Because at the end of the day, you're still going to be rich, and we're still going to be sitting on cold, hard, metal bleachers hoping that things change.
I'll go on record right now and say I have doubts that this experiment is going to work out. I think Mike Leach, Les Miles, or Dan Mullen would have been a better choice. And I'm not saying fire the guy. That's not going to accomplish anything. But win or lose, I don't really like this dude, and I'm feeling super disconnected from Tennessee football because of it.
Flame away.
I know a lot of you are internet tough guys and actual conversation is far less likely than getting flamed. I don't hold it against you, it's just the East Tennessean fighter blood that flows through your veins. And no, this isn't a "knee jerk" reaction after a loss thread. This is a legitimate question/concern/conversation/get the gears in your head turning thread.
Do any of you guys actually like our coach? I know winning cures all. But I mean do you actually like the dude? Dig deep. Actually think about the question. Are you proud to call Jeremy Pruitt the coach of our beloved Vols? Or did Fulmer and our university totally just whiff the hell out of this thing the way they always do?
It would be fair to wait until the end of the season to judge, and even then seems a bit premature. But I'm not necessarily talking about his win/loss record. I'm talking about him as a representative of our program. Forget the 5-6 start. I can look beyond that.
Most of you are going to throw hateful things in my direction and tell me to go back to my momma's basement, but some numbers tell me that others may feel the same.
2009, Lane Kiffin's first and only season. 7-6 record. We averaged 100,000 fans in the seats.
2010, Dools first season. 6-7 record. We averaged 100,000.
2013, Butch Jones first season. 5-7 record. We averaged 96,000.
2016, Butch Jones best season. 9-4 record. 101,000 average attendance.
2018, Jeremy Pruitt's first season. 5-6 record. 92,869 average attendance. 3 games didn't even hit 90k.
There should be a spike in enthusiasm for a coach's first season, so why such a large drop in attendance? Lane obviously got fans excited. I remember it vividly. He was the first coaching change I had experienced and it was a feeling of new blood and a new era. Dooley received far less enthusiasm from the fans, but it was expected given the sudden and strange departure of Kiffin. Butch came in and really had the fan support. He said all the right things, knocked recruiting out of the park, beat Steve Spurrier in his first season. Hell, he crushed it.
Pruitt. It irked the hell out of me the way he answered Bob's question in the 2nd episode of The JP Show regarding running through the T for the first time. I stated that it bothered me right after it happened in the JP Show thread and caught some heat for it. Guess what? It still bothers me. Even more so now that we're 5-6. "It was uhhh....different", was the line. Mind you, this episode was following a win. It wasn't after getting straight whipped by West Virginia. No. It was after beating lowly ETSU, Pruitt's first win as the Tennessee head coach. His attitude sucks, and it's not good for business.
Do I like Pruitt more than Schiano? You're damn right I do. Do I like him more than Mike Leach? Not even close. Les Miles? Nope. Dan Mullen? Hard to say. Butch Jones? I don't think so. Dooley? I'm not sure.
Win, and of course, I'll shut up. But Coach Pruitt, you're making $4,000,000 a year to coach football. Ideally, you're supposed to win the games. If you don't, however, at least give us the impression that you're a good dude and that you're happy to be in Knoxville. Because at the end of the day, you're still going to be rich, and we're still going to be sitting on cold, hard, metal bleachers hoping that things change.
I'll go on record right now and say I have doubts that this experiment is going to work out. I think Mike Leach, Les Miles, or Dan Mullen would have been a better choice. And I'm not saying fire the guy. That's not going to accomplish anything. But win or lose, I don't really like this dude, and I'm feeling super disconnected from Tennessee football because of it.
Flame away.
I think Pruitt is a very decent person and football coach. Not sure he is a good head coach or he would have had the forethought to have hired experienced coordinators on his initial staff. There are times that this staff's inexperience, including Pruitt, hurts us. Just because you are a great coordinator does not necessarily equal a successful head coach. There have been too many examples of that.
After being told for the last 10 years that everything is the fans' fault, I could care less about the coach and who likes him. IIRC the fans had very little ability to make a choice on these hires. That goes back to 1970 when the AD hired Battle and the fans were pushing for Majors. Battle had never been a coordinator at I believe 27 at the time. Just an example of UT stupidity. It burned them then and it is becoming "who cares" now.
I really think that if Fulmer knew anything about being an AD he would have assessed the kind of talent that we had on this team before making a decision on a head coach. Pruitt was not a fit for the talent we had. I am one who very much welcomes the change back to smash mouth football but we needed more of a finesse coach to have any success this year.
In essence, I am saying that we have a rookie AD, hiring a rookie coach, hiring rookie coordinators. That is a recipe for disaster.
Die hard fan does not mean never die. We have suffered through going on two decades of irrelevance, with a solid10 years of being a laughingstock. Of course there are empty seats. I tend to witness only big games. You would not believe the last win I witnessed.I know a lot of you are internet tough guys and actual conversation is far less likely than getting flamed. I don't hold it against you, it's just the East Tennessean fighter blood that flows through your veins. And no, this isn't a "knee jerk" reaction after a loss thread. This is a legitimate question/concern/conversation/get the gears in your head turning thread.
Do any of you guys actually like our coach? I know winning cures all. But I mean do you actually like the dude? Dig deep. Actually think about the question. Are you proud to call Jeremy Pruitt the coach of our beloved Vols? Or did Fulmer and our university totally just whiff the hell out of this thing the way they always do?
It would be fair to wait until the end of the season to judge, and even then seems a bit premature. But I'm not necessarily talking about his win/loss record. I'm talking about him as a representative of our program. Forget the 5-6 start. I can look beyond that.
Most of you are going to throw hateful things in my direction and tell me to go back to my momma's basement, but some numbers tell me that others may feel the same.
2009, Lane Kiffin's first and only season. 7-6 record. We averaged 100,000 fans in the seats.
2010, Dools first season. 6-7 record. We averaged 100,000.
2013, Butch Jones first season. 5-7 record. We averaged 96,000.
2016, Butch Jones best season. 9-4 record. 101,000 average attendance.
2018, Jeremy Pruitt's first season. 5-6 record. 92,869 average attendance. 3 games didn't even hit 90k.
There should be a spike in enthusiasm for a coach's first season, so why such a large drop in attendance? Lane obviously got fans excited. I remember it vividly. He was the first coaching change I had experienced and it was a feeling of new blood and a new era. Dooley received far less enthusiasm from the fans, but it was expected given the sudden and strange departure of Kiffin. Butch came in and really had the fan support. He said all the right things, knocked recruiting out of the park, beat Steve Spurrier in his first season. Hell, he crushed it.
Pruitt. It irked the hell out of me the way he answered Bob's question in the 2nd episode of The JP Show regarding running through the T for the first time. I stated that it bothered me right after it happened in the JP Show thread and caught some heat for it. Guess what? It still bothers me. Even more so now that we're 5-6. "It was uhhh....different", was the line. Mind you, this episode was following a win. It wasn't after getting straight whipped by West Virginia. No. It was after beating lowly ETSU, Pruitt's first win as the Tennessee head coach. His attitude sucks, and it's not good for business.
Do I like Pruitt more than Schiano? You're damn right I do. Do I like him more than Mike Leach? Not even close. Les Miles? Nope. Dan Mullen? Hard to say. Butch Jones? I don't think so. Dooley? I'm not sure.
Win, and of course, I'll shut up. But Coach Pruitt, you're making $4,000,000 a year to coach football. Ideally, you're supposed to win the games. If you don't, however, at least give us the impression that you're a good dude and that you're happy to be in Knoxville. Because at the end of the day, you're still going to be rich, and we're still going to be sitting on cold, hard, metal bleachers hoping that things change.
I'll go on record right now and say I have doubts that this experiment is going to work out. I think Mike Leach, Les Miles, or Dan Mullen would have been a better choice. And I'm not saying fire the guy. That's not going to accomplish anything. But win or lose, I don't really like this dude, and I'm feeling super disconnected from Tennessee football because of it.
Flame away.
I know a lot of you are internet tough guys and actual conversation is far less likely than getting flamed. I don't hold it against you, it's just the East Tennessean fighter blood that flows through your veins. And no, this isn't a "knee jerk" reaction after a loss thread. This is a legitimate question/concern/conversation/get the gears in your head turning thread.
Do any of you guys actually like our coach? I know winning cures all. But I mean do you actually like the dude? Dig deep. Actually think about the question. Are you proud to call Jeremy Pruitt the coach of our beloved Vols? Or did Fulmer and our university totally just whiff the hell out of this thing the way they always do?
It would be fair to wait until the end of the season to judge, and even then seems a bit premature. But I'm not necessarily talking about his win/loss record. I'm talking about him as a representative of our program. Forget the 5-6 start. I can look beyond that.
Most of you are going to throw hateful things in my direction and tell me to go back to my momma's basement, but some numbers tell me that others may feel the same.
2009, Lane Kiffin's first and only season. 7-6 record. We averaged 100,000 fans in the seats.
2010, Dools first season. 6-7 record. We averaged 100,000.
2013, Butch Jones first season. 5-7 record. We averaged 96,000.
2016, Butch Jones best season. 9-4 record. 101,000 average attendance.
2018, Jeremy Pruitt's first season. 5-6 record. 92,869 average attendance. 3 games didn't even hit 90k.
There should be a spike in enthusiasm for a coach's first season, so why such a large drop in attendance? Lane obviously got fans excited. I remember it vividly. He was the first coaching change I had experienced and it was a feeling of new blood and a new era. Dooley received far less enthusiasm from the fans, but it was expected given the sudden and strange departure of Kiffin. Butch came in and really had the fan support. He said all the right things, knocked recruiting out of the park, beat Steve Spurrier in his first season. Hell, he crushed it.
Pruitt. It irked the hell out of me the way he answered Bob's question in the 2nd episode of The JP Show regarding running through the T for the first time. I stated that it bothered me right after it happened in the JP Show thread and caught some heat for it. Guess what? It still bothers me. Even more so now that we're 5-6. "It was uhhh....different", was the line. Mind you, this episode was following a win. It wasn't after getting straight whipped by West Virginia. No. It was after beating lowly ETSU, Pruitt's first win as the Tennessee head coach. His attitude sucks, and it's not good for business.
Do I like Pruitt more than Schiano? You're damn right I do. Do I like him more than Mike Leach? Not even close. Les Miles? Nope. Dan Mullen? Hard to say. Butch Jones? I don't think so. Dooley? I'm not sure.
Win, and of course, I'll shut up. But Coach Pruitt, you're making $4,000,000 a year to coach football. Ideally, you're supposed to win the games. If you don't, however, at least give us the impression that you're a good dude and that you're happy to be in Knoxville. Because at the end of the day, you're still going to be rich, and we're still going to be sitting on cold, hard, metal bleachers hoping that things change.
I'll go on record right now and say I have doubts that this experiment is going to work out. I think Mike Leach, Les Miles, or Dan Mullen would have been a better choice. And I'm not saying fire the guy. That's not going to accomplish anything. But win or lose, I don't really like this dude, and I'm feeling super disconnected from Tennessee football because of it.
Flame away.
Just look at what we have endured...
2018 Jeremy Pruitt (5-6) -2017 Brady Hoke (0-2), Butch Jones (4-6)-2016 Butch Jones (9-4)Music City Bowl-W -2015 Butch Jones (9-4)Outback Bowl-W -2014 Butch Jones (7-6)TaxSlayer Bowl-W -2013 Butch Jones (5-7)-2012 Derek Dooley (4-7), Jim Chaney (1-0)-2011 Derek Dooley (5-7)-2010 Derek Dooley (6-7)Music City Bowl-L-2009 Lane Kiffin (7-6)Chick-fil-A Bowl-L -2008Phillip Fulmer (5-7)- 2007 Phillip Fulmer (10-4)Outback Bowl-W-2006 Phillip Fulmer (9-4)Outback Bowl-L-2005Phillip Fulmer (5-6) -2004 Phillip Fulmer (10-3)Cotton Bowl-W-2003 Phillip Fulmer (10-3)Peach Bowl-L-2002-Phillip Fulmer (8-5)Peach Bowl-L-2001-Phillip Fulmer (11-2)Citrus Bowl-W19 -2000-Phillip Fulmer (8-4)Cotton Bowl-L20 -1999-Phillip Fulmer (9-3)Fiesta Bowl- 1998-Phillip Fulmer (13-0)Fiesta Bowl-W- 1997SEC1120.84620.8710.56537Phillip Fulmer (11-2)Orange Bowl-L 1996SEC1020.83316.122.78229Phillip Fulmer (10-2)Citrus Bowl-W- 1995-Phillip Fulmer (11-1)Citrus Bowl-W- 1994-Phillip Fulmer (8-4)Gator Bowl- 1993-Phillip Fulmer (9-2-1)Citrus Bowl- 1992 Johnny Majors (5-3), Phillip Fulmer (4-0)Hall of Fame Bowl-W- 1991 Johnny Majors (9-3)Fiesta Bowl-L-1990 Johnny Majors (9-2-2)Sugar Bowl-W- 1989 Johnny Majors (11-1)Cotton Bowl-W This is 1989 forward! The last 20 years have been pure Hell for Vol Fans. You expect people to enjoy what has been happening and expect their support? The old saying, "Don't Look A Gift Horse in the Mouth" seems appropriate when looking at Pruitt. He will get the job done, given time, whether you like him or not!
So you are saying to hire coaches based on the make up of a sub par roster talent wise? I'm sorry but are you retarded? Or is your last name Currie?I think Pruitt is a very decent person and football coach. Not sure he is a good head coach or he would have had the forethought to have hired experienced coordinators on his initial staff. There are times that this staff's inexperience, including Pruitt, hurts us. Just because you are a great coordinator does not necessarily equal a successful head coach. There have been too many examples of that.
After being told for the last 10 years that everything is the fans' fault, I could care less about the coach and who likes him. IIRC the fans had very little ability to make a choice on these hires. That goes back to 1970 when the AD hired Battle and the fans were pushing for Majors. Battle had never been a coordinator at I believe 27 at the time. Just an example of UT stupidity. It burned them then and it is becoming "who cares" now.
I really think that if Fulmer knew anything about being an AD he would have assessed the kind of talent that we had on this team before making a decision on a head coach. Pruitt was not a fit for the talent we had. I am one who very much welcomes the change back to smash mouth football but we needed more of a finesse coach to have any success this year.
In essence, I am saying that we have a rookie AD, hiring a rookie coach, hiring rookie coordinators. That is a recipe for disaster.
Do any of you guys actually like our coach? I know winning cures all. But I mean do you actually like the dude? Dig deep. Actually think about the question. Are you proud to call Jeremy Pruitt the coach of our beloved Vols? Or did Fulmer and our university totally just whiff the hell out of this thing the way they always do?
No Amway salesmen. Gotta draw the line somewhere. LolWhether I "like" the guy or not is relevant. I just want to win. I don't care if our head coach is a Baptist Minister or an assassin. I don't care if he's a comedian or an Amway salesman. I don't care if he's philanthropist or a cut-throat opportunist. I JUST WANT TO WIN FOOTBALL GAMES. That's the one an ONLY thing that I concern myself with when it comes to our coach.
