The last 2 games of this season the team didn't show up to play. They Quit and it's hard to forgive that.
There were a few games this year I felt like we played hard. Played like we wanted to win. Kentucky for one. Then there were games where the team never gave the first effort. The Alabama game was a hybrid. The first quarter was awful. Once we changed quarterbacks we didn't look as bad all things considered.
I've been a UT fan for more than 40 years and I can say this, if next year our team isn't going to give any more effort than it has the last 3 years it would be alright with me if they shut down the football team and never played another game. I'm mad that I spent time Saturday watching that sorry spectacle.
The Administration and whoever it is at the University that has hired the last 3 coaches stink to high heaven. I have no idea why you give unproven people the lucrative contracts they have. Pruitt as a head coach is worth no more than 1 million I don't care if the rest of the SEC pays theirs 3 times that or more, Pruitt is not a proven coach and this year certainly hasn't added to that feeling. Remember the ETSU game? Had not it thundered in Maryville we'd probably have lost that one. The first half time for the lighting delay we had negative yards. Inexcusable. We are an SEC team not whatever 4th tier league ETSU plays in. The fact that they came to that game not ready to play to me is on the head coach. He's supposed to have the team ready to go or at least the first 11 he puts out on the field. I was impressed in the Alabama Game when Keller Chryst came in the game and never missed a beat. JG never started a game this year that he looked like he was ready to play from the kick off.
I have never seen such a Cluster Flop of a football team in my lifetime. I can remember a time when we got upset about not winning a National Championship or an SEC championship. Now we are supposed to be satisfied with 2 SEC wins and loosing to the Doormats 3 years in a row. 5 out of the last 7. I never thought I'd say this, but Bill Battle wasn't that dang bad.
I admit. At this point, I have no idea how to fix this mess. I do know we had a quarterback under Dooley that threw the Kentucky game to avoid playing in a low ranking bowl. I thought then, I'd have shown him the door of the stadium before halftime and told him to pack his crap in the dorm and Get Out. I think a start might be running every player out of the locker room and off the team. Instead of Tennessee begging them, let them beg Tennessee to come back in. I guarantee ETSU, MTSU, UTC and others have players that would give their right arm to play in Neyland Stadium and wear the Orange and White. They absolutely couldn't do any worse than what we have has done in the last 2 years.
We have absolutely got to get coaches and players that have Tennessee in their hearts. This business of begging and over paying to be here and getting sub standard performance is getting old. It's not necessary to pay 1.2 million per year to an offensive coordinator to get one that can do the job. It's not that difficult. If you can teach players to block, tackle, find a running hole you'd be way ahead of what we have with what we are paying.
I'll climb off my soap box now.
There were a few games this year I felt like we played hard. Played like we wanted to win. Kentucky for one. Then there were games where the team never gave the first effort. The Alabama game was a hybrid. The first quarter was awful. Once we changed quarterbacks we didn't look as bad all things considered.
I've been a UT fan for more than 40 years and I can say this, if next year our team isn't going to give any more effort than it has the last 3 years it would be alright with me if they shut down the football team and never played another game. I'm mad that I spent time Saturday watching that sorry spectacle.
The Administration and whoever it is at the University that has hired the last 3 coaches stink to high heaven. I have no idea why you give unproven people the lucrative contracts they have. Pruitt as a head coach is worth no more than 1 million I don't care if the rest of the SEC pays theirs 3 times that or more, Pruitt is not a proven coach and this year certainly hasn't added to that feeling. Remember the ETSU game? Had not it thundered in Maryville we'd probably have lost that one. The first half time for the lighting delay we had negative yards. Inexcusable. We are an SEC team not whatever 4th tier league ETSU plays in. The fact that they came to that game not ready to play to me is on the head coach. He's supposed to have the team ready to go or at least the first 11 he puts out on the field. I was impressed in the Alabama Game when Keller Chryst came in the game and never missed a beat. JG never started a game this year that he looked like he was ready to play from the kick off.
I have never seen such a Cluster Flop of a football team in my lifetime. I can remember a time when we got upset about not winning a National Championship or an SEC championship. Now we are supposed to be satisfied with 2 SEC wins and loosing to the Doormats 3 years in a row. 5 out of the last 7. I never thought I'd say this, but Bill Battle wasn't that dang bad.
I admit. At this point, I have no idea how to fix this mess. I do know we had a quarterback under Dooley that threw the Kentucky game to avoid playing in a low ranking bowl. I thought then, I'd have shown him the door of the stadium before halftime and told him to pack his crap in the dorm and Get Out. I think a start might be running every player out of the locker room and off the team. Instead of Tennessee begging them, let them beg Tennessee to come back in. I guarantee ETSU, MTSU, UTC and others have players that would give their right arm to play in Neyland Stadium and wear the Orange and White. They absolutely couldn't do any worse than what we have has done in the last 2 years.
We have absolutely got to get coaches and players that have Tennessee in their hearts. This business of begging and over paying to be here and getting sub standard performance is getting old. It's not necessary to pay 1.2 million per year to an offensive coordinator to get one that can do the job. It's not that difficult. If you can teach players to block, tackle, find a running hole you'd be way ahead of what we have with what we are paying.
I'll climb off my soap box now.
