Nega - SHUT UP!

[Duck in a pen]

I, for one, am excited to be a TN Vol fan today. I am sick and tired of the whining and complaining from so many on this board. Let's face it, hiring a head football coach is a crap shoot. Occasionally, a no-brainer, home-run hire comes along, but as I look at the top 25 teams, I only see four hires from the past 10 years; Saban, Meyer, Richt, and Peterson. Outside of that I see a lot of programs who had their greatest success building on tradition and a coordinator as HC

-Oklahoma - currently coached by a promoted coordinator who followed Stoops who was hired away from FL where he was DC
-Georgia - currently coached by a former DC who followed Richt who was hired away from FSU where he was OC
-Clemson - Dabo is an exception, he didn't even serve as coordinator, just made the climb from receivers coach when Tommy Bowden was given his walking papers
-Wisconsin - Paul Chryst, former OC
-Auburn - Malzahn, with the exception of the stint at AK St, promoted OC
-USC - Helton was OC

Those are 6 of the top 10 ranked teams. UT has the tradition, facilities, and fan support to make a super star out of a coordinator. This is a new direction (hiring a coordinator). Let's give it a shot, support the program, and cut the "chicken little" crap!

 

[tvolsfan]

Posts like this remind me how much I hate everything.

 

[OriginalCoach]

Stoops was a DC.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Embrace the suck.

Got it.

 

[Duck in a pen]

Stoops was a DC.

my bad, right

 

[IndianapolisVol]

nega plz

 

[90 Vol]

Nega...No! We have the budget, tradition, facilities, and fan support to do better than this $hit show we've seen for the past 10+ years. Somehow, the powers that be just choose not to.

 

[jakez4ut]

posts like this remind me how much i hate everything.

 

[Duck in a pen]

Embrace the suck.

Got it.

When I posted this thread, I was interested in the demographic of negative responses. I suspected the negatives to be vastly tilted to millennials. Thanks for the confirmation.

 

[jpope9]

negas always be trippin...

 

[GVol1966]

I, for one, am excited to be a TN Vol fan today. I am sick and tired of the whining and complaining from so many on this board. Let's face it, hiring a head football coach is a crap shoot. Occasionally, a no-brainer, home-run hire comes along, but as I look at the top 25 teams, I only see four hires from the past 10 years; Saban, Meyer, Richt, and Peterson. Outside of that I see a lot of programs who had their greatest success building on tradition and a coordinator as HC
-Oklahoma - currently coached by a promoted coordinator who followed Stoops who was hired away from FL where he was OC
-Georgia - currently coached by a former DC who followed Richt who was hired away from FSU where he was OC
-Clemson - Dabo is an exception, he didn't even serve as coordinator, just made the climb from receivers coach when Tommy Bowden was given his walking papers
-Wisconsin - Paul Chryst, former OC
-Auburn - Malzahn, with the exception of the stint at AK St, promoted OC
-USC - Helton was OC

Those are 6 of the top 10 ranked teams. UT has the tradition, facilities, and fan support to make a super star out of a coordinator. This is a new direction (hiring a coordinator). Let's give it a shot, support the program, and cut the "chicken little" crap!

What are you excited about? We’ve not hired anyone yet

 

[FirstAndGoal]

embrace the suck.

Got it.

lmao.

 

[Tin Man]

Seemingly, Fulmer won't hire Tee to be HC of the Vols for whatever reasons. The irony will be when Tee is hired by another SEC school and owns Tennessee for ~the next two decades. [Other SEC school] earns 10+ CCs and 1+ NCs during Martin's tenure while his alma mater is relegated to also ran. Poetic...

 

[anthorain]

Ok. Instead of the sky falling I’ll just wait for fire to fall instead.

And then watch Rome burn.

 

[A-RodWiLks]

But hey Vols fans, we've been served mediocrity for years now...And I hear it's an acquired taste! We should all be gobbling it up like OP!

 

[93TNVol]

Neggers gonna neg

 

[goooooovols]

I, for one, am excited to be a TN Vol fan today. I am sick and tired of the whining and complaining from so many on this board. Let's face it, hiring a head football coach is a crap shoot. Occasionally, a no-brainer, home-run hire comes along, but as I look at the top 25 teams, I only see four hires from the past 10 years; Saban, Meyer, Richt, and Peterson. Outside of that I see a lot of programs who had their greatest success building on tradition and a coordinator as HC
-Oklahoma - currently coached by a promoted coordinator who followed Stoops who was hired away from FL where he was OC
-Georgia - currently coached by a former DC who followed Richt who was hired away from FSU where he was OC
-Clemson - Dabo is an exception, he didn't even serve as coordinator, just made the climb from receivers coach when Tommy Bowden was given his walking papers
-Wisconsin - Paul Chryst, former OC
-Auburn - Malzahn, with the exception of the stint at AK St, promoted OC
-USC - Helton was OC

Those are 6 of the top 10 ranked teams. UT has the tradition, facilities, and fan support to make a super star out of a coordinator. This is a new direction (hiring a coordinator). Let's give it a shot, support the program, and cut the "chicken little" crap!

Love this and think Pruitt is a great hire, let’s get him and Tee and let’s Gooooo!

 

[jakez4ut]

i get it. he's not willing to throw in the towel. nothing wrong with that.

just hard to argue with 10 years of ineptitude. so i get that too.

ugh...conflict.

 

[Stoked]

These naysayers will jump on the Pruitt train (assuming that's who we get) when he proves to be a winner and gets us back to having a respectable defense like he has had at every stop that he's been.

If not then they'll either disappear or nitpick at everything he does and spin it negatively. A lot of people feed on negativity.

A lot of people on here are either casual fans, or they don't know much about football. Pruitt has proved himself at 3 different places at the college level that he is one of the best coordinators in the country, along with one of the best recruiters. He knows how to develop players and knows how to make in game adjustments.

Recruiting
Developing players
Creating a gameplan
Adjusting the gameplan if needed

Are pretty much the steps at winning and Pruitt checks all of those boxes.

 

[OriginalCoach]

Just promote Ralph and Karen Weekly to HC/Co-HC's.

 

[Slyman35]

Nega...No! We have the budget, tradition, facilities, and fan support to do better than this $hit show we've seen for the past 10+ years. Somehow, the powers that be just choose not to.

We used to. Times are different now...and don't forget we have been stepping on our manhood for the last couple of weeks. Folks are understandably a little gun shy of this place right now. You cannot just erase what has happened and act like everything is well.

 

[OneVolNation]

No guarantee we get Pruitt. Could be Tucker or Steele.

 

[GameTime]

Some of you guys just love to complain....

 

[FirstAndGoal]

When I posted this thread, I was interested in the demographic of negative responses. I suspected the negatives to be vastly tilted to millennials. Thanks for the confirmation.

You're way off, cowboy.

 

[Fortneyland]

My biggest concern with Pruitt is he's really rough around the edges, so who is going to groom him to be a HC? Other than that I believe he will do well on the hill.