Rucker: NFL Combine invites prove mess Pruitt inherited
A snippet or two from the article......
“Last year’s five new SEC coaches sent a grand total of 33 players to the combine. None of those five came from Tennessee. That is staggering.”
“Only one program in the SEC failed to send at least one player to the NFL Combine, and that program was Tennessee. Every other program sent at least two, and every other program aside from Vanderbilt sent at least four.
Many of you were furious when the Vols ran out of gas late last season and got boat-raced by Missouri and Vanderbilt, but those Tigers are sending six players to the NFL Combine, and those Commodores are sending the aforementioned pair. Those teams had more talent than Tennessee. They were better football teams with better football players. Full stop.”
Heck fire, folks! Some of us were on here SCREAMIN' this truth for everyone to read all during the season last year and endured the abuse from those posters who have NEVER played the game and don't know jack-shizz about football! All we heard was:
1. The COACHES were just throwing the kids under the bus;
2. No wonder our kids don't want to play with effort...our coach keeps saying that we don't have the talent to compete yet;
3. We had enough talent to play better against Vandy...
4. Wow, look how stupid our coaches are---they can't even muster more than 14 points against Charlotte.....yada, yada, yada!
Some of us already KNEW what the NFL scouts have confirmed.....Only 1 or 2 teams in the entire SEC had worse talent than we did across the board last year.
So, you will ask, just how did we beat KY?
1. They were down coming off the HUGE, disheartening loss to UGA; and
2. Our Defensive genius of a HC knew how to render them ONE-DIMENSIONAL on offense.
We got some decent offensive play and...bad-a-bing, bad-a-boom....we WIN at home.
We couldn't do that to Mizzou or Vandy.
It's just LAUGHABLE!
And you can call me whatever names you have to in attempts to make yourselves feel better.
CJP and crew KNOW the game...and CJP WILL GET US to the SEC championship game....sooner rather than later.
CJP has had to do a "frame-off" restoration of this program.....and he's still in progress....
GO VOLS!