Offensive changes

#53
#53
CJP has to convert the offense to a modern spread to keep his job. He already alluded to it earlier this season by saying that even elite defenses can't keep up with them.

He will have some make or break hires to get this done or be done. He needs to evaluate coaches like he evaluates recruits. I don't think anyone other than Graham are safe on Offense staff ( I've hear rumors that T and CJP don't get along).

Next priority is player development which is more important short term than recruiting. Anyone can look at the OL, QB and TEs and know that we are not getting enough performance out of our recruits.

We have way too much experience and talent returning to settle for another 7-6 or worse record.

Schedule is ok: Ole Miss, Pitt, Bowling Green, South Alabama, @bamer, @fl, Ga.
 
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feathersax said:
You might want to research Chaney & the QBs he's developed in his career. Pretty astounding. He should be coaching QBs at Tennessee.
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I know exactly who the hell Chaney is. I know all the NFL talent he's had that didn't perform, also. I know the NFL tight ends he's had and NFL relievers. I also know he's rarely had an explosive offense despite always having superior talent. His offense needs some tweaking, or the kids need another year in the system. Freeze is a guy that can produce an explosive offense. I didn't know what freeze was making, but Tennessee has the ability to make him the highest paid coordinator in the country, and HC in waiting.
 
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Skippy95 said:
Shear stupidity is starting this thread. If you can name me a coach, currently at a power five program, that had two losing seasons in his first three years and had a massive turn around in years 4 and 5 I’d maybe listen. Jeremy Pruitt is on the level of Chad Morris, Jim McEwain and Will Muschamp right now. If Tennessee doesn’t can his ass next week then every fan should know how serious Tennessee is about winning the east again.
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Fake ass Fans like you need to GTFO.
 
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INDEFENSE said:
Pruitt had two recruiting classes that were 100 % recruited by by him and his coaches coming into the 2020 season. He recently stated that he had 50 freshmen and sophomores on this team. There are few coaches that would come here to coach with the hateful immature comments made on this board. I graduated from UT in 71. I remember attending games in the 80's when we started 0 and six. Rebuilds are difficult . Fans were not clamoring for Major's job. If we keep firing coaches every three years we will never get out of this hole. Pruitt is a football guy with years coaching. He is not stupid as some people claim. It is not the X'S AND O'S. It's the Jimmy's and Joe's. I would never post anything that would hurt the program. We may have lost 4 or 5 recruits because of some of the many comments posted here. Pruitt will change coaches where he needs too. TN fans need to pull together.

Voltoo, truer words were never spoken. We sound like a kid who got his toy taken away and we wonder why we have such a bad time replacing a coach. My guess is we aren't even in the top three positions in the SEC as far as a desirable job. Lets all run out and replace the coach every year if they don't deliver the results we want. Never mind the fact that most good coaches probably want nothing to do with the job. Pruitt had A LOT OF WORK to rebuild this roster and culture as well as learning how to be a head coach himself. Has he made mistakes? Sure the hell has but everyone thinking we can hire Belichick lives in fantasy land. If nothing else CJP will have the roster in a better place than it's been in years and with some stability for a while MAYBE we will become more desirable to other coaches in the future. Being a fan of this team is tiring between the administration and the whining of a portion of the fans. PLEASE stop all the toxic talk and let this play out and look at this as if it's real and not a cartoon where we all get exactly what we want.
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Good thread. I hate that when you speak common sense around here, people attack you. This guy is an elite DC who's learning the ropes as a HC. As a former coach it drives me nuts to hear all these opinionated couch coaches pretend they know anything about building a program. I took over a baseball program that was winless in the previous 10 plus seasons. I maxed out at 4 wins each I. Years 2 and 3. Changing the culture was very hard. I had to make tough decisions, but I did it and learned a ton from it. I resigned and the program promptly went back to winless. 71, my dad was on the 71 team, but he didn't graduate.
 
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VolRage said:
Pruitt is an egotistical butt head. A head case megalomaniac. Why has Cheney’s offense worked decently at every other school including his first stop at TN but it doesn’t now? Because Pruitt won’t let Cheney do what’s necessary for his offense to work to include sticking his nose in the QB race. Considering how crappy the D is you’d think Pruitt wouldn’t have to time to stick his sorry nose in the offense. He needs to concentrate on his sorry D.

With all of the stories about Pruitt nearly having confrontations with many coaches around the SEC when they’ve worked together I can’t help but believe Pruitt is the problem. His ego is off the charts but considering his coaching is nothing better than Doolittle’s or Butch’s, he needs to reevaluate himself and become a lot more humble. He’s not the next coming of Saban nor will he ever be.
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Maybe Fulmer can have a chat with him about his coaching mortality. Nagy with bears changed his style up this year. When he was faced with the real possibility of being fired. At this point I think only Fulmer can get in his head. Because Fulmer can fire him.
 
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maxxx said:
Good thread. I hate that when you speak common sense around here, people attack you. This guy is an elite DC who's learning the ropes as a HC. As a former coach it drives me nuts to hear all these opinionated couch coaches pretend they know anything about building a program. I took over a baseball program that was winless in the previous 10 plus seasons. I maxed out at 4 wins each I. Years 2 and 3. Changing the culture was very hard. I had to make tough decisions, but I did it and learned a ton from it. I resigned and the program promptly went back to winless. 71, my dad was on the 71 team, but he didn't graduate.
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Ha. So your definition of common sense is a guy that is and has been a HC, that is expected to be in demand sooner or later as a HC, would come here as OC and that a very young CJP would be happy to have his replacement on staff. Had a little too much Christmas cheer?
 
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INDEFENSE said:
Pruitt had two recruiting classes that were 100 % recruited by by him and his coaches coming into the 2020 season. He recently stated that he had 50 freshmen and sophomores on this team. There are few coaches that would come here to coach with the hateful immature comments made on this board. I graduated from UT in 71. I remember attending games in the 80's when we started 0 and six. Rebuilds are difficult . Fans were not clamoring for Major's job. If we keep firing coaches every three years we will never get out of this hole. Pruitt is a football guy with years coaching. He is not stupid as some people claim. It is not the X'S AND O'S. It's the Jimmy's and Joe's. I would never post anything that would hurt the program. We may have lost 4 or 5 recruits because of some of the many comments posted here. Pruitt will change coaches where he needs too. TN fans need to pull together.

Voltoo, truer words were never spoken. We sound like a kid who got his toy taken away and we wonder why we have such a bad time replacing a coach. My guess is we aren't even in the top three positions in the SEC as far as a desirable job. Lets all run out and replace the coach every year if they don't deliver the results we want. Never mind the fact that most good coaches probably want nothing to do with the job. Pruitt had A LOT OF WORK to rebuild this roster and culture as well as learning how to be a head coach himself. Has he made mistakes? Sure the hell has but everyone thinking we can hire Belichick lives in fantasy land. If nothing else CJP will have the roster in a better place than it's been in years and with some stability for a while MAYBE we will become more desirable to other coaches in the future. Being a fan of this team is tiring between the administration and the whining of a portion of the fans. PLEASE stop all the toxic talk and let this play out and look at this as if it's real and not a cartoon where we all get exactly what we want.
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If they sound like “kids” for expecting better than a horrendous record padded by weak OOC victories that Majors didn’t have the benefit of playing, what do you think you sound like for having defended said results?
 
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voltoo said:
I believe it is a factor. Of course coaches are going to look at the big picture and factor in everything. The board has had a very toxic nature lately. Support the university and the team. Pruitt needs another year of solid recruiting. Run the recruits off and we will never get to the level that we want. It looked to me that some people on here are trying to wreck recruiting. I believe some of them must be fans of other schools.
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This has got to be one of the dumbest takes I’ve ever seen on here.
If a coach is so thin skinned that a message board would scare him off or would scare recruits off then they’ll never make it far in football or life for that matter.
Pruitt is what he is a very good DC when he has the talent but a piss poor HC.
He needs to be shown the door, another year won’t do any good
 
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maxxx said:
Good thread. I hate that when you speak common sense around here, people attack you. This guy is an elite DC who's learning the ropes as a HC. As a former coach it drives me nuts to hear all these opinionated couch coaches pretend they know anything about building a program. I took over a baseball program that was winless in the previous 10 plus seasons. I maxed out at 4 wins each I. Years 2 and 3. Changing the culture was very hard. I had to make tough decisions, but I did it and learned a ton from it. I resigned and the program promptly went back to winless. 71, my dad was on the 71 team, but he didn't graduate.
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Nothing about his coaching experience screams elite no matter how much you want to imply it does. He was DC under Saban and Smart both of whom control the defense not Pruitt. His other lone year as a DC was under Fisher at FSU. That FSU defense was number 2 in the nation before he arrived. Nothing about his time at UT screams elite defensive coach, his defenses statistically are no better than the first three years under Jones and Jancek. Were they elite defensive minds as well?
 
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UT Challenger said:
Pruitt talked to Freeze before he hired Chaney. Freeze did not want the job. What makes you think he would take it now. Freeze is a head coach and in my opinion a good one. He got caught doing somethings ole miss did not like. Does anyone remember who Alabama hired before Saban. It was Mike Price. He was fired before he ever coached a game there. Freeze and Price had the same situation. I don't care what the head coach does away from coaching the team. Just don't get caught and embarrass the university.
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No, Pruitt didn’t interview Freeze.
 
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We haven’t been firing coaches every 3 years, we only fired Dooley after 3 years, do you think that was warranted?
 
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VolRage said:
Pruitt is an egotistical butt head. A head case megalomaniac. Why has Cheney’s offense worked decently at every other school including his first stop at TN but it doesn’t now? Because Pruitt won’t let Cheney do what’s necessary for his offense to work to include sticking his nose in the QB race. Considering how crappy the D is you’d think Pruitt wouldn’t have to time to stick his sorry nose in the offense. He needs to concentrate on his sorry D.

With all of the stories about Pruitt nearly having confrontations with many coaches around the SEC when they’ve worked together I can’t help but believe Pruitt is the problem. His ego is off the charts but considering his coaching is nothing better than Doolittle’s or Butch’s, he needs to reevaluate himself and become a lot more humble. He’s not the next coming of Saban nor will he ever be.
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Butch>Putrid
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
I will never support Freeze stepping foot on our campus unless it s the beat the stuffing out of him and any team he might bring here. I would never stoop low enough to hire him as anything higher than a handy man to clean the septic tanks.
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Pastor Hugh is a man of character. He just backslid a little.
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Volsfaninva917 said:
Hugh Freeze isn't coming here to work for Pruitt at this point, period. I think some of you are really underestimating just how bad Pruitt is behind the scenes. He's not a smart person, at all
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While respecting the anonymity of each poster's screen name, it has to be asked: "Do you have first-hand knowledge from behind the scenes?"
 
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maxxx said:
I see all the coaching change threads. And I'm sick of them. Canning a guy before his first class are seniors is shear stupidity. It destroys any hope of continuity. And hurts a program more th a n anything. Staying the course is sometimes hard. But yhe reward will be greater.

I've e a these this offense look stale for 3 years now. Does anyone support the idea of firing Chaney and bringing in Freeze? This way the head guy stays the same. And he can continue the strong recruiting. And culture development. It would be cheaper to make zfreeze the highest paid OC in the country. Rather than the huge financial hit of firing Pruitt.
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tn generally has atop 20 recruiting every year but only a top 40 to 50 finish. Currently with Pruitt as head coach - The common denominator is JG - god love him but he is great from the 20 yard line to the red zone or 30 yards from touchdown. From there he just collapses and maintains a QB rating of about 55 in the country.

The qb is just as valuable to defense as offense since if you can't get first downs - defense has to stay on the field too much and pretty soon by the 4th quarter - they are wasted.

I would like to see a season with Pruitt with Bailey and Salter running the show. I bet all of you would be surprised how much better we will be without JG. My only real issue with Pruitt is I thought our secondary would play better since that is really his area of expertise and we have recruited a million secondary people but can't seem to find 5 that work
 
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DULL_BOY said:
Well then there’s that whole Born Again Christian thing...with the we are all sinners...then the Jesus forgives stuff but hey...you do you.
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A judge once said, "a tiger never changes his stripes". I would think Freeze fits in nicely with the last President at Liberty. Perfect job for him.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
While respecting the anonymity of each poster's screen name, it has to be asked: "Do you have first-hand knowledge from behind the scenes?"
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Does that really matter if anyone has first hand knowledge from behind the scenes when what we see live, center stage is putrid. That only matters when someone deserves the benefit of doubt. Pruitt is horrible in the limelight. It can be safely assumed it’s worse when he’s out of the limelight. First hand knowledge isn’t necessary at this point.
 
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