Patience

#251
#251
KCvol n bama said:
I’ve been a Tennessee fan living in Bama my whole life and that’s nearly 40 years. But I just want you to know the problem with the football program is YOU. Look this **** was a dumpster fire when JP took the job. (Easy 6 year rebuild) If you fire him nobody will come to UT ever. Y’all are the laughing stock of college football. It’s probably to late for this coach. Support the guy for a few years instead of running all his players off. At least it would be in better shape if in 6 years if he can’t do anything. Just step back and look at the whole situation. It’s been 14 years since Saban was hired at Bama. He has more 4/5 stars riding the bench than we have on our team. I think Pruitt can get us to maybe a Gus Malzahn level if left alone. Go vols.
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Mmk. Next time just say RTR to sound even more like the real idiot you are.

Go vols!
You can have your defensive coordinator back.
 
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#252
#252
So again the fans are the problem; the reason UT football sucks. I must have Amnesia, I don’t remember playing in or coaching a single game. But maybe the fans are the problem because they don’t demand a better football program and on field play.
 
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KCvol n bama said:
I’ve been a Tennessee fan living in Bama my whole life and that’s nearly 40 years. But I just want you to know the problem with the football program is YOU. Look this **** was a dumpster fire when JP took the job. (Easy 6 year rebuild) If you fire him nobody will come to UT ever. Y’all are the laughing stock of college football. It’s probably to late for this coach. Support the guy for a few years instead of running all his players off. At least it would be in better shape if in 6 years if he can’t do anything. Just step back and look at the whole situation. It’s been 14 years since Saban was hired at Bama. He has more 4/5 stars riding the bench than we have on our team. I think Pruitt can get us to maybe a Gus Malzahn level if left alone. Go vols.
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Coming out swingin' with a Nited Post for your 1st post! That's next level ish!

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VFL-82-JP said:
You might be right. Behr and Charger and MB and all the other good folks who have left, they might be right.
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I think they realized the negavols were right and Pruitt was a bad hire.

You’re right about patience though. Sanctions from the NCAA are coming so we need to be patient and ready for Vandy level wins.
 
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Jack Burton said:
I think they realized the negavols were right and Pruitt was a bad hire.

You’re right about patience though. Sanctions from the NCAA are coming so we need to be patient and ready for Vandy level wins.
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nah.
We don't know what type of judgement will come down yet.
Regardless, with the 3rd most talented roster in the East, Pruitt can't even coach them to their talent level. So patience is not the answer in regards to Captain Beldar Cornbread :D
 
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Wayna Morris and Ty Chandler in the portal. Friend took a pay cut to get out. Rumors that our S&C coach wants out. But yeah we should just be patient because good ol Phil and his bosses know exactly what they are doing.
 
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#267
BigOrangeTrain said:
How many SECW teams did Dooley beat?
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I’m not arguing with you per se, Dooley wasn’t going to beat anyone that had superior talent, that was his undoing, he didn’t recruit worth a damn. Typically, and that word is important, the NFL doesn’t bring you in if you can’t coach. Coaching matters in the NFL, more so than in College. In CFB, it is the Jimmies and Joes.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Wayna Morris and Ty Chandler in the portal. Friend took a pay cut to get out. Rumors that our S&C coach wants out. But yeah we should just be patient because good ol Phil and his bosses know exactly what they are doing.
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Hey now..Iḿ pretty sure you were preaching patience not to long ago haha.
 
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#269
Firebirdparts said:
I've said this many times on this board: I've been hearing this "if you don't hate this team you're not a true vol fan" stuff my whole life. I'm only 54, though. This is not new. This is just treating Pruitt the way Johnny Majors was treated. The difference was just that Johnny was the dream candidate and you couldn't really fire him.
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And Johnny could coach
And Johnny was Tennessee boy
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Okay, here's how predictable some folks are on VN.com. Folks who believe they're witty. Bearded, for example. At some point, even though he's fighting it right now because I can predict his every move, at some point he's going to post in this thread. And what he intended to say, before I called his shot, is "oh, here we go, it's today's installment of JP's defense of Pruitt." He'll probably shift his message just to "prove me wrong," but we all know that's where he would've gone. Heh.

Patience.

This thread is not about Pruitt. It's not about Chaney. Not about Fulmer. Not about Butch. Not about any specific person or event. Not about any specific time frame.

It's about you. You and me.

There's a fictional movie about one year's NFL draft. It's called Draft Day. Has Kevin Costner in the lead role. A lot of us have seen it. For those who haven't, I do recommend it; far better than any movie about such a constrained topic should be. Here's the first of a series of 10 short youtube clips leading up to the climactic scene:



I'll summarize. Costner, the general manager of one NFL team, takes a series of seemingly nonsensical decisions in preparation for draft day. Then, over the course of the day, he seems to double down on the bad choices until, at the end, all the weirdly-shaped pieces of his plan suddenly fall into perspective and his genius is revealed.

Okay, so what? That's just Hollywood making up a feel-good story.

Well, here's what. Costner's character was smarter than the folks around him. The folks trying to give him advice. He knew exactly what he was doing. He had a plan, and he executed it. Even if they couldn't see how it would work until near the end, even if the team gathered no fruits of their labors until the very last minute, he knew what he was doing. He was smarter than everyone around him on his business, his job.

Now what if a Tennessee coaching staff knows their subject better than you and I do? What if they know a bit more about college football than us? About recruiting kids, developing them, forming a team out of them, and winning games and championships with them? What if they know every piece of that better than us?

When did we start assuming they don't?

Where did we lose the ability to wait and see? Where did we lose the ability to give a subject matter expert some leeway, some rope? Sure, they might just hang themselves, but...given that they're probably smarter on the topic than we are...they might just see further ahead to a brighter outcome than we can.

When did we lose patience, as a fan base?

Because I can assure you, we have zero of that now.


END NOTE: no,, this isn't about Pruitt. This is just as much about how we treat the coach after Pruitt, or the coach after that, as it is about how we treat him. This is about US, and a serious flaw we've developed as a community.
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If you think this fan base is impatient and crazy...you apparently werent online during the bad days for Bama and watching the Tider Insider craziness.

Being passive will not make this administration try harder...being passive and assuming anyone who hasnt proven themselves knows what theyre doing is silly. Its also a recipe for a half filled stadium...long term
 
#272
#272
I think everyone forgets the 2019 season and the coaching that took place for the splendid finish to the season. Co-vid hit UT hard, and with the lack of spring practice and pieced together season I see idiots calling for a coaching change after applauding CJP for last year, We have the most idiotic fan base in the country. It's what have you done for me now instead of looking at all the factors.

Did he stick with JG too long yes, but he felt JG gave him the best chance to win, The kid played his tail off in 2019. Say he didn't and you're a JG hater. We saw better QB play from the lower class-men this year because he could prepare them for a full season devoid of co-vid. Back off the fire Pruitt and give the man a chance to prepare his team in a non co-vid year but 2021 might be worse than 2020 for the pandemic. If so the next question is who wants to come to UT to coach?

.......................................................................................................................................................................no one
 
#273
#273
UTNoFear said:
I think everyone forgets the 2019 season and the coaching that took place for the splendid finish to the season. Co-vid hit UT hard, and with the lack of spring practice and pieced together season I see idiots calling for a coaching change after applauding CJP for last year, We have the most idiotic fan base in the country. It's what have you done for me now instead of looking at all the factors.

Did he stick with JG too long yes, but he felt JG gave him the best chance to win, The kid played his tail off in 2019. Say he didn't and you're a JG hater. We saw better QB play from the lower class-men this year because he could prepare them for a full season devoid of co-vid. Back off the fire Pruitt and give the man a chance to prepare his team in a non co-vid year but 2021 might be worse than 2020 for the pandemic. If so the next question is who wants to come to UT to coach?

.......................................................................................................................................................................no one
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Minus an absolute miracle to beat Indiana... we beat absolutely no one during the win streak. Try again
 
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#275
UTNoFear said:
I think everyone forgets the 2019 season and the coaching that took place for the splendid finish to the season. Co-vid hit UT hard, and with the lack of spring practice and pieced together season I see idiots calling for a coaching change after applauding CJP for last year, We have the most idiotic fan base in the country. It's what have you done for me now instead of looking at all the factors.

Did he stick with JG too long yes, but he felt JG gave him the best chance to win, The kid played his tail off in 2019. Say he didn't and you're a JG hater. We saw better QB play from the lower class-men this year because he could prepare them for a full season devoid of co-vid. Back off the fire Pruitt and give the man a chance to prepare his team in a non co-vid year but 2021 might be worse than 2020 for the pandemic. If so the next question is who wants to come to UT to coach?

.......................................................................................................................................................................no one
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Plenty of us saw 2019 for what it was, and weren't singing Pruitt's praises for beatng the dregs of the SEC.

You convinced yourself that he was a good coach, and then 2020 hit and now you are looking for every other reason for Pruitt to have failed, that doesn't involve him being a bad coach.

Let it go. You'll feel better in the long run once you accept reality, and stop manufacturing excuses for a guy who will never be a HC again once UT fires him.
 
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