Hank Bukowski
Roland James
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The below article addresses multiple programs, and UT is one of the subjects.
It basically states what's already been mentioned here on Volnation, but it at least this shows that the same observations we're making here are being made nationally.
College football hot seat: Will emotion or economics dictate firings this season?
Wow...interesting article. Thanks for posting. He makes a solid case for what many on here have already opined: Pruitt isn’t going anywhere. Our football program and university have been laughing stocks far too many times in recent years and paying Pruitt $12.5M to not coach for us would just be the latest national embarrassment.
We are stuck with this guy. We have to hope that he learns how to be an SEC head coach on the job, that grows into the job. He needs to learn that, yes, recruiting is a critical, core, primary need for all the coaches on staff...but they also must be able to coach football and develop the players in their care into winners. Coaching championship football is as much a core competency as recruiting and they are very much interdependent. I get the clear sense that Pruitt places such an emphasis on recruiting that he de-emphasizes a coach’s ability to coach...that anybody can go out there and learn to coach SEC-quality linebackers, for example...even learn it on the job during the season.
Who among us would not take Tracy Rocker back right now?
Expect some of our coaches to leave after the season. We all know the handful who have earned their places in the crosshairs. If Pruitt wants to save his job, he needs to surround himself with the best he can find and let them do their jobs...and not interfere. That said, I’m not sure he has it in him to do that. Let’s hope he can find it somehow. Maybe the blowtorch he has on him will help him focus.