Adam Sandler
No Colonel Sanders, you’re wrong!
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Let me first say that my initial opinion of Pruitt is that I really like him as a dc, but not as a head coach. My tune is starting to change, on the condition that he can bring in a stellar staff, which I think he can.
Great Southeastern Recruiting: Pruitt is a Great Recruiter and you can be sure that will be a prerequisite for any member of his staff, most of which will have SEC and southeastern roots as Pruitt does. Everyone will recruit, and they will do it very well. Georgia, Alabama, and Florida will all despise us for our ability to poach their prospects as Pruitt has deep roots in every one of those territories.
Defensive Minded: We all know defense wins championships. Show me a team that's won a championship without consistent good defense. A single game doesn't count. Our defense will keep us in every game, not just some of them like under butch. I also like that Pruitt knows DBs. There is a long history of db coaches and offensive line coaches who turn out to be great head coaches.
3-4 defense: The 4-3 has been a staple at Ut for sometime, but it has not been very successful since almost 2 decades ago when the game started to change. The one time we had a 3-4, sunseri was still working with 4-3 personnel and that was disastrous. I am looking forward to having a feared defense that will attract the most freakish athletes to Knoxville. Bigger, faster, better.
Flare: We know from the stories about him that Pruitt will command a personality that will appeal to UT fans just as Butch did at the start. Pruitt has the type of personality that high school recruits love, and vol fans will love when they see it showcased along with an actually well coached team.
Offensive autonomy and efficiency: Butch Jones struggled with this in his complicated spread that was supposed to be power offense. It took a special player in Dobbs to cover up this weakness. I believe a power running game under center that simplifies the offense and showcases our players abilities rather than demanding them to know the offense as well as butch did will help our players be better in the long run. Our offensive line will be more feared and there will be more of them on the team than before as butch never seemed to care about depth there. He'd rather have 15 underperforming WRs than assess depth in the trenches, which is the most important area to be good in the sec.
Player development: Quality over quantity will be the name of the game at skill positions, and we will see them develop better than before where players were not getting the focus they needed in butchs complicated spread the ball around offense. We will not live and die by freshman on this team. Only the best will play, regardless of year, and it will be a coveted spot to be in where talents will be showed consistently to those who earn the spot, which will attract the best high school players who are focused on their development and not just being the focal point in their freshman year. QB will be in a offense more aligned with the NFL. Defense will prepare better for NFL and their ferocity will be noted at every position, not just in star players, because looky here, all of our defensive players will be star players.
Great Southeastern Recruiting: Pruitt is a Great Recruiter and you can be sure that will be a prerequisite for any member of his staff, most of which will have SEC and southeastern roots as Pruitt does. Everyone will recruit, and they will do it very well. Georgia, Alabama, and Florida will all despise us for our ability to poach their prospects as Pruitt has deep roots in every one of those territories.
Defensive Minded: We all know defense wins championships. Show me a team that's won a championship without consistent good defense. A single game doesn't count. Our defense will keep us in every game, not just some of them like under butch. I also like that Pruitt knows DBs. There is a long history of db coaches and offensive line coaches who turn out to be great head coaches.
3-4 defense: The 4-3 has been a staple at Ut for sometime, but it has not been very successful since almost 2 decades ago when the game started to change. The one time we had a 3-4, sunseri was still working with 4-3 personnel and that was disastrous. I am looking forward to having a feared defense that will attract the most freakish athletes to Knoxville. Bigger, faster, better.
Flare: We know from the stories about him that Pruitt will command a personality that will appeal to UT fans just as Butch did at the start. Pruitt has the type of personality that high school recruits love, and vol fans will love when they see it showcased along with an actually well coached team.
Offensive autonomy and efficiency: Butch Jones struggled with this in his complicated spread that was supposed to be power offense. It took a special player in Dobbs to cover up this weakness. I believe a power running game under center that simplifies the offense and showcases our players abilities rather than demanding them to know the offense as well as butch did will help our players be better in the long run. Our offensive line will be more feared and there will be more of them on the team than before as butch never seemed to care about depth there. He'd rather have 15 underperforming WRs than assess depth in the trenches, which is the most important area to be good in the sec.
Player development: Quality over quantity will be the name of the game at skill positions, and we will see them develop better than before where players were not getting the focus they needed in butchs complicated spread the ball around offense. We will not live and die by freshman on this team. Only the best will play, regardless of year, and it will be a coveted spot to be in where talents will be showed consistently to those who earn the spot, which will attract the best high school players who are focused on their development and not just being the focal point in their freshman year. QB will be in a offense more aligned with the NFL. Defense will prepare better for NFL and their ferocity will be noted at every position, not just in star players, because looky here, all of our defensive players will be star players.
