Pruitt Era of Tennessee Football

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I think everyone on here would say Coach P knows football,,, and is unproven as head coach. Right??
Here's the ace in the hole.. COACH/AD Fulmer. I understand many think Coach F lost his touch, maybe so, but as an administrator I feel we have finally got a man that is refreshed and willing and able to do a great job for his beloved UT. Not many new head coach hires have the good fortune to have the knowledge and experience and help to succeed that Coach P has.
 
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We all just need patience. I think seasoned VFLs will understand that this is a process. CJP was a heck of a coordinator and will most likely be a heck of a head football coach, but only time will tell. We've just been down for so long that we are eager for success, even more so because our rivals are having success. Let's trust CJP and the leadership appointed over him to lead us in the right direction.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
We have a coach who has never been a HFC before and who had success as a coordinator with rosters that were chock full of future NFL star talent. All this gibberish about finally having a real coach is nonsense. Most of the people saying this are the same ones who were singing Butch's praises 12 months ago.
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God forbid some fans are excited and optimistic during opening game week. My kid was super excited for school to start, guess I should tell him school actually sucks and you've got like 12 more years until you're done.
 
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bigorange said:
God forbid some fans are excited and optimistic during opening game week. My kid was super excited for school to start, guess I should tell him school actually sucks and you've got like 12 more years until you're done.
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There's a universe of difference between being excited and optimistic for a new head coach, and proclaiming Jeremy Pruitt 2nd to Neyland alone, before he has even coached a game at UT.
 
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BeardedVol said:
There's a universe of difference between being excited and optimistic for a new head coach, and proclaiming Jeremy Pruitt 2nd to Neyland alone, before he has even coached a game at UT.
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I must've missed the part in the OP where he proclaimed JP 2nd to Neyland alone.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
We have a coach who has never been a HFC before and who had success as a coordinator with rosters that were chock full of future NFL star talent. All this gibberish about finally having a real coach is nonsense. Most of the people saying this are the same ones who were singing Butch's praises 12 months ago.
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While everything you say is accurate, I think there is reason to believe Pruitt has a better chance of turning this around than Dooley and Butch did. My fear with Pruitt is that he's Muschamp 2.0, except he's inheriting less talent than Muschamp did at Florida.

Dooley had a dearth of head coaching experience, and the experience he did have wasn't impressive to say the least. He also had no prior coordinator experience. Butch had a lot more head coaching experience than Dooley did, and he was a winning coach, but it was at 2 mid-major schools in the Upper Midwest. Pruitt has no head coaching experience, but he has coordinator experience at elite programs in the SEC/southeast, and has a documented history as a recruiter.

What's funny is that when Dooley was hired, I thought he'd probably be a good recruiter (given his prior experience) but would struggle as an Xs and Os coach (never been a coordinator, bad record at Louisiana Tech). It turned out he was bad at both. When Butch was hired, I thought he'd probably be a good Xs and Os coach (given that he fielded pretty good mid-major teams) but would struggle at recruiting (given he'd never recruited in the SEC and never recruited elite high school players). It turned out to be the exact opposite.

When Pruitt was hired, I thought he'd be a good recruiter and defensive coach, but could struggle on the offensive side of the ball (both given his prior experience). I've come to realize that nobody really knows, even if you follow the sport very closely. For all I know, Pruitt might end up having great offenses but struggle on defense. I've been mostly wrong on figuring out what these coaches are going to be good and bad at.
 
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Behr said:
Lol, some things never change.

"We got us a real coach boys"

"No we don't, stfu".
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I'm just trying to save us some humiliation. Losing with a first year coach and a hole-filled roster is understandable. Losing with a first year coach and a hole-filled roster while beating one's chest and proclaiming one's self a world beater is idiotic.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I'm just trying to save us some humiliation. Losing with a first year coach and a hole-filled roster is understandable. Losing with a first year coach and a hole-filled roster while beating one's chest and proclaiming one's self a world beater is idiotic.
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Cool. What's your plan?
 
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Behr said:
Lol, some things never change.

"We got us a real coach boys"

"No we don't, stfu".
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I think (hope?) Pruitt will be a good head football coach and steer UT football out of the ditch. (And I hope I still feel that way Sunday morning.)

My only concern is that he wins an SEC championship or two during Saban's twilight years and answers Sweet Home Alabama's call when Saban retires.

I guess that would be a nice problem to have. In the mean time, just contending for an SEC championship would be nice, too.

Can't wait to see what happens. Go Vols!
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I'm just trying to save us some humiliation. Losing with a first year coach and a hole-filled roster is understandable. Losing with a first year coach and a hole-filled roster while beating one's chest and proclaiming one's self a world beater is idiotic.
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I'm cautiously optimistic based on coaching somewhat but more on the fact that the Vols have a lot of players back that missed all or large parts of last season that are proven difference makers - Kirkland, Jennings, Chance Hall, Tuttle, and others. Plus as a roster Tennessee just has better athletes than UWV (recruiting stats and stars). So based on it being more about the Jimmy's and the Joe's than the X's and O's my expectation is we see a very competitive Tennessee football team come Saturday. We shall see. GBO
 
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Behr said:
Lulz. Its true though. I mean, I get it, Pruitt hasn't coached a game yet and he's already the second to Neyland to some.

But, Oh my goodness....
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Your post summed it up perfectly.

The 1st thing that popped in my mind were the old Miller Lite commercials...Less Filling, Taste Great!

That's what it's like around here.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
We have a coach who has never been a HFC before and who had success as a coordinator with rosters that were chock full of future NFL star talent. All this gibberish about finally having a real coach is nonsense. Most of the people saying this are the same ones who were singing Butch's praises 12 months ago.
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Same for Dooley, Jones, now Pruitt. ā€œA real coach.ā€ The real question is do we have a coach who can over achieve and actually pull off wins. The honest answer is we have no idea.

Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst. Time will tell just like it did for the others.
 
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Pruitt knows how to coach a defense there are no questions about that. I do worry about the offense under him though. I think with a solid OC (and I do believe the Helton is one) he'll be fine. Pruitt doesn't seem to be a micro-manager though. I think that was the biggest problem with Butch. Everything had to be done his way, and he was really stubborn with making any changes. He was stuck in his gimmicky ways, and was terrible at making in-game adjustments and was the absolute worse at developing players. I think people tend to forget how much talent, star-wise we actually have on this team. We're loaded with 4 stars and have a few 5 stars as well. I think we'll be pleasantly surprised at how much different this team will look this year. Can't wait for the crow fest for all our JG haters out there!
 
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We donā€™t know scat from shinola, but weā€™re about to find out soon enough.
 
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One can be optimistic, but this is the same stuff we heard every time there was a new head coach hire.

I'l wait to see what we look like on the field before I'll get my hopes up/down.
 
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