Pruitt Frustrated By Lack of Support

[Tnman1]

I'm not on the fire Phil Fulmer train yet. He wants to see Tennessee win as badly as anyone. I think Pruitt saw this as a stepping stone to replacing Saban. Pruitt doesn't see that his prior success came from other head coaches, not him. I think a Freeze Fulmer combination is our best chance at winning. Fulmer will keep the NCAA busy looking at bama while Freeze goes balls deep in the competition.

 

[rjd970]

Fulmer kind of has an abysmal record with hiring coaches, and now it seems negotiating contracts and extensions.

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

What a surprise, another quote from an unnamed source that you guys get all tore up over. We've got a problem with our fanbase, maybe it's just the way it is in today's society but I don't think we resemble the great fanbase we once were.

Neither does our football team. That might be the problem.

 

[Voltopia]

Incoming hot take.

Bid farewell to the endless summer of FIRE MALZAHN

There's already a thread on this gem of an "article." The one labeled "Pruitt frustrated by lack of support." It's going swell.

 

[BeardedVol]

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[Volbrando]

"Rumors flew"....yet this is the first any of us have heard of this? Not buying the story.

one of the radio shows mentioned this as well recently

 

[JonGrudensAgent]

Philip from Wartburg took him down a few pegs LOL

I know and thought it was great lol

Pruitt has come off as arrogant IMO since he showed up in Knoxville and mouthed off about Spring Game attendance.

 

[Freak]

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Just saw that. Lol. MERGED!!!! My title was more colorful though.

 

[Smokey X]

I hope he didn't say that. I hope that isn't how Pruitt really feels. If he actually said that about just as soon leaving and going back to coach under Saban then he's basically saying he wants it to be easy and he doesn't like coaching when it's hard. It's EASY to be a positional coach or coordinator under Nick Saban. Nick Saban's already done all the work. The recruiting is automatic. You get NFL-bound talent every year. The recruits are on average more talented. No one gives coaches crap at Alabama because the program recruits itself and the players fall over each other to play for it. Meanwhile coaching at Tennessee is HARD right now. The fans have been desperate for fifteen years. I mean really. How can he say on the one hand that he understands the expectations, and then on the other hand say he's frustrated by the expectations?

I can't believe that he said that. I find that almost impossible to fathom. It's basically giving up. I can't think a head coach would want to do that. And if he actually does, then I am stunned.

I would really like for someone in the know to discuss what happened with Brumbaugh as well

 

[OrangeBeachVol]

I have a friend of a friend of a friend who knows someone who empties the trash in the TN athletics' ctr who said he heard another friend that he heard Pruitt say that. Thats as much proof as the OP offered that you all are peeing all over yourselves about. Silly.

 

[Chad F]

Again, we're back to "it's the fan's fault."

I am not necessarily calling for Pruitt's firing, but I am an advocate of being very clear about my dissatisfaction with the on-field results. At some point, the coaches and the team have to give the fans something to get excited about. Had Pruitt beaten UK and Arkansas, we're likely not having this much discontent right now. However, those two losses along with a seemingly inexplicable decision to stick with a QB who clearly isn't able to get it done have led us here.

Yes, Coach, at some point you need to show progress. Beating a 0-8 Vandy team that we should destroy on a regular basis does not redeem the less-than-mediocre product that has been on display this year, COVID or not. Losing to GA State last season is still in everyone's mind, as is that dismal loss to BYU.

As Coaches are so fond of saying, we are what our record says we are. Until that changes, I'd expect a continued level of dissatisfaction. This fanbase has stuck with this team through some pathetic years. We're still here and will be long after Jeremy Pruitt is gone. It's about time that somebody stopped complaining about "fan support" and started acknowledging that the crap that the fans have been forced to put up with isn't even remotely acceptable.

 

[Voltopia]

I would really like for someone in the know to discuss what happened with Brumbaugh as well

To me, it's one of those "where there's smoke" things ... I don't take this story about Pruitt saying he'd just as soon whatever as the truth ... but then I do think about him firing Brumbaugh like that, and his growing ... ah ... behavior in recent weeks ... and I can at least see him getting really annoyed at something or someone, inside closed doors, and saying "I don't need this crap, I could be back here doing this and it's be great" in one way or another. I've heard many people lose their temper and say something passive-aggressive as a way to trying get back at someone who's made a point they don't like. So. It makes me wonder.

 

[PulaskiVolFan]

Neither does our football team. That might be the problem.

No, our fanbase used to support the football team no matter what their record was or what our chances of winning were. Today's fan cries and whines and could care less about this year's team who coincidently is still playing out the year. The NegaVol faction of our fanbase has put a nasty stain on how our fanbase is now viewed.

 

[DownNDirty]

Bid farewell to the endless summer of FIRE MALZAHN





I'm not sure what else Jeremy Pruitt thinks he should be given that he does not have at the moment. We're spending top-dollar for assistants and until this disaster of a season he had plenty of fan support around the program. If he is so soft that he is mad fans want him fired after an historically terrible year, I don't know what else to say. At that point, he should just resign and go be a DC.

If this is how Pruitt actually feels, I'm not sure how you can justify giving him another year to tank the program further. Give him his walking papers and let him go be a DC somewhere else if that's what will make him happy.

Oh, Coach Gomer - my $&U##**# just bleeds for you. Your "daddy" Nick may not want you back - their defense is doing ok without you. Maybe you can be the trumpet blower's DC down at Arkansas State, aight.

 

[PulaskiVolFan]

Again, we're back to "it's the fan's fault."

I am not necessarily calling for Pruitt's firing, but I am an advocate of being very clear about my dissatisfaction with the on-field results. At some point, the coaches and the team have to give the fans something to get excited about. Had Pruitt beaten UK and Arkansas, we're likely not having this much discontent right now. However, those two losses along with a seemingly inexplicable decision to stick with a QB who clearly isn't able to get it done have led us here.

Yes, Coach, at some point you need to show progress. Beating a 0-8 Vandy team that we should destroy on a regular basis does not redeem the less-than-mediocre product that has been on display this year, COVID or not. Losing to GA State last season is still in everyone's mind, as is that dismal loss to BYU.

As Coaches are so fond of saying, we are what our record says we are. Until that changes, I'd expect a continued level of dissatisfaction. This fanbase has stuck with this team through some pathetic years. We're still here and will be long after Jeremy Pruitt is gone. It's about time that somebody stopped complaining about "fan support" and started acknowledging that the crap that the fans have been forced to put up with isn't even remotely acceptable.

No, we're back to there is a faction of our fanbase that is classless and pure trash and their constant whining has made the fanbase a laughingstock across the country.

 

[Sam I Am]

Who is Jeremy Pruitt?

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

Hell first thing he did was complain about lack of fans at his first spring game.. Dude needs to go

 

[Rockytopvol86]

Bid farewell to the endless summer of FIRE MALZAHN





I'm not sure what else Jeremy Pruitt thinks he should be given that he does not have at the moment. We're spending top-dollar for assistants and until this disaster of a season he had plenty of fan support around the program. If he is so soft that he is mad fans want him fired after an historically terrible year, I don't know what else to say. At that point, he should just resign and go be a DC.

If this is how Pruitt actually feels, I'm not sure how you can justify giving him another year to tank the program further. Give him his walking papers and let him go be a DC somewhere else if that's what will make him happy.

If he feels this way then he can forgo his buyout and be on his merry way! Win- win scenario

 

[Freak]

No, our fanbase used to support the football team no matter what their record was or what our chances of winning were. Today's fan cries and whines and could care less about this year's team who coincidently is still playing out the year. The NegaVol faction of our fanbase has put a nasty stain on how our fanbase is now viewed.

I think you’ve created this narrative in your mind.

I’m old enough to remember “Go Johnny Go and take Devoe” taking the town by storm.

 

[BeardedVol]

No, we're back to there is a faction of our fanbase that is classless and pure trash and their constant whining has made the fanbase a laughingstock across the country.

It's true clownshoes when one defends a losing coach who doesn't even want to be here.

 

[golfballs]

Phil Fulmer is unbelievably stupid. Who the **** hired him as AD? Oh yeah, Beverly Davenport, who is also so unbelievably stupid she was fired almost as quickly as she was hired. What a ****ing **** show.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Lol..... from the article

JEREMY: Tell Tennessee to fire you RIGHT NOW, then go DC somewhere. Just go BE A BALL COACH and A BIG DUMBASS and MAKE EVEN MORE MONEY.

 

[hog88]

No, our fanbase used to support the football team no matter what their record was or what our chances of winning were. Today's fan cries and whines and could care less about this year's team who coincidently is still playing out the year. The NegaVol faction of our fanbase has put a nasty stain on how our fanbase is now viewed.

LOL

You don't remember 1988 do you?

 

[VOL_Lyfe]

I have a friend of a friend of a friend who knows someone who empties the trash in the TN athletics' ctr who said he heard another friend that he heard Pruitt say that. Thats as much proof as the OP offered that you all are peeing all over yourselves about. Silly.

"the best lies contain an element of truth"

 

[VolFreakJosh]

No, our fanbase used to support the football team no matter what their record was or what our chances of winning were. Today's fan cries and whines and could care less about this year's team who coincidently is still playing out the year. The NegaVol faction of our fanbase has put a nasty stain on how our fanbase is now viewed.

We’ve been putting up with mediocre results since 2008.

You honestly think we’re b*tching just to be b*tching? We’ve all seen what kind of coach Pruitt is.

Thank goodness the Basketball program has a good coach that knows what he’s doing because this makes the third football coach in a row who couldn’t coach their way out of a paper bag.

The whole blaming the fans BS, is old.