Pruitt Frustrated By Lack of Support

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I think the lack of support Pruitt is referring to is the fan base. He is a human and as any human would he doesn't feel good about all the fire him chatter and the lack of respect from recent call-ins on life TV shows. He has a family and they see and hear this stuff. Some of the criticism is deserved but we have gone way past that. I don't understand the need to attack him as a person. He is not stupid when it comes to football. He knows a hell of a lot more about it than Butch knows. He is without a doubt in over his head right now and I am not sure he can reach the goals the fans want before it costs him his job. I do believe if and when he leaves there will be no love lost between him and some of the fans. I am not sure how fired up I would be to coach at this place with some of the personal attacks we have thrown at him.
 
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sjt18 said:
If I had just the money he made last year, I could (and would) retire comfortably. Money should not be an issue for him. So if he's truly unhappy then perhaps he should find a good DC job and go do something he's good at.

OTOH... none of his D's at UT enhance his resume. You'd have to be pretty bad not to "coach" Bama's D personnel "well". UT's D talent is "average" or maybe a little better... their performance is below average to bad. Maybe going back to being just a DC... isn't as automatic as he thinks?
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I guess, but being a head coach is a different game. The fact is that he's well respected as a coordinator and has succeeded at the highest levels on multiple stops. Sure, he's had strong talent, but you can't do any better than winning championships, and programs at that level don't just hire anyone to coordinator positions. Any team would be stupid not to hire him at a position he has repeatedly been successful at.
 
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hog88 said:
Know what shuts up "NegaVols"? Win ****ing football games.

That's it, nothing more magical than that.
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No it doesn't and it never has. The peanut gallery has always existed in sports it's just that ours is currently out of control, just like they were years ago when they led us off the cliff because they insisted they knew what was best for the program. They've been blaming someone else over the Vol woes ever since.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
It's got nothing to do about expectations, everyone has them. It's got everything to do with how the NegaVols act, they actually wear their class as a badge of honor.
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Why can fans from other teams demand wins but when we want the same thing, we’re considered Negavols?

We get made fun of around the country because we suck.

It has absolutely nothing to do with being a “true fan”.
 
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sjt18 said:
If I had just the money he made last year, I could (and would) retire comfortably. Money should not be an issue for him. So if he's truly unhappy then perhaps he should find a good DC job and go do something he's good at.

OTOH... none of his D's at UT enhance his resume. You'd have to be pretty bad not to "coach" Bama's D personnel "well". UT's D talent is "average" or maybe a little better... their performance is below average to bad. Maybe going back to being just a DC... isn't as automatic as he thinks?
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Saban would hire Pruitt back tomorrow I feel. He's got too many HS connections throughout the state and regardless of what everyone says about him on here, he's one of the most respected guys out there in coaching circles.
 
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This season would probably have been a 7-5 season in a normal year, plus a bowl game. If we played a normal schedule, substituting 2 cupcakes for the 2 additional SEC West teams that beat us, and add 2 more cupcakes, we are 7-5, with a long shot at 8-4 this week.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
Saban would hire Pruitt back tomorrow I feel. He's got too many HS connections throughout the state and regardless of what everyone says about him on here, he's one of the most respected guys out there in coaching circles.
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I think most of the "NegaVols" have suggested Pruitt would make a great DC. They just believe UT would be better off with someone other than Pruitt as head coach.
 
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Vol524 said:
I think the lack of support Pruitt is referring to is the fan base. He is a human and as any human would he doesn't feel good about all the fire him chatter and the lack of respect from recent call-ins on life TV shows. He has a family and they see and hear this stuff. Some of the criticism is deserved but we have gone way past that. I don't understand the need to attack him as a person. He is not stupid when it comes to football. He knows a hell of a lot more about it than Butch knows. He is without a doubt in over his head right now and I am not sure he can reach the goals the fans want before it costs him his job. I do believe if and when he leaves there will be no love lost between him and some of the fans. I am not sure how fired up I would be to coach at this place with some of the personal attacks we have thrown at him.
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Oh boo hoo. He should understand fanbase frustration when things like getting BLOWN OUT by Kentucky at home happen in year three. Losing 6 games in a row by double digits. That has to be expected by anyone with any inkling of how a fanbase like ours will react.

Let me put it to you this way - if someone wanted to pay me - heck - even 1.5 million a year to coach at the University of Tennessee I'd crawl there through flaming glass tomorrow to take the job. And if a fan come to my house, jumped on my dining room table, dropped trough, and literally crapped on my meal I'd just have the crazy person thrown out, my cleaning staff address the situation, order take out, buy a new table, and keep ENJOYING the 1.5 million I was making. If you aren't thick skinned enough to handle a job like this maybe you should find another profession.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
Saban would hire Pruitt back tomorrow I feel. He's got too many HS connections throughout the state and regardless of what everyone says about him on here, he's one of the most respected guys out there in coaching circles.
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Did you even take the time to read the post before disagreeing?
 
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kmkemp11 said:
I guess, but being a head coach is a different game. The fact is that he's well respected as a coordinator and has succeeded at the highest levels on multiple stops. Sure, he's had strong talent, but you can't do any better than winning championships, and programs at that level don't just hire anyone to coordinator positions. Any team would be stupid not to hire him at a position he has repeatedly been successful at.
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He is essentially the DC right now. I'm not impressed with the D he's built. Are you?
 
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BSAvol said:
I think most of the "NegaVols" have suggested Pruitt would make a great DC. They just believe UT would be better off with someone other than Pruitt as head coach.
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His grammar alone would preclude him from being hired in a public position at most “institutions of hiring learning”.
 
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hog88 said:
He thought everyone should be grateful that he graced us by his time on the hill and should be fawning over him like he's a savior.

The guy is a narcissist.
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He probably got so used to seeing how Saban is treated down here and expected the same treatment.
 
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Voltopia said:
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.
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This 100%! How can a recruit read this article and want to come Coach for him? If he doesn’t like the support now....does he not realize all he will hear all off season is how much everyone wants him fired.

I see the game on Saturday with TAMU a must win for his sanity. Regardless of you want him gone or not, if you at least want him to try and keep recruits or some resemblance of a team together for next season during the off season, he’s gonna need to quite some of the people calling for his head or it’s just gonna be hell all off season.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
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.
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I really want to hear Ainge’s or @briancrice address this on their show....
 
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