Pruitt has never had an open qb competition as a head coach

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Which is absolutely stunning. JG doesn’t have the intangibles necessary to play at this level. He has no pocket awareness. And even when he does see the pressure coming he’s too unathletic to set his feet and get rid of the ball.

That one decision alone could dictate his legacy as a head coach. I guess I could understand the first season. Personally I was hoping krist would be given the job as he had winning experience and we’d already seen enough if JG to know he just wasn’t a good player. But he went with JG all year. Season 2 was more of the same. Preseason I kept hoping to read that maurer or shrout we’re taking first team reps in a scrimmage until it eventually became obvious there was no competition. Of course as the season played out he’d occasionally throw one or the other in the game when we were getting blown out. But neither ever had a legitimate chance at the job.

Enter this season...as weird as the offseason was with covid I was shocked about 6 weeks ago to realize that yet again...there’s no qb competition. My god has anyone as bad as JG ever been given the amount of opportunity to play at a major university? Certainly not at ut. This season is playing out exactly the way any intelligent fan could’ve predicted. Qb is the most important position on a football team. If you don’t have good qb play you can’t be a good team. Opponents will load the box and force your qb to beat them. That’s what uga did. That’s why ky did. That’s what all teams the rest if the season will do. The thing that’s so frustrating at this point is that all other QBs are playing catch up to jg. None had any first team reps this preseason. And none have played this year. And they’ll only now get to play once a lot of the excitement for the season and confidence is gone. I’m not sure pruitt recovers. This season will negatively affect recruiting. And now he’s going to be forced to absolutely start from scratch with a brand new qb (that he’s never given any reps to). Sometimes in life one really dumb decision can have long term implications. That’s why many of us were skeptical when we choose a guy that had never before proven he can make smart football decisions.
 
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This right here.

Pruitt sealed his fate by not learning Guarantano was a head case going into LAST season.

As if GA state, BYU, Florida, Bama, and Indiana last year wasn’t enough evidence for a coach to understand what he had(or maybe I should say DIDNT have) at QB—he gave none of the other guys a chance to make it their team.

They let guys like Jajuan Jennings rally behind guarantano because he was probably JG’s friend off the field—and well—here we are. The low point in Tennesee football.

Just so annoying that I am a fan...not risking my multi million dollar career...and I can see pretty frustratingly obviously for the last 2+ years that JG does not have what it takes to be a QB at this level. So painfully obvious.
 
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chattavol420 said:
Which is absolutely stunning. JG doesn’t have the intangibles necessary to play at this level. He has no pocket awareness. And even when he does see the pressure coming he’s too unathletic to set his feet and get rid of the ball.

That one decision alone could dictate his legacy as a head coach. I guess I could understand the first season. Personally I was hoping krist would be given the job as he had winning experience and we’d already seen enough if JG to know he just wasn’t a good player. But he went with JG all year. Season 2 was more of the same. Preseason I kept hoping to read that maurer or shrout we’re taking first team reps in a scrimmage until it eventually became obvious there was no competition. Of course as the season played out he’d occasionally throw one or the other in the game when we were getting blown out. But neither ever had a legitimate chance at the job.

Enter this season...as weird as the offseason was with covid I was shocked about 6 weeks ago to realize that yet again...there’s no qb competition. My god has anyone as bad as JG ever been given the amount of opportunity to play at a major university? Certainly not at ut. This season is playing out exactly the way any intelligent fan could’ve predicted. Qb is the most important position on a football team. If you don’t have good qb play you can’t be a good team. Opponents will load the box and force your qb to beat them. That’s what uga did. That’s why ky did. That’s what all teams the rest if the season will do. The thing that’s so frustrating at this point is that all other QBs are playing catch up to jg. None had any first team reps this preseason. And none have played this year. And they’ll only now get to play once a lot of the excitement for the season and confidence is gone. I’m not sure pruitt recovers. This season will negatively affect recruiting. And now he’s going to be forced to absolutely start from scratch with a brand new qb (that he’s never given any reps to). Sometimes in life one really dumb decision can have long term implications. That’s why many of us were skeptical when we choose a guy that had never before proven he can make smart football decisions.
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Good post. If we don't have a better option than JG then that is on the coaches, and that will their undoing. It's not like JG has set the bar very high
 
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I've tried to get behind all the other things CJP is doing, and I think he's on the right track with many other ideas, but for the life of me I can't understand the JG angle he insists on pursuing, I hope he repurposes his attention to THIS GLARING PROBLEM before it sinks us, him and a a wasted opportunity for all of us...I think the man knows football but has been swindled into believing that which he shouldn't
 
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I can understand why he would trot him out there this year. He played better at the end of last year. They thought he could build on that.

But build on it how much?

Did they really think his ceiling was worth it?

Why as a coach, would you not go out there and get someone better in a year where the NCAA was talking about a new transfer rule?
 
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Pruitt has deeper problems than trusting JG.

Again, how many times has he pulled JG? A lot. How many times has the replacement came in and played better with significantly less mistakes? Never.
 
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I remember way back when Cutcliffe was a candidate for the Tennessee job and I didn’t want them to hire him because to me he wasn’t a big time flashy hire.. Sure shows how much I know about hiring football coaches.
 
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DWright39 said:
I remember way back when Cutcliffe was a candidate for the Tennessee job and I didn’t want them to hire him because to me he wasn’t a big time flashy hire.. Sure shows how much I know about hiring football coaches.
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Lol. I don't know how many times that guy has to tell y'all he doesn't want the job before you believe him.
 
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DWright39 said:
I remember way back when Cutcliffe was a candidate for the Tennessee job and I didn’t want them to hire him because to me he wasn’t a big time flashy hire.. Sure shows how much I know about hiring football coaches.
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I may not have the answers for all the troubles, but Cut would have a serviceable QB...

“Hey man, just don’t lose the game”!
 
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I can respect monogamy.......I just wish he would do it somewhere else, besides Tennessee.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
Lol. I don't know how many times that guy has to tell y'all he doesn't want the job before you believe him.
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The way I remembered it he was interested but Hamilton wouldn’t agree to him bringing one or more of his assistants. Cutcliffe then told UT to pound sand for good. Maybe I’m not remembering correctly
 
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DWright39 said:
The way I remembered it he was interested but Hamilton wouldn’t agree to him bringing one or more of his assistants. Cutcliffe then told UT to pound sand for good. Maybe I’m not remembering correctly
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I don't think he's ever really wanted it. I don't think he believes he can (or wants) to recruit at the level he would need to recruit at to coach here.
 
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YankeeVol said:
Nope

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This reeks of Bama elitism from Pruitt. Pruitt said Bailey didn’t look sharp his first practice and he told him he didn’t have time to waste on developing a 4th string QB. That works at Bama when a top recruit struggles you move on to one of the other top recruits you have at that same position. That doesn’t work at UT since our talent level is no where close to theirs.
 
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