Pruitt is becoming a Tennessee guy

#51
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PhoenixAZVol said:
I like CJP and want him to be here for a long time but let’s not forget that he was about 30 seconds from multiple moving vans being dispatched to his home last night.
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True. There's still a lot of the hill left to climb.
 
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#52
Didn't read all the comments here, and SIAP, but I hope that CJP realizes the importance of CPF as the AD. Fulmer knows what it takes to be successful as a head coach and how hard it is to win a championship. I really believe that Fulmer will give Pruitt what he needs to be a winner here. Alabama has Bill Battle as their AD, so they will be OK going forward. The old saying, "it takes one to know one".
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I disagree, friend.

Over a 26 year career in the Army, I was assigned to, led, and commanded a number of different units. Was never in one place for more than three years. I guess you'd say it was a business. It was certainly a job.

But I fell in love with just about every one of those units, and wanted desperately to get back to most of them after having gone off somewhere else. Didn't take a dominant decade, or a legacy; just took a couple of years of caring deeply about the fellows I trained and worked with, and developing pride in the history and culture of that emblem we wore on the uniform showing we were part of the same team.

Another way of saying it: the human spirit gets dragged into the mix even when things start off clinically professional.

General Neyland was born a Texas boy. No one would argue he wasn't all Vol from the 1930s on.

Same thing appears to be happening with Brother Pruitt. I'm excited about that. Think we all should be.

Go Vols!
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I thought like you when I was in the service. Then I got out and quickly learned that the phrase "its business, nothing personal " rings true in civilian life no matter where you go, and football is no exception.
 
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Isn't his wife due to give birth pretty soon? I think I remember in the "naming after JJ" thread that it would be January.
 
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Voltopia said:
Never forget, this is a business. If he cements a legacy here, wins a title or has a dominant decade (what up, Coach Pruitt?), maybe he'll be a Vol in his heart then, but never forget that this is a business. These guys know what to do and what to say when the cameras are on.
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I agree completely.

People get caught up in coaches, but for the most part they will leave for a better opportunity/pay if they have no ties to a university.

If a coach didn't grow up a fan of a school or play there in college I have no faith that coach will turn down his home school or better money just because. Each situation is unique, but if the guy didn't play for Tennessee and has no ties I'll always be wondering when the right offer comes along.
 
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I think any coach that follows nick saTan to alaBummer is totally crazy.

No matter how good the roster might seem to be at that time nobody can do what saTan has done there and alaBubba fans are also crazy so they'll run him out of town fast.

Pruitt would also be crazy to follow saTan and to walk away from what he's worked so hard to build here.

VFL...GBO!!!
 
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Voltopia said:
It isn't cynical to me, it's being realistic. People talk themselves into believing all kinds of stuff because they want it to be true. Folks routinely use their subjective opinions and personal biases to decide what they think about something or someone they don't have an actual relationship with. And when you're a fan, it happens a lot. Hell, I've done it too. Anyway, the poster said he'd "come into the light," whatever that means, and said he quoted the maxims ... well, I'm pretty sure Kiffin, Dooley, and Butch quoted the maxims too, because they know that's the language fans recognize. I don't mean that the guy's cold to Tennessee, or doesn't care about his players. I think he really does care about his players 100%. But to claim he's come into the light or whatever ... that's just ... a bit much, man. Time in a place makes it familiar, sure, and it can change how you feel, but just ... gosh ... why a few things under the bright lights and cameras convince people of this stuff, I'll never know. This is an industry where coaches are only as loved as their last few big wins. It's a business. You can like it or hate it, but, it is what it is.
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Cold hard truth.
 
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Voltopia said:
Never forget, this is a business. If he cements a legacy here, wins a title or has a dominant decade (what up, Coach Pruitt?), maybe he'll be a Vol in his heart then, but never forget that this is a business. These guys know what to do and what to say when the cameras are on.
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It is business, but if his blood doesn’t turn Orange then he won’t last, I believe it already has!
 
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beachmaster said:
Didn't read all the comments here, and SIAP, but I hope that CJP realizes the importance of CPF as the AD. Fulmer knows what it takes to be successful as a head coach and how hard it is to win a championship. I really believe that Fulmer will give Pruitt what he needs to be a winner here. Alabama has Bill Battle as their AD, so they will be OK going forward. The old saying, "it takes one to know one".
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Since 2017, Greg Byrne, not Bill Battle, is not the AD at AL.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Funny thing about human nature is, it's additive. What I mean by that:

I've been a Tennessee Volunteer from birth. Never for one minute budged even an inch on my loyalty to this great state.

But over an Army career that saw me assigned to bases in North Carolina four different times for a total of 11 years of my life, I came to understand, appreciate, and fall in love with the Tarheel state as well. I like their traditions, their history, their culture and love their people. Great people in North Carolina--which, if you think about it, is Tennessee's parent in much the same way as we are the parent to Texas.

So I'm 100% Volunteer. But I'm also proud to have strong ties to the folks of North Carolina, as well.

Jeremy's born and bred Bamer, sure. He's also, more and more, a Volunteer.

Just how the human spirit works, for most of us.

Go Vols!
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That one statement there is very correct. More and more a Volunteer. It's true, if Alabama came calling today, he'd leave faster than Lane. Each year he is here, that will change, in 5 he may consider, in ten, like Dabo, he'll consider it his University, his place, his home. Most of us are born orange blooded, some are transfused with it.
 
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There’s a chance anyway that by the time the Bama job opens this could be viewed as a lateral move as far as the talent and potential of each program moving forward. If it ends up that way he’d have to decide if he wants a lateral move to coach his Alma mater yet live in the shadow of Saban OR stay at UT and at that point have the same chance for success with what HE had built up and would have moving forward.

In short, at that point at least it wouldn’t be an obvious move for him to leave
 
#67
#67
There is no point in trying to figure out Pruitt. If he ends up leaving here for Alabama, it means we have greatly improved as a program and are back near the top. He seems to be enjoying his stay here in Knoxville for now, but he seems more enamored about building a team and being the coach of young men, than he is about building loyalty to a fanbase. I think it is part of what is helping his success. He doesn't care about the media or being liked by the fans (kind of like Butch who loved the coach worship), but is concerned with player development.

Don't try to convince yourself otherwise or read too much into what he says. If Alabama ever opens up, it isn't as if he will need to rebuild and rebrand a program like he is doing now. He will easily be able to jump in and get going with a top 5 recruiting class. Also, as long as he brings TN back in the conversation for a national championship, he will probably feel like he did right by his job and will be more comfortable with leaving.
 
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glad he's learning to be a head coach at Tennessee...miles to go yet, but under Coach/AD Fulmer he'll be given every chance to succeed and I'd much rather have him than anyone else...seriously...believe we're fortunate to have him and his family...

GO BIG ORANGE!
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I disagree, friend.

Over a 26 year career in the Army, I was assigned to, led, and commanded a number of different units. Was never in one place for more than three years. I guess you'd say it was a business. It was certainly a job.

But I fell in love with just about every one of those units, and wanted desperately to get back to most of them after having gone off somewhere else. Didn't take a dominant decade, or a legacy; just took a couple of years of caring deeply about the fellows I trained and worked with, and developing pride in the history and culture of that emblem we wore on the uniform showing we were part of the same team.

Another way of saying it: the human spirit gets dragged into the mix even when things start off clinically professional.

General Neyland was born a Texas boy. No one would argue he wasn't all Vol from the 1930s on.

Same thing appears to be happening with Brother Pruitt. I'm excited about that. Think we all should be.

Go Vols!
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God bless you my vol brother , and thank you for your service . And for being a true American hero . I salute you sir
 
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VolPack22 said:
You can tell he’s almost got the culture completely changed. I don’t know about the rest of you but the defense in the first half brought back memories of the 90s. Before Indiana’s last drive before the half to get the field goal I think they had 35 yards of offense. That was very pleasing to see that type of domination again.
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And I enjoyed at the end that he didnt just sit back and let Indiana drive for a FG chance to win the game, he kept blitzing.
 
#75
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VFL-82-JP said:
Funny thing about human nature is, it's additive. What I mean by that:

I've been a Tennessee Volunteer from birth. Never for one minute budged even an inch on my loyalty to this great state.

But over an Army career that saw me assigned to bases in North Carolina four different times for a total of 11 years of my life, I came to understand, appreciate, and fall in love with the Tarheel state as well. I like their traditions, their history, their culture and love their people. Great people in North Carolina--which, if you think about it, is Tennessee's parent in much the same way as we are the parent to Texas.

So I'm 100% Volunteer. But I'm also proud to have strong ties to the folks of North Carolina, as well.

Jeremy's born and bred Bamer, sure. He's also, more and more, a Volunteer.

Just how the human spirit works, for most of us.

Go Vols!
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Exactly how I feel; all Vol ... but with some affinity for Louisiana after 36 yrs.
 
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