Pruitt keeps his job if...

#151
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
They’ll have to be sick and tired of being sick and tired. Once apathy hits this fan base it’s truly over. Hopefully they make a move soon.
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It's going to be interesting to watch what happens to attendance and season tix sales in 2021 (assuming full attendance allowed). This season's team performance plus people getting out ou the habit of going to games could spell trouble for UT.
 
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He doesn’t know everything but Doug Matthews is good friends with Fulmer. He said this morning on his show that Pruitt will be back next year, regardless of the outcome of this season. He was very adamant stating there has not and will not be any conversation about Pruitt being relieved as head coach.

I guess Pruitt could always leave on his own as 2020 has been a crazy year, but he will not be fired after this season.
 
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vol94 said:
He doesn’t know everything but Doug Matthews is good friends with Fulmer. He said this morning on his show that Pruitt will be back next year, regardless of the outcome of this season. He was very adamant stating there has not and will not be any conversation about Pruitt being relieved as head coach.

I guess Pruitt could always leave on his own as 2020 has been a crazy year, but he will not be fired after this season.
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With that extension, Fulmer goes out with Pruitt. Fulmer does not survive that to continue.
 
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OP, the pic on the left is the UT we remember, know, & love.

The pic on the right is what UT is now. Only the desperate or a former great needing a "slump buster" are going to touch UT.
 
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vol94 said:
Maybe so but both will be back for the 2021 season
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Likely so. Matthews would be giving Fulmer's story. That story includes Fulmer remaining in place. Any story of changes will include Fulmer leaving. If they need Haslam money to do that, firing Fulmer is possibly a stipulation based on the sides we've seen chosen before.
 
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Volatility said:
There’s no clock this year. We don’t have the money or desire right now to hire a proven winner.
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So your saying USC can afford a higher buyout with less revenue coming in than we have had in the last 20 years, but yet we can’t afford it. I guess USC wants to win more than you do and when they go out and give a HC $5 million or so a year and it’s someone like Freeze or similar then you will be complaining about how we didn’t do that.
 
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Vfl2407 said:
The first salvo comes from Columbia.

Boyd needs to go to our big money people and ask if they will pay the buyouts for a big name.
If they say yes, he gives Fulmer a list and says that Phil can contact their agents or he will.
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No one cares. After the football team went political this year every red blooded fan hopes the athletic department falls flat on its face as the circumstance.
 
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VolMarine1371 said:
So your saying USC can afford a higher buyout with less revenue coming in than we have had in the last 20 years, but yet we can’t afford it. I guess USC wants to win more than you do and when they go out and give a HC $5 million or so a year and it’s someone like Freeze or similar then you will be complaining about how we didn’t do that.
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Yeah, USC will find a way to find because they actually give a **** about their program. The higher ups at UT don’t care about the football program anymore.
 
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The no fire promise in Covid season is probably still in effect, however that may have contributed to the lack of focus and lack of intensity that had put the Tennessee program into a 2-8, 3-7 framework, the administration, the athletic department and the coaching staff decided this was an exhibition season, but nobody bothered to tell the fans and long time supporters of all things Big Orange. Whether or not Fulmer or Boyd can mend the fences from this most recent fiasco and bad image of a bunch of scrooges sitting on their salary, perks and benefits remains to be seen.

The athletic department is refunding thousands of $5,000 and $2,500 annual donations back to the smaller donors, since they breached the agreement to sell the seats for football and basketball season that had been offered and purchased in the solicitation, moving those guys to alternative seats to make room for the donors that give larger gifts into their seats. Ironically, many of the larger corporate boosters make in kind donations through use of their jet aircraft, pilots and personal vacation homes, in kind credit at the finest restaurants in Knoxville and across the state and new vehicle use credits, such that most of the athletic department leadership and coaches drive new vehicles from the dealers that support UT athletics, but you can't pay debt service, coaches salaries, the light bill, the staff salaries, health insurance and benefits on in kind contributions and with millions being refunded to the little guys, you have the projected $60 million shortfall running through June of next year. The number may actually be higher and to throw a multi million dollar buyout of a staff on that mess would be hard for Fulmer or Boyd to justify in any scenario.

But to see these guys that brick the little donors time after time, again and again, subjected to the wrath of fandom and a hardend media that has been critical of Tennessee athletics this fall, it couldn't happen to a more deserving crowd.
 
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