Pruitt to Bama in 5-6 years?

#52
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GetEmVols said:
I am thrilled with this hire! I think he will get us back to a good place.

My only problem is if he has success and Alabama asks him to come home he would do that. (to replace saban)
They would of course try for Dabo first but he may turn it down.

1. His family lives in bama
2. He played at bama
3. He is a bama fan and his dad is an auburn fan.

This is the Kiffin effect, but that will always be in the back of my mind.

***With that being said, who gives a damn? We have a coach and if he is successful enough for bama to try for him down the road then he must have us in a good position to get a replacement in the future.***

Go Vols!
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Assuming he is winning big, assuming that Alabama goes after him, and assuming we don't have him locked into a major buyout...

You're forgetting #4. UT is his first major college football job.

That has to be up there with where he went to school or where he was an assistant at. He is a UT guy now.
 
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#53
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Velo Vol said:
I bet someone can dig up multiple threads of people here fretting about Butch Jones abandoning Tennessee for Michigan.

How did that work out?
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That didn't work out because Jones was terrible and no one wanted him... So if you're banking on Pruitt being terrible then I guess we don't have to worry about it.
 
#54
#54
No. Only way would be if he sucked and just went back to being a DC. They have their "coach in waiting" and they love him even though he is their biggest nemesis anymore.
 
#55
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VolFreakJosh said:
Pruitt has Bama in his blood.

Probably cares more about them than he ever will with us.

This will be an unpopular opinion but I feel as if Pruitt is just using UT as a stepping stone to try to get better jobs in the future whether it’s being the HC at Alabama or another Powerhouse program.
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Paranoia will destroy ya
 
#58
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volfan_89 said:
I can only hope he’s good enough here that Bama will want him back. I think Bama goes after Dabo when the time comes.
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DaddyChad said:
I just hope he's good enough that we have to worry about this in five years.
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#60
#60
I'd be ecstatic if he went to bama in 5-6 years. That only means 3 things:

1. Saban is gone.
2. He did great things here in those 5-6 years.
3. We will be in a MUCH better place to hire a top-notch coach than we are/were now
 
#63
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Freak said:
We’re already worrying about him leaving?

If in 5-6 years Bama wants him, then we’ve won a lot of football games and we will be in position to hire a great replacement.

By contrast, if in 5-6 years nobody wants him, he likely failed.

I’d take scenario #1.
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Totally amazing that people think with their heart and not their brain........
 
#64
#64
After listening to Boots Donnelly on 104 this morning about Pruitt’s time at Middle Tennessee. Pruitt is all Alabama. If Saban moves on and Pruitt is being successful at Tennessee he’ll absolutely be a candidate for HC at Bama.
 
#65
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99gator said:
For sake of argument, if it did happen at least you’d have 5-6 good years of success
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This was my argument in another thread. Coaches are mercenaries these days, for the most part anyway. If he returned us to the Top 10 annually and Jan 1 bowl games/CFP’s, who cares? We’d be in a position to actually make the big hire everyone’s been asking for since Phil.

Besides that, I think Dabo will be first up when Saban moves to Shadey Acres.
 
#66
#66
Good grief. Let's save the hand-wringing for when Saban decides to retire.

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#68
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GetEmVols said:
I am thrilled with this hire! I think he will get us back to a good place.

My only problem is if he has success and Alabama asks him to come home he would do that. (to replace saban)
They would of course try for Dabo first but he may turn it down.

1. His family lives in bama
2. He played at bama
3. He is a bama fan and his dad is an auburn fan.

This is the Kiffin effect, but that will always be in the back of my mind.

***With that being said, who gives a damn? We have a coach and if he is successful enough for bama to try for him down the road then he must have us in a good position to get a replacement in the future.***

Go Vols!
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Dabo will replace Saban.
 
#69
#69
After listening to Boots Donnelly on 104 this morning about Pruitt’s time at Middle Tennessee. Pruitt is all Alabama. If Saban moves on and Pruitt is being successful at Tennessee he’ll absolutely be a candidate for HC at Bama.
 
#70
#70
We should all want Pruitt to enjoy the type of success at Tennessee that would make him an attractive candidate for the Alabama HC coaching job.

That said, whoever replaces Saban is going to be a sacrificial lamb. I sure wouldn't want that job.
 
#71
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99gator said:
For sake of argument, if it did happen at least you’d have 5-6 good years of success
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Pretty much this. If he's successful enough at UT to be tapped as Saban's successor at Bama, then our program will be in awesome shape!
 
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MFL said:
After listening to Boots Donnelly on 104 this morning about Pruitt’s time at Middle Tennessee. Pruitt is all Alabama. If Saban moves on and Pruitt is being successful at Tennessee he’ll absolutely be a candidate for HC at Bama.
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So will ALL the top coaches in the country...not excluding the NFL. It’s not guaranteed they hire from the Bama gene pool...didn’t LAST time. :wink2:
 
#73
#73
Tons of bammers have moved to Tennessee in recent years and I don’t think a damn one would go back if you gave them millions of dollars.

They seem to love houses with wood floors, indoor plumbing and not having to marry their cousin.
 
#74
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VFL-82-JP said:
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Being head coach for the first time is a big deal. It ends up tying you to your new home. And the more successful you are, the more tightly it binds you.

So if Jeremy is in Knoxville, and successful, for 4-5-6 years before the Bama job comes open, there's a real good chance that his Vols ties are every bit as strong as his Bama ties by then.

One need look no farther than Texan Robert Neyland to understand how that bit of psychology plays out.

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Bottom line: this is not one of those things it's worth spending time worrying about. Not today, and not for years to come barring a Nick Saban heart attack.

Go Vols!
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Dead on. Every coach and player in the country grew up a fan of some team but a lot of them (maybe most?) ended up playing or coaching for someone else, for lots of reasons. But their identity becomes formed by the colors they wear when they're putting everything they've got into their team and trying to win.

Peyton may have grown up in an Ole Miss family and I'm sure there's still a soft spot in his heart for them but he played for the Vols and his allegiances are fully here.
 
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pismonque said:
Dead on. Every coach and player in the country grew up a fan of some team but a lot of them (maybe most?) ended up playing or coaching for someone else, for lots of reasons. But their identity becomes formed by the colors they wear when they're putting everything they've got into their team and trying to win.

Peyton may have grown up in an Ole Miss family and I'm sure there's still a soft spot in his heart for them but he played for the Vols and his allegiances are fully here.
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Yeah but Ole Miss sucked bad then and was either on or had just come off probation when Manning was a senior in HS. Friggin Joe Lee Dunn was their interim. They weren’t a legit option for a Manning until Cutcliffe was hired.
 
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