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#52
This thread grows exponentially dumber every time it's posted. Nothing about his resume says "Saban" except the previous employer section.
 
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Not sure, but Frost and Kelly don’t have any wins over top 25 teams this year. Pruitt has 2, one on the road.

This was a response to beardedvol
 
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bigorangepoppa said:
At the beginning of the season, Adrian Martinez was the starting QB at Nebraska. The QB that took his place after the injury was also a scholarship QB. It wasn't until he got injured that the walk-on started.
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Now don't you go and do a silly thing like bringing facts into the conversation. That's just inconceivable!
 
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The record of 5-7 or 6-6 isn’t a big deal to me. We knew this season would suck.

The issue is all the games lost by 3 or 4 TDs. The issue is the regression since game 1. The issue is players quitting and playing with no heart and making silly fundamental mistakes. I’d like to think these things get corrected but it’s the first big red flag for me.
 
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BeardedVol said:
I don't follow UCLA, so I've got no clue why they suck, but Scott Frost had to start a walk-on QB at Nebraska .

How do you think we would have faired with a walk-on considering we went 5-7 with JG?
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Adrian Martinez wasn’t a walk-on. Dude was a top 150 player in the country coming out of high school and committed to UT at one point
 
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KeepinUpWithJones said:
Adrian Martinez wasn’t a walk-on. Dude was a top 150 player in the country coming out of high school and committed to UT at one point
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Nebraska had to start true freshman, and play a walk on QB when he got injured. That's how thin Nebraska's roster was, but yeah, tell yourself that Pruitt had it worse this year if that makes you feel better.
 
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Saban also had decades to make mistakes and learn for them at Michigan, LSU, and Miami. Pruitt is in his first head coaching job with first time coordinators as well. Looking back at that, it wasn't going to be a pretty year.
 
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BeardedVol said:
Nebraska had to start true freshman, and play a walk on QB when he got injured. That's how thin Nebraska's roster was, but yeah, tell yourself that Pruitt had it worse this year if that makes you feel better.
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Your initial post made it sound like Nebraska played a walk on all season. They played a walk on maybe 20% of snaps. Scott Frost may have done an okay job, maybe better than Pruitt but it’s year 1. Step away from the edge and give the guy a chance that’s all I’m asking
 
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BanditVol said:
Yeah. But it included a very embarrassing loss to La Monroe. Hey, at least we beat our OOC cup cakes!

And as has also been pointed out, Kirby didn't do so hot his first year at uga either. At the same time, both those coaches brought in the no. 1 recruiting class in the nation and have big recruiting advantages over us. It will take Pruitt more time, but I believe he can get there.
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It also included beating the sh** out of us. You know, our last team to win the East?
 
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KeepinUpWithJones said:
Alabama only lost two games by more than double digits the previous year without Saban and even those were pretty close. Pruitt inherited a far worse situation. Go drink or something. The delirious fan base is just as repetitive as the Saban stats. We need to just accept we suck right now and give the man some time
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You realize UT could have easily been 7-5 last year, right? UF, SC, and UK were all lost in the final seconds.
 
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KeepinUpWithJones said:
Your initial post made it sound like Nebraska played a walk on all season. They played a walk on maybe 20% of snaps. Scott Frost may have done an okay job, maybe better than Pruitt but it’s year 1. Step away from the edge and give the guy a chance that’s all I’m asking
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I'm not at the edge of anything. I've always said that Pruitt would get 4 years, but that doesn't insulate him from all criticisms until year 4.

You felt the need to start a thread with the tired, over-used, and inapplicable "but Saban in his first year..." justification for losing to Vandy and ending the season 5-7. Pruitt had a bad first year, as a first time head coach, in the end you are what your record says you are.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Again.....said for Kiffin, said for Dooley, said for Jones.....
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Because fans like you want to condemn a UT coach to heck after a bad year 1. Year 1 is usually average to bad and is not indicative of future failure or success. Sharkboy went 10-4 in year one and trended down. Kirby had a bad year one and we’d all take the success he’s had this far at UGA in a heartbeat. Give the man a chance. He may suck like the last three. He may not
 
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BeardedVol said:
I'm not at the edge of anything. I've always said that Pruitt would get 4 years, but that doesn't insulate him from all criticisms until year 4.

You felt the need to start a thread with the tired, over-used, and inapplicable "but Saban in his first year..." justification for losing to Vandy and ending the season 5-7. Pruitt had a bad first year, as a first time head coach, in the end you are what your record says you are.
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I’m liking the direction the conversation is moving in. It’s not inapplicable. I’m not saying Pruitt is the next Saban or is even related to Saban. My only point was that the first season is not always indicative of future success or failure, perhaps I should’ve said more or elaborated on that since 30 people felt the need to tell me that they’ve read this post before, but the people are calling for change after year 1 are those my initial post is addressed to
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
It also included beating the sh** out of us. You know, our last team to win the East?
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No ****. But he had a better stable of talent than we do now, we had far less than bammer has now. Are you suggesting we should beat the **** out of bammer? Hey, we did beat Auburn pretty good and they were considered 2nd to bammer in the West. That might be a pretty good comparison.

Plus I was at that 2007 game and we got screwed royally right before halftime. We had a clean int in the end zone and some effing zerbra called a BS PI. was close to that point but the life just went out of us after that. Bunch of effing crimson clad POS cheaters.
 
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