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volsfan_17 said:
Different situation in your analogy, but if you start a business by claiming to be an expert in something you know nothing about, then you'd have the potential to, in fact, be labeled a complete fraud.

There is an element that Proot represented himself as a Head Football coach, the fact that he convinced someone to believe him (in this case a former head football coach), when he indeed was not HC material but just a good position coach/coordinator could leave him open to being called a fraud, if he intentionally misrepresented himself.

It's hard to say that he did anything but that, not based on the results, but based on the methodology he implemented. IE: copying Bama's blueprint of an actual HC, trying to shortcut areas where he had no knowledge base, etc.

To me this is the most glaring difference between Coach Hype and every other coach we've hired since Fulmer. He knows he's an actual HC, knows that there's no shortcut to be had to replace the work required. Knows what his culture and program should look like (not a copy of someone else's), etc.
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If you wanted to say he is a complete fraud as a head coach, I would agree with that. However, him being hired as an HC reflects more poorly on the person who hired him (Fulmer) than on Pruitt himself.

I mean, what was Pruitt supposed to say in the interview? "Actually Phil, I've never been a HC before and have no idea what I'm doing. You shouldn't hire me?"
 
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TheRain said:
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05_never_again said:
"Complete fraud" is different from "bad head coach." Pruitt is perfectly fine at some aspects of football coaching.

I am an employee at a company, do a job for them, and I guess am pretty good at it, but I would probably fail if I started by own business. Am I a complete fraud?
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Name one thing he was good at?
 
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cHiZzLeVOL said:
Well again like I said that doesn’t mean he isn’t a good X’s and O’s guy lol. Just means he isn’t a good Head Coach.

Auburn when he was mic’d up is an example of him knowing what he is doing but his players not being able to do it or not seeing it. But that’s also on him for not being able to have them prepared.
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If he can't relay to his players what to do, then that's on him. He did nothing good as a head coach. He didn't teach his players how to cover a slant. He did nothing well while he was here.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
If he was all that as a defensive guru, our defenses would have been better here. Our defenses sucked. Heuple is a great example of a coach that knows his stuff. This offense was as good as we've had since Cut left, with a depleted, rag tag, group of players.

This has nothing to do with my feels. This has nothing to do with the win/loss record. This has everything to do with the pathetic defenses he fielded here.

If you look at his career, he ridden the coattails of great head coaches and great players. He's never done anything on his own. He's never had to produce more with less. He's a complete fraud.
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You called it with Pruitt from the start at the hire. That's ultimate moranic level stuff. Cap tip.

I know some folks don't see things this way - but schematically without the great players overcoming with their natural ability - the D's Pruitt used were outdated. He took Saban's schemes and methods, put them in at FSU, UGA and here. In between here and UGA he went back to be Saban's pet. The D's began fizzling a bit when Pruitt was at Bama. They don't work for Saban like they once did anymore. Which is why Clemson and LSU showed the world how to beat him. To Saban's credit he quickly realized and jumped on the new age train with high octane O. He is trying to dial in his D to the new way now.

Pruitt compounded the error by doing the old Saban HC approach on his OC. There are good reasons Helton left quickly and Chaney did not succeed. It had nothing to do with their competence, it was Pruitt's incompetence as a HC and inability to adapt as a DC.

Bad hire.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
If he can't relay to his players what to do, then that's on him. He did nothing good as a head coach. He didn't teach his players how to cover a slant. He did nothing well while he was here.
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I feel like you are agreeing with me while arguing with me lol. I said he was not a good Head Coach. He definitely knows his X’s and O’s though.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
Name one thing he was good at?
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Some individual defensive players played better under him than the previous staff (Nigel Warrior, Darrell Taylor in particular). He had some individual games where the defense played well as a unit (2018 Auburn and Kentucky, second half of the 2019 season).

Pruitt is a small-minded, narrow-focus guy who is a good button-pusher when you give him discretion within a narrow scope. When you give him a lot of responsibility or supervisory authority, he's horrible.
 
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