So what was pruitt to do......

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lexkyvol said:
all you arm chair guys?

Covid shortened the off season so a true competition at QB could not exists
Maurer had mental health issues in Jan and hamstring issues. Plus he can't read a defense
JT Shrout would've been the only logical choice, but nobody except myself and maybe one other even considered it.
Bailey....again, shortened time so well below normal time for work and never played a down in the SEC vs an all SEC schedule

Pruitt was stuck! What chaney could've done to help was simplified the offense, quicker plays.....then see who rises from that, but it all is a long shot. Mullen has made a heisman contender out of trask of simplicity. why cant chaney?
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Only CJP had to deal with Covid --- oh wait the whole NCAA had to deal with it. Pruitt sucks as a head coach - period - end of story.
 
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There is enough talent and young players on the Tennessee team to be a good football team, competitive in SEC games except when playing Georgia, Florida and Alabama, where the talent disparity is too great to actually be competitive, we should be able to go .500 in the conference on any given year, however, we do not have a competitive coaching staff, committed to game plans designed to score points, the current staff designs game plans and schemes simply to survive the game, get through it and be secured in their over the top employment contracts to keep plodding along.

From all indications, the staff has taken the year off, playing the covid card, pointing every failure to the pandemic, nobody bothered to tell the fans though, not sure why Fulmer saw a need to extend a coach in a covid year if it really didn't count, and nobody bothered to tell the top teams in the SEC that this year didn't matter.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
I don't think it did. When Bailey committed I think Pruitt thought JG could hold down the fort until HB was ready. Things fell apart and Pruitt has now made the decision to go with the blue chip FR quarterback that he recruited here for the exact reason to be QB1. The NegaVols would have crushed Pruitt had he brought in Franks to replace JG as they are pretty much exactly the same when it comes to QB player ratings.
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Well if you look at the quarterback ratings between f frank and our (best chance to win guy) and there is a stark contrast- one is at the top of the ratings - top 4 or so and one is in the bottom two -

If Frank’s got a chance here - we would have beat Arkansas - Auburn and possibly one other. Let’s face it Bailey, Shrout, Mauer all are better quarterbacks - have been better quarterbacks - and for stubborn Pruitt to stick with pick six and continue to roll him out there was borderline insane.
 
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lexkyvol said:
but our starter had just won 8 games and a bowl. money was on him improving
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6, not 8. And that includes a bowl game that he lost for us, until Erik Gray decided to save it for him. That was the worst quarterback performance I've ever seen at Tennessee until this season.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Belotti was a proven coach who knew how to build an elite program. Pruitt not so much. Kelly was 43 by the way when he was hired as OC. Big difference to between 1-AA team and the Northeast JUCO league.
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Not that big a difference...career assistant at the FCS level vs a HC. And does your “all 150+“ group all Belotti level HC’s together?
 
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ABINGDON VOL FAN said:
You apparently did not read my previous post. Your position is naive and wrong. Bailey only missed 4 practices due to Covid tracing. Pruitt stopped the development in preseason because he considered the 5 star Qb recruit 4th string after one initial 10 snap practice. He stated he did not have the practice time to look at him anymore. Pathetic decision by Pruitt. That decision alone warrants Pruitt’s firing.
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Where do you get that Bailey only missed 4 practices? How come you don't mention the 2-3 weeks we reportedly only had 1 scholarship WR available to practice and how that might have hampered his early season development?
 
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lexkyvol said:
all you arm chair guys?

Covid shortened the off season so a true competition at QB could not exists
Maurer had mental health issues in Jan and hamstring issues. Plus he can't read a defense
JT Shrout would've been the only logical choice, but nobody except myself and maybe one other even considered it.
Bailey....again, shortened time so well below normal time for work and never played a down in the SEC vs an all SEC schedule

Pruitt was stuck! What chaney could've done to help was simplified the offense, quicker plays.....then see who rises from that, but it all is a long shot. Mullen has made a heisman contender out of trask of simplicity. why cant chaney?
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Best part of this post is that you spelled Mullen correctly.
 
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lexkyvol said:
all you arm chair guys?

Covid shortened the off season so a true competition at QB could not exists
Maurer had mental health issues in Jan and hamstring issues. Plus he can't read a defense
JT Shrout would've been the only logical choice, but nobody except myself and maybe one other even considered it.
Bailey....again, shortened time so well below normal time for work and never played a down in the SEC vs an all SEC schedule

Pruitt was stuck! What chaney could've done to help was simplified the offense, quicker plays.....then see who rises from that, but it all is a long shot. Mullen has made a heisman contender out of trask of simplicity. why cant chaney?
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I forgot. Nobody else dealt with Covid except Tennessee.
 
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ShoalCreekVol said:
6, not 8. And that includes a bowl game that he lost for us, until Erik Gray decided to save it for him. That was the worst quarterback performance I've ever seen at Tennessee until this season.
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Yeah, this stat line was a massive liability:


Jarrett Guarantano 18/31 221 yards 7.1 ypa 0TD 2INT

None of what JG did this year was new. This year's JG is an indictment of the coaching staff's inability to either get JG to progress or find a better alternative.
 
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I think it is almost impossible to figure out this whole season while missing one key piece of information. What exactly happened in the locker room at halftime against Georgia. Something clearly went down as the team that came out of that locker room was not the same team that went in. Short of the unlikely event of the entire team being kidnapped by aliens and replaced with terrible clones, something took place that derailed the entire season. There has been a lot of speculation but without certain knowledge, you can’t really figure out this enigma.
But whether or not it was something that Pruitt caused or something he allowed, the buck has to stop at his desk.
This is like the whole “tripping over his helmet” thing from Butch’s time. There is a lot of evidence of something pivotal, but no one is talking
 
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BigSteve09 said:
I would have worked the hell out of the transfer market, with or without a deep QB room. There were viable options that we could have taken. Even if we liked our current guys, I would definitely looked for a change-of-pace option at QB - some sort of TRUE dual-threat.

Above all else, my practices would have gotten a lot simpler. What's crazy is that CHANEY ALREADY DID IT IN 2009 with Crompton. Lean on our big, strong OL to run the ball. Run the ball. Run. The. Ball. And set up the play action. Like in 2009 when Crompton would rollout to one side, he had a short, medium, and long option.

It actually worked, and it could have worked again. Still baffled why we didn't let the OL move other humans, as they were 5000% better at doing than pass pro.
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Overlooking Kiffen when it comes to Crompdaddys development
 
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lexkyvol said:
all you arm chair guys?

Covid shortened the off season so a true competition at QB could not exists
Maurer had mental health issues in Jan and hamstring issues. Plus he can't read a defense
JT Shrout would've been the only logical choice, but nobody except myself and maybe one other even considered it.
Bailey....again, shortened time so well below normal time for work and never played a down in the SEC vs an all SEC schedule

Pruitt was stuck! What chaney could've done to help was simplified the offense, quicker plays.....then see who rises from that, but it all is a long shot. Mullen has made a heisman contender out of trask of simplicity. why cant chaney?
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Every team in the country is dealing with the same Covid shorten season we are. And we are not the only team that has a freshman QB on there team also. We already knew what JG was before the season started and we was not likely to win anymore or any less with HB at QB. So why not play him as much as possible this year since this year doesn’t count towards eligibility and develop a QB for next year.
 
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I think the answer to the original Q is ... When you really suck at what you do, then changing players around etc is kinda like shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic to keep it afloat. I could be wrong, but it appears that's accurate.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
Gotta love the continuous excuses from the Pruitt apologists.
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1, we were HOPEFUL JG would take that next step but knew that he is/was an average SEC QB, at best.
2, can’t blame Covid on our O-line play last year. They’re still terrible.
3, a lot of guys have regressed! Guys that have a lot of time on the field. I can buy a covid excuse if guys were on par with last year, but a lot have gotten worse.(here’s looking at you, secondary)
4, do we even consider half time adjustments?
5, covid is no excuse for our LB’s to continually be caught out of position. Could they not watch film during covid?
6, do we teach our D-linemen any technique? I rarely see swim moves or stunts, just straight up bull rush, where we get locked up with an O-lineman and play hands with him or get put on our backside.
Basically, I’m tired of excuses! We’ve been having them shoved down our throats for over a decade.
It’s time for this program to put up or shut up!
GBO!!
 
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cobbwebb0710 said:
1, we were HOPEFUL JG would take that next step but knew that he is/was an average SEC QB, at best.
2, can’t blame Covid on our O-line play last year. They’re still terrible.
3, a lot of guys have regressed! Guys that have a lot of time on the field. I can buy a covid excuse if guys were on par with last year, but a lot have gotten worse.(here’s looking at you, secondary)
4, do we even consider half time adjustments?
5, covid is no excuse for our LB’s to continually be caught out of position. Could they not watch film during covid?
6, do we teach our D-linemen any technique? I rarely see swim moves or stunts, just straight up bull rush, where we get locked up with an O-lineman and play hands with him or get put on our backside.
Basically, I’m tired of excuses! We’ve been having them shoved down our throats for over a decade.
It’s time for this program to put up or shut up!
GBO!!
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I think 2-6 and 6 straight blowout losses has pretty much revealed the answer to those 2 options. I'll just hang up and let everyone figure out which one.
 
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