Stability wins in the SEC

[SaintLouisVol]

Yeah the narrative is he was 19-16 his first 3 years at Clemson...

Nice touch how you went with the three-year record rather that noting that in year three he won ten games and has proceeded to produce double digit wins every year since then.

You should see marked improvement year over year and know everything you need to know by the end of year three or four.

 

[Cartervol]

He’s def built to handle the stress and noise of ut. That’s part of being here but he didn’t look good or bad to me this year. I can’t judge a coach that has to play with zero talent and try to win in this league. When he gets his own guys in here and has a year or 2 to develop them we’ll see. All I know is if he gets his players in here he’s defenses will be lethal. They have been at bama Georgia and FSU with guys he’s recruited and developed. Like all coaches his future here depends on recruiting and development. Until he hasn’t time to do that none of us know how good or bad he is. But judging him off coaching players that aren’t sec caliber and don’t fit his scheme isn’t fair it’s dumb. Next year will the same as this year. Year 3 we need to be moving up. But imo 4-5 years is what he’ll need to compete with giergia in the east.

Well i'll agree that he needs better talent. I won't agree that he's beyond criticism in his first year, even although it be token. Not going to matter til year 3 anyway.

 

[jakez4ut]

The situation Pruitt walked into Is going to take every bit of 4+ years to fix. There’s no way around it. Will our idiot fan base give him 4 years? Zero chance.

ok. so i agree with that. but that's not a function of "stability" that's a function of where the program is, and where the roster is. nothing else.

Kirby smart took UGA to the national title game in year 2. and UGA had the most "stable" program in the conference, yet they still made a change, took a 1 year lump, and boom off and running.

Clemson was in a BCS bowl in year 3.

Bama was in the SEC title game and BCS bowl in year 2.


my point is there is NO formula to this stuff. it's not an if/then equation. everybody wants to be able to define it and put absolutes on what will happen because "this" happened.

it doesnt' work that way and what happened at Clemson, Bama, GA, LSU, KY or wherever will have ZERO bearing on what happens at TN and this staff.


here's what i will say........it wont' happen as fast as it did at GA or BAma, and it shouldn't take as long as it did at KY.

by year 3 or 4 we should have a pretty good idea of where this thing is, and more importantly, what it will/should look like for the following 3-5 years.

 

[SaintLouisVol]

The situation Pruitt walked into Is going to take every bit of 4+ years to fix. There’s no way around it. Will our idiot fan base give him 4 years? Zero chance.

It completely depends on what the first three years look like.

It really is pretty simple. We should see improvement every year. If CJP is the real deal, the team will be better next year. I am not going to throw out some arbitrary win count, but they should be better. They should win more. It should be obvious to anyone with experience observing football that it is a better team. In year three, the team should be even better. Again, win more. At some point, it will flatten out. We'll see the best that CJP can roll out. Once that happens, you know what you have.

If Pruitt goes 6-6/7-5 next year and 8-4 in year three, I'm confident he gets a fourth year. Jones did.

 

[Vol8188]

Where’d the OP go? I’m still waiting for him to tell me how stable Alabama was before Saban. Lol one of their coaches didn’t even make it a season and the guy before Saban averaged less than 6 a season for 4 years.

Before them Franchione was there for two seasons.

So six years before Saban and 3 different coaches in 6 years.