UTK
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I hope it isn’t a player lead meeting. Never has it ever been a good sign to have the players lead a meeting.
People watch too many movies and see it, the team meets, has a heart to heart, goes out and it’s like a whole new team.
This is real life, that crap doesn’t work, it just shows that the team doesn’t respect the coaches and lead so to failure.
It's not a talent problem, it's a heart problem.
I think we know already.This all day long. Now the huge question is “Why”? Is it that they don’t like Pruitt? Is it that they don’t like JG? Is it that the older guys don’t like freshman and sophomores coming in and playing instead of them? Is it that our coaches don’t motivate? All I know is what we saw Saturday is a symptom of the real problem. It’s the coaches responsibility to identify the problem and try to solve it. Will they and can they is the huge questions. I think we will know soon enough.
As the father of a 17 year old boy, I guess I'm starting to expect it.I have never seen a more sensitive group of players in my life including several girls softball teams I have coached: Jones offended them, Pruitt offends them, players coming out of the portal offend them, etc. Yet, their pathetic play doesn’t? If we put the cheerleaders on the field there would be less drama
It all makes sense now. I had wondered why they played so good against Auburn and UK and laid eggs the last 2 games and again Saturday. It's a lack of motivation. If they had wanted to they could have mopped the field with GSU but for whatever reason they didn't want to. GSU played like an inspired team while UT played like they'd rather have been back at the dorm playing Fortnite. Question is are the coaches trying to motivate them and they just aren't responding?I think we know already.
They played hard against Kentucky then didn’t care at all after that. If it was a problem that could be solved it would have been during the off season
My question is did he, CJP, do something after the Kentucky game. Pitch a fit......say something stupid.......or something along those lines because to me that seems to be when things changed. For whatever reason his team isn’t fighting for him or each otherIt all makes sense now. I had wondered why they played so good against Auburn and UK and laid eggs the last 2 games and again Saturday. It's a lack of motivation. If they had wanted to they could have mopped the field with GSU but for whatever reason they didn't want to. GSU played like an inspired team while UT played like they'd rather have been back at the dorm playing Fortnite. Question is are the coaches trying to motivate them and they just aren't responding?
If that is even remotely true, then there should be a lot a PWOS playing and a lot less scholarships. I doubt he played any more than the rest of the porous line. If they played as badly as they did because their feelings were hurt, get them outta here.Jayson Swain pointed out that Garland playing meaningful snaps after missing many practices and exploring the transfer portal - at the expense of other players that did it ALL - may have created some locker room drama. I can see that as a possibility.
Yeah. You hear about players "running thru a wall" for their coach. I don't believe we have that. To use a marriage analogy you don't know what goes on behind closed doors.My question is did he, CJP, do something after the Kentucky game. Pitch a fit......say something stupid.......or something along those lines because to me that seems to be when things changed. For whatever reason his team isn’t fighting for him or each other