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Ten years and lots of players, coaches, ADs, faculity, and opponents. We as fans have thought we had the right coaches but not the players, then we thought we had players but not the right coaches. Changed almost everything we thought would make things better. Fans have gotten mad, frustrated, cussed, gotten drunk but still go to games, watch on tv and buy the merchandise. Just 12 games after our current coach was hired we stand at basically the same place as we started. What to do????????
I started a thread a few weeks ago asking if Tenn is the next Minnesota or Pitt. Some fans ridiculed me but a few saw my point. I think this program will either live or die with Pruitt. Our last 3 HC searches have surely shown NO established coach, much less a proven big winning coach, wants to come here. Don’t say Leach cause he is barely a .500 career coach (6-8 years ago fans would have out raged settling for a 50% winning coach). I think Pruitt is starting over to build his team. If we don’t ride this out and see where it goes it will only get harder to return by starting again in 3 or 4 years. Fans that like Pruitt say he needs 3 or 4 years to get back to competing for the East. Fans that don’t like him say he needs to show yearly improvement. In reality, it may be years before TN is playing for the East. The SEC is not the conference of the 80s and 90s. There are lots of excellent coaches now. Money is at every school. More athletes for every school. Heck, even Spurrier saw he couldn’t win big any longer. Meyer knew he wouldn’t dominant in the SEC. Fulmer began struggling. In my opinion, if Pruitt isn’t given the time, TN will be stuck just where they have been for a decade and maybe the next Miss State.
I started a thread a few weeks ago asking if Tenn is the next Minnesota or Pitt. Some fans ridiculed me but a few saw my point. I think this program will either live or die with Pruitt. Our last 3 HC searches have surely shown NO established coach, much less a proven big winning coach, wants to come here. Don’t say Leach cause he is barely a .500 career coach (6-8 years ago fans would have out raged settling for a 50% winning coach). I think Pruitt is starting over to build his team. If we don’t ride this out and see where it goes it will only get harder to return by starting again in 3 or 4 years. Fans that like Pruitt say he needs 3 or 4 years to get back to competing for the East. Fans that don’t like him say he needs to show yearly improvement. In reality, it may be years before TN is playing for the East. The SEC is not the conference of the 80s and 90s. There are lots of excellent coaches now. Money is at every school. More athletes for every school. Heck, even Spurrier saw he couldn’t win big any longer. Meyer knew he wouldn’t dominant in the SEC. Fulmer began struggling. In my opinion, if Pruitt isn’t given the time, TN will be stuck just where they have been for a decade and maybe the next Miss State.
