The onside kick

#26
#26
K-town Vol Fan said:
I've seen a lot of posters bashing Pruitt for the onside kick call. I happen to think it was a perfect call at the perfect moment. The players didnt execute. Exhibit A:



As you can see, every player around the ball is watching the ball. Someone, not sure which one, is supposed to be blocking the 1 guy from UF around the ball. If that 1 guy does his job and blocks him instead of trying to go up and get the ball and be a hero, its UT ball and we probably even return that one a few yards, if not for a TD.

Great call, 1 player not doing what he was supposed to do ruined it. Players. Have. To. Execute.

There are many more instances of poor execution in this game.
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In the Pruitt show, he stated more than one "stood watching" when they had jobs to do.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
It was a perfect call, at the perfect time to steal a possession and get back momentum, and you had us outnumbered 4 to 1 on our left/your right.

I don’t get the folks here blaming Pruitt. It was a great call.
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It was a great call, the only part of that call was the players not doing what they were supposed to.

It's 4 on 1, there is no way the FL player should've been able to catch that ball and hold on to it. One of the Vols should've blocked him back and then nothing but orange surrounding the ball. This is to me signaled how crappy these guys are. They literally can't win a 4 on 1 advantage.
 
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Volfan76 said:
If you want to blame the coaches for something regarding this play, don't blame the call or timing....blame them for not pounding it in to one of those 4 knuckleheads to hit the Florida player.
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If what Pruitt says it true and they practiced this play all week, then exactly how much more can the coaching staff do to get these guys to do one job? I can sit and try to train someone to do my job all day long but at some point the realization comes that this person either can't understand it or doesn't want to understand it. If it's can't then slowly practice will teach them, but if it's won't, well that's a whole different scenario all together.

Seems a lot of what we're seeing is a "doesn't want to" situation.
 
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I thought it was a bit panicked of Pruitt in that spot. It did work though, or should have, but we were already so rattled I think calming things down first was the right move.
 
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a vol n tears said:
This was a play that actually gives me confidence Pruitt can be a HC. I’d venture the coaches had practiced a lot of things that would improve the team but the players are not executing. He stated earlier this year they are having to teach the players how to act at the hotels and how to dress before games!!! This teams has a lot to learn and discipline is a big part. It’s not just talent.
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Part of your post reminds me of things a past coach said the team needed to learn. Hope that's not where you were trying to go. Along these lines, this and many teams do not look the part of role examples their schools want to place in public view. Many of these kids look like many homeless that never seem to find any cloths to wear.
 
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utvolpj said:
Both. You don't call a play you players can't pull off. They froze and it cost us
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i don't have an issue with the call. i get why some people do. they ran that in practice. they did execute it. they planned for it for this game.

probably would have been a good thing to grab one of those guys and remind them to hit the FL player...........but, the call itself isn't the problem. had we gotten the ball, it'd of never been an issue, and it'd of been called gutsy/ballsy/playing to win.

it didn't, so he's an idiot for calling it in the first place.

such is life with calls like that.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Nope. All coaching. Players cannot be expected to execute without being coached up..
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That's just stupid. Brilliant call. We had 5 guys there and one gator. If one guy hits the fl guy, we get that ball. You really need to start being somewhat objective and learn about film study.
 
#43
#43
The coaches are ultimately responsible, even when the players don't execute. Nobody can tell me that any of the Tennessee players in that photo didn't block that guy because they were Butch's recruits and they're just not good enough. That's silly.
 
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
I didn't like the call it the time and still don't. Even if it works I think you're sending a message to the team that your desperate
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meh.

i look at it like this, when you make a call like that...go for two, go for it on 4th down, try an on side kick...you're giving your team opportunities to build, regain, maintain, or gain confidence in themselves....of course, timing and current situation play a role in that. if it's the 4th qtr and you're down 2 scores, yeah, you might be a bit desperate. but where we were in that game Saturday night........that wasn't the case.

if players took it the way you interepret it, then that's a player issue, not a coach issue.
 
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utvolpj said:
They also felt Pope should be a big part of the gameplan. They make mistakes
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But ya know what the difference between Pope and those four other guys is? He tried to make a play, those four guys just stood by and watched the FL player make a play.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Nope. All coaching. Players cannot be expected to execute without being coached up..
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CJP said they worked on this play all week and knew it would be there. It was. He called it instead of saving it because we needed the momentum change. Gutsy call. Correct call. The player who was supposed to block the UF player did what players who aren't used to winning do - choked.
 
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#49
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UT caught UF asleep and then didn't make the play. The play was there but wasn't made. If you see it as the players not doing their job or the coaches not doing theirs to covert the play thats fine.

Pruitt has shown the willingness to take a chance when he feels its needed. I don't have a problem with that attitude at all. Its either a great call or you re the dumbest coach alive to some, but the attitude in general is not the problem for me.

One unintended consequence in that decision is that when they didn't convert it sends a signal of desperation and panic to a team thats doesn't know how to overcome tough spots yet, and pretty early in a game. That sounds like sour grapes because it didn't work but I think it set that tone after some marginal success with a FG in a game where UF had converted on your early mistakes. At that point it just seemed like what UT need to do was just settle and play. It wasn't like UF had ripped off 2 long drives and UT just didn't have any answers.
 
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