The Pruitt Principle

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You've heard of the Peter Principle...right?

What Is the Peter Principle?
The Peter Principle is an observation that the tendency in most organizational hierarchies, such as that of a corporation, is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach a level of respective INCOMPETENCE. In other words, a front-office secretary who is quite good at her job may thus be promoted to executive assistant to the CEO for which she is not trained or prepared for.
My theory that CJP was a good DC and was promoted to a HC position to which he is not trained or prepared for. It starts at the top and trickles down. Just watching him on the sidelines and pressers....I am very uninspired. I don't believe he inspires our team.

The Pruitt Principle is in full effect. He is incompetent as Head Coach. The Tennessee HC position is not one to learn "on the job". We need a proven winner with HC experience. Until then we should be called the Tennessee Volundores. 😢
 
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Well I guess my answer to that is the previous three coaches before Pruitt were head coaches. How'd that work out? Sorry...that
was a rhetorical question. Wait... you said proven winner with head coaching experience. Funny (or not) fact..is the winners don't want to come here because of the crapshow that we have had with our administrations. Along with the unbelieveable part of our fanbase that thinks that you can undo five to eight years of bad coaches, S&C, nutrition, do what you want training just show up for the game culture in TWO years!! Oh and the Administration mess.

My take on this is let Pruitt get the roster flipped to his guys and then you can start judging! He has made some head scratching decisions to be sure, but it's his decision to make!
 
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LargeOrange1 said:
You've heard of the Peter Principle...right?

What Is the Peter Principle?
The Peter Principle is an observation that the tendency in most organizational hierarchies, such as that of a corporation, is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach a level of respective INCOMPETENCE. In other words, a front-office secretary who is quite good at her job may thus be promoted to executive assistant to the CEO for which she is not trained or prepared for.
My theory that CJP was a good DC and was promoted to a HC position to which he is not trained or prepared for. It starts at the top and trickles down. Just watching him on the sidelines and pressers....I am very uninspired. I don't believe he inspires our team.

The Pruitt Principle is in full effect. He is incompetent as Head Coach. The Tennessee HC position is not one to learn "on the job". We need a proven winner with HC experience. Until then we should be called the Tennessee Volundores. 😢
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What sucks is we knew going in best case he gets us back and we lose him to Bama when Saban retires , worst case he buries the program, and right now it’s not trending toward Bama
 
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Even if we suck 2 more years. JP is recruiting better than Jones. And whomever the next coach may or may not be. The culbert want be as bare.
 
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Your fight,he's never been a head coach before and now he's getting on the job training.We'll just have to wait and see how it plays out.Fulmer must have saw something in him.
 
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Billy Ratliff said:
If all the stupid **** I see on here this may be the stupidest.
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Your response could be honestly. Or maybe just ignorant. We are seeing how his defenses look without elite talent. Not good. Give up 38 to Georgia STATE, 30 + to BYU and Florida. His schemes often leave receivers wide open, and obviously he couldn’t stop the ga st read option offense that gashed us for about 400.
 
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LargeOrange1 said:
You've heard of the Peter Principle...right?

What Is the Peter Principle?
The Peter Principle is an observation that the tendency in most organizational hierarchies, such as that of a corporation, is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach a level of respective INCOMPETENCE. In other words, a front-office secretary who is quite good at her job may thus be promoted to executive assistant to the CEO for which she is not trained or prepared for.
My theory that CJP was a good DC and was promoted to a HC position to which he is not trained or prepared for. It starts at the top and trickles down. Just watching him on the sidelines and pressers....I am very uninspired. I don't believe he inspires our team.

The Pruitt Principle is in full effect. He is incompetent as Head Coach. The Tennessee HC position is not one to learn "on the job". We need a proven winner with HC experience. Until then we should be called the Tennessee Volundores. 😢
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Any coach who is selected to a head coaching job is not qualified, yet all head coaches have to come from a job lower than head coach once He was better qualified than any of the other non-head coaches available. All the former 6-7 head coaches offered had turned the job down. We were lucky to get him.
 
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If our DL develops and we get Harrison Bailey, we "should" see a lot of improvement. Surely HB or BM will be productive enough next year if JG can't get it done as this year progresses and gets benched for good. Our QB issues are obvious, but an improved DL would be able to apply pressure and in turn help keep our DB's and LB's out of constant tough situations.
 
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LargeOrange1 said:
You've heard of the Peter Principle...right?

What Is the Peter Principle?
The Peter Principle is an observation that the tendency in most organizational hierarchies, such as that of a corporation, is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach a level of respective INCOMPETENCE. In other words, a front-office secretary who is quite good at her job may thus be promoted to executive assistant to the CEO for which she is not trained or prepared for.
My theory that CJP was a good DC and was promoted to a HC position to which he is not trained or prepared for. It starts at the top and trickles down. Just watching him on the sidelines and pressers....I am very uninspired. I don't believe he inspires our team.

The Pruitt Principle is in full effect. He is incompetent as Head Coach. The Tennessee HC position is not one to learn "on the job". We need a proven winner with HC experience. Until then we should be called the Tennessee Volundores. 😢
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Better stated as the Fulmer Principle then.
 
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SkyVol said:
Well I guess my answer to that is the previous three coaches before Pruitt were head coaches. How'd that work out? Sorry...that
was a rhetorical question. Wait... you said proven winner with head coaching experience. Funny (or not) fact..is the winners don't want to come here because of the crapshow that we have had with our administrations. Along with the unbelieveable part of our fanbase that thinks that you can undo five to eight years of bad coaches, S&C, nutrition, do what you want training just show up for the game culture in TWO years!! Oh and the Administration mess.

My take on this is let Pruitt get the roster flipped to his guys and then you can start judging! He has made some head scratching decisions to be sure, but it's his decision to make!
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None of the previous 3 coaches got embarrassed at home by Georgia State.
 
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Johnnyreb#VFL said:
Your response could be honestly. Or maybe just ignorant. We are seeing how his defenses look without elite talent. Not good. Give up 38 to Georgia STATE, 30 + to BYU and Florida. His schemes often leave receivers wide open, and obviously he couldn’t stop the ga st read option offense that gashed us for about 400.
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That’s not the scheme. That’s execution or lack there of. Safeties turning around and running for a receiver after the able has thrown the ball has nothing to do with scheme.
 
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Johnnyreb#VFL said:
Your response could be honestly. Or maybe just ignorant. We are seeing how his defenses look without elite talent. Not good. Give up 38 to Georgia STATE, 30 + to BYU and Florida. His schemes often leave receivers wide open, and obviously he couldn’t stop the ga st read option offense that gashed us for about 400.
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“His schemes often leave receivers wide open...” You’re dangerously close to eclipsing your previous low water mark.
 
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MOOOOONEY said:
None of the previous 3 coaches got embarrassed at home by Georgia State.
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Without a doubt that was bad and no reason for the loss except for the coaches. That being said, he also beat an SEC west team (Auburn) with the inferior team. Which one of the previous coaches did that? Look, I don't have the answers nor do I think anyone
on this board has them. But to call for these coaches to be fired is pretty ridiculous.
These coaches have some of the best backgrounds that we have had in a long time. I don't believe they forgot how to coach, just like I didn't think Bob Shoop forgot how to coach when he came here. BTW, that in and of itself should tell anyone that something was wrong here as soon as Shoop went somewhere else and was instantly successful again!

The previous problems have to be solved before we move forward. Flipping the roster is probably the best way to do it. Unfortunately Pruitt ( and everyone else) is limited in doing this because of the new recruiting rules put in place. Before, coaches could over recruit by walking thru the loopholes. That's how a lot of coaches could turn programs around in two years. Those days are gone. Pruitt got no help with what he inherited. We all can agree that we do not have SEC talent!! Evidenced by no NFL draft picks. The one full class Pruitt has here, has shown some good potential. Unfortunately, I don't think we have the QB play to help them this year.
 
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LargeOrange1 said:
You've heard of the Peter Principle...right?

What Is the Peter Principle?
The Peter Principle is an observation that the tendency in most organizational hierarchies, such as that of a corporation, is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach a level of respective INCOMPETENCE. In other words, a front-office secretary who is quite good at her job may thus be promoted to executive assistant to the CEO for which she is not trained or prepared for.
My theory that CJP was a good DC and was promoted to a HC position to which he is not trained or prepared for. It starts at the top and trickles down. Just watching him on the sidelines and pressers....I am very uninspired. I don't believe he inspires our team.

The Pruitt Principle is in full effect. He is incompetent as Head Coach. The Tennessee HC position is not one to learn "on the job". We need a proven winner with HC experience. Until then we should be called the Tennessee Volundores. 😢
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UT has had a lot of those. Think play by play guy for an example.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
Any coach who is selected to a head coaching job is not qualified, yet all head coaches have to come from a job lower than head coach once He was better qualified than any of the other non-head coaches available. All the former 6-7 head coaches offered had turned the job down. We were lucky to get him.
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Not the pirate, not Patterson, hell did they even ask Mack brown or Les Miles?
 
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cwbytruckers said:
Even if we suck 2 more years. JP is recruiting better than Jones. And whomever the next coach may or may not be. The culbert want be as bare.
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Recruiting isn't the problem and u don't need a top 25 class to be competitive. Example, Wisconsin has never had a top 25 recruiting class. Tell me when was the last time they have fell out of the top 25 ranking at season's end?
 
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Slingblade isn’t going anywhere. We can’t handle more buyouts and the additional $$$ it would take to hire another coach and staff.

That said, he is almost certainly in over his head. He may figure it out and learn how to manage a program vice being a coach, but I haven’t seen any real signs of that yet.

The low-energy, arrogant, annoyed approach with the press and the fans is grating, however. He needs to lose that.
 
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bigdaddy said:
Not the pirate, not Patterson, hell did they even ask Mack brown or Les Miles?
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You see what is happening to NC since they hired Mack Brown. There are good reasons why he was fired at Texas and will be fired at NC. We did make a mistake when we did not hire Patterson, but that decision was make by a different Administration. Hinds sight is usually 20-20, but those decisions can not be reversed.
 
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