Tim Irwin on pruitt

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ptcarter said:
Guarentano hadn't been hit as many times, Trey Smith was doing his job. Kongbo's knee was still intact. Lots of variables. Jennings and Callaway both playing hurt yesterday. I don't know how Guarantano isn't in traction at this stage of the season. <blue> Not going to a bowl probably saved his life.</blue>
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He definitely wasn't as sharp yesterday as he was in some of the earlier games. Not sure he had fully recovered from that Q1 sack Mizzou laid on him last week. Irregardless, though I've been pulling for him, I'm dubious he can achieve "elite SEC" performance.
 
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I don’t understand why we have to choose a side to blame? IMO everyone contributed to this train wreck! The coaches were equally as terrible as the players. There were some bright spots along the way but for the most part this program stunk it up as a whole.
 
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KBVol said:
Anybody paying ANY attention whatsoever has to be incredibly discouraged. We’re in another 3 year process of firing the current head coach who clearly can’t get it done here...just a matter of time. Team can’t block, tackle, throw, catch or run and the attitude/culture around the program is ish. There’s zero reason for any optimism going forward. Next year will be every bit as bad as this year if not worse.
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Another message from the happiness vacuum.
 
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I saw plenty of improvement, and then I saw regression at the end. Perhaps from injuries/depth issues, or perhaps just not being ready for prime time.
 
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Reading the early tea leaves, I don’t think Pruitt will be here in four years. His mea culpa of “I called these same plays last year against Vandy” is an indictment that he can’t develop mid-level talent, and needs superior talent to win. Also, with his personality of a lamppost, he can’t motivate players to play beyond expectations. He’s a good coach, but not HC material. This will not end well.
 
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Tim is correct. The positives were more than outweighed by the lack of improvement in fundamentals and discipline. Line-up right and snap the ball consistently, play with physicality, block and tackle with technique.

And anyone on this site who asks who Tim Irwin is should go back to Vol Fan School.
 
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Jack Burton said:
Certainly not a reassuring opinion. Oh well, I haven’t had hope since we hired Butch.
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Tim can be a bit negative because of the teams and players on which he played. We had a wealth of talent when he played and had to switch from defense to offense to play. He became an All Pro. It is difficult, even for good players, to realize how far the talen level and the attitude of the football program has fallen in the last 9-10 years. We are at the bottom of of the league in talent and it will take time to get the talent level where it needs to be. Pruitt is the best reruiter we have had here in years and he will be able to rebuild the team if given the time, and SUPPORT for the remainder of his contract. There are a lot of players on our current team who have no idea what it takes to win football games. After his first year, Pruitt knows which players can/will have the attitude required to play winning football. He will recruit players who will do what it takes to win. He will win and the negative posters and fans can redirect their negative attitude towards other teams, be it Tennessee teams or teams of other schools.
 
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onevol74 said:
Been saying this for a while. Next year will be worse. Especially if there is a significant exodus that many are predicting. We will be starting new and younger players with little SEC experience. Pruitt should have done a better job of developing what he has instead of running people off. If he does not understand that then we hired the wrong coach.
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If that Exodus includes the guys that quit on their teammates the last two weeks, we'll be better off.
 
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"Not even competitive against Vandy" is someplace I really didn't think we'd be at the end of this season.


Yet here we are.
 
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What is the bad matchup for this team? W Virginia, Alabama, Missouri, and Vandy. No surprise those were the games that were ugly.
Had Auburn and Kentucky been last, yall would be suggesting 2nd place in the East next year.
Im also with a writer (that I cant recall) that said the tune would be different if they would have beaten Mizzu and Vandy but lost to Auburn and UK.
 
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Cdywolfe said:
I agree... Obviously not calling for a firing but I thought this was a bad hire and certainly haven’t been convinced otherwise in year one.

I’m fairly certain we’ll be in the middle of another coaching search 2 years from now. Hope I’m wrong...
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And the very posters defending Pruitt to the bone right now will be the ones crying that coach X has to clean up the mess Pruitt left him. It’s amazing these guys don’t just shut the hell up until they at least are right once in a decade on coaches.
 
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LocoVol said:
Though he’s not bocking and tackling he cannot give him a passing grade. Good coached teams improve thru the year and we did not!
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They won a couple games they weren't supposed to (Auburn and Kentucky) but played pretty poorly in others we thought could be competitive (Florida, Missouri, Vandy). The South Carolina loss hurt because they played good enough to win but didn't pull it out.

I disagree that the team didn't improve throughout the year, but they certainly didn't finish strong. We haven't finished strong in 3 years. That's what happens to a team with no depth. Overall I consider it a mildly disappointing year - I was predicting 6-6 before the season started but 5-7 certainly wasn't outside the realm of possibility.
 
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I’d say Pruitt only has about 5-7 guys on the team who wanna win and do things the right way. He had to play the “best” he has. I’d say there will be a lot of freshman playing next season. Butch didn’t bring SEC caliber players during his tenure.
 
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EastTN said:
I’d say Pruitt only has about 5-7 guys on the team who wanna win and do things the right way. He had to play the “best” he has. I’d say there will be a lot of freshman playing next season. Butch didn’t bring SEC caliber players during his tenure.
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Five to Seven guys ? What do you base that on ? The only thing I heard is Tuttle stating that not everyone bought in. That is a long way from 5 to 7 guys bought in.
 
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SandoVOL said:
I disagree though, our young defensive backs have improved tremendously from WVU to now. Thompson and Taylor particularly. It wasn't enough to beat Vandy, ok maybe. And possibly the team hasn't improved particularly well, but individual improvement is for certain.

Also in the meat of our schedule, the toughest part of our season we came out with wins over Auburn and Kentucky, played Georgia to the 4th and should have beaten SC. I'm not looking for silver linings but middle of the season schedule has been extremely disappointing the past few seasons.
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I did not see the improvement with the freshman Db's. It seemed to me they would make one good play and then get burned for 3 or 4 plays and their tackling skills were non-existent like the rest of the team.
 
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FLVOL69 said:
Our schedule at the beginning of the year looked like 4 wins to me, I think we overachieved with what Pruitt gad to work with and if we had pulled out the South Carolina game we wouldn’t be in this thread.
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And if we had lost to Charlotte we'd still be digging out of the rubble in Knoxville.
 
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VOL_Lyfe said:
"Not even competitive against Vandy" is someplace I really didn't think we'd be at the end of this season.


Yet here we are.
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Everybody says this, but the fact is, we barely beat Vandy most years when we were good. I think now, we still think we're good enough to just show up and win. So, we don't show up and we get drilled. This is Vandy's biggest game of the year, while it's just our last...It didn't help that we came out running the ball in the second half and tried to trick'em or something by passing and lost our momentum. Then we went back to running and Vandy knew we were going to. It also didn't help that they played lights out and got all the breaks. Those 2 catches in a row on that drive that put them up 24-7 were 2 of the best catches I've ever seen. That was game over right there. It used to be Vandy that had no depth at the end of the year, but now it's us. WE PLAYED THE TOUGHEST SCHEDULE IN DIVISION IA THIS YEAR! A really bad year to have the schedule fall that way. Next year's schedule is much easier, so I don't get how we'll do worse. We may be worse, but we'll probably look better record-wise.
 
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vavolunteer said:
It'a amazing. I've seen several of your comments about Pruitt through multiple threads. And everything you've said..................is...................wrong. Everything. Is. Wrong. You have no clue what you're talking about. Probably better to stop criticizing at this point.
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Because?
Elaboration when pointing out someone being wrong helps those of us not smart enough to see the obvious flaws in his statement like you seem to be able to do.
 
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ptcarter said:
Guarentano hadn't been hit as many times, Trey Smith was doing his job. Kongbo's knee was still intact. Lots of variables. Jennings and Callaway both playing hurt yesterday. I don't know how Guarantano isn't in traction at this stage of the season. <blue> Not going to a bowl probably saved his life.</blue>
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So this year we get to use injuries as an excuse for the coaches? I get so confused. Last year the injuries were no excuse and were the fault of the staff. This year coaches are blameless and injuries kept us from winning more games.

I wish there was.one standard to judge these coaches on. ...
 
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Pruitt may be the answer, but the apologists will always have excuses to fit the agenda if he isn't.
 
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FLVOL69 said:
Our schedule at the beginning of the year looked like 4 wins to me, I think we overachieved with what Pruitt gad to work with and if we had pulled out the South Carolina game we wouldn’t be in this thread.
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We underachieved with JG at quarterback... A better QB would 100% won more games this year. Can’t blame Pruitt for that other than he continued to play him... Pruitt is a good coach but he’s still learning, give him time and a somewhat better QB and we’ll all be happy.
 
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