Trey Smith Quote hits hard

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JoAllan said:
He’s had time........if he keeps getting more he may literally kill the program with stupidity.
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Coach Pruitt did not miss two field goals nor throw the interception that put us out of the game. Our freshman QB did a got job and will lead us to success next year. QB JG has been here for years and has still not learned to throw the football into triple coverage or in the case last night where there was no receiver. You might as well start supporting Coach Pruitt because UT cannot fire him being $40 million dollars in the hole from the virus reduced ticket sales and still paying off Butch Jones...who is going to step up and furnish UT the $50 million to do it? You say he has had time which is pure BS...look how long it took Clemson to rebuild their program!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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mitzustu said:
#Vols Sr OL Trey Smith on Jeremy Pruitt: It’s easy to criticize from the outside, but the culture here needed to change. It wasn’t gonna happen overnight. There’s not a lot of people in this business who care as much about their players as Coach Pruitt. Give him time.
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Is that you, Coach Pruitt?
 
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Spook1 said:
Coach Pruitt did not miss two field goals nor throw the interception that put us out of the game. Our freshman QB did a got job and will lead us to success next year. QB JG has been here for years and has still not learned to throw the football into triple coverage or in the case last night where there was no receiver. You might as well start supporting Coach Pruitt because UT cannot fire him being $40 million dollars in the hole from the virus reduced ticket sales and still paying off Butch Jones...who is going to step up and furnish UT the $50 million to do it? You say he has had time which is pure BS...look how long it took Clemson to rebuild their program!!!!!!!!!!!
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Coach Pruitt keeps putting the player on the fired which threw that interception.

Pruitt, is the one who is refusing to try something different......just to “see” if you “might” get a different result.

Dabo won and competed from day 1.
Dabo had 1 blow out loss over his first 35 games.......Pruitt has had 12 in 32.

Pruitt is NOT going to turn Tennessee into Clemson.......I seriously don’t even know what your talking about........I highly doubt YOU do either.
 
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mitzustu said:
#Vols Sr OL Trey Smith on Jeremy Pruitt: It’s easy to criticize from the outside, but the culture here needed to change. It wasn’t gonna happen overnight. There’s not a lot of people in this business who care as much about their players as Coach Pruitt. Give him time.
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The right coach changes the culture in about one damn week. Read up on when Lou Holtz took over at ND.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
I didn’t say that. But way to make an ass of yourself.

Simply put, Trey has invested more into the program than anyone writing a check has.

For people to sit here and turn on Trey Smith is quite amazing. But hey, it’s easy to be triggered from the couch watching on TV
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Look in the mirror if you want to see the ass. You absolutely implied that disagreeing with Trey was, "turning on him," to use your words, and that's a pretty juvenile, facile way of looking at the situation.

Guess what? Trey Smith isn't the only person on earth who has dealt with adversity in his life. Has he had significant adversity to deal with? Absolutely - and he dealt with it in an admirable, exemplary way that no reasonable person would ever fault. Does that in turn mean we have to accept everything he says, or that he automatically is right and we're wrong when it comes to assessing Pruitt's fitness or lack thereof as the head coach of the University of Tennessee football team? Not remotely - and it takes an ass to imply otherwise.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
So your opinion is unbiased and not tainted by emotion?

“Trey, your opinion of the program is wrong even though you’re apart of it and me, I just watch it on tv and buy a ticket occasionally. Basically i have no impact on the program but my opinion trumps all.”

Wow how perfect of you. Amazing you apparently are never wrong!
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You do understand that without fans there would be no football program? So your assertion that the posters on here have no impact on the program is silly.

Why do you think the games are televised? Is it just for the families of the players, and the rest of us are unwanted outsiders? No fans equals no football program. So yes, believe it or not, our opinion does matter.
 
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lifeisdeep said:
You do understand that without fans there would be no football program? So your assertion that the posters on here have no impact on the program is silly.

Why do you think the games are televised? Is it just for the families of the players, and the rest of us are unwanted outsiders? No fans equals no football program. So yes, believe it or not, our opinion does matter.
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Quit watching then.
 
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lifeisdeep said:
Look in the mirror if you want to see the ass. You absolutely implied that disagreeing with Trey was, "turning on him," to use your words, and that's a pretty juvenile, facile way of looking at the situation.

Guess what? Trey Smith isn't the only person on earth who has dealt with adversity in his life. Has he had significant adversity to deal with? Absolutely - and he dealt with it in an admirable, exemplary way that no reasonable person would ever fault. Does that in turn mean we have to accept everything he says, or that he automatically is right and we're wrong when it comes to assessing Pruitt's fitness or lack thereof as the head coach of the University of Tennessee football team? Not remotely - and it takes an ass to imply otherwise.
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Trey has sacrificed more than the armchair QB’s and couch potato fans watching on TV have for the University of Tennessee. Forgive me if I don’t think people who watch on TV have a bigger claim to impacting the program than the guy who risked his life to come back and play for the actual program.
 
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DougAtkins91 said:
Realistically, we played and coached well. Minus two missed Field Goals(6 points) and a pick 6 from the AU 13 yard line (7 points). We gained over 400 yards of offense and won the TOP, Rushing and Passing battles. Those 3 mistakes cost us the ball game.
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Auburn could say They should have won by more if they hadn’t thrown the INT in their own end zone. Happens every game...but when it is always UT making the mistakes, it no longer is an exception but is now the rule.
 
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mitzustu said:
#Vols Sr OL Trey Smith on Jeremy Pruitt: It’s easy to criticize from the outside, but the culture here needed to change. It wasn’t gonna happen overnight. There’s not a lot of people in this business who care as much about their players as Coach Pruitt. Give him time.
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Trey needs to shut up too, and stop defending incompetence. He's paid to win football games. He's had 3 years to "change the culture" and he has. From excitement to apathy.
 
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TommyJoe said:
The right coach changes the culture in about one damn week. Read up on when Lou Holtz took over at ND.
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Kiffin changed the culture here as well when he took over...Remember the 6am weight room workouts...13 or so players decided they really didn't want to play football after all.
 
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mitzustu said:
The kid, and yes I know he’s a kid,
Experienced both Butch and Pruitt. He sees a stark difference in Pruitt. This is coming from a guy with enough talent to be an NFL HOF guy if his health holds up. He respects Pruitt. That says something, bias or not.
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Totally disagree, these guys are MEN let them take responsibility for what they do. The coaches don't block and tackle the men on the team do. Yes the coaches make the plans , good or bad but watch the tape, except for a few these men get beat by the guy in front of them consistently. I am disappointed in this team more than any other since Bill Battle was head coach. Yes they have the talent so let them play like Eric Still,Andy Kelly, Bill Mayo and so many others who wore the orange. I am dating myself and I should not be taking my frustions out on you but let them be men. I don't think there is a Hacksaw Reynolds in the bunch. They play like robots except for a few of them. OK I'm sorry not picking on you just get tired of these guys being called kids. At their age a lot of us were married and all ready starting out careers. So they need to act like MEN not just talk.
 
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I think it is Pruitt's caring so much about his players that is the problem. He cant see objectively what everyone else sees.

But I also see what he is going for. Every recruit talks about the honesty of Pruitt and the staff. That he tells them they will have to earn their playing time and that the player who performs best and is prepared will play.

I think JG absolutely kills it in practice. He probably knows the playbook best, and makes the right reads in practice, and I think everyone knows it.

However, if JG lights it up in practice, and then Pruitt goes with Bailey or whatever, it looks badly to the guys who know what happened in practice.

I think Pruitt wants to ensure that practices matter so that he can say to recruits that they too will have the chance to earn playing time. He alluded to all of this a couple of weeks ago. That he was gonna play whoever practiced best.

And I think that's a better culture than just playing favorites. I totally believe that JG wins practice. We have seen that he CAN show up and be good. He just doesnt do it when he needs to.

I will be interested to see in Spring, when JG is presumably gone, and Salter is here, who steps up and wins that competition. I think Pruitt wants someone to step up. Bailey didnt have opportunity to initially, but I think he is earning the right to be QB2. And I think he will take the job next year, once he has a full year with it.

All JMO. But I see a method to the madness, even if it drives me nuts to watch it.
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
I think it is Pruitt's caring so much about his players that is the problem. He cant see objectively what everyone else sees.

But I also see what he is going for. Every recruit talks about the honesty of Pruitt and the staff. That he tells them they will have to earn their playing time and that the player who performs best and is prepared will play.

I think JG absolutely kills it in practice. He probably knows the playbook best, and makes the right reads in practice, and I think everyone knows it.

However, if JG lights it up in practice, and then Pruitt goes with Bailey or whatever, it looks badly to the guys who know what happened in practice.

I think Pruitt wants to ensure that practices matter so that he can say to recruits that they too will have the chance to earn playing time. He alluded to all of this a couple of weeks ago. That he was gonna play whoever practiced best.

And I think that's a better culture than just playing favorites. I totally believe that JG wins practice. We have seen that he CAN show up and be good. He just doesnt do it when he needs to.

I will be interested to see in Spring, when JG is presumably gone, and Salter is here, who steps up and wins that competition. I think Pruitt wants someone to step up. Bailey didnt have opportunity to initially, but I think he is earning the right to be QB2. And I think he will take the job next year, once he has a full year with it.

All JMO. But I see a method to the madness, even if it drives me nuts to watch it.
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Also Bailey not having a camp has been a huge detriment to his ability to play. We haven’t had blowouts or non conference cupcakes where he can play.
 
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If I am a senior player who loves his coach and I believe that coach is the best man to steward my program and mentor my team mates, I think I would do what I had to do to lead my team mates so the team could get better results. This would give the coach I respect the best chance to continue in his job.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Trey has sacrificed more than the armchair QB’s and couch potato fans watching on TV have for the University of Tennessee. Forgive me if I don’t think people who watch on TV have a bigger claim to impacting the program than the guy who risked his life to come back and play for the actual program.
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You're taking this way to personal and being overly emotional. Nobody here including you is a member of the team, but that doesn't void their opinions. Some of which are valid and spot on...
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Quit watching then.
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Congratulations! You just made the most asinine, vapid post in the history of this forum.

See if you can follow here, genius: I'm not the only fan. There are lots and lots of us, and believe it or not, the games are played and televised for us. I realize that cramps your shorts; unfortunately, there is not a thing you can do to change it, since football - stay with me here, focus, you can do it - is a spectator sport.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Trey has sacrificed more than the armchair QB’s and couch potato fans watching on TV have for the University of Tennessee. Forgive me if I don’t think people who watch on TV have a bigger claim to impacting the program than the guy who risked his life to come back and play for the actual program.
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You can try all you want but you still can't make 2+2 equal 7. Has Trey impacted the program? Absolutely. Has he had more impact than 100,000 fans staying home next year will if we don't hire a competent coach? Not even close.

As I have already stated, Trey made a brave personal decision, which most certainly will benefit him in a few months' time with a very large paycheck, which he completely deserves. Does that mean that no one who follows Tennessee football has ever had to make brave personal decisions of their own? This may be difficult for you to fathom, but I'd be willing to wager that two or three, or four or five, fans of this football program have had to deal with adversity every bit as daunting as Trey has - one or two may have had to deal with more. There are most likely one or two Vol fans somewhere on planet earth who have lost a loved one who died young from disease or random catastrophe; there are more than likely one or two who have had to deal with divorce; probably one or two have had financial calamities and lost everything they owned. Probably these people, assuming that they exist, get great enjoyment from watching UT football, and possibly even invest a great deal of emotional energy into the outcome of games and seasons, just as the rest of us on here who have perfect lives and are just worthless armchair coaches do. But of course the games aren't played for them, or us, and the many years and hundreds of hours we have devoted to following the team through thick and thin (with the emphasis on thin for several years now) matter not a whit.
 
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