UT would have gone 6-6 if they'd played a normal schedule last year....

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Samthebam said:
I’d take where we are.
Pruitt was killing/has killed our program. He could get out of here soon enough.
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Pruitt done more the time he was at UT than the other 3 coaches before him combined. Pruitt proved to be the worse coach in UT history and Fulmer the worse AD in school history.
 
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I wanted Pruitt to succeed here so bad. I really did. Definitely don't think he was cut out to be a head coach. Just too hard headed. But I really would have liked to have seen what we could have done with a full, regular season, no covid, full spring and fall camps. I think Bailey would have been in a much better position to come in and play sooner than he did. Maybe the offense gets going earlier in the year. What might have/could have been. Doesn't matter though, of course.
 
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TrueOrange said:
Worth noting, but last year’s original schedule would have originally still seen the schedule shift toward Tennessee playing Missouri earlier in the season.

UT was originally scheduled to play them on October 3 (UT’s 5th game of the season) before the schedule changed due to the pandemic.

Tennessee Football Announces 2020 Schedule - University of Tennessee Athletics
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You're right.

Even though we beat them pretty handily, I'm still not sure we would have beat them again. To me it's a coin flip.
 
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knox-townVOL said:
We will never know what happened after the first half of that Georgia game.

We were a team with so much heart and fire, and we were beating Georgia at halftime. The wheels came off the entire season in that second half, I’ve never seen an implosion like that.
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Yeah if we’re being judgement day honest and not letting our disdain rule our thought processes we’d have to admit until that 2nd half against Georgia we were looking ok. Something happened (and I don’t pretend to know enough psychology to know what) to the Vols and the rest is history. Clearly JP knows how to coach or the NFL wouldn’t have hired him. Being the head coach obviously didn’t work out though. It’s hard to get any reliable info anywhere because emotions stain most opinions. We had good talent but once the worm turned we couldn’t overcome it.
 
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TrueOrange said:
Last year, though, would have originally still seen the schedule shift toward Tennessee playing Missouri earlier in the season.

UT was originally scheduled to play them on October 3 (UT’s 5th game of the season) before the schedule changed due to the pandemic.

Tennessee Football Announces 2020 Schedule - University of Tennessee Athletics
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Yes I’m aware. UT was a **** show by game 5. Missou improved. UT got worse. Not sure why that’s hard to figure out. And, has no bearing on what Pruitt was doing behind the scenes.
 
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I see 4 maybe 5 wins total in the original schedule. No way we would have beaten Mizzu after they had 4 games under their belt and Troy would have been a toss up.
 
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If we had gone 6-6, people on here would say we were so close to 11-1 and would have been East Champs and been asking Phil to extend Pruitt with a lifetime contract. Last season was probably a net positive for UT in the long run.
 
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If we play a normal schedule last year it means no covid, so HB gets a full spring to prepare. He might have won the starting job before fall camp. Who knows what would have happened...
 
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Alto1 said:
If I’m not mistaken, Oklahoma was on the “normal”schedule and I highly doubt we would of beaten them last year.
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Oklahoma was awful at the beginning of the season got alot better as the season went on, not saying we would've beat them it would have been a god awful game to have watched
 
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MBVFL1 said:
Oklahoma was awful at the beginning of the season got alot better as the season went on, not saying we would've beat them it would have been a god awful game to have watched
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Who knows. Early, we looked like we might be a .500 SEC team. Didn't take long to fix that.
 
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jwilliams said:
If we play a normal schedule last year it means no covid, so HB gets a full spring to prepare. He might have won the starting job before fall camp. Who knows what would have happened...
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We still couldn't have stopped the slant.
 
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Almost without a doubt.... but I don't think that would have been enough considering the NCAA stuff.
 
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hog88 said:
We still couldn't have stopped the slant.
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Ya, for sure... but I think QB play was a bigger issue. Think of all the 14 point swings JG was responsible for.

Edit - And Pruitt's meddling with the offense in general.
 
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I think it worked out ok that we were bad enough on the field to get rid of Tater Head. I figure he stayed violations got worse and punishment got larger.
 
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dlobh said:
and might still have ol' Tater head for the coach. With wins against the same teams in conference - Missouri, SCe, and Vandy, and 3 OOC wins - 6-6. Would you rather have that or the current situation?
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Going 6-6 is a big assumption considering the inconsistency under Pruitt’s tenure. And you would still have the ncaa violations. That stuff wouldn’t stay buried forever.
 
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dlobh said:
and might still have ol' Tater head for the coach. With wins against the same teams in conference - Missouri, SCe, and Vandy, and 3 OOC wins - 6-6. Would you rather have that or the current situation?
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...and we would still be handing out McDonald's bags
 
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buckfama said:
I would like to know what happened in the locker room. Who knows what really happened.


I tend to believe that Pruitt made zero adjustments and Georgia evidently made the right ones. We were simply out coached, the players saw it and just quit.
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Our first half against Georgia was misleading. We received fortunate breaks in the first half of the GA game and Kirby made decision errors. We were lucky not to be behind by two touchdowns or more in the first half.
 
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