We hired a high school coach, and let's face facts: that's what we have

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joevol33 said:
I'm not saying he's the guy, but he didn't magically bring star football players with him. Same team that quit last year, minus a few freshman.
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The same Florida team that needed a miracle hail mary to beat the worst UT team of the last 60 years (before this year) didn't suddenly gain a bunch of stars either. It's the same Florida team that was physically punished by Kentucky two weeks ago. The same Florida team that won 4 games last year. Difference is, we have somehow gotten worse. No effort, chaos on the sidelines, chaos on the fields. Look like a JV team that's thrust onto the field after every starter got hurt. Putrid putrid effort by the entire staff to date.
 
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Can't argue the effort, but I'm 43, and I don't care which team has what, we've always been owned by them in my lifetime. IDK if that will change at all sadly.
VolArmy74 said:
The same Florida team that needed a miracle hail mary to beat the worst UT team of the last 60 years (before this year) didn't suddenly gain a bunch of stars either. It's the same Florida team that was physically punished by Kentucky two weeks ago. The same Florida team that won 4 games last year. Difference is, we have somehow gotten worse. No effort, chaos on the sidelines, chaos on the fields. Look like a JV team that's thrust onto the field after every starter got hurt. Putrid putrid effort by the entire staff to date.
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coaches and qb's as we all know get too much credit and too much blame, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how our OL over the years has been so bad. Hell, even 2 star vandy guys can figure out how to block better than our disjointed group. Not sure any coach can do much when we've got no time to operate. Need to forget skill players in signing class and sign 25 OL/DL
 
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norriscraftbasser said:
What we have are high school players that were never developed by the last coach.
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Not calling for Pruitt's head just yet, but are you not aware that the previous coach was much more competitive against Florida? He even beat them the year before last. And UF's average margin of victory in their last 3 wins against us was by less than a field goal.

This was a colossal disappointment. Reminding us about the previous coach doesn't soften the blow.
 
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Tennesse has had 4 complete and total rebuilds in the last decade. It has destroyed depth and continutiy, and that is just the reality of it.

Pruitt is gonna need 5 classes imo. That means 4 more full seasons of this kind of garbage before this team will be back up to an SEC-caliber level.

We will suck next year, but have a much better schedule. Maybe 6-6?

Maybe we get over .500 in 2020.

2021 and 2022 should be different if Pruitt is really any good, but who knows?

People are just gonna have to deal with mediocrity for a few more years until then, IMO.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
The same Florida team that needed a miracle hail mary to beat the worst UT team of the last 60 years (before this year) didn't suddenly gain a bunch of stars either. It's the same Florida team that was physically punished by Kentucky two weeks ago. The same Florida team that won 4 games last year. Difference is, we have somehow gotten worse. No effort, chaos on the sidelines, chaos on the fields. Look like a JV team that's thrust onto the field after every starter got hurt. Putrid putrid effort by the entire staff to date.
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Plain and simple, Mullen is a seasoned head coach, and Pruitt is an upstart with little experience in fixing broken teams. His success has been on the back of good head coaches, with top-tier talent.

He'll get 4 years of his six to try and learn the job, but for a debut year, it's not going to end well for him. I'll be surprised if he keeps Helton, past the Sunday after Vanderbilt.
 
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It even took Kirby Smart a year to get uga right. But he had players. And a 10-3 team. This team was 4-8. But you have to pick and choose when to do things. You know the year is a wash. JP acted like he felt he had to win this particular game or the season was over. He panicked.
 
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BeardedVol said:
Plain and simple, Mullen is a seasoned head coach, and Pruitt is an upstart with little experience in fixing broken teams. His success has been on the back of good head coaches, with top-tier talent.

He'll get 4 years of his six to try and learn the job, but for a debut year, it's not going to end well for him. I'll be surprised if he keeps Helton, past the Sunday after Vanderbilt.
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This right here.
 
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Fred Weary said:
He's never even been a head coach in pop warner. And anyone being honest knows that that lack of experience is glaringly obvious. This isn't going to proceed or end well. The guy is in over his head.
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I don't understand people taking ex players names as their user name and want to be taken seriously. That is just weird.
 
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AshG said:
Can we get a merge for all the "Sky is falling / Wrong Coach" posts? They're clogging up the better content.
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Amen! I second the motion. Even better why don’t they leave vol nation and start their own board, call it Champion Complainers and Blamers of Life
 
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ESPN said 15th in recruiting so far -- not good enough to be a top tier SEC team with that low of a ranking
BeardedVol said:
Plain and simple, Mullen is a seasoned head coach, and Pruitt is an upstart with little experience in fixing broken teams. His success has been on the back of good head coaches, with top-tier talent.

He'll get 4 years of his six to try and learn the job, but for a debut year, it's not going to end well for him. I'll be surprised if he keeps Helton, past the Sunday after Vanderbilt.
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He better run off some lackluster players as well
 
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Pruitt is a good coach. It's easy to have 100,000 fans saying do this or do that. Football is a time and dedication game. Do I think we should have opened up the offense more? Yes. At the same time, I understand why we ran it a lot. We do not have talent to win 1 SEC game right unless we were playing Arkansas. At the rate the offensive line is blocking, we are going to need JG, Keller, Will, and JT to finish the season. Our qbs are in for a long year. Our line has been awful for a long time. Dobbs was able to cover it up while he was there.
 
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BeardedVol said:
Plain and simple, Mullen is a seasoned head coach, and Pruitt is an upstart with little experience in fixing broken teams. His success has been on the back of good head coaches, with top-tier talent.

He'll get 4 years of his six to try and learn the job, but for a debut year, it's not going to end well for him. I'll be surprised if he keeps Helton, past the Sunday after Vanderbilt.
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Plain and simple huh?
So why did Chip Kelley lose his first 2 games at UCLA by 20+ points. Must be an upstart with no HC experience too I guess,
 
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BeardedVol said:
Plain and simple, Mullen is a seasoned head coach, and Pruitt is an upstart with little experience in fixing broken teams. His success has been on the back of good head coaches, with top-tier talent.

He'll get 4 years of his six to try and learn the job, but for a debut year, it's not going to end well for him. I'll be surprised if he keeps Helton, past the Sunday after Vanderbilt.
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Mullen had bad calls and got in the refs face. He was more prepared. I've seen BJ go bezerk on refs. I think I seen him get one penalty in the 2013 uga game. And that ignited the team. But Pruits just deflated the team even more. It was like he kept reminded them why they were 4-8. They kept acting like they were disappointing their HC and were scared instead of being fired up.
 
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