What is the Logic Behind Keeping Pruitt One More Year?

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If it is the buyout, you don’t really save that much. In reality, if you lose around 30% of your attendance, along with a drop off in merchandising, and it can be argued, there is a cost avoidance by cutting him loose now. I’m sure no one thinks he is going to turn anything around.
 
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Nasavol said:
If it is the buyout, you don’t really save that much. In reality, if you lose around 30% of your attendance, along with a drop off in merchandising, and it can be argued, there is a cost avoidance by cutting him loose now. I’m sure no one thinks he is going to turn anything around.
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Buyout. No guarantee we could get a quality coach. Team has talent, but needs developing.
I’m telling you this is the best talent we’ve had in a decade, but Pruitt is going to have to get his **** together quick.
 
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The thinking is it's too expensive to fire Pruitt now

The cost to buy out Pruitt ($12.5M) plus the cost to buyout our assistants ($4.5MM - 6.5MM; depends on who stays with new staff, offset provisions) plus the cost to buyout the new coach from his current situation ($2MM - $4MM) plus buying out any assistants that the new coach would want to bring (another $2M). The cost would be in the $22-$24MM range if we did this offseason.

HOWEVER....

The buyout for Pruitt next year would decrease to around $10MM, the cost to buyout our assistants will be larger since we have to hire several new assistants this offseason. We would still have to buyout the new coach from his current situation and any assistants the new coach wants to being in. The total cost would be in the $21-23MM range if we did it next offseason.
 
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There is no logic to it. If we keep him and additional year it will simply be due to the ego of Philip fulmer. He wants to prove that he knew more than the previous administration. He’s made comments in the media throughout the years indicating he believes his opinions aren’t being appreciated. For the record, he was fired for having allowed the game to pass him by so many of us scoffed at the idea he should be involved with athletic decisions...then were shocked/disappointed when he was named AD.
Honest to God, in his heart he has to recognize a guy like you freeze immediately elevate the team compared to what we will be next year with Pruitt. Hopefully, Fulmer will choose what is in the universities best interest over trying to prove he was right. If he chooses the latter he will be fired along with Pruitt. He might have an opportunity right now to change course and be the guy pushing for change. So he could be the guy that eventually gets it right and he helps bring UT back. Or he could be the guy that allowed his ego to get in the way puts us in a bigger hole than any of the previous A.D.’s yet.
 
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I’m telling you this is the best talent we’ve had in a decade, but Pruitt is going to have to get his **** together quick.
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Not even close to the talent Butch had with Dobbs, Hurd, Kamara, Barnett, Reeves-Mayben, Sutton, Malone, Jennings, Gaulden, Tuttle, Magitt, McKenzie, Todd Kelly, Phillips, John Kelly, Gaulden, Sutton, North, Moseley, Sapp, Croom, the Berry Twins, Kirkland, Vickers, Jakob Johnson, Jack Jones, Jason Robertson, Chance Hall, Kerbyson, Brett Kendrick, Wolfe, O'Brien, and others.

With a good HC, that team could have run he table. 9-4 with a 7 pt. loss to OU and 5 pt. loss to Bama. 2016 was a very good team as well, but digressed under Butch.
 
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Nasavol said:
If it is the buyout, you don’t really save that much. In reality, if you lose around 30% of your attendance, along with a drop off in merchandising, and it can be argued, there is a cost avoidance by cutting him loose now. I’m sure no one thinks he is going to turn anything around.
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Agree, but that is the way corporate America views things. Say what we want but college athletics is a business.
 
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Why not pay just Jeremy rather than pay Jeremy his buyout and pay another coach that will be fired in 3-4 years?

I have zero confidence in the University of Tennessee to make a good decision. They have a constant stream of money from fans like us regardless of how they perform.
 
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Nasavol said:
So, a couple million is all that gets saved. And I saw all the mettle I needed to see v GSU and BYU
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You ask the question in the thread title, and frame the question in post #1. Knox-a-rue answers the question in post #5. You summarily dismiss that answer in post #7, proving you never really wanted to learn anything anyway, you just wanted to argue.

As far as I can see, the thread could've ended at that point. At post #7. I doubt anything more useful will get done here. Just another bitching about Jeremy thread.
 
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The people who count the beans up there are not dumb. They know we don’t save much waiting a year. It all comes down to some combination of not wanting to admit failure, unwillingness/inability to make a bold hire, and some people thinking/hoping Pruitt will have a big turnaround next season. I know it’s a minority opinion, but I think there is still a good chance Pruitt gets fired next week.
 
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Doesn’t make sense to me. If college football is back to near full capacity in most stadiums Neyland will be 25% below others and will lose 15-30 million in revenue. We are going to replace Pruitt why prolong the inevitable? If we hire Freeze, Malzahn, Napier or Chadwell we would reach a near full stadium if everything is better with virus this coming season.
 
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The main logic as I see it is to put this anomalous year behind us, see what we have in the larder for next year and if marked improvement stay the course. If we don't see that improvement we've only lost one more year.
 
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The logic is that he hasn’t been given a chance. You can’t count this year for anything and the first one doesn’t count because he came in so late.
 
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There is no logic to it. If we keep him and additional year it will simply be due to the ego of Philip Palmer. He wants to prove that he knew more than the previous administration. He’s made comments in the media throughout the years indicating he believes his opinions or undervalued. For the record, he was fired for having allowed the game to pass him by so many of us golf at the idea he should be involved with things and work disappointed when he was named AD. Honest to God, in his heart he has to recognize a guy like you freeze immediately elevate the team compared to what we will be next year with Pruitt. Hopefully, Palmer will choose what is in the universities best interest over trying to prove he was right. If he chooses the latter he will be fired along with Pruitt. He might have an opportunity right now to change course in easy guy pushing for change. So he could be The guy that eventually gets it right and he helps bring you tea back. Or he could be the guy that allowed his ego to get in the way of things and put us in a bigger hole than any of the previous A.D.‘s yet.
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We’re you drunk when you wrote this or just using voice text and not checking it?
 
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