What type of rational coach would have started Guarantano last year much less this year?

[Vol524]

The type of coach that has NO OTHER choice. Let's stop beating this dead horse.

 

[VFL1993]

I understand starting JG going into the 2019 season. If you remember, he actually had a decent season in 2018 and so I can see why Pruitt would think that JG would get better going into 2019. However after the 2019 season, Pruitt definitely should have brought in a grad transfer.

 

[Volfan76]

We will find out at the end of this year if Pruitt adapts and survives. If Chaney is not fired and replaced with an OC that has put a top 5 offense on the field in the last three years, he will not make it...of course that includes Friend and weinke.

 

[jarnol32]

I understand starting JG going into the 2019 season. If you remember, he actually had a decent season in 2018 and so I can see why Pruitt would think that JG would get better going into 2019. However after the 2019 season, Pruitt definitely should have brought in a grad transfer.

Smh. Have you forgotten what a decent quarterback looks like? He threw for 1900 yards and 12 touchdowns in 2018. That’s not decent that’s below average.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Just like the last two coaches, Pruitt keeps making stupid mistakes.

He’s way in over his head.

 

[Kinglberry]

I’m getting tired of him stating the defense needs to do a better job of stopping the other team on third down and getting off the field. No s**t. He says it every game.

He needs to do a better job getting the offense to last past a 3 and out. When we can get those to under 5 a game, we'll be making some progress maybe.

 

[VFL1993]

Smh. Have you forgotten what a decent quarterback looks like? He threw for 1900 yards and 12 touchdowns in 2018. That’s not decent that’s below average.

He also only threw 3 ints and had a 62% completion percentage. Both are pretty decent imo considering how terrible our offense was that season. Plus Pruitt’s offensive philosophy doesn’t exactly give rise to many 3,500 plus yard passers.

 

[Nationdom]

What did u people think was going to happen yesterday? I read these posts and it seems like everybody is surprised

I expected a hard fought win.

 

[jarnol32]

He also only threw 3 ints and had a 62% completion percentage. Both are pretty decent imo considering how terrible our offense was that season. Plus Pruitt’s offensive philosophy doesn’t exactly give rise to many 3,500 plus yard passers.

Have you noticed the direct correlation of #2 playing quarterback, and the fact our offense is terrible?

 

[VOLnVANDYland]

It’s unreal. It’s so blatantly obvious what you have in Guarantano. Yet Pruitt hitched his wagon to a Bitch Jones guy. And here we are.

Pruitt is going to squander his opportunity as a head coach because of a dump footed QB that makes bad decisions and cannot get out of his own head.

Guarantano needs to get a greyhound out of town ASAP.

What’s worse: that he seems stubbornly attached to JG risking all the momentum we had at the end of last year or that in 3 years he has not developed a better an option? Toss up to me...

 

[VOLnVANDYland]

You need to stop blaming Butch. It isn't Butch's fault that Pruitt doesn't have a QB ready to play in the SEC.

BTW, (and I don't like Butch) Butch's third year team would beat the hell out of Pruitt's third year team and he walked into the same exact situation as Pruitt

Only because of Dobbs

 

[m1al]

 

[sjt18]

It’s unreal. It’s so blatantly obvious what you have in Guarantano. Yet Pruitt hitched his wagon to a Bitch Jones guy. And here we are.

Pruitt is going to squander his opportunity as a head coach because of a dump footed QB that makes bad decisions and cannot get out of his own head.

Guarantano needs to get a greyhound out of town ASAP.

Hindsight is indeed 20/20.

The strategy failed. But it was pretty reasonable at the point in January of 2019 when Pruitt had to make the decision. He had JG who has talent but had struggled in a lot of ways. He had Shrout who has an arm but apparently still struggles with the playbook. He had Maurer who was very raw but talented.

Any choice he made was going to require a much higher than normal level of focus and time. He chose to believe that JG's problems were a matter of past coaching and development. He chose to believe that his ceiling was higher than it appears to be and that he was the most likely route to early success.

I personally think THAT decision was a good calculation. How he could watch JG's inconsistency last year and the last two games and NOT believe he needed to make a change... I don't know.

 

[FLVOL_79]

The only coaches who would keep starting JG are either in D2/3 ball, mentally deficient in math, plants trying to destroy a program, or are being blackmailed by him.

 

[rdk4121]

I don't think he hitched his wagon to JG. In his first year he brought in a grad transfer that didn't beat him out. Last year, we had literally zero experience behind JG, yet we still benched him for a true freshman, who then got hurt. Once JG started again he played mostly okay and we won several games in a row. This year JG played well enough to not lose his job for two weeks, and poorly for two weeks in a row. The problem is the people behind him. Bailey had barely practiced at all, Maurer had been hurt until last week, and Shrout just doesn't seem to be that good. Look we've got a bye week to figure out some stuff back there so why don't we just let them try to figure it out?

I think we'll have a new QB by the time Arkansas comes around. Who knows though? Just give it some time.

 

[VOLnMiami]

Well if we lose to Arkansas after them losing 20 straight SEC games and having a first year head coach, Pruitt and that entire staff should be fired immediately ...That will tell us everything we need to know about this staff...That would definitely be one of the most humiliating losses in our history...We would be the laughing stock of the entire country.

 

[VOLINVONORE]

It’s unreal. It’s so blatantly obvious what you have in Guarantano. Yet Pruitt hitched his wagon to a Bitch Jones guy. And here we are.

Pruitt is going to squander his opportunity as a head coach because of a dump footed QB that makes bad decisions and cannot get out of his own head.

Guarantano needs to get a greyhound out of town ASAP.

 

[DougAtkins91]

It’s unreal. It’s so blatantly obvious what you have in Guarantano. Yet Pruitt hitched his wagon to a Bitch Jones guy. And here we are.

Pruitt is going to squander his opportunity as a head coach because of a dump footed QB that makes bad decisions and cannot get out of his own head.

Guarantano needs to get a greyhound out of town ASAP.

Jeremy Pruitt.

 

[USAFgolferVol]

Only because of Dobbs

We were better at every position, not just QB