Why is everyone so optimistic about Pruitt and his staff?

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volfan102455 said:
I don't. Fulmer was let go for a reason. Also college football has changed drastically in the last 10 years.

I remember folks bashing the OC hire of MD because he had been out of college football for 2 years. Yet they give Fulmer, who has been out for 10 years the benefit of the doubt.

Sheep are running rampant right now.
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The reason Fulmer was fired was because we had an idiot for AD. It would not have happened at that time if Doug Dickey was still AD. You have to understand football to really evaluate the coach. As you can see on these boards fans are all over the place with their opinions so using the fans as a measure is not a very sound way of firing or hiring a coach (Schiano being the exception). It is fine to have an opinion. There are a few on this site that really study and know football from playing and coaching. The thing that I really like about Coach Pruitt is that he is going to bring a toughness to Tennessee that has been missing. That toughness is very important when performing in the trenches.
 
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Longsufferingvol said:
I am glad the disaster of a coaching search is over like everyone else, but I am not completely sold on Pruitt and the staff. From where I am standing, we will have a head coach who has never been in that role before, an offensive coordinator who did not call plays at his last job, and a defensive coordinator who was a position coach last year. What could possibly go wrong with that combination? :crazy: Does the name Larry Scott or Sal Sunseri ring any bells? I can handle hiring a rookie head coach, but the combination of inexperience at all three of the most important positions of the coaching staff is cause for concern. Butch was criticized for hiring his buddies to his own detriment, so what do you make of these moves by Pruitt? He got his first opportunity to be a head coach and he put the future of Tennessee football in the hands of his inexperienced buddies. He hopes it will all work out, but if it doesnt he can go back to Bama and Tennessee will continue to suck.
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I'll counter with a question of my own. Why would anyone want to be a pessimist? You have absolutely zero control over the situation. You aren't part of the admin, you aren't a coach, and you aren't a player. Sure, as a fan, you're invested in how the team performs, but it really has zero bearing on your personal life. It's going to play out how it's going to play out, and none of us have the slightest clue as to what the future holds. Negativistic prognostication only makes you miserable. Lighten up and enjoy life, my friend. :yahoo:
 
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It's the cliche of the way people are deep within themselves. Do you see the half filled glass of water as half empty or half full? I tend toward optimism but am a skeptic to the point I'm almost a contraire. I'm pulling for Pruitt to be successful and excited for the change, UT should never experience what we saw last season. Do I think Pruitt can succeed>? Yes. Am I ready to throw a party for winning the SEC East? No, not until that happens.
 
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CJP is a proven winner..Everywhere he has coached they have won and have had great defenses..
Defense wins games..That is something we have lacked for years..Will be great to see us playing defense again...
I believe he has a great football mind..He has been involved with the game since an early age..He is putting together an excellent staff also..
GBO
 
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Longsufferingvol said:
I am glad the disaster of a coaching search is over like everyone else, but I am not completely sold on Pruitt and the staff. From where I am standing, we will have a head coach who has never been in that role before, an offensive coordinator who did not call plays at his last job, and a defensive coordinator who was a position coach last year. What could possibly go wrong with that combination? :crazy: Does the name Larry Scott or Sal Sunseri ring any bells? I can handle hiring a rookie head coach, but the combination of inexperience at all three of the most important positions of the coaching staff is cause for concern. Butch was criticized for hiring his buddies to his own detriment, so what do you make of these moves by Pruitt? He got his first opportunity to be a head coach and he put the future of Tennessee football in the hands of his inexperienced buddies. He hopes it will all work out, but if it doesnt he can go back to Bama and Tennessee will continue to suck.
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Because if you're a fan of UT, you have NO choice. Either try and see the bright side (no matter how slim the chances for success are) or just quit and find another hobby.
This staff is nothing more than unproven "hope so's". Not a proven HC, OC or DC in the bunch.
Fandom, more times than not, trumps common sense. We'll be right back here in 3-4 years clapping for the next dolt that this "leadership" decides to make a millionaire.
 
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Are you looking for someone to convince you to buy in?

There aren't many "sure things" in hiring college football coaches. I'm not sure there have been more than 3 or 4 of those types of hires across college football in the last 10 years.

I think most people are cautiously optimistic about Pruitt and his staff because at the end of the day, no one knows, and it's much better to live hopeful. Given our last decade, it's perfectly understandable to be hesitant though.
 
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You have choices in life. Be a hater, negative, whiners and complainer or step up and work hard, be supportive, lift people up, and keep your whining to yourself. I promise you that successful teams of all sorts kick their complainers to the curb and accentuate the positive. CBJ was doing fine til injuries and malcontents sunk him. CJP will do well if we support him. A lot of folks on VN have caught hater-itis and apparently can't stand the thought of success. I am pretty optimistic. Blessed with a lot of good things and bad things I've overcome. You can tell by reading folks' posts which side of the fence the live on. So make your decision. A life of dumpster fires or championships?
 
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volfan102455 said:
Exactly. They are very green. We all need to prepare ourselves for possible bad game day decisions like we have never seen before.

Edited to add: I hope I am wrong but this is not high school - this is the SEC. If you don't have experience at the three key coaching positions - that has a higher chance of things not going well. Lots of "on the job training" with this staff.
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At least they have actually played the game at a high level. You have to figure that alone will help them make better game decisions than CBJ.
 
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CAVPUT said:
No different than the mopes who witch and moan over his hire proclaiming him a failure before he's coached his first game. No one....no one...knows what kind of coach Pruitt will be. No one knows how this staff will mesh with each other or the team. No one knows what kind of recruiting this staff can accomplish with the time needed to cultivate relationships. No one knows what this staff will be able to accomplish with the current roster.

What we do know is that what we had wasn't working. We do know that players didn't develop. We do know we weren't going to be serious players in the east under Butch. This guy has the mentors. He's seen and helped develop a championship mindset and locker room. He's reportedly an intense, fiery competitor. If the saying that a team is a reflection of the coach is true, I think we are far better off under Pruitt than Butch. He deserves a few year to get this listing ship back on course. Of course, the first loss or if we don't contend for the east in his first season with all this great talent that Butch left him, twits on this and other boards will crow about how they told us he was a failure and the BS talk about a hot seat will be flowing. Just the spoiled, entitled culture we live in today.

Personally, I hope we might have hired our next long term, legendary coach to go with majors and Fulmer. I'm so damned sick of change and the thought of a coaching search....again....that he's got a free pass from me until he graduates his first class and that will be next years class not this one. Need at least a 4-5 year break from hearing the cursed name of Gruden again. Makes me ill just typing it.
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Well said. Agree 100%. These players now on the team are mentally weak because Butch was weak. Gonna take a season for the players to understand the Pruitt way. Which is skull crushing, smash mouth, in your face football. Fulmer got this hire right. I was worried he was going to revert to his old buddy Steele but he didn't. Went with the young gun.
 
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Longsufferingvol said:
I am glad the disaster of a coaching search is over like everyone else, but I am not completely sold on Pruitt and the staff. From where I am standing, we will have a head coach who has never been in that role before, an offensive coordinator who did not call plays at his last job, and a defensive coordinator who was a position coach last year. What could possibly go wrong with that combination? :crazy: Does the name Larry Scott or Sal Sunseri ring any bells? I can handle hiring a rookie head coach, but the combination of inexperience at all three of the most important positions of the coaching staff is cause for concern. Butch was criticized for hiring his buddies to his own detriment, so what do you make of these moves by Pruitt? He got his first opportunity to be a head coach and he put the future of Tennessee football in the hands of his inexperienced buddies. He hopes it will all work out, but if it doesnt he can go back to Bama and Tennessee will continue to suck.
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The shear novelty of something new and different. Nothing more.
 
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I'm optimistic cause I'm planning on going to my first UT game next year in NC and I want it to be a good one.
 
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Helton was the OC at Western Kentucky when they were putting up blistering numbers, so he has been in the position before.

We have Pruitt, so I’m not that concerned about the DC’s experience.
 
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Remy said:
It's the cliche of the way people are deep within themselves. Do you see the half filled glass of water as half empty or half full? I tend toward optimism but am a skeptic to the point I'm almost a contraire. I'm pulling for Pruitt to be successful and excited for the change, UT should never experience what we saw last season. Do I think Pruitt can succeed>? Yes. Am I ready to throw a party for winning the SEC East? No, not until that happens.
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I don't care if my water glass is 1/2 full or 1/2 empty.
Talk to me about Beer & I'm all in.
 
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I stopped with the coach worship stuff a long time ago...I figure if the university hired him then they must know something I don't so I don't question it most times but then again it is Tennessee so who the hell knows...I just want to see them win games....Lots of them, I don't care if he hired satan as his DC, Make him stop someone for a change...You can be sure of one thing, If it goes south Fulmer will be the one to blame for all of this and he will drag Pruitt down with him...I do find it strange that Fulmer is out on the recruiting trail with Pruitt right now, does he not think he is capable of doing it himself?...Odd
 
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The last coach we had was a awful game manager… Calling timeouts before extra points on defense
 
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This hire is a risk. No doubt. It's a 50/50 coin flip. Did we get a guy like Oklahoma and Georgia did who will compete at the highest level immediately or did we get a dud like coach Horse Teeth?

But this is what fate gave us. The ONLY actual alternative to our situation was that we were going to get Schiano. This is because our idiot AD apparently did a one coach coaching search.

Don't believe the garbage that UT offered Gruden 10 mil. Don't believe the lies that they offered to double Gundys salary. Tennessee wouldn't have offered more than 4.5 to anyone.

Plain and simple, UT does things on the cheap. Always have and apparently always will considering if they didn't do it this time after what we've been though.

Ask yourself seriously why a guy like Jimbo Fisher would ever choose TAMU over UT. What's the appeal? I'll tell you...75 million.

If Currie had just offered real SEC contender money to one of these big coaches rather than giving crap money to a guy like Schiano then we probably wouldn't be in this mess.

But one last thing about lies. Nobody was a bigger liar than Lyle Jones. And so many "optimistic and positive " people fell for his BS about how long it takes to rebuild a program.

I feel optimistic as heck (as Fulmer would say) about Pruitt and also about Fulmer. I don't get the same feeling I got with Jones or Dooley (you know that feeling you get when you discover rat sh!t in the corner of the basement) But I'll never let my sensibilities be overwhelmed by blind optimism. I won't let it compromise my integrity. I put my faith in Jesus and all others must prove themselves. They don't just get blind faith from me. To date Pruitt has done nothing to kill my optimism. It's a day by day thing though and his performance as a head coach will surely be tested and we will have real evidence to bolster or quell that optimism.

Until then , God speed to him and long live the Vols.
 
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