Recruiting Forum Football Talk II

[IN Jed]

Yes, coach. We lost to KY and ARK because our guys are small. And GA State last year....right.

edit after date check. My bad.

 

[volatil]

Freeze messing with Vol fan emotions is very Gruden like.

Bet he wears an orange bracelet this Saturday on the sideline of his game

 

[volinbama256]

Hey if Chaney's playbook is so MASSIVE, then someone needs to be arrested for ripping out the page on Slants, because clearly it's not in the playbook.... SMFH

 

[Girth Brooks]

#FreezeWarning

 

[LoudOrange]

Yes, coach. We lost to KY and ARK because our guys are small. And GA State last year....right.

Check the date.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Hey if Chaney's playbook is so MASSIVE, then someone needs to be arrested for ripping out the page on Slants, because clearly it's not in the playbook.... SMFH

Cant call em if your Qb can throw them

 

[BruinVol]

Just in case you’re keeping score at home:

1) our head coach has told people it’s no big deal if he’s fired because he can walk back to our biggest rival.

wtf do we make **** up around here?

this is damn false

 

[volinbama256]

Hey if Chaney's playbook is so MASSIVE, then someone needs to be arrested for ripping out the page on Slants, because clearly it's not in the playbook.... SMFH

 

[butchna]

I mean I’m on here everyday. I just don’t see how you can make the argument about opting out. I would like to think everyone would understand. It’s one thing to say I don’t feel safe and another I’m opting out to get ready for draft.

It’s not about reason and rationale. It’s about what would happen. When Darrin Kirkland was contemplating a grad transfer for his final season, this board went scorched earth. Kid graduates early and we say he’ll never be a VFL? You overestimate us.

 

[volinbama256]

wtf do we make **** up around here?

this is damn false

Uhh. no it's not. And he sure the hell is coaching like it's true... so........

 

[Skizer41]

Which means Bailey is the only current Qb on the roster that’ll be on campus next season, I assume?

Which means that is who the staff should invest playing time and opportunities in. But they won't. JG will start Saturday.

 

[snowvols]

Well you’re a ray of sunshine...

I always was, but Pruitt has stolen it from me.

 

[LoudOrange]

The more AV speaks the worse this staff looks (intentional or not). Do upperclassmen not help freshmen with playbook/study anymore? Appears every facet of this program is broken except recruiting and it could go south quickly if results don't change soon.

 

[Skizer41]

We are not dealing with the sharpest tools in the shed. And the playbook is massive...I can assure you it is not that easy to digest.

Thank you @Atlanta VOL for the updates!! In my opinion thats an indictment on the staff. There are ways to slowly immerse them into that massive play book. And after watching our offense for 6 games I think we all agree we aren't running a very complex offense. Run-Run-Throw on 3rd and long- Punt. Repeat. Pick Six. Repeat......

Sorry got carried away.

Why did this staff not have a plan b to get these kids ready with a limited play book. Covid hit in February. It shouldn't have snuck up on them.

 

[headhunter15]

Watching Western Michigan vs. Central Michigan right now. Commentary talking about how offenses have outshined defense this season all across college football.

All but UT...

 

[millst987]

Hugh
Freakin
Freeze

 

[delfonic]

Whether it's Chaney's playback, recruiting players who can't understand it or whatever else... the buck stops in the same place and its all the fault of the same person/people.

This is not hard and the details do not shift the blame.

 

[snowvols]

I dont really buy that the FR can't learn the playbook. Fromm was a dumb redneck and he did fine as a FR.

Pruitt just doesn't want to play them.

 

[tn88volfan]

Pruitt: “Jg iS bAcK iN tHe GrOoVe”

 

[Okboomer]

This staff is terrible if they can’t get Bailey ready. He is in the top five of yards and tds for QBs in Georgia, which includes Lawrence, Fromm, and Watson.

Yeah if they screw this one up then if I was a top rated QB I would not sniff this school

 

[Devo182]

Yep, if I remember correctly that was the sticking point for Pruitt on guys like Lebby, Briles and Yurich they didn't have a playbook.

Lol yup I remember hearing that too. Sad.

 

[HankHill]

I don't even blame it on Chaney as much as I do the QB cant make throws over the middle.

It’s chaneys fault that he continues to call a game like he has Matt Stafford at QB

 

[Buddy’s Bandit]

Sitting in another country on a beach and have some time on my hands

You on Guntersville?

 

[mr.checkerboards]

It’s chaneys fault that he continues to call a game like he has Matt Stafford at QB

Eh, Chaney hasn't called the best games this year, but I don't blame him for not calling what his QB cant execute.

 

[UTProf]

Whether it's "fair" or not, Fulmer's success as AD is attached to Pruitt's success. Look at the circumstances of how Fulmer got the job - the previous AD was shown the door because he screwed the pooch on a coaching search, and Fulmer was brought in to restore order and immediately hire a coach.

When you enter the position under such specific and unique circumstances, you're going to be largely judged off of that one decision.

I think most people realize that Fulmer walked into a building that was already on fire with the largest bucket of water he could find but it was still just one man with a bucket. The previous AD's handling of the coaching search had already burned a ton of bridges. There were calls that weren't an option to make because of that. And, tbh, I think he hired the best he could given the situation. We were down to bad options when Fulmer came in and he picked the best of the bad. The best junk car in a lot full of junk cars. Further, Fulmer truly doesn't get enough credit is in salvaging what was left of that recruiting class while Pruitt was still coaching for Saban.

Fulmer loves this university and wants nothing more than for the football program to succeed. He's done a great job handling a ton of things in the AD and I think hiring Pruitt was the best of the bad situation rather than a situation where you can say that Pruitt is/was "Fulmer's guy." Fulmer didn't walk into a search full of choices or even a fresh one. My worry with him has more to do with whether or not he will cut bait in time to make the right hire when he does have a full slate of options and whether or not the other powers that be will let him do it.