Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[MarcoVol]

Worse than BJ, than Dooley. Dude is is an avg. DC, at the tactical level, he just looked better when coaching thoroughbreds at Ga, Bama, FSU. Operational and Strategic is where he is lost.

He is not worse than Dooley. Dooley’s team just put up points.

Dooley went 4-18 in the SEC.

Pruitt is 10-16 in the SEC.

I repeat, he is not worse than Derek Dooley.

 

[Glocker_Alum_2005]

Tim Irwin finds it “incredible” that a head coach would not have heard of a major compliance investigation within his program that had two players sitting out because of it.

JP is too busy recruiting and coaching DL. Too much micro management, he has a lack of trust.

 

[m1al]

It’s just a lie. He knew

Oh yea, he knew and the answer there was "no comment", but Pruitt defaulted to a lie which is more evidence of his stupidity in dealing with media...

 

[MarcoVol]

The only home run hire is meyer, stoops and freeze. But only One of those guys would easily say yes. It's that simple. We will not get that, tho. We will get a bargain bin coach, a coach that couldn't cut it somewhere else or an up and comer. Then most of you will invent reasons to think it's a good hire. You will jump right back in board and "give him a chance". You will be right back here in 3 or 4 years. Tennessee doesn't hire winning football coaches.

Meyer, Stoops, and Freeze are not on the same level.

If you’re gonna use those 3 the levels go:

Meyer

Stoops






Freeze


And I want Freeze. But let’s not get carried away here.

 

[JCP201]

Hire Freeze like the fans want for once. If he doesn't improve things or screws up, then it's on us and we really can't bitch.

 

[Glocker_Alum_2005]

Correct, because evidently he's still fighting to keep Pruitt....

Apparently he too prideful. Thing is he is kind of getting a mulligan on JP, because of his limited candidate pool. He's not completely married to JP. Now if he wants to carry water for JP then he deserves to have decision taken out of his hands.

 

[TrippieRedd]

Hire Freeze like the fans want for once. If he doesn't improve things or screws up, then it's on us and we really can't bitch.

Our luck they would handicap Freeze and make us look dumb so they don't lol

 

[m1al]

Apparently he too prideful. Thing is he is kind of getting a mulligan on JP, because of his limited candidate pool. He's not completely married to JP. Now if he wants to carry water for JP then he deserves to have decision taken out of his hands.

As of last night he was still fighting to retain Pruitt per Bob vol (sp)...

 

[PYSCHO]

.... to be undrafted?

he meant the new xfl he has no chance as a db in the nfl

 

[Big Orange#1]

Why is Pruitt not fired yet?

 

[jordan4vols]

The fact that we haven’t heard something frightens me

 

[C-town Vol]

Is there any point in looking at the specific recruit threads right now?

And I anticipate a long day around here. With Pruitt’s grandfather’s funeral, no way we are so cold hearted as to announce firing him today.

I’m still not 100% that he is gone. I’ve been around long enough to see “insiders” wrong, a lot. Not throwing shade, just saying.

 

[bigorangecrush89]

we heard Malzahn was out at Auburn around noon on Sunday after the final game. So we’ll see.

 

[m1al]

Why is Pruitt not fired yet?

He won't be fired today (I hope), his grandads funeral is today..

 

[gordonr24]

The fact that we haven’t heard something frightens me

Usually Sunday is when we hear something. It was Sunday when we heard Dooley and Butch were being let go.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Hire Freeze like the fans want for once. If he doesn't improve things or screws up, then it's on us and we really can't bitch.

Yes we will
Nobody on here will admit they wanted Freeze when he ***** the bed.

to be fair though......I don’t know if Freeze will do well. I remain unconvinced. I thought Strong would be a good hire so we probably shouldn’t go with my opinions.
I am planning on being negative on our next hire especially if it’s freeze just to be ahead of the crowd

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Poster on VQ saying AT did a IG live video and said he was going to the NFL.

Feels like this is a mistake. I know all these kids want to "chase the bag" or whatever, and I get if I was in that position the lure would be great... but I am curious what kind of draft feedback he'll receive. AT is a good corner at times but not very consistent. Excellent in run support, but his coverage skills are meh. I think he'd benefit a great deal coming back.

That said, if he declares, I hope he balls out.

I think we'll be okay. I'd like to know if Kenneth George is returning. Definitely makes taking a transfer CB a priority as well. But with Burrell and Lawrence plus maybe some forgottens like Tyus Fields maybe getting in the mix, we'll see.

 

[TrippieRedd]

If they try to keep him, then schiano the decision, simple. Im not doing another year of this ********.

 

[BigOrangeFanatic]

Anyone thinking our boosters/administrators will give the fan base something they want is down right crazy. Yall do remember they tried to force feed Schiano down our throats last time.

 

[Vol4ever]

The fact that we haven’t heard something frightens me

First of all Pruitt has his grandfathers funeral today. Second, if they were going to fire him they are or have been reaching out to potential candidates. Third, i don't think he will be fired this year.

 

[JCVol00]

Pruitt’s grandpa’s funeral is today, I’m sure that they aren’t going to fire him on the day of the funeral. The meeting is either going to be tomorrow or it happened last night. I wouldn’t expect any news to break until tomorrow at the earliest

 

[m1al]

First of all Pruitt has his grandfathers funeral today. Second, if they were going to fire him they are or have been reaching out to potential candidates. Third, i don't think he will be fired this year.

Been going on for a few weeks depending on who you believe..

 

[HankHill]

Fulmer waited 4 days to fire Holly post tournament. Something to keep in mind.

 

[Dudley Smith]

It’s just a lie. He knew

He seems to do that a lot

 

[DarthVol1]

Doug Matthews on top of things this morning. Said investigation must not be much since he could not find anything about it on ESPN or CBS Sports. He must have looked real hard and ignored it was on the bottom line crawl all night. Vols open football recruiting inquiry, sources say