Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[Glocker_Alum_2005]

If you get offered the Texas job, it’s hard to turn it down. Don’t blame him for going. However, it was horrible fit from day 1. I really wished we would have gotten him. Between having a chip on his shoulder (Florida Admin) and his recruiting pipeline, it just made sense.

I don’t think just because he failed at Texas, he would have failed here. I also don’t think he was a given to be a sure thing either. I do think we would have been better than Butch though after seeing we wound up moving from Butch

Outside of Urban and Saban, there are no sure fires. Its about fit.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Pruitt will be back unless that investigation is super bad, firing Phil would be a horrible look and CPF knows that.

Also most fans do not care as much as we do. Most fans don't F5 the computer constantly to see if something has changed on a football forum. There will still be plenty of people in Neyland next year if Covid allows.

And 99% of you that are gone forever if Pruitt comes back will be typing your hearts out the minute something happens in game 1.

Lord willing, regardless of the coach, I'll be in section LL Row 16 seat 23 come September of next year. Go Vols.

This is beyond wrong. As someone who recruits UT and works with over 100 UT grads. Younger grads do not care about UT football. It has been bad since they were in college. They do not care to go to games after college. The younger generation is starting to not care and that is your fanbase of the future. Now, the older generation is losing interest. I know plenty (family and friends) who haven’t been to a game in over two years. They used to never miss a home game. Fan apathy is getting real and everyone is slowly starting to pull away. Look at attendance ratings, they keep dropping. If Pruitt is retained, it could be the nail in the coffin for many fans. I doubt Neyland has 50k next year. Last game I was at was BYU and I said I would not go back until Pruitt was fired. And I was in a box.

 

[yourstruly23]

I know nothing..
but let's be real.. poot wants out and knows he's done. TN doesn't want the stench of the NCAA hanging around. Sexton is negotiating his buyout right now and this all goes away once funeral things are done.
If I had to hedge my bet, there's a settlement in place tomorrow around 6 million, NCAA thing just goes away, and we're announcing a new coach January 1

 

[drvenner]

Does anyone know if we are practicing today?

 

[Vols2DaWall]

Have been checking back hourly hoping for some good news like most here. Obviously it’s an easy decision right? Decided to go through some of Deerparks posts from today and he really provides good information on the situation. Made this fan think a little more about the big picture, not just what I want to happen.

DPs comments are a sad, pathetic excuse of an attempt to save face for UTs admins who want to keep Pruitt. 100% loser mentality

 

[drvenner]

Asking VN to calm down and to ride it out has the exact same effect as it does when I tell my wife to calm down.

 

[HankHill]

Does anyone know if we are practicing today?

Tuesday

 

[UTK]

It’s obvious to me that they care about winning but the UT administration just absolutely sucks at it.

What they suck at is covering up the fact that don't care about winning

 

[SLICKYINC]

Swain is making some good points on firing Pruitt with cause. Thinks its potentially a bad look for interested coaches if you don't pay Pruitt on the way out.

 

[UTK]

Swain is making some good points on firing Pruitt with cause. Thinks its potentially a bad look for interested coaches if you don't pay Pruitt on the way out.

There's no need to fire him with cause. Just fire him because he sucks. Period. Yeah he doesn't deserve the buyout money but it's the way things are in the profession

 

[give_him 6]

Does anyone know if we are practicing today?

Why bother practicing? They’ll look good for the first quarter and then the wheels will fall off. It’s rinse and repeat with this team.

 

[SLICKYINC]

There's no need to fire him with cause. Just fire him because he sucks. Period. Yeah he doesn't deserve the buyout money but it's the way things are in the profession

Potential coaches are watching this right now. The whole "the way things are in the profession" is the exact thing he's talking about. Have to pay him if you want a good coach.

 

[UTK]

Potential coaches are watching this right now. The whole "the way things are in the profession" is the exact thing he's talking about. Have to pay him if you want a good coach.

Agreed

 

[TrippieRedd]

Why is this dumb azz still here?

 

[InVOLuntary]

Asking VN to calm down and to ride it out has the exact same effect as it does when I tell my wife to calm down.

If you'll add "Karen" at the end of "calm down" it usually is more effective. You should try it.

 

[volsagain]

Empty Neyland '21 if he returns. Make them regret

Honest if they trotte that back out there next year,they will just think 2020 was bad .

 

[jdavis675]

It wasn’t an endorsement but he certainly didn’t have to mention him by name. That was on purpose.

Fulmer got fired once before for poor performance on the football field and holding on to coaches too long.

It’s just really odd because he has done so well with the other sports on campus. He’s too close to football and has a huge blind spot.

 

[UTK]

Fulmer got fired once before for poor performance on the football field and holding on to coaches too long.

It’s just really odd because he has done so well with the other sports on campus. He’s too close to football and has a huge blind spot.

He fired Holly from women's basketball, all in all shes a TN legend and made it to multiple elite 8, and won multiple SEC championships. But she wasn't winning National titles or making final fours. That's the Lady Vols standard. It's crazy to me he can make that move but wants 3-7 Pruitt back. Just what the hell

 

[KokoBVol]

Asking VN to calm down and to ride it out has the exact same effect as it does when I tell my wife to calm down.

I do it now just to get a rise out of her.

 

[jdavis675]

Swain is making some good points on firing Pruitt with cause. Thinks its potentially a bad look for interested coaches if you don't pay Pruitt on the way out.

It definitely didn’t hurt with Tyndall, who we also gifted a 10 year show cause out the door, and hiring Rick Barnes.

I think Pruitt should be fired for winning the fewest games in a season since 1924, but the for cause thing isn’t going to hurt us.

 

[UTK]

I do it now just to get a rise out of her.

HOW IS KOKO IN THE HOF MY DUDE. HOW. lol JK

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

I wont watch a game next year but I can't be fan of another team. I just cant.

Yeah there's no way to become a fan for another team. I'm a fan of the sport. I watch a lot of football and I can root for other teams in games or root against other teams but become a fan of another team? No. Tennessee fandom for a lot of us isn't surface level. It's entrenched on a psychological level. We've been indoctrinated since we were old enough to say, "Go Vols".

I didn't choose to be a Tennessee fan. It was chosen for me a long time ago and even though times have been tough I have been actively bringing my children into the fold. I may grow apathetic. I may not yell at the tv quite so much as a season of poor showing progresses but I am a fan and will always be.

 

[volbeast33]

What they suck at is covering up the fact that don't care about winning

That is the passionate fan in you talking...... they paid 1.5 mill to bring Chaney to Tennessee....they brought in ainsley one of the most well thought of young coaches out there.... in fact in 2019 tennessee had the second highest paid assistant staff in the country....I have no doubt Tennessee would fire Pruitt in a second if they thought someone like nick Saban was walking though that door....The closest thing to a homerun available is Hugh Freeze but he is unethical as they come and really bad at being unethical.

I would, personally, still move on but I typically am bad at winning also..... I was 100% sold on Pruitt being that guy...... I was 100% wrong in my original assessment of him as a coach.

 

[volfan4lyfe]

It definitely didn’t hurt with Tyndall, who we ask gifted a 10 year show cause out the door, and hiring Rick Barnes.

I think Pruitt should be fired for winning the fewest games in a season since 1924, but the for cause thing isn’t going to hurt us.

I don't think this can be said enough. I'm sick of hearing the COVID excuses when literally every other team had to deal with it this year.

 

[Voltrapnbama]

Yeah there's no way to become a fan for another team. I'm a fan of the sport. I watch a lot of football and I can root for other teams in games or root against other teams but become a fan of another team? No. Tennessee fandom for a lot of us isn't surface level. It's entrenched on a psychological level. We've been indoctrinated since we were old enough to say, "Go Vols".

I didn't choose to be a Tennessee fan. It was chosen for me a long time ago and even though times have been tough I have been actively bringing my children into the fold. I may grow apathetic. I may not yell at the tv quite so much as a season of poor showing progresses but I am a fan and will always be.

Exactly!!