Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[Cactus Jack]

Not making any excuse for Pruitt at all but the off season is where you improve.... there was no off-season this year.

Ummmm.... Did you see Arkansas this season?

 

[millst987]

You are Pruitt at your job

 

[Cactus Jack]

How do you develop them when you are not allowed around them?

I dunno we should ask Sam Pittman how he managed to make his team infinitely better without being around them....

 

[Weezer]

Oh no.....how will I survive?!?!?

nobody believes that when you weaklings say that. If it were true you would not feel the need to tell us how much you don’t care. If you could ignore me then you would not have felt the need to respond in the first place.

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Mills is obviously mentally incapacitated as he cannot handle people disagreeing with him and feels the need to put them on ignore. Wonder how he faces the real world where the ignore button doesn't work?

 

[BigOrangeGoose]

 

[Orangeslice13]

Your degree is trash then. I doubt intelligent professionals would agree with your opinion. And if you are a practicing psychologist, I feel for your patients.

Lol
If he screws up people die.
He’s so cool.

 

[Batman1948]

Kim English is going to be the head coach at UT one day

I don't know if we can keep him until Barnes retires. Someone is gonna come after him with an offer he can't refuse.

 

[shocker]

Ummmm.... Did you see Arkansas this season?

Lol the excuses are like clockwork, guys no off-season shouldn’t mean we get blown out by the likes of Arkansas and Kentucky I mean come the F on..

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Ummmm.... Did you see Arkansas this season?

The Arkansas team that went 3-7 with a QB completing almost 70% of his passes and a 17-4 td/int ratio?

What about them?

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Yikes

I’m still glad we didn’t hire him

 

[Batman1948]

For those bettors out there, hammer any Tennessee spread in the SEC under 10.5.

Not sure the line will ever be that low

 

[gardners_51609]

Sick and tired of coaching searches but not sick and tired of a 3-7 record in year 3 therein lies the problem with the administration, and im not bashing you specifically I just think accepting failure is way worse than trying to change it but that’s just me..

I don’t think you understood my post at all. No where did I say I was ok with 3-7 or accept failure. I have been a UT fan a long time and I love this team and love to win. At some point the cycle has to break. Since 2009, we have had 4 coaches, 4 ADs, 3 chancellors, 3 presidents and none that including interims. Not to mention multiple NCAA and compliance investigations. This year has been an absolute crap shoot and we do not know what the year would look like if it had been a regular year.

My point is, at some point we have to step back and break the cycle. All of you thinking l, we are all of sudden going to hire some show stopper of a coach need I get your head out of the sand. We have fumbled every coaching search we have conducted. We need to figure out how to fix what we have.

 

[Weezer]

I’m very good at what I do. You can’t be ****** at my job, people die. Also, I’m off today

 

[m1al]

We post on a message board all day. I would say very few of us are leaders in our field.

Brutal honesty is.......... brutal.

 

[tnvols72]

Not making any excuse for Pruitt at all but the off season is where you improve.... there was no off-season this year.

How did Alabama and other good teams manage? Sorry but that is making excuses for Pruitt.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Oh no.....how will I survive?!?!?

nobody believes that when you weaklings say that. If it were true you would not feel the need to tell us how much you don’t care. If you could ignore me then you would not have felt the need to respond in the first place.

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I deeply regret his 8 years in office also

 

[Batman1948]

Undefeated season remains intact and Florida is getting bent over a barrel.

Me:

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You need to update your wardrobe dude. Those white cowboy boots and hot pants---not a good look

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

How did Alabama and other good teams manage? Sorry but that is making excuses for Pruitt.

Wasn’t it stated repeatedly throughout the offseason that Knox county had ridiculously strict Covid/quarantine rules?

Like Bailey and Morris both spent something like 30-40 days in quarantine etc

 

[Weezer]

We post on a message board all day. I would say very few of us are leaders in our field.

I mean, I am the Dalai Lama so I do lead my field.

 

[shocker]

I don’t think you understood my post at all. No where did I say I was ok with 3-7 or accept failure. I have been a UT fan a long time and I love this team and love to win. At some point the cycle has to break. Since 2009, we have had 4 coaches, 4 ADs, 3 chancellors, 3 presidents and none that including interims. Not to mention multiple NCAA and compliance investigations. This year has been an absolute crap shoot and we do not know what the year would look like if it had been a regular year.

My point is, at some point we have to step back and break the cycle. All of you thinking l, we are all of sudden going to hire some show stopper of a coach need I get your head out of the sand. We have fumbled every coaching search we have conducted. We need to figure out how to fix what we have.

What cycle though? Is there such a thing as a cycle of firing bad coaches? You keep hiring a coach till you get it right this cycle of losing is the only thing I see...

 

[millst987]

I put people to sleep so you can’t exactly take a play off there boys.
You kinda have to be really good at your job in that profession

 

[Nash_Vol97]

I totally missed Dick Clark and the midnight ball drop because of watching the bball and UF games on Tivo.

Happy New Years all

Are you... in the... future???

 

[Ron Swanson]

Nice to see “4 loss Dan” is still “4 loss Dan”
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And we all know UF doesn’t drag out the inevitable like UT. If Mullen doesn’t win 10 games next fall he’ll be fired.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

Say what you want but we would kill for that kind of success here, 3 years, 3 New Years 6 Bowls, Conference Championship appearance and a QB in the Heisman race

 

[i2amavol]

Not making any excuse for Pruitt at all but the off season is where you improve.... there was no off-season this year.

That IS making an excuse for Pruitt, but in this case it is a very good one. This team really needed all the practices it could get, and they just did not happen, or happened with critical players out. People want to point that all teams had the same situation, but for two reasons that is not true.

Tennessee had some restrictions that some other teams did not. Also, I really have always believed that Tennessee would not be completely back until the players on the field were all Pruitt's players. We still have a lot of young players who have little experience. Those players needed the practice, and they did not get it!

Having said all that, I am not going to say that I know that Pruitt is going to turn things around. If we could have gotten a top notch coach (without a lot of baggage) this off-season, I would have been all for it.