Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[KeyVol14]

Pruitt hasn’t tweeted about the Steele hire.

It’s because he wasn’t involved

 

[Dudleys87]

It’s because he wasn’t involved

Yes he was.

 

[InstrumentalVol]

Imagine firing a man who almost lost 7 straight to hire a man who lost 15 straight. Yall are actually delusional if you think hiring Doug Marrone is a benefit to the future of this program.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Best part of the Steele hire would be trying to get several Auburn transfers on defense.

You mean there’s a potential upside? Get out of here.

 

[BruinVol]

Ups the odds. Also in retaining signees like Brooks and Willis.

Nice thinking! I like!

 

[KeyVol14]

Yes he was.

You sure about that?

 

[BruinVol]

Note sure who said it was awesome. Just way above average for that program for the last 22 years.

Yep it was successful enough to get him an NFL job

 

[Dudley Smith]

The timeline is now starting to become very clear.

Tuesday: Fulmer and Admin have Steele in place today with no current title assigned to him.

Thursday: Pruitt will have his final meeting with admin.

Friday/Saturday They agree to a negotiated buyout and Pruitt is sent on his way.

Sunday: Steele named interim head coach. Focus's on calming our current and incoming roster down over the phones.

Monday: Students start to report back to school for classes on Wednesday. Team meeting

Beyond that, not sure if this is an active coaching search or Steele is named head coach.

Me reading these points in order:

 

[Tennessee Stud]

Pruitt can do it! Let’s ride.

 

[BruinVol]

Butch did beat Marrone’s supposed awesome Syracuse team in 2012, which is the year ’Cuse went 7-5 in the regular season and shared the Big East title with 3 other teams.

Marrone beat Bill Belichek if you want to play that shortsighted game

 

[Dudley Smith]

The great state of Texas is calling his name.

Where are you hearing for Wanya? I had been seeing OU

 

[BruinVol]

Pruitt can do it! Let’s ride.

This is what I am pulling for now

 

[VolsFan-TX]

Marrone beat Bill Belichek if you want to play that shortsighted game

In college? Seems it would make sense to compare like leagues.

 

[neuteboomt]

Pruitt can do it! Let’s ride.

Where you want to ride I can't follow.

 

[Power T-Rev]

I steele don't think Pruitts getting fired

 

[MoCo_Vol]

I kinda just wonder why Steele wasn't your pick instead of Pruitt, if you end up with Steele now anyway.

To me if you're willing to pass on him the first time, what really changed in these last 3 seasons? If he wasn't good enough then to beat out Pruitt he's still not done anything as a HC and Auburn let him walk completely.

 

[KeyVol14]

Yes he was.

How come Pruitt hasn’t said a word about the hire....

 

[InstrumentalVol]

Yep it was successful enough to get him an NFL job

That literally means nothing. College success, which Marrone didn't have, doesnt mean anything in the NFL. Here are some examples!

Rich Brooks spent 17 years as Oregon's HC and won a conference championship. NFL Record: 13-19
Butch Davis spent 6 years at Miami dominating the game. NFL Record: ONE winning season in 4 years
Lou Holtz of Notre Dame fame. NFL Record: 3-10 before he just quit on his team and resigned
John McKay spent years as USC's HC, winning multiple titles. NFL Record: lost his first 26 games.
Bobby Petrino of Louisville (and my alma mater WKU!) fame. NFL Record: We know what happened here, quit on the Falcons.
Nick Saban kicked ass everywhere, went to the Dolphins and sucked, now he is the GOAT in CFB.

Yall trying to convince yourselves Marrone is a good hire need to get real

 

[White Bread]

Where are you hearing for Wanya? I had been seeing OU

Houston and Texas

 

[KB5252]

Imagine firing a man who almost lost 7 straight to hire a man who lost 15 straight. Yall are actually delusional if you think hiring Doug Marrone is a benefit to the future of this program.

One had a better than average SEC roster and lost to less talented SEC teams. The other had the least talented talented NFL roster in recent memory and was asked to box with one hand tied behind his back. What you are doing is essentially comparing a grape to a tomato.

 

[VFLBerg]

How come Pruitt hasn’t said a word about the hire....

Technically, as far as I've seen there hasn't "officially" been a hire to comment upon. No official announcement that I've seen yet from UTAD.

 

[BruinVol]

I kinda just wonder why Steele wasn't your pick instead of Pruitt, if you end up with Steele now anyway.

To me if you're willing to pass on him the first time, what really changed in these last 3 seasons? If he wasn't good enough then to beat out Pruitt he's still not done anything as a HC and Auburn let him walk completely.

People are ignoring that the people at auburn that know him best wanted to hire him. They didn’t hAve the balls to stand up to the mob and follow thru but they believed in him Over gus.
That means a lot to me

 

[rikberry31]

You sure about that?

Yes, if you think Fulmer is hiring people you are fooling yourself, that is not how it works. Steele and the Big Kat are coming.

 

[pismonque]

Marrone beat Bill Belichek if you want to play that shortsighted game

Isn't it also a narrow argument to keep praising Syracuse's conference title as a major accomplishment?

It was a 4-way shared title based on tied conference standings and the other three teams had better overall records.

Syracuse only beat 2 FBS teams with winning records that year, Louisville (which was a good win) and their bowl win over WVU, a 7-win team. So yeah, it was a pretty good 8-win season but it's not like they took over the conference or anything.

I like Marrone, seems like a good guy, could even be good at UT with the right personnel. But people keep pointing at him taking Syracuse to a conference championship like he was slaying kings when it really was mostly one good upset to get to be on the bottom end of a 4-way tie.

 

[HoleInTheRoof]