Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[UTSuave’]

The idea of the haslams being back in control basically means another decade plus of irrelevance.

Baker mayfield so says

 

[UTSuave’]

I stand with Pruitt

How does it feel being alone

 

[White Bread]

I’m not convinced the next person will perform any better than JP, given our inability to give time to a coach before jumping on the firing bandwagon. We’re currently replacing a coach an average of every 3.25 years. That means every 3ish years we “start over” again and expect the next guy to wow us once he has his players in (but then we don’t actually give them a chance to get those players in and develop them... especially in a year where we get 60% or so of the normal fall camp). Starting JG all year was a mistake, but you can’t blame a coach for sticking with a 5th year senior for least the first 4 games of the year when the other guys were unable to get sufficient reps in due to limited practice time early on. After that, I get the frustration...but that 5th year QB had played quite well for 2.5-3 of those first 4.

You do it until you get it right.

 

[Volnatic]

More excuses lol it never ends

Ok. Go ahead and hire someone else, pay a buyout for 4 years and then I’ll see you back here once JP’s buyout is satisfied so that we can do this coaching search thing again after the new guy inevitably fails to meet fans’ expectations.

 

[m1al]

He’s been right a lot.

He already answered his own question..... literally..

 

[BleedOrange16]

My liver is just now getting over the last 1!!

Mine never recovered...

 

[Volnatic]

You do it until you get it right.

And that’s why we’re in year 12 of “doing it until we get it right,” correct?

 

[jakez4ut]

Well the good news is it seems that they are searching to see who would be interested in coming. So there is hope in firing CP.

The hope is not in firing Pruitt.

 

[White Bread]

Ok. Go ahead and hire someone else, pay a buyout for 4 years and then I’ll see you back here once JP’s buyout is satisfied so that we can do this coaching search thing again after the new guy inevitably fails to meet fans’ expectations.

What are your expectations then?

 

[BigOrangeVols]

forget to switch accounts?

I only have 1 account...Im not a loser

 

[drvenner]

I doubt any one meeting tomorrow will be meeting in Knoxville. We need to track planes leaving Knoxville and triangulate where they go with other arriving planes from destinations where our hopeful coaching candidates will be coming from.

 

[SweetasSoda]

Who is OBC? I do feel pretty stupid asking.

It's okay. Several asked. So I now know it's old ball coach.

 

[BigSteve09]

Dammit I got sucked in again lol

That was a fun couple of hours, thanks

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

Guess he moved on from Mullen.

Sorry to be so naive but what is this?

 

[Weezer]

Mine never recovered...

Mine died right before Butch's last season. Had to get a new one.

 

[SweetasSoda]

Maybe, but look who signs tomorrow, what about those cats?

Obviously the one they're in negotiations with got to pick who gets to stay. Obviously I really don't know.

 

[BigSteve09]

Sorry to be so naive but what is this?

It is either high level satire or high level insanity, and I swear to you there is no in between

 

[BigOrangeVols]

Sorry to be so naive but what is this?

You want a serious answer here? It's hard to explain really lol

 

[Smokeytom]

In the twitter age, it’s absolutely foolish to pay for info. Especially when “recruiting is fluid.”

I mean, it’s only 10 a month but still.... between things changing constantly to everything being posted here or twitter anyways - why give it away?

Because this is an addiction and I CAN'T GET ENOUGH

 

[drvenner]

Uh, no.

We’re in a pandemic. All meetings will be zoom calls.

Please.... think of the grandmothers ffs.

We just can't do a coaching search without tracking planes. We just can't

 

[Volnatic]

What are your expectations then?

At this point, we don’t have the monetary advantages we had in the 90s/early 2000s before tv money evened the playing field with the lower tier schools in the conference. Similarly, we don’t have the advantage of powerhouse in state recruiting options. Realistically, if we can get to a bowl game 3 out 4 years and show life as a competitor in the east about 2 out of 4 (possibly winning it once) that coach is probably a long haul candidate. I also think you can’t really count this year as a normal one for UT given the weird contact tracing our school had to endure that others didn’t. If this were a normal year, I think we definitely hit the bowl game mark and have a shot at the second one with Bailey and Shrout getting an actual full camp to compete.

 

[BigOrangeVols]

It is either high level satire or high level insanity, and I swear to you there is no in between

That tells it pretty good. I used to think he was just insane but now I just think there's no way...

 

[butchna]

He already answered his own question..... literally..

Well tbf, he thought he was someone else.

 

[engineerVOL]

You do it until you get it right.

 

[JT3]

If one is objective, Fulmer's firing didn't start UT's downward spiral, and it wasn't Kiffin's leaving that torpedoed the program. It was UT making a bad hire afterward. There were better options available.

Nobody has done less with more than Pruitt, though.

Agreed.

We should have let Kippy Brown be the interim coach when Lane left and rode it out with the current staff. That would have given us a full year to search for our next HC and not make a panic decision. Similar to what Ohio St did when they fired Tressel.