Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

[Ace]

Real talk I still think Pruitt gets Year 3, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the HC of the future is on staff. (Chaney or Tee).

No thank you on Tee or Chaney

 

[Orangeburst]

I think it’s supposed to be upside down.

You are correct..That is the flag of death or mourning...we need the distress signal right now.

 

[Aesius]

I want that to be true, but I think we are about to see the worst season in Tennessee history. The program is just rotted to it's core. It set in over the Dooley/Butch years and has destroyed the program. I think Bass is right, but I want you to be right.

Now even the biggest pumpers on the board like Ron are in shock at the total putrid crap we saw. It makes zero sense...Like if they had went out and actually tried to lose on purpose, I don't think they could have done a better job.

I was hoping to see the culture change if nothing else, but it is still just a team full of quitters that will not do what it takes to win. The new guys have been infected with the same septic rot, and it just goes on and on.

I'm sorry I feel this way, I really am, but I now see no end to this sickness. I am 51 years old and already in bad health myself, and I will never see a real Tennessee Volunteer team in my lifetime. LWS has always been right.

Depressing but true. We need a top-tier coach to fix things. Problem is, the only guys willing to come here aren't top-tier coaches. Which means we have to get lucky with some up-and-comer, and the chances of that working out are really low, because they have to build the program from scratch.

We may just be stuck with Pruitt until he figures out what the hell he's doing.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Let's call a spade a spade, we're a win vs Florida away from half of y'all claiming Pruitt's a mad scientist and that GA St. game didn't really matter anyway.

There is no way we are beating UF.

 

[appyvol]

There is no way we are beating UF.

There was also no way GA St. was beating us .
Buuuuut.

 

[turdherder11]

Has there been any word from the insiders? They all silent? I feel heads need to roll.

 

[UpstateVol613]

This gave me a laugh this morning.

 

[chargervol]

There is zero excuse to lose to a Sun Belt conference team ever. But I pray to the fb gods they surprise everyone and go win their whole thing.
Because the only thing worse than losing to a SBC team, is to lose to the worst SBC team.

 

[Jackcrevol]

This gave me a laugh this morning.

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someone please shop Butch's face here

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

I want that to be true, but I think we are about to see the worst season in Tennessee history. The program is just rotted to it's core. It set in over the Dooley/Butch years and has destroyed the program. I think Bass is right, but I want you to be right.

Now even the biggest pumpers on the board like Ron are in shock at the total putrid crap we saw. It makes zero sense...Like if they had went out and actually tried to lose on purpose, I don't think they could have done a better job.

I was hoping to see the culture change if nothing else, but it is still just a team full of quitters that will not do what it takes to win. The new guys have been infected with the same septic rot, and it just goes on and on.

I'm sorry I feel this way, I really am, but I now see no end to this sickness. I am 51 years old and already in bad health myself, and I will never see a real Tennessee Volunteer team in my lifetime. LWS has always been right.

Just be glad you got to experience the glory years of the 90s. Many of the younger fans may never know what it feels like to experience good Tennessee football firsthand.

 

[chargervol]

Has there been any word from the insiders? They all silent? I feel heads need to roll.

I only know of people connected to recruiting on here, except LA seems to talk to some on the hill. Not sure about inside the staff though, they seem pretty tight lipped.

 

[BruinVol]

That hurts interview was awkward

 

[LA Vol]

They may know who they are but I've yet to see a player step up into any form of leadership role. So knowing is only a small part of the problem. The bigger part of the problem is actually addressing and correcting it. Dont see that happening.

Sounds like Smith, JJ and Warrior try. But change starts with the players wanting it and the coaches demanding it. No question, it's a problem.

 

[SLICKYINC]

That hurts interview was awkward

Breaks records and says they played sloppy and wasn’t good enough.

Meanwhile in Knoxville....

 

[volatil]

That hurts interview was awkward

Forced anger or dissatisfaction in a great performance

 

[JacketVol]

This is what I'm curious about..

We know he's a relentless recruiter, but there's also a time to tone the recruiting down and coach the players you have. If all the Butch guys are thinking about being recruited over, at what point does it go from urgency of losing playing time to the idea of "the coaches don't care about my success, they only care about their guys"?

I heard a parent say that a lot of them felt this way from the beginning.

 

[SSVol]

Breaks records and says they played sloppy and wasn’t good enough.

Meanwhile in Knoxville....

Crazy, huh.

 

[Big Gucci Sosa]

@Atlanta VOL

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

Flowers not steppin up in the hole on that td run has me putting my face in my palms. How do you not know who has the damn ball???

I dunno but I got blasted when before the season I said Flowers was not that good and that I would not play him.

 

[Glocker_Alum_2005]

SIAP

 

[UpstateVol613]

I only know of people connected to recruiting on here, except LA seems to talk to some on the hill. Not sure about inside the staff though, they seem pretty tight lipped.

Pretty sure David Ubben won’t have any insider info.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

There was also no way GA St. was beating us .
Buuuuut.

I'm not gonna mock you, because I hope you are right, but Georgia State is a better team than the Tennessee Volunteers...that is an undeniable fact. There is no reason, no excuse for this.

I hate to say it, but Pruitt is a failure, that is an almost undeniable conclusion you have to take from this debacle, no good HC would lose a game like this, and there is no hope on the horizon.

 

[ChismsHeadband]

I heard a parent say that a lot of them felt this way from the beginning.

If it's true that a sizable number of 2017 kids feel this way, then the coaches are to blame. Gotta pause recruiting to build with the guys you got.

 

[Big Gucci Sosa]

We must beat the mighty morphin secret underwear’s Saturday

 

[tn88volfan]

Guess we found our new rock bottom.

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Fake news. His sister lives in my house and she said BS