Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

[Vols4us]

Change the QB - change the results. Play your best 40 players like you said you coaches wanted to do preseason - change the result. That the staff did not already know who their best 40 players were tells everybody what we have in a coaching staff. It seems they all come to Rocky Top and completely lose their minds.

One more time - this team got waxed by Georgia State. Not the schedule of SEC foes we play every season of Florida, Georgia, Bama, Mizzou, USCe, Vandy or Kentucky.

Georgia State.

Pruitt should be honest in his pressers. Fans will respond better to honesty than that garbage. If he thinks he is being honest with what he said today, they need to fire him before the sun sets. This is setting up for another coaching search far before any of us ever expected.

 

[Smokeytom]

A failing...can’t be gauged otherwise. Down one TD that soon in a game against this opponent? All the gloves off and you ride your horses...relentlessly. Georgia State didn’t start executing dead efficiently until after halftime...when I was counting on OUR coaches to make those halftime adjustments that a competent staff makes. I still expect a total 180 in this next game. If it doesn’t happen, there’s no sugarcoating. If it does, I can talk myself into thinking this epic loss was a wake up turning point for the program...until the next game.

on rewatch we came out with pretty much the same line up on both sides for pretty much the entire 1st quarter and were beginning to take control of the game. Then idk. Got overconfident or something and started subbing around everybody. Never got it back together. Should've had a definitive starting 22 and let them get us a comfortable lead and then put in the back ups. Just a terrible personnel strategy by the coaches.

 

[VolInDayton]

Truth

I think they know they currently suck, they just dont want to verbalize how bad it actually is.

 

[chargervol]

Pruitt has not been shy about playing younger guys and JG wasn't his guy either. Scary but my goodness, he may be the best we have. Uhg.

 

[BruinVol]

That play was designed for Callaway to get the ball. Callaway ran a bubble. Also, you have to read the defense before and during the play. You can’t look down field the whole time.

What on earth makes you think that’s a bubble screen?

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

What on earth makes you think that’s a bubble screen?

You are right he really just sat down because he saw the blitz.

 

[JCP201]

 

[Ron Swanson]

It's gonna be funny when we beat BYU and go on to beat FLA. I believe in this staff. Quote me.

Honestly, winning those two games might make me even more upset about the GA State nightmare.

 

[Smokeytom]

To everyone paying attention to the press conference...everyone dissecting every word Pruitt says...everyone who thinks what he said means anything at all...everyone emotionally responding to every turn of phrase...

Where have you been the last decade +?

Have you not learned that these pressers are absolutely pointless and give us absolutely no insight into the program?

I could not care less what Pruitt said today.

Beat BYU. Period.

Finish with 6+ wins. Period.

that's fair

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Prepare to lose by 4TDs if Mauer or Shrout plays

I’d rather lose with a guy who cares and tries to lead than with JG who will lose and defend himself as tho he played great.

 

[Aesius]

Damn, Leach is a good head coach, runs an exciting offense, and he trolls on Twitter. How the hell did we let him get away?

 

[PA Vol]

Honestly, winning those two games might make me even more upset about the GA State nightmare.

I’m convinced we end up at 5-7, beat two or three of the SEC schools, and sit back and look at this year in the same fashion we looked back at the end of the 2011 season, knowing full well what’s to come but being powerless to do anything about it.

 

[millst987]

Truth

Nailed it!

 

[Ron Swanson]

Damn, Leach is a good head coach, runs an exciting offense, and he trolls on Twitter. How the hell did we let him get away?

He’s “weird, goofy, unconventional.” But mostly it’s fear because he’s not one of “us”. I was one of the few wanting him to be hired. And we had him. But Fulmer wouldn’t hire him. Sigh.

 

[darkgable]

Dude filling in for Stephen A Smith is roasting us right now on national television.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Truth

 

[Smokeytom]

I’d rather lose with a guy who cares and tries to lead than with JG who will lose and defend himself as tho he played great.

At a certain point in that last game all I wanted to see was somebody throw a helmet or punch a teammate.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

I’m so confused. Pruitt was fired up last year. He was passionate. And after that mess, he just defends the team and gives coach speak? Frost up there criticizing his offense on a team that won, Hurts criticism his performance and his team on a team that dominated, and Pruitt has no fire or passion? Where is 2017-18 Pruitt?

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

At a certain point in that last game all I wanted to see was somebody throw a helmet or punch a teammate.

I’m shocked JJ or Smith haven’t handled somebody yet. Maybe they have. If we hear of a guy missing practice maybe we’ll know

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

Shrout or Mauer? Who would play if JG sits?

The way CJP talked doesn’t sound like JG will be seeing the bench.

 

[SLICKYINC]

 

[HankHill]

Yep! These games are all about doing what you do and making sure you do it best. Hell, thats what GaSt did! They beat us running about 90% zone read options! Sad on so many levels

Yea idk wtf Ainge is talking about. You aren’t putting in some crazy different game plan for GA state in the opener. Lol

 

[C-town Vol]

I’d rather lose with a guy who cares and tries to lead than with JG who will lose and defend himself as tho he played great.

This is just ridiculous.

You are essentially saying, “I would rather decrease my chances of winning because I don’t like what a guy said after the game.”

You are ticked off. I get it.
But you don’t really mean this.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Guys on the radio saying they saw a handful of players, some key starters, smiling after the game on Saturday. THIS IS THE PROBLEM. They don’t care!!

YOUTH MOVEMENT. Now!

 

[Ron Swanson]

I’m so confused. Pruitt was fired up last year. He was passionate. And after that mess, he just defends the team and gives coach speak? Frost up there criticizing his offense on a team that won, Hurts criticism his performance and his team on a team that dominated, and Pruitt has no fire or passion? Where is 2017-18 Pruitt?

He’s totally different. My guess is he’s been coached up by the AD and PR departments. I’d prefer he threw something and started a tirade full of 4 letter words. But clearly he’s told not to do that. Hopefully he’s at least doing it behind closed doors. If not, we’re in serious trouble.