September 5, 2019 · 6:35 AM

Throwing er’rybody under the bus

Nice.

Now do your coaching staff.

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33 responses to “Throwing er’rybody under the bus”

  1. PDawg30577
    September 5, 2019 at 6:52 AM

    He clearly just hates that team, and the team hates him. I can understand that. On both sides.

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  2. eethomaswfnc
    September 5, 2019 at 7:46 AM

    Saturday in Tooth Nation could be a sight to behold. There could be a circular firing squad quickly if BYU were to come in and pull the Vowels’ pants down.

    In that case, I’m not even sure Phat Phil could survive.

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  3. SpellDawg
    September 5, 2019 at 7:51 AM

    Pruitt is used to being surrounded by good recruits/recruiters, he could be a cranky asshole to players. Alabama, FSU, and UGA had a solid pipeline that allowed for losing guys that weren’t buying in. UT’s pipeline started leaking under Dooley and broke under Butch. I think it’s very likely Pruitt loses this team by November and his best 2020 recruits flee. Dead man walking.

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  4. Spike
    September 5, 2019 at 8:40 AM

    It’s hard to tell who the biggest douche bag is.. Boom or Pruitt?

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  5. Russ
    September 5, 2019 at 8:44 AM

    Man, this is blowing up a lot faster than I thought it would. I’m going to need more popcorn to watch this soap opera. I guess next year it will be Florida’s turn.

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  6. cpadawg
    September 5, 2019 at 8:44 AM

    They were supposed to be 3-0 headed to Gainesville for the brutal @Florida, UGA, Miss St., @Bama stretch. If they could get that win against Miss St at home, they could be a 9-win team with a shot at ten wins in the bowl. With Saturday’s loss, they have to beat Florida in the swamp — which they haven’t managed in their last seven tries — to get to nine regular season wins. That’s the ceiling, which is not the second-year bump Pruitt really needed to get Tennessee back.

    If Tennessee manages to lose to BYU (they are just 3.5 point favorites), they probably will be 1-6, and need to sweep the rest of the East for bowl eligibility. They went 1-3 against those East teams last year. It is incredible to say, but I don’t see how Pruitt survives if he loses to BYU. He may not be fired immediately, but he won’t get this thing turned around no matter how long he is there.

    My hope is that Fulmer fires Pruitt so he can take over as interim head coach. That would be peak Rocky Top.

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    • Mike Cooley
      September 5, 2019 at 9:27 AM

      Yessir! I want Fulmer to name himself
      coach again because I want us to beat his ass. We still owe him a few.

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    • W Cobb Dawg
      September 5, 2019 at 12:01 PM

      9 wins?! I had to re-read that 3 times to be sure my eyeglasses were still working correctly. They’ll be lucky to equal last year’s 5 wins.

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    • Brandon
      September 5, 2019 at 5:52 PM

      That has always been my heart’s desire in all of this, for Fulmer to return like Napoleon from Elba and place the crown on his own head to reign for 100 glorious days in which experiences many Waterloos.

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  7. gatriguy
    September 5, 2019 at 9:17 AM

    People need to go back and really look at Pruitt’s time in Athens. He was bailed out by two tissue soft schedules, but every good offense he faced in 2 years absolutely smoked him.

    It’s really starting to look like he’s a light’s out DC…as long as he has a defense full of NFL starters.

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    • Derek
      September 5, 2019 at 9:36 AM

      In 2014 Auburn was 12th nationally in scoring offense at 39.5 ppg. They scored 7 vs. us.

      Also that year, Missouri was 13th in ppg nationally at 39.1. They scored 0 vs. us at their place.

      Totally smoked!!

      The real difference in success rate had little to do with whether our opponent scored a lot of points. It was how they scored those points. If they relied on finesse, like auburn and mizzou, we crushed them. If they relied on power football like UF, we did struggle.

      The reason was simple. We were small, fast and well coached. Hard to coach a guy into being bigger and stronger. Leonard Floyd was a helluva player, but he’s going to struggle setting the edge against a pulling guard or tackle.

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      • gatriguy
        September 5, 2019 at 10:33 AM

        South Carolina put up 38. GT was a bogus fumble in the end zone way from boat racing him, Tennessee put up 32. Arkansas our up 32. Kentucky our up 31.

        Auburn was a phenomenal performance, not arguing that; but Missouri is a bad example as Maty Mauck was in full drug addict mode at that point (allegedly).

        Look, Pruitt in Athens is the ultimate Rorschach test; you see what you want to see.

        But he didn’t have the talent in Athens (or Knoxville) that he had at Bama or FSU, and guess what? His defense doesn’t look so hot.

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        • Derek
          September 5, 2019 at 11:03 AM

          Mauk was so drug addled they won the next (and last) 6, won the sec east and Mauk passed for nearly 300 yards vs. Bama in the seccg while not reaching 100 against us.

          Who was bama’s shitty ass DC giving up 272 to a cocaine addled qb?

          Inquiring minds want to know!

          Everyone is entitled to their opinions but it’s a shame so many of them don’t take facts into account.

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          • gatriguy
            September 5, 2019 at 11:25 AM

            Care to comment on the 5 other games i mentioned? 38 to scu, 32 to UT, 32 to Arkansas, 38 to an awful Florida, 31 vs Kentucky, etc, etc.

            Believe whatever you want about Pruitt. I watched good offenses turn him inside out.

            And I watched GSU do the same thing Saturday. It’s a lot harder without D’Ron Payne and Minkah Fitzpatrick.

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            • Derek
              September 5, 2019 at 12:20 PM

              Care to retract your “every good offense he faced in two years absolutely smoked him” comment?

              That’s where this started. And I only looked at 2014 to find two examples of where you’re full of shit.

              Then you doubled down on the stupid by saying that Mauk was cocaine addled when we shut them out. Coke or no, mizzou won their next 6 with Mauk, and the bowl game, only dropping the seccg to Bama.

              I’ll admit Pruitt didn’t dominate every offense he’s faced. But I never said he did.

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      • California dawg
        September 5, 2019 at 10:41 AM

        Or maybe Pruitt is just destined to be a great DC (which he no doubt is) or maybe he needed an easier first time head coaching job. Regardless, I’m not shedding any tears over his struggles right now. Quite the opposite.

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        • Derek
          September 5, 2019 at 11:12 AM

          I hope UT becomes the new Vandy too. I don’t say these things because I have a vested interest in CJP. Someone has to defend reality tho.

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        • Dawgflan
          September 5, 2019 at 11:37 AM

          Pruitt is an asshole one-percenter. He has shown an ability to exist in a DC position where he has the presence of position coaches to be a buffer, and also a strong HC (Saban) to reign him in. He’s never lasted more than a couple of seasons anywhere else.

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          • Down Island Way
            September 5, 2019 at 6:03 PM

            A ton of coordinators think they might can HC in the bright lights…shit pot load of ’em find out they can’t even come close…current ut hc is in the shit pot catagory, IMO hasn’t spent enough time doing….let’s say long term assistant under a proven HC/or had some resume building at a smaller university, kinda smells like no HC can stand pruitt more than a couple of minutes let alone couple of years, considering several peoples turned/or were turned away from the ut hc position/interview, one only knows if they’re hc material until you dive in the deep end…hence pruitt may need a life jacket for this shit storm

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  8. Corrected Visionaries
    September 5, 2019 at 9:53 AM

    Pruitt was born to not be a head coach. Back to DC somewhere soon.

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  9. Comin' Down The Track
    September 5, 2019 at 10:26 AM

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