A story told in tweets:
Tennessee had a 99.6% chance of winning with 31 seconds left in the game. Pruitt has similar odds of losing his job. pic.twitter.com/Iuj1HMn71D
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 8, 2019
How BYU (+3.5) got into position for the game-tying field goal 😳: https://t.co/EZfPHGjctV
— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) September 8, 2019
Weekly Tennessee Heartbreak pic.twitter.com/NngSk4QHQI
— Pick Six Previews (@PickSixPreviews) September 8, 2019
Tennessee AD, Phillip Fulmer watches on during the Jeremy Pruitt press conference. #Vols pic.twitter.com/ejR84pwLeL
— Trey Wallace (@TreyWallace_) September 8, 2019
The Tennessee football program is sick.
These kids don’t know how to win.
Really hard problem to solve.
— Wes Rucker (@wesrucker247) September 8, 2019
Don’t stop believing, Vol fans.
Get The Picture 
How low can they go? Bringing in a plethora of well-known asst.coaches can’t overcome sub-par talent, lack of effort/just don’t give a crap on the field when it counts. Cleaning out the dead-wood in that program —finding players that want to play may be above Pruitt’s head. Something’s terribly wrong up there and I hate to say I’m sort of enjoying it immensely.
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I’m enjoying it immensely and I don’t mind saying it a bit.
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You and me both, brother.
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I, too, am enjoying it immensely and would shout it from the rooftops!
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If BYU had been coached by Mark Richt they wouldn’t have spiked the ball, would have tried to run a play, the clock would have expired and BYU would have lost the game.
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Hammer, meet nail. 😉
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Completely different and you know that … spiking the ball in BYU’s situation was exactly the right call. They needed a field goal to tie the game and needed to stop the clock to get their field goal unit on the field. The decision to spike or not in 2012 is not as clear cut as you would like everyone to believe, Mayor.
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Agree, apples and pecans comparison.
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Except that it is.
Richt fired himself that night in the Dome.
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No, he doesn’t know that and apparently never will understand. UGA would have gotten the same number of plays using either method…he just didn’t like the result; none of us did.
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Hillbilly Masada… Hillbilly Jonestown…an orange bloodbath…
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Wait…what’s that? Is it the Phil Fulmer Macy’s parade balloon? No, it’s Fulmer! Lend him your ear, hillbillies! He comes not to praise Pruitt, but to bury him! All hail, Orange Julius Caesar.
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Oy. “Orange Julius Caesar” may be the best nickname I’ve encountered in a long time. Well done, Muttley.
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Psst…..Pruitt is t that great without a lot of NFL talent to play with.
Seems like I remember someone making that point this week…..
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Fair enough, but this level of orange mayhem isn’t a coaching or talent issue. This is a malignant tumor from the core of that program. Pruitt is in over his head on the field, but off the field he’s probably being played like a cheap fiddle (not that this little caper will be cheap for them). It almost makes you wish Butch Jones and Dooley II: the Revenge would write books.
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It’s a beautiful thing..
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Looks like the stage is set for the large orange spheroid to appoint himself as HC to rescue their program. And to think they might have had Mike Leach. Mind-bending and strange, but gun to behold.
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“fun to behold”, obviously. I would normally expect this to happen after Eww Tee loses the gauntlet of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi State, and Alabama; but what if they are bitten by the Chattanooga Moccasins next Saturday? OTOH, wouldn’t Fulmer prefer that Pruitt bear the onus of losing four straight SEC games?
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And while we’re asking, will Fullamerde bear the onus of Pruitt being his hire? (No, of course not…)
No, no, Phil, don’t bare your onus! That’s not what I said. No one wants to see that.
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Fullamerde.
Je vois ce que tu as fait là, mon ami. 😉
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Je suis content que quelqu’un l’ait fait!
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Whatever’s going on up there would have swallowed any coach they hired. Some might have put up a better fight but there’s no way anyone can win with that current machine in place. It’s a write-off.
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As a UGA fan, the best hope for continued misery on Rocky Top is for Fulmer to shiv Pruitt, take over, and continue to flail (and create an even more toxic environment). At this point, I don’t think anyone can bring the Lols back, but that doesn’t mean Fulmer’s ego isn’t so big he’ll appoint himself the false hillbilly prophet. Well, actually, he’s already done that, but he’s maintained the pretense of being program executive and not gameday tactician.
As a UGA fan, the second best hope for continued misery on Rocky Top is that Pruitt and staff stay.
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Imagine a thought bubble over the heads of JEREMY PRUITT, JIM CHANEY, KEVIN SHERRER, WILL FRIEND AND TRACY ROCKER…
“Damn, Athens was a really great place to live…”
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This post makes me smile.
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Throughout OT, you could see the look of dread on all the Vlol’s faces. They knew what was coming.
And the final TD seems particularly humiliating and ominous. BYU pushed the entire Vlol defense 5 yards into the end zone.
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Was Pruitt a sideline screamer at Georgia? (other than other coaches of course.) The Knoxville punditarians are suggesting The Pumpkin might be interim head coach, which begs the question: When you paying three head coaches, how many do you actually have?
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Good point, but at Tennessee, the paid coaches are just figureheads. Tennessee has been managed and coached by Twitter for a couple of years now.
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Even Chaney was screaming in his mike at one point….I take that as a very bad sign of some internal turmoil.
I dont remember exactly, but when Pruitt came to Georgia from FSU wasn’t there some off-field baggage in his trailer?
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I think there was a whiff of adultery? I don’t remember any on field stuff, other than that FSU defense was lights out and many of us were pretty excited to have an update in our coaching staff.
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Yep, I was thinking that, too. But I also remember wondering why he would make a lateral move from FSU to Georgia, just seemed “interesting.”
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I recal being thrilled at that time and somewhat concerned that FSU folks were saying “u can have him”
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It was alleged he got involved with a coed while engaged to another woman.
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Yeah, I remember there being a whiff of adultery, but I also remember there being a lot of sour grapes from FSU fans so running a guy down with rumors would be par for the course.
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He never stays anywhere more than about 2 years. His act wears thin about a year and a half in.
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Just becoming mediocre may be a goal for Tooth Nation this fall.
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A poorly coached, rudderless team EE?
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BTW, Furman hung 42 points on Georgia State yesterday. That’s two TDs more than UT could.
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Furman also lost to the best team in Atlanta.
#404theREALculture
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This was truly their Volingrad.
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You have no idea how much I appreciate this pun, although I think last week might have been more applicable. Stalingrad showed the Germans they might lose the war. Kursk guaranteed they would lose it. I’d say yesterday was Kursk for UT. That program is toast.
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You’re absolutely right. I just didn’t think of it last week. Next stop for them is Butch Jonestown.
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Or maybe try this: last week was the surprise encirclement. This week was Paulus surrendering in a department store basement. Soon Pruitt will be back in Tuscaloosa with Jones doing propaganda broadcasts for the reds there.
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Think Greg Schiano would still take this job? 🙂
I love this so much.
I was at UGA law school during Tennessee’s run beating us ~10 in a row. God I hate them so much.
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Thought that was lulu’s proud papa at the pruitt presser for a second….
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Phil’s return as interim coach then coach is at hand. Just the way he planned it. I’m sure he’ll wait until after the Alabama game though, no need to dirty his hands with that imminent debacle. Despite our hatred for Fulmer, and mine burns as bright as anyone, I think we all need to take a minute to admire what shrewd player he is of the Game of the Urnge Thrones. Pruitt never had a chance, I wonder if Johnny Majors reaches out to Pruitt this week to express his condolences.
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Excellent analysis…..well done sir.
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Does Fulmer understand what it takes to recruit these days? Spurrier had zero interest in that kind of effort on the recruiting trail and I doubt Fulmer will be better.
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Where’s that pundit that had utk going 9-3 a few weeks ago? I think it was Fiutak.
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There’s still a loss to give and meet that expectation. If I could only decide which team they will lose to from here on in…..
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I said yesterday I thought TN would regroup enough to make a concerted effort to win that game, they did play hard; I just didn’t realize they were truly that bad.
Also felt it would be a hole too deep to crawl out of if they did tumble again. They are at that point, and there doesn’t seem to be any viable solutions. Sad, but funny at the same time.
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That’s Fulmer’s pissed off stance.
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Yep, that’s the same look when he gives while standing in line at Krispy Kreme and someone get the last dozen.
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This whole situation makes me wonder what the interview process is like for Head Football Coaches. As mentioned by Cynical Dawg in another thread, several ADs have claimed that Mike Leech has interviewed himself out of a job despite his record of churning out 10 win seasons at historical doormats.
Fulmer was a good HC at one time. That means that he understands at some level the skillset required to be successful at the job. His final two candidates were Jeremy Pruitt and Mel Tucker. The final judgement on Tucker is still up in the air, but he has started off 2-0 against Colorado State and Nebraska while, like Pruitt, hiring a rag-tag group of coaches with UGA affiliations. Does something get lost in translation in the interview process? I understand ADs not being able to spot a good HC, but a HC should should be able to recognize their own.
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VolNation is wonderful reading today.
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I read it a bit from time to time. Seems they all now hate Fulmer, don’t think Chaney is a great OC and believe Pruitt is in over his head. Only took two games to come around to my way of thinking.
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I suggested that UT consider dropping to FCS in an effort to be more competitive there, but they got mad and yanked my post.
😦
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Fulmer will take over and fire all the assistants except Chaney. He will need Chaney to stand next to and make himself look smaller. Besides by now Chaney has figured out who makes the best donuts in Knox and Fulmer can depend on the donut meister to keep him supplied.
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For anyone that wants an illustration of the term black swan, see this game
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Finebaum’s statement about them being a title contender should be this years cannon shot.
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Wow. BYU’s tight end was wide-ass open, too.
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I noticed that last night, too.
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Wonder what the take on your words would be if read by someone who didn’t know CFB?
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Relevant XKCD – https://xkcd.com/37/
Wow. BYU’s tight end was wide ass-open, too.
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I’d like to see an annual tilt between BYU and Ewe Tee.
Call it…Mormons vs. Morons
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Bulldog Nation needs to do the right thing and take over their trash stadium next month. I’m going (first time) and would love to see about 40K real Georgia fans (I suck and don’t count) just grind their toothless, godless, hygiene hating, ignorant, illiterate culture under our red and black hobnailed bootheels. I want Peyton disowning their sorry asses.
It’s absolutely beautiful to watch their dreams crumble and it’s gonna be forever.
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I’ve also never been to Neyland and am gearing up for a rather long haul over-the-road. The way the Orange fortunes are developing, I think tickets may be available for something under $75 by gametime. I’m deciding who to bring with me for muscle since after their 4th loss the UT natives may be irritable during postgame activities.
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