Without a doubt. Those wins against Auburn and Kentucky help a little, but these last two weeks have been really bad, and I would feel a lot better about it if he had something more than two solid wins to fall back on. Going into next year, I’m not really sure whether he’s the guy or not. But that’s where I was going into this year too, so I’m kinda used to it.
That Auburn win was nice, but he's been Malzahn's daddy since he started coordinating defenses. Hell, he was on the field telling the players what plays Auburn was running before the snap. That is great, but it's also a damning indictment of Malzahn and Chip Lindsey. Punching Kentucky in the mouth is what's supposed to happen
Nothing terribly wrong with screwing up and in admitting it. Not fixing it is where true problems arise.
Comparing Saban and Pruitt at this point is ridiculous. Same with Vanderbilt though... I know I need to get over that shit but... 5 out of the last 7 games? I never thought I’d live to see the day...
Indeed. I’m still not sure whether Friend is a problem per se, but if he went out and got Chaney and Pittman, that would say a lot.
He nailed the defensive staff and hired a great WR coach. Niedermeyer has been a stud recruiter as a TE coach, with only one real SEC talented TE it's hard to say he did a good or bad job coaching on the field. Wolf turned into a decent blocking TE, so there's that. DWA has no interest in blocking.
We need an old fashioned haircut match next year with UGA. Love to see Smart held down at 50 yard line and shave his freaking combover.
I'm not spinning anything. I'm looking at the reality that UT was a 5-6 team going into the game and got pushed around by a better 5-6 team.
Based on what I thought this season might be? Nah I mean yeah I think we should be better than that as a program but we’re not
Bituli missed some critical open field tackles in the first half. Hell, player execution is the biggest problem on defense. They were in the spots to make plays quite a bit.
I damned sure don’t know if Friend is a problem or the problem. But when you seem to make a very important hire - I’d argue the OL is the third most important for Pruitt, behind only S&C and OC - based on seemingly little else except he’s your personal buddy, it warrants extra scrutiny. And if you then hired an OC who knew, or worse, allowed said personal buddy and OL coach to have his fingers in the OC....then that OC is too stupid to be hired, and the whole situation is a pretty damning mark on Pruitt’s leadership and speaks to his inexperience. Can anyone fathom Pruitt’s reaction had Jimbo, Richt or Saban brought in their buddy to coach a defensive position group...and then expected Pruitt as DC to take input as to how to run / call his defense, from that personal friend / assistant coach? Any coach worth his salt would tell any head coach to get [uck fay]ed in that situation (ask any player or coach here what they’d do in that situation and believe whatever they tell you), and yet, rumors persist that it is exactly this situation that Helton was hired into, and allowed. And which ultimately, is just going to make Helton look like shit as the guy owning the actual title, but not actually fully running the show. If this is true, and Pruitt either planned or merely permitted this, then that’s both chickenshit and falls squarely on his shoulders.