The Butch Jones Doomsday Clock is now the Jeremy Pruitt Doomsday Clock

Discussion in 'Vols Football' started by IP, Sep 24, 2016.

  1. Savage Orange

    Savage Orange I need ammunition, not a ride. -V Zelensky.

    I don’t for the life of me understand why, after 15 years, people still won’t accept this. Fulmer has been a leech for well over 20 years and the NC in ‘98 does nothing for me now. THE reason we’re debating who was the worst out of the last 3 coaches is because of Fulmer.
     
  2. JohnnyQuickkick

    JohnnyQuickkick Calcio correspondent

    Aside from all that, he did a shitty job as AD. I don’t blame him so much for hiring Pruitt. But he didn’t shepherd the guy at all and was basically just taking a victory lap. Then he gave him a raise and extension (which wasn’t deserved) in the face of a gat-danged pandemic. If he had no history at UT at all his performance as AD was fire-worthy
     
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  3. TDVol1989

    TDVol1989 Always Be Menstruating

    By hiring Pruitt. Pruitt’s football iq is much lower than posters here think. I stand by it. Pruitt is worse than ddiapos and Butch
     
  4. HCKevinSteele

    HCKevinSteele Well-Known Member

    yeah that’s not true at all
     
  5. JohnnyQuickkick

    JohnnyQuickkick Calcio correspondent

    I think Pruitt actually has value as a defensive coach on a staff.
     
  6. TDVol1989

    TDVol1989 Always Be Menstruating

    Break it down. Look at the records. And consider the violations. We can disagree and that’s fine. Debating degrees of sucktitude is useless.
     
  7. HCKevinSteele

    HCKevinSteele Well-Known Member

    People don’t generally lump every aspect of being a coach into “football IQ”. Pruitt’s record as a DC speaks for itself, he’s a damn good defensive coach. He’s also a shitapple redneck that tanked because he’s an idiot. The story is more complicated than you’re trying to make it.
     
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  8. Ssmiff

    Ssmiff Went to the White House...Again

    It's a fair argument to say Pruitt was a good DC with nfl players playing against inferior competition 80% of his games. Some of his zone blitzes, timing, inability of the team to swarm and tackle, inability of DL to disrupt and penetrate the Los, inability look decent at lb and safety and lack of fundamental teaching to allow repeated slants and basically any passes between the hashes dont show him to be great defensively, without the best players in college ball. Teams simply lined up a slot on bad alignment, ran crossing routes or slants and lit him up. UF ran 4 plays and we never changed alignment on them
     
  9. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    can't wait until folks start calling Heupel the worst ever.
     
  10. utvol0427

    utvol0427 Chieftain

    Unless he decides to head to Tuscaloosa to help Alabama win a national championship, after being hired as the head coach at Tennessee, then that title will always be unattainable for him.
     
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  11. HCKevinSteele

    HCKevinSteele Well-Known Member

    I hear you but I think you’re misdiagnosing his problem a little bit.

    I agree that he wasn’t prepared for a scenario where he didn’t have a talent advantage. But some of what you described isn’t a product of that. He was just awful at all of the things a head coach has to do. He was too dumb to hire coaches he trusts and/or too dumb to trust anyone so he thought he could be a head coach and still teach the way he did as a DC. That’s how a game like Georgia State happens.
     
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  12. JohnnyQuickkick

    JohnnyQuickkick Calcio correspondent

    How much did he really “help” to be fair
     
  13. warhammer

    warhammer Chieftain

    Based on the posts in this thread, it's coming. The question is when, not if.
     
  14. InVolNerable

    InVolNerable Fark Master Flex

    I think he’s talking about Pruitt going back to DC the title game, not Butch interning for 3 years.
     
  15. JohnnyQuickkick

    JohnnyQuickkick Calcio correspondent

    I’ve been amusing myself this morning imagining Pruitt as the new Jeopardy host
     
  16. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    Jesus this made me laugh harder than it should.
     
  17. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    New category: vegetables.

    <picture of asparagus>
    "What is asparagus?"
    "Hell if I know."
     
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  18. Savage Orange

    Savage Orange I need ammunition, not a ride. -V Zelensky.

    New category: Scandals

    <Picture of McDonald’s bag>
    “What is this?”
    (Extended silence, with an exasperated look and a head tilt)
    “The reason I’m now hosting Jeopardy!, instead of coaching football”...
     
  19. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    Just keeping this puppy warmed up.
     
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  20. govols182

    govols182 Honorary Mod

    I love the over reaction. We've play 2 quarters...
     

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