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Looks like Pruitt is not going down without a fight, per his attorney. Not sure who would be willing to step up and take the HC job at UT once the smoke clears. Considering UT's past attempts to hire a HC, this will be very interesting unless they just hand the job to Steele.

Also will be interesting to see how may scholarships UT will loose and restrictions on recruiting?
 
RUGER said:
I think that is exactly the problem.
The liberal idiots in charge don't WANT a football program, they wanna be like Vandy.... we smart too ya know ;)

In all seriousness, the trouble with the football program, or lack there of, come from much higher than a coach or AD.
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If you want Saban results, you got to pay a Saban salary.

UT has been wanting to drink Champagne on a beer budget
 
Yep
 

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This Article hits ALL the high points for me.
https://sports.yahoo.com/tennessees...-jeremy-pruitt-and-phil-fulmer-224253073.html
"With the firing of Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt and the unceremonious knee-capping of athletic director Phil Fulmer, which is being masqueraded as retirement, the University of Tennessee finalized the coda of administrative ineptitude for a singular hire that will long be a gold standard in college athletics"

"And the saddest part of everything that's happened at Tennessee is that it was totally and completely predictable, as it tried to microwave the school's glory years by bringing back Fulmer"

"Instead of reestablishing glory, Tennessee ended up microwaving rotting salmon"

"But for those schadenfreude fans — and there's certainly a coach in New Jersey and an athletic director in North Carolina who'd qualify"

"Schiano was a proven head coach, program builder and developer of talent from 11 seasons at Rutgers and two years as an NFL head coach. His hiring would have been an acknowledgement that Tennessee needed to slowly build back to competence through evaluation"
 
Im a betting man and I wager vols throw some money at Pruitt to keep his yap shut. They don't want him spilling the beans on everything Fulmer had him doing at his request per the recruiting scandal.
 
Can't make this stuff up. Allegedly giving recruits cash in McDonalds bags. Literally, bag men. Hire a 30 year old unknown assistant from Alaska who becomes recruiter of the year in 2019 because "he has a lot of energy." I guess so, but not enough creativity apparently. And to top it all off, at yesterday's presser Fulmer is asked to describe Pruitt's time at UT and his answer is "well, the recruiting was good"!!!!!!! Are you kidding me?! LoL.
 
PillsburyDoughboy said:
Im a betting man and I wager vols throw some money at Pruitt to keep his yap shut. They don't want him spilling the beans on everything Fulmer had him doing at his request per the recruiting scandal.
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Everyone knows how the NCAA operates. It's UTC and MTSU that have to throw money at Pruitt or else the hammer will come down on them. I remember when Jerry Tarkanian said "poor Cleveland State. NCAA is going to punish them. Kentucky just got caught cheating."
 
UT has been a $h!t show for years. Vol fans are an even bigger unrealistic $h!t show of hopes and dreams (got to love 'em though). The biggest $h!t show of them all is the boosters, #numberonereasonUTcantgetadecentcoach.

When are VOl fans going to understand you are getting played by the university to keep the $$$ rolling in. Most of the big wigs down there could care less about football except for the money it generates.

Let's just keep living on 1998. :rolleyes: Actually saw a 1998 National Champs bumper sticker on a car a few months ago, priceless.

One of the lunatic host on 99.1 still thinks UT is a top 10 job in college football. It's not even a top 20 (#numberonereasontheboosters).

Please everyone come back to earth and realize UT is a mid-pack program. Always has been in the modern era of SEC/college ball. It was only held in such high regard back in the day because the SEC was THE conference in college football. Now that several other conferences have caught up it has exposed UT for what it is.

Sorry for all the hate and I really have no dog in this fight but it just kills me (in an oddly dysfunctional humorous way) listening to UT fans on sports radio. I actually get giddy anticipating the calls that will come into the radio shows when they lose. I have never heard so many people call in that should be D1 AD's or head coaches.

I love the passion of Vol fans and hope for the sake of the cursed Vol nation they find a decent coach and AD.

PS. I have never understood all the hate for Phil. I like Fulmer, he did more for the program and community than most realize. I think the Vols record since he left reflects on his true abilities as a coach as much as his actual coaching record.
 
buckaroo said:
https://athlonsports.com/college-football/ranking-all-130-college-football-coaching-jobs-2019?amp
Looks like this says we are 16, of course these jobs change
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That's a good list. I'd rank Tennessee slightly ahead of Auburn and way ahead of Florida State. Ahead of Nebraska and Miami, but not Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Michigan State, or Iowa. As the Cover 3 podcast guys said, your son can be born in Madison and you will still be around to coach him at Wisconsin. Same for Iowa. They've had two coaches in 40 years winning 8-9 games a year with the occasional 10-12 or 5 win seasons. Tennessee probably top 20-22 job.
 

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