Coaching
Nathanael: F
While I still think more of the blame for this loss falls on the players, it’s the coaches’ jobs to get them prepared and ready to play. And UT’s players absolutely weren’t prepared and ready for football on Saturday.
Tennessee’s game plan on offense was to keep it as vanilla as possible, and that backfired because the defense couldn’t get lined up correctly and couldn’t stop Georgia State. Once the offense started pulling out a few wrinkles in the play-calling, it was too late.
Jeremy Pruitt took full responsibility for the loss on Saturday, and this result absolutely rests on his shoulders, no matter how I feel about doling out the blame. It’s his job — that he gets paid millions of dollars to do — to make sure things like this never happen. Yet, it did.
Ben: F
You can’t lose to Georgia State. It’s as simple as that. I expected the offense to be vanilla, but I didn’t expect for them to be as vanilla as they were on Saturday, and it cost them a win. To make matters worse, the offensive line has managed to get worse. Defensively, it was a complete failure. All levels of the defense struggled with communication and lining up correctly. It was a complete cluster, and that falls square on the shoulders of Jeremy Pruitt and Jim Chaney. It was disorganized mess.
(Derek Dooley and Butch Jones never lost to a non-Power-5 opponent at Tennessee, by the way.)
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As a kid I growing up in Tennessee, I watched Johnny Majors coaching the Vols. From there the only highlights was Peyton Manning, who never won a championship, and T. Martin who was a one hit wonder.
I’m sick tired and embarrassed of making excuses.
Am pissed having to say yep we suck but we are rebuilding again and again and time after time.
Like a bad marriage or an old jalopy you pour more money and time into fixing.
At some point you have to face the facts. It ain’t getting any better and it ain’t never going to run like it use to.
I love my home state of Tennessee and I living in Georgia I’m Damn proud to be a Volunteer.
But I’m divorcing the University of Tennessee and taking a break from this toxic relationship.
Maybe one day UT will realize its playing college football and its part of the South Eastern Conference.
Not some back water obscure middle school.
So now I’m preparing to go to work on Tuesday
And listening to all the laughter and ridicule of getting beat by a last year 2 and 10 Georgia team.