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Hire a great coach.  Duh.

It worked for Michigan, except it didn't.

Penn State?  Not this year.

Rutgers?  Signs of life there.

UNC?  Signs of life there as well.

FSU, Miami, Nebraska, USC, Texas, rather limited signs of life there as well.  Fans are restless all over.

I love my Vols but I no longer waste my money on TN Vol products. I no longer go to their games. I no longer plan my Saturday fall activities around the TN football games. 

The university is no longer committed to a winning football program so I can no longer be a committed fan. If they keep Pruitt and accept consistent mediocrity and failure then why should I be passionate about their lack of passion. I have better things to do with my time.

If they keep the Bama Bozo for 3 more years or fire him tomorrow I don’t care because the boosters and admin will simply hire another unproven bargain bin clown for $2 million per year and hope he can average 7 wins per season with a 10 to 11 win season once every 5 years to appease the fans.

The days of this UT Administration seeking to win the SECE or SEC championship once every so many years is long over as the evidence over the past 15 years has shown us.  

I already knew about the 20 million it will cost to fire and replace Pruitt's staff.  UT is the worst run business possibly in the SEC.  UT can't afford to fire Pruitt, but they can't afford to keep him either.  Has anybody done a cost analysis of lost revenue in terms of ticket sales and all the merch fans buy at the games during Butch and Fooley's worst seasons?  I agree with the statment because I've said it myself: hire a bad coach every three or four years and fire a bad coach every three or four years!  I wonder if we added up all the buyouts and extensions UT has paid over the last three coaching staffs, if UT could have bought a Ferrari instead of a Yugo.  Have we seen anything from Pruitt that shows us he is not in over his head?  He is not head coach material yet.  I'm sure NC is very happy with Mack Brown right now.  The other UT is as inept as the Vols:  They fired Rick Barnes and Mack Brown.  The 16 year era at Texas was terminated not by the coach himself, but at the insistence of an embattled school president even though the school's official release and every public statement said Brown decided on his own to step down.  Both left the Longhorns and are doing well if not exceeding some people's expectations.  It's obvious that Pruitt plays not to lose.  He lies to his fanbase or maybe he's stupid enough to believe what he's saying when he says that JG is the best chance for the Vols to win.  How do you know when you give the backup QB one series and make him hand the ball off two straight times and then set him up for an obvious passing play on third down, which tells the defense exactly how to play our offense?  Or when they put Bailey in the game for the final seven minutes of his last game down too far to make a difference?  Pruitt's extension almost makes the decision a moot point.  That's another blatant business error.  Keep giving these coaches big extensions based on potential rather than results.  Structure the contract to pay big bonuses for big results.  It's not that difficult.