I disagree with firing Muschamp during this messed up season (not that I care).
The same dynamic holds with Pruitt.
I haven’t seen anyone, other than the usual suspects that have established their winning formula for years (e.g., Bama, Clemson), perform consistently in a year where East Carolina cracked the top 25, and Cincinnati the top 10.
Look at Georgia, and how they’ve struggled.
This is a practice year.
We’ll never know how our momentum might’ve carried over from ’19 in a normal year. We’ll never know how our guys might’ve built on that, and developed off it.
You’ll say “you’re using the virus as an excuse.”
Damn right I am. It has fundamentally altered all of our lives, and the character and agenda of this nation, going forward. To downplay the profound effect it has had — and will continue to have — on every aspect of our society, is to ignore reality.
I think we’ve all been disabused of any notion that Pruitt is some kind of idiot savant type football coach, though. Someone who can’t speak English at a grammar school level, but knows what it takes on the gridiron, inside and out.
He is a guy with, at best, serviceable skills as a football coach. Unless he proves different, which seems unlikely. He has shown promise a recruiter, but that will change quickly, based on recent performance.
But just as it would be a mistake to judge him on the 8-game (?) streak: it would be another to judge him on this screwy year.
We don’t have much choice, other than to see what he can do in a couple of “normal” years. If we’re ever able to return to anything approaching a semblance of those. Which is highly doubtful (more like certain to not occur).
With the hole we’ve dug ourselves in, we really need to take a break from digging.
Besides — if the Dimocrats manage to steal the two Georgia Senate seats, what a bunch of 20-year-olds do on a field of grass will be the very least of our concerns.
