re: Mount Rushmore of All-Time Worst SEC Coaches

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The fact that TWO Tennessee coaches from the 2010’s made the list ahead of Butch Jones is absolutely wild.

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And wrong. They were not good coaches by any means but there were reasons for their failures that didn't necessarily start from them. Dooley couldn't recruit, partially because he wasn't very good, but mostly because the program was nuclear at his hiring, and his staff reflected that. By the time the stench wore off and he got some decent staff in, he hit on his O-Line coach and made a tragic decision to fully overhaul his defense with an already weak defensive roster. Pruitt was trying to build and honestly might have lasted a little longer at Tennessee had COVID not hit. 2020 was a critical spring for that program, he had two decent young QBs who were getting coached by a decent OC. He had an emerging Eric Gray and three future NFL WRs. Wanya Morris and Darnell Wright were growing and Trey Smith and Cade Mays were on the inside. The defense wasn't elite but it was growing into a formidable SEC defense by the end of 2019. I know it was the same for everybody, but not having that spring really gave an advantage to teams with good rosters and good, established QBs. And Tennessee's lack of an established QB, let alone a good one, doomed Pruitt to his fate. A lot of players that he brought to Tennessee that stayed made a difference these last couple of years. Hooker, Hyatt, Wright, Tillman, Fant, BY, Taylor. He just didn't have the organizational prowess and had bad luck at the end. Butch Jones was constantly and repeatedly bailed out by Josh Dobbs, never once developed a QB, but insisted that his offense be QB dependent. I can literally only think of one game(one half, really) of his career where it genuinely looked like they had good offensive playcalling, and that was UGA in his first year.

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The fact that TWO Tennessee coaches from the 2010’s made the list ahead of Butch Jones is absolutely wild.

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#blessed