What is Pruitt’s approval rating now in Vol nation?

I definitely feel better than I did after the 1st couple weeks of the season altgough i'm still not exactly sure why those 2 weeks had to happen

If he wins out most everyone will be fully back in. Unlike Chad Morris or Willie Taggert, it seems like the players love playing for him and the fact that he didn't lose the lockerroom early in the season is encouraging. Plus all of his recruits from the past 1-2 years are all getting better and look like they belong in bigtime SEC football. If we get our QB situation figured out, this core has a chance to be pretty good sooner than some casual SEC followers may think. Big if though.

The Georgia State debacle will always be unforgivable, but he has made strides overall as a head coach throughout the year. The team is noticeably more physical and has been playing with their hair on fire ever since the Georgia game.

I'm certainly not gonna crown him as "the guy" yet as he has much left to prove, but things look a hell of a lot better than they did just 5 weeks ago. After the parlay of the Kiffin/Dooley/Butch eras, I'm done anointing coaches until the results speak for themselves.

Would love to see us circle the wagons on the recruiting trail and outbid anyone in recruiting. NCAA be damned. We gotta fix Tennessee football once and for all. We are too passionate, prideful, and resourceful of program to suck for as long as we have. Hopefully the past 10 years is just something like LSU went through in the 90s. Tennessee no longer being a joke in HS football helps too.

Good stuff. It’s good for the SEC for Tenn to be relevant again.

100% after the win over UK

Pruitt has done a great job, just when I thought he lost control or never had control to begin with. Hopefully, they can start competing with the red team.

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Granted the SEC is top heavy this year. Everyone is a dumpster fire in their own way outside of the top 5 teams.

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Very true and that's why in pre-season I picked UT to go 8-4 or 9-3; the competition sucks too and Pruitt actually does have considerably more roster talent than MSU, UK, Vandy, Mizzou. Outside of the slow start, Pruitt's done about what he should.

It's hard to say much about any team in the SEC right now, especially with all the QB turnover, other than LSU looks impressive.

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Not that a program like Ole Miss has a chance at ever being elite.

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Probably 80% at this point. Still nowhere near where we need to be, but as of last month, we seem to be finally beating teams we should be beating. Improvement from September to October is unbelievable.

The in game adjustments are something we haven't seen here in a long time.

We've only given up a combined 21 second half points over the past 5 games. 7 of those were given up against our reserves in the UAB game in junk time.

For the most part, the other schools fans pretty much know their role. Arkansas fans know that their ceiling is an SEC west title once in a fan’s lifetime. Same with ole miss. Kentucky and State make statues and giant posters for a decent bowl game. A sugar or cotton bowl is about as good as it gets for them.

The two that has not accepted their place yet is Mizzou and aTm. These two insufferable twits will never be much more than State or Kentucky. All they will ever do is play spoiler to a big 6 team’s great year and possibly get in a New Year’s six bowl once a decade. These two need to be brought to heel and taught their places. These two need to be smashed over and over to drive home the fact of who and what they are. Once they finally accept the fact that their place in the SEC is fixed with no real hope of improvement and their programs are stagnant, they may become bearable.