Vol Twitter has already decided who should be the next Tennessee coach
After just three seasons on the job, Jeremy Pruitt is reportedly out at Tennessee.
News of Pruitt’s departure from Tennessee is being reported by Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports.
Pruitt finishes his time at Tennessee with a 16-19 overall record after finishing last season at 3-7.
Tennessee was picked to play in the Liberty Bowl this year but did not make it due to COVID issues within the program.
Tennessee’s lone bowl appearance during Pruitt was a Gator Bowl win over Indiana at the end of the 2019 season.
Now the big question on Rocky Top is, of course, who will be the next coach to lead the program.
Well, Vol Twitter has already decided on the coach it wants to come to Knoxville.
That would be Liberty’s, Hugh Freeze.
The former Ole Miss coach has a ton of support from Vol Twitter immediately following news of Pruitt’s departure:
Tennessee on Zoom: “Hey Hugh, can you hear us?”
Hugh Freeze: https://t.co/IvDO5yiKzY pic.twitter.com/ctCyocDakc
— Dayne Young (@dayneyoung) January 18, 2021
I think it’s time for Tennessee to hire Hugh Freeze. #hirehugh
— Chase Harness (@Chase_The_Ace) January 18, 2021
https://twitter.com/trey_brannon12/status/1351216840031272961?s=20
I don’t ask for much, but please let Hugh Freeze get the Tennessee job and have to play Bama, Georgia and Florida every year. https://t.co/MEkuxoM2Nb
— Cade Carlton (@CadeCarlton) January 18, 2021
Hugh Freeze/Billy Napier to Tennessee? Who else makes sense?
— Georgia Sports Now (@GASportsNow) January 18, 2021
I’ll say it- Hugh Freeze would be the best choice.
– Offensive minded
– Beat Saban twice at Ole Miss
– Went 10-1 at Liberty this past seasonMakes sense to me. Hire the guy. It doesn’t matter what the outside think. Do what’s best for Tennessee.
— Vol Herald (@VolHerald) January 18, 2021
HUGH FREEZE TO TENNESSEE https://t.co/ywkBOmeJ3I
— Matt (@overnotunder) January 18, 2021
https://twitter.com/CoolCyWrites/status/1351214149662076935?s=20
If Tennessee doesn’t hire Hugh Freeze now, they’re absolutely making the wrong decision
— Matthew Dixon (@MADixon90) January 18, 2021
welcome new tennessee coach hugh freeze https://t.co/GAv2BOHgfB
— Kit Wren (@KitTalksSports) January 18, 2021
Vol Twitter is how they ended up with Jeremy.
Schiano would have ran the table. Look at how dominant Rutgers was in that garbage conference.
We Vol fans were right about Schiano. 3-6 this year and a 21 game losing steak to big ten foe.. LOL That’s about Pruitt’s level in a worse conference and that’s just counting this year..
Yeah-it’s really funny how coaching failures are only the fault of fans at UT. This is odd because nobody ever asked us who to hire and fire and I don’t think any of us have called a play or ran practices.
Do you understand you need to consider different situations? Schiano inherited a team which was one of the worst in Power 5. Rutgers lost 21 conference games in a row before him, 3-6 this year in all conference matches sounds not bad. Does Schiano deserve a big time job? No. But you would be lucky to have him now
How long have you been watching college football? Do you know that 21 losing streak was before Schiano was hired?
TN has a bigger losing streak to top 10 teams. Not Rutgers, but Rutgers doesn’t play SEC caliber teams. Seems like a wash to me.
Also-did you wash his underwear during his Tampa tenure or something?
Man, I feel your pain, but just be realitics. You guys has messed it up once, badly, don’t mess up again.
by the way, if something is wrong, it is mostly because of the AD or coaching staff. But this is the first time I feel the fans or some twitter accounts do play a big role here. Of course you Tennessee fans will never admit it.
So let’s see if we goth this right, we’re gonna replace a coach who was fired for cause…by a coach who resigned before he got fired for cause…crank up Fire Marshall Bill…ALLLlllrighty then…popcorn, extra butter
This was my immediate reaction… I can see it now… “The Tennesse administration is truly sadden by the actions of a coach we put so much trust in to lead this program back into relevancy, someone of the utmost integrity is whom we expect to lead this program”…. queues Curb Your Enthusiasm music “Its with great pleasure that Hugh Freeze has been…..”
Hey humper, scoot over. You want me to bring you a Coca-Cola with that popcorn while I’m up.
I’d prefer a 33 degree bottle of Yuengling while you’re up…
LOL…nice choice! Comin’ Up.
Yeah no. Hire Jeff Fisher.
Fisher isn’t a good idea for college football. We can see what he did with the Titans. NOOOO..lol
The Vandy rejection?
Won’t be the first time a coach has been hired when previously been in trouble with ncaa.
But they are not usually hired from their next job to replace someone in trouble with the NCAA.
They need to cut sling load with Fulmer too.. They are going to be broke until that cat is gone, and away from the program..
Nope…not going to happen and it shouldn’t. Nothing says “hey NCAA, look at me” like firing a guy with cause and then hiring someone with Hugh Freeze’s history. Just call Jamey Chadwell and give him some time to work.
Kevin Steele
Kevin Steele would not sit well with most TN fans. Look at his record for one when he had the reins.. Bad. Great D coach though but knows nothing about offense.. and TN’s major problem is offense and QB development. Two things Steele knows jack about. Sides, don’t think he wants the head coaching job.
You really don’t know talent. First Trask & now Steele.
Are they still paying for Butch or is he off the books?
I used to like the idea of getting Hugh Freeze for them, but since Vol Twitter likes him, maybe it means it’s not the best choice
Fire a coach stemming from NCAA recruiting issues and hire a coach who was fired for NCAA recruiting issues?
Not so sure that’s the best idea.
But Andy, was it really an NCAA thing? This all was self started by UT hiring a lawyer to find,”Cause” and when you do this you can always find, “cause”, to benefit you.. UT is not St Mary’s school of purity. So who are we to deny Freeze? No one sir so don’t pretend. Afterall, how virtuous was it for us to go hire an outside lawyer that specializes in finding cause? One could argue that.
makes sense, “we need a fresh start but don’t want to deal with a big buyout. Get the lawyers on the phone and see if we can self investigate to find an out”… yeah, I can see that… But Freeze? Maybe Steele was brung in for this or Maybe Tee will advance? If not Steele, I see him gone soon too.
Wait a minute. Pruit is fired amidst an investigation into recruiting violations and Vol fans want to hire Hugh Freeze? – the same Hugh Freeze who the NCAA cited for 15 level 1 recruiting & academic violations with a loss of institutional control. I swear you couldn’t make that up to more absurd.
People deserve second chances especially when they were good at their jobs
Deserves got nuttin to do with it. Obviously, Freeze was not any good at the prime directive of his job – institutional control. Since is UT already struggling with violations, hiring Freeze just seems like a bone-headed move to me. But hey, just my 2 cents, don’t have a hound in this hunt.
Being good at the job doesn’t mean you deserve a second chance. Trying to changeand be a good person means you deserve a second chance.
Yes, 9mm, the same that thumped Saban.. Isn’t that why you really are questioning it? LOL
One of those thumpings was vacated. So, no. I had the last laugh.
LOL… only in Hillbillyville do you FIRE A COACH FOR CAUSE and then offer the job to Hugh Sleaze.
Go home Vawls, y’all are drunk.
Also, when will Paul Finebaum apologize to Aaron Murray?
When will you stop being a snot nosed troll?
UT program still firing coaches and UGA still not winning it all since 1980. Not much changes.
When’s the last time y’all won the conference?
Hanging up conference banners is like hanging up wildcard banners. Stay mad-b1tchboy
He is right. What 1 conference championship isn’t maybe 2.
You all all of us from Tn.a hillbilly all the time, your windows in your trailer must be covered with foil so you can not see out. A ga fan saying that.
Can someone google translate this?
You all (call) all of us from Tennessee a hillbilly. Sorry, I can’t fit the “All the time” into a coherent sentence. Try, You repeatedly call all of us from Tennessee a hillbilly.
Corch, why don’t you and Bama fans just save us all time and say “TN, we don’t want you to hire a guy that beat us and would beat UGA”? Wouldn’t that just be easier? lol
I want Freeze but Steele is a good candidate
We’ve got a proven winner that seems would want to come to UT. Who gives a dam what people think honestly. Winning fixes everything. Hire Freeze. This should be no question. Hire him and move on from this mess. Try and get Steele as Dc.
What good is winning when half of ’em get vacated by the NCAA?
9mm. Look again.. Also you think Big Kat from Auburn didn’t know Pruitt was probably going to be gone? Pope has already backed out of the portal.
Okay, I looked again. Ole Miss had 33 wins vacated by the NCAA. Freeze ended up with 12 wins in 4 seasons.
Oh, and I don’t have a clue what Big Kat knew… and neither do you.
So you automatically say that if Freeze is hired, he will commit the same infractions as he did at ole miss? If that is the case then look around and see how many coaches should not be coaching right now due to something they did in there past.
Hire Jeff Fisher. Recruits would flock to a 15 NFL head coach over Freeze
Kevin Steele has developed into a good defensive coordinator, but his records as a head coach at Baylor & I believe Sou. Miss were not good. Interim-coach only.
AFan Smartest Bama fan on here today. Imagine that, someone who did their homework on Steele before they posted. Props.
Freeze is not the man. Hell I would go with Tee Martin over Freeze.
That’s why you aren’t making the hire
LSUMC…We agree on that. Who’d you hire ? I’d hire Jamey Chadwell of Coastal Carolina(If he can make a winner there, he can do it anywhere). He’s a young/energetic/offense-oriented/successful head coach, plus you could won him on the cheap @ $2.75 Million/year & and one(1) years salary buyout.
Don’t forget, Chadwell was suspended for Secondary/Level III recruiting violations himself. That may have kept him out of some previous vacant HC spots. Good coach, just saying.
Freeze is the guy. Think anyone is going to say a word about Freeze’s issues once Spring ball is here? No. He’s clearly better than Steele or anyone else we’ve mentioned.
are for or against giving him a UT cell phone?
“you”
A school that fired its HC due to NCAA violations going out to hire sleezy freezy seems like a terrible idea.
So you get rid of a coach for “violations” to hire a coach that was fired because of “violations”…
That just sounds great..
If Tennessee learns anything, DO NOT hire another Saban assistant.
This reminds me of that scene in Con Air, when Steve Buschemi’s Garland Green character said, “define irony. A bunch of idiots on a plane, singing a song made famous, by a band that died in a plane crash.”
gwhite13….do you honestly think it is even possible that Alabama fans care who you hire?? The Tide is the male lion walking the Serengeti; you are the jackal hoping for scraps.
bryanchip…what assistants? I think Sarkisian took them all.
Freeze and Steele would make a great team.
This is so stupid. People are not even thinking about the look this gives. If this stuff is true, then you fire a guy that lack institutional control over his program, to hire a guy that had a lack of institutional control at his last job. Yeah I am sure that would make the NCAA committee on infractions look at UT in a softer light. UT fans need to get a clue.