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Football aside, UT has a decent human being as its head coach. This is from this article: How Tennessee reserved the best seats at Neyland Stadium for a new kind of VIP
"Additionally, Casey Pruitt has helped bring players to the hospital who patients idolize, win or lose, as well as her husband.
“In the 15 years I’ve been here, only one other time have we ever had one of the coaches come here,” Allmon said. “It was a specific request and he came, went up a back elevator, saw one patient that had made a special request, went back down the elevator and he left. I thought it would be something similar when Casey brought Jeremy. But I didn’t think they were ever going to leave. Every room he went into, he’d pull up a chair and just become best friends. He’s throwing a football with patients, all kinds of stuff.”
On one visit, he encountered a 12-year-old girl, and in a rocking chair beside her bed, he signed a football and gave it to her. She was not impressed. She informed Pruitt she was a Florida fan. He asked to see the football and uncapped his sharpie.
He proceeded to write “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” on the ball.
“That’s what you’re gonna owe me when we beat Florida,” he said, handing the ball back with a laugh.
He also helped replace a signed Josh Dobbs football for a patient whose ball was lost in the tornadoes that ripped through the mid-state area in early 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in America."
"Additionally, Casey Pruitt has helped bring players to the hospital who patients idolize, win or lose, as well as her husband.
“In the 15 years I’ve been here, only one other time have we ever had one of the coaches come here,” Allmon said. “It was a specific request and he came, went up a back elevator, saw one patient that had made a special request, went back down the elevator and he left. I thought it would be something similar when Casey brought Jeremy. But I didn’t think they were ever going to leave. Every room he went into, he’d pull up a chair and just become best friends. He’s throwing a football with patients, all kinds of stuff.”
On one visit, he encountered a 12-year-old girl, and in a rocking chair beside her bed, he signed a football and gave it to her. She was not impressed. She informed Pruitt she was a Florida fan. He asked to see the football and uncapped his sharpie.
He proceeded to write “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” on the ball.
“That’s what you’re gonna owe me when we beat Florida,” he said, handing the ball back with a laugh.
He also helped replace a signed Josh Dobbs football for a patient whose ball was lost in the tornadoes that ripped through the mid-state area in early 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in America."
