Pruitt Fired for Cause. No buyout. Fulmer retiring.

[rocytop2624]

I do believe its time for Tennessee to go into a deep FREEZE!!

I don't think they will hire a person that got caught cheating after firing someone for cheating.

 

[Volfan76]

Jeremy Pruitt fired: Tennessee football begins another coaching search (knoxnews.com)

Exactly what should happen, except it should have happened a month ago.

 

[howie87]

Pruitt will push this into court. He's not likely to walk away from $13 million without a fight.

Lmao, simple take here... The university hired attorneys to go over all of this... The contract language is clear as crystal... Nothing to fight over if the university has a reason to fire you...

 

[VolArmy74]

Among the reasons the university might fire Pruitt for cause, according to his contract: "Conduct or omission(s) by Coach that constitutes a Level I or Level II violation of one or more Governing Athletic Rules; or conduct or omission(s) by Coach that is likely to lead to a NCAA finding of a Level I or Level II violation of one or more Governing Athletic Rules; failure to report a violation of rules to the athletics director or compliance staff; failure to promote and maintain an atmosphere of compliance; and failure to monitor all employees who report directly and indirectly to him."

UT didn't pay hundreds of thousands to a law firm for nothing. I doubt Pruitt even attempts to get any buyout. He probably ends up with a show cause.

 

[MIT_Beaver]

Told you guys in December. We will probably end up paying a couple million after Pruitt contests this decision but regardless we are off the hook on the entire contract.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

Hire Freeze and this will be a good day

LMAO! We are probably about to be put on probation. We are not going to hire a coach who was responsible of getting his previous school on probation.

 

[TrueOrange]

So where do we go from here? We going to have to wait to find a new AD before hiring a football coach??

We will hire Jon Gruden to be both the head coach AND athletic director. I hear he owns land in Tennessee.

 

[Hbg]

So where do we go from here? We going to have to wait to find a new AD before hiring a football coach??

I thought you had all the answers

 

[onevol74]

He's as lousy at cheating as he is at coaching! I guess he will get a job fetching coffee,passing out paperwork and washing cars at Alabama.

Hopefully, he will get a show cause to keep any other school from touching him. At least we will not be paying Bama's DC $3mil a year to coach.

 

[Sin City Vol]

99.1 just reported two assistants also fired for cause. Neids is definitely one, who’s the other? Tee? His contract is up soon and there has been some speculation he’s involved.

Losing Neids hurts on the recruiting front but if he's been cheating then it was just a matter of time

 

[BeardedVol]

UT didn't pay hundreds of thousands to a law firm for nothing. I doubt Pruitt even attempts to get any buyout. He probably ends up with a show cause.

The last line is the kicker. He can be held responsible for the violations by the coaches that report to him.

 

[PeerlessVol]

Since fulmer was gone as coach, has there ever been a time with no buyouts being paid?!? Does this mean that we now have the full weight of our budget to throw at a big name coach?!? Cough cough Freeze?!?

 

[Rylee_Vol18]

Told you guys in December. We will probably end up paying a couple million after Pruitt contests this decision but regardless we are off the hook on the entire contract.

Dude shut up. You don't know ANYTHING.

 

[Steve_Smith89]

Losing Neids hurts on the recruiting front but if he's been cheating then it was just a matter of time

Makes sense how he was consistently a top 10 recruiter

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Any rumors regarding the ADs replacement? Will they hire someone with experience or go bargain basement shopping again?

Lol. Did you really ask that?


We are U.T.

 

[USMC-TNVOL]

Get ready for the forum to overload.

 

[alvinkamara]

Resume of the next hire should ideally look like:

• Successful Head Coach experience
• Has built a winning program from the ground up, not just inherited one
• Has been at an elite program(s) and worked for championship-winning coaches, preferably as an OC or DC
• Respected among his peers for X's and O'x knowledge of the game
• Elite recruiter
• History of maximizing talent and gets kids to the next level
• College coach but has NFL experience

Hmmmm......now who does that sound like that UT could feasibly land.

Saban already has a job

 

[VolsCamp81]

 

[Jax_Vol]

Per my big money source in Belle Meade, hearing that Charles Davis and Peyton Manning have shown interest in one of these jobs. Unclear which role(s)...

 

[Model12]

Call Blackburn. Now

 

[OrangeVolMan]

While, I had hoped we would part ways with Pruitt; this is worst case scenario and an absolute embarrassment for this once proud institution.

This is a stupid comment. This is the football team not the university. Has nothing to do with the “proud institution”. Still can get the same great education. People forget that the purpose of the university is to educate not have a sports program. I am a big supporter of both but people making comments like this make it sound like we are a sports program that happens to educate people on the side.

 

[ETV]

Lol. Did you really ask that?


We are U.T.

One can always hope they'll pull their head out of an orifice.

 

[Steve_Smith89]

Get ready for the forum to overload.

It's exciting, we have a real chance again.

 

[CountVolcula]

Man, some of us called this and were told we didn't have a clue

 

[MiramarVol]