Did TN pay Pruitt?

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Tman44 said:
How ya gonna get blood from a turnip? From what I hear, he is paying the NYG to hang out there. Looks like he brought his dumpster fire with him. At least Derek Dooley is on staff too. Please think of every horrible euphemism known to man to describe them.
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He can’t get nothing. Two losers hanging out together? That describes it all. I’d say that Dooley wasn’t really a loser like Pruitt was.
 
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HarsinVol said:
If there is a payout, can they hide that from public reporting (statutory law)?
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Not sure...I do not think so since it is public university...believe finances have to be disclosed unless done from private pathway.

I am not a lawyer and I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
 
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onevol74 said:
Things did get pretty quiet on this front. Something probably did happen.
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No. Doesn't work that way.

The last thing we saw was Tennessee telling Pruitt & his lawyer to pound sand. That does not, in any way, hint at a quiet behind-the-scenes settlement.

Far more likely is that the lawyer went back to Pruitt, shrugged, said, "I did my best, but they called our bluff," and then they both walked off into the night, hopefully never to be heard from again.

That's how I'd read the tea leaves given what information we do have.

Go Vols!
 
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They either caught him and his attorney bluffing and didn’t pay or they paid and everyone signed a non-disclosure. Either way we likely will never know.

Glad it worked out like it did. I like this new staff.
 
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WesternNCVol said:
They either caught him and his attorney bluffing and didn’t pay or they paid and everyone signed a non-disclosure. Either way we likely will never know.

Glad it worked out like it did. I like this new staff.
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What? It's a State University, they can't hide a multi-million dollar payout from the public. They couldn't even hide UT's legal counsel's response from an FOI request.

UT rejects settlement talks after Jeremy Pruitt threatens to sue | wbir.com

An excerpt from UT's reponse:

The University declines to participate in any informal or formal settlement negotiations with your client. The University maintains that it had proper cause to terminate your client for breach of his employment agreement in January, and our position has only strengthened since then.

Interestingly, your letter contains no denials of your client’s actions. Instead, you raise vague and unsupported allegations of other violations by the University and threaten to embarrass the University publicly by revealing these alleged violations. The University emphatically denies these allegations and will not be intimidated into settling with your client based on your unsupported assertions. Also, these allegations reveal an additional ground for the termination of your client’s employment because he failed to promptly report them as required by paragraph 3.2.2(c) of his employment agreement.
 
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BeardedVol said:
What? It's a State University, they can't hide a multi-million dollar payout from the public. They couldn't even hide UT's legal counsel's response from an FOI request.

UT rejects settlement talks after Jeremy Pruitt threatens to sue | wbir.com

An excerpt from UT's reponse:

The University declines to participate in any informal or formal settlement negotiations with your client. The University maintains that it had proper cause to terminate your client for breach of his employment agreement in January, and our position has only strengthened since then.

Interestingly, your letter contains no denials of your client’s actions. Instead, you raise vague and unsupported allegations of other violations by the University and threaten to embarrass the University publicly by revealing these alleged violations. The University emphatically denies these allegations and will not be intimidated into settling with your client based on your unsupported assertions. Also, these allegations reveal an additional ground for the termination of your client’s employment because he failed to promptly report them as required by paragraph 3.2.2(c) of his employment agreement.
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Those two options seem to be the only ones available. I think they called his bluff personally. But stranger things have happened with public money.
 
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WesternNCVol said:
Those two options seem to be the only ones available. I think they called his bluff personally. But stranger things have happened with public money.
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Attorneys with actual viable cases, don't normally leak their own settlement demand letters to the media.

Remember, the NCAA had reps in on the coaches' interviews that UT conducted, and they are the ones who said "those are level I and II infractions".

Tennessee football investigation: Details of Vols recruiting scandal

Among the interviewers were the lawyers from Bond, Schoeneck & King, retained by Tennessee to help spearhead the investigation. Also present were members of the NCAA enforcement staff. Pruitt had a lawyer present for that interview. The day before, inside linebackers coach Brian Niedermeyer was interviewed for five hours, and outside linebackers coach Shelton Felton was interviewed for 3½ hours.
 
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BeardedVol said:
Attorneys with actual viable cases, don't normally leak their own settlement demand letters to the media.

Remember, the NCAA had reps in on the coaches' interviews that UT conducted, and they are the ones who said "those are level I and II infractions".

Tennessee football investigation: Details of Vols recruiting scandal

Among the interviewers were the lawyers from Bond, Schoeneck & King, retained by Tennessee to help spearhead the investigation. Also present were members of the NCAA enforcement staff. Pruitt had a lawyer present for that interview. The day before, inside linebackers coach Brian Niedermeyer was interviewed for five hours, and outside linebackers coach Shelton Felton was interviewed for 3½ hours.
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I’m not arguing with you. I think they called his bluff. And I agree an attorney with evidence holds it until the right moment.

I was just saying there were 2 things that could have happened.

It seems we agree on what happened but we could always be wrong.
 
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There is no chance that UT pays him anything. Anything he could say in court regarding knowledge of wrongdoing within UTs AD would essentially be admitting that he breached his contract and that UT had cause to fire him. They did not make any claim of innocence or deny the "cause". Instead they admitted to knowing about other coaches at UT cheating. The second Pruitt and his lawyer made the accusations it was all over. UT can depose Pruitt and he will either have to admit that he knew about wrongdoings and didn't report it, or he will have to admit that he tried to extort UT for a settlement. If he knows something and tells the truth, he proves UTs cause. If he knows something and lies, he risks perjuring himself. If he has no actual knowledge of any wrongdoing, then UT has no reason to settle.
 
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