Delmar
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I can see where the "for cause" clause in Pruitt's contract was invoked in his firing. The University shouldn't owe the guy a penny of buyout. Unfortunately there'll probably be a settlement of sorts.
It's a shame there aren't stiffer penalties that could be enforced. These types of Rules violations will continue in sport because so much emphasis on winning and so much money in the pot.
Imo, the univ should put a 3 mil check on the table along with a statement accepting full responsibility for his actions and the actions of his coaches as well as a confidentiality agreement. Since the NCAA considers the HC as part of the institutional control process, you don't want a loose cannon with an axe to grind contradicting the official response.
I can see where the "for cause" clause in Pruitt's contract was invoked in his firing. The University shouldn't owe the guy a penny of buyout. Unfortunately there'll probably be a settlement of sorts.
It's a shame there aren't stiffer penalties that could be enforced. These types of Rules violations will continue in sport because so much emphasis on winning and so much money in the pot.
Notice how the NCAA nor anyone else was interested in who taught Pruitt these techniques? Let's face it, he had stops in Athens and Tuscaloosa long before he set foot on The Hill. No one, even the sports media has thought to ask him either.
He’s been very positive about UT recently in his interviews. I bet they are negotiating a settlement right now.I think this is something that Tennessee could pursue in settling the contract dispute with coach Pruitt. How much does he want to recoup some of his buyout? Would he be willing to go public with "what he knows"
It’s totally ridiculous.. it’s malfeasance on the NCAAs part at this pointWhat's obscene is that we've cleaned house from coaches to admin to players. We've done the "investigation" and self-reporting for them. It's coming up on 2 damned year....YEARS...and this BS is still hanging around our necks like a millstone. If this doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the ncaa, I don't know what will. And we're not the only example. Collegiate sports needs to scrap the entire thing and start fresh. What the ncaa was intended to be and what it's become are not even remotely similar.
What's obscene is that we've cleaned house from coaches to admin to players. We've done the "investigation" and self-reporting for them. It's coming up on 2 damned year....YEARS...and this BS is still hanging around our necks like a millstone. If this doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the ncaa, I don't know what will. And we're not the only example. Collegiate sports needs to scrap the entire thing and start fresh. What the ncaa was intended to be and what it's become are not even remotely similar.
What happens if his answer is Phil Fulmer?
no settlement with Pruitt. not a penny to him.I can see where the "for cause" clause in Pruitt's contract was invoked in his firing. The University shouldn't owe the guy a penny of buyout. Unfortunately there'll probably be a settlement of sorts.
doubt it.Sadly UT will probably end up with a bowl ban, which was why this season was so important for everyone.
I think that's extremely accurate. Everybody knows crap like this was happening everywhere, but it takes a special kind of ego and/or stupidity to not think it through better than Pruitt did.Rush Probst Iyam. The truth of the matter is there has always been legal and somewhat legal ways for programs to get money to prospects and their parents and every head coach in D1 knows these methods. Most will participate and very few won't.
The problem with Pruitt is that he is a sociopath and only one man (Saban) can manage him at all. Simply put, if he wanted to get money to kids for any reason, he didn't have to stuff fast food bags with cash. He could have simply found a friend of the kid in the area and had a bag man deliver money to that friend. It would have been slimy but he would have been at 2 arms lengths away. He's a great DB coach and maybe a great DC but if you hire him, you'd better have a plan for managing him because he isn't capable of managing himself.