Judge grants Pruitt injunction

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unfrozencvmanvol said:
I was thinking it was DeKalb County, GA. Some guy was walking down the sidewalk down there about 10 years ago and was on his phone not paying attention and clotheslined himself on a painter's ladder hanging out the back of his truck. Got awarded like $ 200,000 by a jury down there. The place is completely f-ed.
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LOL. I used to live in VaHi. I was technically in Fulton but about 80 yards from the Dekalb line. That place is the Wild West.
 
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sonofUT62 said:
So you're the man that tells other men when they should and shouldn't try to provide for their families and what the financial threshold is? I'm sure that works out well for you.
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Fair point that the number is different for everybody.

Still skeptical that this lawsuit is about much more than Jeremy Pruitt’s ego.
 
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LittleVol said:
Keepin it 💯.

The dude was only guilty of not winning ball games. He was doing everything he could to try and get Tennessee to compete. He just sucked as a HC and the university needed to fire him, but they didn’t want to pay either.

They used him as a scapegoat.
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How was he both a scapegoat and deserved being fired?

Whether he committed violations or not, he was responsible for everyone on the coaching staff so any wrongdoing by anyone falls back to him.

I just don't get the desire to make him into a victim.
 
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dobre_shunka said:
How was he both a scapegoat and deserved being fired?

Whether he committed violations or not, he was responsible for everyone on the coaching staff so any wrongdoing by anyone falls back to him.

I just don't get the desire to make him into a victim.
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Agree. Pruitt wasn’t a scapegoat and he certainly isn’t a victim. He knew exactly what was going on. His wife was involved in the scheme. Pruitt got exactly what he deserved. Managed to find some rube judge that gave him a temporary reprieve. It won’t hold up.
 
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UT threw him under the bus to save the $12 mil buy out. The cash he handed out is quaint by today’s standards…. and frankly it was probably quaint 5 years ago too. Let the dude earn a paycheck.
 
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Frivolous said:
UT threw him under the bus to save the $12 mil buy out. The cash he handed out is quaint by today’s standards…. and frankly it was probably quaint 5 years ago too. Let the dude earn a paycheck.
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You know the old saying- By any means necessary. Good business decision as far as I’m concerned. Pruitt has nobody to blame but Pruitt. He can earn a paycheck as a PE teacher at Arab High School.
 
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LittleVol said:
Keepin it 💯.

The dude was only guilty of not winning ball games. He was doing everything he could to try and get Tennessee to compete. He just sucked as a HC and the university needed to fire him, but they didn’t want to pay either.

They used him as a scapegoat.
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Exactly. Pruitt didn’t do anything different from what he had done at Bama, Georgia or Florida State. I’ll go further. If Pruitt had been a Haslam hire he would’ve been fired and everything would’ve been swept under the rug.
 
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LittleVol said:
Keepin it 💯.

The dude was only guilty of not winning ball games. He was doing everything he could to try and get Tennessee to compete. He just sucked as a HC and the university needed to fire him, but they didn’t want to pay either.

They used him as a scapegoat.
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True. There was a lot of money on the table. I thought Pruitt was treated shabbily, but he and a few before him already made millions of dollars for underperforming.
 
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sonofUT62 said:
So you're the man that tells other men when they should and shouldn't try to provide for their families and what the financial threshold is? I'm sure that works out well for you.
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No, I said that he should have no trouble providing for his family as he's already a millionaire. No need to put words in my mouth. And I also said that if he does want to work, he can still work for a high school, the pros, or semi-pros. But he shouldn't ask for "special treatment" to get out of his punishment early from the NCAA because he "has to work and provide for his family." He has more money than most of us on here, for one. So, I don't feel too sorry for him. For two, I didn't say he shouldn't be able to work and make more money to provide for his family. But he has other options other than a head coaching or assistant's job in the NCAA. Look at Bruce Pearl. He had to serve his whole punishment dished out by the NCAA before he was able to land another head coaching job.
 
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sambronkowitz said:
No, I said that he should have no trouble providing for his family as he's already a millionaire. No need to put words in my mouth. And I also said that if he does want to work, he can still work for a high school, the pros, or semi-pros. But he shouldn't ask for "special treatment" to get out of his punishment early from the NCAA because he "has to work and provide for his family." He has more money than most of us on here, for one. So, I don't feel too sorry for him. For two, I didn't say he shouldn't be able to work and make more money to provide for his family. But he has other options other than a head coaching or assistant's job in the NCAA. Look at Bruce Pearl. He had to serve his whole punishment dished out by the NCAA before he was able to land another head coaching job
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I don’t agree with your argument but it’s reasonable and well thought out and I appreciate it.
 
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dobre_shunka said:
How was he both a scapegoat and deserved being fired?
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Willful participant. Not the ringleader.

Pruitt didn’t start the payments; he continued them. This stuff was already going on but he allowed it to get out in the open. That’s why the university was forced to take action.
 
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