Tennessee Fires Jeremy Pruitt - Rapid Reaction (Late Kick Cut) 

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Tennessee needs to hire Ogle, Elrod & Baril lawfirm so they can "turn that wreck, into a check!"

I hate to say it but I think its a little ironic that this all happened under Fulmer's watch after he's the one that turned Bama in with the whole Albert Means scandal that put Bama in the cellar for about a decade or so.

Ray Charles could’ve seen this coming.

Tennessee is a program that makes me feel good about being an Arkansas fan.

Prepare for lawsuits over the buyout....

As a Vols fan can't say I didn't see this coming. Boy what a way to start the week lol.

Tennessee is an organizational problem. It’s honestly hard to judge Pruitt because he wasn’t allowed to do what he wanted. Getting rid of Fulmer was key. Tennessee needs a real AD, not some figurehead football coach in the spot. From there, you need to give a coach 4 years to just provide stability. Consistently get back to 6-9 wins a year, and then stack talent on top of it. Tennessee needs to cut ties with Jimmy Haslam and the 90’s Fulmer crew. Keep that bunch out of the day to day operations of the program. Do that, and the program will get better.

Tennessee gives me the impression that they have no idea what they are doing.

How many coaches must Tennessee hire and fire before they realize the problem is not the coach?

Isn't Tennessee just a team that yells "SEC" when Alabama wins the championship?

As soon as I heard the news this morning I was waiting to hear Josh's take on it. This is just a mess no matter how you slice it. I'm not even sure Peyton Manning coming in as Athletic Director or Coach could save this program.

Tennessee is the laughing stock of the SEC

I was thinking this may start a chain reaction of DC hires between Texas and Bama but I didn't know the allegations were so serious. I don't think Saban can take a chance on Pruitt for anything more than an analyst.

We don’t know yet how dark the hour actually is for Tennessee. We won’t know that until the NCAA sanctions are announced. Getting rid of Pruitt and Fulmer was, in my opinion, the minimum necessary to reboot the program.

Y'all are two rock skips away from the death penalty and you're saying hugh freeze. Now i think i understand

Everyone knew Tennessee would fire him after 3 years with or without sanctions. Pruitt was a first time head coach and required time and patience. Tennessee has neither of those things. They're a damn joke!

Tennessee just murdered its own program! They could’ve just fired Pruitt for losing, paid him his buyout and hired Hugh Freeze. Took the few months of bad PR and waited for the wins to erase all the negativity and Tennessee would’ve been back. Now, they’ve eliminated any possibility of hiring Freeze or any other good coach. The program is dead and looking at a 20 year losing streak to Alabama.

It’s official: Tennessee is Chernobyl.

Greg Schiano not looking so bad now. Who was that tool that had the campaign against GS.

Tennessee had pretty much run out of options when they hired Pruitt. He was about their 14th choice, but no one else you've ever heard of would take the job.

Phat Phil and Tennessee finally got what they deserved. 1) He squealed on Bama to save his own program from sanctions 2) He complained Florida pipped in noise during possessions 3) And don't even get me started on the Jamie Naughright scandal

Fulmers getting his reach around!!!!!

Tennessee just can't get out of their own way. This is why people perceive this as a C level job.

If the NCAA actually brings the hammer down then I will take back what I am going to say. I believe this is a pathetic attempt to avoid paying the coaches the money they are owed. UT knows these coaches can't get a fair trial in Knox County Tennessee on a breach of K action and so they smearing Pruitt and the others to avoid paying the money. No three year probation, no 21 lost scholarships, then this has been a scam. I look forward to being proven wrong.

Who does Tennessee get after this? I’m an Auburn alumnus from back in the day and Tennessee was a consistent powerhouse. For what UT has tradition stadium etc etc they should be in the top ten every year. I am amazed. Kevin Steele??? Kevin Steele???

Bama’s Super duper highly incognito plan to get revenge on UT for Fulmer turning on Bama years ago... Sabam - “Jermey you’re going up to Knoxville and taking one for the Home Team. Your going to take that ship down but don’t worry son I got your back. When your done I’ll bring ya back home. aight!”

Considering the fact that Fulmer was the secret witness in the Bama sanctions, this is karmic justice at its finest. Quite frankly, I hope it hurts.

I think Derek Dooley's available.

Tennessee & the rest of the SEC need to realize that there's only 1 Nick Saban & he's remaining in Tuscaloosa

The Vols & LSU both have a history of running off good coaches so nobody wants to go there. Johnny Majors was the best the Vols have had & they ran him off mid season during a health issue. LSU ran off Charlie McClendan only because he couldn't beat Bama

Tennessee is just the SECs Nebraska now

Kevin Steele managed to get 2 SEC head coaches fired in 2 months.

"How you like me now, Clay?" Greg Schiano

Imagine cheating just to go 6-6 😂😂😂😂

So there's no consequence of NCAA violations which is good... TN wasn't/isn't going to a bowl game anytime soon & as for recruiting... they don't have a coach so if they send our Steele or his people, top recruits will ignore them because he's just a 'temp' guy. So, TN's main goal for the next 3 years will be to try and keep from being kicked out of the SEC before Vandy.

Looking from the outside in, does this come as any surprise??? Let's review the past several years... After firing Butch Jones, UT hires a coach (Schiano) that was not favored by the alumni and the AD listens to folks who know little about football and subsequently let him go. The AD then later resigns. UT hires a former coach who's was fired over a decade ago and hires him AD. The AD's hire for HC was Jeremy Pruitt, a coach with a history of volatility and struggles his first 2 seasons. Then, out of the blue, UT's recruiting takes an abrupt upward curve where just months ago, people were praising the recruiting results. Today - UT fires Pruitt for violations that land the program in deep trouble. Is there another program in the NCAA that is more of a dumpster fire than that one in Knoxville?? FSU comes close with their fall from grace, but I'm not sure I would even make that comparison.

I'm with you Josh, and I don't think a major program like Tennessee SHOULD have to make that hire, but they DID make that hire. No one else wanted it. Well, maybe Kevin Steele, but...

Tennessee coaching searches are always fun to watxh

Phil Fulmer wasn’t capable of hiring a successful football coach an Jeremy Pruitt is not capable of being a head coach at any level. Pruitt couldn’t lead a team to a urinal.

I seriously doubt he's as guilty as the administration says. I call BS on UT.

This is basically a knock out punch for UT. The entire Athletic Department needs to be cleared out and start all over again. Drop all the BS about Pruitt. It was your bad judgment that got you here. Clean house. Then go get builder's that can rebuild the program. Drop the bogus charges against Pruitt. The stench you try and dig up will destroy the program for a long time.

Imagine if Vols had won 8 games Those violations wouldn't ever be mentioned

Unv of Tennessee has created a new standard of excellence for the coaching dumpster fire.

Been a Tennessee Vols fan since 1981 there's been some great times having Peyton Manning winning a few SEC championships winning a national championship but in the last 10 to 15 years it's been hard to be a Tennessee fan I'm starting to really doubt if we'll ever be a Powerhouse again wish I could brag and gloat about Tennessee like Bama fans do like Georgia fans do black LSU does or Clemson does these are dark times and I don't know if we'll ever get out of it but if we ever do we're going to have to find the exact right coach and get top 5 recruiting classes

3 things, assuming NCAA brings the hammer down no established coach will touch the job. They will be lucky to have Steele as a caretaker coach. 2, all of Tennessee's issues land in Fulmer's ample lap. Be very glad he is leaving. And 3, Unless Pruitt eats an immediate show cause from the NCAA, he will be heading to the Saban Rehabilitation Clinic as their DC in 2021.

The game he wore the gaiter around everything but his face......wow I gave him the benefit of the doubt until then.

And now they aren't even life champions

Was Hoping he could come back to Alabama as Defensive Coordinator. But level 1 and level 2 rules break that might keep that from happening..

This program needed a gutting. Sometimes you have to amputate to remove the rot. Just accept 10-years of bad football and then let's get the ship righted. Hell, Saban will beat us regardless, so we might as well suck while he's there.

Stabbed in the back and Secret Witness’d by his own cheap, unqualified AD. *No one coulda’ seen that coming. It is so out of character for Phil Fulmer.*

I’m going to go ahead and bet both my kidneys now to say that Kevin Steele will be the head coach in 2022

As a Gator fan living in Big Orange country, I really hate to see Pruitt go... that being said, I hope UT finally gets it right with the next coaching hire. The East and the SEC as a whole is much better off when Tennessee is competing with Florida and Georgia.

Darkest days? We can’t play well or even cheat well lol,, HUGH FREEZE! Bring us someone with the mental acuity to be a head coach

No one was gonna remain the head coach with Fulmer still wanting the job for himself

You have no idea how satisfying it's been to watch Rocky Flop implode as an Alabama fan.

Nick Saban made a remark about a year ago saying that he didn’t approve of Pruitt’s recruiting tactics at Tennessee. He didn’t elaborate on which tactics were being used but I figured it must have been serious considering Saban never throws shade at another head coach. Racks and racks of Big Macs with fat stacks. That’s a new one.

Wow i wonder what exactly the violations are, at least there’s no buy out

Hire Peyton Manning

We sold our soul for a good men’s basketball coach. Don’t see how we pull ourselves out of this.

Phat Phil deserves every isht sammich he gets.

That Puke Throw up orange, I still hate Tennessee I can't stress that enough.

He knew about Niedermeyer and didn't say anything, some others as well, Shelton Felton too.

It worked for Georgia? Lol Kirby has a worse record than Mark Richt at the same point of his tenure.

Honestly Steele can probably keep them afloat. But it’s gonna be ugly. A lot 2-10/3-9 seasons. Once your off probation if Tenn does not hire Gus Malzahn they are stupid. Top 25 coach and would have them at a level they haven’t been since the 90s.

Just Hire me Tennessee...

Keep your eye on Mark Ingram, AD at UAB. 2 year starter at UT, grad degree from UT the same year Peyton graduated, worked assistant AD at UT, Temple, and 6 years AD at UAB. Dealt with a dumpster fire of the canning of the UAB football program and subsequent revival. 10 teams with 1000 Annual Progress. And he can bring Bill Clark along with him who definitely has earned his shot at a major program.

I’m a Vol fan and I got to say the day we fired fulmer in 2007 that’s when we went down hill

Happened on Butch Jones birthday!! Smh

Gus Malzahn come on down🤣🤣🤣

To put in perspective how bad UT football is..... Mike Dubose won an SEC title at Alabama more recently than UT has won a conference title.

What's Rush Propst up to these days

Pruitt needs a keeper He come to Florida as dc Except Mullen needs a keeper too

Josh we remember you saying how you thought JP would be a good hire.

Hey Josh didn't throw out kent state for the random G5 program this time!

As a tennessee family am not surprised and finally

Tennessee snitches on themselves to get Pruitt gone and now big brother coming for them. 😂 🗑🔥

Plowman, Boyd, Fulmer, Pruitt....if they had worried about the schools reputation as much as getting more money and status, this wouldn't have happened.

“This is one of the darkest days...” - you must not follow Tennessee football

Nobody's going to want this job. After the sanctions there's going to be a streamline of players hitting the portal. What coach in his right mind is going to want to take over this train wreck.

Kevin Steele is a head coach killer. First Gus then Jeremy. Steele got the best deal, a whole buyout for less than 2 months of work. Gotta love it.

It is so sad that 12 years after firing Fuller, we are still a last or next to last place team in the SEC. 4- coaches with very little thought put into them being hired caused a disaster. We have been redefined, our goals are not beating Bama, FL, & GA. We are now at a level of our main competition is Vandy, Missouri, and KY. We have finished dead last in the SEC East 2 of the last 3 years. One which was a SEC winless season. So heartbreaking.

Not fair to the recruits. Hire Tom Herman. He know how to send recruits elsewhere

Tennessee makes Auburn and Texas coaching struggles look good. Bless their hearts

Wasn’t a violation of ethics? You need to update this post. Bags of cash baby

It’s seems like Tennessee hires a new coach every couple of years, not good.

He's a good dc, head coach in the sec I don't think so, maybe in a smaller conference but not in a big sec type conference

Tennessee might as well just move to the independent teams because this is embarrassing. Imagine the worst power 5 teams going against Tennessee. Kansas vs Tennessee Florida State vs Tennessee Rutgers vs Tennessee Nebraska vs Tennessee This is the worst power 5 teams I've ever seen that this might be the battle of the worst teams.

The whole thing tops out to be pretty rocky. Like the song says.

Welcome back to Tuscaloosa

THIS IS NOT A FREAKING LATE KICK CUT! IT'S A FREAKING LATER KICK EXTRA! WHY CAN'T YOU LABEL SO PEOPLE KNOW?????

jp...just go back to BAMA and win back to back NATTYS

Josh, Tennessee has a Barry Alvarez problem.

They probably never should have hired him in the first place...remember he was their 6th choice 👎🤷‍♂️

Back to the drawing board! We'll have to wait some more!! Go Vols

It's one thing to be a bad coach that doesn't cheat. It's another thing to be a good coach that does cheat. And then there's Jeremy Pruitt.

Hugh Freeze or Lane Kiffin

Tennessee fans might as well pick another team to rout for.

Best day in vol history

Job Opening: We are currently hiring for the most toxic job in the history of sports. We dont manage people and we dont care about fans.. If you would like to apply please be a good coordinator and we will ruin any walk of life for you and send you to the Saban Doctorate school of coaching. Here at Tennessee we spend more in buyouts and framing you than you will make a year!