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Let me open the doors to the theater of the absurd, where everyone gets their day in court.
Or in this case, their 15 minutes of infamy.
Jeremy Pruitt was the football coach at Tennessee not long ago, and a failed one at that. While there’s no shame in losing, there’s abject humiliation in blaming others.
Especially when you were handing out bags of cash to recruits.
But here we are, and because our magnificent judicial system allows everyone to be heard – and every attorney to claim anything in an initial filing, true or not – Pruitt is suing the NCAA for $100 million, claiming it conspired with Tennessee to run him out of his job and college football.
Why, you ask? So Tennessee didn’t have to pay his $12.8 million buyout after firing him for cause in January of 2021.
There’s one teeny-weeny problem with this argument: the university paid nearly $9 million in fines to the NCAA two years later, as part of a five-year probation for violations committed by Pruitt and his staff. Or a difference of about $4 million.
Don’t kid yourself, $4 million is walkin’ around money in the high stakes world of hiring and firing coaches in the SEC. This had nothing do with buyouts, and everything to do with a brazenly stupid system of paying players — before NIL changed the rules.
You want stupid? Let me introduce stupid. Among the 18 alleged Level I violations (the most severe in the NCAA rulebook) and more than 200 individual violations committed by Pruitt and his staff, was Pruitt and his wife, Casey, handing out cash to players totaling $60,000.
“Hey babe, we really need that…
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Publish date : 2025-03-28 17:11:00
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