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That SEC Football Podcast

Mark Nagi on Jeremy Pruitt's firing at Tennessee and the Vols continued "Decade of Dysfunction"

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

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51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

"Decade of Dysfunction" author Mark Nagi (Mark can be found on Twitter @MarkNagi) joins the show to discuss Jeremy Pruitt's firing at Tennessee. "Decade of Dysfunction" can be purchased on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Decade-Dysfunction-Updated-2019-version/dp/1075446031 Topics include: Can Tennessee dig itself out of this hole? Firing Jeremy Pruitt for cause and not paying a buyout, will that hurt Tennessee’s search for its next coach? Any details on the violations? How much does all this hurt Phillip Fulmer’s legacy at Tennessee? Could Kevin Steele be Tennessee’s version of Matt Luke? How much is going to cost to bring Lane Kiffin home? Which hire ended up hurting Tennessee the most, Lane Kiffin, Derek Dooley, Butch Jones or Jeremy Pruitt? What’s Mark Nagi’s plan for fixing Tennessee football? Sign up for My Bookie and use Promo Code: THATSEC The podcast is also sponsored by Justin Hamilton of the Federal Savings Bank. Reach out to Justin at the link below and make sure Mike and & Cousin Shane sent you! http://www.thefederalsavingsbank.com/justinhamilton We finally have t-shirts for sale! Check out our merchandise store featuring shirts, hoodies, stickers, coffee mugs, pillows, phone cases and more: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/thatsecpodcast?ref_id=19055 Donate to cousin Shane’s beer fund via CashApp: $thatSECpodcast Show music comes from Crimson Calamity: https://www.crimsoncalamitymusic.com/ Advertising inquiries: [email protected] Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-sec-football-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, we're pleased now to be joined by Mark Nagy, and you can follow him of course at

0:05.9

Mark Nagy on Twitter. He's the author of the decade of dysfunction. I mean, he literally wrote the book on what's going on up there on

0:15.9

Rocky Top and all the dysfunction that's been since Philip Fulmer left. He

0:20.2

writes for Saturday, and Out South his new column,

0:22.8

the prevailing thought after Jeremy Pruitt's firing,

0:26.1

it was supposed to be different this time.

0:28.7

Thanks for joining us, Mark. I really, really do appreciate it.

0:31.7

Yeah, absolutely, looking forward to this this this is great. So my first

0:34.6

question right off the bat here how deep are you into the sequel to decade of

0:39.5

dysfunction? Well I decided that this time around I'm going to write it as it goes along.

0:47.0

That way I don't pop up at the end of the 2027 season and just have to bang it out in a couple of months.

0:54.0

I think that those are 120 hour weeks

0:56.7

and that's just too much.

0:58.0

So this time around, I'm just going with it

1:00.6

as each day goes on, and certainly over the past. with it's

1:03.0

as each day goes on and certainly over the past 30 days or so we've we've had a

1:07.0

we've had a lot of content so if there's never a never a boring time at

1:11.8

Tennessee so yeah the sequel should be out in spring of

1:15.3

28 so make sure that you all put a put a reminder in your phone calendars yeah and I

1:21.3

can't recommend this book more.

1:23.2

I know we've got a lot of Tennessee listeners to the podcast.

1:25.6

I put the link to the Amazon posting for a decade of dysfunction to make it easier for you

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