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College Football Enquirer

Ohio State vs Alabama preview, Tennessee dumpster fire

College Football Enquirer

Yahoo Sports

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4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Dan Wetzel, Pete Thamel and SI’s Pat Forde begin this episode of the Yahoo Sports College Podcast on Rocky Top as ESPN’s Mark Schlabach reports Tennessee will not extend contracts and will pause hiring during an investigation into the football program. Are Jeremy Pruitt's days numbered? The guys then dive into the National Championship game as #1 Alabama will clash with #3 Ohio State on Monday. Both sides have traded a little smack talk heading into the blockbuster matchup. Will the Tide cover the -7.5?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the pod. Thanks for listening. Nothing's going on in America this week so sure you got plenty of time on your hands.

0:08.0

Yeah, we so you know we've done this before when news breaks we acknowledge that there was a storming of the

0:15.9

capital there's protests there's all sorts of stuff however we know you didn't

0:20.8

come here to listen to that but it kind of seems weird to not mention it at all.

0:25.8

We're here to provide other entertainments and things like that.

0:30.0

But yeah, so that's going on.

0:31.6

I don't know.

0:32.1

We're acknowledging that that's going on on but we really want to discuss. I think everyone knows we when it comes to like tumult and in combat we pretty much stick to chicken sandwiches, dueling chicken sandwiches.

0:45.0

And really there's a much bigger train wreck trash fire going on and that's at the

0:50.3

Tennessee football program. I think that's really why Tennessee football program. Mm.

0:53.0

I think that's really why people are tuning in.

0:56.0

Sully, come get your program, it's drunk.

0:58.0

It's drunk.

1:00.0

It's been drunk for a decade damn or longer.

1:03.4

It has so there this is nothing new longer

1:06.0

Yeah report these have been simmering and then Mark Schlebar friend from ESPN

1:12.3

Report to Tennessee is no longer extending contracts for

1:17.1

assistant football coaches. That looks like a buyout play. They've paused hiring

1:21.8

new coaches for vacancies. I'm sure they got

1:25.1

plenty of coaches at Tennessee. It'll be all right. The school is doing an

1:28.8

internal investigation, billable hours baby, billable hours for Bonchionik to investigate recruiting violations.

1:36.0

This to me seems like a ploy to find a way to fire Jeremy Pruitt for something other than not winning enough games.

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