Rocky Top Turmoil: Tennessee fires Jeremy Pruitt - why and what's next?
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🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Tennessee Volunteers scrivener extraordinaire, David Ubben, joins Andy in dissecting Tennessee's decision to part ways with head coach Jeremy Pruitt and athletic director, Phillip Fulmer. What lead to the Volunteers terminating Pruitt's employment? Is this cacophony of chaos par for the course? How will this impact recruiting? Does Kevin Steele's presence pose a possible roadblock for hiring a long(er)-term coach (13:15)? Plus, the guys propose solutions for the Vols' head coach vacancy (17:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show Trouble on Rocky Top edition. |
| 0:13.9 | I brought in David Oven. |
| 0:16.3 | I go on his show Football and Grits, our SEC podcast, once a week. |
| 0:22.4 | He is nice enough to come on when we need to talk Tennessee here or when we need just really |
| 0:26.8 | a rational, calm adult in the room. |
| 0:29.1 | That's where we bring in David. |
| 0:30.2 | And I feel like, David, this is the time when an adult in the room is needed because |
| 0:35.0 | Tennessee has fired Jeremy Pruitt. |
| 0:38.8 | Philip Fulmer is, and I'm using air quotes here, retiring, the most Shakespearean figure in |
| 0:45.4 | college football. |
| 0:46.9 | It ended the way it had to end. |
| 0:50.6 | And now who knows what's going to happen. |
| 0:54.5 | Although I was laughing about this, David, |
| 0:56.3 | I was thinking about this. |
| 0:57.0 | The last time in SEC school got rid of the coach and the AD at the same time, |
| 1:02.8 | and then a member of the Manning family was heavily involved in the search. |
| 1:06.8 | Do you know who got hired? |
| 1:09.9 | I don't. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm going to guess it's Phil Fulmer. |
| 1:13.3 | It was Hugh Freeze at Ole Miss. |
| 1:16.5 | Okay. |
| 1:17.8 | I like it. |
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