Who's next at Tennessee? Mailbag questions!
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Stew & Bruce react to Tennessee firing Jeremy Pruitt with cause. The guys talk about the investigation that let to Pruitt's firing, who is on the shortlist to get the job & give their take on the ceiling for the Vols in modern college football. Plus, mailbag questions! Why did Urban Meyer take the Jags job? Will defenses catch up to the offensive boom in the sport? What does the poor championship game rating mean big picture? Plus, what will spring ball look like in 20201
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of The Audible, presented by our friends at Trader Joe's. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined, as always, by my colleague from the athletic, Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:34.1 | Stu, we got a lot to talk about, even though the season is now over by a week plus. |
| 0:39.9 | But this coaching carousel took a big turn. |
| 0:43.0 | It wasn't shocking, but some huge news out of Knoxville. |
| 0:47.4 | You and I have both written quite a bit about it. |
| 0:49.9 | You led your mailbag with it today. |
| 0:51.6 | I did a big story about how the Vols coaching search will proceed. |
| 0:57.7 | Tell me when they had that press conference with the chancellor of the school, the president, and Phil Fulmer, who's still technically the AD for a little longer. |
| 1:08.1 | What struck you as interesting? |
| 1:10.0 | You know how there are certain press conferences that |
| 1:12.8 | have taken place over the years that you just, you never forget certain moments from. I think |
| 1:19.1 | Phil Fulmer being asked how, and it was our own David Oven who asked him, like how will |
| 1:25.4 | Jeremy Pruitt's tenure ultimately be remembered and he said |
| 1:29.2 | well recruiting was certainly good it's going to be remembered for a long time because they literally |
| 1:38.6 | handed out 40 pages you know they handed our report about just how illegal and dirty their recruiting |
| 1:45.5 | was under Pruitt. |
| 1:47.1 | And they fired the assistants who were, you know, directly implicated, but also like |
| 1:51.8 | their entire recruiting staff. |
| 1:53.2 | Nine other staffers, including two on-field coaches, were fired in addition to Jeremy |
| 1:59.0 | Pruitt. |
| 1:59.5 | It was kind of mind-blowing to see the chancellor of the school talk about level one and |
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