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NCAA Slams Tennessee With 18 Infractions Under Former Coach Jeremy Pruitt
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:14 pm
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Former Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt, his wife and several members of his football staff provided about $60,000 of impermissible benefits and recruiting inducements to more than two dozen recruits and their families over a three-year period, according to a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA, a copy of which was obtained by Sports Illustrated through a public records request.
The 51-page document sent to the school Friday outlines 18 separate allegations of blatant recruiting misconduct from Pruitt and his staff transpiring as early as September 2018, his 10th month on the job, and extending through the COVID-19 recruiting dead period of 2020. All of the allegations are Level I, considered the most egregious on the NCAA’s infractions scale.
In the most serious of allegations, Pruitt and his staff hosted at least six prospects and their families on nine weekend unofficial visits during the yearlong dead period, providing them with lodging, meals, transportation, household goods and even furniture that totaled $12,000. Pruitt himself is charged with having made cash payments of $3,000 and $6,000 to two prospects’ mothers, the first used to assist in medical bills and the other for a downpayment on a vehicle.
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Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:17 pm to RLDSC FAN
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In the most serious of allegations, Pruitt and his staff hosted at least six prospects and their families on nine weekend unofficial visits during the yearlong dead period, providing them with lodging, meals, transportation, household goods and even furniture that totaled $12,000. Pruitt himself is charged with having made cash payments of $3,000 and $6,000 to two prospects’ mothers, the first used to assist in medical bills and the other for a downpayment on a vehicle.
This is where the Tennessee Chancellor calls another presser to insist and remind the NCAA these are Level I charges.
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:19 pm to RLDSC FAN
Tennessee should tell them to piss up a rope
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:22 pm to RLDSC FAN
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UT did not self-impose a bowl ban because it does not want to punish players for actions of coaches and staff no longer in the program.
Instead, UT leaders think penalties should focus on the area of the violations – in this case, recruiting. That’s why the football program quietly self-imposed recruiting restrictions and scholarship reductions during the 2021 season, sources close to the situation told Knox News.
That’s consistent with the new NCAA constitution, which includes amended language to “ensure to the greatest extent possible that penalties imposed for infractions do not punish programs or student-athletes innocent of the infraction(s).”
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Tennessee is counting on its cooperation from the start to spare it the worst punishments: a postseason ban and the loss of a significant number of scholarships for players over several seasons.
UT is pointing to a change made early this year to the NCAA constitution that encourages leniency toward programs that root out cheating themselves. Specifically, the proposed NCAA rules changes discourage punishing current athletes for violations that occurred before they were part of the program. The new constitution goes into effect Aug. 1, well before the NCAA's judgment on Tennessee's recruiting violations will be finalized.
NCAA expecting to go light
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:23 pm to RLDSC FAN
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$60,000 of impermissible benefits and recruiting inducements to more than two dozen recruits and their families over a three-year period
I guess they have to do something...but considering the NIL this seems stupid now.
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:24 pm to RLDSC FAN
The NCAA needs to die on the vine. They’re completely corrupt and useless
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:26 pm to baldona
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but considering the NIL this seems stupid now.
coaches still cannot pay out of their own pockets. even with NIL.
Tennessee should have done what everyone else did (does). use a bagman that can't be traced directly to the bank account of the coach.
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:27 pm to RLDSC FAN
How fricking stupid
If I were a Tennessee fan I would be fricking livid
If I were a Tennessee fan I would be fricking livid
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:27 pm to RLDSC FAN
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the first used to assist in medical bills
Throw the book at him
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:27 pm to TigerintheNO
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UT did not self-impose a bowl ban because it does not want to punish players for actions of coaches and staff no longer in the program.
And they shouldn't. Punish people who actually did something.
A "program" is a lifeless, soulless entity. You might as well slap a red X over their logo for a year or something
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:29 pm to mattz1122
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the first used to assist in medical bills
i am ready for a school to accuse the NCAA of systemic racism as a defense for paying players
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:42 pm to TigerintheNO
I'm weirdly conflicted with feelings of "frick both" the NCAA and UT all at the same time.
Posted on 7/22/22 at 1:43 pm to RLDSC FAN
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NCAA Slams Tennessee With 18 Infractions Under Former Coach Jeremy Pruitt
its tennessee, they suck so bad its useless to punish them for cheating when even cheating didnt help them win
take away their scholarships for the cheerleaders, thats the only good thing they had going in the last 20 years as far as sports goes
Posted on 7/22/22 at 2:09 pm to PenguinPubes
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How fricking stupid If I were a Tennessee fan I would be fricking livid
No point in being mad now, we cleaned house with the firing of fat arse phil and pruitt’s redneck brigade. All you can really do in these situations
Posted on 7/22/22 at 2:31 pm to RLDSC FAN
In other news, LIV announces the launch of a new collegiate athletic association to compete with the NCAA.
Posted on 7/22/22 at 2:59 pm to Nutriaitch
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Tennessee should have done what everyone else did (does). use a bagman that can't be traced directly to the bank account of the coach.
Well everyone except will Wade
Posted on 7/22/22 at 3:03 pm to TigerintheNO
And now today, they’re paying $8M for a product (Iamaleava)that they don’t even know works on the level they’re hoping.
$8M whim
$8M whim
Posted on 7/22/22 at 3:13 pm to RLDSC FAN
Greg Schiano would have done a good job at Tennessee. They blew it.
Posted on 7/22/22 at 3:18 pm to RLDSC FAN
The NCAA is still a thing in College Football?
Posted on 7/22/22 at 3:21 pm to RLDSC FAN
Pruitt learned how to be a cheater from his boy Rush Propst.
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