OT: ESPN: NCAA: 18 violations, almost $60K in illegal benefits by Tennessee football under former coach Jeremy Pruitt

SoonerPride · Jul 22, 2022

The NCAA has charged Tennessee's football program with 18 Level I alleged rules violations, the most severe under its rules, for impermissible recruiting benefits totaling about $60,000 that were paid to prospects under former coach Jeremy Pruitt.

Among other allegations, Pruitt is accused of providing about $9,000 to the mothers of two prospects. His wife, Casey, is accused of making 25 cash payments totaling about $12,500 to help a prospect's mother pay her car payment.

NCAA: 18 violations by Vols under ex-coach Pruitt

The NCAA says the Tennessee Volunteers football program committed 18 violations under former head coach Jeremy Pruitt, including nearly $60,000 in illegal benefits for players and recruits.

www.espn.com

Wonder if this will include some punishment with teeth.

Oh, I guess not.

Despite the large number of Level I violations, the NCAA enforcement staff chose not to charge the university with lack of institutional control and even commended the Volunteers for their cooperation during the investigation.

"The actions taken by the institution during the investigation should be the standard for any institutional inquiries into potential violations," the notice of allegations said. "Throughout the investigation the institution exhibited exemplary cooperation in multiple ways. Once the institution's chancellor was alerted to allegations of potential violations within the football program, the institution took swift action to investigate the allegations and substantiated various violations.

Pruitt was 16-19 overall at Tennessee and 10-16 against SEC opponents. The Vols were 2-11 against AP-ranked opponents under Pruitt, who was in his first stint as a head coach. Pruitt worked as a senior defensive analyst for the New York Giants in 2021.

While I'm not an OSU fan, wasn't this EXACTLY what OSU did ? Fired the coach, cooperated with NCAA, and got hammered anyway? Poor Aggies must be blowing a gasket over this.

rufus1 · Jul 22, 2022