Some guy on our site is saying will friend has been leaking shit to the media but isn’t cooperating with tenn officials
Can’t wait for Tennessee to choose Hugh Freeze as the drama-free leader of men to lead them out from this dumpster fire.
did Wideman even play? I figured it would take at least a calendar year before dealing with AD got em popped
Friend is telling people that Maurer told investigators players were getting paid and everyone thought they’d get fired after the A&M game.
Seen people say they are trying to get him to quit. You know how much embarrassment and bullshit I’d put up with to get that buyout?
You're going to need to cash in some of those gift cards from God if you bring another Wes Rucker tweet in here Spoiler
Part of the investigation that attorneys are looking into involves the use of local hotels regarding the recruitment of potential student-athletes over the course of the last few years. Several members of Tennessee’s recruiting department have been questioned concerning these matters and more. Part of the investigation is the activity of a recruiting staffer who worked for assistant coaches, including ILB coach Brian Niedermeyer inside the football program and if he was involved in NCAA recruiting violations about potential recruits, including Amarius Mims, an offensive lineman who signed with Georgia last month
I’m totally an outsider here that doesn’t pay much attention. But why the fuck does Tennessee let the cancer that is Phillip Fulmer rule the program with an iron fist? That guy seriously sits in on coach meetings? What a nightmare. This internal investigation is clearly a bullshit maneuver to fire for cause. Nobody is going to want that job. And I know, we suck and have our issues. I just can’t imagine having say Mack Brown still playing coach while being retired as the AD. I’d lose my mind.
The older Vol fanbase has an undying love for Phil. And didn't he get in trouble for coaching at practice?
Doesn’t fullmer want to give Pruitt 2021 and the decision to potentially fire Pruitt is coming from above his head? I thought I read that somewhere. I think they gave fullmer the job to try and unite the fanbase in the middle of the disastrous coaching search after the schiano shit went down. They should probably send him back to retirement but I thought that was actually a good move at the time to try and reunite a clearly fractured fanbase that had become a national laughingstock.
He backstabbed Johnny Majors to take the head coaching job initially when he orchestrated his forced resignation back in the 90s. This doesn't answer your question but this has always been who Fulmer is.
Sure would be a shame if there are receipts on all the alleged visits that have gone down during pandemic.
The facade is business as usual at the University of Tennessee. So interviews for vacancies on Jeremy Pruitt’s Volunteers’ staff are taking place throughout this week, almost on a daily basis. Interviews for offensive line coach. Those include, among others, meeting with in-house candidate Alex Jackson, a former Georgia player who’s currently an analyst for the Vols, and Jim Turner, who has some 25 years in coaching in both the SEC and NFL but also is seeking employment after being released by the Cincinnati Bengals. Sitting in on the interviews, per sources on campus at Tennessee, is the program’s athletics director and former national championship-winning coach, Phillip Fulmer. Staffers say Fulmer’s also known to watch game film alongside coaches in the staff meeting rooms throughout the season. Fulmer is mum on the entire matter aside from issuing a statement seemingly supporting Pruitt Dec. 20, 2020, after Tennessee’s decision to accept a berth in the Liberty Bowl – a bid it returned after a massive COVID-19 outbreak inside the football program. “First, it’s an opportunity to connect with our many fans throughout West Tennessee and expand upon the rich historical links between the Memphis area and UT,” Fulmer said in the press release. “We have so much Tennessee family in and around Memphis – especially our medical school and fantastic alumni. “And secondly, it’s a tremendous development opportunity for our team and should serve as a primer to spring practice for Coach Pruitt and our returners.” Meanwhile, echoing a FootballScoop report from last weekend, ESPN also notes that Pruitt right now isn’t being allowed to hire any new assistant coaches nor renewing the pacts of assistants on expiring deals Pruitt’s staff again is facing major turnover, perhaps the most consistent element of his Tennessee tenure. At minimum, the Vols need to replace the departed Will Friend as offensive line coach and fired Jimmy Brumbaugh as defensive line coach. No coach on the UT staff is in the same position in which he was hired; only Chris Weinke and Brian Niedermeyer remain from Pruitt’s debut staff. Tennessee also is less than full at its analyst posts, after losing highly regarded offensive mind Chip Long to become offensive coordinator at Tulane, and has been operating at less than full force in its strength and conditioning program since losing Craig Fitzgerald and promoting from within the ranks. Those departures bring to 11 the number of assistant coaches to bolt Rocky Top in Pruitt’s 37 months on the job. He’s lost coordinators on both sides of the ball, his strength coach and, most recently, confidante Will Friend to first South Carolina and then Auburn. Arguably two of the program’s three most-popular assistants, national title hero Tee Martin and charismatic defensive assistant Niedermeyer, are on deals expiring in the coming weeks. Jay Graham, another former Vol from the program’s glory days, is signed through January 2022. Complicating everything is a tsunami of disaster for Tennessee: the football program is being probed from within the school amidst allegations of recruiting improprieties involving multiple coaches; UT’s now using the services of noted attorneys Mike Glazier and Kyle Skillman, specialists in dealing with NCAA compliance issues and no stranger to UT football from the group’s work with the school nearly a decade ago; it is limping into 2021 on the heels of a 3-7 season featuring a six-game losing streak and all seven losses by 11 or more points. On the field, Tennessee is seeing its top defensive back, Bryce Thompson, exiting early to test the NFL Draft and in-state running back Ty Chandler graduate-transfer from the program. The Vols are among the nation’s leaders with more than a dozen players in the NCAA Transfer Portal. Interviews with pertinent officials digging down on the matter, including the school’s compliance director and current National Association for Athletics Compliance president, Andrew Donovan, are ongoing almost daily. They are scheduled to extend into next week. Still, Tennessee now has at least one verbal commitment after seeing its portal population climbing since season’s end; Virginia Tech quarterback Hendon Hooker’s post on social media Thursday reveals Hooker intends to transfer to the Vols. Of course, all of the this, from the investigation to the staff interviews to accepting a pledge from a transfer quarterback, comes with timing key on every front for any football program. LSU’s close to replenishing its football staff, and new Auburn coach Bryan Harsin nearly is finished with his first full staff on the Plains. South Carolina’s Shane Beamer needs to fill numerous key positions, and Clark Lea’s Vanderbilt stiff is on the verge of multiple hires, sources inform FootballScoop. Nick Saban’s been entertaining Bill O’Brien some this week while seeking his replacement for offensive coordinator and new Texas coach Steve Sarkisian. Tennessee, meanwhile, sits in a state of suspended animation. What’s going on? Everything and nothing, all at the same time.
Fuck, if we get popped for recruiting violations, we might not win a national championship for an extended period of time. I have no experience in how to deal with that.
Imagine being head coach of the women's golf program and having an issue that urgently needs to be brought to the attention of the AD but he's watching film with the football staff so you'll need to wait
Will prepare them nicely for when they get to the LPGA and they need some equipment and the rep from Mizuno tells them to hit up Golf Galaxy