Jeremy Pruitt Faces Serious Consequences as NCAA Reveals Punishment for “Many Violations”

Jeremy Pruitt, the former head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers, has been in hot water since he was fired in 2021. And now, things have gotten even worse for him.

The NCAA recently announced that there were “many violations” that occurred in the Tennessee football program during Pruitt’s three years as coach. These violations included 18 major ones, which involved over 200 individual rule-breaking incidents. Most of these violations were related to breaking the rules on recruiting players and making illegal payments to players and their families.

Thankfully for Tennessee, they won’t be banned from playing in bowl games or face the end of their football program. They cooperated with the NCAA and imposed some penalties on themselves. But Jeremy Pruitt is going to have a tough time ahead.

Pruitt has been given a punishment called a “six-year show-cause order.” This means that if he wants to coach college football again, he’ll have to sit out the entire first season of his new job.

During his time at Tennessee, Pruitt didn’t do very well, with a record of 16 wins and 19 losses. After leaving the Volunteers, he briefly worked as an assistant coach for the New York Giants in 2021, but he wasn’t kept on for the following year and has been without a coaching job since.

Considering the seriousness of the penalties, it seems highly unlikely that we’ll see Jeremy Pruitt on the sidelines coaching a team on Saturdays for a long time.

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