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NCAA University of Tennessee Notice of Friday’s allegations detailing 18 Level I rule violations against the football program under former head coach Jeremy Pruitt and his staff.
Pruitt, who led Tennessee from 2018 to 2020, was dismissed in January 2021 after the university conducted an internal investigation.
In the notification to the university, NCAA is Pruitt According to reports, we spent about $ 60,000 on unacceptable recruitment incentives paid to players and their families.
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In that claim, the NCAA hosted six prospects during the COVID-19 dead period from July 2020 to November 2020, with members of the football program hosting about $ 12,173 to induce unauthorized recruitment. Claims to have spent. During COVID-19’s death, the school was not allowed to recruit on campus.
The University of Tennessee is not charged with lack of institutional control because it cooperates with the investigation.
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According to ESPN, Tennessee Prime Minister Donde Plowman said in a statement, “At every stage of this process, we took swift and decisive action demonstrating the long-standing value of the NCAA repeated in the new constitution of membership. “.
“The university hired an outside lawyer to fully investigate allegations about the football program, acted swiftly to end the hiring of football coaches and staff, and shared conclusions with the NCAA executive staff.”
The NCAA claims that multiple players participated in the game while not qualified.
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NCAA also announced that from October 2018 to December 2020, Pruitt, Chantryce Boone (Assistant Director of Recruitment) and Bethany Gunn (Director of Recruitment) will provide approximately $ 12,707 as an unacceptable recruitment incentive for future players and their families. Claims to have provided. These benefits came in the form of hotel accommodation, meals, airfare, cash payments, round-trip car transport, furniture and household items.
Pruitt told ESPN about the allegations.
“Much of this information in the NCAA report was new to me and I’m still reading it,” Pluit said. “I don’t want to make too many comments … except that I’m looking forward to talking to my side of the story somewhere.”
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Pluit has reached 16-19 in Tennessee in three years, putting together one winning season in 2019.