Phil Fulmer Should Be on the Hot Seat With Jeremy Pruitt

If the Vols’ head football coach is dirty, then it stands to reason the athletic director who hired him is, too.

If Jeremy Pruitt is about to be fired as head football coach of the Tennessee Volunteers, how can athletic director Phil Fulmer not leave with him?

For three years Fulmer has been Pruitt’s biggest defender on Rocky Top, touting the talents of his personal hire even through Tennessee’s disappointing 3–7 2020 season.

So if the Volunteers football program is found to be guilty of infractions, how could the man who at times seems to be the program’s co-head coach not be found culpable?

Furthermore, even if somehow Fulmer is clean, he would then be naïve.

Is this who you really want to run the Tennessee athletic program? A national championship won 22 years ago as a football coach doesn’t absolve Fulmer as an athletic director today.

Remember, Lori Loughlin wasn’t he only high-profile casualty of the University of Southern California’s admissions scandal involving non-revenue sports. Athletic director Lynn Swann eventually went down too, resigning after the scandal took down his assistant and three coaches.

Just a pleasant diversion from our normally scheduled article on what is wrong with the Tennessee Volunteers

If a scandal involving sports like water polo took down a Trojans legend like Swann…