Tennessee defensive line commit reacts to news of Jimmy Brumbaugh's dismissal
North Carolina native Isaac Washington has been through this before.
When the 6-foot-3, 268-pound lineman first committed to Jeremy Pruitt’s program, Tracy Rocker was Tennessee’s defensive line coach. Following Rocker’s offseason departure from Tennessee to South Carolina, the Gamecocks quickly extended a scholarship offer to Washington.
However, after meeting Rocker’s replacement at Tennessee, Jimmy Brumbaugh, Washington reaffirmed his commitment to the Vols.
Now, four games into Brumbaugh’s tenure on Rocky Top, the defensive line coach is out as Jeremy Pruitt made the decision to dismiss the assistant coach over the weekend.
“Yesterday I decided to make a change at the d-line position,” Pruitt said on his decision to remove Brumbaugh from Tennessee’s staff. “Coach Brumbaugh done a really nice job for us, worked his tail off. Sometimes, from a philosophical standpoint, things are just not a fit, and it just didn’t work out for us. So I decided to do that and I’m going to coach the d-line for the rest of the season.”
How did that news sit with Washington?
Better than you’d probably think.
Here’s what the North Carolina native shared on Monday evening:
i been said it and ima say it again, I AINT GOING NOWHERE, this a lifestyle, we really finna change @Vol_Football tha whole culture. V4L on dis side, ain’t gon neva switch up💯💯
— isaac (@isaacw_74) October 19, 2020
That’s good news for a Tennessee program set to potentially lose a number of defensive linemen to graduation this offseason.
Washington is rated as a three-star prospect, the No. 43 defensive tackle in the nation and the No. 39 overall prospect from North Carolina in the 2021 recruiting cycle by 247Sports Composite Rankings.
Dylan Brooks was a 5 star when he committed and 247Sports changed his star rating a day later so in reality we have two 5 star commits
247 hates TN. There is no other way to justify dropping stars during a pandemic when no one was playing. They also bet against TN in every game of their run except for the Vandy game last season..
Not sure I understood that message but got the part he is staying committed.
Pruitt has to manage to recruit the commitment of Tywone Malone with no D line coach now. That may be difficult. Guess we will see how good he is.
Fuzzy…agreed…I was wondering about my reading comprehension skills for a moment, but I did understand that he was still committed.
I copied and pasted to my language translator. It’s as confused as I am.
He’s already half way to understanding the X’s and O’s. He signs his name with one of em.
Glad to see the education helping that young mans ability to write and communicate.
Unfortunately, that recruit’s quote was actually in response to his being told that it was time for English class.
Wow number 39 rank in North Carolina with a bullet. Who would even care about him reaffirming. lol.
Remember when Alabama had a 3* star running back that was drafted in the 1st round. Some players are not evaluated correctly at times. And there are plenty of players playing in NFL that wasn’t heavily recruited or was t rated very high coming out of high school.
WTF is that about? Speak English, bruh!
Wow. Some remedial English classes are waiting for this kid. Good thing he can play football.