Tennessee lost a tough one on Saturday night in Columbia, falling 27-24 to Will Muschamp’s South Carolina squad. The loss dropped the Volunteers to 3-5 on the season with only four games remaining to get the three wins necessary to reach a bowl game.

One of the defining moments of the game from Columbia was one that didn’t get called correctly on the field. It’s one some Tennessee fans have been up in arms over ever since and Jeremy Pruitt was asked to weigh in on whether he believed South Carolina did indeed fumble on the goal line by the Gamecocks.

“It was definitely a fumble, I saw that,” Pruitt said when asked about the play during his Monday morning press conference. “(The refs) only have certain angles they can see, from their angles, they couldn’t see it.”

Tennessee’s coach isn’t willing to put the loss on the refs, however, as he went on to say the nine penalties were far more responsible for the outcome of the game than a missed call.

Pruitt was then asked a follow-up on why he didn’t challenge the call on the field.

“There is no more coaches challenges anymore. Every play is reviewed by the officials,” he answered. “They look at everything from targeting to the spots, turnovers. They are limited to what views they have from the cameras. We film sideline to end zone… those guys are doing the best they can do and they go by what they got.”

What can be done to fix issues like these in the future? Pruitt believes putting cameras on the end zone lines would help.

“It’d make sense in the SEC, for as much money as we’ve got, to get end zone cameras,” Pruitt noted.

That seems like something that should have been done long ago by the SEC and will certainly be something to eye this offseason. Why the league hasn’t implemented cameras on the goal line remains a mystery but, if nothing else, the pylon cams used by CBS show just how valuable that perspective can be when reviewing the action on the field.

If you missed the controversial call, Trey Wallace of FOX Sports Knoxville shared video what happened: