Tennessee reportedly facing 'serious investigation' with Georgia potentially next: UGA 'got sloppy in recruiting'
Tennessee has already acknowledged an internal investigation into Jeremy Pruitt’s program but there’s been no concrete information regarding the severity of what’s currently going on in Knoxville when it comes to what investigators are looking into within the football program.
This week, it was revealed that Tennessee has hired Kansas City-based attorney Mike Glazier to help the school with the investigation. If you aren’t familiar with Glazier, he and former SEC commissioner Mike Slive founded a law firm to help schools deal with NCAA investigations.
Interestingly, Glazier was not hired to assist the athletic department, he was retained to help the university. The difference there being he could potentially assist Tennessee in removing Pruitt.
Now comes new information from national radio host Dan Patrick, who shares that he is hearing Tennessee will “face a serious investigation” and that Georgia could be next.
Dan says that he's heard from source that Tennessee football will face a serious investigation. He also said that Georgia could be next. "I was told Georgia got sloppy in recruiting." @dpshow
— Andrew Perloff (@andrewperloff) January 8, 2021
It has previously been reported that Tennessee assistant coach Brian Niedermeyer is under investigation for his recruitment of former five-star offensive lineman, Amarius Mims. The Peach State lineman committed to Georgia over Tennessee and Alabama and signed with the Bulldogs during the Early Signing Period.
At one point during Mims’ recruitment, a high school coach asked fans for donations during a live stream video from the lineman’s Instagram account. The coach noted that the donations from fan bases could be the deciding factor in Mims’ recruitment.
It’s unclear if that video had anything to do with the current investigation at Tennessee or what Patrick is referencing with his recent comments but it’s just one example of how interesting Mims’ recruitment was leading up to his decision to sign with Georgia.
Either way, it looks like we will have plenty of storylines to watch this offseason in Knoxville and Athens if Patrick’s report is accurate.
Patrick shares his information in this clip, during the second half portion of the video:
Update on #CFBPlayoffs National Title
-The #BigTen / #OhioState reached out to the #SEC about postponing the National title game, they were told no.
–#Buckeyes will test today. May currently have upwards of 20 positive tests.
-Jaylen Waddle is expected to play Monday #RollTide pic.twitter.com/Q80tBy2QAe
— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) January 8, 2021
Hmm dont recall hearing about that live stream during his recruitment. i would think that would have been all over the recruiting websites. So maybe we made him a stronga$$ offer and uga made him a strongera$$ offer:)
The fact gray missed the last 2 games means he probably got in on the action. he may be gone along with some coaches.
Attention MICHAEL WAYNE BRATTON: Do you have to involve UGA in Jeremy Pruitt and Tennessee’s VIOLATIONS!!!! MIMS was always a UGA lean. Right from day one!!!!! Smart did absolutely NOTHING WRONG!!!!
Your just trying to make allegations without any real proof!!! ALL TALK. YOU HOPE THERE IS SOMETHING SO YOU CAN SAY. YEA LOOK I PREDICTED IT!!! But your TENNESSEE BIAS STINKS!!!!!
PS. Why didn’t you mention Alabama? They were his next choice!!!! AFRAID OF THE GODFATHER SABAN? WELL I’M NOT!!!!!
King Negan
Dude!!! Read the article…Bratton didn’t involve anybody! Dan Patrick did!! and quit shouting…………
Negan always has Bama on his mind. Bama lives rent free in that shallow mind.
Read??
I’m not buying it, DP. I don’t see a high school coach blatantly disregarding recruiting rules like that. It’s possible, but unlikely.
What does ge mean ? UGA got sloppy. Sure hope it’s something that tbe NCAA will do nothing about. Meaning it’s bs. Sure hope so anyway. Don’t want to see UGA. On probation or bowl bans. Most definitely don’t want to see any serious penalities.
UGA just reports violations themselves. I hope the NCAA hammers them
And Florida just harbors murderers, women beaters and drug addicts… Hope you enjoyed your one year in the sun. Next season will be another curb stomp from Kirby and the Dawgs.
Red and Black til Death
When you have been using the bagman for soooo long, basically since Smart got there, your time will eventually be up. How do you think in the first couple of years he got all those 5*’s?
UGA is spending more money on recruiting (legally) than any other school. That’s how they are getting all these 5 stars. Recruiting is Kirby’s talent. Now if we could just get his coaching up to his recruiting level.
So if you are saying that Kirby is not a great recruiter and he had to pay players, then you also have to say that Bama payed players because Kirby came from there and was a major recruiter for Bama. Basically when you are butt hurt because your coaches can not recruit as well as others and you start calling everyone else a cheater, you show your cowardice.
MacGyver………Same way he got them for Saban at LSU & Alabama all those years!!! Saban didn’t get them. KIRBY SMART DID!!!!!
Is Alabama using the bagman??? How about Ohio State??? If Kirby was using the bagman. He wouldn’t need to work so hard and overtime!!! I guarantee you. If he was using the bagman. Alabama wouldn’t have the #1 class. UGA would be far better than #3 if Kirby was paying players you idiot!!!!!
PS. Your avatar doesn’t show up. On my screen. But I see your a FLORIDA GATOR!!!!
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When you have been using the bagman for soooo long, basically since Smart got there, your time will eventually be up. How do you think in the first couple of years he got all those 5*’s?
SavimusMaximus……….Regardless. That has absolutely NOTHING to do with UGA!!!! Even if they did it. UGA didn’t sanction that. This is little Jeremy Pruitt angry because he can’t win. Who does he have an axe to grind against the most? UGA! From the days of his argument with Mark Richt. To the fact Kirby is handing him his A$$!!!!!! In both recruiting and on the field!!!! He blames uga for all his woes!!!
He should have stayed at Alabama. Then he might have been coach in waiting then!!! Now he probably won’t even get a analyst job with Saban. But I think Saban will retire anyway!!!
PS. ALABAMA WAS IN ON MIMS RECRUITMENT. AND THEY HAVEN’T BEEN MENTIONED AT ALL. STRANGE? Probably because Saban is behind it all. MIMS WAS A UGA LEAN ALL THE WAY!!!! WE DIDN’T NEED TO CHEAT TO GET HIM. THAT IS ALABAMA’S AND SABAN’S FORTE!!!!
THIS IS A NONE STORY EXCEPT TENNESSEE & ALABAMA!!!!!
King Negan
Lay off the sauce Negan.
So much for a better decade.
The Instagram request about donations is a FACT!! I was watching it LIVE! There will probably be repercussions for both schools about this player that snowballs into other recruiting violations.
Donations for what though?
Yes, that’s what seems to be missing to outsiders. What were the donations for?
Whereas UT is doing a legit investigation to get to the truth, UGA will mass all their resources for a massive cover-up. The truth is the first casualty of Kirby. Also now clear why the UGA AD was so eager to “retire.”
Reporting from the gutter, thanks for that most accurate update Don Lemon…
Tucker Carlson is a leg humper?!
No but Lemon humps something.
Humper Lemon would b!tch slap ole Tucker’s spray on tan right off his face.
He was our athletic director for 10 years, was at Florida for nearly 20 years and is almost 70 years old. I’m going to go out on a limb and say regardless of recruiting violations or not- he was going to retire because his last contract was only a 1 year deal.
Hey, I’m seventy . . . be nice!
You got me by nine year chronologically, but my body is 103.
I had to put a knee brace on to take the Christmas decorations to the attic.
Knee brace! lol. I almost swallowed my gum when I read that…
Right, right.. like ALL of the coverups that Florida has over the years.. Aaron Hernandez much?? Chris Rainey?? What is that you say, that was years ago?? Ok, John Huggins..
All D1 programs coverup.. Stating that one does it more than the other proves that you are just another “Florida Man”
Red and Black til Death
mrUNtruth, There you go again making unfounded disparaging comments about someone without any evidence to support your claims. Your persistence, in repeatedly doing so, exposes your character, or in this case, the lack thereof.
Reads like some partisan political statement. Just an attack statement based on opinion. In short, worthless.
mr UN truth. Meanwhile, down in Gainesville Florida.
“The University of Florida football program has been placed on probation for a year and head coach Dan Mullen has been given a one-year show-cause penalty for violating recruiting rules, the NCAA announced on Tuesday”.
mrtruth. To me this makes sense. The investigation at UT being internal and self-induced probably has more to do with getting JP gone. Whereas with UGA we have an actual incident that occurred that appears a no no. The AD’s action at UGA, the fear in bringing to light the incident in question at UGA. Investigations when coming from external sources always tend to go after an actual incident that occurred. Than we ask if both schools investigated, which school has the more unfavorable outcome. UGA.
Ruh Ro Raggy.
I listen to DP most days as I like his show, but it’s funny how he’ll complain about others who use the phrase “sources say” for a story without any corroboration, then he’ll do the same thing. There may be something to the story, but just because “he’s hearing” doesn’t mean anything. Who is he hearing this from?
Meh, this is just recruiting violations. Has nothing to do with an on-the field-advantage like firing a tutor. I doubt the NCAA will have much concern or do anything here.
Keep brushing off academic fraud. You should try Gouda with your Zinfandel.
Old vine & aged Gouda . . . Very Nice!
Smoked?
Slow smoked over old chardonnay vine cuttings. Excellent!
Quit acting like academia matters to you when it’s convenient too. This is the SEC after all.
Well it’s nearly impossible to get into an SEC anymore.
It’s not nearly impossible, but not having the internet can make it feel that way.
If the attorney is hired by the university to protect the university, then it sounds like Pruitt is the scapegoat in waiting. If the allegations are true, then you commit the crime you do the time or lose your job. This is hopefully much ado about nothing, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I mean if they want to fire Pruitt they can just fire him. Clearly it’s a move to try and fire him ‘for cause’ without having to pay him to go away. At least Tenn is doing this in the right order unlike kansas who fired Beatty and then a few weeks later tried to investigate themselves on allegations which they actually made up themselves to hold Beatty accountable and re-fire him ‘for cause’ and get out of paying his buyout. It didn’t work though.
I believe this is the same attorney that Tennessee used to fire Pearl with cause as well.
Setting up a firing with cause to avoid a buyout. Arkansas should have tried this with Morris, fraudulent misrepresentation as a college football coach. Then again, Arky was pretty stupid for hiring the guy and he ended up getting Malzahn fired. So now, Tennessee may have found a way to avoid millions in a buyout or at least negotiate him away with less money.
they won’t do anything at all to uga…ut has been bad enough for long enough that they can’t get away with any of this. either way…it’s great news for the program most in need of high profile transfers and an opportunity to sign some players. go cocks
CocknFire2112. Nonsense. Your statement makes no sense. “Bad enough for long enough that they can’t get away with any of this”?. What are you even talking about? UGA actually has an, “incident” that was public and appears a violation. Show me where TN has any incident? When a university has to hire a lawyer to “find” an incident to use to get out of a buyout is a far cry from what could be happening at UGA. Legally, the NCAA knows there is nothing they can do legally that matches what an outside attorney can do. In this case, the outside attorney is working for the University in many senses but still carried enough legal weight as to bring more justice than the NCAA could. So, the NCAA is hamstrung.
What incident is it you are alluding to? Do you have more inside info than Dan Patrick who of course would not back up his sources and the story.
Just fire him already and get on with the search. We have a few options now to take his place so go for the home run hire. Otherwise, stop wasting our time and cancel the season next year. Just say it’s “covid related”. At least we can support basketball. Baseball not to shabby either.
I agree. Get it over with so a new guy can recruit. OR, just go ahead and cancel 2001. CRAZY that I would even think of such! But when you get beat down for 15 years; you look for a respite. APATHY. Roll Tide!
What major coach is going to take the job with this hanging over their heads. As slow as the NCAA is they might not rule until the new coach’s 3rd season, then cut his legs out from under him. No high profile coach or coordinator is going to chance that.
Freeze with take the Tennessee job in a heartbeat.
100% agree. This is much ado about nothing and is being done to attempt to fire Pruitt for cause. Time to sack up and pay Pruitt to go back to Hoover High. If they will have him.
Agreed. Still think Freeze is our best option. Not interested in Fisher when seeing his resume. Barely over .500. No experience in coaching O or D, or the QB position. Specializing in special teams isn’t’ what UT needs. Fisher was only able to do anything with the Titans decades ago due to a good QB and running backs, for one season in 99. Since then, not much success. How you coached in the NFL will be how you coach in college football.
Dream on. Freeze isn’t going anywhere especially not Tenn. He’s going to be a legend at Liberty and live a great life in Lynchburg
With the NCAA, who knows. If they are still mad at North Carolina for their decades long cheating, they may hammer Tennessee and Georgia.
Calling all 4 and 5 star recruits at Georgia and/or Tennessee. We have space available. The transfer portal is open for business. Come on over. We need all the help we can get.
great post^ no shame…lol
Is what it is.
We send our 5* recruits to Ohio St.
Hendon Hooker didn’t hear you.. That is TN’s new starting QB this upcoming year. Probably the best QB transfer into the SEC. So far, better option than JT Daniels.
Every arm chair expert hopes their guy is the better option NEXT YEAR. By all means, PLEASE bench mark this post for review when we have actual experiential evidence to review this fall. Then you can really rub it in, OR NOT.
I will be right here then to answer. You are wrong.
We have 3 4* and getting a 5* next year…so no need for a QB.
2 4*
LOL… right, Dan.
Dan Patrick everyone, the guy who knows all about… college football?
Is this the same source that told Dan that Wisconsin was going to shut down their football team and turn Camp Randall into a Field Hospital?
Dan Patrick knows d1ck about college football.
bwhahahaha!!! corch talking about someone not knowing anything about football. The fry cook saying the sportscaster knows nothing about football. If he can spell it he knows more than you.
Yes, because when you think “college football” you immediately think “Dan Patrick,” you delusional hillbilly.
This guy and his “sources” are almost never right about CFB. Ever.
Corch seems like the type of guy that if we UGA get popped for violations he’ll say we were framed.
This has Fulmer written all over it. Using this as a way to fire Pruitt with cause and possibly get UGA in trouble as well. Fat Phil doing what he does best, being a RAT.
If Fulmer is doing it for that reason he is going to destroy the program. No name coach or coordinator is going to come to TN, just for the NCAA to cut them down in 2-3 years.
Yeah… It’s Fulmer’s fault. Just blame Fulmer. He also created covid-19 and started the 2nd world war.
Why are you insulting fry cooks?
Pecan waffles with a side of sausage and a cup of hot coffee at the Waffle House. Gotta love it. The US couldn’t function without line cooks!
Outstanding!!!!
Hold the pecans.
“You’re killing me Smalls”.
Exactly. I depend on good fry cooks. My grandmother was a great fry cook. I miss her…and the food.
I believe that there should be a Heisman-type award presented annually for the best chicken fried steak with cream gravy and buttermilk biscuits. Pinot beans and steak fries in the side.
Links or patties?
Patties! Old Folks or Tennessee Pride 1 & 1A. Jimmy Dean is a solid third.
Scattered, smothered, covered, topped, chopped, and diced. Order up!!
I don’t believe anything the media says anymore.
Unless its about Dan Mullen
The thing about Mullen is most of it is recorded for the world to see. Cringe worthy
Wait till Jimbo rides out with all AM’s money and the program is in tatters.
It’s simple, Georgia outbid TN for Sims. It happens EVERY YEAR, AT EVERY SCHOOL. We need a broad amnesty and a re-set. It is not fair to punish a school or coach when every school/coach does it, PERIOD. Facts available upon request…
It’s fair to punish them if they are caught. Risk reward.
Common saying, do the crime, do the time. Being a lemming doesn’t get you anywhere in life, they might be a wet fish, but there still wrong.
If they pushed the game to the alternate date that would be the day after players declare for the draft. Both teams could be without important players, like their QBs, and receivers. This is the second outbreak on OSU. You would think they would have learned from their mistakes on the first go round, and kept their players in a bubble. But we know they are OSU and expect people to make allowances for them. Though at this point we know the game is on and the test are done.
I was told that Dan Patrick “gets sloppy” with 12 year old boys. I have zero evidence of course, but that’s what I was told.
“a high school coach asked fans for donations.”
“I was told Georgia got sloppy in recruiting.”
Wow! sounds like, how should I say, complete vague BS, Fake News. Negative recruiting. Who would stand to benefit from that?
All of this has a familiar feel. Like as in something Phil Fulmer would do. It’s not like he hasn’t done it before.
Tennessee made a huge mistake by making Fulmer the AD. He ran an undisciplined and dirty program at UT, and it should come as no surprise to see Tennessee doing it again under his leadership.
UT fans better wake up. Fulmer is now stabbing his own hand picked coach in the back. He’s going to run Pruitt over as many times as it takes to try and save his own phat a$$. Pruitt is not likely the problem. The problem is Phil Fulmer… Good luck with that!
Tim Rupert. Just go ahead and ignore an actual incident that many saw live, were a part of and appears a violation at UGA. This happened. Actual incident in question. What action occurred at UT? None. If you got to hire an attorney for yoru university to find something that than is probably beyond of anything the NCAA could have seen or caught. That tells me its probably about getting rid of Pruitt. The something they will find will be minor and probably a borderline disciplinary action of self-imposement.
JP would than be let go, the university minor disciplined and contract buyout goes poof. Gone. The NCAA can and just might go after the “incident” that you refer to as being fiction. You may not like it but for them to even make this claim, means someone has proof, participated and are talking about it. Fulmer is probably not long for the AD position. He hired JP and it turned out to be the wort hire in TN’s history.
Dirty program at UT? Proof please or shut it. So far we’ve seen more actionable potential violation of an actual incident at UGA. However that turns out.
gwhite 713. Here we go with the vague allegations.
“an actual incident that many saw live”. What incident was that? Could it be the one where a High School coach was asking for donations? What HS coach was that? What HS does he coach at? Was it a HS in Tennessee? I have no answers.
If so. How does that involve UGA?
Last time I checked, UGA doesn’t have any High School coaches on the payroll. Please feel free to connect the dots that lead to UGA.
Fulmer went to the NCAA, when he was a coach at UT, turned Alabama in, so the NCAA would look the other way on his own recruiting violations. At least that’s what’s been reported…
Tennessee is ‘Today’ under a ‘real’ NCAA investigation.
The NCAA is investigating “alleged recruiting violations and alleged impermissible benefits to current student-athletes” within the program. The school has retained lawyers, and the investigation—including interviews with current Vols athletes—is ongoing.
I know nothing about a donation campaign. But if its true, its just another sign that big government has stepped in to make college sports professional sports. Student athletes? More like becoming paid employees. And if it goes that way, then the paid athletes should have to pay taxes on the value of the education they receive.
UGA Athletic Dept has released a statement to refute “Outhouse Rumors” that can’t be substantiated by any credible source. Please do your job as a “journalist “ and remove salacious clickbait when you know it has no merit.
I still believe this is a way to get rid of Pruitt without paying the buyout of 18 million or whatever.
This website is run by Florida grads. They will use anything they can to shine a negative light on UGA, even if it’s completely unfounded. This is especially true after UF and the Dork completely trashed their season the last 3 games ot the year.
Meant to put that as a reply to Qdawg19.
Yeah, all we as UK football fans can hope is that next year they still have Pruitt, the more years they sick, the longer it’ll take for them to get outta the basement.
Seems like “Good Ole Rocky Top” is not real good right now. Firing Jeremy Pruitt is probably the best way to get the Vols program moving in the right direction. Firing him with-cause saves a lot of Vol $$$$$.
Anyone ever thought that firing Fulmer turned out to be a really bad decision ? Since the program has become non-relevant since he was fired.
His last 8-9 years they were an 8-9 win a year program.
Mark Richt came and shut down his pipeline to Atlanta recruits and that was that for Fat Phil. He never recovered.
Afan, you’re right, but the UT program was not looking good when Fulmer was let go.
I think it more in who they hired to replace Fulmer. I also think Fulmer is the real problem at UT. More his fault than Pruitt’s.
This is irresponsible “reporting”.
Exactly. There are so many questions that need answering to make it make sense. A few of which I asked in my other comment.
Breaking News: The SEC has decided to expand to 16 teams and in order to find teams that make the best fit in the league, offers have been extended to the University of Tehran and Taliban A&M.
After the past four days of world messed up events, I am happy that I have 9 different tabletop baseball games with teams like the 1927 Yankees and the 1929 Athletics, and players like Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson pitching to Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker. The good ole days when all that we had to worry about were the Depression, Spanish Flu, and The Great World War look like the Elysian Fields compared to 2021. Even 2020 may look like a great year compared to what’s coming.
My fantasy baseball league used the 1960 season this past year. Mantle, Maris, Mays, Kofax, Drysdale. Every team was truly loaded.
I was 9 years old that season. I remember it well. Bill Mazeroski also remembered it well. It was Ted Williams’ last season, but he still managed to put up incredible numbers with an OPS of close to 1.100.
So much more to this story for this to really make sense. What was the donations for? Was the high school coach working with any of the universities to set up the donation thing? If it was just the high school coach, and depending on what the donations were for, then why would the universities be in trouble for something they weren’t involved with? Would they be in trouble for continuing to try to sign him (and going ahead and signing him) for him picking a school that way?
I get that, even though he clearly would have been trouble, they would still go after him anyways since he probably still would have helped on the field, and most importantly in the university’s bank account.
Dang…and EVERYBODY was saying that Tenn was BAAACK after they beat us last year. Oh well.
Tom Herman – New Coach at UT!
I smell a Fuller.
Fulmer.
Slander