Tennessee to pay a hefty buyout to fired DL coach Jimmy Brumbaugh
Tennessee will have a hefty buyout to pay now former defensive line coach Jimmy Brumbaugh, who was let go following the loss to Kentucky.
Based on the memorandum of understanding between Brumbaugh and the school, Tennessee is on the hook to potentially pay “more than $830,000″ to its fired defensive line coach.
Coach Jeremy Pruitt made the move Sunday after he criticized the defensive line throughout the preseason and during the season, including after the 34-7 loss to Kentucky on Saturday.
“He worked his tail off,” Pruitt said at his press conference Monday. “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.”
Pruitt said he will handle coaching Tennessee’s defensive line for the rest of the season.
Brumbaugh had base pay of $275,000 and supplemental compensation of $375,000 for February 15, 2020 through January 31, 2021, and $375,000 for February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2022. Tennessee hired Brumbaugh in February to a two-year deal in which he was earning $650,000 annually.
“If it’s not working out, it’s better just to do it right now,” Pruitt said of making the move four games into the season.
This is the second move in a year at that position. Brumbaugh replaced Tracy Rocker, who left after two seasons on Pruitt’s staff for the same position at South Carolina.
Shhhfffsshh! $830K! Thats peanuts compared to what we have been paying out to multiple coaches over the last decade or so. Coaching buyouts are now an integral part of the UT budget. If we ever get to a point we have no buyouts on the books we can probably build a new stadium.
Somebody’s gotta take the blame. But the DL Coach? Seems to me the OL Coach has failed as badly or worse! Maybe Brumbaugh’s buyout was the smallest? “We need a Volunteer Scapegoat”! Far as I’m concerned; just fire ’em all and FOLD THE TENT!
I hear you…but I don’t know what’s going on with the OL group. There are some injuries and they have Wanya Morris playing on the edge and he’s getting beat bad, along with Cade Mays too. None of them are really playing particularly well, and supposed to be a strong point of the team.
Trey Smith has been playing well as always
“Not a philosophical fit” is Pruitt code for “he kept trying to tell me why his D line idea was a good one, even after I told him no.” Firing Brumbaugh now appears unwise from the cheap seats where I sit. But, hey. I support that Coach should be able to chose his assistants.
Sad part is, $830k would probably cover scholarships for about 100 non-revenue sport athletes. That would seriously change lives and families of a lot of Tennesseans.
“Tennessee is on the hook to potentially pay more than $830,000.00 to it’s fired defensive line coach”
$830k to pay-off a D-line coach????
Who is running UT atheltics – a drunk chimp or a UT grad?
Well they are cloning up air in Knoxville————–
Think it might be the same drunk chip who took over the OC responsibilities for the 2nd half of the GA Bama game.
Have fun losing to bama twice. Oh my bad i mean losing to SC and probably Mizzou and giving the east to florida
Did you really just say Mizzou? Mizzou’s inferior team couldn’t even put up 14 on us they’re not beating Georgia
You got us week 2 and JG had his one good game of the season. Sh!t happens. We’ll improve through the season and our ship will be righted. Will yours?
Phat Phil…..that says it all lol. Brumbaugh fell on the sword for Pruitt…Pruitt has learned that from Patrick Phil
Speaking of drunk chimps look who chimes in with his usual highly intelligent post. A chimp could write a better post.
Oh yeah. That will fix the problem. Cause the d- line coach was responsible for 3 interceptions and 2 returned for touchdowns, and a fumble. Way to spend that money Pruitt. Once again. Loser coach equals loser program. I would hate to live in hillbilly hell aka Tennessee and know that my tax money was being spent by UT athletic sissies. Good job Fat Phil.!!!!!!LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!! Rocky Times Tennessee.LOL
TN is the best state in the greatest country in the world and firing Phil is when it all went down the drain on the hill in Knoxville, I think we were in the sec championship the yr b4.
Yall just keep trying to pack that garbage stadium with people while your coach has covid……yea yall are looking real good right now. Thank goodness you have that defense to rely on in desperate times…
We are going to totally destroy y’alls wanna be program and you know it. Covid comes and goes but bad decisions from Tennessee’s butt clowns go on and on.
By the way, my Gators will be out of quarantine long before y’all sniff another win.
So much hatred between Gatorboy14
VoLs..why.?
UT will still win out enough games this year to go to a 2021 bowl game..just watch!!
while Gators wouldn’t win out enough games this year..which is 5 wins to be bowl eligible in covid2020..just watch!!
Jeffro34VFL, I have no idea how to respond to that. Everything that I said is true and you come back with this Tennessee will win 5 games and the Gators will not. WOW!!! Stay away from the bong water bro.
We have more national titles, all time wins, bowl games, conference championships, more NFL players on the 2010’s all decade team, and more consensus all-americans. Just because you’ve been better the last decade or so doesn’t mean we’re not coming back soon
Hillbilly hell?!? Florida is absolute trash. The armpit of the a South. Gainesville is literally littered with WHITR TRASH everywhere you go. The campus is the only nice spot in town. People from Florida making fun of anybody else. Smh
Why not deduct this buyout out of Jeremy Pruitt’s salary ? Does a head coach have zero liability concerning anything he does ? As the saying goes…”It’s easy to spend someone else’s money “.