The NCAA says Tennessee's football program committed 18 violations under former head coach Jeremy Pruitt, including nearly $60,000 in illegal benefits for players and recruits.
The university retained former NCAA investigator Michael Glazier and the Bond, Schoeneck & King law firm to assist in the university's internal investigation and paid $1.1 million to the firm, which conducted interviews from November 2020 through February 2022. Pruitt's buyout was $12.6 million, but the university fired him for cause and has said it has no plans to pay the buyout.
In its report, the NCAA said that as many as 12 Tennessee athletes who received impermissible benefits competed in more than 60 games, and those athletes, according to the NCAA, were"ineligible." The NCAA accused Pruitt and his staff of hosting six recruits and their families during a yearlong dead period, in which programs weren't allowed to have on-campus recruiting activity because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The NCAA said the Volunteers hosted the prospects on unofficial visits on nine weekends between July 2020 and November 2020, in which prospects were given free lodging, meals, transportation and other benefits that totaled $12,000.
Sources told ESPN that the NCAA, keeping in line with new recommendations from the Division I Council's transformation committee, utilized one of those measures in investigating Tennessee's case, in particular incentivizing parties to"secure cooperation from representatives, family members and others with relevant information." In the past, some family members and players have been granted immunity in return for their cooperation with the NCAA.
Despite the large number of Level I violations, the NCAA enforcement staff chose not to charge the university with lack of institutional control and even commended the Volunteers for their cooperation during the investigation.
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