Fired Tennessee Coach Uses George Floyd, Breonna Taylor as Excuse for Recruiting Violations
Former Tennessee Volunteers coach Jeremy Pruitt was slammed by the NCAA last week with a six-year show-cause penalty stemming from a recruiting scandal that included 18 of the highest-level infractions under NCAA rules plus 200 individual infractions. And now he says the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery motivated him to do it.
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