(This is the part of a series of reports in which coaches who are promised anonymity for their responses give their assessments of Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt and the state of UT’s football program)
Hiring a former coach as an athletic director may not be prevalent nowadays, but it was the right thing for Tennessee to do.
“I think hiring Phillip (Fulmer) was a good move,” said a SEC coach, who spent part of his career at UT.
Why was Fulmer a good move? UT’s athletic department needed to come together.
“I just saw the whole University of Tennessee system as a fractured group,” the coach said.