He never calls Butch Jones out by name. But there is no way you can look at the things Jeremy Pruitt has said about the state of Tennessee football when he took over the program and avoid the fact that he is slamming the former UT head coach.
Who else could be at fault for the way things happened? This was abundantly clear on Tuesday when Pruitt took blame for some of the issues that happened in 2018. He specifically mentioned that he forgot to focus on player relationships.
However, in a side interview Tuesday that you can read about here on GoVols247, his reasoning goes back to how bad of shape the program was in.