Let’s be clear about a few things before I get started on this. We don’t know all the details as to why Robert Gillespie and Tennessee football parted ways. At the same time, I have no problem with Jeremy Pruitt wanting to fill his staff with his guys.
And, despite his success, if we’re being honest, Chris Weinke probably is a hire with even more upside for the Vols than Gillespie. All of those things are true, and we need to get him out of the way.
However, if Pruitt was planning on getting rid of Gillespie all along and waited until a week after National Signing Day to do it, he was very unfair to Gillespie.