For the second year in a row, Tennessee football parted ways with an assistant coach two days after National Signing Day. Last year, it was running backs coach Robert Gillespie. This year, it was defensive backs coach Terry Fair.
Both times, they were position coaches. Both times, they were former players in the SEC. And both times, the decision to part ways with each coach appears to have been on the part of Jeremy Pruitt and the Vols.
Don’t take my word for it. Blake Toppmeyer of the Knoxville News Sentinel reported last Friday that Fair was fired.