Tennessee’s senior kicker Brent Cimaglia has opted out of the remainder of the football season, with just a couple of games left. Right in the middle of Jeremy Pruitt’s Monday press conference, Cimaglia made the announcement.
“Due to many hardships and struggles within the program, it is my best interest to take this additional time to rehabilitate ongoing injuries,” Cimaglia said in the note.
(The wording of that sentence above is — uh — interesting. He could simply be saying that these final two games don’t matter and he needs to be healthy.