Four former Tennessee football staffers have been given show-cause penalties by the NCAA for violations that occurred under former head coach Jeremy Pruitt, it was announced Tuesday.
, those sanctioned include former inside linebackers coach Brian Niedermeyer, outside linebackers coach Shelton Felton, director of player personnel Drew Hughes and student assistant Michael Magness, all of whom were either fired by Tennessee in January 2021 or left under an NCAA cloud in late 2020. Niedermeyer and Hughes both also worked at Alabama during various points in the Nick Saban era.
The four other staffers have agreed to accept show-cause penalties ranging from 3-5 years. Should any NCAA member institution choose to hire any of them during that time, both the school and the individual would have to meet with the NCAA Committee on Infractions. Felton, a Troy graduate, was a long-time high school coach in his native Georgia before joining the college ranks at Chattanooga in 2017. He was an analyst at Tennessee in 2018 and outside linebackers/defensive line coach at Akron before re-joining Pruitt’s Volunteers staff as OLBs coach in 2020.
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