The show-cause penalty means that if an NCAA member school chooses to hire Jeremy Pruitt in an athletic-related position prior to July 13, 2029, he would be suspended from all team activities for the entirety of his first season on the job.
Updated:Former Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt, shown here at SEC Media Days in 2018, learned his fate from the NCAA on Friday. The former Alabama defensive back and assistant coach has been out of football since 2021. Jeremy Pruitt on Friday received a six-year show cause order for what the NCAA Committee on Infractions termed “aggravated” violations during his tenure as Tennessee head football coach.
“During the head coach’s tenure, he and other members of his staff acted with general and blatant disregard for rules compliance,” the panel said in. Pruitt was charged with unethical conduct and failure to execute head coach responsibility for his program. “The failure at Tennessee was cultural,” the panel said. “It was a failure of all stakeholders to embrace the shared responsibility of monitoring and compliance and to create a culture where those responsibilities were prioritized and rewarded. This cannot simply be the responsibility of the compliance staff.”
In addition to penalties imposed on Pruitt and Tennessee’s program, former Volunteers defensive coordinator Derrick Ansley — also a multi-time Alabama assistant — was hit with a two-year show cause order. Should Ansley become employed by an NCAA member institution during the terms of his show-cause, he would be banned from on- or off-campus recruiting activities.
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