Success for Tennessee Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt could impact AD hires in SEC, beyond

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If Jeremy Pruitt has a successful first season at Tennessee, he could impact more than football. He also could affect sports administration. Whatever success Pruitt achieves will reflect on athletic director Phillip Fulmer, the man who hired him. And it could change the way universities think about sports administrators. Fulmer was a rush-order hire. Convinced that UT’s search for a new football coach had become an exercise in desperation, former chancellor Beverly Davenport executed the administrative equivalent of calling 911. She fired athletic director John Currie, whom she had hired less than a year earlier. She then proceeded to make a mockery of the standard hiring process. Why Vols hiring

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