Pruitt and NCAA "show cause"

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What Freeze did was much worse then Pruitt.

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For what the NCAA actually included in their findings? Eh, not really

The hooker stuff wasn’t part of anything in the NCAA’s findings. That came out later in the Houston Nutt lawsuit against Ole Miss. What the NCAA actually found and proved against Freeze wasn’t a whole lot TBH, despite what he probably actually did.

The NOA on paper re Pruitt is worse than the Ole Miss NOA re Freeze. Pruitt was directly implicated in his NOA a lot more than Freeze was. Freeze’s assistants had show causes ranging from 2 to 8 years. Freeze was implicated for failure to monitor his assistants, not directly implicated for providing improper benefits. Pruitt and his wife are directly implicated providing cash payments to players.

And they're not wrong.

how come the powers that be allow the Tennessee booster to not be named?

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how come the powers that be allow the Tennessee booster to not be named?

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Don’t particularly care.

LINKFreeze was never hit with a show cause….for one year if he was hired as a head coach he would have to sit the first two games.

No coach should be hired in the SEC ever if their actions resulted in penalties against a fellow conference school. That should be rule #1. But it won’t.

Supposedly Pruitt & some of his staff were funding the payments themselves . It wasn’t all that much

The NCAA investigation stuff is overblown
Jeremy Pruitt broke NCAA rules by providing impermissible benefits to players and recruits during his time at Tennessee. While the rules are silly, they’re still the rules that everyone has to play by. Some coaches and programs are able to skirt those rules better than others.

But if you take what Pruitt did and remove the NCAA and the sport of college football from the equation, we’d view his actions as admirable and possibly even heroic.

Pruitt and his wife, Casey, were helping players and their families. They were giving them money for things like rent, medical bills, etc. Zach Ragan

Alabama won't touch Pruitt.

Again, he did not receive a show cause. He would have only had to serve a 2 game suspension as a head coach, nothing as an assistant.

Schlabach has no idea what the differences are in a show cause and what the NCAA levied on Freeze.

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There was a thought a show cause, which would have crippled his collegiate coaching prospects for the immediate future, was coming for Freeze, who resigned as Ole Miss' coach on July 20 after the university discovered a pattern of personal misconduct tied to calls he made to escort services. The NCAA delivered its verdict to the university on Friday and Freeze managed to walk away without sustaining major harm. He avoided a show cause and will have to serve a two-conference game suspension if he's hired as a head coach between now and Nov. 30, 2018. That suspension doesn't apply to Freeze if he's hired as an assistant within that time, and it doesn't carry over if he's hired as a head coach after that time frame.

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