re: Pruitt has told people that he will be the next DC at Alabama.

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Was Bruce Pearl under a show-cause order when Auburn hired him, or had it expired? I was thinking he had one in place at one time, but I may be wrong about that.

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When Auburn hired him 2014 he had a few months left on his show cause. The penalties left standing were then applied to Auburn. The biggest and maybe only one left (can’t remember) was that he could not recruit until it expired that fall.

Auburn decided it was worth it to write off a summer of only assistants doing their recruiting. No doubt it hurt them that first season but history has shown they made a good call.