Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 3/17/17. David Cobb is the Chattanooga Times Free Press’s new Tennessee beat reporter. Taken on March 16, 2017.KNOXVILLE – Dismiss it as a frivolous product of college football’s talking season, a senseless issue that’s long-settled or a hit job on the new coach at a division rival.
Many already have, because they are not sure how to process it.
The truth is that the week-old saga of former Georgia players questioning Jeremy Pruitt’s head coaching credentials provides the most insightful window yet into the potential for brazenness in Pruitt’s personality and demeanor.
Hang tight, Tennessee fans. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It will depend on how that brazenness manifests itself in Knoxville.
What the former Georgia players vs. Pruitt story demonstrates in a way that nothing else has in the eight-plus months since Pruitt was hired at Tennessee is just how willing Pruitt is to buck the establishment to follow his football convictions.