KNOXVILLE – Seeing the 2019 season spiraling in the wrong direction, Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt wasn’t going to let that happen.
Sitting in the visitors’ locker room after the Volunteers’ 34-3 loss to Florida on Sept. 21, Pruitt told the players that what he’d seen from the team wasn’t good enough. Even for a season with modest hopes, the year had started as poorly as possible, with shocking losses caused by lackluster play on both sides of the ball, and the 31-point loss to the Gators was anemic.
So Pruitt had a meeting in the locker room with the team. Once the Vols got back to Knoxville, there was another meeting.
And it wasn’t a players-led meeting. It wasn’t a coaches-led meeting.
It was led by one person – Pruitt.