Jeremy Pruitt Spills Tea

Arky talks about former Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt threatening a lawsuit that will reveal more bad Tennessee things unless he gets his buyout money.

Episode Transcript

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Hey, everybody, Welcome into theArchie experience. My name is Ark.
Day three of road tripping with Archie. It's been a blast. Actually,
actually yesterday was a really good day, and so was Monday for that matter.
We had some really good days doingthis thing. I want to be
able to announce to you and Iwant to say this will be the last

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day that I'm coming to you fromthe confines of this beautifully discontinued car model.
I don't know that for sure,but I am really really excited for
what we're going to be able toreveal to you sometime soon. We're working
very diligently on this project and Icannot wait to talk about it and get

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it out to you guys. It'sreally it's really a project after my own
hearts. It's really exciting and reallycool. Um. But until we get
to that, I still want tobe talking about ball that's happening all over
the place. And how about whatis happening in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yes,
am I late to the party onthe golf ball throwing Nope, I

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am right on time. With JeremyPRUITTT Gates, oh Man, Jeremy Pruittt
is suing his school or former school, well not really his school, a
school that decided to pay him handsomelyand then decided to cut ties and then
not pay him at all. AndJeremy Prue wants that buy a money all

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right, Jeremy pruittt is ready forsome cash influx of the highest order,
and he's willing to go to thecourse to get it. But before we
get to that, Doctor Zeke andOne love hearing You deserve to hear with
customized care. I'm blown away bythe number of people I talked to that

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literally have never had a hearing checkup, have never gone through the putting the
headphones on and hearing the beeps andthe boops and the tones and raising their
hand whether or not they heard itor not. I'm surprised so many people
haven't. And if you're listening tothis, you're probably not a second grader.
Likely, based on the statistics Isee on the podcast, the demos

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teams to tend to lean a littleolder than second grade. So the fact
is that you're not getting it asa young and at school, even if
they still do that program, andyou're likely not just doing this as part
of your normal annual physical checkup stuff. So when are you doing it?
You go to the doctor for whenthings are wrong with you, right,

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you go get a physical annually.You go check up on your eyes when
you need glasses when you can't see. But the one thing we don't ever
talk about is checking up on ourhearing. And in fact, you may
be having more difficulty hearing than youact actually think, because you are now

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accustomed to this normal and you don'tknow that there's a better way out there.
That's how I figured it out.It's how I figured it out.
When I was a young lass oftwelve years old. I figured out that
I could not hear very well,and I thought the way I was hearing
was normal. And you may bein the same boat. So what you

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call it, doctor Zeke? Inone love Hearing, you get yourself a
free hearing check up for free,zero dollars zero since, no obligation,
no, nothing like that. Right. They will not try to sell you
anything you don't need. They willnot try to upsell you on any miracle
cures. If anything, They're justgoing to check out what you hear,

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you and if your hearing's fine.Doctor Zeke is the first one to tell
you, Okay, you're good.Let's just keep a eye on this and
we'll check it again at some point. But if it's not, then you
can talk to doctor Zeke about whator plan of operation should be. Do
you need to do hearing devices?Maybe not, Maybe it's something you keep

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an even closer. You know,it's so so easy to do. You
should just do it. It's theone part of our health that we really
honestly don't talk about. We're talkinga lot more about mental health, rightfully,
so that we talk about hearing health. We talk about our teeth health
a lot more than hearing. Wetalk about our physical health. We talk

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about getting gouts, we talk aboutdermatitis, we talk about everything other than
our daily ability to hear things.And by the way, hearing loss has
been proven to lead to early onsetdementia and depression. So let's get on
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three thirty eight forty four seven locationsin North Elama. You can find one
that's perfect for you. It's twofive six two three eighty boar So.
Jeremy Brude is suing University of Tennesseeand I love every every bit of it.
I do. I can't tell youhow much I love this idea for

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one reason only. It has nothingto do with Jeremy Brude getting the money
that he should get. I mean, Tennessee agreed to terms, right.
It's the possibility of getting transparency.It's the possibility of learning more about the

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underside of what could technically be abig issue happening and not so. You
remember, guys, about a yearago or so, the story came out,
maybe even listening to that Tennessee mayhave been handing money to people through
McDonald's bags and McDonald's drive throughs.Now. That's part of the reasons why

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it looks like Jeremy Pruitt was firedquote unquote for cause would you never see
you almost never see unless there's somesexual misconduct allegation going on out there,
you almost never see it. Istill argue that this day forecasts should be

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losing. By the way, ifyou lose games, that should be enough
cause to fire you, because youknow you're hired to win games. But
anyway, we are long since gottenpassed that river. I think the fact
that there is that baggage on JeremyPruitt's is the reason why Tennessee's not paying

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him. Right, So Tennessee said, we're firing you with cause, even
though a year ago we extended yourcontract and gave you a race by the
way, no settlement, no money, no buyo. And Jeremy Pruitt being
a good boy from my home state, Rainfall, Alabama. Right, guy
who came up in a very weirdway, like he was a high school

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head coach at a very prominent highschool in Alabama, and then within a
decade he was the head coach ofTennessee. It's bizarre and it can happen
like that. But you know,if you know a good coach, you
know a good coach. And soJeremy Pruitt gets up to this level where
he's the head coach of Tennessee,and is he a little above his skis?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, he'sa little above a skis. Jeremy
Pruit's a ridiculous hot head at times, doesn't make a lot of sense.
It doesn't like it's Faragus. Neverheard of its ferragus, to be honest
with you, even though he triedto walk that way back. So Jeremy
Pruitt is now suing Tennessee for thatmoney because again he got a contract extension,

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he got told he was gonna getmore money, and his buyout went
up to twelve and a half milliondollars. So he thought, hey,
you're gonna fire me, good,just buy me out like you're always buying
out coaches. As soon as hetook this stance on this high moral hill
that they are going to not payhim for possible recruiting violations that could be

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kind of major. Now that allsounds great if Jeremy Freud goes quietly into
the night, which he doesn't seemlike he wants to, And so his
lawyer sents a letter to the Universityof Tennessee that got revealed through open records
requests on Tuesday, that he issuing and he is willing to throw at

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all the skeletons. Is one thatthere everybody under the bus to get that
money. And that's what I likeabout it, because he's actually calling people
out by day, well not somuch calling them out, but saying that
the lawyer is, I want tomake sure that you guys do not delete

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any information around certain people so wecan look at it when it comes time
to the court and then names guyslike Philip Fulmer, the athletic director at
the time, oh Rick Barnes thathad men's basketball coach. They're several boosters
and associates of the University of Tennessee. So without saying I'm definitely calling you

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out for some taut dream nous,he's calling them out and it's a brilliant
place either super blop into the moneyor possibly get into the nitty gritty of
the dirt. Now I'm not surehow Jeremy Pruod finds out about Rick Barnes

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is possibly recruiting violations. To me, that's hopefully something we find out a
discovery and the actual trial itself.But Tennessee has already said we are not
going to acquiesce to you. SoTennessee thinks they are bluffing. The lawyer
for Jeremy, who says they're notbluffing, has named names. And I

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can't wait for this thing to goto trial or mediation or a chord of
something, because if there is thistype of culture that has been built around
anywhere for any sports, I likegetting to know that if the TMZ and

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me, I'll be honest with you, I want to see how the fudge
is made. That's what gets meexcited partly about college football. That's what
gets me excited about the underseatedness underseated. We all know it's there, right
We all know that you can't justconstantly get recruits when you shouldn't get to

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recruits ole miss. We know thatsometimes if you want to get all the
recruits, you have to, youknow, keep everyone quiet and make people
happy. We know families have beenmoved, players have been the have been
moved, bills have been paid,Vehicles purchase um debit cards given like.

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It's all over the place, butI want to know. I want to
know it. I appreciate Jeremy Fruitgoing to the bat for this because Jeremy
Fruit clearly doesn't want another job atcollege football, because this is not how
you get a son. Hid goto bat willing to expose other people you

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just worked with and say, hey, why don't you, um, whyn't
you give me a job? Idon't think it works like that, my
friends. And right now I thinkit's a defensive analyst with the New York
Giants, which is fine. Hemakes a little bit of money there,
but I think it gets any ofthis. Twelve and a half million dollars,
we're talking and we're good to go. Money. You know, you

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pay the lawyer probably eighty percent ofthat. It feels like if you still
you still make out pretty good.But Jeremy Pruit going to back for himself
and possibly to knock out Tennessee iswonderful. It's wonderful because if you think
about it, Jeremy Prue feels likehe was also thrown under the bus.

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There are lots of coaches, lotsof coaches to get fired and quietly sort
of walk away, and I wasrun doesn't get to be one of them.
For some weird, bizarre reason.He has to be paraded out in
front of people. But for themost part, it's kissy, kissy,
here's your money, bye bye.And by the way, Tennessee, this
is why you pay the guy togo away, right because if he has

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anything, what he's threatening, yop, your damaged brother, your damnage hard
hardcore. This is why you paya guy like Jeremy Pruitt to just quietly
go coach for the New York Giantsand just not become a thing at all
to you. But Jeremy Pruit decidednot to go quietly, and Jeremy Pruitt

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is deciding to take Tennessee to thewall. And I respect that, I
really do, because you didn't getto get that money. And really clearly
all college football and about his money. Right, we're all watching our own
wall. It's so, Jeremy,go get your money. Go Sue,
don't. In fact, if theyoffer to settle, don't take. It's

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still taking the court. I wantto know what's going on. Are there
burger king bags too? Are youleaving breedcases near ponds somewhere? Hey?
Is there somebody in evolved Navy thatit happens to be delivering on the shores
of the Tennessee River. I needto know, Okay, I need to
know, So don't hide for me. So God bless you Jeremy prud for

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doing you, because Jeremy Pruod Also, if you know what you think about
his personality, this is the sameguy, by the way, that had
a screaming fit with Mark Ricked onthe sideline when he was his decoordinator.
Mark Ricked maybe the sweetest, nicestcoach in all of college football, maybe

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ever. Jeremy Prue had had ascreaming match with him on the sideline.
So it's a completely within the personalityof Jeremy Prue had to go after someone
like Tennessee for maybe maybe not allegedlywronging him by not telling him to go

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away. And Tennessee, by theway, this is on you. You
literally could have gotten out of this. I know your thing is gonna be.
Hey, look, the nc DOUBLEAis gonna come with some violations and
you can't do that. But isit gonna be with all the tea that
gets built, I mean the damagethat gets done to your current head coach.

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Josh Hippel's already gonna have to dealwith some repercussions from the Jeremy pre
Jeremy Pruett era too. Do younow want to deal with this as well?
Because if this comes out in thecourt a law, guess what the
NCAA has to do. Just lookat the paperwork, friends, The trail

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is already marked. Remember the FBIand the irs going after the basketball boosters
and those with Adidas and blah blahblah blah blah. Remember the NCAA was
sanctioning people and they didn't even talkto people. They just read the court
transcripts and said, Okay, youguys do all the work. This is

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easy, same thing it happened toTennessee, and Tennessee could have gotten rid
of all that by just paying theman. It's twelve and a half million
dollars and it's an installment, soyou could have menaced if amos even easier.
That's how easy this could have goneaway. And me thinks that Jeremy
Prue has got something here. Myinclination is Jeremy Pruitt is not going to

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risk all of this with that alittle ace in his back pocket. And
I can't wait to find out whatthat aces is. So, Jeremy Pruet,
you may wear your COVID nineteen maskover the top of your head without
covering your face. And that maybe only number seventeen on the worst things
about you, But you got thesupport of this guy Arkie. You don't

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like che coach brud, go givehim hell.