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Jeremy Pruitt paid Tennessee football parent with cash in Chick-fil-A bag, NCAA notice reveals

It was a Chick-fil-A bag.

Ex-Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt used a Chick-fil-A bag to give several hundred dollars to the parent of a Tennessee football player in late 2020, according to findings in the NCAA notice of allegations and Tennessee's response to the NCAA.

Knox News, part of the USA Network, obtained the 108-page document on Thursday, showing the scope and nature of the alleged 18 violations committed by Pruitt and his staff. UT disputed parts of six of the 18 violations, while it outright disputed that Tennessee had failed to monitor Pruitt and his staff.