The Tennessee Volunteers were ready to hire Greg Schiano, Ohio State's defensive coordinator, as their new head coach the weekend after the regular season ended, but former Tennessee athletic director John Currie backed out of the deal due to the negative backlash from the Tennessee fan base over the decision.
However, Schiano had signed a memorandum of understanding with Tennessee before Currie backed out and is reportedly contemplating legal action against the school to get any money from the contract he agreed to.
Tennessee has argued that the memorandum isn't valid because the school's chancellor never signed it, which ESPN's Darren Rovell shows is true.
Here's the memorandum of understanding between Greg Schiano and the University of Tennessee.
School says it wasn't fully signed, so Schiano isn't owed anything.
(Document from @knoxnews) pic.twitter.com/FOun8nKP3z— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 11, 2017
Since the memorandum was not fully signed, Tennessee will not have to pay Schiano anything.
The Vols hired Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt last week.
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Schiano has spent the past two seasons with the Buckeyes after failing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a head coach, going 11-21 in two seasons before being fired in 2013. However, he did wonders for a Rutgers program that has fallen apart without him, going 68-67 in 11 seasons.
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