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Fulmer defends Pruitt, says Tennessee is better than their 2-5 record shows

As if being 2-5 nearing the end of year three isn’t bad enough, Jeremy Pruitt now has to find a way to spin that as he makes his pitch to future recruits, along with his boss Phillip Fulmer. However, judging from Fulmer’s comments last night on Vol Calls, Pruitt isn’t having to do much selling to the third-year athletics director.

Fulmer backed his head football coach on Wednesday night, a man he hand-picked back in 2017. Here’s a snippet of what he had to say.

“An interesting statistic that I found was Coach Majors was 14-15-1 in his first 30 games and Coach Pruitt is 15-15 in his first 30 games.