According to sources with intimate knowledge of the situation, first-year head coach Jeremy Pruitt has relieved multiple doctors of their duties within the University of Tennessee football program. Doctors Greg Mathien and Russell Betcher were informed late last week that they no longer would serve as the team doctors for the Volunteers football program.
Both doctors had provided care for the team dating back to Phillip Fulmer’s time, with Mathien arriving two years prior to Fulmer’s full-time ascension to the Tennessee head coaching job.
“It’s a travesty,” said one source in Knoxville’s medical community.
Said another source entrenched in Knoxville’s medical community, “This situation is (messed) up.