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Tennessee football coaches have forgettable presidential election years

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Head coaches for the Tennessee football Volunteers have a tumultuous history with such years.

As this election takes place, Tennessee football is desperately looking for a turnaround to take some of the heat of third-year head coach Jeremy Pruitt. If history is any indication, the Vols won’t get it.

In the post-watergate era of politics, presidential election years are some of the worst for Vols head coaches. Of the previous six head coaches before Pruitt, four of them were fired during a presidential election year.