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Tennessee football: Condredge Holloway defends Vols, Jeremy Pruitt

He’s feeling heat from all angles more than ever before. But one Tennessee football legend has stepped up to lend his voice of support to Vols head coach Jeremy Pruitt, and he’s a critical voice to lend it.

Condredge Holloway, who played quarterback for UT from 1972 to 1974 and served as an administrator with the school for 21 years before retiring earlier this spring, spoke out in defense of Pruitt. The first black starting quarterback in the SEC went on Paul Finebaum’s show Tuesday and expressed his defense of Pruitt.

Size and the lack of size that Tennessee football had when Pruitt took over was Holloway’s emphasis, and he kept bringing up that point when discussing the Vols.