Tennessee Allegedly Gave Recruits McDonald’s Bags Full Of Cash

Many Tennessee Vols fans were happy to see the news of the Jeremy Pruitt firing. Just when things looked like they couldn’t get any worse for the Tennessee football program, Dan Patrick dropped a bomb on everyone with some shocking news. This morning, on his radio show, Patrick reported Tennessee was handing cash to recruits in McDonald’s’ bags when they arrived on campus for visits.

“They put money into McDonald’s bags and gave them to the recruits when they came on campus,” Patrick said. “Some of the campus visits were not organized, or they were not above board. But they were handing out cash, I don’t know if it was drive-through. So you literally had bag men and they put the cash in McDonald’s bags and handed it to the recruits. My source said they were so in your face with this. They weren’t even trying to hide it, and that’s when my source said, ‘Tennessee got sloppy.”

Source: Tennessee #Vols got sloppy with recruiting. They were handing recruits cash in McDonald's bags when they visited campus.

Also a name to look out for to fill the Head Coaching vacancy: Jason Witten pic.twitter.com/HKDd02rldz

— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) January 19, 2021

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This isn’t a case of getting sloppy with recruiting; this is simply not having a care in the world about getting caught. McDonald’s isn’t exactly what you would expect a recruiter to give someone they are trying to convince to play for their program. I mean, at the very least use Chick-Fil-A bags. That would be getting sloppy. But McDonald’s bags? That is just downright ignorant.

As for who the next coach of the Volunteers might be, Patrick said that Hugh Freeze likely will not be an option given his ugly history with the SEC during his time at Ole Miss. Your guess is as good as mine. But it looks like it will be a while before the once-respected good ole Rocky Top is a contender in SEC football again.

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