Where fired Tennessee Vols football staff members are now
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Jeremy Pruitt worked in the NFL. A recruiting staffer started a podcast.
The 10 Tennessee football coaches and staff members that were fired on Jan. 18, 2020 landed in a variety of spots in the past year. A handful remain in football, but only one is in the college ranks. Others are out of athletics entirely.
Here is where the 10 fired staffers are:
Jeremy Pruitt
Role at Tennessee: Head coach.
Where Pruitt is now: Pruitt spent the 2021 season in the NFL on staff of the New York Giants. Pruitt was hired as a senior defensive analyst.
New York Giants coach Joe Judge was fired on Jan. 11, which could mean Pruitt is looking for a new job for the second straight offseason.
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Shelton Felton
Role at Tennessee: Outside linebackers coach.
Where Felton is now: Felton is the coach at Valdosta High School in Georgia, one of the most historically successful football programs in the nation. He was hired as an assistant coach initially before being tabbed the interim head coach in May.
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Valdosta went 4-6 with Felton as the interim coach. He was named the head coach on Oct. 26, making his return to the Georgia high school ranks official. Felton previously coached at Dooly County, Colquitt County and Crisp County.
Brian Niedermeyer
Role at Tennessee: Inside linebackers coach.
Where Niedermeyer is now: Niedermeyer is a high school social studies teacher and assistant football coach at Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to LinkedIn. He also is listed as an assistant coach on the football staff on MaxPreps.
Niedermeyer also runs a football training program for linebackers and defensive linemen in South Florida.
Danny Stiff
Role at Tennessee: Director of player personnel.
Where Stiff is now: Whereabouts unknown.
J.T. Hill
Role at Tennessee: Assistant director of player personnel.
Where Hill is now: Hill was named Temple's director of player personnel/pro liaison on Jan. 12. Hill worked as the director of recruitment/player personnel and pro liaison at Florida International for the 2021 season.
Rachel Bell
Role at Tennessee: Director of recruiting.
Where Bell is now: Bell started working for Vanguard Sports Group in February 2021. She is an assistant director for client development and partnerships, according to LinkedIn.
Bethany Gunn
Role at Tennessee: Director of recruiting.
Where Gunn is now: Gunn no longer works in athletics.
Chantryce Boone
Role at Tennessee: Assistant director of recruiting.
Where Boone in now: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. She started in August, according to LinkedIn.
Taylar Hooker
Role at Tennessee: Assistant director of recruiting.
Where Hooker is now: Hooker no longer works in athletics. She has a podcast called "Creeps & Crimes," which her LinkedIn says is "a conspiracy, paranormal, and true-crime podcast hosted by former college roommates and forever investigators of all things spine chilling."
Larry Harold
Role at Tennessee: Offensive analyst/quality control coach.
Where Harold is now: Harold is a teacher and football coach at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens, Georgia. He is the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach, according to LinkedIn.
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This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: From the NFL to podcast: Where fired Tennessee football staff members are
