KNOXVILLE – Tennessee spring football came to an end following its second practice on March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Third-year Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt discussed Friday on a Zoom conference call if he thought the 2020 college football season would start on time.
“My first thoughts are with everybody throughout our country,” Pruitt said. “I’ve said this many times – football is a sport. It’s a great game, and it’s been really good to a lot of us. It’s something that we all love doing. I know it’s tough on everybody that’s involved right now. There are also bigger issues out there right now that are being addressed, obviously daily with our government, people associated with our medical field.
“Whenever that time comes, we’ll be ready at Tennessee, but until then we are going to do everything that we can to support the rules and regulations that our university puts in place, our city puts in place, our state, our federal government. That’s all we can do.”
The Vols are scheduled to kickoff the 2020 season against Charlotte at Neyland Stadium on Sept. 5.