Tennessee football fires DL coach Jimmy Brumbaugh, VolQuest reports
The Tennessee football Volunteers defensive line coach lasted four games.
It didn’t take long for somebody to lose their job after Tennessee football got blown out by the Kentucky Wildcats over the weekend. Two days later, Jeremy Pruitt parted ways with an assistant he hired earlier this year.
According to Austin Price of VolQuest, the Vols got rid of defensive line coach and co-defensive coordinator Jimmy Brumbaugh. Hired this offseason to replace Tracy Rocker, Brumbaugh only lasted four games. We don’t know all the inner workings of what happened, but this is a major red flag for Pruitt’s program.
Brumbaugh joined Tennessee football after a year on Mel Tucker’s staff with the Colorado Buffaloes. Before that, he spent two years with the Maryland Terrapins under DJ Durkin and, ironically, four years with the Kentucky Wildcats under Mark Stoops.
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A graduate of the Auburn Tigers, where he played from 1995 to 1999, Brumbaugh had stints in the XFL in 2001 and then Arena Football in 2002 and 2003 before going into coaching. He first joined Jacksonville State as a student assistant in 2004 and then became the defensive line coach for UT Chattanooga in 205.
In 2006, Brumbaugh joined Les Miles’ staff as the assistant strength and conditioning coach, a position he held for two years, before joining Derek Dooley’s staff, ironically, with the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, again as a defensive line coach. He then spent two years on Doug Marrone’s staff with the Syracuse Orange but was let go in 2011.
Before getting back into the SEC with Kentucky, Brumbaugh spent a year as the defensive line and strength and conditioning coach at East Mississippi Community College, better known as Last Chance U. He joined UK’s staff just as Mark Stoops was hired.
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Price reports that Tennessee football signed Brumbaugh to a two-year deal with a $650,000 salary. His buyout will be his remaining base salary that could be lessened with any potential salary he receives at a new job.