They need look no further than the basketball team to show how Alabama will handle this. In the unlikely event Pruitt is hired at Alabama, it wouldn’t be until about a month after his show cause expired.Show causes are serious, to say otherwise is to indicate that one really doesn’t understand the full impact of them. Everyone wants to bring up Bruce Pearl and how Auburn still hired him. Auburn only had to deal with show cause consequences for basically 2 months. So it’s not exactly 6 years of constant training, reporting, and bowing to the NCAA’s demands.
If Alabama were to hire Pruitt then we would have 6 years of the NCAA monitoring our football and basketball teams looking for foul play. You can bet dollars to donuts that they would try to pin something huge to us to show that they still have some power.
Most show causes are 1-3 years in an effort to correct an action Pruitt’s was pretty much to prevent him from coaching in the near future.
So basically don’t hold your breath.