On the Tennessee play:
That's the left guard pulling outside (73). Trey Smith, the 5* guy.
That's the fact, now for some conjecture.
If I had to bet a dollar on what actually happened, I'd go with this: the play call was a run to the left, BUT Guantanamo saw something that he had been told to sneak it when the alignment was a certain way. So it wasn't an audible, it was a "see this, do that" thing for the QB himself. The G may or may not been supposed to see the same thing, but either way, his crime was going with the called play. The QB didn't run the called play, but did do something he had been previously told to do.
Pruitt is saying it was a sneak call so that Guantanamo doesn't transfer and he's stuck with 2 FR QBs the rest of the way. I'm not saying he's in love with Gitmo, but at least he's a veteran. He's giving the kid a lifeline in order to keep him around, by publicly saying it was a called sneak.
So I don't think the QB went rogue (odd phrasing and assumption by the announcers). Obviously, the QB and OL weren't on the same page (G pulling for a kick-out block, imo). It was just Tennessee being Tennessee.
And all of this time talking about it...they still weren't winning that game, lol.
