In a response to Jeremy Pruitt's lawyer, Tennessee said it "maintains that it had proper cause to terminate your client for breach of his employment agreement in January, and our position has only strengthened since then."
The AAC is expected to send Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, North Texas, UTSA, Rice and UAB formal letters by the end of the week detailing the terms of expansion after the schools officially requested to join the conference, a source told ESPN.
Nets star James Harden did not sign an extension prior to the midnight deadline on Oct. 18 but made it clear his future is in Brooklyn: "I don't plan on leaving this organization and the situation that we have."
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