When it came time for his termination, former baseball coach Todd Raleigh didn't take strike three looking. Raleigh and his advisor, Mike Brown, took a home run cut and came up with an infield fly.

Raleigh and Brown in meeting with Tennessee officials three days before his termination on May 24th informed the University of possible NCAA violations as they discussed Raleigh's financial settlement. Throughout the month of June, Brown continued to discuss Raleigh's financial buyout about money he felt his client was owed. In those talks, Brown repeatedly informed the University that he had additional information concerning NCAA rules violations and that information would cause serious damage to the University's reputation and standing as an NCAA member.

All told there were 8 allegations. Those allegations included a staff member, Nate Headley, allegedly providing alcohol to players on a road trip, inappropriate private hitting instruction by Headley and failure to properly investigate that instruction, inappropriate involvement of an amateur baseball tournament by Headley, and failure to report private income by Headley.

The other three allegations involve long time athletic department administrator Carmen Tegano who was accused of paying for a player's parents' meal, in appropriate interaction by a prospect with former players and former football player Jamal Lewis, and promising a prospect more scholarship money.

The allegations against Tegano were deemed unfounded by outside counsel, the law firm of Bond, Schoeneck, and King as Tennessee hired the firm to do a full review of Raliegh's claims. The outside counsel also deemed Raleigh's allegation that Tennessee failed to investigate claims of Headley's private instruction was also unfounded.

Three of Raleigh's 8 allegations has prompted to filed three secondary violations. One of those violations was that Headley inappropriately gave private instruction to a prospect even though Headley had worked with that prospect since he was 10.

The second violation was that Headley didn't fill out the appropriate form for making money for private instruction.

The third violation is that Headley was too involved in the amateur tournament violating NCAA rules. That violation occurred in June 2010 and June 2011.

Raleigh's eight claims of wrongdoing were not his only claims. According to the released report, several of Raleigh's other claims were not deemed to be NCAA issues. They were described as issues that relate to the alleged actions of other individuals employed by the University and the alleged negative impact of those individual' supposed actions on Raleigh's ability to develop a successful baseball program.