A tweet landed Jeremy Pruitt a slap on the wrist.

Tennessee's football coach mentioned Plainville High School, his alma mater, in a congratulatory tweet from his verified account in March. Pruitt's tweet wasn't even directed to Plainview's football team. It was in response to the Plainview boys basketball team repeating as state champions.

A Tennessee compliance department staff member saw the tweet and notified Pruitt and a football staff member responsible for social media that the tweet was an impermissible endorsement of a high school team and its coach.

The tweet was deleted 37 minutes after it was posted.

Tennessee's compliance office provided rules education to Pruitt and the social media staffer, and the SEC and NCAA took no further action.

Pruitt's tweet was one of nine NCAA violations that Tennessee reported during the first six months of 2019. All were Level III violations, which are considered minor.

UT released a report detailing the violations to the News Sentinel on Wednesday in response to a public records request.

"Level III violations are a byproduct of a healthy compliance program,” Andrew Donovan, UT's associate athletics director for compliance, said in a statement to the News Sentinel. “There are thousands of NCAA rules and interpretations of those rules, so it is expected that inadvertent, minor violations may occur on occasion.

"We have a strong culture of compliance at the University of Tennessee. Our coaches and staff are fully committed to doing things the right way. They view compliance as a shared responsibility and hold themselves and each other accountable.”

Tennessee's football program was responsible for three violations. Committing one violation apiece were swimming, men's tennis, men's track and field, softball, rowing and soccer.

What rule did Jeremy Pruitt's tweet break?

Plainview beat Westminster Christian 54-52 on March 1 to win the Alabama Class 3A state championship for the second straight year.

"Congratulations Robi Coker and Plainview High School on back to back State Championships! #2muchblue #PLV," the tweet from Pruitt's account said.

Tennessee noted in its report that Pruitt violated NCAA bylaw 11.3.2.8. It states that "an athletics department staff member shall not promote or endorse a prospective student-athlete's team or coach, or an athletics facility that is primarily used by prospective student-athletes."

If Pruitt liked, marked as a favorite or republished something on social media to indicate approval, that would not violate NCAA bylaws. But constructing his own tweet did.

Tennessee's report stated that Pruitt thought he was allowed to mention Plainview on Twitter because it is his alma mater, Tennessee is not recruiting any prospects from Plainview and no members of its current roster attended Plainview.

Pruitt played football at Plainview for his father, Dale.

Other football violations

Tennessee committed a recruiting violation in December, when a non-coaching staff member transported a prospect's family to and from campus for an official visit outside of the allowed 30-mile radius. The prospect flew in for the visit from his junior college.

Tennessee had arranged a car service to transport the prospect's family. After realizing the prospect had eight siblings who could not be left at home while their mother traveled to campus, and the car service could not accommodate the full family, the coaching staff had the non-coaching staff member transport the family.

Tennessee responded with rules education to the football staff about permissible off-campus contact rules. The non-coaching staff member involved was not allowed to participate in recruiting activities for 14 days. The coaching staff was not allowed in-person or off-campus contact or phone calls with the prospect for 30 days.

The NCAA also penalized Tennessee four evaluation days.

Tennessee's other football violation occurred when three non-coaching staff members conducted conditioning activities during a June conditioning session. These staffers were not designated as any of the five strength coaches allowed to conduct drills.

UT prohibited the three involved staffers from attending countable activities involving athletes for seven days, issued a letter of admonishment and provided rules education to the entire staff. The SEC and NCAA took no further action.

Violations by other sports

Swimming's violation occurred when a team member paid the $12 bowling fees for a prospect during an unofficial visit. The prospect had to repay the $12, and the team received recruiting penalties.

The rowing violation stemmed from an unofficial visit occurring before the first allowed date.

Women's soccer committed a violation for a media relations staff member posting an impermissible tweet.

A men's tennis assistant had off-campus contact with a prospect before the allowed time period.

Two men's track athletes received plaques worth more than the allowed amount.

Softball's violation pertained to athletes playing in a game before a formal squad list was prepared.

Blake Toppmeyer covers University of Tennessee football. Email him at blake.toppmeyer@knoxnews.com and follow him on Twitter @btoppmeyer. If you enjoy Blake’s coverage, consider a digital subscription that will allow you access to all of it.