The Tennessee Volunteers are facing another NCAA investigation of potential rules violations, according to Pat Forde of SI.

Citing sources, Forde reports the violations are “major” in nature and involve multiple sports over NIL benefits for athletes.

The Volunteers were penalized last summer for more than 200 rules infractions in the football program in which the NCAA Committee on Infractions said the case was “one of the worst the COI has seen.”

Tennessee acknowledged the investigation to “SI” but said it has not received a notice of allegations.

“With rare exceptions, the NCAA does not comment on current, pending or potential investigations due to confidentiality rules put in place by member schools,” associate director of communications Meghan Durham Wright told SI.

Forde reports, citing sources, Tennessee doesn’t believe it has committed any violations.

In July, former Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt received a six-year show cause order for what the NCAA Committee on Infractions termed “aggravated” violations during his tenure in Knoxville.

Pruitt and several members of his Volunteers staff were charged with 18 NCAA violations that encompassed more than 200 individual infractions involving 29 recruits and their families and 10 active players that occurred from 2018-20. Among the charges were impermissible cash and benefits totaling more than $60,000, as well as recruiting during the NCAA-mandated COVID-19 dead period.

“During the head coach’s tenure, he and other members of his staff acted with general and blatant disregard for rules compliance,” the panel said in announcing the penalties. Pruitt was charged with unethical conduct and failure to execute head coach responsibility for his program.

Tennessee as an institution was placed on five years probation, fined $8 million, saw its scholarships reduced by 28 over a five-year period, must vacate all victories in which ineligible student-athletes participated and was hit with various recruiting restrictions, but did not receive a postseason ban. The school, which had already self-imposed numerous penalties, was charged with “Failure to Monitor” its football program.

Tennessee had previously self-imposed a reduction of 16 scholarships, meaning the NCAA added 12. The NCAA also imposed additional reductions in official visits and recruiting communications over the course of the probation, after the school self-imposed reductions up through the 2022-23 recruiting cycle.