5× National Champion (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017)
Head coaching record
Career:
NCAA: 5–19 (.208) Bowls: 0–0 (–)
Jeremy Pruitt (born May 28, 1974) is an American football coach who most recently was a senior defensive assistant for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the head coach at the University of Tennessee from 2018 to 2020 and defensive coordinator at the University of Alabama from 2016 to 2017, University of Georgia from 2014 to 2015, and Florida State University in 2013.
As a defensive coordinator, Pruitt's defenses frequently ranked in the top 10 nationally in total defense and related categories. Pruitt worked for Alabama as Director of Player Development from 2007 to 2009 before becoming the Crimson Tide's defensive backs coach in 2010. Prior to joining the college ranks, he served as an assistant coach at the high-school level. Pruitt was a 2013 finalist for the Broyles Award, given annually to the nation's top college football assistant coach, and was again a finalist in 2016. He played college football at Middle Tennessee and Alabama.[1][2]
Pruitt appeared on the TV series Two-A-Days in 2006 while an assistant coach at Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama.[3] In January 2021, Jeremy Pruitt was fired by the University of Tennessee football team for cause following significant recruiting violations.[4] He was replaced by Josh Heupel.
^Kausler Jr., Don (December 20, 2012). "It's official: Alabama assistant Jeremy Pruitt is Florida State's new defensive coordinator". AL.com. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
^"Jeremy Pruitt Named Tennessee's Head Football Coach". University of Tennessee. December 7, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
^Kausler Jr., Don (June 22, 2010). "Outspoken, persistent, intense: That's Nick Saban's newest assistant coach, Jeremy Pruitt". AL.com. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
^"Tennessee Fires Head Coach Jeremy Pruitt and Eight Other Staff Members Amid Recruiting Investigation". January 18, 2021.
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Conference (SEC). The Volunteers were led by third-year head coach JeremyPruitt. In a season initially questioned whether it would be played because...
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to return to Auburn, his alma mater. Former Alabama assistant coach, JeremyPruitt, joined the Florida State staff as the new defensive coordinator, replacing...
at the University of Tennessee from 2019 to 2020, under Head Coach JeremyPruitt Chaney served as the offensive coordinator and multiple other assistant...
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