Joe Osovet first met Jeremy Pruitt when the new Tennessee head coach was the defensive coordinator at Georgia. Osovet, then the head coach at Nassau Community College in Long Island and had a gifted cornerback prospect, Rasul Douglas, who was getting a lot of interest. Douglas ended up at West Virginia, but the Juco coach with the thick New York accent and the SEC defensive coordinator hit it off. Both are the quintessential football grinders. Pruitt worked his way up from the high school ranks and joined Nick Saban’s first Alabama staff as the director of player development in 2007; Osovet, the son of a carpet salesman, has spent nearly two decades at the junior college level.
Joe Osovet Ready to Be 'the Dumbest Guy in the Room' at Tennessee
