How Jeremy Pruitt Got Here

Jeremy Pruitt is now the head football coach of the Tennessee Volunteers. But he has taken quite a path to get here.

Pruitt’s career path looks a little different than most SEC head coaches, with what many might refer to as a “meteoric rise” in the past decade or so.

Despite being born in Rainsville, Ala. and growing up a fan of the Crimson Tide, Pruitt actually began his college football playing career at Middle Tennessee State in 1993. However, after two years, Pruitt was afforded a scholarship to his childhood favorite team and finished his degree and football career at the University of Alabama.

Knowing he wanted to be a football coach from the time he was a child, Pruitt became a graduate…