Former UGA Football defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt Back in High School Football
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ATHENS - Former UGA football defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt returned high school football coach today.
AL.com reported Thursday that Pruitt, who was the Dawgs’ defensive coordinator from 2014-15, has been hired as a PE teacher and assistant coach at Plainview High School in Rainsville, Alabama, which is Pruitt’s hometown. He will also coach junior high basketball.
Pruitt was a part of Mark Richt’s final coaching staff at UGA in 2015. A year later he went to Alabama as Nick Saban’s defensive coordinator before taking over as the head coach at Tennessee. He went 15-19 in three seasons as the Vols’ coach before being terminated for cause by the institution for extensive NCAA violations. The NCAA placed Tennessee on probation for five years, and fined the Vols $8 million for infractions that occurred on Pruitt’s watch.
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Pruitt has a six-year so-called show cause from the NCAA, meaning he is virtually unhirable at NCAA schools before July 2029.
“During the head coach’s tenure, he and other members of his staff acted with general and blatant disregard for rules compliance,” the NCAA found of Pruitt while with the Vols.
Pruitt went on to work with the New York Giants in the fall of 2021. He has reportedly not worked in football since.
Dawg Post wrote extensivly about end of Mark Richt’s time at UGA - including this article from 2018
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