Tennessee football has three new assistants for 2019. Here is how all 10 Volunteers staff members working under Jeremy Pruitt rank.
Jeremy Pruitt finished up his staff last Friday, and Tennessee football enters 2019 with quite a few changes. After just one year, the Vols have two new offensive, defensive and special teams coordinators and three new assistants overall.
Only five of the 10 assistant coaches have the exact same roles they had last year for Rocky Top. However, the transition isn’t too crazy with seven still on the staff from last year, and Pruitt comes from a head coach in Nick Saban who has a history of changing around the Alabama Crimson Tide’s staff.
However, Saban has a track record of succeeding in doing that. Pruitt does not. As a result, these new staff moves, which involved losing key coaches from last year in Terry Fair and Charles Kelly, could make or break Pruitt.
After the changes, which staff members are in the best roles for Tennessee football? Who are the most proven guys? In this post, we’re going to break down exactly how all 10 assistant coaches rank against each other.
Note that this is not the same as our ranking of the staff changes. We based that off of the impact of the changes themselves. This post specifically ranks who is the best assistant on the staff. Our criteria include what role they’re coaching in, their proven level of success in that role and their proven level of recruiting abilities.
We’ll also place heavy emphasis on what the returning coaches in their respective roles did last year. It’s pretty simple when you break everything down. A coach is always only as good as his staff, and Vol Nation can only hope that Pruitt is as good as his mentor when it comes to identifying assistant coach talent.
So who is the best guy on the staff this year? Which assistant is, if not the worst, the least proven to be successful? Find out with our rankings here. This is how al 10 Tennessee football staff members under Jeremy Pruitt stack up against each other.