Tennessee football: Five reasons Vols should stick with Jeremy Pruitt past 2019
2. Jeremy Pruitt still has a proven track record of success.
He’s won two national championships as a defensive coordinator. One of them was as Jimbo Fisher’s defensive coordinator and remains the only reason that Fisher is such a highly-respected head coach. The other was Nick Saban’s most recent title with the Alabama Crimson Tide.
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Taking those things into account, to quote his current boss from when he was head coach, Jeremy Pruitt didn’t all of a sudden get stupid as a coach. He’s less than two years removed from that most recent national title in which he outsmarted Jim Chaney, ironically. So his knowledge of X’s and O’s is impressive on its own.
But beyond that, Pruitt has a track record already of delivering for Tennessee football. Last year, his team was underdog in nine of 12 games. But he managed to pull off two upsets against ranked teams, over the Auburn Tigers and Kentucky Wildcats.
One of them, against Auburn, was on the road. What SEC head coach takes over a program that was winless in the SEC the previous year and scores two wins over ranked teams, one on the road, his first year on the road but all of a sudden is a bad head coach? It makes no sense, and that alone is enough reason to believe in Pruitt.
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When you look at Pruitt’s proven track record of success as an assistant, which is unprecedented and shows with how sought-after he was, and combine it with his overachieving first year on Rocky Top, there’s no reason to turn against him yet. The guy has shown too much.