Jeremy Pruitt
Jeremy Pruitt went 16–19 on the field as a head coach, 2018–2020, at Tennessee; 5–19 officially, after the NCAA vacated 11 wins (2019 and 2020). Share
- Record
- 5–19 official; 16–19 on the field
- Seasons
- 3
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- May 28, 1974
- Alma mater
- West Alabama 1999
- Best season
- 2018 5–7
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Tennessee | 5–7 | 7th (Eastern) | |||
| 2019 | Tennessee | 8–5 (0–5 official) | 3rd (Eastern) | Gator W (vacated) | ||
| 2020 | Tennessee | 3–7 (0–7 official) | 5th (Eastern) | Liberty (not played) |
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 13 | 2–11 | 15% |
| Against top-10 teams | 9 | 0–9 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 17 | 5–12 | 29% |
| Conference games | 26 | 10–16 | 38% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 8 | 5–3 | 63% |
| At home | 20 | 10–10 | 50% |
| On the road | 13 | 5–8 | 38% |
| At neutral sites | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 12 | 9–3 | 75% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 23 | 7–16 | 30% |
His own 35 games on file, 2018–2020, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Stoops 2018–2020 | 2–1 | Kentucky | 3 | |
| Will Muschamp 2018–2020 | 2–1 | South Carolina | 3 | |
| Dan Mullen 2018–2020 | 0–3 | Florida | 3 | |
| Kirby Smart 2018–2020 | 0–3 | Georgia | 3 | |
| Nick Saban 2018–2020 | 0–3 | Alabama | 3 |
Jeremy Pruitt’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Kentuckyseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Missouriseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Vanderbiltseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| South Carolinaseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Floridaseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| Georgiaseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| Alabamaseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| Auburnseries | 2 | 1–1 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Alabama’s 2009 staff (director of player development) · the staff · source
- Won a national title on Alabama’s 2011 staff (secondary) · the staff · source
- Won a national title on Alabama’s 2012 staff (secondary) · the staff · source
- Won a national title on Florida State’s 2013 staff (defensive coordinator, defensive backs) · the staff · source
- Won a national title on Alabama’s 2017 staff (defensive coordinator and inside linebackers, part of the season) · the staff · source
The champions’ staffs from 1990 on, as the schools listed them that season: Staff lists: Drew Hoover’s how-many-rings (MIT), from the schools’ media guides and staff pages. Roles as the source words them.
How he was hired
Power-conference head-coaching hires since 2010, with each coach’s previous job and ties to the school as collected by hand from Wikipedia: Hiring facts: M. Schuckers, cfb_coach_analytics.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Alabama | Graduate assistant | |
| 1998 | Plainview HS (AL) high school | Defensive backs coach | |
| 1999 | West Alabama | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2000 | Plainview HS high school | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2001–03 | Fort Payne HS (AL) high school | Assistant coach | |
| 2004 | Hoover HS (AL) high school | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2005–06 | Hoover HS (AL) high school | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| 2007–09 | Alabama | Director of player development | |
| 2010–12 | Alabama | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2013 | Florida State | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| 2014–15 | Georgia | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| 2016–17 | Alabama | Defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | |
| 2018–20 | Tennessee | Head coach | |
| 2021 | New York Giants NFL | Senior defensive assistant |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Mike DuBoseAlabama
- Nick SabanAlabama
- Jimbo FisherFlorida State
- Mark RichtGeorgia
- Bryan McClendonGeorgia
Assistants who became head coaches
- Charles KellyJacksonville State
- Tyson HeltonWestern Kentucky
- Jim ChaneyTennessee
Worked under (5)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike DuBose | Alabama | 1997 | Graduate assistant | |
| Nick Saban | Alabama | 2007–17 | 2007–09: director of player development; 2010–12: defensive backs coach; 2016–17: defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | |
| Jimbo Fisher | Florida State | 2013 | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| Mark Richt | Georgia | 2014–15 | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| Bryan McClendon | Georgia | 2015 | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Kelly | Tennessee, 2018: special teams and safeties coach | Jacksonville State | |
| Tyson Helton | Tennessee, 2018: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Western Kentucky | |
| Jim Chaney | Tennessee, 2019–20: offensive coordinator | Tennessee |
Other assistants under him (7)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Rumph | Tennessee, 2018–19: co-defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach | |
| Kevin Sherrer | Tennessee, 2018: defensive coordinator; 2019: special teams coordinator and inside linebackers coach | |
| Tino Sunseri | Tennessee, 2018: quality control coach | |
| Derrick Ansley | Tennessee, 2019–20: defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| Tee Martin | Tennessee, 2019–20: assistant head coach and wide receivers coach | |
| Chip Long | Tennessee, 2020: offensive assistant | |
| Chris Weinke | Tennessee, 2020: quarterbacks coach |
From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | State payroll | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Alabama | defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $286,000 | $1,300,000 USA Today | ||
| 2016 | Alabama | defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $220,000 | $1,000,000 USA Today | ||
| 2015 | Georgia | defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $225,000 | $1,300,000 USA Today | $167,120 | |
| 2014 | Georgia | defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $210,000 | $851,600 USA Today | $362,500 |
USA Today’s coaches salary database (2014–17, from public-records requests to the schools; Rachel Ehlers’ copy): the season’s contract pay, school pay plus outside money, before bonuses.
Open Georgia (State of Georgia, unaudited): salary paid in the fiscal year from July to June, shown against the season inside it.
Contract pay and the state payroll differ by design: one is the season’s contract, the other what the state paid in a calendar or fiscal year, so a December hire’s short first year, bonuses and camp money paid as special payments, and pay that ran on after he left all show in the payroll.
Pay of public employees in their public job only: head coaches, and assistants in the seasons our records name them a coordinator, at public universities.
How he coached
Pruitt’s teams went for it on 18% of fourth downs and on 28% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 47% of plays and took 27.2 seconds a play, 2018–2020.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 12 g | 11 of 89 12% | 20% | 45% | 28.8 | −0.01 | |
| 2019 13 g | 12 of 88 14% | 24% | 47% | 27.3 | −0.02 | |
| 2020 10 g | 24 of 82 29% | 38% | 48% | 25.0 | −0.04 | |
| All 35 g | 47 of 259 18% | 28% | 47% | 27.2 | −0.02 |
His seasons as a head coach from 2004 on, from ESPN’s play by play: fourth downs where he went for it out of every fourth-down decision; how often he went when SportsDataverse’s fourth-down model said going for it was the better call; the share of his offense’s plays that were passes; seconds of game clock per offensive play (lower is faster); and expected points added per offensive play (EPA, a measure of how much each play moved the offense toward points). The season in progress counts its games so far. SportsDataverse’s coach tendencies, from ESPN’s play by play; the EPA and the fourth-down model are SportsDataverse’s.