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Report: Alabama expected to target Jeremy Pruitt to replace Kirby Smart
With the news of Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart becoming Georgia’s new head coach, the Crimson Tide are all of a sudden looking for their next defensive coordinator.
According to a report by Football Scoop, Nick Saban is expected target former Georgia defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, who will not be retained by Smart at UGA, as his next defensive coordinator.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Jeremy Pruitt will not be retained and is expected to be targeted by Alabama https://t.co/sNnVtycOD5
— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) December 2, 2015
Pruitt worked for Saban at Alabama from 2007 to 2012 and coached the defensive backs from 2010 to 2012.
Not good for Georgia at all if they get rid of Pruitt.
Hahaha, Ga. dumps Richt, and other schools are standing in line to get him. New coach dumps Pruit and Saban wants him. Looks like 8 years of hell coming up for Ga. just like we went through for dumping a winner.
Hogwash. UT didn’t dump a winner, they dumped a loser. A backstabbing, scapegoating, entitled, lazy loser. Unlike Richt, Fulmer has had zero interest from other schools. Unlike Richt, Fulmer left the UT program in a sorry state with no talent left on hand.
That loser has been thumping UT ever since…..
I understand the excitement for Smart, but the pressure of the UGA job is nearly insurmountable.
No way. Not winning the SEC for 10 years and barely beating average teams isn’t “insurmountable pressure”. How about when Chizik was fired a few years after winning a National Championship?
Kirby didn’t dump Pruitt. He wanted to retain him. The UGA admin does not like Pruitt a little bit and made it clear to all comers that he would not be retained.
I would be satisfied with muschamp. He could bring some recruits with him. We need CB’s and kyle Davis anyone? With a new coordinator who knows
Please not that. Lets not lose every bit of class. Surely, Harvey Updike is enough for one program.
If you are saying Muffchamp has no class ………………. YOU ARE CORRECT!
A Coordinator might coordinate the position group he is assigned to, but defense is always in Saban’s control. Don’t care who we hire and wish all the best for Kirby.
The only thing no one has said is if Kirby is going straight to Georgia, or is he waiting till after bowl season.
I believe that I read somewhere that Richt would coach UGA through their bowl game, so one would assume that Kirby would do the same at BAMA! My guess, and it is just that a guess, is that Kirby would head to UGA after the playoffs!
He’ll stay and coach Bama, but will be working at UGA also. Mark Richt did this when he was leaving FL. State, and MCelwain did the same when he left Bama for Colorado state. He’ll work at both schools.
I’m guessing he’ll go to Georgia after the playoffs because Richt has already agreed to coach Georgia’s bowl game. I hope so, at least. It would not be a good thing at all if we lost our DC before the playoffs.
I’ve always thought we’d be okay more or less without Smart. I mean he’s definitely a huge part of the defense but any DC that comes in will need to know that Saban really is in charge.. You’re just the one to make sure it gets coordinated properly… Haha
I doubt Pruitt goes back to Alabama after the grade changing scandal at Foley got him shipped out.
Also, word out of the players is that Mel Tucker would be promoted to DC if Kirby left.
I doubt that. Mel will prolly stay with the secondary.
Nah. He’ll be DC in 2016. Info is solid.
Cite the sources or you’re irrelevant.
You are correct, that is a fact!
Hmm….I seem to remember a grade changing scandal involving Auburn….
I would be okay with that
I hope it’s tucker. Guy is great.
If Pruitt doesn’t pan out for Alabama, I wonder who we’d go after. Would it be Mel Tucker? Maybe Will “I need a rabies shot” Muschamp? Who knows, maybe we’d pull another Lane Kiffin and try to get Gene Chizik. That last one would make quite an awkward situation. Both of our coordinators (assuming Kiffin doesn’t get hired as a HC elsewhere) would be former HCs for our two most hated rivals.
You guys should get the facts before you report something, there is no truth in any of this, it’s only speculation from the media! Stories like this happens every year when the liberal media is turned loose on a keyboard!
What part wasn’t true? Kirby is being hired by UGA and wants to hire his buddy Will Muschamp to coach defense, so Pruitt will be leaving, he used to coach at Bama and they just had a job opening why wouldn’t they be looking at him
Did’nt know MuschRat had any buddies?
It’s not true as of this moment. It is all speculation and hearsay. Pruitt has not officially been let go at Georgia, and it would be hard for them to let him go as he still has 1 mil left on his contract (on top of Richt’s 4 million contract buyout). I hope they do so Alabama could get someone already familiar with Nick Saban’s “process”. Maybe even Mel Tucker??
In a dream world Bud Foster would be pissed at being looked over for HC and leave for Bama
I would be okay with that for sure, but unfortunately, it looks like Fuente got to talk to him before anyone else could.