Brandon Kennedy names the one thing he admires most about Jeremy Pruitt
The same coaching style that helped Jeremy Pruitt have a major role in building, developing and coaching one of the best defenses in the nation during his time at Alabama is the same style the Volunteer head coach is currently implementing in Knoxville following his hire on Rocky Top.
Perhaps the best player that can attest to that fact is Tennessee offensive lineman, Brandon Kennedy.
After earning his undergraduate degree in Tuscaloosa, the former Alabama offensive lineman followed Pruitt to Tennessee and is set to enter his third season in the Orange and White in 2020.
So what is it about Pruitt that gave Kennedy the confidence to jump from one SEC program to another?
According to Kennedy, who was recently a guest on Tennessee’s “The Slice” podcast, the one characteristic of Pruitt that stands out is the coach’s honesty.
“The thing I love most about Pruitt is that he’s honest,” Kennedy says in the clip below. “As a coach and everything, that’s the number one thing that an athlete or a student-athlete, recruit, that’s the number one thing you look for. You just want somebody to be honest with you kind of tell you how it is. Sometimes the truth hurts, you know like constructive criticism and something that you need that to improve and things like that. So, that’s the one thing that I admired the most about Coach Pruitt and also try to, you know, put that into my leadership.”
You can listen to Kennedy’s quote in the clip below.
🗣🎙 Honesty. #PoweredByTheT pic.twitter.com/nrWpRAvXpA
— Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) May 25, 2020
The one thing I admire the most about Pruitt Is his ability to suck, yet still be loved by everyone, as in uh, Brandon Kennedy and um, Georgia State fans
Ok all kidding aside Pruitt is a good coach, no more like half decent. Great recruiter but CAN NOT get the results on paper to look anywhere as good as they do on the field.
Really? after 2 years in, taking over a raging dumpster fire. Very dumb comment.
Don’t worry TENNESSEE will take care of Florida in Knoxville.
Georgia and Florida fans have simply become intolerable on this site, just so incredibly relentless. Chirping non-stop, ad nauseum.
All other 12 SEC teams’ commenters are largely reasonable.
What is it with these two fan bases as of late??
Eh, nothing has really changed. UGA and Florida fans on SDS have always been this way, at least for the 3 years or so I’ve been commenting on this site. Also, some fan bases are more reasonable than others, but absolutely none are except from their share of crazies; perhaps they just don’t comment as much but are crazy just the same.
Very good.
People that are crazy don’t know they are crazy. I KNOW I’m crazy, therefore I am NOT crazy! Crazy ain’t it?
Well said.
Well said indeed
If @oskie is seeing this I replied to your post on the Trinity Bell article.