Tennessee rewards Jeremy Pruitt with contract extension, big raise
The Tennessee Volunteers got off to a rough start in 2019, suffering losses to Georgia State and BYU. However, they turned things around, finishing 8-5 with a bowl win over Indiana.
As the team prepares for Year 3 under coach Jeremy Pruitt, the talented coach has reportedly earned himself an extension and a raise.
Per ESPN’s Chris Low, Pruitt received a 2-year extension and an annual raise of $400,000:
Pruitt’s new deal will pay him $4.2 million annually, although he has elected not to accept the $400,000 raise this year to help Tennessee weather the challenges all athletic departments are facing during the pandemic, sources told ESPN.
The Vols open the 2020 season on Saturday at South Carolina. We’ll see if Pruitt can get his team off to a better start in 2020 than it did in 2019.
UPDATE: Tennessee officially announced Pruitt’s extension on Thursday.
Great news for the SEC… keep him there as long as possible… perfect coach for them, keep them around 7 wins every year and nothing more
I’d like to see Pruitt stick around and build his program. It took Dabo 8 years to get to his first National Championship, so I’m willing to be patient. There’s nothing saying that he’ll never get past 7 wins.
Correction: 7 years for Dabo.
I mean he got 8 last year, so he has already surpassed 7 wins. Don’t listen to this gump. I think Pruitt is a good coach.
we agree oh toothless one. It is great news…. for us!
Luckily Georgia State was not on the schedule this year, even if the SEC had played a full schedule!
They had a better offensive rating than UGA did ..LOL
0-2 against Floriduh, 0-2 against Georgia, 0-2 against Bama, with none of the games particularly close.
Imagine what Fat Phil will pay him if he actually WINS a rivalry game.
Jimmy Sexton is the only man with an undefeated SEC record. He just slays idiot ADs.
1-1 vs Vandy while UT is 1-3 against the Dores the past four years. And trivia: Vandy was up on Tennessee 19-2-3 before Tennessee began to win that game consistently.
UGA 0 for a lifetime against Bama in a SEC championship game..
I feel like Tennessee always give extensions and raises too soon. I think this next season will truly tell where the Vols are headed.
I think it was a year early. I would have waited until the end of next year’s season to see if he can really deliver. Having said that, I don’t have a problem with it and hopefully it will be justified.
dvhill- my thoughts exactly. Glad to read he rejected it for this season. Gotta wonder what this puts his buy out at. I mean I think we are still paying the buy outs for both Dooley and Butch as well as the 1 year flop of the AD what-ever his name was. We might have paid off Dooley but not invested enough to look it up.
I love the fact that Tennessee is simply going to allow the Gators an easy victory every year. This dude is great for Tennessee. It is amazing how many times one fan base can get burnt and continue to defend coaches that are sup par at beat. Every thing that people are saying , was said about the last 3 coaches they had. Pruitt is a DC. That is all. Nothing more and nothing less. He is simply getting his feet wet as a coach and looking to spring board to another job. Only problem is that he sucks as a coach and the entire world is getting to watch it. Just ask Georgia Sate and BYU.
He’s a young couch but he’s out recruiting everyone in the SEC except maybe Bama. Also, when he got here, we had very few stars on the field. So its easy to talk smack if you have better players.. However, that gap has taken a massive hit this year, which is why, we are beating you in Ktown. Wrattle Trask and he’s trash. I been around long enough to see good UF teams, and the 90’s team were far better.. We have a line this year as good or better in that potential than any line through most of the 90’s. Do you talkin on the field gator mouth. lol
Butch Jones our recruited Florida with Jim McElwain every year. So to say that Pruitt walked into a worse situation that Mullen is just dumb. Pruitt cannot develop talent. When you get a 4 star kid and he leaves the program as a 2 or 3 star talent. That is your fault. Pruitt and Mullen came to Tennessee and Florida 2 years ago. Florida went from 4-8 to a New Years 6 bowl winner in one year. Tennessee is competing with Vandy and Mizzou to stay out of the basement in the conference. Can’t wait till my Gators come up there to hillbilly hell and crush your embred hearts again.
„Embred“?????
Do you mean „inbred“ perchance?
At least we Tennessee fans have somewhat mastered the English language
What are you talking about Gwhite? He’s not out recruiting Florida Georgia or LSU. He has a higher class rating against some of the sec atm, signing day is months away.
Imagine if Bama, LSU, UGA or Florida gave their coach an extension after losing to BYU & GA St the year before. Even us Kentucky fans would question the move.
How about a worse thought. What if your coach left UK for more dough, than who would you get. Willie Taggart? lol.All kidding aside, you have a good coach, like Pruitt, he can do alot with a little.