Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Defensive coordinator |
Team | Alabama |
Conference | SEC |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Rainsville, Alabama |
May 28, 1974
Playing career | |
1993–1994 | Middle Tennessee |
1995–1996 | Alabama |
Position(s) | Defensive back |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1997 | Alabama (GA) |
1998 | Plainview HS (DB) |
1999 | West Alabama (DB) |
2000 | Plainview HS (DC) |
2001–2003 | Fort Payne HS (Assistant) |
2004 | Hoover HS (DB) |
2005–2006 | Hoover HS (DC/DB) |
2007–2009 | Alabama (DPD) |
2010–2012 | Alabama (DB) |
2013 | Florida State (DC/DB) |
2014–2015 | Georgia (DC/DB) |
2016–present | Alabama (DC/ILB) |
Jeremy Pruitt (born May 28, 1974) is the defensive coordinator for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. He was the secondary coach for the Alabama Crimson Tide from 2010 to 2012 and won two national championships. Pruitt left Alabama and became Florida State's defensive coordinator in 2013, where he won a third national championship with the Seminoles. In his only season as defensive coordinator, his defense was 1st in the nation in scoring defense (10.7 ppg), 3rd in the nation in total defense (248.2 ypg), 2nd in the nation in passing defense, and 1st in the nation in interceptions (26). Pruitt was a 2013 finalist for the Broyles Award, given annually to the nation's top college football assistant coach, and is again a finalist in 2016.. He played college football at Middle Tennessee and Alabama.
Pruitt appeared on the TV series Two-A-Days while a coach at Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama.