Former Tennessee Vols head coach Jeremy Pruitt leaves no doubt how he feels about former Georgia Bulldogs head coach Mark Richt
Former Tennessee Vols head coach Jeremy Pruitt leaves no doubt how he feels about former Georgia Bulldogs head coach Mark Richt
When the Tennessee Vols hired Jeremy Pruitt to replace Butch Jones as the program’s head coach ahead of the 2018 season, various former Georgia Bulldogs players shared some strong thoughts about the move.
Pruitt, who served as Georgia’s defensive coordinator from 2014 to 2015, was criticized by former Bulldogs players Aaron Murray and David Pollack for the way he treated then UGA head coach Mark Richt.
When he was at Georgia, the way he acted, the way he treated Coach Richt, I thought was poor,” said Murray in 2018. “He needs to prove to me that he can handle the whole ship. For right now, I don’t think he can.”
“The stories that I have heard and some of y’all have heard that came out of Athens – that are true, (from) coaches that were on the staff, some of the things Jeremy Pruitt did to Mark Richt, some coaches would tell you are the most disrespectful, most crazy things they heard,” noted Pollack in 2018.
Richt, who landed at Miami after he was let go by Georgia, was asked about Pruitt in 2018 after those comments were made by Murray and Pollack.Here’s the deal…I’m at Miami,” said Richt. “He’s at Tennessee. I’m going to talk about Miami and I’m sure he wants to talk about Tennessee. So, we’ll leave it at that.”
