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Pruitt's contract would come over 10 days after Tennessee initially thought it employed a mentor in Ohio State protective organizer Greg Schiano. The school and Schiano consented to an arrangement on Nov. 26 yet Tennessee pulled out after a crazy level of fan reaction against the arrangement. 

After the Schiano bargain went to pieces, Tennessee's instructing seek ran from Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy, Duke's David Cutcliffe, Purdue's Jeff Brohm, NC State's Dave Doeren and Washington State's Mike Leach until athletic executive John Currie was discharged a week ago. 

Friday, the school employed previous football mentor Phil Fulmer to have Currie's spot as athletic executive after Fulmer was purportedly endeavoring to apply impact on Currie's training seek. Not as much as seven days in the wake of having the all day work, Fulmer seems to have his mentor. That is, unless Tennessee fans seethe again and the organization pulls out. 

Pruitt supplanted Georgia mentor Kirby Smart as Alabama's guarded facilitator in 2016. Before he came to Alabama, Pruitt was the Bulldogs' guarded organizer under Mark Richt. He had that position for two seasons in the wake of filling in as Florida State's cautious facilitator amid the Seminoles' national title season in 2013. 

That BCS title was Pruitt's first season as a guarded facilitator in the wake of burning through three seasons at Alabama as the group's optional mentor. 

Pruitt is likewise the third mentor contracted in the SEC East finished the last four offseasons that is a previous associate of Saban's at Alabama. Before Georgia employed Smart, Florida enlisted Jim McElwain before the 2015 season. McElwain was Alabama's hostile...Read More>>