Tennessee offers head-coaching job to Alabama DC Jeremy Pruitt, sources say

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University of Tennessee's roundabout head-instructing look, which has gone up against pretty much every turn comprehensible, is nearing an end, as the Volunteers are settling an arrangement with Alabama cautious facilitator Jeremy Pruitt, sources told ESPN. 

Tennessee hopes to declare Pruitt as its football mentor on Thursday, and a public interview to present him is gotten ready for later in the day. Sources revealed to ESPN that Pruitt wants to remain on as Alabama's cautious organizer through the College Football Playoff, while pulling twofold obligation as the Vols' head mentor and initiating their enlisting endeavors and assembling his staff at Tennessee. 

Pruitt, 43, is in his second season as Alabama's protective facilitator under Nick Saban. The Crimson Tide are positioned first broadly in scoring protection this season and second broadly in absolute safeguard. Pruitt additionally is viewed as one of the best scouts in the SEC. As an associate mentor, he has been a piece of four national title groups. 

Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee's previous College Football Hall of Fame mentor, supplanted John Currie on Friday as the Vols' athletic executive; he has initiated the instructing seek from that point forward. Fulmer...Read More>>