Jeremy Pruitt ‘is a force to be reckoned with in the East, ultimately SEC as a whole’
KNOXVILLE — Tennessee will kickoff the 2020 football season Sept. 5 against Charlotte at Neyland Stadium.
The Vols will travel to Oklahoma and take on the Sooners for a Week 2 matchup.
The contest will showcase defensive-minded Jeremy Pruitt against Lincoln Riley’s offense.
On a recent show of “Tennessee Two-A-Days,” Valdosta High School head coach Rush Propst discussed the Tennessee-Oklahoma matchup that will take place Sept. 12.
“Knowing what I know about Oklahoma, I know Lincoln does a heck of a job,” Propst said. “He runs the same type of offense that I run, he has always been creative, but I just feel like that game sits where Jeremy is at his best. That is where I think Jeremy is at his best, is in that kind of game.
“To me, I have had that circled ever since I saw the schedule. I circled Tennessee in Norman as the game – every program that has been successful, there has been that one game that you could put your finger on and say this is the game that got us over the hump, that built our program into something special. That’s one of those games. They are on the road, it’s Week 2 of the season, it’s the SEC and the Big 12 matchup, it’s a huge ballgame. It is a tremendous opportunity for Tennessee. I know Jeremy thinks that way and he is excited about that game and having his team prepared to be ready for that game. As a football coach, you cannot ask for no more than that opportunity.”
Propst served as head coach at Hoover High School from 1999-2008 and hired Pruitt as his assistant. Pruitt coached at Hoover from 2004-06.
Propst also discussed Tennessee’s schedule this season.
“The game in Norman, if that game is allowed to be played, and if Tennessee can pull it off, you are looking at probably a 10-2 year,” he said. “Let’s say they split between Oklahoma and Florida, they get one of them, then you are looking at a 9-3 year and bowl game winning ten games.”
The entire show with George Bates as a guest can be listened to here or below. Bates played for Pruitt at West Alabama in 1999 and is currently serving as head coach at Center Point High School in Alabama.
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