KNOXVILLE — Jeremy Pruitt enters his third season as head coach at Tennessee.
Pruitt’s collegiate coaching career began in 1999 at West Alabama. He served as defensive backs coach for the NCAA Division II Tigers.
At West Alabama, Pruitt coached defensive back George Bates to a 1999 USA Football All-American Second Team selection.
Bates has launched his own coaching career as he is the head coach and athletics director at Center Point High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
Bates joined the show “Tennessee Two-A-Days” to discuss his coaching career, playing for Pruitt at West Alabama and watching him build the Vols’ program back to a championship level.
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