FOOTBALL IS OVER . . . .

YD...

I saw we signed Rico. I think we were in the game before CJP, but that put us over the top I guess.

One thing though... I don't get too excited by these early signings. I guess I've become jaded by some of our decommitts, and by early signings in general.

I get excited when I see them in school, lol

Nice get though if he stays true.... just want us to stay all over these guys and don't let somebody else sneak in after we've moved on. Hope not though... he said he already had us way up there.

Now we just need for CJP to get off to a good start in S1. Nothing keeps recruits locked better than winning and looking good on your side of the ball while doing it.

yankeedawg1, Yes on Hey Rube . . . .

One article that I read recently really caught my attention. Have saved it, knew with Jeremy Pruitt coming to Athens, along with grantham leaving, board would light up.

If I were mark richt, would make it mandatory for every player on the UGA football team read the following that was in the Orlando Sentinel. richt was as "gushing" as I have ever seen him when Pruitt accepted the UGA offer. Maybe one other time I have seen the head coach this alive and that was the win against LSU.

There is little doubt that our players can move into Pruitt's system, just as the FSU group did. To keep throwing dirt at grantham, you bet. Crawled out of town and then really opened his mouth on the Louisville campus. Left town and the players still do not understand what it was that grantham was doing. Truthfully, don't think that grantham understood either.

Article is not long, gives insight to Pruitt and what our players and coaches can expect. richt will not mess with Pruitt, does not understand defensive football. Many can "pretend" and use certain language, but that is for self gratification and coaching protection.


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There was a lot of advertising garbage on the link I had listed here. I erased it and will copy and paste the article.

One more thingy, Jeremy Pruitt has the temperment of a Erk type Bulldog. I believe he will GATA. Players and opposing teams. One more slot to hire and football in Athens will be a contender for the final four.

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FSU defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt's early success fueled by relentless work ethic, energy
January 2, 2014|By Brendan Sonnone, Orlando Sentinel
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Jeremy Pruitt calls it the best time of his life.

As a young boy in Rainsville, Ala., he could often be found on a football field, watching his father, Dale Pruitt, a longtime coach at Plainview High. Pruitt was always observing, noting the way his dad meticulously cared for his program.

"I was never with the babysitter, I went with my dad," Jeremy Pruitt said. "He's lining off the fields, he's mowing the grass, I'm hanging around the field house."

Some things do not change.

Pruitt, Florida State's first-year defensive coordinator, recently returned home to Alabama for Christmas. Dale picked him up from the airport and the two were talking football and sifting through Auburn film on Pruitt's laptop within minutes of getting home.

"That's what he does all the time," Dale Pruitt said. "…He's never been a hunter, fisherman, anything like that. I've been coaching for 35 years, his little brother is a football coach. Basically, that's all he's ever been around, coaching.

"That's kind of his hobby."

Jeremy Pruitt, 37, has enjoyed a meteoric rise up the college football coaching ranks. He broke into college coaching in 2007, joining Alabama's staff after only having served as a high school assistant.

In just one season as a college defensive coordinator, Pruitt is credited for constructing FSU's new-look defense and building it into the nation's top unit. A fiery competitor from the time he was a child, Pruitt is on the cusp of facing his most daunting challenge to date: The No. 1 Seminoles (13-0) take on No. 2 Auburn (12-1) and its high-powered offense Monday in the BCS National Championship Game.

Rush Propst had no intention of hiring Jeremy Pruitt.

It was 2004. Hoover High had won three of the past four state championships in Alabama and was receiving résumés from assistant coaches by the hundreds.

Propst learned to tune out the constant calls, letters and emails from young up-and-coming coaches trying to catch on with one of the country's top prep programs.

So when Pruitt — who only had experience coaching at small schools — called Propst to inquire about a vacant defensive-back position, Propst brushed it off.

Pruitt called again. And again. And again.

He called his office, he called his cell phone, he called his house. Propst never called back.

One evening, Propst receive a call from his wife, who said Pruitt was sitting in a car outside their driveway. Pruitt waited in the driveway from 7 p.m. until midnight.

"That piqued my attention, so I decided to give him an interview," Propst said.

The only problem was, Propst already had made a hire and was just waiting for paperwork to clear. But he still gave Pruitt an interview.

Within 15 minutes, Propst knew Pruitt was his man.

"I just liked the fire in his eyes," Propst said. "He was very determined and just looked at you right in the eyes when he talked to you. That's what I liked about him."

Pruitt moved up to defensive coordinator a year later. His energy and interpersonal skills were eventually noticed by Alabama's Nick Saban, who brought him on as the team's director of player personnel.

A former defensive back at Middle Tennessee State and Alabama, Pruitt was promoted to defensive backs coach.

FSU coach Jimbo Fisher decided to take a chance on Pruitt this past offseason after coordinator Mark Stoops took a head coaching job at Kentucky.

Just as he dazzled Propst, Pruitt wowed Fisher. Any question Fisher had, Pruitt had the right answer.

"You could see how he could piece the whole thing together," Fisher said. "Very quick in his answers, very decisive with the things he liked. Very similar to my philosophies in a lot of ways."

Pruitt brought a new defensive scheme with him to FSU, implementing a versatile, complex style that could theoretically matchup with any type of offense.

"I mean at first coming from a different defense from Coach Stoops, there's definitely a little tension there in the beginning and throughout spring and all that," FSU safety Terrence Brooks said. "It was hard getting all the things down first."

Once they got it though, they got it. FSU players took to Pruitt's genuine and raw coaching style.

"He can get on you hard, then cover it up and make feel like a million dollars," Propst said. "He'll be on you so hard, you'll feel like you're lower than ground. Then on the next sentence, he can bring it right back up. That's why so good at what he does."

FSU fields the country's top scoring defense and passing defense, and leads the nation in interceptions.

Pruitt and his stingy defense face a tall task. Auburn, with its fast-paced, spread-option offense, averages 40 points per game.

For the kid who fondly watched his father's high school practices, it's a challenge he's been hoping for.

"Eight years ago I'm lining off fields, I'm washing practice uniforms, I'm going to pick guys up," Pruitt said. "To sit here and say I'm going to be here today, no, I didn't dream of it."

Thanks for posting

Wartdawg, just goes to show what others in the coaching ranks thought of Pruitt prior to coming to Athens.

McClendon needed some help, believe the calvary arrived.

Would really like to see Lorenzo Carter stay home, if for no other reason than for other players to see that things have changed in Athens. Like it or not, Athens under our head coach became a mess.

grantham leaves and starts running his mouth. Erk was pushed out and never, ever said a bad word about Georgia football.

Now grantham is going to be the defensive backfield coach . . . . does that strike anyone as being a bit strange? Does me. He is going to try and prove a point that defensive backs can work in his system, or he is not all that with his teaching linebackers how to rush the quarterback. Jarvis would have been outstanding for any defensive coach. Talent is talent. My opinion, Olivadotti and Wilson were the champions on the defensive side.

Dude is saddled with an "ego", that usually leads to downfall, and grantham is falling fast.

One thing for sure this season . . . . head coach will not be "meddling" with Pruitt. Pruitt is full of what I will call true "passion", saw it exhibited on the sidelines of FSU games. Who knows, maybe Pruitt will wake the head coach up.

I think what I like best about CPJ so far is that he displays an "Attitude of Gratitude". Sure feels better than anothers "you owe me" attitude that UGA fans never did ,and,should never have to, get used to. I don't know how its going to turn out with the defense this year,but feel the only way it has to go is up, and if that means start from scratch,lets do it. Thanks for the great posts Shipmate! GO DAWGS! GATA

Chief, with you on doing what it takes to get this football team straightened out. You being in the Navy and coming out a Chief, know without a doubt that you had many under you while you served. Chiefs and Lieutenant Commanders, backbone of the Navy. I said that.