Old article on Pruitt

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"He was maybe in the fourth grade," the Plainview High School football coach said. "We had played a game, and I don't recall if we had lost or if it was just a close game, but some of the coaches and I were talking, and he was there. He spoke up out of the blue and said he wasn't real crazy about the play calling."

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"He recruited Jeremy some, but it was a numbers deal," Dale said. Jeremy "was not a great athlete. He couldn't jump as high, run as fast. But he could play the game. A lot of times, it's not who can jump the highest or run the fastest, it's who knows what to do when the ball's snapped. If you do the wrong thing real fast, you're just farther away from the ball."

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