re: UGA hires Jeremy Pruitt per AJC

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I thought Pruitt burned his bridges on his way out of Tuscaloosa

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No grudge
Florida State defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt raised a few eyebrows in March when he expressed his disappointment about getting "passed up" twice for promotions while he was on staff at Alabama.

But apparently Saban doesn't hold a grudge, at least one wasn't evident when he spoke about his former secondary coach.

"Jeremy Pruitt doing a great job at Florida State is no surprise to me at all," Saban said. "He did a fantastic job here for us, regardless of what his role was. Did a great iob of coaching our secondary. I certainly felt like because he had been a coordinator in high school, he had a really good, sort of, big-picture view of things, that he would make a really, really good coordinator. He certainly understood our system very well and would be able to apply our system here, and actually thought he could do that for us here. So it doesn't surprise me at all that he's doing extremely well there with their defensive players because he did a fantastic job here."

Pruitt joined Saban's UA staff in 2007 as a director of player development, mainly due to his relationships with high school coaches across the state.

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