Fired Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt has returned to his high school alma mater in the wake of an NCAA infractions case that effectively banned him from coaching in college.
Pruitt was hired on July 27 as a physical education teacher at Plainview High School in Rainsville, Alabama. He also will coach junior high boys basketball at the K-12 school, according to the DeKalb County superintendent's office.
His wife, Casey Pruitt, was hired on July 13 as an English teacher at the same school.
The contracts for both begin Aug. 1, pending a routine background check and appropriate certification, according to DeKalb County school board agendas and meeting videos posted on the Facebook page of the Mountain Valley News in Alabama.