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WATCH: Jeremy Pruitt reveals he drove Kirby Smart’s pregnant wife to hospital

Jake Rill

By Jake Rill

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There’s more than just football talk at SEC Media Days, and on Wednesday, new Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt told a funny story of an experience he had while serving as an assistant at Alabama.

Pruitt was an off-the-field coach for the Crimson Tide while current Georgia coach Kirby Smart was on their defensive staff. The two coached together at Alabama from 2007-12.

One day, Smart called Pruitt to tell him that Smart’s wife, Mary Beth, was getting close to giving birth to twins and that he might need Pruitt to drive her to the hospital if he’s not there. Pruitt told Smart, “No problem.”

Sure enough, that exact scenario happened.

“One night, about midnight, my phone rings and I look and it’s Mary Beth. And she said, ‘Pruitt, let’s go to the hospital,'” Pruitt said. “And I said, ‘Well, I’m fixing to get in the shower.’ She said, ‘Don’t get in the shower, come right now.’ So here we go, I’m not driving fast enough, I get her up there to the hospital. Heck, I’m thinking, ‘I’m here,’ so we start rolling into the hospital and they’re giving me all the stuff to put on and stuff, and I’m just going right along there with her. And right before they took her in, she said, ‘He’s not my husband.'”

Her husband eventually did get to be there, however, as Pruitt said the twins weren’t born that night, and Smart was at the hospital when his wife gave birth later on.

But it was quite close to happening with Pruitt, not Smart, at the hospital with her.

Video of the story was posted by Simone Eli of CBS 42 in Birmingham.

Jake Rill

Jake Rill contributes to news coverage for Saturday Down South. He has covered the SEC since 2016.

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