Jeremy Pruitt is still very much in the honeymoon period as Tennessee's football coach.

He's yet to coach his first game for the Vols, but by any measure he appears to have been readily welcomed and accepted by Tennessee's fan base more than six months into the job.

Between Pruitt's personality contrasting starkly with his predecessor's, his aggressiveness in trying to bolster Tennessee's with junior college transfers and graduate transfers at positions of need in attempt to win games in 2018 and his hot recruiting start, it's fair to say he's won over plenty of fans already despite his 0-0 record.

While he doesn't mind being embraced so soon by Tennessee's demanding fan base, Pruitt ultimately wants the product he puts on the field to be what gets fans excited about him as a head coach.

"I want our fan base to be excited about our football team," Pruitt said earlier this month during an appearance on "The Swain Event," the Knoxville-based radio show hosted by former Tennessee wide receiver Jayson Swain.

"That's the most important thing," he continued, "is I want them to be excited about the way we play, the way we compete, the way we play together, the relentlessness that we play with, that we never quit. That's what I want our fan base to be excited about. I figured if they're excited about that, then I'll fit in just fine."

Pruitt naturally fits into the Tennessee job because he's a southern-fried football coach who is all about ball. Though he's never been a head coach, he's been around elite football programs as an assistant and knows what championship players and programs should look like. The Vols have a long way to go to get there, but their no-nonsense first-year coach is a grinder in every sense of the word.

Though he'd be the first to tell you he was disappointed in Tennessee's results on signing day in February, Pruitt's recruiting prowess already is paying dividends for the Vols as he and his staff have gotten off to a promising start for the 2019 class.

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Tennessee's class currently ranks 17th in the 247Sports team recruiting rankings, but the Vols currently have commitments from one five-star prospect and five four-star prospects, half of the 10-player class ranks in the top 225 of the 247Sports Composite for the 2019 class and they consistently have gotten quality talent to take multiple visits to campus.

A former 247Sports Recruiter of the Year, Pruitt knows what he's looking for while striving to upgrade the quantity of quality on Tennessee's roster.

"I think the most important thing is you're trying to find good people," he said. "We want to recruit good people. Obviously we want to recruit the best football players we can find, but we want to find guys that are hungry, that are willing to work, that they know that there's going to be more to life than just football. They want to get a degree. They're willing to sacrifice. They're good teammates. I think that kind of sums it up."

Click here to listen to Pruitt's entire interview on "The Swain Event" on Thursday morning.