Four different assistants who have worked under Kirby Smart are now head coaches, with all four working at the Power 5 level. Shane Beamer is at South Carolina, Sam Pittman is in charge at Arkansas, Mel Tucker is running Michigan State and Dan Lanning was hired this past offseason to be the head coach at Oregon.
And per ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg, Georgia is likely to have a few more future head coaches on its current staff. Rittenberg assembled a list of 45 minority coaches under the age of 45 with the potential to be head coaches. Among those making the list were defensive backs coach Fran Brown and wide receivers coach Bryan McClendon.
Both Brown and McClendon arrived at Georgia this offseason, ironically replacing two other coaches who were on Rittenberg’s list in Jahmile Addae and Cortez Hankton. Brown arrives from Rutgers and has hit the ground running in terms of recruiting, as the Bulldogs already have three cornerback commitments in the class, all from top-150 prospects.
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Brown has strong ties to the northeast, due in part to his previous coaching stints at Rutgers and Temple. Georgia has seen a number of defensive backs coaches leave for better jobs in recent years, with Tucker leaving to become the head coach at Colorado and Charlton Warren departing to be the defensive coordinator at Indiana.