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The 10 best assistant hires in the SEC this offseason

Wednesday’s hiring of Matt House as Kentucky’s linebacker coach means each of the SEC’s 14 coaching staffs now is complete.

There was a lot of coaching turnover in the SEC this offseason – and we’re not even counting the new staffs at Georgia, Missouri and South Carolina. Every SEC coaching staff except Ole Miss’ has at least one new assistant, meaning there is a lot of new coaching blood in the conference.

Here is a look at the 10 best assistant hires in the SEC this offseason, with two caveats:

* First, these are the best hires made by sitting coaches; that means we did not include the new staffs, figuring (rightly or wrongly) that a new assistant on an already-assembled staff can make a bigger impact than an assistant on an all-new staff.