Long before they were rival coaches in the SEC East and just a few years after they were teammates for a year at Georgia, Kirby Smart went to Will Muschamp looking for a job.
Muschamp had started out as a graduate assistant at Auburn and then made stops at West Georgia and Eastern Kentucky before landing his first defensive coordinator job at Valdosta State under first-year coach Chris Hatcher.
"Within about five minutes of the interview, I knew that we wanted him to be the defensive coordinator," Hatcher said. "He has a lot of passion as you can see from where he’s been.