Pete Golding replacements: 3 possible candidates emerge to be Alabama's new defensive coordinator
Pete Golding is reportedly on his way to be Ole Miss’ new defensive coordinator, as he’s reportedly leaving Alabama.
Now the focus turns to Alabama’s new defensive coordinator, and possible candidates.
Multiple reports have suggested that Georgia co-defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann could be in the mix, as Pat Smith of WJOX reported, along with Bruce Feldman of FOX Sports and The Athletic. Feldman also mentioned former Wisconsin defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard and Jeremy Pruitt, the former Tennessee coach and Alabama DC.
“The 32-year-old Bama grad broke into coaching as a student assistant and then spent four years as a Alabama GA under Saban,” Feldman noted about Schumann.
Names possibly for Bama DC include Glenn Schumann, Jim Leonhard and Jeremy Pruitt. Heard all three names of interest.
— Pat Smith (@patsmithradio) January 13, 2023
One name to watch at Alabama as Nick Saban tries to find the Tide’s new DC is Georgia Co-DC Glenn Schumann, a rising star in the business. The 32-year-old Bama grad broke into coaching as a student assistant and then spent four years as a Alabama GA under Saban. https://t.co/sYRWJJZ8l5
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) January 13, 2023
Would be surprised if Glenn goes but as long as we have Kirby it’s going to be quite alright.
Saban having to poach Kirby’s staff, probably the best he could do
The gumps would have a complete meltdown
Kirby poached him from Saban’s staff tho
Schuman was a 25 year old GA on Saban’s staff at Bama
AND, Schuman worked under the then Bama DC Kirby Smart.
Schuman was in “pre-school” at Bama, he has earned a PhD at the University of Kirby.
Yep Mel tucker Scott Cochran and Lonnie brown…
Going back to coach for one’s alma mater is attractive. Just ask Kirby Smart. Schumann is a Bama graduate. The side benefit is Will Muschamp will not be around to get in the way.
Where did Kirby come from again?
Georgia. Kirby came from Georgia.
Kirby came from Saban.
Ga fans should pay homage to Saban, GOAT, for hiring and training Curby. Ga owes everything to Alabama. Your welcome.
There’s a lot of other coaches who learned under Saban and have not done well. Do they owe that to Saban too? If it was as simple as working under Saban, they all would have the same results. Saban played his part but the majority of his former coaches success or failure is on them.
@KBP Good point, but UGA is a top 10 national job. A lot of other Saban assistants didn’t walk into such a prestigious or fertile recruiting job. UGA is such a good job that even a pedestrian coach like Mark Richt came within seconds of reaching the national championship.
“UGA is such a good job that even a pedestrian coach like Mark Richt”
Mark Richt was a “pedestrian coach?” Richt is going into the College Hall of Fame this year, to say Richt was pedestrian is a delusional understatement.
Look at the “prestigious or fertile recruiting jobs” over the last 20-30 years that many coaches have completely flopped at – Bama before Saban, UF, FSU, Miami, Nebraska, Texas, Tennessee, Auburn, USC ND etc etc etc.
Were you dropping the “1980” line before the 2022 season????????
Now,looks like Bama is working to pay UGA back. Alabama is an outstanding program and so is UGA. Kirby learned a ton from Saban but Saban learned a ton from others too.
@TD By Richt’s entire body of work, yes, he is pedestrian. At Miami, his conference wining percentage was 67% which was also his overall wining percentage. His conference winning percentage at UGA was 69%. Remember, Jim Donnan? I do. His conference wining percentage was 63%. Historically, UGA is one of the top 3 programs in the SEC and a top 10 program nationally. In 15 seasons, he only won TWO conference championships despite having all the advantages of coaching at a top 10 nationally program.
Kirby’s coaching DNA was set by Sonny Smart, Jim Donnan, Chris Hatch and Will Muschamp.
Did Kirby learn anything from Saban, I’m sure Kirby did but Kirby probably learned more from Will Muschamp while Saban, Muschamp and Smart where together at LSU. Kirby had been coaching for 5 years at the college level before he went to work for Saban and Muschamp at LSU.
Kirby lifted Saban more than Saban lifted Kirby. How have Bama’s defenses been since Kirby left Bama????? Since leaving Bama Kirby has won as many NC’s as Saban has. Who broke up Alabama’s recruiting juggernaut – it was Kirby not all the other assistants that came and went ahead of KIrby. Count your blessings that Kirby left the Bama defense in such a great state when he left, Saban has rode it well.
Kirby was who he is long before building championship defenses and winning recruiting titles for Saban.
The UGA fan base is the most delusional I have ever seen, bar none…that’s saying something.
Kudos on that bowl win over K-State – Bama looked sharp
No body knew who he was until he was successful at Alabama…
kgBama…No, Tennessee’s fan base is the most delusional in all of college football. Dawg fans just won two(2) consecutive Nattys & they have the right to be proud of their team. I feel pride that Georgia badly spanked TCU & brought that Natty home to the SEC.
Dude you honestly have to be Negans little brother! You are just as dumb if not dumber than Negan if you believe Kirby didn’t learn and steal EVERYTHING!! and I mean everything from Saban! You are sooooooo delusional!! Ga is the carbon copy of the blue print. Copy’s don’t last they are only good for a period! Different Defensive Coordinator last yr Alabama easily wins this year’s championship not Ga. J Mo don’t get hurt last year Bama beats GA national championship! Ga luck will run out this yr promise you can’t keep copying and win!! and with luck. Bama has absolutely no bullseye on it’s back starting the season out only thing Saban has to do the first few games is get that number one class gelled together.
Roll Tide
Thanks for making me laugh out loud. Does the pot calling the kettle black ring any bells? If you look up poaching in the college football dictionary Kirby Rubble’s bowl cut photo would be front and center!
You is the dumbest A** dog fan I know. Don’t you know Kirby poached half of Bama’s staff Bama’s philosophy Bama’s way of doing things everything! Fool don’t you know this coach will be glad to come back to Alabama as a alumni you clown just like Kirby came back to Ga his alumni if Saban wants him Saban will get him! Enjoy your little run Ga Saban has cleaned house and realizes what he has to do as always he is not perfect but he will change and adjust to remain number one. Ga is purely a carbon copy of Bama but as long as Saban is there he and Bama is the Original remember that. I hate when a program steals from another and then claim they are great on their own. Y’all watch old man Saban turn up on y’all a**’s next year!! David Pollack with his hateful, jealous disrespectful self officially kicked off our comeback thank you David!!
turn about is fair play right?KS pilfered a bit leaving Tusc.for Athens did he not?GA.peeps act like Kirby dsnt owe CNS a big thanks for teaching him formula for championship teams..my,how we ickly forget
Are you sure? It seems only Smart uses the formula and Saban tried to change after Smart left.
Yes, we’re sure, Saban has won three without the “great” Kirby Smart on staff and seven as HC.., come on man.
Kirby left Bama at the end of the 2015 season.
Since then Saban has won 2 NC’s – 2017 and 2020. Kirby has also won 2 NC’s – 2021 and 2022.
@TDOW – he’s referring to the LSU title
Sure. It’s not like Kirby and Saban are unfamiliar with each other’s defensive philosophy; they’ve only changed slightly since working together. Taking each other’s coaches don’t mean as much in terms of knowing insider information or anything, like Auburn taking one of them for example.
But it’s a promotion in title and a pay increase which is the goal for any young coach. Unless he has unique ties to Georgia or Kirby outside of that. No doubt, I’m sure Kirby picked him because he’s one of the brightest.
Certainly not a bad list
It will be interesting to see who Coach Saban selects
Coach potato head will likely have a show cause by late this month or early next month. Great choice!
fuzzy, The Vols former head coach(laugh laugh), Jeremy Pruitt, is not coming to Tuscaloosa. You Vol fans can forever remember his tenure in Knoxville(eye roll).
This is part of being a successful coach – replacing coaches along with players each season.
also,@UGAplaysD..the man was a GA with CNS for yrs..so it wld be fair to say El Kirbo poached him FROM Bama to begin with..educate yourself b4 you engage your mouff
I’m hoping Pruitt doesn’t have a show cause from his debacle at Tennessee. Dawg fans saying Bama’s d fell off when Kirby left is bs. It fell off when Pruitt left. Actually the d improved under Pruitt with a better blitz package.
Jeremy Pruitt is a better D coordinator than Smart, plan and simple…it’s just a fact.
Sorry Bulldawg fans, the truth hurts, but there it is.
Thanks for the Belly Laugh!
Pruitt was a cancer on Richt’s staff.
Good then go get Pruitt if he’s so good.
Pruitt was a bit cancerous to the Vol football program too.
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Come on … it’s not a fact … it’s your opinion. My opinion is Kirby was a great defensive coordinator and so was Pruitt. What is a fact? Kirby’s a much better head coach than Pruitt was. Perhaps if he had stayed a few years longer under Saban like Kirby did, he too could have been a good head coach? Bama’s defense would have certainly been better!
That’s actually factually incorrect. Kirby when DC at bammer had higher ranked defenses than Pruitt at bammer. Secondly, UGAs defenses have never been better since Kirby arrived and bammers have never been as good since Kirby left – including the Pruitt years. Frankly it’s not even close. Pruitt is a solid defensive coach. Kirby is exceptional, factually speaking.
Jim Leonhard runs a decent defense, but if he can’t stop BIG10 teams from scoring, how’s he going to help Alabama?
Jeremy Pruitt can recruit players with free lifetime McDonald’s.
Schumann might be pretty good.
Jeremy Pruitt?? That would be like someone hiring Bruce Pearl or Hugh Freeze.
Oh, wait…
That A&M staff is looking pretty slimy too
The key to Glenn going to Bama may be in his feeling of how long Boom plans to stay in Athens. He’s worked with Kirby a good bit longer than he worked with Nick. You never can tell about the pull of an alma mater, but he didn’t play football so maybe not the same dynamics.
yeah, you gotta believe that muschamp’s future intentions will play a critical role in whether schumann’s looking for a lateral change or potentailly a hc gig for his next job.
also, it’s funny reading some of the comments from the bama fans. no one knew who schumann was while on the bama staff, yet they feel entitled that an alumnus should return. he’s where he’s at today after impressing cks at bama and given actual opportunities at uga.
i’ll further double-down that none of the commenters on here even knew that he didn’t play ball at bama
He went to school at Bama, but he was born in Valdosta and played HS football in Texas. I don’t think he has any great geographic pull.
The same could go for GA fans did anyone actually know with out Google who Kirby smart was before he was defensive coordinator at Alabama like every Ga fan said hey let’s hire that dude from Valdosta … the only reason he got head coach at Ga is because they wanted to be like Alabama like everyone else who hires our coordinators or assistants or analyst… every one hates us and wants to copy Nick saban …
Coach Saban living rent free in the dawgs head
I don’t think there’s enough room – two trophies take up a lot of space.
Todd Grantham is to be Muschamp’s assistant defensive coordinator. Kirby starting his own rehab center
How does Granthum keep getting chances to coach?
Ass long as Golding is going,that will be good for Bama.We beat them and I never saw them adjust for Hiatt and our receivers.
As much as I would hate to see Shu go, returning to your alma mater matters. We are going to lose him sooner or later. I am still hoping for later…
Somebody is going to snap up your OC after next year.
I believe that is only a matter of time. That is why Kirby has Bobo working under Monken as we speak. That is what made Saban the goat, he always had a backup plan.
Bobo is not that impressive. I am sure Kirby has others in mind.
Stafford, Murray and Greene would probably disagree with you, and so do I. He was not impressive as a HBC but his offenses were pretty good as the OC. Add in 3 years of Monken tutelage, I think he would be very high on Kirby’s short list…
Look at how many coaches Alabama looses every year whether it’s coordinators assistants or analyst better yet just think about how many other coaches in the SEC have been let go since saban got to Alabama
The fact is it’s over for Bamer.
It’s just an excuse riddled team/coaching staff now.
Next year it’ll be more of “well, we got a 1 yr DC blah blah, wait till next year blah blah”
We lost our QB blah blah excuses excuses.
When they go 9-3 with loses to Texas, either LSU or Tennessee then when the sad depressed Tide with no playoff hopes go to Auburn they take another loss to 1st year coach Mr. Freeze.
Oh the meltdowns!!!!
All I’ve heard this year is “We beat ourselves” after the Tennessee & LSU loses but we still deserve to be in playoffs.
Absolutely not. Games matter.
Here’s a thought for you toothless gumps
Don’t beat yourselves and actually win the games then you can play in the playoffs next year.
When 11-2 is a bad season and it took every teams best to beat our worst team according to the
Media,
I don’t think bama is goin anywhere other than the minds of of fan bases hoping we loose
i thought last year’s team was bama’s worst under saban…or so that’s what many said after losing to uga. see a pattern?
According to the media this was Alabamas worst team just look at how many penalties… I do see a pattern though a lot of disgruntled Ga fans hating Alabama even though they didn’t even play each other this year… I wonder why, past ball games? , or just hoping Alabama goes away because they’ve been on top to long …
Boy, your 1-8 record vs Bama and Saban is really swelling your head.
what exactly does 1-8 constitute? can you read? saban is 7-2 against uga while at bama, while he’s 4-1 against smart. oh, and he’s also on a losing streak against uga.
A loss is now a streak? Dunno, bud, that might be a stretch.
Yes. For those going against goat Saban, 1 loss in a row is a huge winning streak…lol
For the record Bama holds just a 7-4 edge since the turn of the century…I noticed your 1-8 comment didn’t pick up on that.
Nah, leg, I’m just drinking
I can appreciate that response…lol, cheers
You are the DUMBEST Ga fan alive.. You steal EVERYTHING! from a program and think you originated your success!!! really wtf!! Really dude.. Tell you what that dumb a** hateful, jealous disrespectful David Pollack just kicked off Bama’s comeback season thank you even dumber a** David Pollack! just gave the goat all the motivation needed!!!
Roll Tide
So… he had no motivation this past season, eh? I thought last year was a rebuild year and this year was dominate and pay back the Dawgs…maybe next year, glad you have “extra” motivation…it should be the difference…
Heard that in 2013 and 2018. Really heard it just before the 2021 SECCG.
Lol. Saban doesn’t need Kirby’s kids. Or is that Jerry’s kids.
Kirby Smart is a scum bag. Saban kept in under his wing at Miami and Bama. Kirby raided Bama when he was hired as head coach at Georgia. He owes Saban for attempting to show him how to coach and manage a football team the right way. Kirby Smart has not morals and why lie cheat and steal to win .
Lol…cope you bitter little Gump..
Other than taking pictures of the Bama recruiting board on his way out the door, I can’t think of any other POS moves by Kirby. He’s definitely built a great program and looks like the new premier program. A three peat would solidify the dynasty IMHO.
No you go under a rock and stay there you troll and when you come out guess what Bama will be national champions again..
One in freaking four. Jawja fans are catching up with then Aubs for most delusional fan base.
Shumann is currently a co-defensive coordinator with Will Muschamp. So guess who’s wearing the big boy pants between the two of them ? Although Will is a very good D-Coordinator; working with him must be a challenge.
Whoever Coach Saban chooses will be an improvement.