Kirby Smart

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Kirby Smart

Title	Defensive coordinator
College	Alabama
Sport	Football
Place of birth	Bainbridge, Georgia
Career highlights
Playing career
1995-1998	Georgia
Position	Defensive back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1999 2000 2001 2002–03 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008–present	Georgia (Admin. assistant) Valdosta State (Defensive backs) Valdosta State (DC) Florida State (Graduate asst. coach) LSU (Defensive backs) Georgia (Running backs) Miami Dolphins (Safeties) Alabama (Asst. coach) Alabama (DC)

Kirby Smart (born in Bainbridge, Georgia) is a defensive coordinator for the University of Alabama football team, being promoted by head coach Nick Saban in February 2008^[1]. He joined Saban's staff in January 2007^[2].

1 Playing career
2 Coaching career
3 Personal
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Playing career

Smart played was a defensive back for the University of Georgia Bulldogs. As a senior, he was a first-team All-SEC pick. He finished his career with 13 interceptions, which is currently fourth on the all-time Georgia ranks. He was also a four-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.^[3]

[edit] Coaching career

Smart began his coaching career with the University of Georgia in 1999, serving one season as an administrative assistant. He then moved to Valdosta State where he spent two seasons as defensive backs coach then being promoted to defensive coordinator in the 2001 season. Between the 2002–2003 football season, Smart was a graduate assistant under Bobby Bowden at Florida State. Smart spent one season in 2004 under LSU head coach Nick Saban. Smart then moved back to the Georgia Bulldogs football program as he served as the team's running backs coach for the 2005 season. His only season in the NFL occurred in 2006 in which he served under Nick Saban again, this time as Miami's safeties coach.

In January 2007, Smart once again followed Nick Saban after Saban was named the head football coach at the University of Alabama. On January 9, Saban named Smart as an assistant coach^[2]. On February 27, 2008, Smart was promoted to the team's defensive coordinator.^[1]

[edit] Personal

He received an undergraduate degree from Georgia in 1998 and received his master's degree from Florida State University in 2003. He is married to Mary Beth Lycett.^[3]