- Kirby Smart
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Name = Kirby Smart
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Birthplace = Bainbridge, Georgia
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Sport = Football
College = Alabama
Title =Defensive coordinator
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Player = Y
Years = 1995-1998
Team = Georgia
Position =Defensive back
Coach = Y
CoachYears = 1999
2000
2001
2002–03
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008–"present"
CoachTeams = Georgia (Admin. assistant)
Valdosta State (Defensive backs)
Valdosta State (DC)
Florida State (Graduate asst. coach)
LSU (Defensive backs)
Georgia (Running back s)Miami Dolphins (Safeties)
Alabama (Asst. coach)
Alabama (DC)
FootballHOF =Kirby Smart (born in Bainbridge, Georgia) is the
defensive coordinator for theUniversity of Alabama football team, being promoted byhead coach Nick Saban in February 2008cite web| url=http://www.rolltide.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=37423&SPID=3011&DB_OEM_ID=8000&ATCLID=1398686| title=Saban Announces Football Staff Addition as well as Two Promotions| publisher=RollTide.com| date=2008-02-27| accessdate=2008-02-27] . He joined Saban's staff in January 2007cite web| url=http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/stories/010907adh.html| title='Bama's Saban Names Three Assistants| publisher=CSTV.com| date=2007-01-09| accessdate=2008-02-27] .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.cite web| url=http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/smart_kirby00.html| title=Kirby Smart - RollTide.com| publisher=RollTide.com| accessdate=2008-02-27]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 underBobby 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 . OnJanuary 9 , Saban named Smart as an assistant coach. OnFebruary 27 ,2008 , Smart was promoted to the team's defensive coordinator.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.References
External links
* [http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/smart_kirby00.html Bio at RollTide.com]
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