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Every offseason, there is coaching turnover around college football, so much so it can be hard to keep track of. SDS is making it easy for you, with a list of every coaching change so far throughout the SEC. Here are all of the staff changes through Tuesday morning.
Alabama
- Assistant strength and conditioning coach Mark Hocke was named the strength and conditioning coach at Georgia.
Arkansas
- Associate head coach and linebackers coach Randy Shannon resigned to become recruiting coordinator at Florida.
- Hired former Cal defensive coordinator Andy Buh to replace Shannon.
Auburn
- Fired defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson, hired Will Muschamp as his replacement.
- Hired former Florida defensive backs coach Travaris Robinson as cornerbacks coach.
Florida
- Fired Will Muschamp as head coach as well as letting go of Muschamp’s staff. Florida hired former Colorado State head coach Jim McElwain as his replacement.
- Hired Mississippi State’s Geoff Collins as defensive coordinator.
- Hired former Michigan offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier for the same position.
- Defensive backs coach Travaris Robinson followed Will Muschamp to Auburn as cornerbacks coach.
- Announced several hiring: Greg Nord, formerly the running backs and special teams coach at Western Kentucky, will coach tight ends and special teams; Tim Skipper, who worked with McElwain at CS, will coach running backs; Randy Shannon, former Arkansas linebackers coach, will be co-defensive coordinator, linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator; former Oakland Raiders defensive line coach Terrell Williams was hired for the same position at Florida; UCF defensive back coach Kirk Callahan, a former graduate assistant at Florida, was hired for the same position.
Georgia
- Hired Alabama’s Mark Hocke as strength and conditioning coach after Joe Tereshinski announced he would be stepping down in December.
- Offensive coordinator Mike Bobo accepted the head coach position at Colorado State, replacing McElwain.
- Offensive line coach Will Friend followed Bobo to CSU to take a position as the Rams’ offensive coordinator.
Kentucky
- Offensive coordinator Neal Brown left to take the head coaching job at Troy; hired Shannon Dawson as new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
- Special teams coach Craig Naivar left to take a position at Houston.
LSU
- Defensive coordinator John Chavis left to take the same position at Texas A&M.
Mississippi State
- Defensive coordinator Geoff Collins left to take the same position at Florida.
- Hired former Louisiana Tech defensive coordinator Manny Diaz as defensive coordinator; Diaz was the Bulldogs defensive coordinator in 2010.
Missouri
- Defensive coordinator Dave Steckel left to become head coach at Missouri State.
- Hired former Memphis defensive coordinator Barry Odom to replace Steckel.
Ole Miss
- Linebackers and special teams coach Tom Allen left to be the defensive coordinator at South Florida.
Texas A&M
- Fired defensive coordinator Mark Snyder following the regular season finale.
- Wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator David Beaty left to become head coach at Kansas.
- Offensive line coach and top recruiter B.J. Anderson left the program.
- Hired Utah offensive coordinator Kyle Christensen as offensive line coach.
- Hired LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis for the same position.
Vanderbilt
- Fired offensive coordinator Karl Dorrell, defensive coordinator David Kotulski, wide receivers coach Mark Lubick and strength coach Bill Hughan
- Hired Wisconsin offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig for the same position.
A former freelance journalist from Philadelphia, Brett has made the trek down to SEC country to cover the greatest conference in college football.
