Smart also hasn’t announced if he’s keeping Hock at UGA, although the 2 worked together at Bama for many years, so you’d think he might.
Just speculating, but one name to keep in mind might be John Thomas, who has been the assistant SC coach at Georgia for 4 years. Even though he works under the 36-yr-old Hock, he is a long-time SC vet, having been Penn State’s SC coach for 20 years, and was the 1997 SC coach of the year (and once was the SC coach for the US military academy).
He is known for the HIT (high intensity training) method of strength training, which in the SC world is about the exact polar opposite of the Moffitt/Hatch/etc style (but is also what Miami used back under Daryl Hewlett). (In a nutshell, the HIT method likes to isolate muscles and then work them to exhaustion with high reps—more pure muscle building, where Hatch et al prefer Olympic-style lifts that work on total body explosion—more focus on athletic power, and less on pure muscle building)
Anyway, no idea whatsoever about him, but maybe Richt likes him and maybe he’s itching to be the boss again.
Sounds outdated