Glenn Schumann
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Co-defensive coordinator |
| Team | Georgia |
| Conference | SEC |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | March 29, 1990 Valdosta, Georgia |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2008–2011 | Alabama (SA) |
| 2011–2014 | Alabama (GA) |
| 2016–2018 | Georgia (ILB) |
| 2019–present | Georgia (co-DC/ILB) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2014–2015 | Alabama (Dir. Football Ops) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| |
Glenn Schumann (born March 29, 1990) is an American football coach. He is currently the co-defensive coordinator at Georgia. He previously has worked under Nick Saban at Alabama as a student assistant and later as a graduate assistant.[1]
Early life
Schumann was born on March 29, 1990 to Eric Schumann, a former college football coach and player, and Dr. Sherry Schumann, a college athletic director in Valdosta, Georgia.[2] During he his childhood, he moved all over the country because of his father's coaching stops at different places. He played both football and basketball at McKinney Boyd High School, where he lettered in both sports.[3] He was part of McKinney Boyd's first ever graduating class.[4]
Coaching career
Alabama
Unlike most collegiate coaches, Schumann did not play college football. Instead, after graduating high school in Texas, Schumann enrolled at Alabama to be a student assistant under legendary coach Nick Saban. Reflecting on his time as a student assistant, he said that being a student assistant was, “doing anything that was asked of me.”[5] He would go on to graduate from Alabama in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in arts, and he got his master's in sports management in 2013.[6]
He served as a student assistant from 2008 to 2011, when he graduated. During his time as a student assistant, Alabama won one SEC Championship and one National Championship. After he graduated, he became a graduate assistant under Saban. During his time as an on-field assistant, he worked closely with Saban and defensive coordinator Kirby Smart in installing the defensive gameplan every week.[7] He worked with the outside linebackers during the early part of his stint and switched to working with the secondary for the latter part of his tenure as graduate assistant.[8]
In 2014, he became the director of football operations. His responsibilities at this position included off-the-field activities, player development, helping student-athletes balance athletics and academics, and organizing recruiting efforts.[citation needed]
Georgia
When Kirby Smart was hired away from Alabama to become the head coach at Georgia, he made Schumann his first coaching hire. Speaking about the relationship between Smart and Schumann at Alabama, Smart said Schumann, “was my right-hand for four or five years over there.”[9] He was hired as the inside linebackers coach there. This hire also made him the youngest on-field coaching assistant in the SEC. When Roquan Smith, an inside linebacker for Georgia at the time, asked Alabama players about Schumann, the Alabama players, “were talking about how much of a guru he was,” Smith said. “Then when I met him and was watching film with him, I was like, ‘Wow, this guy is really that.’”[10]
Schumann coached the aforementioned Smith to winning the Butkus Award, which goes to the nation's best linebacker in 2017. Also in 2017, Georgia won their first SEC Championship since 2005 and advanced to the National Championship, only to lose to his former boss, Nick Saban, and Alabama.[11]
Prior to the 2019 season, defensive coordinator Mel Tucker left to become the head coach at Colorado, so Smart promoted Schumann and outside linebackers coach Dan Lanning to co-defensive coordinators.[12] Georgia's defense in 2019 had the best team defense in the nation, allowing only 12.6 points per game and 276 yards per game.[13]
Personal life
Schumann and Lauren Schumann were married in the summer of 2015. They had a son in September 2019.[14]
References
- ^ Weiser, Marc. "UGA ILB coach Glenn Schumann 'a part of the process' with both Crimson Tide and Bulldogs". Athens Banner-Herald.
- ^ Poole, Greg. "Top Dawgs: Glenn Schumann". Bulldawg Illustrated.
- ^ "Glenn Schumann- Football Coach - University of Georgia". Georgia Athletics.
- ^ Gosling, Paul. "How far we've come: A night of firsts for McKinney Boyd". Star Local Media.
- ^ Emerson, Seth. "From Alabama to Georgia: The Glenn Schumann experience". DawgNation.
- ^ Weiser, Marc. "He's young, but Georgia's Schumann knows his stuff". Tuscaloosa News.
- ^ Tatty, John. "Former Alabama defensive guru now helping Kirby Smart at Georgia". AL.com.
- ^ Rowe, Jake. "Georgia's Glenn Schumann is SEC's youngest on-field assistant". 247 Sports.
- ^ Weiser, Marc. "Lanning promoted to Georgia football defensive coordinator, Schumann co-coordinator". Savannah Morning News.
- ^ Butt, Jason. "While Georgia's Glenn Schumann is only 27 years old, players consider him a football 'guru'". Ledger-Enqiuer.
- ^ "Glenn Schumann- Football Coach - University of Georgia". Georgia Athletics.
- ^ Towers, Chip. "BREAKING: Dan Lanning, Glenn Schumann each get coordinator titles as Georgia reveals staff roles". Dawg Nation.
- ^ "2019 College Football Team Defense". Sports Reference.
- ^ "Glenn Schumann- Football Coach - University of Georgia". georgiadogs.com.
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