Kirby Smart jokes Glenn Schumann should ‘get priorities in order’ after having child mid-season

There are a lot of potential pitfalls during any given college football season. Some Georgia defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann experienced this past week.

Although pitfall is hardly the right word. Perhaps challenge is a better word.

Georgia smoked Texas 30-15 on Saturday in a dominant performance from start to finish, and it was Glenn Schumann’s defense that helped make the difference. He coordinated the unit only days after his wife gave birth to their third child.

“Yeah, he did a tremendous job,” coach Kirby Smart said. “I think first thing as a coach you don’t plan to have a baby in-season. So that’s the first mistake he made. Got to get your priorities in order when you do that.”

If having a baby was problematic for Glenn Schumann, it certainly didn’t show. Georgia held Texas to just 259 total yards, including only 29 yards rushing.

The Georgia defensive coordinator handled things about as smoothly as possible.

“We knew it was around that time,” Smart explained. “He said he was going to have a plan for it, and he executed the plan to a T, so he didn’t miss a beat. He got things set up where everything could go down Wednesday after practice, which we go home then. He was back in work Thursday morning at 7 o’clock with a smile on his face and a baby born. I mean he did everything he needed to do to not really miss a beat.”

Laughing and kidding around from Smart aside, it’s not all that uncommon to have a coach needing to end to the birth of a child.

“We have guys miss all the time,” Smart said. “Our special teams coordinator Kirk Benedict just had a baby as well, right after the Texas victory. So he planned his a little better for the bye week.”

Georgia will indeed get a bye week now, so Glenn Schumann will get to spend a little more time with his wife and newborn baby.

Smart lauded the couple for handling things so professionally.

“It’s also his third, so Lauren’s incredible,” Smart said. “Coach’s wife, she does a tremendous job supporting him and his players. She’s a wonderful mother and a great wife. She was at Alabama with Glenn and I, worked there in the football office. She does wonderful things for the players and does so much and she’s done a great job with her kids.”