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UGA hires Friend

By David Paschall February 7, 2011 1 min read

Will Friend, UAB’s offensive line coach the past four seasons, was named Monday to the same position at Georgia.

Friend was a graduate assistant for the Bulldogs during the 2003-04 seasons. He has worked at UAB under head coach Neil Callaway, who was Georgia’s offensive coordinator and line coach from 2001-06, and under offensive coordinator Kim Helton, who was head coach at the University of Houston from 1993-99.

For more read Tuesday’s Times Free Press.

David Paschall

David Paschall has covered sports at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 1999 and wrote for the Chattanooga Free Press in the nine years before that. David has mostly covered college athletics, with a focus on the University of Georgia from 2000 to 2019 and the University of Tennessee since 2020. He grew up in Chattanooga and is a graduate of the Baylor School and Auburn University. David has received multiple writing awards and has served as a Heisman Trophy voter since 2003. He has also worked in radio in Chattanooga and has been on the SEC Network's "Classic Rewind" series since 2014. David and his wife, Kelly, have three children — Conner, Emily and Spencer.

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