The process begins at Georgia.
After spending the past nine seasons with Alabama football coach Nick Saban, including most of them as his righthand man, Kirby Smart will be the boss at practice for the first time this afternoon when the Bulldogs hold their first of 15 allotted spring workouts. Saban has long been formulaic in his annual development of the Crimson Tide, which has yielded national championships in four of the last seven seasons, and it remains to be seen what Smart takes from Saban and what he does on his own.
Smart, a safety for the Bulldogs in the late 1990s, inherits a program that went 145-51 under predecessor Mark Richt but has not won a Southeastern Conference title since 2005 and failed to capitalize the past couple of seasons in a mediocre Eastern Division.
Lofty expectations are already in place, but here are five questions worth pondering with change already in the air in Athens.
1. Will a quarterback emerge?