This should spice up college football’s most notorious group text message.

Lane Kiffin and LSU are poised to steal Ty Hatcher away from Kirby Smart’s University of Georgia program, where Hatcher has served for the past year largely as assistant to head coach Kirby Smart. Kiffin, Smart and several other Southeastern Conference coaches all share an ongoing group chat via text message that extends to their shared experiences under legendary former Alabama coach Nick Saban. 

A former Samford quarterback and son of that program’s all-time winningest head coach, new Tulane chief of staff Chris Hatcher, Ty Hatcher is expected to join Kiffin’s inaugural Tigers staff in “a top role that will do a little bit of everything for us, focused with the offensive staff, quarterbacks and tight ends” said a source with direct knowledge of the move. Sources added that Hatcher is expected to work very closely with LSU offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. 

For the young Hatcher, just a few seasons removed from his playing career and only 25 years old, it’s another significant step in a developing career full of them.

Consider: Ty Hatcher already has professional seasons at Alabama, Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Georgia in his young coaching career in college football.

At LSU, he’ll join Kiffin and an offensive staff headlined by coordinator Charlie Weis Jr., quarterbacks coach Dane Stevens and tight ends coach Joe Cox, the former Georgia signal-caller who will continue to serve as the co-offensive coordinator in Weis Jr.’s system.

Previously, Hatcher worked directly under Bill O’Brien — then Alabama’s offensive coordinator, a former NFL head coach with the Houston Texans and now the head coach at Boston College — as well as former Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino when Petrino ran the offense for Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M.Â