The college football world is a tightly wound community with schools of all shapes, sizes and classifications scattered around the nation.
Kent State special teams coordinator Zac Barton knows the landscape well. From his playing days as a defensive end at Bloomsburg in Pennsylvania to his current role as Special Teams Coordinator with the Golden Flashes, he has come in contact with many coaches across the country.
No stop might be more impactful than the nine months he spent as a defensive graduate assistant at Nebraska Omaha in 2010. The other GAs on staff with him were current Kent State head coach Sean Lewis and wide receivers coach Matthew Middleton.