Kentucky is hiring Texas A&M defensive coordinator Jay Bateman for same position

The news many in the Big Blue Nation have been waiting for finally arrived on Thursday morning. Kentucky head coach Will Stein has found another coordinator with extensive SEC experience. We now know who will be running the defense in Lexington.

Texas A&M defensive coordinator Jay Bateman is leaving his post off a playoff team to join Stein’s first staff in Lexington.

Jay Bateman, 52, is a Virginia native who played linebacker at Randolph-Macon from 1991-94. After getting his start in coaching at the high school level, Bateman became a graduate assistant in D-III and then became a head coach at FCS Sienna at age 26. After a rough four-year campaign that included just five wins, Bateman spent…