It's official. We've got a new OC. (Image: Georgiadogs.com)
From Georgiadogs.com official press release:
University of Georgia quarterback coach Mike Bobo will be promoted to offensive coordinator according to an announcement Tuesday by Bulldog head coach Mark Richt.
Bobo will succeed Neil Callaway who Sunday was named head coach at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Richt had turned over play-calling duties to Bobo in Georgia's last regular season game, a 15-12 victory over Georgia Tech, and said he would also call the plays in the Dec. 30 Chick-fil-A Bowl game.
In Other News:
Our current players provide scouting reports on all the redshirting freshmen. David Ching has the story in the Columbus-Ledger. Ray Gant's comments on Kiante Tripp, Brandon Woods and Demarcus Dobbs are the best. Gant on Dobbs:
"Great upside. A little quiet, needs to get more of a football mentality, a little more toughness. He has it, but he's a nice guy too, though. When he gets some of that jerk in him, then it's a wrap." Defensive tackle Ray GantSeparately, Josh Kendall of the Macon Telegraph talks with Coach Garner about the influx of JUCO recruits. The article is interesting because Garner is so vividly candid in talking about the sense of urgency created by "The Matthew Stafford Window." Garner says:
"You work your whole career to get a quarterback like Stafford," Garner said, "and you feel like you have some really good running backs and the receivers who are coming along, and you need some guys there to protect him and open holes for those backs."Two good reads on the future.
"We feel like (Stafford) is a special player," he said. "You want to put him out there in a position to perform to his abilities. He has a lot of ability, but he has to be protected and he has to have an opportunity to throw the football."
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7 comments:
On biscuit away from a DT is classic
I have this mental image of Ray Gant talking about a fellow defensive hard hitter. "He's a raw dude. I don't know who raised him, but you can tell, he hates people. He hates people he's never met before on a very real and personal level, it's crazy. If they can teach him where to be on 3rd and 9 in the redzone, this cat will be a monster."
Interesting that Coach Garner's comments mirror what some fans have been saying about Stafford.
"Come block for the phenom"
You've got to say this about the CMR regime in Athens - they are candid to a fault.
As fans, you know that MS is special and think we've got to mortgage just a small bit of our future to give him what everything he needs; but you never expect a Coach to not only agree but to confirm it precisely.
The same with Bobo - that quote in the AJC where CMR said that Bobo would be an OC "soon" and that he'd rather that in be "for us not against us". You don't get that honesty in a lot of places.
Go Dawgs!!
This is great news, and I'm really proud of Bobo -- all the more so since he was the starting QB at Georgia my first three years there. One of these days he's going to be HCing a team to a national title, and I'll be telling my kids how I got to watch him way back when he was actually a player.
That is an impressive fast track for Bobo. He'll probably start getting calls from 'Bama next week!
... I'll be telling my kids how I got to watch him way back when he was actually a player.
Yeah, but Doug ... those days really weren't that thrilling. The 1997 win over Florida was about it, unless you want to factor in the drama that was the 1996 win over Texas Tech ... one which made me, as a freshman, stare at the screaming fans around me and wonder 'is this where we are as a program ... that we're content with a last-second win over Texas Tech?
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