It’s jarring not seeing him in red, ain’t it?
Hey, it’s what he’s wanted, and judging from how things turned out for his predecessor, it’s a great opportunity. So, what more needs to be said besides congratulations?
Well, since you asked…
- Bowl game prep. From what Chip Towers said, Georgia isn’t very far into installing its game plan, but really, this one doesn’t seem too daunting a task. I expect Richt will run the offense and it’s not like the staff doesn’t have familiarity with Todd Grantham.
- Other staff defections. Towers hints at something others have mentioned, which is that Will Friend might follow, but I’m not sure Bobo takes many with him. For one thing, I don’t think it’s something he’d do to Richt. For another, who would make a lateral move from Georgia to CSU? The money won’t be better. (On the other hand, if you’re looking for something non-Bobo related to freak out over, here you go.)
- Recruiting. Again, any kid committed to Georgia isn’t heading out to follow Bobo. The question is whether any of the recruits Georgia’s targeted for the offense who Bobo focused on (Terry Godwin?) can be pried away by its SEC competition. Tons of good recruiters on Georgia’s staff to tide things over, but I expect the next guy coming in will have to be in place well before signing day to end that questioning.
- Will a favorite son return home? Really, I’m amazed at the number of people who assume this is as much an opportunity for Georgia to hire an experienced head coach in Bobo down the road as it is for Bobo himself. Why is that so likely? Think about it for a minute. If Bobo flops at CSU, or even has a rough time for a while (see this article for speculation that McElwain may have gotten out at just the right time for his career), how attractive is he going to be as a future head coaching candidate at Georgia? And if he’s a big success out there, what happens when he starts getting serious offers at other P5 schools (or, gasp, SEC schools) while Richt remains the head coach in Athens? To me, this seems like anything but a lock.
But that’s all down the road, right? In the meantime, best of luck, Coach. You’ve earned your shot.
Get The Picture 
At least he’s not wearing Orange.
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So happy for him and his family. Bye Bobo….will see you in about 5 years.🎅
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Now the excitement begins! What will Richt and McGarity do? For all the talk of thriftiness within B-M, the proof will be in the pudding. How comfortable is Richt in really turning the offense over? So many questions will be answered about this program with one hire.
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Turning the offense over? Do you think Richt has been calling the plays the past 5 years?
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No, I do not think that Richt has been calling the offense. I do think that Richt provided the offensive plays that Bobo called. Will Richt tell the candidates, “We know how to score points in Athens. We are not looking to reinvent the wheel here son. This is your playbook, go get me some touchdowns.” Or will he feel comfortable turnover the reigns to someone new?
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“I do think that Richt provided the offensive plays that Bobo called”
You apparently didn’t watch Georgia on Offense when CMR was effectively the OC and lone playcaller.
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Any legs to the CJP rumors?
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No. It was a twitter rumor started by someone unreliable. Radi Nabulsi has confirmed with his sources that it’s not true.
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On the other hand, I hear that Gus Malzahn is resigning at Auburn and coming to take Bobo’s place. Cause Athens is so great. Honest. Pass it along.
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And taking a pay cut to do it.
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If the JP rumors are true, the McGarity laws of economics are about to be tested big time. If Richt’s hand gets forced where he can’t substantially raise JP’s comp to keep him in the Classic City, things could get very interesting in Athens.
Bobo’s departure is about a promotion to lead a program. I’m not sure any amount of money would have kept him in Athens. If Pruitt were to bolt, it would be about nothing but money and commitment.
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Senator, it’s as jarring seeing him with an Under Armour logo as well, but it’s not orange and blue. All the best to a guy who deserves this shot, a DGD!
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It’ll be interesting to see if CMR goes the apprentice route (bring in a young QB coach and CMR goes back to OC and play calling) or turns the offense over to someone. If it’s the former, well joe cox has gotten into coaching. If it’s the latter going the nfl route would make some sense.
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First play of the game – Line up in Pro I then shift to the shotgun, yes! Vintage 1999 Florida St…Richt puts his stamp on the Belk Bowl.
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Congratulations to Coach Bobo, well deserved promotion. Now make us even prouder.
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what are the CJP rumors about?
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1.8 million offer from Texas A&M
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Sumlin has put some coaches in the road and his recruiting has slacked a good bit with a lot of decommitments. He needs a new DC.
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I wish Bobo the best. He did a great job for us, and deserves his chance.
Saying that, I agree with the Denver Post article. McElwain got out at the top and Bobo has a lot of work to do. Bobo is an incredible recruiter though, and if he can talk some kids into making the journey out west he will be successful. CSU currently has a couple (3?) good players, but the rest are Georgia Southern level.
So, Bobo needs to get recruiting because in a few years he will lead the Rams into the Swamp, and we all would love to see the Gators get beat by little old CSU!
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Well done, Mike Bobo. Now go out there and kick some Rocky Mountain butt. You’re a great coach, a great hire for CSU, and you are, and will always be, a DGD. Thank you, and best of luck.
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+1000
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Amen
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Nice post, my thoughts exactly. He’ll be a DGD forever and I’m suddenly rooting for the Rams. I feel like we ought to do a “Red and Black Friday” and everybody order CSU hats from their bookstore to show him our thanks and support.
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Not a lock but I think Bobo was going to be in the mix when Richt retires anyway, and now he can make a stronger case for himself. Or a weaker case….who knows how he’ll really do. Either way it’s going to make hiring Bobo or not hiring Bobo an easier decision for Georgia when the time comes to hire Richt’s successor.
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Agree. I believe he would have been in the mix but doubt he would have gotten it, his decision to leave conforms he shares the point of view that he needed to spread his wings and prove himself as a HC to get to the top levels of coaching. This couldn’t have been an easy decision for him but it is the right one if he wants a top job. And you are right, we will now know about his viability when the time comes.
I wish him well, he deserves the chance to prove himself and earned it. The job has enough opportunity for him to make it but the stories about following an inflated record of 10 wins seem to have validity. He may not set records there but the pressure will be less and he can demonstrate his own style as he gets to call the shots. Mike will always be a Bulldog, glad to see him get a group of fans that will appreciate his efforts. I am now officially worried about the 2015 season, one I felt held so much promise for. I have so little confidence that UGA and McFrugal will give Richt what he needs, nothing they have been doing says they will…nothing.
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Letson is definitely gone. Friend a likelihood.
Rumors abound he took the job to get away from McGarity and won’t be back as long as Mcringmaster is at UGA.
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that isn’t a rumor…the entire coaching staff was more than disappointed with how the Gurley situation was handled by the AD
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Best of luck to Bobo. I really, really don’t want to be a spread team. I love our current offensive identity. Hoping we can keep some semblance of it.
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I know they lose some players, but they play five teams that combined for 14 wins last year. Add in Fresno State with 6 wins and San Diego State with 7 wins and I see plenty of winnable games to get the first Bobo year off the ground.
Sadly I do not ever see him coming back.
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If he wins at CSU I see Bobo back in the SEC within 5 years–and likely not at Georgia. 14 SEC teams and there seems yearly to be turnover at HC at 1 or more of them. Those odds favor him going to a school other than Georgia. The moon and stars all have to line up correctly for that to happen.
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Agree, Mayor. And in 5 years he could come back to the SEC with something like a 5yr / $40M deal (or more) after having made >$10M at CSU. But hey, he could have stayed at UGA and been up to $650K/yr by then based, of course, upon his “whole body of work.”
Mikey ain’t no fool (but I think he’s leaving one behind at B-M).
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I wouldn’t be surprised if they either promote McClendon or bring back Thomas Brown. Richt can bring one of them along as he did with Bobo, and it would be easy on the budget to free up room for more S & C staff or money to keep other coaches in Athens. Whatever they do, congrats to a DGD.
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Any coach brought in will be a QB coach. I wouldn’t be surprised to see McClendon calling plays next year. But we will still need a QB coach.
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I had a nightmare that Richt fulfills a longstanding personal debt to the Bowden family and hires Jeff as the OC. Oh, the humanity…
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Congrats. Everyone wants to be the head honcho, and Bobo has done enough to deserve his shot. Getting the shot at a place like Colorado State is muuuuuch easier than getting your shot in Gainesville. I hope he is wildly successful.
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Starting to hear rumors around Rush Prost getting looked at for OC.
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What this should tell us is that McGarity should be fired. Bobo wanted to stay but for more money. More money that should have been given to him after last year. McGarity would not even entertain that option. The rumor is Mcgarity has been jealous of Bobo’s relationship with some in the donar base. Fire Mcgarity now!
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You almost had me. This is sarcasm, right? I want to be in on the joke, too. You need to use the winking emoji so I’ll know to play along.
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I wish it were.
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The donar base? Is that the wagon train that was snowed in and resulted in cannibalism?
Aside from that, why would a guy who wants to be a HC and is offered 1.5 M stay to be an Assistant? Name one assistant coach making 1.5 mil
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He loves Athens and Georgia. If I were making a million dollars (what he should have been offered to stay) to be in Athens at my Alma mater (the place I really wanted to be at) and my family loved it there and didn’t want to leave. Why would I go to Colorado State a team that is doing fairly well? A team that if I carry on the success I get credit for not making it worse. But if it deteriorates whether its my fault or not I will get the blame. Who wants to leave Ga. to go to Co?
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Have you ever been to Ft. Collins? There are plenty if people that would relocate from Georgia to Colorado if they had re opportunity, myself included.
Bobo has a great opportunity, especially if CSU gets picked up by the big 12.
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To be a HC. If he wants to be a HC, then he leaves. If he has no goal of ever being a HC, then he stays. His taking the job should be strong evidence that he wants to be a HC (like his father).
And not to be overly pedantic, but the difference b/w 1 million and 1.5 million is not marginal.
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Some would and for some opportunities he might would have also. But this time he wanted to stay for market rate compensation.
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says who?
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I thought we had seen the last of the “Athens is so great we don’t even have to pay people to coach here” crowd. I mean, I love Athens as much as the next guy. But I’ll move to Bangladesh if it means I get a long-term contract with a million dollar a year raise.
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This.
If it paid 1.5M, I’d shovel horse shit in Cairo for a living. The sanctimonious “why would he leave” analysis is astounding to me.
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Does that mean you think everyone else should share your view?
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So therefore he should have felt that way too?
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Wagon train lol! The internet is won for the day. I can quit surfing and go home.
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Your post regarding the money issue is very intriguing. Care to share any additional details? I have zero connections to McGarity nor B-M and I, along with other I am sure, would love to hear what you have learned.
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Bobo is in his barber’s cousin’s neighbor’s Sunday school class.
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I actually go to the same barber as Bobo and my kids are in the same Sunday school class with his kids.
Which translates to: I don’t know squat about the negotiations b/w B-M and the coaches.
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And that’s going to stop you from posting speculation on the internet? Come on.
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Mutual friends intimately directly involved.
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Caption that picture: Sign with Colorado State or this man will murder your whole family.
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Will be interesting to see Bobo’s offense when it is completely his baby.
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I hope it is the Air Raid. Just throwing the ball 60 times a game.
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I suspect it will be a lot of pistol/spread hybrid. He’s not going to abandon downhill running, but I think he’s done with the I.
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Really? I would suspect that it would be very similar to the offense he’s been running for years in Athens. I mean, why would CSU bring in a guy to do something other than what he’s been successful at? They may as well bring him in to coach defense.
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Good for Bobo. If he ever has any chance of coaching at UGA he had to leave and prove his haters wrong. I hope we can get someone decent to replace him. Watch our defense be phenomenal next year but for us to have trouble scoring points. That will be the most Georgia thing that can happen. I hope Richt does not call plays again. Bobo was always better than Richt calling plays, which is one of the reasons the Bobo bashers never had much credibility with me. The main difference between their playcalling tenures was that Richt was generally backed up by good defenses whereas Bobo was on his own. If Bobo’s offenses had been combined with Van Gorder’s defenses we would have been completely dominant. On the other hand pair Richt’s offense with the 09; 10; or 13 defenses and we would be lucky to have won 4 games those years Regardless I’m looking forward to a dawgosphere where people don’t have Mike Bobo to kick around anymore. Best of luck to Coach Bobo, a helluva coach and a damn good dawg. I hope he listens when mama calls.
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Ahhh the interwebs…land of made-up rumors. Here’s one I just “heard” (it was caught behind the North Korean internet outage, but was released by a Chinese dissident late last night):
Richt, fed up with the UGAAD, is going to suddenly retire, and release the entire 2015 and ’16 recruiting classes from their commitments. The other OC coaches will follow Bobo. Pruitt to get the top job to fend off the TAMU overture.
But hey…with all that talent in the state of Georgia, that’s no excuse to lose 2 games, amirite!?
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No, no, you’re way off base.
I heard it from a source “close to the program” that McGarity is interviewing Mexicans at the Home Depot parking lot to fill the Offensive Coordinator position. He’s offering $9/hour and several are interested if he’ll throw in a free lunch.
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Zaxby’s is a corporate partner. Lunch is covered. Sweeeet!!
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As happy as I am to see Bobo promoted, I would not be opposed (at this time) to Bobo coming back to UGA in 5-8 years as HC, if CMR retires. I have said many times I do not want a new HC without HC experience. Bobo would be set up to be the next Goff if promoted from within. Good luck to Bobo, I honestly hope he succeeds.
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I’m skeptical CMB returns as HC. Letting the longtime #1 assistant walk away without much effort to keep him says volumes. To me it seems obvious CJP is our next HC. He hasn’t been at UGA for a year, but has made an imprint on just about everything associated with the program.
I guess we’ll know a lot more about our future direction in the next couple weeks. Looks like its open season on UGA assistants. BM better open the pocketbook, or get ready for a revolt from the ‘nation’.
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At what volume did you hear that UGA let a “longtime #1 assistant walk away without much effort to keep him”?
Cuz I want to hear that volume.
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Westy, you must know something the rest of us don’t. That said, I would fall on my knees and kiss the ground in Sanford Stadium on gameday if Pruitt ended up as HC at Georgia. And I agree that Pruitt “has made an imprint on just about everything associated with the program” in a very positive way. If CMR (and in all honesty it may have been Bobo–CMR just not wanting to say so and throw Bobo under the bus) doesn’t make those bonehead end of game decisions the Dawgs would have had an 11-1 regular season, been SEC East Champs, and possibly SEC Champs and in the 4 team playoff. This team was that close.
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We actually were that close, without our best player for half the season, all our deep passing threats on the sideline, a completely new defensive staff in place for their first year, and a secondary with 80% new, inexperienced blood on the field. Yet you, and about 15 other airhead renegades here would trash this staff and throw fate to the wind. Genius, pure genius thinking…do your kids know where you are? I am sure they are worried.
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Congrats to Bobo, based on his performance he certainly deserves a shot. Hes been a DGD and I wish him the best.
Here’s hoping the transition to new OC does not affect our commitment from Jacob Eason, #1 QB recruit in 2016 class and our biggest get since Stafford. I read an article that stated since he committed in the summer he & Bobo have spoken on the phone every week. Dont really fear hom going to CSU, more that our offense changes under new mgmt in a way that makes it less attractive for him.
Here’s hoping for the best all around!
Also as a West Coaster, I’m all for GMG scheduling a 2 for 1 so we can go back to Colorado, which result aside was a fantastic trip in 2010.
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$1.35 million a year will buy a lot of reefer
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