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Quarterback of highest-scoring offense in Georgia history reflects on Mike Bobo’s 2014 season
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Quarterback of highest-scoring offense in Georgia history reflects on Mike Bobo’s 2014 season
ATHENS — Mike Bobo was the architect of the highest scoring team in Georgia football history, but not all Bulldogs’ fans are bought into the new offensive coordinator.
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Thanks MG for an insightful article on Bobo. I’m fascinated with the fans who ruminate over a few bad offensive calls he made a decade ago. I remember some of those too, but they weren’t necessarily the wrong calls at that time….just poorly executed. If you are going to blast Bobo for not scoring in key games inside the 5 yard line then you need to be fair and blast Monken for not scoring on 7 tries from the 4 yard line against one of our recent opponents. I hear folks talk about Bobo’s lack of success at his last 2 stops as OC at Auburn and SC. I’m curious if those doubters sincerely believe Monken would have done better in just ONE year at those programs. In fact, Bobo was at Auburn for less than a year and was fired after losing to Bama in 4 overtimes…..and the hideous head coach at Auburn was fired a few weeks later. That’s the same Bama team that beat our Monken-led Dawgs 41-24 the next week. In his single year with the Gamecocks Bobo had to assume the head coach role halfway through the season. If you believe Monken would have done better under those exact same circumstances I have some swamp land to sell you. Go Dawgs and I’m looking forward to our future Bobo years!!!
Move on! Most fans are fine with the move. Trust Kirby.
Nothing is guaranteed, but I can see a path where losing Monken and getting Bobo turns out to better for Georgia.
Monken wasn't going to stay much longer - he never has anywhere he's coached. Bobo has already tried the HC job and it didn't work out. Maybe Bobo would be content to be the Dawgs long time OC. Stability is a good thing. If Bobo does as good as Monken did, and if he decides to stay around for longer than three years, that would actually be an upgrade over having a successful coach that everybody always thinks is just one season away from moving on.
Another good article MG. I personally think the hire makes sense and who knows, maybe Bobo’s different approach and change up in tendencies from a play calling perspective will prove to be a good thing. That said, I take exception to your little dig that Georgia ran up the score against an overmatched TCU squad. Why even go there? Them being overmatched - in the natty mind you - was their problem. If you want textbook examples of scores being run up, Tennessee under Heuple, or Florida under Creyer or Spurrier can give you that. I appreciate your honesty and bluntness at times, but my goodness, allow yourself to be just a *little* bit of a homer now and then. If you want to take pity on the Horned Frogs go write about them and see how many more CFPs you get to cover.
Purgatory. That's where we were with Bobo, Richt, etc. Richt was once referred to as the most underperforming 9.5 wins per year D1 coach. All those top 5 recruiting classes and a 9.5 wins per year record. RIcht was OK with it. Our only hope is that Smart won't be. If we are to suffer with Bobo, it will be for only one year. Smart won't put up with it.
I have to say, the info in the article above is "comforting" regarding Bobo.
I did hate to see Monken's inevitable departure That said, I'm no expert, but can those more versed than I tell me whether Monken's several previous teams were world beaters? Nobody can question the Dawgs success the 2nd and 3rd years he was OC here.
I do feel as though Kirby Smart was following a plan when he announced Bobo's promotion about an hour after Monken left.
And, I really haven't seen much here from critics on who they would suggest over Bobo.
It's interesting to see all the favorable Bobo articles as if history didn't happen.
Did yall like plopping down the cash for season tix & watching UGA go to the Belk bowl ?
I didnt then and I dont now.
I guess the next article will be about how the fan base was wrong about stetson therefore they will be wrong about Bobo.
Bottom line, Richt and Bobo stayed predictable and got passed by.
In comparison Kirby chose to radically update the offense while maintaining strong line of scrimmage and QB recruiting.
Question I have is how was this missed then and is that the version of Bobo we are getting now.
Again, as said in the article and is a pretty accurate statement," offense was never the problem when Bobo was there." I guess defenses don't matter in the overall results of a program?
Defenses win championships, complimentary football do not apply when Bobo was at UGA, only offenses? Come on man! Head coaches do not matter either when it comes to the team attitude and fire? Or wins and losses? Come on man, look at all the factors!
I think the votes below are a decent sampling of where the fanbase sits with this, and can't wait for spring training to begin. In fact, many of us see "Bobo at the ready" as an incredibly fortunate circumstance to have, given familiarity, body of work, recruiting ability, cohesiveness, seamlessness, likely longevity if/when successful, etc... particularly since any other "sexier" options out there will still be there in a few years if Kirby and many of us fans discover we're flat wrong about Bobo. With stability and staying the course at such a premium, I'm quite stoked about the prospects for big success from this 2023 staff, and I suspect the current team and recruits on the radar are as well. Go Dawgs!
@HondaDawg
The positive Bobo articles should only stop once Monken fans acknowledge that 2020 was a terrible year on offense, so much so that it was the only year since Kirby's first in 2016 that UGA didn't win the SEC East. AND when Monken fans acknowledge who the UGA OC was in 2020 (to make it easy, it wasn't James Coley or Jim Chaney).
Why UGA's offense was subpar in 2020 wasn't a great mystery.
A. SB IV and the other QBs were bad
B. the WRs and TEs were mediocre
C. the RBs were young (meaning they didn't have the talent to make an immediate impact like the 1st round caliber guys Moreno, Gurley, Chubb, Michel and Marshall did)
D. the OL was merely average.
All of those things got better in 2021, with Brock Bowers' arrival fixing B as the most prominent. And then - wow! - all of a sudden Monken went from being the guy that was fired by both Tampa and Cleveland in the NFL to being a genius. (Except, er, it didn't happen in the first game against Clemson when UGA failed to score an offensive TD. No one was calling Monken a genius then.)
We just want to know why it is OK to blame Bobo's playcalling for the clear lack of talent at UGA (don't believe me ... just compare UGA in 2021 to UGA in any year that Bobo was the OC here, and remember that the draft occurs for the previous year's team so the 2022 draft applies to UGA in 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Georgia_Bulldogs_in_the_NFL_Draft) but either no one admits that UGA had a bad year on offense in 2020, or they don't admit that Monken was the guy calling the plays for it.
I say that with Carson Beck at QB, the interior OL coming back, 3 very good (though not great) tailbacks, a future College Football Hall of Famer at TE plus the deepest group of WRs that UGA has ever had, that great 2012 season where UGA came within a play of winning a national title should be the floor for the 2023 team. (And as I have stated several times, that play should have been made on defense. People who blame the offense for UGA getting roasted by Eddie Lacy and Amari Cooper need help. And people who believe that putting up 35 points on Alabama's #2 ranked defense in 2012 - they were giving up 10.7 points per game - should have been as easy as outscoring Ohio State was this year need even more help. Particularly since Michigan put up 45 on that same defense and did it without Blake Corum their best player.)
@thadec
Go back and look at JTs stats in 2020. Nothing at all bad about that. He improved the offense by close to 10 points a game when he took over. Not Monken's fault we didn't win the SEC east that year because he didn't have a competent QB the first half of the season. Look at Pickens stats those last 4 games of 2020. He almost had as many recieving yards in just 4 games with JT as our leading reciever(Ladd) had all season in 2021. Kearis Jackson is not average. Burton exploded when he had a QB with enough arm strength to push the ball downfield. We beat both Bama and Fla if we had JT all year
You probably aught to go back and review that season. Until Bennett injured his shoulder in the Florida game...Jackson (WR) and Cook (RB) did as much in the receiving department, in the 1st half of the season... as Pickens and Burton, in the second half.
Monkin was running his style offense...until Bennett's injury. Once Daniels was installed the following week, UGA reverted to a prostyle with a lot of play-action and no perimeter passing. Which limited throws to backs like Cook.
Statistics only tell a part of ANY story. You have to ADD context. Actually...you can use statistics to support either side of an argument...depending on how you frame em. Lol
BTW...Where's JT, now? Do you know WHY he failed at West VA.? I'll tell you...or you can just read their opinions in the "The Smoking Musket". He failed for the same reasons he failed to win the starting job at UGA. Lack of, "Mobility" and "Pocket Presence".
UGA may not have ANY CFP Trophies...if he stays. Besides...he was no better than an inexperienced Beck, as a backup option in Monkin's 2022 version of the "air raid style offense".
"run up the score in a 65-7 CFP Championship Game win."
@MikeGriffith ...great article Mike. I don't agree with the above statement...if you meant it, the way it sounds.
Even the game announcers said that UGA wasn't "running up the score". They were "just running and TCU's not stopping em". Lol...with the bench emptied out. TCU had no business in that game.
@BigDawg61 - JT was Monken's hand-picked QB -- remember? Jamie Newman wasn't gonna work, so Monken called JT and they had that meeting of the minds. Spread and Air Raid was gonna be the game ..... but JT wasn't ready for the opener, Carson was having issues adjusting to college life and D'Wan had a bad start....so in came Stet, and he got it done, big time,.
Until, the second half of the Alabama game -- shutout, 3 picks, not good.
More struggles in a road win at Kentucky, and then the shoulder sprain vs. Fla.
JT threw for 401 the next game against State, and then Kirby took his foot off the gas against Bobo and SC, I think they only threw the ball 16 times. Big numbers at MIzzou, then comeback win over Cinci.
But Monken came to throw the ball -- the problem was, injuries at QB and WR --- and Stet made those problems go away by being strong in the RPO game.
Blah,Blah, Blah. Why these comparisons, MIKE G. The hire has been made. Coach K.S. has made it. Period. He has made good coaching choices thus far... Shut up and let the man do, WHAT HE DOES. WIN NATTY'S. When he stumbles, we will have a conversation.