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Here’s what this hire tells me: 1. Kirby isn’t as stubborn as we all thought. He just doesn’t telegraph things to the public and could care less what you or I think. He knows more than I do, so I’m ok with that. 2. Kirby believes the time is now. His defense is a championship defense. With the Newman move and now changing OCs for the third time in three years, he is going all in on 2020. 3. This has been moving for a while. Newman knew this was happening. 4. Wondering if Monken will be ok doing the recruiting? Should be good since he knows the college world.
I already posted this when Monken's name was leaked a few days ago, but he was the HC at Southern Miss from 2013-2015 and had great success. I actually thought he might be a dark horse for the UGA job in 2016 but the NFL came calling.
Much like Matt Rhule did with Temple and Baylor, Monken turned a 1-win Southern Miss team into a 9-win team within three seasons. He also took their #115 ranked offense (2013) and turned into the #6 ranked offense in the country (2015).
In Monken's final season at Southern Miss, his QB threw for 4,476 yards and 38 TD's. The WR1 had 1,391 yards and 14 TD's. They also had two 1,000 yard RB's, each of whom scored double digit TD's. (All four players ended up being drafted by the NFL.)
This is a great hire.
He deleted the article. That guys is a buffoon.
Seems good he deleted it to me. Shows how awesome Monken is as a hire he had to delete an article.
He took it down showing that Barrett Sallee acknowledges that his article was a dynamic pile of doo-doo, not worthy of contending for space on the interwebs on any basis.
He inherited the 0-12 Ellis Johnson's 1 year dumpster fire after Fedora went 11-2 the previous year, he went 1-11 3-9 and 9-5, took a lot of work to do that and I had the pleasure of heading 50 miles North to watch a few games during his time there., not a great over all record but fixing the 1 year Johnson disaster was pretty impressive.....
Kudos to Kirby for making what had to be a tough decision. For him maybe it wasn’t that tough - but it would have been impossible for CMR to make this move.
All off seasons are the longest ever. So too will be this one.
Makes you think all the WR coming knew as well.
baller move...guys without egos staff 2 there weakness....go get that natty
I wonder if Monken is happy with Jamie Newman or would want someone else like Chase Brice?
They didn’t just hire TM this week .....you have to believe he was in on Newman behind the scenes
I'm assuming Kirby isn't hiring and firing anyone else, so not only did UGA have to negotiate with Monken but potentially with Coley and Hartley as well for reassignment of duties. I'm assuming that's why this took so long to be announced.
Does seem to be a pretty good recruiter. Kirby didn't want him to go to TX AM
Agree on this. Wonder if the 2020 WR signees knew of this hire. Think someone brought this up earlier or in another thread
Cant wait for spring either. Let the show begin.