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Former Georgia football OC James Coley leaves staff, headed to Texas A&M
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Former Georgia football OC James Coley leaves staff, headed to Texas A&M
Former Georgia OC James Coley is headed to Texas A&M for a position on Coach Jimbo Fisher's staff with the Aggies in the SEC West Division
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Best wishes to Coley and to his family
Good luck to Coach Coley and good luck to UGA.
been waiting on this announcement for a week.
This was probably in the works before vandagriff publicly committed. Probably backed off pursuit of Williams. Makes sense now. Good luck to coach Coley. Hope it all works out for him. Kinda wonder if he wishes he had took that first chance.🤔
thanks for all you did Coley, but we had to make a change and i respect Kirby for making the hard call! GATA!
Knew this was coming, but a change had to be made. It was obvious that we had inexperienced receivers, but over the course of the season I would have expected them to be coached up. I hate to see Coley leave. He did a lot of good things during his time in Athens.
Thanks for the great recruits you brought in and for your professionalism the last week or so. Good luck in your future endeavors!
Best of luck Coach Coley..GoDAWGS!
Coley is a good dude! When you’re the coordinator a lot of things fall at your feet that you have to take responsibility for. Coach Coley did that. Won’t say anything bad about the guy for several reasons. 1) he handle these coaching acquisitions over the last week or so like a professional, 2) He took a lot of the responsibility for the drop off in offense this season and I assure you, it wasn’t all his fault, 3) he recruited his rear off for Georgia. Now he may try and take a few of those unsigned players to TAMU. Good luck Coach Coley. Go Dawgs!
Not a good move by Kirby. No doubt this was coming but sad to see it happen. A bright young football mind who is also an outstanding recruiter who was thrown out like last months trash.
All the talk about Kirby being hard headed and unwilling to make changes is out the window!
Wish you well at A&M. Thank you for your service to the UGA program. This move was not a surprise. UGA is evolving. Just lost one heck of a recruiter...but so are Luke and Kirby. Monken may be as well. Have to move on.
I, too, wish him the best and wish he'd been willing to stay. Seems like receivers coach would have been a good fit, though I understand why he probably wanted more. I will say I'm surprised, mostly because of the recent title bump that he accepted. Why the whole process of offering, accepting and announcing the new title if the guy's going to be out the door in a few days? Maybe he wasn't absolutely certain, but he must have had a strong idea that he would be moving on if it happened this quickly. So why not just hold off on all that? Surely other programs on the level he's interested in working at would see right through his holding a title for all of, what, 4 days as any sort of negotiating leverage - then again, maybe it really is that simple? I'm not saying I have any problem with it, and maybe there's some explanation that we're just not privy to. It just seems odd to me.
Anyway, good luck to him. As others have pointed out, he took a lot of heat for a situation that wasn't all his fault and kept his cool.
If you want to win a Natty then you cant be 61st in scoring offense while BAMA, Clemson, LSU, Ohio St. are all top 10. It wasn't all his fault but the buck stops with him . CKS lost confidence that Coley could turn the offense around. He wanted someone who could revolutionize the passing attack.
If CKS doesn't make this move and gives Coley another year and next season it's more ineptitude then everyone on here is complaining about Smart not being visionary enough to get to the top and the whiners today about Coley leaving are the future complainers because was too stubborn to change the OC.
These men get paid hundreds of thousands to get the job done. They make more in 1 year than 99% of the population in America. HE just hooked up with Texas A&M where he will make hundreds of thousands of dollars more. I wish him well but I don't feel sorry for him and I sure ain't mad at Kirby.
Kirby not James Coley is the person calling ALL THE SHOTS on offense.
Hopefully Coley will find his niche in Texas. His performance at Miami and UGA was lackluster.
To be sure, this site has seen no shortage of whining in its time. But I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say "the whiners today about Coley leaving."
From what I can tell, there's been one comment that was critical of Smart letting Coley move on, and it was down-voted into oblivion. Whining and well-wishing are two very different things.