Is it suddenly last one out, turn out the lights in Athens, Georgia?
Maybe Georgia really IS the new Alabama, huh?
In recent weeks, Georgia special teams coordinator Scott Cochran – known for years as Alabama’s wild and crazy strength coach – announced he was leaving the team (Georgia football special teams coordinator leaving the program). Cochran was a part of eight national championship teams, mostly under Saban at ‘Bama (sorry, Georgia fans, but it’s true).
In the same story, it was announced that former assistant Darrell Dickey would be leaving the Bulldogs’ coaching staff.
And just last week, Georgia wide receivers coach Bryan McClendon took off for the National Football League’s Tamoa Bay Buccaneers (Bryan McClendon leaves Georgia Football for the NFL ).
Now ANOTHER Georgia assistant is leaving.
ESPN is reporting that nearby Georgia State has hired Bulldogs running backs coach and run game coordinator Dell McGee as its new head football coach (Georgia State hires UGA assistant Dell McGee as head coach).
Wow, Kirby Smart – that’s a big one.
McGee, 50, a former Auburn standout, helped coach Georgia to its back-to-back national titles in 2021 and 2022.
The Bulldogs failed to get back to the College Football Playoff this season after getting all the way back to the Southeastern Conference Championship Game, losing there to Alabama. They beat Florida State in the Orange Bowl, as a consolation prize.
Georgia looks to have a – challenging schedule in 2024. Among the biggest games: they open against Clemson (although that is in Atlanta, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium), visit Kentucky two weeks later, go to Alabama on Sept. 28, visit Texas for the first time as a conference rival on Oct. 19, play Florida, as usual, in Jacksonville, Fla., on Nov. 2, visit Ole Miss on Nov. 9, host Tennessee Nov. 16 and host an improved Georgia Tech team the final week of the regular season.
