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Dell McGee officially named head coach at Georgia State

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Georgia State has made Dell McGee the fourth head coach in program history according to an official announcement from the school on Friday night. McGee leaves Georgia after eight seasons.

He is the fifth head coach to leave UGA for a head coaching opportunity since Smart took over in 2016. McGee is the third non-coordinator/position coach only to be hired as a head coach, joining Fran Brown who left for Syracuse in December and Sam Pittman, who became the Arkansas head man in a little over four years ago.

McGee was Smart’s initial coaching staff at Georgia. With him leaving the program, that leaves only defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach Glenn Schumann as the coaches who have been Smart since he became a head coach in 2016.

The former Carver High School (Columbus, Ga.) head coach had just one year of on-field college coaching experience when Smart hired him. He spent the 2015 season at Georgia Southern and was the interim head coach for the Eagles in their bowl game. Prior to his time in Statesboro, McGee was an analyst as his alma mater, Auburn. He coached at UGA for three seasons before adding run-game coordinator to his resumè, a title he held from 2019 through the 2023 season.

Smart built the program and got it to the highest level with a great deal of contribution from McGee, who started his career at UGA by helping develop Nick Chubb and Sony Michel. McGee was responsible for landing D’Andre Swift in his first full recruiting cycle. Those ball carriers represent three of the five running backs in Georgia history who registered multiple 1,000-yard seasons. Herschel Walker and Knowshon Moreno are the other two.

McGee also led the way in recruiting Zamir White, Kenny McIntosh, Daijun Edwards, and Kenny McIntosh while playing a big role in Georgia landing James Cook. Those five running backs helped Georgia win two straight National Championships in 2021 and 2022. Since McGee joined the Georgia staff, the Bulldogs have had six running backs drafted with one in the first round, three in the second round, one in the fourth round and one in the sixth round.

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