Georgia expected to hire Mike Bobo as offensive coordinator
Kirby Smart acted quickly in filling to void left by Todd Monken, who was named as the Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator on Tuesday. Mike Bobo will get a second run as the Bulldogs offensive coordinator, sources tell DawgsHQ. Seth Emerson of The Athletic was the first to report.
Bobo spent this past season as an offensive analyst for UGA, working closely with Monken each week on the game plan. Monken detailed his experience working with Bobo in December.
“Mike Bobo has drawn cards for us,” Monken said prior to the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl matchup with Ohio State. “He’s drawn cards like a 22-year-old. Who’s said I’m going to embrace this role of doing red zone. I can’t take everything the guys say as a suggestion, and yet the lack of ego, and just wanting to do things has been unbelievable.”
Bobo played quarterback at Georgia for five season from 1993 to 1997 where he shared the field with Smart and defensive coordinator Will Muschamp. He then spent 14 years in Athens as an assistant coach under Mark Richt. The latter half of that stint was as offensive coordinator where he helped Georgia to it’s highest scoring season in school history in 2014.
He left after that 2014 season to become the head coach at Colorado State. He spent five years in Fort Collins before the Rams parted ways after the 2019 season. Bobo was then hired as offensive coordinator at South Carolina in 2020 and became the interim head coach when Will Muschamp was fired before the end of that season.
Auburn hired Bobo as offensive coordinator in 2021 but Bryan Harsin let him go at the end of the season, opening the door for him to return to UGA. Richt coached just one year at Georgia without Bobo as an assistant and was let go at the end of that season. The Bulldogs scuffled mightily on offense in 2015, finishing 10-3 with embarrassing losses to Florida and Alabama. They also blew a 21-point lead at Tennessee.
During his first stint at Georgia Bobo helped develop David Greene into one of the winningest quarterbacks in school history. He recruited DJ Shockley, Matthew Stafford and Aaron Murray to Athens and helped each of them become NFL Draft picks. Stafford went No. 1 overall in the 2009 NFL Draft.
In addition to recruiting quarterbacks, Bobo roamed South Georgia as a recruiter and helped the Bulldogs land numerous prospects from that portion of the state.
