Mike Bobo joins support staff at Georgia
As first mentioned as expected on the Dawg Walk board Monday afternoon, former Georgia quarterback and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo is now back in Athens serving as an offensive analyst for Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs. Dawgs247 was first to report as confirmed.
Bobo played quarterback for the Bulldogs from 1993 to 1997, completing 199 of 306 passes in his senior year for 2,751 yards and 19 touchdowns. After his playing days were done, Bobo came on as a graduate assistant under coach Jim Donnan before moving up in the coaching rankings to a quarterbacks coaching job at Jacksonville State. One year later, it was back to Athens under newly hired Mark Richt in that same role.
Bobo was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2007 and worked with the likes of Matthew Stafford and Aaron Murray. A finalist for the Broyles Award in 2012, Bobo’s Georgia offense averaged 37.8 points per game. In his final season, the 2014 Bulldogs’ offense finished as the highest scoring unit in program history, putting up 41.3 points per game.
Bobo left Georgia for his first head coaching job at Colorado State in 2015 where he served as the point person for five seasons. He went 7-6 each of his first three seasons, falling in the Arizona, Famous Idaho Potato and New Mexico bowls respectively. Things went downhill from there though, finishing 3-9 and 4-8 in 2018 and 2019 which led to Bobo and Colorado State mutually parting ways.
Since leaving Colorado State, Bobo worked under now-Georgia defensive assistant Will Muschamp as the offensive coordinator at South Carolina in 2020 before joining the new staff under Bryan Harsin at Auburn. Muschamp was fired during the 2020 season and Bobo took over as the interim head coach. He was retained for the 2021 season by Shane Beamer, also a former Georgia assistant, but decided to go to Auburn instead. Bobo was relieved of his duties with the Tigers after just one year on the job.
The addition of Bobo is just the latest in a string of moves made by Georgia on the support staff. John Jancek, a defensive analyst for the Bulldogs, left for the same position at LSU under head coach Brian Kelly. Ben Sowders who worked on the strength and conditioning staff is now at Louisville as the Director of Strength and Conditioning. Robby Discher, a quality control analyst for the special teams units, left to become the special teams coordinator at Tulane. Meanwhile, Georgia added Jordan Barber from Miami to work on the strength and conditioning staff as the associate strength and conditioning coach.
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