UGA Football: How Much Will the UGA Offense Change Under Mike Bobo?

“There won’t be much change in verbiage. If anything, there will be some additions, maybe some slight wrinkles, but we feel like the verbiage for the kids works great. He is comfortable with the verbiage. He was in it last year with Coach Monken. Really our entire offensive staff — you have to remember when Coach Monken got here, some of that verbiage remained the same too, so it wasn’t like it was a total transformation of language. And you have to think about a guy like maybe Dell McGhee or (Todd) Hartley who have been here pre-Monken and now they’re here post-Monken. There’s a lot of carry-over because B-Mac (Bryan McClendon), Stacy (Searles), and Todd (Hartley) have all been in a room with Mike (Bobo). The decision was the continuity we have on offense. We want to keep that going. I have a lot of confidence in Mike with the job he has done with offenses in the past.”

“When did I know that I would — I didn’t think about it during the season. It never crossed my mind. I guess, you know, you always know you can lose a coach, but I was focused on the season. So I never thought, well, if Monken leaves. That didn’t cross my mind until probably around the national championship game. You start thinking, okay, we’re the only team playing. We’re playing for the national championship. All my attention and focus is there. Immediately after the game your thought is, okay, if I lose this guy, who am I hiring? I was very comfortable at that point that if we lost Todd (Monken) and he decided to go back to the NFL because that’s the only thing I felt like he would leave for, that I would go with Mike (Bobo) because I felt really comfortable, his leadership in the room. I asked Monken his opinion leaving, what he thought, and I thought it was important to keep that dynamic in the room set because we weren’t losing multiple coaches. I think Mike has grown a lot since he went out to Colorado State from the time that he spent here. I went against him at South Carolina. I went against him at Auburn, which gave me ultimate confidence that he would get this job done. We played them with probably the most talented defense that I’ve been a part of, and they were on a 16-play drive there at Auburn against us in the opening drive of the game. Just have got a lot of confidence in his leadership skills and what he will be able to do offensively.”