Does Georgia Bulldogs Offensive Coordinator Todd Monken Ask Mike Bobo's Opinion?
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ATHENS - For years Mike Bobo called plays for the Georgia Bulldogs. Now he’s back, but without the pressure being the offensive coordinator.
That’s Todd Monken’s problem now. Still, Monken said Bobo has been “awesome”.
“He’s been awesome as a sounding board and I want to continue that in what we do offensively,” Monken said Thursday. “He adds tremendous value in terms of being a sounding board for us.”
The No. 3 Dawgs start the season facing No. 12 Oregon in Atlanta, and Monken’s offense will be in under the microscope immediately. The Bulldogs were a top-ten scoring offense a season ago - at 38.4 points a game. Group thinking among college football analysts is that Georgia will have to score even more this fall if it wants to make another run to the College Football Playoff.
Bobo’s offenses never got to that level. In 2014, the Dawgs’ final season with Bobo calling plays, Georgia’s defense failed them in critical games against South Carolina and Florida - costing the program a chance to play for the SEC title and beyond. Georgia scored 41.3 points a game that year - good enough for eighth-best in the nation.
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“I’m sure he’s enjoying being back here, but there are other ways where it’s like: ‘Maybe I wouldn’t do it that way,’” Monken admitted of Bobo being in the football offices once more.
Bobo took the head coaching spot at Colorado State. He and the Rams mutually agreed to part ways after the 2019 season. He united with Georgia co-defensive coordinator Will Muschamp a year later in Columbia, but Muschamp was fired in the middle of the season. Bobo took over head coaching duties for the final games of the 2020 season, which included a lopsided 45-16 win for No. 9 Georgia over the Gamecocks.
After a tumultuous season at Auburn, Bobo joined Kirby’s staff in early 2022.
From that time on Monken has been able to pick Bobo’s brain. He gave this example Thursday:
“During walk-throughs, I asked him today - We’re working on pressures and how we are going to adjust to them. I walked right over to him and said: ‘OK, what are we missing?’”