Coordinators make break success of head coach, and Georgia is exception. Here’s a power ranking of every OC the Bulldogs have had since 1999.
Going back 25 years in the Georgia football program takes us to 1999 and the fourth year of Jim Donnan’s time as head coach.
Donnan served as his own offensive coordinator, which could be part of the reason his teams failed to bag the elephant. Splitting time between being the head coach and the coordinator of a complex pro-style offense means something is going to be sacrificed.
Donnan’s offenses weren’t the worst, but considering some of the high-caliber talent he had, one has to wonder if things might not have turned out differently for Donnan had he handed the offense over to someone else, or at least trained a top coach to take over the offense a couple of years into his tenure.
He was also the last head coach to take on that dual responsibility at Georgia, and since he didn’t really serve as simply an offensive coordinator we’ll just remove him from the rankings and focus on the true OCs since then.
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