Bryan Harsin is an outsider to the SEC, which is why he picks one of the conference’s best-known attacking coaches for his first Auburn staff.
South Carolina’s Mike Bobo agreed on Thursday to become the Tigers’ new offensive coordinator and coach, sources close to the situation told Auburn Undercover. An official announcement is expected from the school later today.
Bobo replaced Chad Morris after the former Arkansas head coach was on Auburn’s staff for just over a year. Bobo spent one season as the attacking coordinator of the Gamecocks before acting as interim head coach Will Muschamp.
South Carolina announced earlier this week an extension of the contract for Bobo to remain in the new Gamecocks head coach Shane Beamerstaff. The deal lasts until 2022 at $ 1.2 million a year. It is unclear whether Bobo signed the expansion and whether he will owe South Carolina a larger buyout.
Bobo also brings South Carolina’s attacking line coach Will friend with him to Auburn.
Bobo spent a quarter of an hour in Georgia in the late 1990s. He was the coach of the Bulldogs from 2001-06, before being added to attacking coordinator, a position he held in Athens from 2007 to 14th. In addition to being a highly regarded QB coach and offensive mind, he has recruited some of the best prospects in the SEC, such as five-star Matthew Stafford, Aaron Murray, Sony Michel and Nick Chubb, amongst other things.
In 2012, when Georgia was a few plays away from a national championship in the BCS, Bobo took home the Broyles Award for Best Assistant Coach in College Football.
‘Of course with Mike Bobo“You look at the production numbers on the offensive side of the ball wherever he was, you look at the quarterback, you look at the balanced offense,” said recruitment analyst Rusty Mansell for Dawgs247. Very great on balance, able to run the ball and can throw. It kind of developed a pro style, so he spread more than he did. ‘
Bobo recorded his extensive success in Georgia in 2014 as his first head coach in Colorado State. He scored 28-38 at CSU and was not retained by the program after the 2019 season.
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