BREAKING : Georgia Bulldogs officially announce Head Football Coach
Dell McGee, a Georgia native with 22 years of coaching experience, including back-to-back national titles as the run game coordinator and running backs coach for the Georgia Bulldogs, has been named the fourth head football coach in Georgia State history by GSU President Dr. M. Brian Blake and Director of Athletics Charlie Cobb.
McGee will be introduced at a press conference Monday morning at 10 a.m. in the University Club at Center Parc Stadium. The press conference will air live on ESPN+.
“We are proud to announce Coach Dell McGee as our head football coach,” Cobb said. “Coach McGee is an outstanding and authentic man with a strong passion for developing young men. His track record of competitive success at the high school and college levels makes me confident that he will lead our football program to its greatest achievements. We welcome Linda and Dell to Georgia State University!”
McGee takes over a Georgia State program that started play 2010 and has showed up in six bowl diversions within the final nine a long time, winning four, counting three within the final four seasons.
“Thank you to President Blake, Athletic Chief Charlie Cobb and the whole look committee for the opportunity to be the head football coach at Georgia State College,” McGee said.
“I’ve went through 20-plus a long time coaching in Georgia. As a local of this state, this opportunity to create student-athletes here has continuously been the favoring I knew I was planning for.
“I am until the end of time thankful for Coach Keen and the College of Georgia for supporting me in my dream of being of a college head coach,” he proceeded.
“Georgia State is prepared for victory. As a debut institution within the best city in America, I can’t hold up to lead the football program as we compete for championships.”
The Columbus, Ga., local has went through nearly his whole coaching career in his domestic state. He served the final eight seasons at Georgia, where his capacities as a coach and selection representative have contributed to the Bulldogs’ exceptional run of victory beneath Kirby Keen. McGee has been a key portion of a Georgia program that has amassed 94 victories in eight seasons, highlighted by back-to-back College Football Playoff national championships in 2021 and 2022 as well as a billet within the 2017 CFP title diversion, eight bowl triumphs, two Southeastern Conference titles and six SEC Eastern Division crowns.
Rivals.com named McGee the 2018 National Selection representative of the Year after the Bulldogs marked the agreement No. 1-rated enlisting lesson, and he made a difference enlist and create Georgia’s 56 NFL draft picks from 2017-23, counting 15 first-rounders and an NFL-record 25 players drafted over the final two a long time.
McGee joined Smart’s unique Georgia staff in 2016 as running backs coach, the position he worked with all through his residency in Athens. He too served as partner head coach in 2018, and after that in 2019, he was named run amusement facilitator.
In his eight seasons at UGA, McGee coached four 1,000-yard rushers:
Scratch Chubb in 2016-17; Sony Michel in 2017; D’Andre Quick in 2018-19; and Elijah Holyfield in 2018. Chubb and Michel amassed over 8,400 combined yards and 87 touchdowns. Chubb, Michel, and Quick, as well as James Cook and Zamir White, were all taken within the first four rounds of the NFL Draft.
Before planning to Georgia, McGee worked two seasons as the running backs coach at Georgia Southern (2014-15). In December 2015, he served as the between times head coach and driven the Falcons to a triumph within the GoDaddy Bowl.
He went through the 2013 season as an investigator at Auburn, his alma mater, and was portion of the staff that driven the Tigers to a compartment within the 2013-14 BCS national championship amusement, one of McGee’s four appearances coaching within the national championship amusement. He was too portion of an undefeated team as a player at Reddish-brown, where he made a difference protect the Tigers’ undefeated 1993 season with a basic capture attempts against Alabama.
He started his coaching career in the prep positions as an collaborator coach at Georgia tall schools Harris Province (2002) and Greenville (2003-04) and after that earned his to begin with head coaching position at Carver-Columbus Tall School in 2005. He built that program into a perpetual powerhouse that recorded seven straight seasons with 10 or more wins from 2006-2012.
McGee gone to Kendrick Tall School in Columbus, Ga., and after that was a two-year starter and four-year letterwinner at Reddish-brown from 1992-95.
He was drafted in the fifth circular of the 1996 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals and went through time with the Cardinals and Detroit Lions over three NFL seasons. He moreover played in NFL Europe, the XFL and the Field Football Alliance in a seven-year professional career.
Dell and his spouse Linda have one child, Austin, a tall school senior at Athens Institute and a part of Georgia State’s 2023-24 enlisting class after marking with the Pumas in December.
