Ray Goff
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| Ray Goff | ||
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| Title | Head Coach | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Place of birth | Moultrie, Georgia | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 46-34-1 | |
| Bowls | 2-2-0 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Playing career | ||
| 1974-1976 | Georgia | |
| Position | Quarterback | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1989-1995 | Georgia | |
Ray Goff was a college football player and coach of the Georgia Bulldogs.
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[edit] Playing career
Goff attended the University of Georgia, where he played quarterback from 1974-76, leading the team to 19 wins over his final two seasons under coach Vince Dooley. As a player, he was named Southeastern Conference player of the year in 1976, when the team he captained won the SEC title. He was a three year letterman at Georgia.
[edit] Coaching career
He served as an assistant coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks before returning to Georgia as an assistant in 1981. While an assistant at Georgia from 1981 to 1988, he held the positions of Recruiting Coordinator, tight ends coach and running backs coach and earned a reputation as an excellent recruiter. When Dooley, the winningest coach in Georgia history, retired after the 1988 season, Goff — then a 33-year-old running backs coach — was the surprise choice to succeed him.
[edit] Head coaching career
Goff's tenure got off to a slow start, with just 10 wins in his first two seasons, before reeling off 9 wins in 1991 and 10 in 1992; the latter campaign finished with Georgia ranked eighth by the Coaches Poll. Over the next three years, Goff's teams never again posted as many as seven wins, and he was fired in 1995. His teams only made brief appearances in the Coaches Poll in 1993, 1994 and 1995, reaching #13 in the 1993 preseason polls.
His career was noteworthy for his lack of success against the Steve Spurrier-coached Florida Gators. Spurrier once referred to Goff as "Ray Goof."[1]
[edit] Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl Game | Bowl Opponent | Outcome | Rank# |
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| Georgia (Southeastern Conference) (1989 — 1995) | ||||||||
| 1989 | Georgia | 6-6 | 4-3 | 4 | Peach Bowl | Syracuse | L 19-18 | |
| 1990 | Georgia | 4-7 | 2-5 | 7 | ||||
| 1991 | Georgia | 9-3 | 4-3 | 4 | Independence Bowl | Arkansas | W 24-15 | 19 |
| 1992 | Georgia | 10-2 | 6-2 | 1 - East (t) | Florida Citrus Bowl | Ohio State | W 21-14 | 8 |
| 1993 | Georgia | 5-6 | 2-6 | 4 - East | ||||
| 1994 | Georgia | 6-4-1 | 3-4-1 | 4 - East | ||||
| 1995 | Georgia | 6-6 | 3-5 | 3 - East | Peach Bowl | Virginia | L 27-34 | |
| At Georgia: | 46-34-1 | |||||||
| Career: | 46-34-1 | |||||||
| National Championship Conference Title | ||||||||
| †Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season. | ||||||||
[edit] Quotes
They've gone out on a limb, there's no doubt about it.
– Goff, after his hiring in 1989[2]
Is Ray Goff still the coach there?" -Steve Spurrier, the Florida Gators football coach
– when asked if his team would win their game against Georgia.
We never had a more effective option runner than Ray Goff. He appeared slow because of his size, but he was really pretty fast. He was a swivel-hipped runner with great leg strength.
– Vince Dooley, Georgia Bulldogs football head coach during Ray Goff's collegiate career.[3]
[edit] Related pages
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Merron, Jeff. "Florida/Georgia vs. Clemson/South Carolina", ESPN Page 2, ESPN.com, 2003-11-14. Retrieved on 2007-01-05. (English)
- ^ "Georgia Names Goff To Replace Dooley", The New York Times, 1989-01-03. Retrieved on 2007-01-05. (English)
- ^ Sharpe, Wilton (2005). "Chapter 3", Bulldog Madness: Great Eras in Georgia Football. Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House, p.52. ISBN 1-58182-447-5.
[edit] Sources
- Former Head Coaches (HTML) (English). Georgia Bulldogs 2006 Media Guide. georgiadogs.com (2006). Retrieved on 2007-01-04.
- Poll History (HTML) (English). Georgia Bulldogs 2006 Media Guide. georgiadogs.com (2006). Retrieved on 2007-01-04.
| Preceded by Vince Dooley |
Georgia Bulldogs Head Football Coach 1989–1995 |
Succeeded by Jim Donnan |
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