UGA assistant coach leaves for NFL
Warren Belin is leaving the Georgia football coaching staff after just one season for the NFL.
Belin, the Bulldogs’ inside linebackers coach, has resigned to accept a position as a defensive assistant coach with the Carolina Panthers, UGA senior associate athletic director Claude Felton confirmed.
Belin, 43, joined the Georgia staff in February 2010 from Vanderbilt, where he coached linebackers for eight years. A native of Marshville, N. C., and a graduate of Wake Forest, Belin has 20 years of college coaching experience, also having worked at Cornell, East Tennessee State, William & Mary and SMU.
“Warren made some outstanding contributions to our team and program in his year with us,” Georgia coach Mark Richt said in a statement Thursday night, “and we wish him the very best in his new role with the Panthers.”
In addition to coaching inside linebackers at Georgia, Belin was in charge of the Bulldogs’ kickoff coverage unit, which ranked first in the SEC last season.
Belin joined the Georgia staff two days after last year’s national signing day and departed one day after this year’s signing day. Georgia signed three inside linebackers Wednesday: Amarlo Herrera of College Park (North Clayton High School), Kent Turene of Lauderdale Lakes, Fla., and Ramik Wilson of Tampa.
– Tim Tucker, UGA Blog
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Richt's Butt Cut
February 3rd, 2011
8:51 pm
Ahh who give a rats arse…
harold
February 3rd, 2011
8:52 pm
A SECOND ONE JUMPS OFF A SINKING MARK RICHT SHIP AFTER WAKING UP FROM THE DREAM.
Dennis G. Berdanis
February 3rd, 2011
8:53 pm
He’ll be missed. Big turnaround on KO coverage. Need to get another special teams coach, probably more critical than the linebacker coach. May have to get two people to replace him. Not sure there is another with skills at both positions like him.
Hill Dawg
February 3rd, 2011
8:54 pm
i have never seen so many comments that reflected so much ignorance about football coaches and/or coaching. Is the moon full? Maybe the little techies didn’t have classes today. Folks.please try to think before you write a comment.
Brett Favre was once a Falcon
February 3rd, 2011
8:54 pm
The Carolina Panthers are in the NFL? Who knew?
ARecruiterMyself
February 3rd, 2011
8:56 pm
GT51..you are laughable with that comment…like it was admirable for Coach Paul Johnson to rescind that kid’s scholarship simply cuz he wanted to visit FSU before signing day????? Don’t believe ANY UGA signee would leave cuz the linebacker coach is leaving!
JDAWG
February 3rd, 2011
9:03 pm
http://isportsweb.com/2011/02/03/georgia-assistant-warren-belin-leaves-for-nfl/
titanic
February 3rd, 2011
9:09 pm
just wait until next year- we rule this state folks at 5-7
titanic
February 3rd, 2011
9:11 pm
How did UCF do in recruiting this year?
kerryb
February 3rd, 2011
9:15 pm
Only a complete moron would make a comment about him as jumping off a ship. Just about every coaches dream is to coach in the NFL. Coach Belin got his opportunity and good luck to him.
Barnee
February 3rd, 2011
9:28 pm
Georgia football is like my golf game; what I think it is and what it is are 2 different things. Never seen such a fan base with such a high opinion of their status with such an above average record. Can’t beat Florida and now losing to Central Florida.
daddy
February 3rd, 2011
9:31 pm
nice of uga to wait until after signing day to announce this ……
Nerd Furgeson
February 3rd, 2011
9:33 pm
Dang…hoping it was Bobo
woebegong
February 3rd, 2011
9:35 pm
Let’s see if I have this right. The OL coach leaves for Texas and he only get’s a $135,000 raise for doing so. Darn, must be the head coaches fault.
LB coach leaves after only one year. He left Vandy to come to Georgia as this was a forward career move. He leaves UGA to go to the NFL, which is another forward move. Almost any coach in the NCAA is going to jump at a chance to coach on the highest level, but it is UGA’s head coach once again. Simply amazing how some of you scholars arrive at these amazing conclusions, and us poor average DAWG fans can’t figure it out. I mean, anybody knows that $135,000 bucks would never motivate any of you to make a job switch, and wanting to coach at the highest level, should never motivate a position coach to leave. I am sure, if you knowlegable folks ever had a chance of moving up to manager versus flipping your burgers at your job, You would turn it down in a heart beat.
kral
February 3rd, 2011
9:40 pm
titanic I think you sunk in1908 or 1912…barnee you need to have a good opinion of yourself..it’s good self-esteem..postive self-image…look on the bright -side..dangyou must need somepersonal counseling puutting down people for having these
kral
February 3rd, 2011
9:42 pm
thanks woebegone.by the way I use to love that radio show
RJM Dawg
February 3rd, 2011
9:43 pm
Congrats to Coach Belin! He is a very good coach and will be missed.
Gdawgs77
February 3rd, 2011
9:43 pm
TRAVIS JONES should be hired!!! He is a former Dawg and has been coaching defense for the Saints for several years!!?
Dr.Phil
February 3rd, 2011
9:45 pm
Wish we could get some coaching at Tech! Our players run around wondering what to do to get away from the Big Bully Johnson!
kral
February 3rd, 2011
9:46 pm
oh everthing is all right there is a doctor in the house
excessive celebration
February 3rd, 2011
10:01 pm
No worries we will get a coach or two, we got good players, Richt and Bobo arent going anywhere. And besides that NASCAR starts in a week. Go Harvick!!! Budweiser finally got a driver with some skill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dalton Dawg
February 3rd, 2011
10:30 pm
Hire either Pollock or Randall Godfrey now!! I agree the LBS played better but that what they are suppose to do in a 3-4 defense. Good luck in the NFL, Coach Belin.
NewnanDawg
February 3rd, 2011
10:40 pm
Anyone who knows anything about Coach Belin knows that he fully deserves every promotion he gets. The real shame here is that he is an excellent recruiter through relationship building-just ask Christian Robinson. He is also an excellent teacher of the game, hence the NFL offer. No doubt he will be missed, but I wish him the best; he made and excellent impression on several members of my family, including a nephew that attended camp last summer. All the best to Coach Belin and I hope we can find a replacement that is a lot like him.
hounddawg
February 3rd, 2011
10:42 pm
I played lb at a D1 school, not UGA, but I can tell you, the lb’s were MUCH improved this year and it
was not due to an overabundance of talent. I would love to have seen Belin with Rennie Curran.
He’ll be missed.
collegiate coaches have to have masters degrees
February 3rd, 2011
10:44 pm
Hence, no Pollock or Godfrey.
UGAJD
February 3rd, 2011
10:52 pm
Good luck to Coach Belin. It’s nice to see Dawgs moving up in the world. I look forward to seeing who we hire to replace Belin and Searels. Never settle for less than the best. HBTD!
Brucerugby79
February 3rd, 2011
11:01 pm
Good luck to Coach Belin there is a connection between WAKE FOREST and Georgia if you live up here you can’t help but respect a school with under4000 students -anyway they like us as well-good luck Coach-They should have gotten the Byerly boy but nobody is perfect
NOBODYYOUKNOW
February 3rd, 2011
11:19 pm
C-mon fans, if he was that bad the NFL would not have hired him. The pressure in pro ball is just as bad or worse than the college level.
Gdawgs77
February 3rd, 2011
11:33 pm
TRAVIS JONES!!!!!!!!!
Richt is such an honest forthright man
February 3rd, 2011
11:46 pm
Well let’s see, CMR is so honest that he doesn’t recruit negatively against other schools, he just forgets to tell incoming linebackers that their coach is leaving to the NFL. Unless of course this hire happened less than 24 hours after signing day. WHAT A HYPOCRIT SUNTANNED BOY IS!!! You humpers believe all of his crap.
LEBOY
February 3rd, 2011
11:54 pm
GET OUT NOW! CMR AND STAFF WILL NOT SURVIVE ANOTHER YEAR AFTER THIS ONE!
Mr. SEC
February 3rd, 2011
11:56 pm
Well we got you a good raise to come to UGA, hope they can match our pay for you! The way I see it, we did not have a LB’s coach until after Grantham came (then it was awhile) before you were hired; so I guess we are back to where we were last year. No harm done! Maybe Grantham can recruit his man that knows what he is doing now! Man you just dumped on a university, coaches, and most of all, the young men that looked to you to coach them! I wish you had never came here, we are looking for stability in the staff also, you are no better than a player leaving early for the pros.
Good Luck to you, but you sure F_____U_ a lot of people! Don’t let the door hit you in the ASS!
UGA89
February 4th, 2011
12:04 am
Excessive Celebration…
You’ve got to be kidding- Budweiser finally got someone with skills? I would like to see Harvick drive for RPM. He would struggle also. Kahne has great talent that unfortunately has not been realized due to being shuffled from one car owner and car manufacturer to the next. Plus, how bad can it be when you are that HOT!!!! If he goes to Hendricks and still does not produce then I will have to side with you. The one thing I do agree with you is that Daytona can’t come fast enough.
Gomer Pyle
February 4th, 2011
12:13 am
DUUUUUHHHHHH! We were talking football, right? Andy, is Barney using a computer now?
Steve
February 4th, 2011
12:22 am
He wasn’t here long enough to make a huge impact, but there is no doubt we improved at LB this year, though it could have just been experience. Definitely nothing bad I can say about this coach, which is saying something for UGA the last few years.
Best of luck to him in the pros.
realist X
February 4th, 2011
12:52 am
He figured richt will last 1 more year and then he would be out of job—so he jumped off the sinking ship to a pro job for about the same money or less. At least it will put food on the table for a year or two.
STEINER
February 4th, 2011
1:21 am
DTC:
You another one of the UGA supposed fans who keep repeating something you heard while cooking my fries in McDonalds…You don’t know Jackschitt about football, only how to try and trash a good man and a good coach….There should be no question why our coaches leave..
We have a spoiled fan base that continually call coaches out on these blogs who don’t know anything about football…get back in there and supersize my fries, and find somebody else to criticize…Soon with idiots like you no coaches will want to come to UGA…Pay scale got screwed up last year when we spent 750000 on one guy…If I only made 20% of what the coordinator made, it would not be much incentive for me to come to work either…
STEINER
February 4th, 2011
1:29 am
Nerd Furgeson:
Get off my man Bobo…You Nerd are a loser…If you are a Bulldog fan, switch to Tech…We don’t need folks like you sitting in the stands at Georgia…Oh, that’s right, you can’t get out of McDonald’s kitchen on Saturday to watch a game, so you can only repeat what you heard some other redneck UGA moron fan say, get rid of Bobo…But you don’t have enough sense to tell anybody why….Just repeat what you heard in McDonald’s kitchen, retard…
Thanks CWB
February 4th, 2011
6:08 am
Great guy, great coach, hope this is a good move for him, we’ll miss him. Go Dawgs!!
Travis McGee
February 4th, 2011
6:44 am
JOEY: Surely you’re not saying the university should have extended Richt’s contract after the way the team has spiraled into the dumpster.
Travis McGee
February 4th, 2011
6:45 am
Even UGA the dawg got sick watching this team play last year!
Grim Reaper
February 4th, 2011
7:02 am
Poor Kent Turene and Ramik Wikson, lured and promised by a coach of your position who undoubtly already had the job and went out the door on you before the ink on your letter of intent had dried. Ask for your release, which you will not get, to confirm it. The dream team already losing steam, then losing to the potato farmers and roosters to start the season 0-2, OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Runnin With The Dawgs
February 4th, 2011
7:05 am
Coach Belin is taking a giant step. I hope it works out for him. If it doesn’t work out for us blame MR.
woebegong
February 4th, 2011
7:10 am
Kral, Woebegong is just a play off of the name of a little nasty shark found on the west coast of Australia. Lived there for three years and fished quite a bit. The nasty little bugger, looked prehistoric and was small, but would mess with you in a minute. I would kind of like to see UGA adopt it’s attitude. Chip on the shoulder, and tough as nails.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAWGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Gdawgs77
February 4th, 2011
7:31 am
TRAVIS JONES!!
Runnin With The Dawgs
February 4th, 2011
7:34 am
Steiner — You took a lot of room in this blog writing absoutly NOTHING about football. Who’s the REAL idiot here?
Beast from the East
February 4th, 2011
7:35 am
Think the kids he recruited knew he was leaving 24 hours after they signed their letters of intent?
Lying to a group of 17 year old kids is not the way you want your university represented.
gomdawg
February 4th, 2011
7:45 am
WE NEED DAVID POLLACK , HE WOULD BE A FINE COACH, LOVE’S DEFENSE
DL
February 4th, 2011
7:50 am
Beast from the East – I remember a certain group of fans that were condemning another SEC school after their DC left a day or two after NSD last year. What a difference a year makes huh?
Beast from the East
February 4th, 2011
7:59 am
DL,
Yes, indeed. Amazing how some people’s perspective changes when the shoe’s on the other foot, huh?