New title comes along with raise, contract extension for D-coordinator Todd Grantham
It doesn't sound like Todd Grantham's new title of associate head coach is going to add many new responsibilities outside of coordinating Georgia's defense. (AP photo)
Athens – That Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham received a new three-year contract and $75,000-a-year raise this year has been well-documented. What hasn’t been, however, is that he also received a title change as well.
In addition to defensive coordinator, Grantham now is also the Bulldogs’ associate head coach. Georgia didn’t make an announcement or anything to that effect. The title simply appears below his name and above Grantham’s bio on page 22 of the recently-released 2012 media guide.
Grantham was asked on Friday what the new role would entail for him. It doesn’t sound like much if anything will change. Here’s his convoluted answer:
“As far as the new title — and the salary, too, for that matter — obviously I’m appreciative of President Adams, Mr. McGarity and Coach Richt for allowing me to continue to be a part of this program and continue to move it forward to where we feel like we can go. There’s a lot of tradition here at the University of Georgia, which is one of the reasons I wanted to come here. And I feel like we’ve really just scratched the surface on what we can do. We just have to understand the things that got us here last year and continue to work hard to improve, because there are still things we can continue to improve upon and make the program better as well as make this season a good season.”
Grantham was asked if it would mean more responsibilities for him.
“Do more?,” he asked rhetorically. “As far as that goes, from a defensive perspective, I pretty much handle everything that needs to be handled from a defensive perspective. So, obviously if there are things in recruiting or things like that, they obviously will go through the head coach. But from a defensive perspective I’m pretty much going to handle the areas that you would think a defensive coordinator would handle.”
All of which is to say, Grantham’s day-to-day won’t change. However, his new contract does mandate a few more public appearances and the like. As of this past week, Grantham still hasn’t signed the new 29-page contract, which guarantees him $825,000 for the next three seasons. But Grantham’s comments indicate the deal is done in his mind.
“In any profession, the ability to have some stability for your family is critical because it allows you to really focus on the task at hand,” Grantham said, “and that’s getting our program where we want it to go. We had a good year last year, but I think there are obviously things left undone and it allows you to continue to work and focus in on that task. So I think that’s critical.”
Grantham and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo each had 30-minute interview sessions with beat reporters on Friday. Bobo talked about backfield adjustments being made in the wake of tailback Isaiah Crowell’s dismissal and other challenges facing the offense this fall. The coaches all returned from vacations this past week and are in the planning stages of preseason camp, which begins July 31.
Meanwhile, the annual “Countdown to Kickoff” event hosted by former Bulldogs David Greene, Jon Stinchcomb and Matt Stinchcomb, gets underway at 3 p.m. this afternoon at Woodruff Practice Fields. I profiled Jon Stinchcomb a couple of weeks ago. Information on the event can be found at ugakickoff.com.
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ValdostaDAWG
July 14th, 2012
2:50 pm
What’s with all these losers coming on here and bashing the Dawgs? Can’t we be excited about our team? Why all the negativity? If we were as big of a joke as a program as yall say then you would have no need to come on here and hate. Only the ones that are concerned we’ll beat them are on here. This is going to be a good year. Go Dawgs!!!
Chas Hemry
July 14th, 2012
2:50 pm
Stupor Dave…. What a great nickname. The joke here is your team, obviously not your alma mater. LSU, UF, Bama have won multiple NC’s and UT and Auburn have won one NC since your last NC.
You have no more tradition than Pitt or BYU.
Chas Hemry
July 14th, 2012
2:52 pm
Stupor Dave is a big fan of UGA’s Professor Reinhart…
Super Dave
July 14th, 2012
3:00 pm
Pitt or BYU have never won an SEC championship have they?
Math douche: Forty-four out of 111 members of the University of Georgia Football team were named to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the spring of 2012. Student-athletes earn these honors for finishing the semester with a grade point average of 3.00 or better.
3.50-3.99 GPA: Faton Bauta (W. Palm Beach, Fla.), Scott Eichler (Oakwood, Ga.), Ty Frix (Calhoun, Ga.), Wright Gazaway (Buford, Ga.), Ricky Lowe (Duluth, Ga.), Keith Marshall (Raleigh, N.C.), Hutson Mason (Marietta, Ga.), Aaron Murray (Tampa, Fla.), Lucas Redd (Jefferson, Ga.), Ben Reynolds (Bainbridge, Ga.), Dustin Royston (Royston, Ga.), Kosta Vavlas (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) and Wes Van Dyk (Highland Park, Tex.).
3.00-3.49 GPA: David Andrews (Johns Creek, Ga.), John Bodin (Covington, Ga.), Brandon Bogotay (San Diego, Cal.), Chris Burnette (LaGrange, Ga.), Corey Campbell (Hephzibah, Ga.), Chris Conley (Dallas, Ga.), Watts Dantzler (Dalton, Ga.), Zach DeBell (Tarpon Springs, Fla.), Caleb Drake (Hogansville, Ga.), Michael Erdman (Merritt Island, Fla.), Adam Erickson (Athens, Ga.), Cody Johnson (Marietta, Ga.), Greg Lanier (Clarkesville, Ga.), Jamie Lindley (Savannah, Ga.), Arthur Lynch (Dartmouth, Mass.), Rhett McGowan (Calhoun, Ga.), Greg Mulkey (Fairmount, Ga.), Geoff Rapp (Kennesaw, Ga.) Blake Sailors (Athens, Ga.), Garrison Smith (Atlanta, Ga.), Mike Thornton (Stone Mountain, Ga.), Xzavier Ward (Moultrie, Ga.), Hugh Williams (Atlanta, Ga.), and Chris Young (Hinesville, Ga.).
The 111 student-athletes that are a part of the football team earned a cumulative grade point average of 2.80 for the spring semester of 2012.
Ill take that. If these kids want to be Doctors after college that’s fine with me. If they want to come and get a degree in anything else, I’ll take that too. If they want to come here and play football for 3 years and try it in the NFL, fine with me.
Super Dave
July 14th, 2012
3:05 pm
That’s what I thought. Chas’ mother must have called him out of her basement to go take out the trash or something. I can’t stand people coming on here and bashing the Dawgs. Can’t we be excited about our team? Why all the hatred towards UGA?
LvilleDAwg
July 14th, 2012
3:07 pm
E.G., what does that professor have to do with Todd Grantham or UGA football?
BarryD
July 14th, 2012
3:14 pm
I love TG and the energy he’s brought to this defense. Cant wait to see how they do this year. Recruiting is going well too, it seems kid really want to play for this guy. Good Stuff..
Chas Hemry
July 14th, 2012
3:16 pm
I am excited about your recruiting. Tops every year!
Super Dave
July 14th, 2012
3:19 pm
There he is. Thanks Chas, good point. Thanks for being positive!
RHall55
July 14th, 2012
3:39 pm
BTW: Was Rodney Garner @ Dawg Night or Golden Corral Night……why is it you rarely see or hear of him? How many commits did Gomer Freind get last night….the weakest link on the Team and we only have (3) OL commits so far this year and only (3) OL LOI’s last year!! CTG is one of the positives on the Team that is helping in recruiting, production and performance; sorry to say, he may pulled down by his fellow bafoons!!
Super Dave
July 14th, 2012
3:43 pm
RHall55, yeah I’m not so sure about Friend either. I think he may be in over his head. We need a top notch oline coach and I don’t think he’s it.
Funny Bunny
July 14th, 2012
3:44 pm
Just toss it in. There is no need for any justification. Why should we be concerned ?
JiMiFLiX!
July 14th, 2012
3:50 pm
…$857,000? seriously? and the players? they get squat? just take a look at all those folks who are feeding righteously at that Bulldog money trough!!! you wonder why your kids tuition costs are going thru the roof? That is insane…!
mike davis
July 14th, 2012
3:52 pm
TG’s defense does great against mediocre teams. When he plays a decent team, they fold like a paper house.
lj
July 14th, 2012
4:19 pm
I wonder how Bobo feels about the title change for Grantham to be associate head coach. With Bobo’s unexpected problem on offense going into the season that were just announced then this has to be wake up call for him. If Rambo and ogletree are going to be suspended for drug test that have not been announced yet then I don’t think Grantham has much to brag about either.
English professor
July 14th, 2012
4:36 pm
Ha ha
GFJacket
July 14th, 2012
4:40 pm
lj, good question. Bobo is a Bulldog through and through – - unlike Grantham who has a neutered turkey heritage (or is it VippySue or whatever they call themselves nowadays). Given his tenure at UGA Bobo must be wondering…”what am I, chopped liver”….He can’t be happy with this.
GT80
July 14th, 2012
6:16 pm
I just don’t understand the anointing of Grantham, yet. The Dawgs only played 4 decent teams last year, and they lost to all of them. In those games, Grantham’s “great” defense gave up 35, 45, 42 and 33 points! Bobo and his “inept” offensive play calling scored 21, 42, 10 and 30 in those losses. A good defense would’ve won 2 or 3 of those games. So, which one is the great coordinator?
dap01
July 14th, 2012
6:54 pm
Grantham does not blame Martinez for defensive problems, he simply leads (Blame Bush…..)
Old Dawg
July 14th, 2012
7:06 pm
“In those games, Grantham’s “great” defense gave up 35, 45, 42 and 33 points!”
I think you better go look at the replays and see how many of those points were scored against us WHEN THE DEFENSE WASN’T EVEN ON THE FIELD!
Tom
July 14th, 2012
7:08 pm
Does he get a bonus if he makes a ‘choke’ sign to an opposing player and they actually do?
fan
July 14th, 2012
7:10 pm
convoluted? where did you come up with that term, chippie techie.
NickTheSaint
July 14th, 2012
7:41 pm
Hmm, looks like I might be coaching against TG in a couple of years. Maybe CMR will be my QB coach.
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kral
July 14th, 2012
8:02 pm
dang life is tough as a coach…dang being fired by the Dallas Cowboys …kills a resume every time ..thanks…chass
Old Dawg
July 14th, 2012
8:35 pm
“Hmm, looks like I might be coaching against TG in a couple of years.”
Sounds like Saban is quaking in his boots! I would love to play Bama with Todd Grantham as our Head Coach and Saban has Mark Richt as his QB coach. Saban: ” Mark, what the h*ll are you doing. Your QB has thrown three straight pick-sixes! Get him out of there.” Richt: “I can’t do that to the boy, Nick, I promised him I would play him all the time, and I am a Christian man and I don’t go back on my word.”
Georgia wins over Bama 42-35.
7576DAWG
July 14th, 2012
8:43 pm
JiMiFlix
85 players get free room and board and free education every year. The total cost of one player being on Scholarship per year is probably $50,000 when you add all the benefits each get.
Where are you getting that players don’t get anything. A free education, since that is the MAIN reason the players are there in the first place is an amazing thing. Approx. 10% of all players will get a chance at the Pro level so I hope they are all there for the right reason since 90% of all players are playing football in exchange for that free education. I wish UGA would have paid for the 4 years that my son was in Athens. Hope only paid about half of the total cost.
kral
July 14th, 2012
8:47 pm
oh to know the thoughts of others…or promises of another person..esp..CMR…you are truly gifted od..but maybe that was all a fantasy…somewhat like sci..fi channel
bitter spoiled recruit
July 14th, 2012
9:06 pm
does anyone fill strange that grantham has not signed the contract extention????strange
and chip——–do you have a problem with grantham—-sounds like it from your–verbage
Columbus
July 14th, 2012
9:07 pm
To all of you Grantham haters….why dony YOU go coach the UGA defense? You wouldnt last 2 games. Screw you haters. Thsi year the UGA defense will even be BETTER. BTW SC scored most of their points on special teams. Didnt do much scoring on offense l….look it up….losers
Columbus
July 14th, 2012
9:09 pm
UGA will be in the SEC championship game wth last years experience in the game under their belts.
You can chew and choke on that too …UGA, Richt and Grantham haters…..Richts not going anywhere for ay least 10 more years….ESPECIALLY when he wins the SEC a couple times in the next 5!
LogicalUS
July 14th, 2012
9:10 pm
“he gets a head coaching offer ”
Grantham isn’t getting any head coaching offer anytime soon…he lacks the requirements.
Grantham is a symptom of everything wrong with the UGA football team…he has been horrid as a DC. Anybody who witnessed his complete embarassment agaisnt Boisy last season after supposedly having all summer to use his “great defensive genius mind” to scheme for them should knows that he is way, way overrated. Yet delusional UGA beaners somehow have deluded themselves that he is actually respected or feared as a DC. Bhhahahahahahah..
Only at UGA would a DC who was coming off getting torched for 37.5 pts in his last two games be put on a pedestal as the greatest defensive mind in football. Embarrassing. How far from reality are UGA when they are crowing about Grantham when LSU put up 44 against him in the SECCG only to have Bama completely shutdown that same offense a few weeks later.
Hades, Grantham is so overrated that he had to have Bobo and a punter making a tackle to save him after getting shredded by Vandy???
kral
July 14th, 2012
9:14 pm
dang logical you’er insight is often to logical
kral
July 14th, 2012
9:17 pm
do not think that was a compliment…really hard to denote sarascasm on a blog…logicalust
Neutral
July 14th, 2012
11:19 pm
Who was the idiot who insisted for weeks that CTG was gone?
jh30906
July 15th, 2012
12:06 am
Quote:
Only at UGA would a DC who was coming off getting torched for 37.5 pts in his last two games be put on a pedestal as the greatest defensive mind in football. Embarrassing. How far from reality are UGA when they are crowing about Grantham when LSU put up 44 against him in the SECCG only to have Bama completely shutdown that same offense a few weeks later.
Um, Bama LOST the first time they played. Bama has more depth than us on defense. Bama watched the tape on us shutting down LSU for a entire half without giving up a first down. They used the same gameplan we run only kept it up the entire game. TG’s defense showed the world how to stop LSU. Our offense had to many 3 and outs which led the DEF to get gased. I blame that loss on the offense, Not the DEF.
pmdawg
July 15th, 2012
12:26 am
I hope in 2-3 years HCMR retires and DCTG takes over
Troup Co. Dawg
July 15th, 2012
4:42 am
Dawgs got it goin’ on !!!!
North Georgia Dawg.
July 15th, 2012
5:59 am
Defense is about having a pair, ,vicious attitude and intensity.Coach Grantham brings that every day..
This defense changed at the end on the Vandy game with Franklin / Grantham verbal exchange. I LOVED IT! Finally a D coach that unlike Willie Martinez does not let his wife hold his stones for him..
We Run the East
July 15th, 2012
7:27 am
I agree with Destin Dawg- Obama is anti-christ. Beat Obama, football will take care of its self. I would give up every victory for my team if Obummer is defeated. Don’t worry, its a done deal, no one that idiotic and destructive to country will be reelected. What a DISASTER for all the Makers. We are overrun by Takers.
kingdaddy
July 15th, 2012
7:55 am
Do you really think this will be a “fair” election with Eric the Red Holder allowing Mickey Mouse and Scooby Doo to vote, lol. This will be the dirtiest election in history. I’m not even sure there will be an election. More like a CORANATION…
Joey
July 15th, 2012
8:13 am
“Yet delusional UGA beaners somehow have deluded themselves that he is actually respected or feared as a DC.”
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ILLogical, you are truely an idiot. Ask your, “New Sheriff in Town” (PJ) how Grantham has done vs his ingenius offense. And Grantham’s D only gave up about half of the points in our losses last year. Special teams and a QB who fumbled and pick-6 ed us to death (Murray) provided the rest.
You should stick to something you know about – maybe post some comments on the “Knitting and Needlepoint” blogs. I bet the old gals would love your kind over there . . .
Atticus
July 15th, 2012
8:22 am
It has become glaringly obvious that on one side of the ball we have a great coach who is paid according to what the market bears and to try and keep him here. It is also obvious that he is making double what the offensive side of the balls coordinator is making. If we can have a great coach on defense why can’t we expect the same for the offense. This program makes way too much money and charges way to much for tickets (especially the glorified scrimmages) that we should expect more. Richt is shortchanging this offense (like he did with the defense for all the Willie years) and it has hurt us for years.
kingdaddy
July 15th, 2012
8:37 am
I don’t normally defend CMB but he hung 42 on a very good S.C. Defense last year. I exoect UGAs offense to be very potent this year. Don’t know why so many non-UGA fans seem to be so concerned about our offense and defense this year? If you’re so scared of UGA FOOTBALL, maybe you should take up another hobby…
Game Time
July 15th, 2012
8:49 am
Another indication of priorities at UGA. Apparently character doesn’t count. Give the choke sign and curse opposing student athletes, get into a shoving, shouting match with opposing student athletes and coaches and get made Associate Head Coach. And UGA wonders why they have the problems they do!
JB
July 15th, 2012
8:52 am
Grantham will never be the Head Coach at UGA. He’s not polished enough based on the last 2 successful coach’s ( Dooley & Richt). The face of the program is important to UGA, and you can say all you want about Dooley and Richt, but representing the program and the University to the world was and is a 10. I would bet you money that big time Tech folks privately cringe at Johnson.
Atticus
July 15th, 2012
8:55 am
kingdaddy, if he’s such a great coach, why is NO other school trying to hire him and why is Grantham paid twice as much when he’s been here half as long? Because he’s not the best qualified OC in the country and that is what Georgia should have. And by the way its not all Bobo’s fault, Richt is also to blame. That same team you say scored well against SC, they scored 10 against LSU 19 against KY and 20 against TN.
fl dog
July 15th, 2012
9:04 am
Well seems his riff with the head dude at Vandy sure didn’t hurt Grantham any, way to go Georgia!!
Atticus
July 15th, 2012
9:05 am
Grantham in his 3rd year has significantly elevated the defensive talent. UGA could have 8-10 players drafted depending on who leaves early. Last year’s defense wasn’t a finished product but this years should be Top 5. Mike Bobo has had 2 great QBs in Stafford and Murray but the running game is a disaster whether its picking the wrong recruits, poor scheme and as OC he is also responsible for the offensive line and its development and that has been mediocre at best. He is responsible for it all. Don’t give me BS or opinions, we are all hacks, but the fact is, if he was the best coach in the country then he should be paid that way and other teams would be coming after him. He is a great recruiter and shouldn’t be let go, but you are kidding yourself if you think we are getting out of this offense what we should.
Gulf Shores Dawg
July 15th, 2012
10:28 am
Our D was on the field way too much with no running game to speak of last year. Give the D a break and decent field position and we will be awesome! CTG for future head coach! I want a HC with FIRE and Brimstone spewing from him. NOT a Vandy crybaby HC…Class means sticiking up for your players! CTG is the man!