Ray Goff

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**Ray Goff**
School as a player
Place of birth	Moultrie, Georgia
Sport	Football
Title	Head Coach
Overall Record	46-34-1
Bowl Record	2-2-0
Coaching Stats	College Football DataWarehouse
1974-1976	Georgia
Position	Quarterback
Coaching positions
1989-1995	Georgia

Ray Goff was a college football player and coach for the Georgia Bulldogs.

1 Playing career
2 Coaching career
- 2.1 Head coaching career
- 2.2 Head coaching record
3 Quotes
4 Related pages
5 Footnotes
6 Sources

[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 end coach and running back 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 back 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^#
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	1T (East)	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

Georgia Bulldogs football
Georgia Bulldogs football under Ray Goff

[edit] Footnotes

^ Merron, Jeff. "Florida/Georgia vs. Clemson/South Carolina", ESPN Page 2, ESPN.com, 2003-11-14. Retrieved on 2007-01-05. (in Enlish)
^ "Georgia Names Goff To Replace Dooley", The New York Times, 1989-01-03. Retrieved on 2007-01-05. (in 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 (English) (HTML). Georgia Bulldogs 2006 Media Guide. georgiadogs.com (2006). Retrieved on 2007-01-04.
Poll History (English) (HTML). Georgia Bulldogs 2006 Media Guide. georgiadogs.com (2006). Retrieved on 2007-01-04.