Georgia is adding one more assistant coach with Alabama ties. Stanford running backs coach Lance Taylor will be named the new wide receivers coach at Georgia, according to a report Monday morning from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Taylor previously played college football for Alabama and he got his coaching career started there as well. Following two seasons as a graduate assistant at Alabama under Nick Saban, Taylor was named an assistant coach by then-FCS power Appalachian State in 2009. In 2010 Taylor’s coaching career took him to the NFL, where he would spend one season with the New York Jets as an intern, another as an offensive quality control assistant and a third as an assistant tight ends coach and quality control manager. In 2013 Taylor was named the wide receivers coach by the Carolina Panthers and in 2014 he returned to the college game to fill a need as running backs coach with Stanford. Now he is making a return to the SEC.
At Stanford, Taylor was handed the responsibility of recruiting throughout the traditional SEC footprint -- Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina -- as well as Virginia and Washington D.C. Georgia adding another coach with some familiarity with the region is good to have in a competitive region, assuming Taylor is given the same recruiting assignments.
UPDATE (11:35 A.M.) : It appears this is not happening now. Doug Samuels of Football Scoop reports Taylor will actually be staying put at Stanford.Update at Georgia: Stanford RBs coach Lance Taylor will not be leaving for the UGA WR job http://t.co/IkvvbhPFQo
— Doug Samuels (@CoachSamz) February 16, 2015
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