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Former Georgia defensive back Sheldon Dawson joins Bulldogs coaching staff

by:Austin Brezina•05/29/22•

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The Georgia Bulldogs and head coach Kirby Smart added a former player to their coaching staff with former defensive back Sheldon Dawson. Dawson will be taking a position as defensive quality control and assistant defensive backs coach with Georgia, according to a post he shared via his own Twitter account.

Sheldon Dawson returns to Georgia as a coach

“TOUGH times don’t LAST, but TOUGH people DO,” said Dawson in his message to Georgia fans. “Excited to accept the role as Defensive Quality Control-Assistant Defensive Backs Coach back HOME at The University of Georgia. GO DAWGS.”

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Dawson returns to Georgia, where he played three seasons from 2012 to 2014 before transferring to finish his college career at UT Martin. Before accepting his new position with the Bulldogs, Dawson coached high school as a head coach before returning to UT Martin as a cornerbacks coach.

Kirby Smart’s future at Georgia

What’s the latest of the future of Kirby Smart at Georgia? Seth Emerson of The Athletic detailed what negotiations are looking like regarding the coach of the Bulldogs, explaining in detail during an appearance on The Paul Finebaum Show.

“The president, Jere Morehead, was asked yesterday about a number that’s been thrown around, like ten years, $100 million, and that’s only been speculated based on what you’ve seen from other coaches,” explained Emerson. “Like, what Ryan Day got, and Mel Tucker. Two coaches who have not yet won a national championship. Mel Tucker is not even really getting close. Morehead didn’t like, blink at that figure. So, I don’t know whether it’ll be around that. I do have a feeling it’s going to be very long term. It’ll be flexible. Maybe there’ll be language in there that’ll say he’ll always need to be something like top three, top four in the SEC. Something like that. But that’s just again, speculation.

“I think the top line, headline figure will be the sexy headline for everybody. But it’s kind of the details of Georgia maintaining a commitment facility-wise, and kind of going forward with NIL and collectives and all that, kind of being the next phase of the arms race in college football.”

On3’s Stephen Samra contributed to this article.