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Salary details released for new Georgia assistant coaches James Coley, Josh Crawford

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Georgia filled a couple of assistant coach openings earlier this week. It officially announced James Coley as the wide receivers coach and Josh Crawford as the running backs coach and run-game coordinator on Monday. DawgsHQ has now obtained salary information on both coaches via an open records request.

Coley will make $650,000 in his first season. Crawford is set to make $450,000. Further details such as the length of the contracts and potential buyout information is unavailable at this time. The Georgia open records law only requires that a request for salary information be filled within 10 business days. All other information is subject to a wait up to 90 business days.

This is Coley’s second stint at Georgia. He was a part of Kirby Smart‘s initial staff in Athens where he coached wideouts for the first time in his career. After spending two seasons with the receivers, Coley moved to quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator. He was responsible for putting the Bulldogs’ third-down plan together each week and called the offense on that down, helping Georgia to the nation’s No. 10 third-down conversion rate.

When Jim Chaney left for Tennessee after the 2018 season, Coley was promoted to offensive coordinator. The Bulldogs struggled offensively in 2019 and Coley was essentially demoted to make from for Todd Monken to come in as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Texas A&M hired Coley in for the 2020 season and he spent four years in College Station. Coley has also worked at Miami, Florida State, and FIU in his career.

Crawford has three years under his belt as an on-field coach at the college level. He spent two seasons at Western Kentucky, coaching receivers in both of those years and co-coordinating the offense in the second. He was hired at Georgia Tech in 2023 where he worked under Brent Key.

The Alabama native has a graduate degree from UGA that he earned in 2012 and has coached high school ball all over the state with stops at Greater Atlanta Christian, Jefferson County, Lee County, Valdosta High, and two stops at Colquitt County.

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