Georgia assistant to miss Orange Bowl while recovering from pneumonia
By Keith Farner
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Georgia will be without a key assistant against Florida State in the Orange Bowl.
The programa announced that offensive line coach Stacy Searels did not make the trip and was in an Athens hospital recovering from pneumonia. A full recovery is anticipated.
Searels, 58, is in the midst of the second season of his second tenure as Georgia offensive line coach after he replaced Matt Luke. Georgia’s offensive line was again among the Joe Moore Award finalists in 2022 and in 2023.
In Searels’ place, the Bulldogs will turn to analyst Manrey Saint-Amour. He is a former Georgia Southern center who coached the Charleston Southern offensive line last season and was a graduate assistant at Alabama and Florida State.
Noticed Georgia offensive line coach Stacy Searels wasn’t at practice. School says he’s not on trip due to pneumonia. “He is recovering in the hospital in Athens. A full recovery is anticipated.”
— Marc Weiszer (@marcweiszer) December 27, 2023
As a player at Georgia Southern, Saint-Amour made 36 career starts, and was a first-team All-Sun Belt selection as a senior in 2014.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
