After weeks of speculation, we now know what roles Georgia's staff of assistants will play.

As speculated, there are some changes.

We already knew about Dan Lanning, who was hired as the replacement for Kevin Sherrer as the Bulldogs’ new outside linebackers coach, along with Cortez Hankton, the former Vanderbilt assistant with NFL experience, now set to serve as the team’s new wide receivers coach.

As for James Coley, who coached receivers for Smart in each of his first two seasons, he’s now Georgia’s new quarterbacks coach and will serve as the team's co-offensive alongside offensive coordinator Jim Chaney, who will add the tight ends to his list of responsibilities.

"(James) has done a tremendous job for us, as a coach he did a great job with the receivers, he's been a coordinator before and he's had success working with quarterbacks," Smart said. "Coach Chaney will continue to be the offensive coordinator, call the plays and will also be working with the tight ends."

Smart was asked if they thought there would be any level of risk with making such a move, especially since the offense averaged 35 points per game.

"I think if you continue to do the things you'll usually get the same results. I'm not accepting where we were is good enough by any means," Smart said. "I think you can always look at yourself and say how can I improve? We improved our staff immensely by retaining one of our best recruiters in James Coley, and also bringing in an outstanding person in Cortez Hankton, who knows our league and has coached in our league, recruited in our league. We made our staff better and that's the ultimate job, to improve each year."

Wide receiver Terry Godwin said the fact that Hankton played in the NFL with the Jacksonville Jaguars was definitely good to know.

"You listen to all your coaches, but with him having that knowledge, he knows what you need to do, if we want to further ourselves to the next level," Godwin said. "He knows what it puts in and what it takes to get there."

Scott Fountain was hired as the team’s 10th assistant per the new NCAA directive and will coordinate Georgia’s special teams.

Other staff duties will remain the same.

They include Mel Tucker (defensive coordinator, defensive backs), Del McGee (running backs), Sam Pittman (offensive line), Tray Scott (defensive line) and Glenn Schumann (inside linebackers).