Georgia names Scott Lakatos its new secondary coach.
I hope somebody asks him at the presser whether he coaches his kids to look back at the ball when it’s thrown to the man they’re covering.
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UPDATE: Hale has quotes.
Get The Picture 
Now the question is another Def. coach or a Special Teams coach?
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Prov, aren’t the vast majority of special teams coaches actually something-else coaches first?
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I would think so. I don’t pretend to know what the answer is. I just hope there IS an answer. Outside of the kickers, special teams has been awful the last few years.
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And he comes with fantastic recruiting contacts in the fertile Main/Vermont/New Hampshire area!!!
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High school football in Vermont is just like high school football in Texas, minus the speed, athleticism, and weekly television drama.
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Whoa…….did you see Lakatos’ pic on the UGA website? Dude has the evil eye. I like it. He looks like he might just cut you.
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Surname origin:
“Lakatos”
Usage: Hungarian
Means “locksmith” in Hungarian.
The ‘evil eye’ inherited from distant ancestor in Hungary who supposedly operated under the name of Dracula. It is expected that Lakatos will mistakenly buy a vacation home in Dacula thinking that’s it’s his homeland.
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How do you pronounce it?
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If I had to take a guess, according to the Tim Tucker AJC School of Pronunciation and Diction, it would probably be something along the lines of:
‘A Hun-gary-n LACK-ah-toes Connecticut Yankee from the UCONN visits duh-cul-ah to look for a glass of milk in his homeland.’
http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/2010/01/18/georgia-hires-uconns-lakatos/
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Did anybody have that cornball Geography Professor Shear back in the 70’s. He said Dacula was right next to Fankenstein.
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No dig at you, Hog. But geography in college?
I don’t think it was offered at my (small) school.
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I took 3 Geography courses at UGA, all interesting. First was human geography (why are people whey they are?). Second was a weather and climate course. Third was about rocks and soil (location, not composition).
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It was climate.
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Those sound like climatology, geology, and anthropology.
Mr. Spradlin, you’re the second person I’ve heard use the term hogbody. Had a friend years ago, about our age, and a respectable high school OL, refer to himself and me as hogbodies.
I wasn’t flattered. But if the shoe fits……..
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I’ve been waiting for someone to bring it up. Hogbody Spradlin is a Lewis Grizzard character.
You know why he didn’t mind everybody calling him Hogbody? ‘Cause his real name’s Norbert.
I’m not quite there yet. I’m just your average 50ish guy who could stand to lose about 25.
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I hope somebody asks him at the presser whether he coaches his kids to look back at the ball when it’s thrown to the man they’re covering.
Should there be an “or” in there somewhere?
I just hope none of the secondary are “Lakatos intolerant”. Ha, Ha, Ha……Ha……Ha………….Ha.
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“Should there be an “or” in there somewhere?”
Nope. I’m an idiot. Sorry for reading it wrong and trying to correct you.
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That joke should be taken out and shot!
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Senator..I agree wholeheartedly on that comment. I was watching the Minn/Dallas game yesterday and on Favre’s first TD pass all the CB had to do was look back and intercept the ball. I was screaming at the TV, does anybody tech DBs to turn around and play the ball anymore.
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+100 Senator. I have never understood what a DB is thinking 4-5 seconds after the ball is snapped when the receiver’s eyes light up and his hands become outstreteched. Ya think it might be time to turn and leap? How freaking hard is that? What else is there to do 40 yards downfield running side-by-side?
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Presumably, Grantham will insist on the “in phase”, “out of phase” philosophy coined by Saban. In short, depending on the DB’s relationship to the receiver he will play the ball or the man. Many of the fits that you see Saban throw on the sideline is when one of his DB’s plays the man while “in phase.”
I like this DB coach hire. This coach has turned average players into very good ones. Hopefully he can turn good players into great players and he better. The strength of the 3-4 is stopping the outside runs and short and intermediate passes. The potential weakness is the inside run and the deep passes. As we saw with the Dallas/Minn game, and the UGA/LSU game in 2004, if the WR’s are simply better players than the DB’s, a 3-4 can get lit up in a hurry even if you are controlling the line of scrimmage and applying pressure. In effect, the 3-4 is great until you play a qb who can throw the deep ball to great wr’s and then you better have outstanding cover corners and safeties.
We also need to understand that the 3-4 can give up lots of big plays because they take a lot of chances. Attacking puts you in a position where you often only have one guy that can make the play and if he doesn’t you have problems. How many big plays we give up will depend on the quality of defensive players we have.
Early on the 3-4 will serve us very well vs teams like Auburn, USC, UF (assuming they run the spread with Brantley) but against a team like Arky that has a big back and a strong armed qb, it may be an adventure for us. I know it was in 2009 as well, but that really wasn’t scheme, it was execution.
In the end though we are going in the right direction in that we will have a defense that will really frustrate and crush the will of the mediocre teams we play thus the chances of losing to inferior oppponents lessens greatly. Against some of the better teams we play our scheme will put at us an advantage and against the sorts of teams that would cause us problems hopefully we’ll put up some points. All in all though, I predict that if this team can score 20+ against anyone on the schedule that will result in a 10 win season every time. If we can get to 35+ ppg. then we are playing for crystal balls.
BTW: we will be in the 2010 SEECG. So you can plan on that.
My second prediction is that the remaining coach TBD will be a special teams coordinator.
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I am as upset/angry as anyone over our ST’s play the past few years, but I don’t think we need a coach just for STs. I don’t know who posted it on another site, maybe Hale’s, but the schedule for UGA practices allows very little time for ST work. That in itself sends a bad message about how important CMR regards this phase of the game, if true, but it certainly doesn’t leave enough work for one of our precious few coaching spots.
I feel it has to be a shared accountability given the limitation on coaching positions. Personally I want to see CMR take this on, primarily because it would raise the importance level of STs in the players’ eyes, CMR could draw from the entire roster for talent without any problems from protective position coaches, and it would probably get more time on the practice schedule.
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That would be UF’s approach and its a good one. Have the HC coordinate special teams and everybody wants to impress the head guy. What we don’t know is how specialized your knowledge has to be to take on that role and whether CMR has it. While I understand that there is only so much time for practice, this phase of the game is too important to discard due to lack of time. Derek Dooley just hired a ST coordinator at UT, I can’t see why we can’t or shouldn’t do like wise. We recruit so many good returners and potential punt blockers that we could really cause teams a lot of problems if we put more focus on this area.
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Hardly any teams use a coach dedicated to special teams and nothing else.
I suspect the remaining coach will be another linebackers coach (one for inside, one for outside). It seems that Lilly, coaching tight ends, would have the lightest load of the coaches. So he would be my guess to take over special teams.
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My understanding is that Grantham is coaching both inside and outside LB’s. Agree with it or not, switching to a 3-4 allows one less coach on that side of the ball so I really think we are going to go with a special teams guy. Of course, we’ll all see soon enough.
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I have no information on what the remaining coach will be. But Alabama uses 2 linebackers coaches and one of the position coaches does double-duty as the ST coach.
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On second thought I think the remaining coach will be in charge of coordinating wardrobe adjustments and other matters related to “juice” such as black outs, white outs, red outs and unsportsman-like conduct choreography.
I know its been a good week for CMR and I like where are going, but lets hope that we’ve seen the last of the attempts at artificial enthusiasm. Let’s just go out and GATA just because that is what we do and what we are. I wanna hear this exchange in pre-game warm-ups:
Grantham: What do we do for a living!?!
DEF. UNIT: KILL, KILL KILL!!!!
Grantham: What makes the grass grow!?!
DEF. UNIT: BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!!!!!
That’ll put us in the right mindset for success in the SEC. I wanna hear Jack Tatum say: “Man, that Georgia team is scary aren’t they?”
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That all certainly sounds pretty reasonable except for the part about Jack Tatum speaking English even though he (and a ghostwriter) wrote three best-selling books, ‘They Call Me Assassin’ in 1980, ‘They Still Call Me Assassin – Here We Go Again’ in 1989, and ‘Final Confessions of NFL Assassin Jack Tatum’ in 1996.
Rumor is that Jack and ghostwriter are working on a new book, Jack’s fourth autobiography, about him being the usual assassin and whatnot and it has been in the works for sometime now. The only holdup on the publication release date is that Jack and his ghostwriter are still trying to figure out how to rearrange the words ‘Assassin’, ‘Jack’ and ‘Tatum’ and the phrase ‘Here We Go Again’ into a slightly different order for a somewhat fresher title for the new and improved fourth autobiography.
One review by a reader calls the third autobiography:
“Brutally honest, shockingly factual, and really repetitive, this book is the best ever written on the REAL world of professional sports. “Final Confessions of NFL Assassin Jack Tatum” is an exact reprint of Jack’s previous two books, “They Call Me Assassin” and “They Still Call Me Assassin – Here We Go Again”. It also contains additional opinions and conclusions that Jack reached on a variety of subjects [if, in the highly unlikely event, anyone were ever interested].”
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If we’re going to hire a JCC (Juice and Choreography Coach) I think CMR needs to go for this guy:
He was at SC a few years back and developed the “derelict” chant that had that Defense so pumped up. It went like this:
1/2 the locker room: “Dare-a-Leak!”
Other 1/2: “My Balls!”
First 1/2: “Dare-a-Leak!”
Other 1/2: “My Balls!”
Orgeron later coopted this into the “SC – Wild Boys!” chant seen below.
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Piano Key Neckties for everyone!
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How could Derek not be on CMR’S radar, he is a knowologist when it comes to football! We could have hired him and replaced all three coaches and saved a ton of money! And in his spare time he could give the Falcons some pointers on making it to the playoffs next year! You go Derek………
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