Greg McGarity has sent an email to donors disclosing that the school is negotiating a contract extension with Mark Richt.
“I look forward to working alongside Mark in the future and in helping him move our program forward in all areas. We will be working on a contract extension with Mark over the coming days. I know Mark is focused on completing his coaching staff and recruiting,” McGarity said in the email. “Our support staff is also focused on a number of construction projects, including the indoor practice facility and future enhancements to football areas in Sanford Stadium. We will keep you updated on progress in these areas as they develop.”
Did McGarity blink in the face of steady criticism of his management, or was the Belk Bowl the tipping point for Richt’s future at Georgia? Beats me (although McGarity’s message praises the effort and preparation for the bowl game). In any event, the die is cast and it’s time to get the rest of the players on the same page. That starts with making sure the assistants who are underpaid by market standards get an adjustment.
In any event, those of you who want Mark Richt gone are going to have to wait a while.
Hmmm…
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Sounds like Greg Mc may have blinked. See what power you wield Senator? All he has to do is read GTP. Impressive!
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I think he blinked, too. Notice that he worked in a mention of IPF and other enhancements. The optimist in me thinks he’s signaling that he’s willing to support a new vision for the program.
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Listen, you’re kidding but I swear they read this blog as a barometer of what DawgNation cares about. I’ve always been hesitant to say anything because it seems absolutely mad, but every time a large number of us grouse about something we read or see it discussed or addressed in the program or on the field a week or two later.
Have I gone truly crazy?
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No, you aren’t. The most important blog for any school is read by the AD, it would idiotic for it to be otherwise.
I think the Senator knows this, and knew what he was doing when he went a little overboard in his criticisms of McGarity after the bowl win. I would bet money the sentiment expressed played at least a small hand in the swiftness and degree to which McG changed tone.
FWIW, I think this was the desirable consequence, so ‘a little overboard’ is just fine by me.
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I’ve never had any indication that anyone at B-M reads this blog.
As far as “overboard” goes, you should hear some of the stuff I’ve heard over the past two months.
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OMG…The Senator is Katharyn Richt!!!
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OMG …water boy,I Love it..could stick.
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I only suggest it was overboard because it seemed that way yesterday, even though your argument was hard to object to. The fact that McG turned around so quickly seems to have confirmed my suspicions. That’s all.
Also, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. What exactly would you expect to see if no one at B-M read your blog, and how is that different from what you do see? Does any AD in the country admit to reading any blog?
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didn’t they give you a media credential or field pass for a game a few years ago? it would seem to me that if i were at B-M that i would want more information about my, ahem, “customers” (tries not to puke). and i bet the SID folks check in here just because it would probably help them make sure they aren’t missing any stories on the innertubes, etc.
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B-M didn’t. I got a field pass once through Rodney Garner, via David Jacobs.
I get feed back off site from a variety of folks. But never a hint of anyone from B-M – or people who know people at B-M. 😉
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“Have I gone truly crazy?”
Verily I say unto you, yes
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Welcome back….you oughtta know. 🙂
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Cos, what the hell are we doing up at this hour? Differing time zones? Nice of you to give DiF a “welcome back we missed you”. Especially since he’s one of those “bleedin’ butt liberals”, a label we share proudly.
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guessing they will want all of us to kick in “our fair share” as well.
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Clearly he reads this blog. Wonder what handle he posts under?
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Seems like a “Smith” type.
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FIRE LILLY, HE SUCKS!!!!
BEFORE THE BALL WAS SNAPPED, I COULD PREDICT EVERY SINGLE PLAY HE CALLED!!!!
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everyone could!
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Except for maybe Louisville
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Just run the damned ba…..oh, wait.
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About damn time!
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I hope people who want Richt gone are watching the Taxlayer.com Bowl right now and seeing all those Tennessee fans who are now ecstatic about squeaking into bowl eligibility and are giving their coaches extensions for making it to .500 After 3 years.
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Beat me to it, Josh, the Vol Nation turned out bigtime for a very mediocre bowl in a nothing-special town because they have been living in the stone age since a stupid AD fired the most successful coach the Vols have had since leather helmets were de rigueur.
Now you know what it was like in Athens when Dooley’s Dawgs beat Michigan.
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What about those of us tuned into the past 8 national championships?
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Those don’t count. The only program that has changed coaches is Tennessee. All hail Saint Richt. He is more important to me than UGA.
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Tennessee and the few schools that have won a title. No others, though.
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Yep, Ohio State never got rid of John Cooper. He is doing a great job and going for his 2nd national championship against Oregon.
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Oh, what a smarty you are! Out of 3,000 head coaches in the history of the sport, you found one with the longevity and relative success of Richt that didn’t win a title! Good for you. That must mean Richt is exactly the same as Cooper.
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And your equally witty reply must mean that Richt isn’t the same as Cooper and that we will indeed morph into a replica of Tennessee if we dare to change coaches. The fear tactics work. Status quo…full steam ahead!
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No, Richt might be the ‘same’ as Cooper for all we know. I would only say that the fact that John Cooper existed does not prove that Mark Richt is John Cooper, particularly when Cooper is such an outlier (which is why everyone has to point to him when trying to criticize Richt, you never see a single other example).
I’d also note that Cooper, like Richt, would have had a few appearances in a 4-team playoff. Would be interesting to see what his 1996 and 1998 teams would have done, and if even John Cooper wouldn’t be ‘John Cooper’ under the current system.
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The Dawgs had some personnel issues coming into this season, especially on defense. I don’t think we underachieved so much as we were overrated and overconfident. We now have one of the best recruiting classes in the country coming in. Anybody wishing for a coaching change at Georgia is either not informed, not a fan, or, well, stupid. There is nothing our competition would love more than for us to change coaches.
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Were we overrated? We came in #12 and will likely finish in the top 10.
People are frustrated, I think, because this Georgia team was unexpectedly top 5 in terms of it’s ability (look at all those blow outs), which made 3 losses, particularly the florida debacle, hard to swallow.
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I’m frustrated because this team was good enough to beat anyone and really just frustrated because we should never lose the we lost to FU. Come a long way from the 90s just to lose to FU like that in 2014. The USC and Tech games…meh…we were 2 or 3 plays from going into the SECC game with only one loss. Instead, we left no doubt by losing both in multiple ways. The Gurley fiasco just rubbed salt into the wound. Georgia wayed the hell out of that one!
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Good news is Chubb.
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First of all, sorry about the “stupid” comment. “Unwise” would have been a more appropriate word. My bad.
I am not sure what you mean by “unexpectedly top five” in terms of ability. I disagree with that statement completely. We had some weaknesses on the interior DL, DB, WR and we certainly had a drop-off in the passing game. Thank God for Nick Chubb, Sony Michel, and Isiah McKinsey or we would have really stunk it up. I think we finished about where we should have. In other words, we were not top five at any time IMHO.
Don’t get me wrong, I totally get the frustration re: FL, SC, and Tech. I was sick and bummed out for a couple of weeks about the Tech game, but bad things happen when you have glaring personnel deficiencies. All indicators point to a bunch of players (that can help immediately) coming on board in February.
It would serve the Dawg Nation well to circle the wagons and get positive. I Believe this staff can get it done with just a few more pieces and a couple of good hires. It is not time to change courses and we need to stop beating that dead horse.
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Or maybe some of us aren’t emotional 5 year olds who get fussy after losing to Tech once every 7 years and want to burn a top 10 program to the ground?
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Yep, emotional 5 year olds are only angry b/c we lost to Tech. Ignore everything else. The kool-aid tastes great.
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Hey, I get accused of drinking kool aid all the time by cynical, myopic jerks like you in the financial world. Fortunately I ignore them, and have become quite wealthy by looking at the world with coldly and objectively. I look at Richt the same way, and will happily advocate his dismissal when the data warrant it (i.e. win his career SEC record drops below it’s current .700 clip). Until that time, I’ll just laugh at people like you.
And yes, the fussiness level a couple weeks ago was at levels I haven’t seen since the last tech loss in 2008 (even worse than the terrible 2009-2010 stretch). So yeah, I have to believe they are related.
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Wow, we have a french model. I support Richt 100 % by the way. Bragging about wealth (which truely wealthly people don’t do) is in poor form my friend.
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C’mon, Gurkha, the kid already said “I’ll laugh at people like you” at RBC. That already IDed him as immature in words and expressions or he’s sockpuppetrying.
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OK
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That makes perfect sense, Q.
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This analogy is bogus!! Tennessee has to go all over the country to get players!Georgia has a wealth of talent.That dog wont hunt bro!!
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Hope this also means we don’t hire Callaway on the cheap or promote from within for OC/OL coaches.
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I hope that we do promote from within to prevent some average coach from coming in and confusing our play-calling with a new system. The O doesn’t need that right now.
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Apparently, that retirement rumor pissed off more than just you Senator.
I wonder if old Greg has scheduled any further interviews with Mark Bradley. If there is any way to send an unbiased message, Bradley is our man.
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Heh, heh, heh.
Our e-mails landed with the “Experts” in B-M, with the derivation of the word as it fits the admins: “X” = unknown quantity (as in mathematics) ; “spurts” = drips under pressure.
I’ll keep the rope handy just in case they low-ball the coaches and don’t furnish mileposts for finishing each part of construction post haste.
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At Park Hall they taught me that “expert” was derived from a Latin word but when I look at the people to whom it’s usually applied I can’t help but feel like your folk etymology gets much closer to the meaning of the word as it’s actually used.
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my favorite definition of expert is a person who learns more and more about less and less until eventually they know everything there is to know about nothing at all.
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Who knows why the AD has suddenly decided to talk about a new contract for Richt, the point is that he is doing it.
I hope Jere Morehead rattled somebody’s cage.
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Scorp, I think the nail just met the head re: Morehead. My opinion is that he wanted it done.
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Yep. Morehead read McCheap the riot act. God Bless Jere Morehead.
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Well, it appears McGarity is not the nonsupporting devil so many here thought he was. I seriously doubt anyone in any power position reads any web blogs, much less makes any decisions based on what is on them.
I hope the contract extension has some performance requirements in it.
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He doesn’t read blogs, but you can be damned sure he reads emails and takes phone calls from the people who write the checks.
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At least his Admin Asst said the message would be passed from the unwashed fringe alums.
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Did you see the post from the Reverend several days ago who said he had spoken directly to McG’s face and sent more than one e-mail? Some folks have been busy.
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Just making sure this isn’t referencing me……hopefully not. I’ve never claimed anything of the sort.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there is more than one reverend around here
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I shouldn’t have capitalized my reference, DiF. My mistake, not on the quoted sentiment, but by not saying “reverend” because the writer certainly referred to himself as uncapped. I capped it as a title, but using “the” before it certainly unintentially gave the added emphasis.
Whitewall, I read your input often and certainly know your name well enough not to have included your last name. Please don’t get me mixed up with any moniker with the last name of “Balls”. 🙂
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Ha! All good. 🙂
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Why wouldn’t we expect him to read blogs, especially if we think he’s a political animal? Wouldn’t you want to get an indication of what your contributors were thinking?
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https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblutarsky.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F12%2F17%2Fthe-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-greg-mcgarity%2F&ei=2wmnVInMKsGngwSQ64HIAw&bvm=bv.82001339,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNHNcwvQYyUW-aLPILnD7vq-lAUtMQ&ust=1420319583264477
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Opps….
Try this.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAUQjhw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblutarsky.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F12%2F17%2Fthe-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-greg-mcgarity%2F&ei=4AmnVKalBsS-ggTSigM&bvm=bv.82001339,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNHNcwvQYyUW-aLPILnD7vq-lAUtMQ&ust=1420319583264477
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Double fail. No third time. Google LSU Freek Mark Richt “Make It Rain”
BTW: What has happened to Dog in FL?
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DiF’s around, but is waiting for the perfect liberal moments. He’s loading his cannons for the former Gov down there (Jeb Bush) to declare for Pres.
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I think Condi got him. Somebody check Club Gitmo!
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Sure that’s the bad news but the good news is that I can hold my breath much longer and have come to enjoy the heel of a designer leather boot on my neck even more than I thought I would.
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I can see the re-education camp failed to work.
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Yeah, but that was a nice set of legs you were appreciating with the pain is my guess.
We are missing an opportunity by not e-mailing TCU and Baylor and telling them that Condi voted against them after taking counsel with Cheney (although his daughter probably thinks she’s a tasty bitch).
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The scary thing is that Jeb is the only one of the Bush boys who actually thinks he’s smart, which therefore makes him dumber than Neal and W put together
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I guess that makes Hillary legally retarded.
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Thinking you are smart may be dangerous, but the ones that are unquestionably sure they are right are the ones that scare me.
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http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/06/16/make-it-rain-he-makes-it-rain-he-makes-it-rain-on-them-dawgs
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Thanks…this had the potential to be humorous until I screwed it up!
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FIFY?
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He’s patiently awaiting Year Five of the Third Five Year Plan and imagining with the contract extension that we will have an indoor IPF sometime toward the end of the Fourth Five Year Plan but if and only if the usual donors pony up.
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I’m just glad I don’t directly give money to that organization anymore. What a joke.
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Speaking of lost posters where is Ivey?
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Great question, I’ve wondered myself.
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I have wonder about Ivey as well.
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He’s taken a moment for himself because of the Florida game. This also gives him a chance to continue his case studies in how to stop cancer from spreading and/or gaining too much body mass
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Fire Saban!!!! He can’t win the Sugar Bowl when coaching Alabama!!!
Fire Smartt!!!!! His defense sucked on a national stage against a 3rd string QB
Fire Alabama’s S&C Coach!!!! How many players kept going down for Bama in that game. They’re weak!!!
Fire Saban’s wardrobe planner!!!!! His shoe inserts weren’t tall enough. He looked too short on National TV.
Fire Malzahn!!! His HS offense lost to a B1G team that just got their doors blown off by a weakass OSU.
Fire Mullen!!!! Sorry excuse for a Bulldog squad got slapped down.
Fire Spurrier!!!!! Pathetic excuse for a SC squad wet the bed all season.
Fire Musch……oh yeah.
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Dumb post. Malzahn won the conference last year. Saban won it this year. Richt hasn’t won it in 10 years.
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You’re Myopic. There are bigger things at play than a coaches seeming “ability” to win the conference. Kudos for not vomiting the nonsense about the MNC. Malzahn obviously was just a phenomenal coaching talent. It had nothing to do with some of the luckiest endings to football games in the universe. Richt keeps us at the front of the battle every year. Year in and year out. Throughout our program, we’ve averaged 2 SEC titles every 12 years or so. Throughout program history. Richt has met that standard. I’m not being his apologist. I wouldn’t care who the coach was if he had the record Richt had, I’d want to keep him. Myopic Bama wannabes are going to sink our program. Not a consistent Coach.
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Hear, hear. Malzahn is a fantastic coach. He’s also got the same winning percentage as Richt, and worse SEC percentage, even with that insanely lucky season.
Maybe with Muschamp as DC he’ll have a better program than Richt’s, but it’s far from obvious so far.
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Luck was not involved at all in Auburn’s victory over us or bama in 2012. We lost thanks to the single worst play in the history of college football by 2 of our defensive backs. Bama lost because Malzahn made a great coaching move in putting a return man in the end zone.
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Uh, did you see the end of 1st half of the Orange Bowl, when Tech “batted it down” and into to the hands of a defender. Did you see the end of the Sugar Bowl, when OSU caught the Hail Mary to secure it? It was luck and bad luck. It’s football. It happens.
The crazy thing about Auburn is that they have lost 5 or more games in 5 of the last 7 seasons, including two non-bowl losing seasons (one of them a 3-9 stinker). They actually had a season they went 0-8 in the conference, which is almost unimaginable. We have also beaten them 7 of the last 9 seasons. The two we didn’t beat them, they won the SEC and played for the national title both years. They represent everything that frustrates a UGA fan. They are a roller-coaster and we’re steady Eddie, and they’ve played for 2 titles, winning one.
Comparisons to Bama are simply unfair. We DO NOT (and probably WiLL NOT) have the kind of statewide and institutional support they have. We do not give Richt all that Saban gets in financial support throughout the program. But, Auburn and LSU just tick us off and make you wonder if Mark just has bad luck. LSU wins one with 2 losses. Auburn wins 1 and plays for another and we’ve beaten them 78% of the time in that stretch. Heck, Tech has beaten us as many times as Auburn has in the last 9 years. Tennessee has beaten us more times in the last 9 years than Auburn!!!!! Tennessee!!!!! Richt is 3-2 vs. Miles, and Miles has played for two and won 1.
When you think about those crazy numbers, you just realize how blessed we are to have Richt, what terrible luck we’ve had, how close we’ve been, how frustrating a few key moments have been, and how insane we would be to get rid of him. We had the #7 or #8 ranked recruiting class in 2014, That class helped power us through the season. If you don’t think recruiting matters, you don’t really get football. We’d have been a mess without McKenzie, Michel, Blazevich, Sanders, Carter, Parrish, and the Bell Cow, Chubb. This class is ranked #1 and at least #2 or #3 by all of them. More immediate help is on the way…better help than we’ve gotten in recent years. In 2013, we were ranked about #12. Ohio St. and Bama were both in the top 3 in 2013 and 2014. FSU was top 4 in 2014 and 10 in 2013. We have maybe the best OL recruit and QB recruit committed and actively recruiting for us in the 2016 class. Things are changing in Athens. We need to get on the train and back this program like never before. I’ve always said that Richt was Tom Osborne. Very similar personalities and stories. It took Osborne a while, but when he finally got it, he won 3 of 4 and darn near won 4 straight. I think when Richt gets it all together, we’re going to go on a run. If not for Todd Gurley’s high ankle and signature, we might be on it right now. That’s how thin the line is.
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+1
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Was all that a reply to my post? I agree with most of what you said. But crappy play by our defensive backs and an astute move in putting a return man in the end zone is not the definition of luck. Look, I hate Auburn as much as anybody but they had a great year last year, I hope we should get so “lucky” next year.
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You use facts well, sUGArdaddy. Nice ,spot on post, sir.
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Malzhan’s brilliant strategy to win against us in 2013: “Louis, go long and lose sight of the ball. Nick, underthrow Louis.” Yeah, he called that.
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Exactly. A million things had to go wrong. I was in the upper deck and could tell how poorly underthrown it was. I thought we’d won when he let it go. We were in position, and it was a desperation attempt. If JHC catches it, it’s no harm, no foul. You don’t always know if someone is trailing that you might bat it to.
As for the Iron Bowl, it’s much more likely that kick is a dud and knuckeballs out the back of the endzone, or that it’s blocked because of a low trajectory. Had to be the perfect kick and had to have the perfect return. A million other things could have happened there (though they still could’ve won in OT.) But, the bottom line is that they STILL had to have OSU lose to MSU later that Championship weekend night. We had no such luck in 2002. Two teams were undefeated. In 2013, 1 team was undefeated.
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Exactly wrong. It was not Malzhan’s brilliant strategy, it was the crap play of those two dumbasses we had playing back there.
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The letter may have been late in coming, but it sends the right message.
Now let’s see how loudly their actions speak.
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From the ESPN article (which made the front page of the website):
“The 54-year-old Richt has been among the winningest coaches in college football since 2001. His .739 winning percentage (136-48 record) ranks fourth among active FBS coaches who have coached at least 100 games in FBS conferences, trailing only Ohio State’s Urban Meyer (.844), Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops (.792) and Alabama’s Nick Saban (.746).
Richt is one of only five coaches in NCAA Division I history to win 115 games or more in his first 13 seasons, and he has guided the Bulldogs to two SEC championships, five appearances in the SEC championship game and 14 consecutive bowl games”
Guess we should all go complain some more
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Oh the Horror!!!!
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Sounds like ESPN doesn’t recognize mediocrity when they see it. Fourth best, indeed! That’s just the third loser!
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I haven’t been to this site in a while. Has it become the new sports & grits?
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Stay away from this site after a loss.
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+1 The Vent seems to leak over here quite regularly.
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Is that how we’ve landed so many superlative recruits this year? By promising them “future enhancements to football areas in Sanford Stadium,” and offering them the chance to commit football acts in those areas? Must be.
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I’d feel much better if we were locking Pruitt in for a long, long time.
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seek and ye shall find…David Ching @ESPNChing
UGA just announced that DC Jeremy Pruitt got a year added to his contract (now three) and a raise to $1.3M per year
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I DO feel much better. Thank you. (Although 3 years isn’t long enough.)
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WCD, coordinators typically don’t get contracts longer than that. Both sides want flexibility.
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Since there’s not a bowl thread I’ll just gloat here that apparently the SEC East doesn’t suck as much as everyone thought, and the SEC West isn’t all that.
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The East didn’t have a dominant team except when we were on our game. Missouri drew the perfect team for them – a slow B1G team that couldn’t handle the defensive speed and the Missouri spread. USCe drew a team Darth Visor loves to beat in Miami, and he schooled poor Al Golden. The Vols got the same thing Missouri did – a slow B1G opponent that Dobbs could exploit. We drew an opponent where Evil Richt was welcome and we took the ‘Ville behind the wood shed. It’s going to be interesting to see if Florida is going to be interested because ECU can beat them if the Gators don’t show up.
I will say this – the bowl record is deceiving due to the opponents the West drew, but the differences between the divisions aren’t as bog as people like Danny Kanell at the WWL would have the public believe.
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Danny Kanell is to college football analysis as North Korea is to lunar exploration. Danny should have been proud of his school and conference when Herbie proclaimed that the Seminoles had quit with several minutes left in the Oregon game, and then proceeded to slam their sportsmanship when it ended.
Danny should just take a knee and shut up. He’d be better off, and so would we. Try selling Dr. Pepper, Danny, and Go ‘Noles.
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I would pay good money to see Kanell and Jesse Palmer bludgeon one another to death with ax handles.
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Or just bludgeon each other with their versions of logic.
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Speaking of Missouri vs. Minnesota, can you imagine a more polite football crowd?
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That’s just plain funny.
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Well done, Russ
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Pruitt gets a raise to 1.3M and an extra year on his contract. Butts Mehre is a spendin’!
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With the 2 extensions it seems like the BM figured it out
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get on board boys, the train to the promised land is about to leave the station
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Just saw this. Good stuff.
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I think it’s apparent now Pruitt is going nowhere until he believes he is ready for a head coaching gig just like Bobo. Good for the Bulldog Nation that Pruitt is staying and CMR is negotiating an extension. Not ready to drink the 2015 vintage of red Kool-Aid yet, but it seems like it’s going to be a good year.
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I would agree with “overboard” as that, unfortunately, is what our fan base has digressed to, too. I am indifferent to McGarrity but to expect him to suddenly fall out of character with this mythological press box rumor would seriously undermine my confidence in my boss were I CMR. If one looks at open records from Sept you would see that the Sanford locker room improvements were on the “radar”. IPF is moving forward and McGarrity has openly stated that he asks every coach, “what can we do to help you succeed. Or, what do you need to help you succeed?” This perceived rift is akin to what my father referred to in the military as-outhouse rumors.
You (Senator) state that you have no access to B-M so I would caution playing into these innuendoes and purporting unsubstantiated claims lest next thing we know a jet is on the Tarmac at BEF w/Petrino onboard!!! We all know how that worked out.
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Pruitt’s complaint about the IPF wasn’t an innuendo.
McGarity’s interview with Mark Bradley wasn’t an innuendo.
You miss the point about the press box rumor. It never should have been taken seriously, but because of the tension between the staff and the administration, it was considered.
The good news is that there is now a genuine effort being made to get both sides back on the same page. That should be welcome news for everybody.
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Auburn is a five-loss team and back to being Auburn. Alabama loses to Irving Myers and the Tide is now something less than Phyllis of Mulga thinks it is. Florida State gets mugged and Jimbo argues with his QB.
Meanwhile, Georgia extends Pruitt with a raise and will do the same for Richt in due course. Georgia has a recruiting class that compares with the best. McG throws a little love toward Richt with a statement of support.
Life is good. Are the stars finally aligning?
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I really wish we could have thrown a million at Bobo and maybe kept him. But Bobo leaving is probably why this is happening, it finally opened GM’s eyes. Life is indeed good.
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