… could stand some better editing – there’s a reference to Jacob Park being in the mix for quarterback and some strange mention of LSU in the section about the schedule that’s a clear whiff – but it’s hard to argue with this:
Okay, so we know what Georgia is.
This is once again going to be another really, really good team that should flirt with a top ten ranking. There’s going to be a ton of NFL talent on both sides of the ball, there will be some moments when this looks like one of the best teams in college football, there will be talk of a Mark Richt hot seat despite all the success, and once again, Georgia is going to come up with a heartbreaking loss or two that keeps it from finally turning the corner.
Consistent winning seasons aren’t always enough for some programs – ask Nebraska – but coming up with three campaigns in the last four years with ten wins or more is impressive by any measure, especially in the SEC. This year’s Bulldog team might not have anything special compared to past Richt squads, but someday all the right breaks have to go this program’s way.
But the team has to make its own good fortune, too.
There was nothing that could’ve been done about the rash of injuries in 2013, but last year the Dawgs lost a shootout to a mediocre South Carolina team, and was inexplicably trampled over by Florida. They did what they needed to do against Arkansas, the destroyed Missouri in Columbia, and they destroyed Auburn. They were good enough, and they were certainly better than a Mizzou team that won its second straight East title. But that’s the way it is in the SEC world – being very, very good isn’t necessarily going to be good enough.
Or this:
But even though there’s enough in the bad to win the East, and even though the team should be just good enough to think about going go the playoff, it’s Georgia.
It’s going to win ten games, and it’s going to be a lot of fun to watch on both sides of the ball.
And then 2016 will supposedly be the year.
Lather, rinse, repeat, etc.
If you want to stop reading stuff like this about yourselves, there’s an obvious solution, Dawgs.
Get The Picture 
Pray tell us what the “obvious solution” is. I’m dying to know.
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Seriously?
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I am actually curious to hear.. I’ve avoided the comments on this blog for some time now, but please drop some wisdom.
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I wasn’t trying to be particularly profound. Just win the SECCG and they’ll quit writing “next year will be the year” type snark.
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Why are you so obtuse? 🙂
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Red Cup, you can get a month in the hole for using a word like obtuse …
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30 days in the hole with an insurance salesman.
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No, a banker …
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Worse…a LAWYER.
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I guess no one got my Shawshank Redemption reference … but a good thread nonetheless.
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Or Lady Broker from Georgia…Not a bad time as I recall.
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I’m too confused to answer that. 🙂
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has that ever stopped you in the past?
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Unlike other people I could mention, shit, yeah. 😉
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I was young stupid and unmarried
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Why would you think I was referring to you? 😉
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Still confused after all these years? Some things never change. 🎈
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I understand why you’d want to change monikers here, but your new handle is being moderated now, as well.
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Killjoy…
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You don’t know the half of it.
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looks like a few folks are being a little defensive this AM…
lol
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Well played, sir. 🙂
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+1
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It appears the media have hit on a consistent theme with Georgia football. I wonder if McGarity and Morehead read the articles about the never ending disappointing seasons and the perpetual talk of “next year”? With all the money poured into the program after last season’s falling short, yet again, I wonder if it might truly be “put up or shut up” time for Richt.
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Not if the team wins 10 games or even 9 or 8 or 7 games. He’s bullet-proof unless he has a losing season and he knows it. That said, I’d bet there is nobody on planet Earth who wants to win all Georgia’s games, win the SECCG and win a nattie more than CMR. I’m absolutely positive he is sick and tired of the bitching and mortified (yes, that is the right word) at the coaching screw-ups the staff has made (no, I don’t pin them all on him) that have Georgia where it is today in public perception. However, if the season were to implode and end up at another 6-7 or a 5-7 with no bowl, he’d be getting his walking papers so fast you wouldn’t believe it. He knows that, too. Frankly, with the schedule like it is I don’t think that is possible, though.
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I think an implosion would only be caused by a rash of injuries the likes of which we haven’t seen. If that happened…with Eason and the next class shaping up like it is–do you really think they would can Richt?
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If there were a terrible rash of injuries, Richt would get some leeway. If the team is healthy and the season is simply more of the same wtf games, it might be time for some serious questions to be asked.
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Anyone who can fog a mirror can win 7 or 8 games with Georgia’s talent each year. Richt is a great recruiter and so is his staff, that has never been in question. With the plethora of bowl games, not making a bowl would take a 5-7 season with two wins over FCS teams, that isn’t going to happen.
I hope he’s as sick of the bed crapping games as most of the fans are and it would be nice to see him show some sort of disgust with it instead of trotting off the field in Jax with a smile on his face after watching the team get run over. I really think there is going to be some more pressure put on him now that he has been given everything he has asked for. When the conventional wisdom in the sports media on your program is perennial underachiever, the powers that be start to notice that. 10 years without a championship in a program that views itself as a traditional SEC power is unacceptable. At some point, “next year” has to get here or there needs to be a change.
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Good article. I like the expectation. We should win the SEC. Period. If not, more changes should be made, and hard evaluations will be necessary. Too much talent, too many inexplicable losses, too long between championships.
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One constant.
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What’s that? Regular top ten finishes?
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Nope, regular disappointment and same head coach.
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That’s two constants.
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There are at least a couple on constants on GTP
They (likely are) part of what fueled the specutation about CMR’s future in the CFN article.
Mostly these writers just go with prevailing memes or rumors or general talk about a team…dress it up to make it sound original, and dump it on the public to be considered gospel. I ‘spect they’re too lazy to really do any deep research or develop an original thought.
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These findings are consonant with recent comment constants
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Rick Perry asks, “Who counts?”.
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I really hate it when the media fuels your position…but I can’t argue with the data. Still at this point, I have a hard time believing CMR is the reason for all of our short comings.
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one thing that may fix it so you can’t complain about CMR being the problem…….McGarity and ol’ Jere finally loosened the purse strings give it a couple of years, things have/are changing in Athens
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The problem with the top ten finish expectation is that we are almost always the third best team in our own conference at the same time. Top ten equals third best in the SEC. That’s simply not good enough.
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Someone posted the other day that “10-2 is the new undefeated at Georgia”. I guess we can add, top ten ranking is the new championship at Georgia.
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Then we win a “championship” damn near every year ’cause we finish in the top 10 damn near every year.
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shorter Mayor:
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Well, if 6 out of 14 is “damn near every year”, you’re right. I’m old school, but that looks like less than half the years to me.
But, hey, if you are completely satisfied with the state of the program, good for you.
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Obviously you haven’t read the other things I have been writing if you think I am “completely satisfied with the state of the program.” See my post at 12:34 on this very thread for example.
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No, it’s the same old top ten all the other programs’ fans would be thrilled with…as in, not bottom 110.
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and UGA has only won, one Championship since the first one in the 40’s so that’s 2 spread out over 36-38 years or………ever. I’m confused as to why you or anyone else expects a championship every year, it certainly is not a “norm”
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In 2012 and 2014, UGA was the 2nd best team in the conference in final rankings. But ‘almost always’….
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2007, 2004, 2003…second best. 2002…best. But I can see how finishing 3rd highest among SEC teams in 2005 (aka, 1 out of 7) could lead you to say ‘almost always’.
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I also find it ironic that the one season that actually fits your ‘almost always’ lament is also a year the Dawgs won the SECCG. Consistency is always the Richt-troll’s enemy.
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I guess you are right. My word choice was not accurate. But my point that “top ten” means second or third best in the SEC still stands. I don’t brag about not winning our conference.
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I did not say “always” because of those occasional seasons. But I think my statement still stands as true. Two SEC West teams usually finish ahead of us, even as we brag about “top ten”.
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‘brag’
ahhhhhh…I see. This is about winning the message board.
Sorry the program hasn’t put you in a good place with BarnFan94 and BamaBacker90.
Try harder, Richt!
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regular means what to you? the last 6 seasons have produced two.
woo hoo!!
Let me make you a t-shirt
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These are the things that keep me in preseason pessimism mode every year: “and once again, Georgia is going to come up with a heartbreaking loss or two that keeps it from finally turning the corner” and “And then 2016 will supposedly be the year.” And yet every year, once August rolls around I get optimistic. Two weeks from our first game I get positively giddy. A week out and I’m like a kid at Christmas. Every day seems to be 48 hours long and Saturday feels like it may never get here. Then we have a game like Florida last year and we’re back to “[a]nd then 2016 will supposedly be the year.” I guess it may be akin to what they say about childbirth. The joy of it causes you to forget the pain.
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That’s my thoughts summed up too. I start with trying to convince myself that a couple of losses to really good teams with happen and will be acceptable but I never end that way. I’m ALWAYS disappointed when we lose. I drink that Kool-Aid reading the hype of fall practice.
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It’s now an official preseason meme. Overdone, predictable, and….well, we shall see.
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Everyone understands that you don’t get a ‘maybe next year’ meme without being really good the year before, right? There is a huge difference between a heartbreaking loss and a wasted season.
Nebraska is a stupid comparison. No finish in the top 20 in the past 5 years. 1-4 in bowl games (wink!)…over that stretch they finished the season losing 3 of 4, 3 of 5, 2 of 2, 2 of 4, and 3 of 4. This is a team that has fewer wins over ranked teams in the past two seasons than Georgia has over top 10 teams over the same stretch. Georgia has never had a stretch under Richt where you go more than 3 seasons without a top 10 finish…
That’s where the meme has come from and why it is frustrating…those 6-2 seasons in the SEC are so maddening….BUT, and it’s a big BUT, there just aren’t any comparable stretches to other programs. That either means UGA under Richt could remain one of the biggest outliers in the history of college football OR it means UGA under Richt is due to breakthrough. I’m banking on the latter.
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If we were going 6-2 in the conference with losses to very good Bama and LSU and Auburn teams, it would be understandable. We are losing to the worst Florida team in 30 years and to a mediocre SC team and a tech team that hasn’t had a top 25 recruiting class in 5 years, and that’s just this past season. Every year, we lose a game or games we should have no trouble winning because the team doesn’t look ready or focused or there is some sort of bonehead play calling or clock management or other issue.
Saying Richt is “due to breakthrough” sounds great, but hope is really not a strategy. At some point, people have to face the reality that even with top level talent, Richt is not getting the job done. 10 win seasons are great, but they don’t give out trophies for almost winning a conference championship.
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They have to be the schedule for a loss to be to Bama or LSU. We are not in the west so that is not usually a possibility. If Saban starts having 10 win seasons with no trophy is he out too. You have impossible expectations for success. It is not all or nothing and with a fan base with that attitude securing a good coach after Richt leaves if he is run off for those reasons will be impossible.
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Beating bad teams qualifies as “impossible expectations”?
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not that there’s anything wrong with being a dreamer…
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You can absolutely count on Saban being out if he starts having the same results Richt has. I’m not all or nothing, some seasons the talent is down or the competition is simply better. The issue you like to ignore is the inexplicable losses every year to inferior teams that keep us out of the championship or kill any chance at meaningful post season play. I don’t think expecting to win games against inferior teams is an impossible expectation. Your point about not playing LSU or Bama because we aren’t in the West helps my point. We haven’t had to face the tough SEC teams yet we still manage to blow games to much weaker teams. That’s hardly a defense of Richt.
Your love of Richt, the man, has blinded you to the reality of the program’s results with Richt, the coach. I think Richt is a great man and a good coach who is capable of doing a great job when he focuses. I also think he is a little lazy and doesn’t handle stressful game situations very well. I would love for him to break out and start winning what he should be winning but my patience has about run out. At the end of the ’07 season, I was convinced we were about to go on a run of SEC championships and at least a couple of shots at a national championship over the next 5 years. The ’08 season showed me that wasn’t going to happen.
When the media has bought into the under performing meme of a program, it’s not just a small minority of fans who claim to see it. Don’t kid yourself, if the Georgia job became available, there would be a long line of people who wanted it. Georgia has everything a program needs to be a national championship contender on a regular basis, a great in state talent base, a desirable university with a great campus in a great college town, great facilities, an embarrassing amount of money, a loyal fan base, a great alumni network, absolutely everything a program can dream of.
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Keep wielding that anti-Richt hammer, but don’t be surprised that people disagree with you or that you fail going to persuade many people to your side by insulting them as “Richt apologists” or “Richt lovers” just because they don’t see the program in the same sad state you do. This is the last time I’m going to directly address you on this topic because you are SO boring with the incessant badgering you do on this topic. However, I think you need to know that you come off like a jackass when you insult people and pretend your position is somehow superior to others. At least that’s my two cents. Your mileage clearly varies.
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I appreciate your not mentioning it again. I don’t mean to be insulting, but there are people who are bigger fans of the coach than they are of the team. I don’t think I wield too much of a hammer on Richt. He is capable of doing a great job and does sometimes. Unfortunately, he doesn’t all the time and anyone who is paid millions a year to do ANY job should give their all 100% of the time they are working.
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Now you hit him for not giving “100%” of the time . Do you have any idea what a juvenile statement that is and by stating an impossible number that your thinking process is exposed and vapid? You should face the reality that you aren’t facing reality.
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The problem is that losing to lesser teams, happens to every team every season. It happened to the national champions last year.
If your bar is set so that the best team in the country last year didnt meet that expectation I dont know that you would be happy being a fan of any team.
That is part of the college game.
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It happened to them once, it happened to us three times and it’s a continuous theme for us. I know upsets happen, they are part of the game and I certainly don’t expect them to never happen to Georgia. Upsets happen for many reasons, sometimes the underdog plays out of their minds and wins. Other times, the favorite doesn’t show up. I can handle the losses when the other team plays better, I have a problem with the not showing up games and we seem to have way more than our share of those.
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It’s a continuous theme for every team every season. It is a theme of college football.
Loses are loses, I dont try and separate good loses from bad loses.
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Not true, DP. When you lose to a top rated team in a well-played game because you were just outplayed that’s one thing. When you lose to a team, even a good team, because of a coaching brain cramp at the end that snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, or lose to a mediocre team by not having the team ready to play, those are very different things. When the players have busted their asses and have the game won and the HC loses the game by doing a pooch-kickoff that lets the other team get the ball at midfield and the next play get close enough to kick a tying FG, then loses the game in OT–that’s pretty hard to take. That’s the problem. It is not just that the game is lost, it’s HOW the game is lost. Last season the coaching staff lost 2 games with end-of-game screw-ups and one game by not having the team ready to play. That’s the difference in being a champion and not.
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So does the kick 6 make Saban a screw up? All coaches have those moments.
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It’s the number and frequency, Debby, as well as the number of years it has been going on.
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Well said
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So you’re saying you’d be happier if UGA has lost last year to a top 10 Auburn team and instead beaten Florida?
That makes a ton of sense. High Five!
No…if we were doing what you are talking about….constantly proving that UGA can’t compete above the middle of the road competition in the SEC, I’d be more pessimistic. The reason for the ‘maybe next year’ meme AND the optimism is that UGA has proven it can compete with and beat those at the highest level of the sport…
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Solutions, please? It’s really easy to bang the negative drum constantly. It’s really hard to come up with solutions that are possible and an upgrade.
With change comes risk. Are you willing to let Jeremy Pruitt leave Athens with his band of recruiters because top 10 isn’t good enough? Are you willing to go to where Tennessee is right now because 10 wins isn’t good enough? Are you willing to be where Alabama was between Gene Stallings and Nick Saban with no assurance there’s another Saban out there? Are you ready for what Florida is staring at since Corch decided he was too sick to coach? Can you imagine Georgia as what South Carolina will go back to being once SOS hangs it up in the next couple of years?
I see the problems in the program. I also think we’re on the right track to address them. Am I predicting a championship this year? No, but I also think we’re going to be a solid contender who has a shot. As a fan, that’s all I can ask for.
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I don’t want CJP to leave at all. If the defense improves this year as much as it did last year, and we again don’t win the SEC, I would consider making him a “co-head coach”, or something similar. This would give him incentive to stay, and would also pave the way to transition CMR out. I know there are a lot of “ifs” in there, but I just believe that life as we know it does not end if UGA makes a coaching change.
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I don’t want him to leave either, but neither do I want the program held hostage by a defensive coordinator. There were quite a few people who felt the same way about Grantham after his first year.
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Get the Eff outta here! You are a full blown numbnut if you didn’t hold Pruitt responsible for the FU debacle and for giving back the ground necessary for Tech to kick a game-tying FG – all with only 18 secs left on the clock. You get so head-in-the-sand with the pooch kickoff that you missed the remainder of the game and overtime. Pruitt is as responsible for the losses as Richt and you know it.
If you are serious, you really have to do something about those horse-style blinders.
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I don’t get your post. I was saying I like Pruitt, but he isn’t bigger than the program and I don’t want one guy to hold the program hostage by everyone worrying about him leaving. Lots of people (myself included) thought Grantham was the greatest thing ever after year one and look how that worked out. I think Pruitt has done a good job, especially considering what he has had to work with, but I don’t see him as the savior of the program.
As to the tech game and Pruitt. If tech didn’t get the ball at their own 40 because of the absurd pooch kick, I doubt they would have gotten in field goal range.
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Pruitt also didn’t call timeout so Tech would have plenty of time to set up for the FG, either. That was at least as big a screw-up as the pooch kick-off. Maybe bigger.
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85, I definitely don’t want Pruitt and this group of recruiters to leave, but the head coach in waiting designation is a disaster waiting to happen. It killed Texas with Boom!, and it put F$U back while Jimbo waited for Bowden to retire. If the administration pushed CMR out, no way they hire Pruitt (I’m not sure he’s head coaching material). Whoever came in would likely try to retain Pruitt and McLendon, in particular, but I would make the case that coach would bring his guys to keep from looking over his shoulder.
Life won’t end when UGA makes a change (CMR retires or gets pushed), but there’s a lot of risk associated with it. If he gets pushed, B-M better have a high-profile replacement ready to take the job, but I don’t trust them to make the right hire in that case. The better solution is that CMR retires on his own terms with a succession plan in place.
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It’s not my job to find the next coach, that’s why McGarity gets paid the big bucks. You point to Tennessee and Florida, I’ll point to Bama and Ohio State and Baylor and to a lesser degree South Carolina. All of those programs changed coaches and got much better. Fear of change is a guarantee of mediocrity.
What happens if Richt, God forbid, is killed in a plane crash or is hit by a bus? Do we give up football at Georgia because we can never be as good as this again? I don’t think so. The Georgia job is generally seen as one of the top 5 coaching jobs in the country, getting someone good shouldn’t be a problem.
I’m not calling for Richt to be fired today by any means. I am trying to point out that he has not been doing a great job and he needs to be on notice that things need to get better, quickly. He has been given a raise, his assts have been given raises, he’s getting an IPF (which won’t make a bit of difference in results on the field), and he’s getting pretty much everything else he’s asked for. His worshipers are out of excuses to put on the admin and BM for his continued shortcomings. It’s time for him to win something that matters or it’s time to see if another guy can do a better job.
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Therein lies the problem.
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I’m hoping Morehead will take a more active role in putting a fire under McGarity’s ass. There is no excuse for the sorry state of athletics at the University of Georgia.
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We’re still waiting for any of McGarity’s hires to step up. Not a good sign, that’s for sure.
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“Baylor and to a lesser degree South Carolina”
Man….if only we could run Georgia’s program into the toilet for a few decades, we could totally mirror the great job at ‘improving’ they did at Baylor and South Carolina.
Yeesh.
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Let’s look at the 4 you mentioned:
Bama – Mike Shula was an unmitigated disaster as Bama’s head coach. We would have run him off as well.
OSU – Tressel only got fired because of TattooGate. The Sweater Vest would still be in Columbus now if not for his dishonesty with the university and the NCAA.
Baylor – Don’t compare Baylor prior to Art Briles to Georgia under Mark Richt. If Texas weren’t such a dumpster fire right now, Baylor would still be irrelevant.
South Carolina – Granny Holtz retired. SOS literally fell into their lap with Hootie Johnson as the head man in charge at Augusta National.
I guess I’m in the camp that only 1 team wins the SEC or the national championship per year. If we’re in the conversation, it’s hard to say it’s worth the risk of the change given the record.
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I did a little looking at the SEC Champions. UT hasn’t won one since 1998. Ouch.
Georgia Tech has more SEC Championships than South Cakalaky. I got a chuckle out of that.
Football Summary Current Members
School Last SEC Title Number of SEC Titles Number of Divisional Titles
Alabama 2014 24 10
Tennessee 1998 13 6
Georgia 2005 12 7
LSU 2011 11 8
Florida 2008 8 (+1 vacated) 12
Auburn 2013 8 8
Ole Miss 1963 6 1
Kentucky 1976 2 0
Mississippi State 1941 1 1
Arkansas Never 0 4
Missouri Never 0 2
South Carolina Never 0 1
Texas A&M Never 0 0
Vanderbilt Never 0 0
Former Members
Georgia Tech 1952 5 N/A
Tulane 1949 3 N/A
Sewanee Never 0 N/
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This is really good info AHD. My compliments.
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And Tennessee is a perfect example of what happens to a high perfoming program and go into the wilderness.
It’s a pipe-dream to think there’s a perfect coach out there if we could just get rid of the very good one we have now.
My bet is that if some of you got your way, you would be having to change your moniker or just quit GTP because things will go south in a hurry and for a very long time.
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First sentence above was edited by a Clemson grad…Sorry, It should say that ,”Tennessee is a perfect example of what happens to a high performng program when they run off their coach and venture into the wilderness.”.or something like that.
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“First sentence above was edited by a Clemson grad” who may have been a Capitalist
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When did Ole Miss win a divisional title? I think they claim a co-western division title from 2003 with LSU, but it was LSU that went to the dome. Right?
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You’re right.
Both went 7-1. Ole Miss defeated Florida and Florida defeated LSU.
LSU handed Ole Miss their only loss 17-14. Ole Miss spanked the Bammers pretty good though. 😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Miss_Rebels_football
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“Every year, we lose a game or games we should have no trouble winning because the team doesn’t look ready or focused or there is some sort of bonehead play calling or clock management or other issue.”
And again, I ask the serious question: is this really just a Georgia issue? Does it really happen more often to the Dawgs, or is it just perception? Doesn’t every team’s fan base, excluding perhaps Bama’s, say the same thing about their favorite team?
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Yes. Oklahoma will shit it’s pants at least once a year. Same with Clemson. Same with Virginia Tech. And USC. And LSU. Auburn will have one great season followed by an encore of mediocrity or awfulness. Oregon, despite having the best resources in all the realm, can’t win it all.
Most of the criticism leveled at Richt is that he’s not Nick Saban or Urban Meyer. No one else is, either, and Richt certainly doesn’t have the shall we say, glaring character deficiencies that those two have.
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The fact that Richt is not Saban or Da Corch is a huge selling point to me. Someone above mentioned that Saban would get fired with Richt’s results. No he wouldn’t–he has sold the University on his process. And his process works more often than not. They are all in. You don’t take down a statue for a 10-2 season or an 8-4 season. If not for a boneheaded long field goal attempt and a mistakenly caught tipped ball he could have 3 championships…or just 1. If not for the Herbstreit Doctrine and that same mistakenly caught tipped ball…Richt could be sitting on 2. And that is including the failing to show up games that bum me out so much. Combine those with never seeming to catch the breaks–and you have the attitude many fans and writers have.
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Nice post, lamont.
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lamont is definitely not a “big dummy.” He’s one of my favorite commenters here.
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He likes trucks
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Grady taught him everything he knows…I wonder if he ever got lucky with Old Horseface.
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Thanks y’all. I apologize to everyone for taking it waaaay too far with 165.
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“And again, I ask the serious question:” —->
“Could you use a little water in your whiskey?”
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When I drink whiskey, I drink whiskey; and when I drink water, I drink water.
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She likes whiskey
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I’m gonna remember this line. Very good, ma’am. 🙂
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you are WRONG- 2009 and 2010, unranked, 2011 #18
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CFN has always — ALWAYS — been rife with errors. Some could be dismissed as typographical/editing errors, but many are factual/content errors that reflect a lack of familiarity with the subject matter at hand.
I liken the content on that site to long-form message board posts, complete with its writers’ questionable literacy level.
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That’s a nice and long way of pointing out laziness…and I agree.
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This year’s excuse will be the new offensive coaches and new QB. The excuse next year (2016) will be that we have a true freshman QB.
The Georgia Way.
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Would you explain the difference in “excuse” and “reason”? Just to get some insight to your point. Anytime there is a failure of anything on any level there is a reason. So what will be this year’s “reason” for shitting the bed..should that happen?
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“There are three decent options in Faton Bauta, Brice Ramsey, and to a lesser extent, Jacob Park – one of them will turn out to be great.” Why are we listening to these clowns? Including Park is the clock striking 13…no only is it not 13 o’clock a rational person would question what time it was when the clock struck 10,11 or 12….Does it seem a bit hyperbolic to say any of these qb’s will turn out to be “great”? Serviceable, hopefully, but great? I have to question their analysts every bit as much as I question their editor. If this team fails it maybe because of the current meme….great team inexplicable loses or maybe this team actually has some flaws. Question marks at quarterback, center( personally, I can not understand why fans do not understand the importance of this position) defensive backfield depth, fragile wide receivers and a couple of kickers that have not been the most consistent. It appears that many of these analysts are just jumping on the bandwagon….everyone else is saying it so it must be true……UGA has great talent but will screw the pooch at some point. Forgive me if I’m not prepared to follow that premise. When in doubt I’m going to blame Bobo….for leaving.
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This is year one of UGA President and AD buy in and get it.
Those two inputs have been vampires for Richt’s entire tenure.
3 years and then we get an accurate measurement.
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I don’t know about 3 years but I agree with the rest of your post above. We finally have a President who appears to be committed and the AD (perhaps reluctantly) is 100% behind the program because of the President. I don’t think we have had that before, at least not for a very long time. Let’s see what happens.
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Yes. I don’t understand why people are still demanding change when we have seen so much change in the last 7 months…ALL for the better.
Folks need to dial down the vitriol thrown at Richt.
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The vitriol thrown at Richt has been there since 2008. There are some in our fan base who won’t be happy until CMR is tarred and feathered and run out of Athens on a rail. If he does win a national championship, they will talk about how he should have multiple championships or he shouldn’t get credit because of CJP, CBS, the talent level, or anything else to deflect the credit.
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Amen
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And then where will these folks be when we land another Goff or Donnan or Junior, or SOD, or Boom, or any of the other coaches that have tried and failed to follow a very successful one..?
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This is how we would get that substitute if the search operation was held in a lounge
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Actually ee, if the Dawgs were to win a nattie the negative nellies would all STFU for fear of (1) looking stupid and (2) being run out of town on a rail by the other UGA fans.
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I hope we get to prove you’re right!
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And soon
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What’s the frequency, Kenny…
“3 years and then we get an accurate measurement”
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This. I don’t know why anybody would think we are a playoff caliber team. Last year we were not playoff caliber. We lost 3 games, period. It doesn’t matter how you parse those loses, we still lost 3 games. We have several big question marks, as you stated. We may be able to answer those questions and become a great team or maybe not. We could be 8-4 or 11-1 depending on how we answer those questions imo. We shall see.
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The only game I hang on Richt last year was Florida, and even then I don’t know what mindset he was fighting with 85 kids – ever be able to see trouble coming and still not be able to reach your kids with any kind of appeal, logical or emotional? How do we know he didn’t see it coming and did everything he could do to wake them up? We don’t. He did not personally play a down of football that day, and not being ready for that fake punt is certainly on him. However it came down, the Dawgs simply did not show up.
But Tech and SC were team losses with lots of team errors, but the Dawgs played hard until the end and we got both of those teams’ best shots.
There were some questionable coaching decisions, but were they truly “boneheaded” ? That’s a word that should be reserved for serious clock management issues or not knowing what down it is, etc. Yes, there were some bad decisions, but characterizing them as crazy decisions or decisions that on their own cost us the win is just ridiculous.
And there were only a handful – it’s not like CMR does something crazy three or four times a game.
Finally, if I’m a 10% better poker player than my buddy, it doesn’t necessarily follow that I’m going to win 100% of all our games against each other. Being favored hardly means you should expect a win every time. If we’re favored in all our games, it means we have a better than 50% chance of winning each game, not that we should expect to go undefeated.
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Cosmic, that’s too much logic for this discussion …
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Enjoyed your remarks as well, but where was Richt again when Pruitt’s D let them score winning points? Where was Pruitt and ST coaches on the fake kick? None of the coaching staff put in the warning and many of us were screaming at home and in the stands that it was a perfect setup for a fake kick. Richt shares the blame, he doesn’t take all of it. And this is not singling out Pruitt, it’s just leveling the criticism field.
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Cojones, there was LOTS of blame to go around for the UF loss. It was truly a team loss in all respects.
1) The decision to kick the FG instead of go for it
2) The failure to be ready for the fake FG
3) The refusal to set the edge on defense
4) The turnovers
5) The terrible O-line play while Boss Andrews was out of the game
6) The missed tackles
7) Dropped passes at key times
8) The apparent failure to get up for a game against a team with Gators on their helmets
9) The failure to attack the line of scrimmage against an offense that had zero passing game
I could go on and on … unfortunately.
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10) The failure to keep Boom on the job despite the loss
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^This. Here we made the ultimate sacrifice–lost the game to the Gators on purpose so Agent Muschamp could stay undercover and Damn It!! The Gators fired him anyway!!! Is there no justice?!!!
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Boom couldn’t keep the job we giftwrapped for him to keep. Now he needs to get to work by sending the Gus Bus over the cliff.
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Like moving from the Soviet Union to Red China. More power to Agent Boom.
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Can nobody admit that we got caught in a perfect storm? Florida has been blown out at home by Missouri, coach is about to get shitcanned, players have their backs up against the wall, our guys are down because Todd didn’t come back as expected… In hindsight, it’s easy to see that when we failed to put them away early and they got a little momentum, it was basically all downhill for them after that….
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And McGarity running his mouth that Gurley would be back, that the NCAA decision was in the bag. Got back to team…
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