Quick now – no fair looking it up – what’s Georgia’s record over its last thirteen home conference games?
Into 2015, the Bulldogs are 12-1 in SEC HGs incl 4 straight wins (loss to Mizzou in ’13).
How many of you got that one right?
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Stats like that are maddening.
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Ah. You are getting my point, grasshopper.
Georgia under Richt isn’t as black and white as many see it. I see a lot of gray.
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I would break it out the following:
2001-5 – Definitely white – even the 15%ers would say Richt’s record over this period is sparkling.
2006-8 – Light gray – Freshman QB in ’06, top 3 ranking in ’07, missed expectations in ’08
2009-10 – Dark gray turning black – end of the Martinez era in ’09 and the losing season in ’10 were the source of the deserved hot seat meme
2011-4 – Light gray – good & bad of ’11, the near miss of ’12, the injuries of ’13, and the head scratchers of ’14
I tend to think the program is very close to doing some special things. I understand others are reserving judgment.
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Keep knocking…someone will answer..
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2001-5 – Definitely white – even the 15%ers would say Richt’s record over this period is sparkling.
I think you are misremembering the 2001 Auburn game where a rookie head Coach ran the ball at the end of the game and never got another play off. If that is white than your analogy is very confusing. As I recall Coach even went to clock management seminars and designated a coach to keep him informed of the clock because he was sometimes too focused on his play calling. That was a true boneheaded call as opposed to all the alleged boneheaded calls that only look bad with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. After that fiasco I questioned whether he was ready for the job. He learned but the good times were not as good as people seem to remember. I remember the ass whipping LUS put on us in the 2003 SEC championship. Don’t get me wrong I’m one Richt’s biggest supporters but the past was not as blemish free as your quote above would seem to imply.
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2 SEC championships and 3 Eastern Division championships – if you look at the body of work, CMR was looked at one of the best 5 coaches in the game in 2005.
Let’s use your example. Auburn 2001 is the game everyone points to that CMR is in over his head. What about the Hobnail Boot? In the Auburn game, he made a call and it didn’t work for whatever reason. In the Tennessee game, he made a call and it worked perfectly. The same thing happened the other way on the Plains in ’92 when the game ended as the clock ran out with Auburn on the Georgia 1. Stuff happens.
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Oh hell…..the whipping LSU put on us? Please, that team was freaking awesome. They were better than us and everyone that year. It happens. That’s would be like Arkansas complaining about the 02 championship game……we were light years better….oh wait, even better, how about the 05 game against.,,,,.LSU…..they were favored if I recall. At least that was a little more baffling than your example.
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this is why an autographed copy of him hangs in my home office. regardless of whatever statistics you can spew out, hes a damn good coach and im glad to have em.
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There is no doubt that, purely statistically, Richt has done pretty well. The problem is; he can’t get it done when it comes to championships. I am sure he will continue to win 8-10 games a season forever. I’m not sure he can get out of his own way when it really matters and take the next step and have Georgia become a championship program.
Taken by itself, Richt’s win/loss record is very good and would be hard for anyone to criticize. However, when you look at what he has actually accomplished with the talent he has had, there really isn’t a lot there. Richt wins a lot of games. Unfortunately, he can’t seem to win the ones that really count. I think that’s where the “underachieving” meme comes from.
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Ah but no one else would have a championship at UGA either due to The Georgia Way.
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Richt also started off 13-1 in SEC road games. Until Kentucky in 2006, the only true road games Richt’s Dawgs lost were to MNC LSU in 2003 and undefeated Auburn in 2004.
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Yep, we were damn good in true road games.
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That Mizzou game STUNK, too. All the injuries, super tight play calling and you could see they couldn’t come up with anything on offense. One of the games I point to when talking about a certain former OC.
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Jeeze. First you mention how badly injured the team was and then go on to hint that you blame Bobo. Come up with a consistent story line.
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Even all you haters could look back at the history of UGA football & find a hellava lot worse 3-year home SEC records than that, & not too many better
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dang… who knew.
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Boy, Senator, your really pissed in JCDAWG83 Corn Flakes with this one.
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Have you scheduled a trip to go see the “12-1 conference home game record for three seasons trophy” at BM? I think it’s in the case next to the “Eight yards away from a championship trophy” on one side and the “10 wins in a season” trophies on the other side.
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I have been preaching for years that Georgia enjoys a tremendous home field advantage. That is why I personally want the Dawgs to play the most games possible ‘tween the hedges. This is an advantage that B-M routinely throws away by often scheduling seasons with only 6 home games, 2 or 3 of which are walkovers. Set the schedules to play big games in Athens and you’ll see better records from the Dawgs, IMHO. Thank goodness we get Bama in Athens this year, thanks to the SEC.
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