If you think Mark Richt’s Georgia career is staring into the abyss, one more loss away from falling in, it’s not. For every fan who’s threatened to cancel his season tickets (threatened as opposed to actually doing the dirty deed, you know), there are plenty of others ready to write their checks. For every “one of the biggest Dawg fans around… alright, maybe I don’t go to every game…”, there are plenty of others who do and plan on continuing to do so.
In other words, the money is still rolling in. And we all know what that means on the Georgia Way.
You’ll know Mark Richt is in real trouble when the cash starts drying up. Or when recruits start turning their backs on the program. Neither has happened. In fact, with regard to the latter, news popped up that a second potential member of the much ballyhooed class being assembled for the next signing day, four-star defensive lineman Julian Rochester, has quietly signed his financial aid forms with Georgia, as had Jacob Eason.
No, that doesn’t mean his February fax is in Athens yet, but that’s not a sign he’s bailing out, either. Quite the contrary: “Rochester said a major coaching shakeup would be the only way he would not wind up at UGA.”
I know, I know. That message board chatter is so convincing. Who are you gonna believe, Julian Rochester, or that guy who claims his sister knows the cousin of one of Georgia’s big contributors?
Get The Picture 
Man, you’re just baiting them.
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Throw the line out and just reel in.
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Keep him. He is the best given Georgia’s crappy history.
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Welcome, kind stranger.
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Senator, you don’t need to troll for more website hits😝. Seriously, anyone who thinks there’s going to be any major coaching changes (CMR, CJP, CBS) at UGA after this season is foolish. I’m as disappointed as the next guy at the way the season has played out thus far, but the athletic department BOD and more importantly the current university president have demonstrated their support for CMR during much more challenging times. If we have a couple of more seasons like this and a rival SEC team wins the CFP, then it’s (rightfully so) a whole different set of circumstances, but we’re nowhere close to that yet in my opinion. As a sidenote, in addition to Eason and Rochester, I believe Ben Cleveland also signed his financial aid papers for UGA, which means 3 of their top rated incoming recruits can now have unlimited contact with the coaching staff.
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I think the ticket sales will or are felling pressure because of the game day atmosphere and the lack of new young season ticket holders. The tailgaiting and parking has suffered, and that drives away a lot of the old ticket holders. The failure to set aside enough tickets for the students will bite them in the backside when those kids don’t develop a love for seeing the game live.
Hey, but try the wifi!
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McGarity is in a building campaign right now so if the big donors are voting with their wallets, he’d be the first to know.
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Is there really data to show that there is a lack of young season ticket holders? UGA began the Young Alumni program several years ago to move tickets from the students(300 section seats that rarely fill up with students) to recent graduates. As far as I know that program has been a big hit.
However, if there is an actual problem it is likely due to students trying to manage their student loans post-graduation versus spending $1,000+ on tickets.
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I don’t know for sure, but schools have to get the students hooked so down the road they will buy season tickets, tailgate, and hook up with old friends. I’m sure the Young Alumni initiative is in answer to that. Also, the rap music and wifi is probably aimed at the younger crowd too.
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The rap is for the players and recruits. The Young Alumni don’t mind it either.
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I agree with that, but think that’s somewhat decoupled from coaching and team performance. If the team tanks, obviously that affects attendance. What you’re pointing out are larger, systemic issues with college football in general. While I’m eternally optimistic about Richt and our team, I’m much more pessimistic about the long term health of college football.
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Dead on – it’s call Greed and Instant Gratification !!!
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the economic climate has something to do with dwindling ticket holders. think about this. about one third of work eligible US population are not working. it is tough out there.
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Not to mention that a bug chunk of people in there mid twenty’s are living at home due to financial constraints. Tickets are the last of their concerns.
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I agree the economy has played a role. I also think part of the reason Millennials are buying season tickets is because there just aren’t that many available. The Olds (like me) aren’t giving up their seats. Isn’t the renewal rate on season tickets over 95%? Even if twentysomethings want season tickets, they can’t get them.
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“bug chunk”
I don’t think we should look forward to Tech b/c we’ve got a big game in front of us and have to take them one at a time
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Interesting thought there Doug. As a class of 2010 graduate myself, I attempted to get tickets this year through the Young Alumni program and wasn’t selected. Must be a result of “the lack of new you season ticket holders.”
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This could be the best recruiting class we have ever had. We are getting a “franchise” QB, a big LT, and another monster DT to pair with big Trent who has already shown he is going to be a good one. Despite what the trolls say things are definitely trending up for the program. That being said if we don’t have an SEC Championship trophy on the mantle by the end of the 2017 season it may be time to look elsewhere.
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This is sarcasm, right?
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I’d just love to get your take on the 2016 recruiting class.
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I’m not down on the 2016 class, but having top-flight talent on our first-team has never really been our issue IMO. So what is different this time around? If Richt always gets 2 more years to turn things around then he’s effectively got forever to do so.
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Having top flight talent has been a perpetual problem under Richt. Our guys are drafted in later rounds and our classes and our recruiting classes are usually third best in the conference. Yes it’s an issue and yes it’s richt’s fault.
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Either way, he’s had plenty of time to try and fix it.
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You should change your name to Aciddick .
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Alky you may be correct about “first team” it’s the second team that we can not compete with Bammer. They got guys they can plug in if a first teamer goes down.
We are finally getting there with the last couple classes and the next couple coming up.
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What I think many of you have overlooked has been the speed of these younger classes. That doesn’t necessarily make them the best on the field until they are SEC-trained and can still use it. I think we are continuing to train the speedsters, especially on D.
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Agreed, but just realize that if Rucht does that, he’ll be making history. At that point it will have been 12 years between SEC titles. Find me another coach that ever had a gap like that. The biggest I can think of is 5 years with Spurrier. Once you get out of the business of winning conference titles, you don’t jump back in 10+ years later.
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Well, I can’t imagine there are too many examples of coaches in the modern era surviving long enough to possibly win another one after 10 years of not doing so.
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AWWW. you still get to pick the low-hangin’ fruit before anyone else gets a shot.
Some of these kids blogging here can’t read and digest rational statements like that, B.R. .
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Um right now our recruiting class sits at #6 in the dawgs 247 composite ranking, 3rd in the conference behind lsu and Alabama.
To echo simplmatter below every national champion (&sec champ since 06 )since recruiting data started about 10 years ago had a consensus top five class within three years prior to their championship. We’ve done that once in richt’s tenure. The 06 class headlined by Stafford at #4 in scout and rivals. This means since 08 we’ve effectively been disqualified from title contention every year before the season started.
Richt’s recruiting is like our program. Good but always behind the top of the conference and too many structural issues to ever be great.
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Sure, Richt isn’t going anywhere, but I don’t understand the belief that things are going to improve dramatically because of a recruiting class. I understand hoping for it, because what else are you gonna do? But belief that things are going to change is unfathomable to me.
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I’m not arguing about improvement. And I’m the first one to say keeping a coach to preserve a recruiting class is a dumb strategy.
But facts are facts. And right now Richt’s position isn’t threatened by a downturn in funding or recruiting.
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I get that, which is why I stopped arguing about it. What’s the point? Either he’ll lose enough to get canned or he won’t.
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Exactly. And we’ll be able to see the signs of it coming. Won’t be any great behind the scenes mystery.
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Well anyone looking at what is going on objectively has to conclude that long-term things are looking up for the Georgia football program. While the Dawgs had an embarrassing loss to Bama and blew a 21 point lead to UT overall the record this season is 5-2 after 7 games and they are still I the hunt for the East. Let’s just wait until the season is over to make our pronouncements.
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There is literally nothing to indicate “things are looking up.” That’s the same sunshine pumping bullshit we’ve heard for the past five years.
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rage against the machine
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“There is literally nothing to indicate “things are looking up.'”
Au contraire, just the other day they said that they were going to spend more time working on special teams during practice. I mean, what else can you ask for than hollow banalities about trying harder?
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…hot chocolate at our press conferences?
…a nap on the way to Columbia before a brutal ass whipping?
…an extension and raise to $4.5 million per year?
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Look at the last 10 years or so of FBS champions, then look at their recruiting rankings in the 3-5 years prior to winning. You know what you’ll find in nearly all their cases? Top 5 recruiting classes in at least 2 of those years. We piss our pants about UGA being a Top 10 recruiter nearly every year, but when have we been Top 5? When we pull a couple of years’ of consensus Top 5 classes in, I’ll be expecting the world. Until then, we have a puncher’s chance against the very top tier teams, and that’s it.
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There are signs of improvement. The administration has finally conceded the need for an IPF. Assistant coaches have multi-year contracts with salaries commensurate with the best SEC assistants. That level of administrative support is new.
Assistant coaching has improved. Defensively, even with this year’s struggles, most would agree that Pruitt and staff are better than Grantham et al. Offensively, if Scotty/Sale are nearly on-par with Bobo/Friend, then our struggles can be explained by differences in talent and depth. I think it’s still too early to say for sure one way or the other.
The talent situation is always in flux, but recruiting appears to be high. We lost Gurley/Murray and now Chubb, but hopefully we get Chubb back full strength next year and Eason will be the next Murray. Defensively, our talent is betting better and will be better coached.
All that may not mean we win the East this year, but it probably means we’re in the hunt for the next several seasons.
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^^This is what I was talking about. Thanks, Boner.
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Literally.
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End of the season? THIS IS THE INTERNET!!!
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I wish some other folks would take your position on the matter. Quite frankly, I’m pretty damn tired of this stupid debate every topic of every day.
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Yeah, and it’s the same arguments repeated over and over. That’s the other reason I stopped arguing about it.
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So if you don’t have one iota of hope that things might change, then its time to find another sport to follow right? I mean why bother rooting for a team that you won’t ever believe can get it done? I understand being skeptical, but not believing things will ever improve is unfathomable to me.
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I said I understand hope. Hope and belief are not the same thing.
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That kinda sums me up as well Biggus. As a fan I hope, but based on what I’ve seen, I need to see it to believe it. Thanks.
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“And we all know what that means on the Georgia Way.”
Yes we do. Pre-game interviews with those who count the votes show
In other Richterendum news, even that guy who claims his sister knows the cousin of one of Georgia’s big contributors thinks we need a new go-to love song
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It baffles me how short-sighted some peoples memories are. So many it seems just “believe” that for whatever reason Richt is absolutely incapable of winning a Championship at Georgia. 4 times out of 15 years he has been right freaking there, with a lucky break or two (which mind you every team needs at some point to win a championship) he would have one, at least one. I’ll be the first to admit, that his poor roster management over the last 10 years or so has definitely handcuffed the program (and we almost won one in 2012 despite that) Pruitt has come in here and lit a fire under this whole program, roster management issue – fixed. No IPF – fixed, or will be shortly. But no, we lost two regular season games with one of the youngest teams in the conference, a nightmare of a QB situation, and a new O Coordinator, and LETS BURN THIS BITCH DOWN!!!
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It kills me that people do not realize that roster management, missed chances are chronic to a stable staff. Further a stable staff with 2 QB gurus could not get talent on campus to win the job over a UVa transfer.
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How many teams in the SEC have lights out, flawless, Heisman candidate QBs right now? If we were in the running for a championship 1 out of every 3.5 years with all those roster management issues, lack of facilities and financial support from the admin… how do you think the future looks? Think its a good time to blow the whole thing up and start over, just cuz?
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Well, Bama certainly doesn’t have to use an ACC reject at quarterback…wait, wut?
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So FSU is on par with UVa? Nice deflection doesn’t stick
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The transitive property of FSU is not even on par with Tech much less UVA
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Now that’s good reasoning right thar.
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How Heisman candidate QBs have won titles at Bama?
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Georgia is not Bama… nor has it ever been… nor will it ever be. Why is that the bar for UGA’s success all of a sudden?
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After Greene, Shockley, Stafford, Murray, and Eason, you’re arguing that Richt can’t bring in QB talent? Seriously?
Even Ramsey was the #4 ranked QB nationally. Sometimes recruiting is an inexact science. Like how Marshall was higher ranked than Gurley.
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Never said that he couldn’t bring them in, but you can’t argue that production from the QB position has been down. Further he has owned the process recruiting, roster management, development, and system long enough that where ever the shortfall is, the staff owns it. A QB “guru” should not be in this position in back to back to back years.
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By saying, “could not get talent on campus to win the job over a UVa transfer,” you DON’T mean to imply that Richt can’t get QB talent on campus? If so, you need to work on your writing skills.
Arguing that Richt should just plug in his next NFL-ready QB is naive. Those kids are rare. Richt has either been extraordinarily lucky with his run of QBs, or he’s very, very good at bringing in QB talent and developing it.
Real life isn’t a game of Madden. You can’t just put any random jersey at QB and “coach him up” to a 3,000 yard season.
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NFL talent who from Richt/Bobo is starting in the NFL? wasn’t event the great Stafford benched, which happened to be known to throw 10+ INTs a year in Athens. Green was a Donnan recruit. I do give Bobo credit he turned a mobile QB into a statue for his 3 years in Murray another case of misused talent.
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*1st 3 yrs
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You do like moving the goalposts in your condemnation of Richt, don’t you. Fine, I’ll feed the troll.
Your standard for a good college QB is having NFL starters? Give me a break. Name a college QB coach out there with multiple NFL starting QBs.
Greene was indeed a Donnan recruit. Donnan spent one year coaching him and Richt spent four. Which coach do you think was more integral to his success?
And you’re going to qualify Murray as a failure? Do me a favor and stop posting from school. You could learn something.
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I was mocking your NFL standards
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Reread this Murray was not a failure but he could have been more but we did not see the full potential until his Sr. year when he put the team on his back resulting in great runs again UT, and Auburn. The point is another I have made for years on here. Richt does not adapt to talent. He forces talent to his narrow game plan.
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Georgia’s national ranking in offensive yards per play last three seasons:
2014: 7th
2013: 13th
2012: 1st
Even this year, with the changes and shortfalls we all point to, UGA is currently 15th.
So my question to you is WTF are you talking about?
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Further by getting talent on campus was sign develop the entire process, Lambert only had time to basically be handed the playbook, and thus the talent was not on campus. Whatever the state of coached up vs raw talent Lambert has been the clear winner in the eyes of the staff.
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You say Richt is a good “Xs & Os” coach but always unlucky. I say a great coach is one that knows Xs & Os, but also puts his team in a position to make their own luck more often that not.
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What a bunch of BS. How does CMR “put his team in position” by willing other teams to win or lose?
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pooch kick
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This. And so many other calls like it… 😦 If you need more examples, just think back to losses from 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014, or even 2005 for that matter… we are still the most recent SEC champ not to play for a possible NC in the post-season.
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Good point. Fulmer didn’t luck into his national championship. He willed Clint Stoerner to stumble and fumble to give his team a second chance at the SEC championship that they obviously earned.
Also, Notre Dame didn’t just luck into the BCS championship game in 2012. Pittsburgh’s kicker missed a short field goal in OT, with two Notre Dame players on the field wearing the same number (penalty wasn’t called), because of hard work of the Irish.
Bill McCartney didn’t need luck to win his 1990 national championship. His team practiced 5th down plays all season long just so they could execute against Missouri. It certainly wasn’t luck.
It was also Richt’s coaching incompetence that led to Miami and Ohio State being undefeated in 2002, playing for the national championship, and leaving UGA out of the mix. It certainly wasn’t luck.
As Clint Eastwood should have said, “Deserve’s got everything to do with it.”
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What section does Athlon list the luck stats in their annual pre-season mag? Oh, they don’t? I wonder why? Maybe because luck does not exist and cannot be measured and recorded for that reason!!!
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Doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist
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I’m on your side, man. Luck doesn’t exist. That’s why Fulmer deserves credit for Stoerner fumbling and Richt deserves the blame for Miami winning all their games, even though they didn’t play UGA.
As I always say, “if it’s not in Athlon, it doesn’t exist.”
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Every one of your examples was due to lack of execution, either by a player, coach, or ref. Come up with a better sample if you want to argue about luck.
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Dude, I’m agreeing with you. Stoerner’s lack of execution is directly attributable to Fulmer. That’s why he gets credit for it. If Fulmer weren’t such a great coach, Stoerner would have kept his footing and either gotten a first down, or run down the clock and punted to UT, forcing them to drive the length of the field on an extremely short clock. It’s coaching brilliance, I tells ya.
Also, McCartney’s fifth down play was pure execution. It wasn’t just a result of dumb luck from the refs blowing the call like some ignorant people want to claim. That’s skill.
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You seriously have to be the biggest fucking moron that post on here. And yes it is personal now.
There is some form of “luck” in every championship season (SEC or MNC). That 2002 Ohio St team had the rabbit’s foot up their ass before it was passed on to Auburn in 2013. You are an absolute fool if you don’t recognize that “luck” or some other break that you can’t quantify is needed to win a championship. That’s because it is hard to win a championship in any sport at any level. No team is going to be “on” every week and you have to hope that your C game is good enough some weeks (see Alabama last weekend).
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It’s personal?!! Bwahahahahha
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Fulmer stares at goats. It’s spooky, scary stuff.
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In sports like football and baseball there are many plays or instances that are not predictable and therefore represent what statisticians call a “random walk.” These instances of chance cannot be coached out of the games by sheer will, prayers, hopes, or Demanding Excellence in all things.
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As Clint Eastwood may have said, “Do you feel Lucky today?”
But the opportunity for Lucky to be around was nowhere because he was lost in space experimenting on if there were a student-athlete voice in space, could anybody hear it
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The difference is those teams were in position to take advantage when the flukes happened.
Go read the game recap for the 2005 Auburn/UGA game at ESPN: http://espn.go.com/college-football/recap?gameId=253160061
Tell me which coach sounds like he knows how to effectively put his team in situations to take advantage when the ball bounces their way. There are at least half-a-dozen bone-headed coaching mistakes by Richt documented in this article alone.
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Don’t I know it. I mean, if UGA had been given a fifth down in the 2012 SEC championship game when they were down at the goal line at the end of the game, there’s no way it would have made a difference. Because luck’s not a thing.
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You are really poor at snarking. Pitiful in fact. I guess you don’t remember the overturned interception that Murray threw on that very same drive in 2012. That was your “luck” right there and they still came up short. Peace out.
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And you have no snark. Pity that.
You don’t recall the TD by Murray that put us ahead with about a minute to go and Auburn, in the only series remaining, threw Hail Marys and one got deflected into their hands on 4th down? Are you blind as well as dumb (can’t hear) ?
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Just because I agree with you doesn’t mean I’m snarky or pitiful. It means I’ve adopted a nuanced and refined outlook on the sport. Obviously.
Wait, you’re arguing that luck DOES exist? Heresy!!1!
I can prove your original argument. What does every lottery winner have in common? Excellent skill at picking random numbers! No such thing as luck.
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I don’t think those Committed to Excellence are short sighted. I believe the UGA sidewalk fans are sick and tired of hearing it from their Auburn, UF, FSU and Bama sidewalk fans at church Sunday mornings. We should all have some empathy for their plight.
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I have been saying for a while ticket sales will not decline due to people have been through this before with Goff and are not willing to return to the back of the line. The only way Richt leaves is if he doesn’t win enough to make the people who write big check happy. I would be curious how away game sales are going. However ticket sales will not sway my opinion that UGA can do better. UGA’s under achieving goes to Richt, B-M, and the old guard boosters.
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I think if he loses to Tech this year, then he’s effectively in a make or break season in 16.
Nothing brings heat like losing to Tech.
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There’s that word again “underachieving” Its impossible to do anything but underachieve with some of the unrealistic expectations that UGA is supposed to win it all every year. Preseason formula – tempered expectations, most logical fans predict 9-10 wins, then, UGA comes out and beats the tar out of a couple of cupcakes, then everyone just chooses to ignore glaring flaws the team has and proclaim “YEP! this is it! This is the year we do it!” Then a better football team comes up on the schedule, exposes those flaws, and beats us… rinse and repeat. Fire Richt! He can’t win the big one! All he’s done is underachieve!
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The false assumption is that those who are ready to move on from Richt expect to win it all every year.
Richt has shown little progress on fixing persisting problems.
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I disagree. The biggest persisting problems this program has faced has been a) no financial support from BM b) Poor roster management, undersigning, having to kick kids out with character issues. c) Having someone on staff that can coach a defense and recruit.
The way I see it, all three of those issues have been addressed in the last 18 months. These are MAJOR problems though that took a while to transpire, they do not disappear at the snap of a finger. I have full faith that he has the program headed back in the right direction, but some people absolutely refuse to accept this and can’t get past the “what did you do for me yesterday” mentality
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The administration is beholden to Richt for getting on a bus to practice at Falcons on the week of the biggest game of the year without him stirring a stink about it. UGA has been 10 years behind the curve. This is almost like Richts first year in many respects. He still had lots of rope left.
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With the new sheriff (Morehead) in town, I think you are correct. Richt is going to get all the outside help he needs.
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Richt is 5-9 against Florida and 3 of those wins came against Muschamp. Not having to ride a bus to the Falcons facility has not resulted in wins. The IPF smokescreen is exactly that, a smokescreen.
We have a 15 year sample with Richt, we know exactly what we are going to get and, obviously, the overall fan base is fine with almost winning something that matters and face planting a couple of times a season. The Senator is spot on; nothing is going to change until the checks slow down or recruits stop coming.
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That’s why I say…
Long live 9-3!!! VIVA 9-3!!!
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Now that we’re all in agreeance
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Spot on.
Also, we should all remember that winning the East is extremely risky. We could very well get blown out of the SEC Championship Game, which is why Richt’s integrated risk management strategy is so genius:
WIN (by LOSING the East) !!!!!!
Yes, losing the East by one game or a tie-breaking loss is an excellent risk mitigation strategy. Not bad enough to get fired…AND…you get an early start on off-season sunshine pumping (looking at you, Mac).
Hedge, baby, hedge!!
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If UF the only game you care about? That is some slim picking there.
Here are some other numbers.
CMR vs:
UT 10-5
GT 12-2
AU 9-5
USC 9-6
VAN 13-2
A lot of our fans seem to equate close wins with losses. But the record books show different.
I believe it leads them to believe CMR is a terrible coach. (151-50)
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I was only a kid in the 80’s and 90’s. Richt was hired my sophomore year at UGA and everything was peachy in the fanbase for a while. I’m just curious if a big chunk of the fanbase has always been so unreasonable and carrying pitchforks??
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yes
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Oh, Hell yes. Well do I remember the grousing about ol’ “3d and 20, up the middle” Vince Dooley in 1977 and again in 1979. Heck, one player’s dad was ready to castrate him (he put it more graphically) after the ’77 Sugar Bowl. Dooley was too conservative, they said in those days. Too nice. Not recruiting well. Made the wrong choice at QB. He couldn’t beat Auburn. Etc. Then he went 43-4-1 over a 4 year span, with the greatest college RB of all time, a savage defense and superb special teams, and the complainers pretty much shut up. Tho I think some were actually disappointed that things didn’t collapse the year after Herschel left.
For whatever reason, Georgia has typically been an “almost there” team ever since I can remember. Breakthroughs happen when major opponents are a bit down, we have a real stud or 3, and play the fundamentals well. So most years there’s plenty for gripers to gripe about, and I’m not immune to that myself.
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“Snakebit” may be the term you are looking for.
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I’ve got no illusions about Richt getting canned anytime soon. But I also have no illusions about us being a good team until he goes away either. So I’ll continue to berate him.
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Define good.
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Ah, yes, Richterendum Metrics…very important.
I know this: Winning is overrated. Winning is for jerks and immoral sinners, like those guys at Alabama and on Wall Street.
What’s really important: hot chocolate at press conferences, naps on the bus to Columbia, warm kitties, snuggly puppies, a shiny red F150, and an all-weather, performance-proof $4 million dollar salary.
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Don’t forget pool parties during camp.
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He’s got a 10m platform for that 🙂
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Winning the SEC.
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So the 2011 Bama team was not good. Gotcha
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Alabama has won the sec 3x since we last won one. And having only 1 loss to the best team in the country by a field goal is slightly different than an annual blowout loss.
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So true.
It’s really kind of amazing how often Richt gets utterly humiliated. The list of coaches that have blown his doors off has gotten pretty long.
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That’s what got rid of Fullmer at U.T., championship ring and all.
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This coming class of recruits may be yhe best class since Dooley’s classes
during the early 80’s. They all seem to be saying they will be Dawgs as long
as their is Not any major coaches change. They want Richt as the HC.
That makes Richt as solid as it is possible for any college HC. Live Wiith It..
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dawg39: If you are replying to my comment, I don’t give a damn if Richt coaches at UGA until he drops dead on the sidelines. The fanbase gets what they deserve. It doesn’t make a damn bit of difference to me.
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It strikes me that the more someone professes something or the louder they shout it the more likely they’re not being completely truthful . When NoAxeToGrind says he has no ax to grind…. color me skeptical. When NoAxeToGrind says.” I don’t give a damn if Richt coaches at UGA until he drops dead on the sidelines.”,you are full of **it because you clearly want him gone or you wouldn’t spend all your time with these negative posts.If “It doesn’t make a damn bit of difference to me.” than why on god’s green earth are you wasting both our time on this blog? In just those brief few sentences I have convinced myself and I am longer just skeptical of what you say I just plain don’t believe you. So what ax do you have to grind,NoAxeToGrind? One of Jim Donnan’s kids? An assistant under Willie Martinez? A former 3 stat recruit who wasn’t offered a free ride at UGA? So what is your problem? Mom stopped breast feeding too early? Are you so inadequate in all other aspects of your life that you are relying on UGA to win every game every year in order to make your life complete?If and when it does happen(UGA and Richt go 14-0)you’ll still be Grinding away about something.
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jdjrip: I have been following Georgia football for 56 years and, since graduating from the Medical College of GA, I have donated for over 34 years to the Bulldog club and bought season tickets every year, despite being an active duty Army officer for twenty years and not having a bat’s chance in Hell of making a game. It no longer appears to me that UGA is interested in competing at the highest level. Therefore, if mediocrity is desired by a majority of the fan base and BM, then I no longer give a damn whether they win or not. I do not like mediocrity. So far as Richt goes, I think he will never win another SEC title as long as the current SEC coaching landscape doesn’t change but, if he is who the fans want, then fine by me. The “No Axe to Grind” is simply a posting sobriquet of no special significance except perhaps being ironic. So far as what you or anyone else thinks of me or my posts, I just don’t give a shit. I post what I feel like posting and if Blutarsky objects in any way he can kick my ass off his blog. That too is irrelevant. So far as your infantile slander goes, I would personally suggest you seek professional help as you seem to manifest some psychological inadequacies in your life.
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No one gets bounced from here for expressing an opinion. I hope you know that.
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@Russ October 28, 2015 at 7:59 AM
“Man, you’re just baiting them. 🙂
Wait until Bluto gets to the beach and the real chumming starts
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I wasn’t going to participate, but you had to post that pic and motivate me.
I identify with “snakebit”. It’s a life skill, it started for me in 1989 when I started to really develop my skills (music major) and rubbed a couple faculty members wrong which landed me in the chairman’s office being told to pump the brakes “you don’t want people to think you’re a hot head”. Which lead to a gun shy fear of success to this day.
But anyway, CMR has been “right there” since his freshman year at Miami. He’s good, Georgia is good at being “right there”, we have one of the most consistent and stable programs (really the whole school) in the country.
Ya can’t step out too far to get the big one boy, ya might just tip over an lose what ya done caught.
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Oh my, is that Kathryn?
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Speaking of chum .. … .. Already have my ocean rod in my hands.
Makes you want to play doctor and numb her breasts (he said while bending over and going “numb, numb, numb, numb .. … ..”).
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