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Gary Patterson.
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I will now officially retire my BBS moniker as promised
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Where is all this “Mullen” chatter coming from? Did I miss something?
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Mullen and the now AD were tight when they were at UF together during urbans run.
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That’s it? The way people were talking I thought there was actually some substance to it.
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Chip Kelly.
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Steve Spurrier
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I like my dream-hire better 😉
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Jim Bob Cooter. #dawgsforcooter.
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In 1990
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Welp, I’m done as a football fan for a while. This shit’s just too stupid.
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+1
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could not agree more. Life has other uses than to support this.
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Count me in to, have other things to spend that ten grand a year on.
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My question is do I make my last UGA game one of going to the bowl game to show support for Richt or do I stop giving McGarity and my alms mater money immediately? I really don’t know which is the right approach to register my disgust.
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So what y’all are saying is that you really were more of a Richt fan than a UGA fan? I’m not trying to rub it in. I was as shocked as anyone. I loved what MR did in his early career but felt he’d grown complacent. I wish him and his family the best in all future endeavors. Thanks for the memories coach.
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WOW. I didn’t think they would do it.
And before everyone piles on me, no, this does not make me happy. I really, really like Mark Richt and really wanted the best for him and us. Totally mixed emotions about this.
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me too.
I wanted CMR to retire. Never wanted him to get fired.
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He had the option to retire but wasn’t going to give up the money. Nor would you. Nor would I. So they had to do what they had to do.
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The ideal scenario has always been a mutually agreed upon transition. Richt deserves dignity but should also want to preserve his legacy by doing right by the program.
Ideally, he will remain near the program as an ally in some capacity.
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Reported he will stay nad run the Paul Oliver network at UGA
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And do what? Guide the program into Shreveport or some other lame ass bowl game. Pull off the bandaid I know we’ll also have to get someone else to hand out the water but I can live with that. Why let him coach the bowl game he’s been to enough shitty bowl games. Why in the world should we have to foot the bill to take he and his family on a paid vacation? McG you should go next jackass.
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He’s going to continue to help recruit over the next month too. That alone is worth keeping him on. He still wants good things for UGA and there’s nobody better to try to salvage this class in the meantime.
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Glenn your life must really suck, because you really SUCK. Now go back to trailer park and kiss your sister some more.
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I left him
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ditto
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I guess you guys are stuck with me for awhile longer.
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Yep, and I’m gone. You guys have fun with this bundle of joy.
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Why? There’s less reason for you to exist now.
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boom
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Agreed..l
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+1
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Derek just put a bullet in his head.
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Fuck you! You pathetic piece of garbage. If you are what UGA fandom is then I’ll start rooting for another team.
If they hire Smart or Mullen I won’t give another cent to UGA.
Fuck you McGarity
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Wow, take some meds dude.
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Yeah. So much for you and I being the “negative” ones. Ive never told anyone on here to go Eff themselves. Doubt you have either.
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Tech tix are cheap and you can always find Tech apparel at the Goodwill off Buford Highway
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^^^^nutjob^^^^
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So you’re a Mark Richt fan rather than a UGA fan? My allegiances don’t change with coaching staffs, nor should any UGA fan’s.
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Here here.
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So how long before you are unhappy with the new coaching staff? I do not really care one way or the other if he is gone or not. Just curious when do the ones wanting him gone start up complaining about the new coach.
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I think the next hire should show positive improvement within 3 years.
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I don’t recall if it was you, or ScottDavid who said anyone could do better. Why give the new person 3 years to start showing improvement. I thought you would demand better re x ts immediately rather that being fine with mediocrity in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
If we fired him because we should have done better than 39 wins in 4 years then the new guy needs to win no less than 11 a year immediately.
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Wasn’t me. I figured he’d be back and was just hoping Schitty was gone. I’m rather shocked. I can see a team about the same as this team next year whether Richt was back or not. Most of the keep Richt crowd were pointing to at least a two rebuild anyhow.
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Two year even.
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Wasn’t me. New guy needs to win the East within 3 years. His only competition is Florida.
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Reported here too
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2015/11/29/georgia-fires-mark-richt-after-15-seasons-football-coach/76527722/
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whoa
totally unexpected by me
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And so it begins…….
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2016 tickets for sale.
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huge step forward for UGA football
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what an ass
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you’re quite the debater!
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Fuck McGarity’s rat Gator ass. If they announce Kirby or Mullen as coach I won’t give another fucking cent to UGA.
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Well… bye
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Yeah…sure…Dan Mullen that’s the ticket. He had a great year this year. 8-4 and 2nd to last in the SEC West.
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Nobody cares. Don’t let the door knob hit ya and all that stuff.
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Sure is telling how all the fans that claimed they were Georgia fans over MR fans are losing their minds and making threats today to stop watching or donating.
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I am grateful to Richt for the great years we had from 01-07. But that was a long time ago, and it was time to move on.
Thanks for everything, CMR.
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Sad Day. Now come the assistant coaches and recruits.
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Who needs assistants, recruits or fans? The important thing, the only thing really, is to Demand Excellence.
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Is les miles still available?
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Hate to sound pessimistic, but it’s going to be hard to get somebody better. Remember when Ken Mason took the job for a day, and then decided that Kansas was a better place to be? Be prepared for a cold dose of reality. UGA isn’t one of the top 5 jobs in the land. There go the recruits too.
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Glen Mason. To be fair, that was after Goff and UGA is in a different place now…thanks to Richt, ironically
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Actually, Glen Mason was going through a divorce and had to stay in state for custody reasons. How can you say UGA is not a top job — SEC, talent-rich state, great quality of life, unlimited resources, willing to pay top dollar. What is it exactly that makes it a less than desirable job?
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“What is it exactly that makes it a less than desirable job?” The fickle fanatics that want to fire you after you’ve posted the best career winning percentage in the history of the program!…well, except for Robert Winston, some of you good old Dawgs might remember him, back in ’94
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Yeah, no other fans are like Georgia’s anywhere else in the SEC or the rest of the country for that matter.
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The silence from B-M didn’t bode well. I’m torn. I like Richt – I think he’s a good man (and there aren’t many of them around), and UGA has had good results since he’s been coach. But, like all of us, there are many, many times I thought we could have done better.
Unfortunately, I do not have confidence in B-M to competently handle a new hire. Hopefully they’ll prove me wrong.
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Agree with every word. If BM doesn’t have a replacement hire already locked up, they are f#%king nuts.
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I tend to agree with this.
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WCD, I completely agree with you. I only hope it’s not Benedict Smart. My first call is to David Shaw …
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Yeah. I had a lot more confidence in Richt finding someone better than Schotty to coach the offense than I do in B-M replacing Richt.
“Mullen or Smart” are apparently McGarity’s ideas of “home run hires.”
The ex-Gator assistant whose best season ended with GT whipping their ass, or blonde Will Muschamp (with no HC experience.)
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And now the hot seat switches to McGarity for the next 4 years. I wonder how well he will handle it?
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Get the cheapest coach available with any sort of name recognition and then try to push the UGA brand as main thing. More piped in music and
better wifi is all we need. Maybe change the helmets and uniforms every week too. Isn’t that what the fans want?
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Sounds like we’re getting Jon gruden!
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Yeah, he is going to feel a lot of heat if the new guy struggles a bit.
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This is what most of you wished for. I hope you all can sleep better at night.
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Why wouldn’t they? Their tantrums were cost free. They are all on record as willing to accept 10 years of suckage just to fire the best coach in school history. They’ll sleep just fine.
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+1
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Agree….this is Black Sunday for UGA. Everyone at GT andd the AJC are happy as can be…oh, yeah..and chilidiawg and a few others.
You’r fixing to learn a hard lesson in reality.
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What if this turns out good? Some of yall act like you hope it wont just so you can be right. Yeah youre great fans.
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Hypocrites.
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No crap.
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It’s amazing how in one day the supposed great fans are the ones telling anyone who wasn’t on Richt’s jock to go eff themselves.
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What did you expect? They’ve been far more personally critical for the last couple of months than those of us who wanted Richt gone. With the possible exception of Chili.
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True enough.
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LSU came to their senses.
Apparently we did not.
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LSU listened to the fans. McGarity listened to the chilidawgs. He’s going to hire Mullen and uga will be no better in four years. What dumpster fire.
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Lol, wow, all this time I’ve been told I’m the lunatic fringe that nobody cares about and now I have the ear of the AD?
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Not you personally. I doubt McGarity has the time to find out where your van is parked to get your advice. No I just used you as a descriptor of a group of poseur tough guy fans who are really tired of taking crap from Auburn fans down at the unemployment office.
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Wow. Just wow. You paint with an awfully broad brush. Insulting people you don’t know on the net makes you the tough guy hiding behind a keyboard.
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Sad just sad for the players and our future. I hope McGarrity is gone soon.
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Seems that way.
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We are UT South now. Maybe Junior will take job..or SOD.
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This is a huge step for UGA, things might not get better right away but at least there’s now a chance for the Dawgs to reach the summit. Don’t worry Richt homers, he’ll get picked up by someone, and in a couple months yall will have a whole new team to cheer for.
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We are UGA fans..carry on with your BS elsewhere…not the time nor place.
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Tell that to the people saying they’re done with UGA football and not giving a dime to the program.
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Varsity Chilidawg…You’ll be the first one crying when we don’t win 9 games next year..and the next year..and the next year…and the next year….
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Wrong. As usual. If this year was Richt’s first or second year instead of his 15th it would have been a different story. You know that too.
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This Richt Homer has bought season tickets when Dooley was coach, when Goff was coach and when Donnan was coach. I will buy tickets and cheer for whomever the new coach will be.
You write checks to the Hartman Fund?
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I cheer for the Lions, the Rams, the Chiefs, and a bunch other UGA alum teams. I’ve got room for one more if Richt goes on to coach somewhere else.
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Don’t forget the Bengals. Cincy is practically UGA’s north campus.
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Although I wanted Richt gone, I preferred he just retire and go out on a better note. That being said, shit is about to get crazy
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Agree. I wanted a change, but not a nasty breakup. Would’ve thought Morehead had more sense than to let it end this way. A negotiated resignation and handing the reins to somebody like Pruitt would’ve been far preferable.
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This TNDawg thinks this SUCKS!!
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There is a slight chance that BM will get it right with a new coach.
But right now, I just feel sick.
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Thank you coach Richt for fifteen years of service. The odds are were about to spend the next 5 walking in the desert.
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Five if you are lucky. I say ‘you’ because unless McGarity has backchanneled one of a half dozen coaches of the best coaches in the land, I am done as a UGA football fan until he McGarity gets axed. I mean, what am I supposed to be supporting here? I hope the next hire is the precise median for what you expect from a search firm for an elite job like UGA, so that it is clear for all to see what that median is, and how far superior Richt is to it.
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Clean house then. Start with McGarity and finish with the last graduate assistant. May not matter, though. We’re probably about to be reminded of what happens when boosters are allowed to affect decisions like this.
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Now you are getting it right. McG is just the lightnin’ rod they installed and with the BOR helping, the boosters take over a la Auburn back in the Tubby era. Didn’t Petrino begin to arise from that crud? Same path.
Hope they like clapping each other on the back for delivering us from Richt.
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Back a Brinks truck up to Pete Carroll’s house and tell him to come on. He is a better coach than Saban, having won MNCs and Super Bowls. He would dig the challenge of coaching in the SEC. This is not a good day in my opinion.
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GRUDEN!!!
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Bill Cowher, Phil Fulmer
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About the apathy towards the program if this happened that you mentioned last week Senator, you were right. I will never pull against UGA, but I find I don’t need college football anymore.
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Fell the same, SEBawg. Too many idiots running the show…what a sad way to treat Mark Richt. For a lot of us, our admiration of him was kept us faithful.
The malcontents are a squeeky wheel and they get the grease,, but this will backfire when the idiots in Admin realize how many people they have actually pissed off to the point of apathy.
BM needs a BM..tiime for an enema to get the turds out.
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Really man. You are going to stop pulling for your football team because they fired your coach. His brain fart games and bad roster management were what kept you around?
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If the Mullen rumors are true, I’m out. http://i.imgur.com/ICfTX.gif
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If the Mullen rumors are true, I picked the wrong day to stop studying weather systems
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UGA says he is stepping down after the bowl game. Let’s not overdue the fired thing. I hope the big money guys can afford the $$$ it’s going to take. My guess is we are all going to be disappointed. The Georgia Way we eat our own. Loyalty has Gone With The Wind.
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This won’t end well. The fact that McGarity listened to the ass clowns yelling to burn everything to the ground indicates that he will make a terrible hire as a replacement. Oh and his track record of hiring kinda indicates that too.
But that’s not important. What is of course is celebrating the firing of the best coach in school history.
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it wasn’t the assclowns he listened to.
It was people that are in charge and they said: “if you think Georgia can win a NC with CMR then you need to keep him, if you don’t think Georgia can win a NC with CMR, then you need to let him go.”
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Exactly.
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I dare say it will. Very interesting indeed. Coach Richt found our program in a difficult, underachieving place, and made it better. However, that was 15 years ago. CFB has undergone a lot of changes since then. I used to think that stability of staff was a virtue in itself, but I no longer see that as the case. I cannot help but wonder what this year might have been without the disastrous hires of Schottenheimer and Sale. And, too, what role their future here has played a role in his dismissal. If his remaining in Athens were made contingent on firing them and he refused to do so, then I would have to say, with regret, “Nice knowing you. Have a nice life.”
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Good point. If he intended to bring Schotty back, then there was nothing more to discuss.
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I am a huge supporter of MR but I agree with WCD on his point. If we were getting another year of Schotty then just start this madness now. Of course, McGarity better get this right… everything I’ve seen from him tells me he won’t.
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LSU looked into the abyss and took a step back. UGA just cannonballed
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However, Mark Richt is no Lester Miles.
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+1000
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He’s better. He has better stats and a winning record against Les.
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That’s the funniest/best comment I’ve read today! Thanks for that.
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My guess is that he was given the ultimatum on either CJP and/or CBS. CMR told them to go fuck themselves and good for him.
I guess we see where Coach X takes us.
I have assume they have someone lined up right? You don’t do this unless we’re having a Tuesday (or Monday?) press conference do you?
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CJP was near universally disliked. Bryan McClendon and Thomas Brown nearly came to fisticuffs when CJP insulted CMR at his house.
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Ya know, since that episode I’ve gone out of my way to listen to Pruitt interviews. He comes across as humble, knowledgeable, handles details, and has a long term plan. Watching him on the sidelines I see a competitor, not a muschamp who becomes a lunatic in public. I sure as heck wont blame Pruitt for taking coaches to task about the jax debacle when they were in a private setting.
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Wasn’t Van Gorder considered a major dick too?
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He will be the next DC at Alabama we’ll be sucking hind tit as usual. Committ to the G and get screwed by the damn Whiskey Warlord who run the program.
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NM, would you expand on the Pruitt/Richt insult?
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Bad assumption.
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The timing of this is excellent. (As was LSU’s announcement that Les was staying.) If you’re going to jump into the head coach market you don’t wait, and you also don’t want a coach like CMR twisting in the wind. Fuentes is the only up-and-comer off the market, and UGA shouldn’t have their sights set so low anyways. Now there are two marquee programs looking for coaches and UGA stands to get one of the best coaches available in time to save the recruiting class. Let’s hope they move quickly at B-M to secure a great coach.
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Do you have any confidence that B-M will move quickly to make a great hire to salvage the recruiting class? Have they ever done anything in the past that would lead you to believe they will?
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Yes. They had Richt step down gracefully, and they didn’t waste time doing it. So far McGarity is doing it exactly right.
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You do not understand gracefully. The was a PR disaster.
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Pruitt finding out while with a recruit? And I think we just lost Leonard Floyd to the pros. Maybe we always had, but his twitter account makes it sound so.
Also, how are they supposed to recruit? For what? That makes it sound like they have no idea who they are going to hire. Great.
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This is a cluster F. There is hell to pay. The ass clowns made all the noise and the silent majority is going to be pissed when everything is finished. Welcome to UT South.
We’re screwed. The loudmouths have had their way. The trolls, the AJC and the people who think we can somehow become Alabama have screwed us all.
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amen
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Then the majority shouldn’t have remained silent if that really is the case.
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Richt may have gone along with all the “mutual decision” coachtalk, but the previous day’s talk about not knowing of a meeting, hitting the recruiting trail, etc. gave the lie to all that.
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The evidence is there, but if you can’t see it yourself you are either not looking or incapable of seeing it. And I’m not going to waste my time pointing it out to anyone. Don’t take that to mean I don’t believe there is also evidence they will botch this.
But let’s just focus on the timing of this, which is the brunt of my comments. In that respect, I believe the timing was excellent.
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So was the timing of Pearl Harbor but it didn’t work out in the long run. Not a history scholar but I think Yamamoto disemboweled himself just like McGarity will/should do in the long run,
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Yamamoto was shot down by a U.S. fighter pilot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_T._Barber
But to your point, yeah…this may not work out in the long run. Question is (just like it was for the Japanese in 1941), are you happy with the status quo and/or what direction we were going in?
In this case you had consistent underachievement with occasionally meeting expectations (see: 2012). In the other, you had national pride confronted with the perceived future domination by foreign powers.
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Mullen = Richt with a little less class.
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How so?
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Great. Now McGarity can consult with Foley on a suitable coach for UGA.
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You may get 300+ on this one, Senator.
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You’re way low
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It’ll top out over 1K.
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Well once the Richtites finish getting their venom out we can all talk about how this was the right move.
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People with brains, a group to which you don’t belong, understand that it won’t be known whether this was, or wasn’t, the right move for some time. Gotta name a coach, hire a staff, recruit a class, and play some games. Until then we don’t know anything.
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You’re still here? Glad you didn’t end it. I would have missed you.
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I have to be around in order to end you.
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“People with brains, a group to which you don’t belong, understand that it won’t be known whether this was, or wasn’t, the right move for some time.”
This won’t stop you from pulling the “told ya so” card after our first loss in 2016.
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We’re going to lose in 2016? It already sounds like a bad idea.
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I’m not a “Richtite”, but I’m really tired of your crap. Yeah, I’m excited to move on from all the drama, but mostly I want you to go back to the AJC. I’m serious. You are ruining this blog.
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I can’t wait until we reel off 10 natties in a row starting next year then we can all say thank you to chilidawgnv for his foresight ! As long as Richt is gone, we can’t possibly do worse, right?
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You think Richt was drama? I can think of more than a dozen high profile coaches that were much more dramatic with much less class. Sure maybe we can get a coach that will take us to greater heights than Richt, I’m just wondering how many we are going to have to hire to find him. Things are gonna get more dramatic before they get less so.
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Agreed.
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You know a lot about venom. You’ve been pumping into this blog for ages. Let’s see how you feel in two years…you’ll probably change your moniker and be one of the people bitching that we fired the winningest coach in school history. Smart.
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It’s one thing to think this was the right decision. It’s another thing entirely to dance on somebody’s grave.
You’ve made this blog a worse place – not for your opinion, but your personal attacks (calling Mac a “clown” is just one of many examples) and your attitude.
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Show me any comment I’ve made “dancing on someone’s grave.” Please. I’ll wait.
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I have never once seen you take issue with the multitude of personal insult hurled at myself and other who disagrees with the sunshine mafia. No, you latch on to a “clown” word and say that I’ve ruined the blog. This is beyond ridiculous. If you had any sense of reason in your head you would understand the hypocrisy in what you’re saying.
Derek has literally wished death upon posters here. But it’s me who has ruined the blog with personal insults. You’re a trip man, a real trip.
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As someone who didn’t think Richt had it in him anymore I have certainly had plenty of venom thrown at me. I’m far from innocent in my responses but I’d say there’s more venom being hurled in this thread than any I’ve see and it’s all coming from the folks that can’t handle that their hero is gone and even those that are threatening to pull against the team out of spite.
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chilidawgnv, I’m obviously on the other side of this from you, but I sincerely hope this is the right move, and I so hope the Dogs will do well in 2016. UGA is a plum opening, and if the powers that be are perceptive we should get a satisfactory head coach out of all this.
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Richt definitely made some mistakes. However, the downside of this move far outweigh the upside. I have zero faith the AD will get this right. I hope everyone who pulled for this move has their check books ready.
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I did not see this coming. Wow, completely caught off guard by this. Thank you for your time served and fond memories Coach Richt.
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This is the way to show some class if you didn’t like CMR. +1 Skeptic.
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I said almost the exact same thing above, but I guess that doesn’t fit your agenda.
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I’ve never even said that I disliked MR. Just that I didn’t see him turning things around. And I as well posted above I’m shocked and wish him and his family the best in the future and appreciate the memories.
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Why would Richt want to stick around for our bowl game? I’d tell McAsshole to eat shit. I guess the potential 10th win means something to the man.
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his mantra for 15 years has been “finish the drill”.
Perhaps he should…finish the drill
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I’m sure he’d like to do that but he’s classy enough to stay for the players
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Yep. He’s a class act.
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He sure is making sure he gets every penny from the program what a guy!
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And you wouldn’t?? Been dismissed much??
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Even Donnan stuck around for the bowl game – I wouldn’t expect anything less from CMR. By the way, I may buy bowl tickets now to give the man the respect he deserves.
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The fact that McGarity was allowed input in this, instead of being shown the door, too, tells me all I need to know.
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This is a long game for us actually improving, not a short one. Bye bye top 4 recruiting class, bye bye top 10 defense built by pruitt with mostly frosh & sophs. Even if they get the hire right (and he gets his subsequent hires right too) it will take a while to get better. Just hope we get someone who has coached, not kirby whose success is 75% or more from Saban and has never coached before. I hope we didn’t just do the equivalent of Nebraska firing Tom Osborne in 1993. Personally I think McGarity is an idiot and I have no faith in him to make a good hire, so Ill just hope that he gets lucky.
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Kanu, I may trust Charles Knapp to make a better hire than the clowns in Butts-Mehre right now.
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Wow the fans of richt show them selves. He was more important then the team the players and then university. Get over it no one is bigger than the team not even richt.
How about supporting the team now, instead of crying about a coach who became a multi millionaire and leaves with millions still in pockets.
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False premise. You and your ilk are projecting. It is you who were more fixated on the man than the team. History shows that CMR is arguably the best coach in UGA history yet that didn’t matter. You think he needed to be fired, deserved to be fired, even if it means the TEAM will suffer for years to come.
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I didn’t fire him. It is done so get over it. New Era has begun either get with it or don’t. But don’t cry for a coach who was paid millions of dollars to never win a NC and get their asses handed to him time and again by the old ball sack, Meyer and saban. He’s done live with it or move on to become a techie or war eagle.
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Another false premise. You’re like a guy with a flamethrower in a field of straw men. And the “support his firing or go root for Tech” is retarded bullshit that domes only from bullshitters with no good arguments or an actual idiot. It is your kind of argument that has poisoned the UGA fan base. It is possible to both be against his firing and wish the team well in the future. With that out of the way…..
I don’t doubt that you wish the team well. You think CMR had to go in order for the team to achieve a level it really has never been to and that this administration has the ability to deliver the change you think you deserve.
I think you’re wrong and foolhardy. We will see who’s right in the coming years.
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Outstanding words, McNease!
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Good posts McNease
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…And you care about the “team” more because you wanted him gone? I’m calling bullshit on that. What I believe you care about is bragging rights over a crystal trophy you personally didn’t play for, because that’s what make “you” a winner in life….Whatever.
Sanctimonious, self righteous bullshit.
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a zillion, AO
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Richtolytes are out from the basements and trailer parks. He should of been gone in 2010. 5 years too late. Carry on…..
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This hurts, and I’ve been twisted up about it since the Florida game. I hate to see him go, but I think the time had come. My confidence is low on the administration’s ability to get the best replacement. I’m hoping for a grand slam but preparing for a decade lost in the wilderness.
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Mark Dantonio
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Probably can’t afford him. Would be a better hire for the Gamecocks too. He should be #1 on their target list.
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Can’t afford him? Brother, I don’t think there’s anyone we can’t afford.
There are plenty of people we won’t pony up for, but it won’t be for lack of funds. It’ll be for the good of the reserve fund (ever praised may it be!)
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Jim Bob Cooter. #dawgsforcooter
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Somebody’s paying attention to where UGA is finding all of its leadership these days.
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You guys who called for his head better be man enough to accept the results, good or bad. You have helped put the decision in McGarity’s hands. Hopefully we will be thanking you soon, but if not, accept your mistake. That’s all I ask.
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They won’t, Wolfman. They’ll just change their names on here and bitch about the next coach that doesn’t win it all within three years…They all have “Alabama Complex Disorder”, which is incurable.
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I thought we’d never go there after the LSU debacle. We went them one better.
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Fedora?
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It has been a long up hill battle but in the end we have won! Richt-O-Philia was a disease unlike any we have ever seen before. It destroyed lives, ruined families and made Fall a most unpleasant time of year. I don’t want to take all the credit but…….you are welcome Dawg Fans!
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Praise be to S & G.
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Lol, well ill give you one thing , you were among the first off the bandwagon.
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I’m stunned. In the long run, I think this will be good for Georgia. But I really did not think they’d pull the trigger.
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Thanks for the memories Richt. Sad day and ending to this chapter of Georgia football.
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When you read McGarity’s statement, it really makes one wonder why they fired him.
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I won’t say to know for sure what the right decision is, but if you were a Georgia fan in the 90s, you know what the alternative to 9-3 every year can be.
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Goff years were dark times…
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Hope Eason is still on board.
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Doubt it. Unless we bring in a solid pro style guy. That is the system he wants to play in. If we hire a Dan Mullen type, he is definitely off the board. Bama can probably lock down Eason by this afternoon.
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Michigan or uf
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Maybe we get the next Cam or Deshaun instead. As Fletcher said, “Recruits and wins will always be there for Georgia.”
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Aite it’s done now drive on!
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As one who midseason went from supporting Richt to thinking there needed to be a change, I do have to admit I am bummed on many levels. There has never been a coach that I felt represented my university as well as he did and no one I ever felt more desire to see succeed than CMR. I do agree that a change was needed and I’m glad he wasn’t left to twist in the wind any longer but I do still have some shock and disbelief that it really happened. I hope there is a major plan in place for where to go next, and if it happens to be Mullen, color me pissed. If they don’t get someone of the level of Patterson, David Shaw etc. then this will have been a fools errand. And god no, do not let it be Pete Carroll.
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A big major mistake. No way the next coach (after a couple of good years)
will be as good of a HC as Mark Richt has been. A sad day for the Dawgs.
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I would advise against speaking in absolutes in either direction. No one has the slightest clue how this will end up playing out.
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While you are correct, the evidence from other programs points to varying degrees of suck for the next 5-15 years.
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But all we’ve heard were absolutes about the team if Richt was retained. So why no absolutes now that he’s been fired?
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Strange decision to stay through the bowl game. Even if loyal to UGA, Richt needs to go and let them clear house now. Goodbye to CJP and the turnaround on D, and probably goodbye to McClendon and Brown, which also would mean goodbye to being Running Back U.
Gonna miss Pro Style attack. The spread option is so…meh…but probably what we need to win 10 games a year. Oh wait…
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The best chance of winning the bowl is the kids playing their hearts out for their coach not some stranger who would not have time to install his system.
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Unless we have our guy, this seems like a clusterfuck in the making.
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Agree here. Hope somebody already is lined up. Supposedly, that’s partly why LSU didn’t fire Miles. Jimbo got cold feet. Worst case: We have trouble landing a top coach.
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Exactly what I’ve been thinking. Why pull the trigger if you don’t already have option a,b c, and d figured out. If a search firm is called in it just means they have no plan and need a middle man to blame using phrases like “due diligence ” and “extensive search “.
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If they don’t have someone lined up immediately and there is a search firm, everyone involved should commit sepeku immediately and save themselves from further dishonor…
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Dan Mullen? Kirby Smart makes a lot more sense to me & all the speculation about Kirby to Carolina may well forced McGarity’s hand. He’d rather have Kirby coaching the Dawgs then having to play against him every year.
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Why does an unproven coach make sense over a coach that has elevated a program?
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Welcome to the wilderness.
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Does this mean Schotty’s gone?
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Hope so. The Schotty hire may very well have been Richt’s ultimate undoing.
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The only real immediate bright spot in my view.
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It is sad. We are all sad, but I think it’s for the best. I think we all know without a doubt now that this is what McGarity wanted from day one. This is his chance. He better not screw it up.
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I felt that way, but when they didn’t can Richt earlier I started to think otherwise.
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Richt gets fired yet McGarity is still employed. Think about that. This is your big money UGA boosters at work. Enjoy, people. lol
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A dumpster fire for sure. Classless way to announce it. Tennessee here we come . Short term will be long term for turn around. We are now on the coaching carousel. I feel for the team. Watch our recruiting class fall apart.
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Did you see Pruitt was with a 5-star recruit at church when the news broke, and that’s how he found out? With that type of shoddy move, I have very little hope McGarity will do a decent job hiring a new staff.
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I just saw that. I feel for our players. I have a bad feeling the news was broken before they were told.
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So what? What difference does it make? You pick some peculiar things to be mad about.
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They are our players and staff and I want them to be treated with integrity and class. Something you obviously don’t understand. Go through a downsizing with a major company and see how it feels both to those who lost their jobs and those who did not it’s life changing. You figure out what is important in life. Those kid’s give their all to this university they deserve the best we have a mass text message is not it. Neither is a coach finding out on the recruiting trail.maybe when you have more life experience you will understand that.
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Fire McGarity and Morehead.
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Why?
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because it’s the most horrifying, embarrassing, self-inflicted dipshittery at the university since Jim Harrrick.
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I’m sorry but I don’t see why. The question is: will CMR lead this team to a mnc, the answer is a clear and convincing “no”.
He’s had 15 years to put everything into place and you think in year 16 with a freshman QB and possibly a new OC and DC he was going to pull it together?
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you and i do not have much common ground. i guess FSU should have fired Bowden in year 15 (Schlabach points out that Bowden didn’t win until his 18th year). we should cease pretending that dignity and ethical behavior are important to our entire INSTITUTION, because if a few pissy millionaires or a fragile-ego AD can do this it’s clear that any sort of dignity is unimportant in the end. McGarity and Morehead should be run out of ton on a rail.
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I suspect we have more in common than that. I think I was Section X, but can’t recall (the horror, the horror). I had Sentell so technically was Section T.
regardless, there’s no callous skullduggery in firing a guy after 15 years. Everyone one from Adel to Ringold knows who he is and how great a man he is, etc. The question was if he was moving the program forward or backwards.
GM disagrees with your assessment.
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i get the man taught torts, but wouldn’t section S have been a better homage??
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That guy was 100% chickenshit so I’d opt for Section C.
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Proving yet again that the Sentelle people are even more cult-like than the Richt apologists…
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Paul Kurtz (God rest his soul, of course) chastens all of you for your acceptance of mediocrity.
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I was section T in 1982. We had Jacobina’s descendant visit us.
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Why not clean house fire the water lady oh crap we just did.
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Your comments are not funny or cute.
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Highest winning percentage of any Georgia coach (except Robert Winston).
Most bowl victories of any Georgia coach.
Five SEC championship game appearances.
Two SEC titles.
UGA has 21 double digit victory seasons. Richt has 9 of them. If he wins the bowl, he’ll have 10.
He was THAT close to an NC in 2002, 2005, 2007, 2012.
When they asked the coaches who they wanted their son to play for, he won the poll.
No hint of any major NCAA hanky-panky.
And they canned him.
The world has gone mad.
Maybe they’ll dig up Robert Winston and let him coach again.
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Don’t forget that he’s the reining Belk Bowl Champ.
If only he had the best QB and RB one season…just imagine what he could do!
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2007 and 2012 were on my list.
And another thing: He made recruiting look easy. With the exception of maybe one Donnan year, nobody recruited here like that. We may have a fertile recruiting territory, but we have a lot of hungry predators on our borders just waiting to poach (something made immensely easier by today’s turn of events.) But Richt also went far and wide, to Washinton, Texas, NJ, Massachusetts, and Missouri to find talent. Yes it’s important what you do with talent but getting them here in the first place is also important.
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Oh that’s a crowning jewel of any career. He’ll probably have that set in bold print on the old resume.
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For McGarrity to announce it was a mutual decision is just heavy bullshit. What a tool. With his incompetence we will be lucky if the hire turns out to be good. Regardless, I love the dawgs and will support whoever is hired. Looking forward to seeing all 12 in 2016′
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The most Georgia thing to do would be to promote CBS. Man that would be so sad.
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Richt supporters as of an hour ago: “There’s no way to know if we’d be better off with another head coach.”
Richt supporters now: “I know things are only going to get worse.”
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I HOPE things will be as good or better whoever our new coach may be. Go Dogs!
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Lol seriously. All sorts of hypocrisy on display right now.
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From both sides
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plus 1,000,00 on that.
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Here’s another …
Richt supporters as of a few hours ago: “You’re not a real Georgia fan if your support depends upon who’s coaching.”
Richt supporters now: “If we hire So-and-so, I’m never rooting for Georgia again.”
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I’m rooting for Georgia forever. I just feel the task in front of McGarrity et. al., is more daunting than they realize. Let’s hope they thread the needle.
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Richt haters as of an hour ago: “Don’t tell me I have to root for the team. We’d be better off losing four straight to get rid of Richt.”
Richt haters now: “This is the New Era. Stop crying and get on board with the team or go root for Tech.”
Logs, motes and hypocrites are bountiful around this place.
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Not sure who you’re referring to here, but for those of us who think that this is ultimately what’s best for the team, there’s no inconsistency here. I was rooting for the team when I said it was time to let Richt go. And I’m rooting for the team now as I hope for a good replacement.
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I’m with Turd.
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Guilty Turd. New Era quote was me. Richtolytes put him above all now they are like the rats leaving a sinking ship. Team above all else. Crying how they cannot support the team anymore. Giving up their tickets and going home to the trailer parks. Richt Era lasted 5 years too long. Not sad one bit, happy to be finally turning the corner and for the chance and that is just what it is a chance to move out of mediocrity that has mired the program for the last 6 years.
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They’ll get over it in a couple of weeks or a couple of months. It’s the temper tantrum that accused (deservedly in some cases) the anti-Richt crowd of. It IS funny to read through some of these comments though.
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I fully expected this is exactly how they’d react when it finally happened. It’ll run its course.
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Well they can still worship at the alter if richt decides to get another hc job. It is about richt after all and not the team.
Just remember chili…..it is all your fault
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Hope UGA football didn’t just get Fulmered.
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Richt was FAR from perfect. But he had is in the hunt many times and he was fully capable of righting the ship. This move was too high risk and it’s likely that things will get worse for a long while. Fire Greg McGarity!
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Jeremy Pruitt
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This sucks big time. I’m afraid we’re about to go wandering in Tennessee land.
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Best case scenario, hire CJP as HC. Second best scenario, hire a HC with enough sense to keep CJP as DC.
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Mcgarity needs to hire Tom Herman.
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If Pee Wee isn’t available
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For the record, I’ve never understood the Dan Mullen hype.
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I can think of worse choices.
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Oh, me too. But I always thought that Mullen was just a so-so coach who looked like a genius because of the GPOOE. And he hasn’t really done anything at Miss St. to make me think otherwise.
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To be fair, he’s made that program more relevant than it’s been. That’s not nothing. He’s a very good QB coach and a good offensive mind.
He’d also cost something close to $5 million a year to get him away from MSU. Not sure McGarity likes him that much.
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Like you, I think the $$$ all but eliminates Mullen from serious contention.
But for the record, if the main criticism of Richt — both among fans and among pundits (see, e.g., Schlabach’s article today) — was that he could win all/most of the games he was supposed to win, but not enough of the “big” games, I don’t see how a Mullen hire makes sense. Miss St. played 4 teams this season that were ranked in the top-25 at the time of the game, … and lost all 4 of them. They, too, had Alabama at home. And they, too, got their asses handed to them. They looked decent for the first half of last season, … before losing to every ranked team they faced down the stretch (including Tech in a bowl game). And the year before that? Same story: 5 games against ranked teams, and lost all 5 of them.
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To buy Mullen, you have to believe the resources he’d have available in Athens are far enough above what he’s got right now at MSU to make a big difference.
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Fair enough. And while we’re being fair to Mullen: MSU might look a whole lot better if they played in the East.
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they were No 1 in the country last year at one point I think….at Miss St.
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For the record would you explain? Their thousands of football coaches so yes he isn’t the worst but do you think he is that much better than CMR???
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I think Mullen might end up being a lateral hire, should they go that route. He may be slightly better than Richt. He also has a slimy quality that may ultimately disqualify him. All that said, he’s coaching a Mississippi State program with no history of any success whatsoever, and he’s won at a higher percentage than anyone in a very long time there. It’s a hard place to win at. They have fewer resources than pretty much everyone they’re competing with, and it’s difficult to recruit the kinds of athletes even Ole Miss can get. I mean, they’re little brother to a traditionally mediocre SEC program.
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Miko Bobo & keep Pruitt.
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If Bobo comes with an alma mater discount, you can bet McG is on the mother.
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The same McG that was rumored not to agree to a pay increase for Bobo?
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Exactly. Paid more for a lot less in CBS and I’m supposed to trust this guy to get it right? The best coaches available will demand top $$$ and I doubt we pay it.
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Michigan might get Eason after all.
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I think we form a group and make a play for Jom Bob Cooter. Dawgs for Cooter it has a nice ring to it.
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Now we have some hope for the future!!
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Better start early then, Russ…you can start by hoping we win 7 games next year..because we’re about to go to hell in a handbasket.
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Well, this Russ that’s been here for years thinks it’s a bad move. Very slim chance we improve, but I guess there IS a chance.
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As stated previously, UGA fan, have seen all sorts of debacles since the early 1950’s. Will support the team in 2016
. Main question is still. How long do the naysayers give the new staff? Spring practice? One game? 2016? If there is no national championship in 2016—the bitching continue.
Let the naysayers go rub themselves all over, and have a mutual mental masturbation session. The one’s upset 2016 will be here before you know it.
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Very well said, alamosa. They’re all jacking off now..but we’ll see how sexy they think the situation is about this time next year.
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I think most people who wanted a regime change understand that doing so often requires at least a season or two of adjusting — especially if there are significant changes in offensive and/or defensive philosophies.
In other words, we’re happy to allow that things might have to get worse before they can get better — just as long as the “better,” whenever it comes, is indeed better than the way things have been recently.
Unfortunately, this is not going to stop people like you from crying, “See! I told you!” the second anything bad happens going forward.
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Hell not Turd..it’s not going to stop me from saying “See” I told you!” The crybabys have been screaming that CMR is a bad coach..now they’ve got their way…f’ing produce all of this success and do it in a hurry. I can be just as unreasonable as the Fire CMR crowd has been..turn-about is fair play.
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Sure, if you want to act like a hypocrite by your own standards, go right ahead. Meanwhile, I’ll be over here being rational.
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Just like the Fire Richt crowd is hypocritical right now pleading for patience?
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Nope. You act like Richt was just hired last year. Richt’s critics were not impatient with him. Our patience had simply run out. This has been an under-performing program since the conclusion of the 2007 season. That’s eight years, McNease. It took me eight fucking years of disappointment to finally bring myself to say, “I think it’s time for him to go.” And now you think I’m being hypocritical for suggesting that we give the new regime a year or two to settle in?
Whatever, asshole.
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Preach it Turd.
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Yes I do think you and the rest of you are being hypocritical. And I think your cursing and ad hominem response is a tell that you know I’m right. You yell and stamp your feet for change since 10 win seasons aren’t good enough for you. And then you plead for time and patience. Patience is required to just get us back to those same 10 win seasons that you couldn’t bear any more.
Bottom line is that you got what you wanted. Congratulations. I hope it works out. If it does then I’ll admit that my skepticism was wrong. But given your comments here I don’t think there is any chance that if this change doesn’t work out that you would admit to being wrong.
Does that make better than you? Kinda.
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Thanks for that, McNease…right on the spot.
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Here, let me straighten some things out for you.
There’s a difference between calling someone an asshole and engaging in ad hominem. You see, ad hominem is when you criticize a person instead of criticizing his argument. But that’s pretty clearly not what I did. I criticized both you and your argument.
There’s also a difference between saying, “I think it’s time for him to go,” and “yell[ing] and stamp[ing] your feet for change.” Sorry you cannot understand this.
“But given your comments here I don’t think there is any chance that if this change doesn’t work out that you would admit to being wrong.” Maybe the problem is that you can’t fucking read. If you’d simply scroll down a few comments, you’d find yours truly admitting, “I fully expect McGarity to screw this up.” I expect there to be rough times ahead for this program. But what you and the other dipshit Richt-apologists don’t seem to understand is that this is perfectly compatible with also thinking that it was time for the program to move on from Mark Richt.
Sorry your hero lost his job today. But some of us care more about Georgia football than we do about Mark Richt.
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Since you seem to be losing your shit, I’ll let this be my final reply in this and let you have the last word.
As for ad hominem I disagree that it has to be INSTEAD of arguing against a position. In Latin it literally means “to the man” or more PC these days to the person. You attacked me as an asshole. That’s an ad hominem attack. I don’t care what your thoughts are about me, but it is evidence of someone without a good argument or someone who’s just angry and probably not thinking rationally.
As for your next couple of points I think these can be easily grouped into a general section called “I’m different from the others.” Ok, if you were one of the ones that was arguing that UGA would be better off without CMR but not so strongly that it had to be immediately (the yelling and stamping of feet thing is a metaphor for immediate action not that I think that you were literally stamping your feet) then I apologize for grouping you with the others here and elsewhere, but honestly I wasn’t really talking to you directly. You just piqued my interest with the whole hypocrite thing. I think there is plenty of that to go around today.
As for my feelings on Richt, he’s no hero of mine. My calculation is one of simple probabilities and optimization. What is the probability that UGA becomes Bama with another coach hired by McGarity? Will such a move provide optimal results for UGA football and its supporters? To ask those questions that way pretty much answers them. Can you win in poker by pushing all in with a hole 2,7 before the flop? Sure but that doesn’t make it worth the risk.
That’s it. You can have the last word.
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Donnan was 8-4 in 2000, Richt the same in 2001. Then he went 13-1 the next year. Not too long to adjust.
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My impression is it takes two years for a national championship coach to do his work. But that was only one man’s opinion.
Personally, I still think 5 years is the minimum you give a guy you think is your guy unless he just really makes it clear he’s not up for it (losing season, recruiting tanks, PR problems, God forbid all three).
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The problem we are going to have is the best coaches are not going to want to come here. Why you ask ? Because they will not put up with the crap from BM. Its not like it is not well known how we operate….
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https://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1831552
Something tells me we’re not going to struggle to find quality coaches who want to coach at Georgia.
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Then, again, he’s not in the room negotiating with McGarity.
I wouldn’t pat myself on the back about the replacement hire just yet.
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Who’s patting himself on the back? Frankly, I fully expect McGarity to screw this up. But that’s a separate point from the one Bazooka Joe here was trying, and failing, to make. The claim that “no good coaches are going to want to come here” is false. They just may not like what they see when they get here.
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Sorry if I misunderstood. Early rumors I’m hearing on the replacement search are living down to my expectations.
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We just need Cootet #dawgsforcooter
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I agree. If it wasn’t for B-M this would be a plum job. Go to Rivals and click on their recruit database. Search for 4 and 5 star recruits within 100 and 250 miles of Athens. Then do the same for places like Columbus, South Bend, Lincoln, Gainesville, Baton Rouge. Trouble is all the interlopers on our borders. Tradition wise we are 11th in all-time victories, 4th since 1997. Our stadium is one of the largest and best regarded in America. Great mascot. Great town. Sound financial situation .
The problem is that B-M and the administration are still there. I hope they find a good coach.
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exact same thing was said when we canned Donna so are you saying CMR was a bad hire in 2000?
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Of course not, but he was the second guy up. UGA hired Glen mason first. We were lucky that didn’t work out I think.
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Glen Mason was before Donnan, no?
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Correct. Mason backed out (I think it was on or about Christmas Day) and Dooley immediately offered the job to Donnan. Mason had no connection with Richt’s tenure.
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wrong firing, that was 1995.
Glenn Mason was our 2nd choice after Gary Barnett rebuffed, making Donnan our 3rd choice.
CMR was our top choice in 2K. I think we interviewed Jeff Bower…
and Chan Gailey…
//throws up in mouth.
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I realize Dawg fans have been split on CMR with approximately 25% wanting him to leave , a loud vocal minority. Believe now McGarity job just got a whole harder, with the silent majority going to hold him accountable. He never liked CMR, do not if it was the FSU connection or what. But with his record of hiring loser coaches predict he himself will be gone in 3 years or less.
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I believe there is a petition to fire McGarity on the interwebs now.
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Signed it.
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Very perceptive.
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I’m sad yet happy right now. It was time, but I knew I’d be sad when this day came.
All the best to a dgd.
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What’s even more sad is UGA hired a former tennis player to make important decisions on football related matters. I’m assuming that’s what CMR was referencing about being in the arena.
This sucks boar tit big time.
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I will never eat chili again.
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Now there’s no need to talk crazy is there we’re talking about chili here
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I can’t wait to see when the MR cultists turn into the exact type of bad fans that they accused anyone who didn’t buy their dogma of being. One guy has already said he’ll pull against the new coach so he can say I told you so. Half of the rest claim their now done with college ball. So I guess when certain posters claimed they were Georgia fans over MR fans they were full of crap.
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It doesn’t occur to you that people are speaking in the heat of the moment?
FWIW, I’m letting the venting go on today because it’s understandable. Perhaps you might choose another day to be so judgmental.
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Your blog but I’ve seen people tell those that held the same opinion as mine get told to fuck off and that we’re responsible for this catastrophe. I’m not happy to see a man lose his job but I also realize that the sun will still rise tomorrow and UGA will field a football team next year and I would have pulled for it no matter who was coaching including MR. Well, Schotty would have been tough but still. But. Point taken. I have a bad taste in my mouth over some of the crap I’ve gotten this season but I’m certainly not innocent.
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Let’s just get Jimbo Fischer he’s one a NC looking to leave FSU we can afford him he can recruit and cut the crap.
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He’d be a hell of a recruiter but I’m not sure how good an ingame coach he is. Could do worse though certainly.
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I am in favor of a “Rutgers” solution. Clean house. The AD and B-M need a good scrubbin and then GM should go away, back to FU where he belongs.
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It’s amateur time in B-M. The way McGarity has handled this is ridiculous and quite frankly rude. Richt deserves a lot better treatment for his tenure and what he’s meant to so many people.
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” 680 has reported the exact opposite. Their insiders say that those close to the situation say Richt isn’t going anywhere. And 680 is convinced Richt will be back, and 1 game will not and should not decide his fate, or else you have extremely weak leaders. I tend to agree with Oliver over Emerson any day of the week. ”
MarkyMorr, I’m honestly not picking on you with this but I am going to use your comment (and any other opportunity) to demonstrate that listening to Oliver is a waste of time.
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This has been an emotional day. Thanks for letting us vent Senator.
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Is Sark out of rehab yet? J/k
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