… but at least they’ve got a search firm!
Now that there’s someone in place where blame can be deflected if things don’t work out, the process can move ahead.
Hey, baby steps, peeps.
… but at least they’ve got a search firm!
Now that there’s someone in place where blame can be deflected if things don’t work out, the process can move ahead.
Hey, baby steps, peeps.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
“The reason Georgia coaches have been told to go back on the recruiting trail is not because they have been given any indication they’re returning. It’s just, simply, because they’re still on the job, drawing a paycheck, and that’s their job.”
I was feeling a little less pessimistic about the process last night. Then I saw that.
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Is a search firm just a front? Why hire one if the big boosters have already hired Kirby? Is the search firm a backup plan in case Kirby backs out? Does Mcgarity need a search firm to vet Kirby if the big boosters have already done that?
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My guess…….and that’s all this is, is a wild guess:
The Smart rumors are just too strong to not have some credence. However, we’ve been burned/left at the altar before by Kirby, and we can’t make anything official until at least after the SECCG. And we all know A LOT can happen in a week.
So my guess is that the search firm is a contingency plan. If Kirby walks, at least we already have other things in the works and aren’t starting from scratch. Bluto is absolutely correct that we shouldn’t rush into a new coach simply to save a recruit, but we also should make sure there isn’t any time wasted as well.
So as much as we don’t like McG, given the circumstances, it’s probably somewhat prudent to do the search firm even if he’s already locked in on Smart.
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Yes, it is just a front; Kirby is a done deal. Trying to buy time to fend off the media until they can announce Kirby.
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They’re letting Kirby know they are willing to go another direction if he doesn’t accept their terms. Its just a negotiating tool. An expensive negotiating tool.
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CYA
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Standard operating procedure. You must have a plan ‘B’ (or ‘C’) if you are to have any negotiating leverage at all.
Your candidates’ agents will always leverage a plan ‘B’ (or ‘C’). There not any ‘Mark Richts’ out there anymore.
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There’s one… but he’s probably headed to Maryland or Miami. Georgia would never hire that guy.
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It’s not the ‘Bama way.
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Today, even Mark Richt has an agent.
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The search firm seems to be standard operating procedure. They have to show they were open to hire qualified candidates. Florida went the same route to replace Muschamp:
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football-news/4625863-florida-coaching-search-rumors-candidates-gators-will-muschamp-dan-mullen-rich-rodriguez
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Could be wrong, but as soon as I saw that McGarity said they’d be using a search firm, I figured the search firm was probably already in place. Of course he’s not gonna say that because that wouldn’t jive with the party line that the decision wasn’t made until Saturday after the game. But we all know the decision was made before then, and I’m guessing the search firm had already been engaged to at least start doing the prep work.
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What’s wrong with hiring a search firm to help you with the vetting? I’m thinking tha McGarity is weeks into this process. There’s no way he fired Richt without having started the process by now. Vetting candidates is a tedious, time consuming process. We don’t want to waste time with a George O’leary that lies on his resume. I don’t see a problem with it. McGarity needs all the help he can get with decision making.
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Kirby ran the 4 X 400 in the Munich Olympics, no need to verify that.
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Finally something of note on his resume!
Also, you need cover for affirmative action challenges about the hiring process.
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What is the point of a search firm other than, as the Senator posits, political cover if things go poorly? They’re not searching. Does anyone really think that there’s some coordinator no one’s ever heard of who Georgia should hire? Sometimes executive search firms handle candidate evaluation or negotiation, but doesn’t that get done in house for a great coaching job? This smells of box checking, unless McGarity’s nephew is a principal of the search firm. I continue to be underwhelmed by this process.
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Maybe it’s just a way to funnel money back to a booster that runs a search/consulting firm.
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People had heard of George O’leary. Notre Dame is thankful that he was vetted first. It’s called covering your ass. It’s the least you can do.
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McGarity can’t even get a decent fire McGarity site going.
http://firemcgarity.com/
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Perfect alibi by an incompetent AD who is not only ruining this football program but the other programs with his hire.
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I just dont get the love for Smart. I dont get going all in on win at all costs and then not doing everything to win? Hiring Smart has to be the most Georgia Way hire you can get now that you fired the most georgia way guy out there. It just doesnt make any sense to hire smart. You are the top job in the country with one of the largest bank accounts to go with it.
Let smart go learn to be a head coach somewhere else.
Also hiring DCs to be head coaches is stupid and rarely works.
Trying to out Bama Bama is not going to work. Stop trying it. It is the most good money after bad strategy that you can employ in the SEC.
Hire an offensive guy, with head coaching experience.
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I am afraid that our administration – starting with McGarity – probably makes it harder than necessary to attract a great coach. Who wants to deal with that crap?
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I hear Bobo will work for $850k and a big ass box of Crayolas. THAT would be the most Georgia thing ever.
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I agree with every word of this – but if he ends up being the guy, as much as I’ll try not to, I’ll end up drinking the Kool-Aid and getting my hopes up again. I always say I won’t, but then I always do.
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Oh once whoever becomes the coach, he is my coach. But right now I really would like to see a wide open go and find the best coach in the country and get him to athens.
UGA should be able to hire away head coaches from all but a handful of schools in the country. There is no reason to think about coordinators right now.
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Remember that Muschamp a defensive coach and a bad overall head coach did get Florida to the Sugar Bowl in 2012. A year that we beat Florida and went on to play Nebraska after losing to Alabama. We have not been to the Sugar Bowl since 2007.
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That never made a goddamn lick of sense.
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Maybe this will work out as well as the attorney we hired to represent Gurley and protect his rights.
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Maybe the search firm is there to counterbalance the push to hire Kirby.
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I wonder…..would we be doing all of this had Conley dropped that pass?
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Wins and losses change things for sure.
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Do you use Timehop or FB’s On This Day? Three years ago today.
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Really is crazy how much one play changes things. If Ole Miss hadn’t given up a 4th and 25 on a crazy play to Arkansas, and UT hadn’t given up 4th and 14 against UF, we’d be watching Ole Miss vs UT in the SECCG game this weekend.
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Babers from Bowling Green?
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He’s a guy that I think SC should be going after hard. SC is always gonna be at a recruiting disadvantage to UGA, UF, UT, etc, so they need a coach that brings something different to the table. That Baylor offense would qualify as something that would excite recruits to come and play in, plus it’s just a hard matchup schematically.
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They absolutely shredded UT’s defense more than anyone else this season.
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What in the heck is GM’s duties? First, fire a coach, but no need to have a “firing committee”. Oh, but if UGA wants to hire a football coach, then the AD has to have a “search committee or firm”. Why do we need McGarity then? He can only hire based on a search committee’ recommendation. Then was Richt technically fired absent a firing committee, present and in the room on Sunday [when we know there was at least one adult present]. In the Marine Corps there is a term for all of this. It is what is commonly referred to as a “cluster fill in the blank”.
The season was bad enough! Now the AD puts the fan base, alums, and supporters thru the ringer with all of this. Gosh almighty!
And they have to possibly wait until leading candidate Smart is finished with the SECCG. Why? Does he want to be a head coach or not? Or does he want to continue to coach at Bama, and if so how long? Guess into next year.
Mark Richt is saying they bashed me for clock management! Really!
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If you were in the Corps then you should know full well that bureaucracy is a part of life. And no high ranking officers were ever promoted in the Corps without a committee. Not even Chesty.
That said, you’re being overly emotional. It’s only been two days. You want to know what being put through the ringer is? Steve Spurrier resigned at SCAR over two months ago. They won’t have a hire until after we have ours.
Be patient. No harm in waiting till after the championship games to hear who our new coach is.
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Standard operating procedure. I’m not reading too much into the search firm. But I can’t wait to see where this process leads us.
This hire is make or break for McG…
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Make or break, my ass. McGarity’s 60-ish. He’s not sticking around that much longer no matter how well the next coach does.
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https://www.facebook.com/KeepJeremyPruitt/
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