Every once in a while, I think back to something Andy Staples wrote about the head coaching spot at Georgia.
I used to consider Texas the best job in the country, but now I think it’s Georgia, followed by Ohio State. Why Georgia? My top criterion is access to players relative to competitors, and Georgia is in a really enviable position…
Do Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Tennessee, South Carolina and others come in and poach Georgia talent? Absolutely. But there’s such an abundance of it in the state that Georgia can afford to lose a few top in-state targets and still field a team capable of competing for SEC and national titles. Alabama and Auburn have to invade Georgia. During that five-year period, their state produced 36.4 Power Five signees a year. People talk about LSU’s monopoly in its state, but the numbers between Louisiana and Georgia aren’t even close. Louisiana’s average number of Power Five signees during that span was 38.6 a year.
Add to this great facilities (now that the Bulldogs are building an indoor), great tradition, a sharp athletic director, possibly the best college town in America and the fact that they play in the easier division of the nation’s deepest conference. That’s the recipe for a great job that just about every coach in America would crawl over broken glass to take. [Emphasis added.]
For the sake of argument, let’s say he’s right about that. If so, after dismissing Richt, how easy should it have been for Greg McGarity to survey a field full of candidates with successful experience? Instead, we heard nothing but crickets chirping Kirby Smart’s name.
Purely for yuks, take a look at the list of possibilities being chewed over at LSU to replace Les Miles. (Note that Godfrey is careful to say that it’s compiled “according to multiple sources around the program”.) Jimbo Fisher, Tom Herman, Jim Mora, Dana Holgorsen — all experienced head coaches; there’s not even a thought of giving some hot assistant coach his first crack at the big leagues in Baton Rouge.
The point here isn’t to say that any of those guys are slam dunks, or that Kirby Smart was a bad hire (although Staples whiffed badly on his early call that Smart “walks into a program stocked with talent; after nine years at Bama he should know how to unleash it.”). Rather, it’s that if you’re the one holding the hot commodity, there’s no reason to push the panic button if your first choice talks to another program in the division about taking over there. That’s not how Butts-Mehre’s “sharp athletic director” rolls, though.
Kirby may well work out. It’s way too soon to tell otherwise. I honestly hope he does, and not just because I’d like to see Georgia break through to the next level while I can still enjoy it. If he were to fall short of expectations, the thought of watching Greg McGarity or whomever go through the same motions in choosing the man after Smart is too depressing for me to contemplate. Although maybe this time the folks chomping at the grass is always greener bit will understand my hesitation about making such a move a little better than this past time.
Contrary to what people like Staples think, it’s been a lot easier for the athletic administration to screw the job up in Athens than it’s been to get it right. That’s part of what makes the Georgia Way the Georgia Way. So, please, Kirby, bail those people out.
OL. OL. OL.
Richts achilles heel is still there. Anyone think if we had a competent OL we win vs. UF or Vandy or any close games?
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Even prior to McGarity our judgment in hiring coaches has been pretty terrible. I remember Ken Hatfield like it was yesterday…we escaped that joke but, of course, not through any effort on our own. We were lucky with Richt, as I see it, because there’s no precedent in any of the major team sports, that we have a clue about who to hire for HC.
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Exactly, further the alums wanted Smart and according to some UGA stole him from SCar to make a great hire.
I don’t see where you can say it was crickets when Smart was where the search began and ended. I am still of the opinion that if Smart wasn’t headed to Columbia, Richt even with the WLOCP loss, and Ga Southern OT would be in Athens this year. McG wanted Richt out and the only he was going to get the Alums to fund it, was to hire their boy.
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We have yet again to the HBC Spurrier for the chain of events on this one!
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We could have had Orgeron!
Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yoooooooooo Footbaw.
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Let’s give Kirby 4 seasons to win the SEC. If he doesn’t, let’s calmly dismiss him and go after someone else. I’d prefer a coach with D1 head coaching experience but since Georgia has only hired one coach with D1 head coaching experience in it’s history, that may not be a realistic hope.
Being cheap works for the BM crowd because they never see a downside to it. The fans keep buying into the idea of hiring a hot assistant as head coach and they keep mailing in those checks. Until the money talks, BM and our ADs will stay the same course.
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Who is this “Let’s” you keep referring to?
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That sweet 2018 national championship will buy Smart that 4th year, don’t worry.
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amen, enough of the naysayers, hell with them all, give him 4 years and stfu.
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Correct, keep the Coach lovers out of the arena.
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Look at the bright side. With this crappy season Smart won’t make bank like all those flashes in the pan in the West Division.He’ll be ‘motivated’.
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The list of great coaches who had a bad year one win/loss record is a mile long. Your win/loss in year one doesn’t indicate you’re a bad pick, anyone who says so frankly is absolutely clueless.
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Agree. Has anyone noticed the season Mark Richt has had (to date) in his first year at The U? I think both UGA and Miami will be on the upswing well within the 4 years mentioned above. If not, as always, heads will roll.
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Its a waste of time going with past hypotheticals.Kirby is our guy, if you have nothing posotive to say, then find a new team, stop writing and killing recuriting.
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LMAO. Impressive how much misunderstanding of what I wrote you’re able to pack into two sentences.
But thanks for the advice.
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how are folks who hypothetically revisit the Kirby hire helping recruiting? Believe me, I get the angst, losign isn’t fun. But we have to focus on bringing in a class to fill some of these holes.
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First off, I’m not hypothetically revisiting Kirby’s hire. Second, nobody here has to do shit. This blog isn’t an arm of the UGA athletics program.
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Herman has already lost to SMU and Navy this year, I can’t believe you mentioned him. Good thing we didn’t hire his sorry ass. Kirby is one of our own. He’s going to put everything he has into this, it’s his dream job. He was good enough to win a top job without any head coaching experience, Just give him a fair chance, all I’m saying.
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It’s hard to argue with someone about something I posted when the person hasn’t carefully read what I wrote.
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But Jimbo Fisher, another guy you mentioned, lost to North Carolina, the team Smart, in his first game as a Head Coach, beat. Glad we didn’t pick Fisher. He’s already lost 3 this year.
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That’s one less than Kirby’s lost. What’s your point?
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UNC is the only team both Fisher and Smart played, and Smart beat em, Fisher didn’t. Smart’s a better coach. ACC isn’t equal to SEC so win-loss record ain’t comparing apples to apples. My comparison is both coaches played same team, same year, one won, one lost.
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Um, no.
Dude, if you’re not a troll, you’re pretty lacking in basic knowledge.
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Dana usually wins 4-7 games, he does have 1 good 10 win season at WV so far. He sucks.
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Never mind that National Title.
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Ask Ex Natl title winners like Terry Bowden and Gene at Auburn how that worked out for them.
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A first year coach > a coach with a national championship and another playoff appearance? That’s ridiculous.
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Jesus, let it go
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Jim Mora, the 3rd of 4 coaches in the article you cited, is 3-5 in 2016. Glad we dodged him. He sucks.
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Is it just me or are you intentionally ignoring what the Senator wrote?
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It’s you. What specifically are you referring to?
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“He is one of our own” is quite frankly laughable…was he one of our own when he almost got his ass whooped by Bryan McClendon outside Colquitt County High School for spreading lies about CMR and his own alma mater…or how about when he shook Richt’s hand and told him he was accepting the DC job only to renege on it to stay with his Daddy Saban…
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Smart wasn’t taking a paycut to make a lateral move. The only way Kirby was leaving was for a Head Coaching position.
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Richt wasn’t offering Smart a pay cut.
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Bama outspends everybody on football staff. Bama always countered higher. And it was a lateral move.
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‘Bama did counter. But you’re wrong to say Richt offered Smart a pay cut.
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Smart outsmarted Richt on that move, got a raise, won a Championship, proving he is smarter than Richt.
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This is actually in response to your poste below. You said: “Smart outsmarted Richt on that move, got a raise, won a Championship, proving he is smarter than Richt.”
Richt has a Championship as a coordinator, too. Remember? And he’s made a hell of a lot more money than Smart has…. and he got to leave Georgia and go to his Alma Mater (which he loooooves) and work for a private school that will let him do as much evangelizing as he wants as long as he wins enough games.
I think Richt is pretty smart…. no pun intended.
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Bama countered, but for whatever reason, some of the subjectivities of Kirby accepting the job didn’t happen.
As to he and BMac, I don’t know anything about that. I doubt Kirby needed to spread lies, Bama’s winning sells itself. I tend to think BMac was probably upset about Kirby taking the best players in the state each year.
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I bet Herman could find a way to get the ball to Chubb and Michel in open space.I understand Chubb and Michel had a sit down with Chaney today. They should not have had to. Time to do something creative (read crayons) to get them the ball. I will blame Kirby if he doesn’t make this happen.
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My Significant Other Is not a football fan But she keeps up with the Dawgs a little because I keep up with them a Lot. When Kirby was hired , She
said that was a major mistake, The Dawgs needed an Experienced HC.
She thinks all D1 Teams need to hire An experienced Head Coach.
4 Years from now Bobo will be ready for a D1 HC Job.
Why doesn’t Kirby hire Hines Ward as an Assistant Coach?
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Bobo is already a Division 1 head coach.
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OK. He will be ready to coach in the ACC or SEC in 4 years.
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Florida’s mediocre coach handed Bobo a team that won 10 games. He went 7-5 last year and is sitting at .500 currently.
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McElwain bolted at the exact right time. He had one of the best QB / WR / RB trios in the country in 2014 and rode it to 10 wins. They were starting over on offense in 2015 regardless of who was the coach.
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Hmmm……
Sounds familiar somehow…….
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gentlemen, seriously, recruits are reading this stuff, think before you write. Help your team, be a brown up.
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“grown up” not ‘brown up”. sorry my jelly got on my finger why i wuz typing.
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Maybe you should put down the donut and take a moment to better collect your thoughts before typing next time;-)
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Jelly donut? Is that you, Coach Chaney?
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I’ve blogged for ten years. I’m still waiting to hear from the first recruit who gave a damn about anything written at GTP.
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They read everything. If they think any of our coaches truly suck, they’re going to de-commit or go somewhere else. I love this coaching staff. Culture change sucks. But we ain’t won the big one in a long time,80′, right after I left of course. Also, think of transfers, current players read these blogs. Do we really want to lose a Michel or a Chubb or a Godwin?
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I’m not here to be a cheerleader. If that’s what you want, go start your own blog.
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The article you’re citing, says we have “a sharp athletic director”. So you agree with most everything else, just not that part. Interesting.
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Reading comprehension hint: “For the sake of argument” isn’t the same as agreement.
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No they don’t. having a cousin and going to Elite 11 camps with him, they read rivals, the recruiting feeds, ESPN possibly Dawgsports but an independent blog doesn’t hit the radar of vast majority of the recruits.
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You miss the point: posts like this one hurt team morale, alumni relations, giving, fan support, admin, recruiting, and encourage transfers. Ill advised venting is a high price to pay. To act as if social media doesn’t effect things is terribly naiive. It really doesn’t accomplish one positive thing for any group affiliated with the University of Georgia. The writers all know it, they just “need to vent”.
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UGA blogs are mild compared to Bama and Florida who have more SEC Championships. It does not have near the impact as you are stating.
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Which University of Georgia entity of those I listed do anti-Georgia rants help?
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See my post below, this blog and blogs in general have little impact positive or negative.
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If you look at what Tenn is experiencing with the transfer situation, a lot of it has been agitated by the social media venters.
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And here I thought it was being agitated because Butch Jones is a shitty coach fostering a shitty locker room situation. I prefer simple explanations though.
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The football agitators only see the worst side, they are the pessimist in the world we all despise.
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So the Gators are pessimists yet they win the Division and have recent more recent championships the UGA. Congrats you disproved your own argument.
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AuditDawg, you have to question show hygiene in that dirty locker room.
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*shower
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Richt signed the “Dream Class” of 2011 after hot seat talk had started.
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It’s already hurting, we have dropped from 3rd to 7th in just a few weeks on ESPN’s rankings.
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eh, mistake there, I was looking at the 2016 class. We’re still ranked 3rd in recruiting on ESPN, let’s get it to No 1. Let’s not wait until we start hearing about transfers (like Tenn is experiencing) or de-commits. The negativity has an impact.
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Again, there’s nothing stopping you from starting your own blog to counter the bad vibes you’re sensing.
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So, let me get this straight, from now until signing day, you’re only going to choose to focus on the negative things about this team? If so, why in the world would you do that– who do you think that’s helping at the University of Georgia?
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If you’ve bothered to read this blog for any period of time, you know that your question is nonsensical.
It’s about time to rein in the trolling, brother.
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My head hurts and I think I’m only half way down this thread.
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Just scrolled through 2 weeks on the antiUGA AJC Dawgnation, didn’t see a decommitment.
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yet.
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Stay positive.
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We lost one olinemen already as decommit, can we chill with the negative stuff.
https://campusinsiders.com/news/latavious-brini-decommits-georgia-bulldogs-10-06-2016/
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I must have missed the reference to GTP in your linked piece.
You’ve made your point. Move on.
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1 recruit a month ago. Majority of the talk was positive then. Again disproving his own argument.
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Ok, my last post. I must not understand trolling, I’ve only said positive things about our coach, University and team, trolling is clickbait titles that dwell on negatives to agitate fans, with that, I’m out. And bid you all, except the Senator, a good day.
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Brini , an O-line recruit, dudes playing CB in high school?
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Does this mean we can blog Chaney into a better coach?
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No one needs to read a blog to see how Georgia – the team and coaches – have underwhelmed this season. All you have to do is watch their games. Maybe we should request not to be shown on TV any more this season. You know, to help with recruiting.
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I know that would help my mood on Saturdays…
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Some new faces to the Comments today.
And of course it immediately turns into the OL is lacking meme instead of focusing on the topic of how the process was handled, if UGA is actually a top five job, or would ADGM actually be able to pull off a competent search should Smart not work out.
Last year UGA had the best available job in the country and didnt run a proper search for a new coach.
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Bingo. I’m left hoping that Smart pulls McGarity’s ass out of the fire. How hard is that to grasp?
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I agree with you Senator, and am also hoping CKS wins, and wins big, despite the Georgia Way. It won’t be because of it.
I hate to think about how it will reinforce the mindset of some in BM, but I’d rather enjoy football seasons and the rest oh UGA sports than teach life lessons to the athletic board. Hell, I’m still trying to learn life lessons myself.
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I want Smart to succeed but I believe McGarity deserves to be fired. How do we accomplish both?
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You don’t. If McGarity leaving on his own terms is the price to pay for Smart succeeding, that’s a price I’ll pay.
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It’s a Catch-22. We want Smart to succeed and we want McGarity to GTFO. But if Smart succeeds then McGarity will stay. Maybe the best thing is for Smart to crash and burn and take McGarity down with him. Then we rebuild from the ground up. (I keed, I keed……I think)
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If Smart succeeds, it will be like if the business cycle results in a good economy under President Trump. I know he’s not responsible, and I’m a bit annoyed that it makes him look good, but ultimately it’s what we all want, so fine.
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Brick by brick?
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@Senator: Apparently, pretty hard.
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Greg M was hired without prior AD experience. So why would he think that is necessary, like a guy has to have Head Coaching success, before a hire? I mean, he didn’t have to have AD success before he got hired by the board.
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Thank you for encapsulating the Georgia Way in this post.
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Huh? Greg M’s hire was widely praised, and even years later, like last year, guys like Staples still said we have a great athletic director. His bottom line profits for the football team are right there with anyone. He saw his new hire pull nearly 100,000 to a Spring game, that’s a lot of suckers or some smart people.
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Name one successful hire ADGM has made in his tenure. Or name one athletic team that has improved during his tenure. Basketball, I guess, but it isn’t because of anything ADGM has done.
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Mark Fox was hired by Damon Evans.
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If the basketball team has improved, and it has marginally, then does McGarity get no credit for hiring the coach who improved it? I mean, I don’t know what you guys expect ADs to be. They’re college administrators who manage large budgets. McGarity hasn’t done anything embarrassing to the University and hasn’t wasted gobs of money on things like insanely long-term contracts and terrible buy-out clauses. That puts him ahead of plenty of other ADs out there.
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I thought Fox was already at UGA when ADGM arrived. That was why I said he didn’t really have anything to do with basketball improvements.
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You’re right. I was thinking he was hired after the panty incident.
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Almost 20 teams have been ranked in top 20 since Greg M got here. The new facility will be amazing.
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Never mind UGA’s performance in the Directors Cup has been steadily declining under McGarity.
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You really don’t watch much UGA athletics, do you? Can you name a single McGarity hire that has been a success at UGA? And hint, I’m not including Kirby in this as the jury is still out.
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dude, you don’t know what you’re talking about, everyone knows Greg M runs a top 6 football program in profits according to Forbes.
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dude, money =/ success. McGarity is a failure as an AD. Every coach he has hired has done worse than the predecessor. Directors Cup rankings have declined since he’s come.
As far as money, when ESPN is throwing obscene amounts of money to the SEC schools, a trained monkey can “make money”.
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Disconnect. Russ is talking about athletic success. You are talking about budget success. The ‘Georgia Way’ everyone talks about here focuses first and foremost on profits, security,’don’t rock the boat’ or take big chances mentality.
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so running a top 6 most profitable football program, and having right under 20 teams ranked in the top 20 during his tenure, isn’t success? In what world?
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From everything I’ve read, Georgia was doing better before he got here. Glad to be proven wrong here.
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Thanks for being open to plain facts and seeing the positive.
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McG was widely dissed for his handling of Richt and gaffs around that point in time. Again UGA Alums homered a hire taking the man with Athens ties at the hot team.
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Huh? Athlon called the Smart hire a top 10 move. The move was widely praised.
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I’m not talking about the hire, but the way McG handled the press conference firing Richt, or how he handled getting a musical act for the Gday game, Forbes or the WSJ also flamed him for the way he handle Gurley and the NCA. Do you even keep up with UGA football or are you trolling?
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the article here IS about the hire where did you pick up it was about the way Richt was fired?
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I didn’t get the Kirby hire, and if it goes bad, McGarity probably goes with him. I don’t see the need to harp on it, though. Either Georgia wins or the people who hate McGarity get their wish. Maybe the next guy will be able to throw money at a proven coach.
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Exactly, Smart’s the guy for 3 years at least, regardless, so why throw in the towel during his first season, after only 8 games? I mean Bear Bryant went 1-9 his first season at A & M but they won it all 2 years later. He went 5-4-1 hist first year at Bama, but 11-0 4 years later. We just don’t know if Kirby is bad right now, just don’t know.
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I mean Bear Bryant went 1-9 his first season at A & M but they won it all 2 years later.
Ummmm – no, they didn’t.
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Bear Bryant went 1-9 in 54′, undefeated 2 years later. Bet a lot of people thought he was shit after that 1-9 season in 54′.
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You stated that “Texas A&M won it all 2 years later”. I proved that false based on Texas A&M’s own national championship claims. Nobody insinuated a thing about the quality of Bear Bryant as a coach. You can keep moving the goal posts, but at this point it’s painfully obvious you’re both a shitty troll and a shitty fact checker.
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Some random observations:
1) It’s comical how when a pundit whiffs on a prediction it’s the coach/team that was disappointing, not the fact that the “expert” pundit was an idiot.
2) Everybody that is comparing this team to last year’s team needs to remember that in 2015 we lost to the only two teams that could (generously in one case) be called decent. I know, coulda woulda shoulda, but realistically save special teams miscues against Vandu and the Hobnail Mary we are in the same place right now even though we’re undergoing a major coaching change. Oh yeah, rookie coach and QB.
3) I can’t count how many comments I read on this very blog in the aftermath of Richt’s firing that stated in effect, “I don’t care if we wander through the wilderness a few years if it gets us to where we want to be.” That opinion already seems to be in short supply.
4) Other than being cathartic, does complaining really help?
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Is it better to lose to decent teams or mediocre/bad teams?
I’ll hang up and listen.
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Cosmic. we almost lost to bad teams last year. Clearly that is exactly the same as losing to them this year.
/sarcasm
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I hear you , Senator, but you start to lose me with the following sentence:
“Rather, it’s that if you’re the one holding the hot commodity, there’s no reason to push the panic button if your first choice talks to another program in the division about taking over there.”
Is there any proof that this is how the hiring took place? It may be reasonable to infer that Smart was hired out of a sense of panic, but we’re just guessing. I’m far more concerned about the results on the field and the job the coaches are actually doing than I am with how, perhaps, the hiring went down.
You may well have inside information, Senator. I know that I don’t.
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Let’s just say I heard fairly early in the process that Smart was the guy, although there were other coaches who put feelers out in Georgia’s direction after Richt was let go.
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technically speaking, the proof you cite is not verifiable. If Greg M didn’t conduct the search properly, the NCAA would have already fired him. He’d been slapped with every kind of lawsuit known to man by now. it was a proper search guys, come on, no one has any verifiable evidence to the contrary.
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The NCAA would have fired him? Do you even know what the NCAA does? Man, it’s time to get back to worrying over the OL, Coach Chaney.
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dude, a conspiracy, really? pulleze.
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^^^^ ADGM??? hahaha
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If Kirby doesn’t work out, McGarity won’t make the next hire. Even he realizes he doesn’t have the capital to take out Richt and flub the replacement. He will be the scapegoat.
The silver lining for folks who want to see the Georgia Way go away is that it is will happen either way. Either Kirby will slowly strangle it by being a successful coach or it will be blown out by a new AD.
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You’re not considering where the next AD will come from.
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I would wager they would not hire an unproven deputy AD from within if they fired a HFC because he was too unproven.
I know Jere Morehead. He is a pragmatist. He would make a good call.
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Is Tarkenton available?
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“Sharp athletic director?” Objection, your honor, assumes facts not in evidence.
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I do not agree with Staples premise…top 10-15 maybe…but not #1, not by a long shot. Honestly shocked that anyone would go with that.
And to the Senator, you have just about beat the Kirby hire to death with various articles of this type…I know, your blog, my comment…fire away.
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Dawgbone is going to be de-indexing a lot of these type of blogs, like he always does. He doesn’t want to hurt recruiting or see mass transfers from unceasing anti-Georgia rants. They’re welcome to go negative, they’ll just lose their voice, as they should..
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please go back go back to shining McGarity’s shoes…who the hell makes you the arbitrator of who loses their voice?
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no way in hell Dawgbone doesn’t index ALL the anti-Georgia blogs, not matter how much “truth” there is, he loves the place too much, they’ll be crying to an audience of 1 soon. His email inbox is alrady flooded with those alerts I’m pretty sure.
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WTF are you talking about? Time to check your meds. Do you actually need someone to tell you what’s okay and not okay to read? BTW, that was rhetorical. The answer is obvious.
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PTC, it was a reaction to the post about the LSU situation. My knee couldn’t stop itself from jerking again. 😉
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Do you think it’s the best job in the nation? Based on everything you know, from the top brass all the way down…I cannot believe you do…
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Put it this way…
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Pretty safe to say it was the best job available at the time….so yes, top job that was open by a mile.
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The Smart hire is considered to be one of the top 10 best hires of 2016.
http://athlonsports.com/college-football/grading-college-footballs-head-coach-hires-2016
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Yep, 6th out of 8 for P5 hires, just above Muschamp, and Miami at #2. Seems about right.
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So, Miami made a better hire? Who did they hire again?
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Some idiot.
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He’s not exactly lighting it up either. It’s almost like taking over a new program is hard.
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Here’s something to chew on, signing class of 2013 was a disaster and St. Richt beat who in his last 8 or 9 years? I’m not saying that Coach Smart will be the greatest coach in UGA history (I sure hope her turns out to be), but for anyone to think that St. Richt and Schotty would be better off this year than Coach Smart is you need to step away from the pipe. Crack kills people, its a proven fact. It’s also a fact that St. Richt was a mediocre coach and an even worse recruiter. His early success at UGA was thanks to Jim Donnan’s players and the success he had off those players carried him for a couple of more years then reality kicked in. Take away 2012 (and 2011 if you think that was a special season) and what did he do after the 2008 season? Who did he beat? No one worth a damn on a consistent basis that’s for sure. He came out in 2009 with what should have been a championship team and he pissed his pants on the 50 yard line. He’s a great man I’ll give you that, but something changed and he became a crappy coach. A Change needed to be made and I’m glad it was finally made. 5 years too late IMHO.
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Wut?
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The Ginger Assassin takes no prisoners.
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“Ginger Ninja” I believe it was.
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I thought it was the “Ginger Avenger.”
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Lots of new faces around today. I can see Mrs. Smart has rallied her Facebook friends to the cause.
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Mrs Smart hahaha that’s a good one Russ. You’ve been waiting all day to use that one huh? Pure Genius! Maybe you should have been hired as the Head Football Coach?
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Should have read 2008 not 2009
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Aaaaand, you completely missed the point.
The point isn’t about whether or not Richt needed to go. The point is about how the replacement was named.
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He’s OUR coach and that’s all their is to it. Last time I checked McGarity is the AD and its his decision who to hire and fire. If it works out then great, if not then its his ass on the line. You people haven’t even given him 1/2 a season and you’re already calling for his head. He’s got a mess to clean up from a choke artist coach who checked out of UGA 8 years ago. But the way Kirby Smart was hired is the biggest problem the football program has, what was I thinking….
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It’s OK to root for Smart to do well and still expect him not to. It really seems like the only sensible option. There is no need to be AuburnFam 2010 #ALLIN.
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+100.
But even this limited nuance is lost on some of the commenters.
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“It’s also a fact that St. Richt was a mediocre coach and an even worse recruiter.”
How do you even respond to this?
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Thankfully you don’t have to, he already told you it was a fact. FACT.
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From 2009 – 2015 who did he beat? He got a couple of great RB’s to sign and save his and booboo’s ass for a couple of years, but outside of that? What? Offensive line? Sucks! WR? Sucks! Defensive Backs? Mediocre at best can’t stop a 4th and forever to save their lives. Getting off the field on 3rd down? That shit ain’t happening even after he’s gone they still can’t get off the field on 3rd down.
One thing he was amazing at in recruiting is signing ME players who would rather smoke pot and carry illegal weapona and drive around Athens on a suspended license or hell no license at all and act like they should be just given the golden ring.
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Alan explain once ore how the highest winning percentage in our schools history was accomplished by a crappy coach? You gotta e GM’a mother.
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That’s the problem right there, who gives a shit what his winning % is? How man SEC Championships and Natty’s did he win? For Pete’s sake how many times did he beat Florida when it mattered? Beating the sister’s of the poor and GA Tech shouldn’t be a good measuring stick for a UGA football coach.
As for your last sentence if you can call it that, “You gotta e GM’a mother.” sorry I don’t speak ebonics nor do I understand it.
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Ahhh, now I get it. You’re from the Ricky Bobby “If you ain’t first, you’re last” school. If you’d made it to the end of the movie, you’d have found out that Ricky’s daddy was high when he said that.
I get it, Spurts and Gets is shut down and you don’t have anywhere to troll.
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ADGM is a complete failure in Georgia. His resume was built by Foley’s success at FU. ADGM is a “Man with a Gutless Hand”. But for Georgia to succeed in athletics moving forwards, ADGM and the whole BM board have to fired.
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That’s how to “Make Georgia Great Again”.
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I’ve heard Fuentes mentioned with pained regret. Fuentes lost to Tenn by 25 folks, Smart lost to them on the last play on a freakin hail Mary. Glad we didn’t hire him as he gets his ass kicked vs good SEC opponents.
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I’m hesitant to feed the troll, but he also beat North Carolina by 31, has his team at 6-2 and probably has less talent to work with than Georgia. He is an inexplicable loss to Syracuse from being effectively two games up in his division with three to play. Given their remaining schedule, they’ll still likely win their division. I don’t know who will ultimately be more successful, but Fuente has clearly won the early returns.
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YOU’RE KILLING RECRUITING!!!11!11!!
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what in the sam hill is going on in these comments and where did these people come from?
I hope UGA manages to catch lightning in a bottle twice in 2 hires by going the coordinator route. It truly is like catching lightning in a bottle to have a coordinator become Nick Saban or even Mark Richt with their first job as a head coach. If there is one thing that reassures me that Kirby is that lightning in a bottle, it’s the calm, measured process that rationally assessed all viable candidates for the job, and ultimately landed on CKS.
/sarcasm
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You seriously didn’t just compare Mark Richt to Nick Saban did you?
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Seriously, yes, I seriously compared Mark Richt to Nick Saban, as in, our goal is a coach that will compete with and defeat Nick Saban in order to win a national championship. Or even Mark Richt, someone who came in and in year 2 won an SEC championship.
You see, in the eEnglish language, “or even” is a sentence structure that indicates, “or to a lesser extent.” So without fully diagramming the sentence, our hope was to have a coach in his first time as a head coach be better than nick saban, or to a lesser extent, to be at least as good as Mark Richt, in which case we have at least not taken a step back as a program.
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Recruiting is affected by a hot seat. Kirby is not on the hot seat. This blog is not putting him on a hot seat. Both the firing of Richt and the hiring of Kirby were majorly mishandled. I think tonyqbr and his alter egos are back. I hope Kirby find a a way to win so we don’t have to wander in the wilderness.
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Made to the end. Gonna give myself some props.
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Well along with gatriguy, made it to the end. That was some major ping ponging away from the purpose of the story. And to think, my brain is not tooooooooooooo scrambled.
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