Shot.
Chaser.
I wonder if he’ll hang on as long as Richt managed to.
Shot.
SOURCE: #LSU will be looking for a new AD. I can confirm that Joe Alleva is expected to step down, as the Baton Rouge Business Report first reported.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) April 17, 2019
Chaser.
This will make Georgia's Greg McGarity (currently signed through June 2020) the SEC's second-longest serving A.D., after Mitch Barnhart at Kentucky. https://t.co/xipmHJNkVA
— Seth Emerson (@SethWEmerson) April 17, 2019
I wonder if he’ll hang on as long as Richt managed to.
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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
What UGA sports programs are worse off now than at the time of Damon’s departure?
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You talking about right now only, or including all the years of wandering in the wilderness, too?
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I suppose you can criticize for past “wilderness” but you can only fire the guy now can’t ya?
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I’m not talking about firing him now. I’m talking about the Georgia Way of letting the mediocre hang on.
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Well, I guess, given where things lie now, we can say we dodged a bullet right?
Patience is supposed to be a virtue you know?
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Serious response – Women’s Basketball. Andy Landers took them to the Sweet Sixteen in the year before and year after Damon’s canning (2010).
In contrast, the team failed to make the tourney this year and lost early in the SEC tourney. By my quick count, Landers failed to make the NCAA tourney in 3 out of his 25 years as HC, and Taylor has already missed the NCAA tourney twice in 4 years as HC.
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Agreed. Women’s soccer would be the other. The rest are either the same are improved as far as I’m aware. Some like football, baseball and track are really improved.
Overall, I think you’d be hard pressed to say when the sports programs have been, from top to bottom, have been in better shape.
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Letting the tennis facilities run down to the point we lost the NCAA championship (which Magill built) is reason enough to run McGarity off. Add to the fact that he’s a tennis letterman and he should have been fired the day NCAA announced we weren’t being considered for future championships.
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We hosted in 2010, 2012 and 2017. We don’t know why they won’t be back for 5 years because the ncaa didn’t say. https://www.dawgnation.com/football/opinion/uga-tennis-say-long-ncaa-tourney
Might as well guess…and fire the guy. Seems perfectly reasonable if you’re unreasonable.
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Should the spring sports teams finish in the top 5 each, shit man , he’ll look like a friggin’ genius
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I think you hit the nail on the head with he will LOOK like a genius, not that he is a genius. Even blind squirrels find an acorn every now and then.
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Yup. McGarity can only lay claim to a fraction of whatever success we’re currently experiencing and he sure tolerated a lot of mediocrity for a while before 2017-2018 rolled around.
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Goddammit, dude, I thought you were leading up to a report that LSU was considering going after McGarity. Don’t tease me like that.
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Once the case was made that underfunded baseball and basketball programs were bad for football recruiting, things changed at Georgia.
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