Staples has been on that kick for a while now. Here’s what he said about it all the way back in 2015:
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.
I dinged him for that “sharp athletic director” comment, and, really, it’s amazing to think that back then, folks outside the program considered Greg McGarity to be an asset. The reality is that Georgia football from that period was something of a dysfunctional mess and that Richt and McGarity were essentially working at cross-purposes with each other.
If Georgia since then has in fact become the nation’s paragon in that regard, it’s because Kirby Smart was given carte blanche to remake the program and nobody, especially including McGarity, stood in his way.
When Smart accepted the job, McGarity didn’t issue marching orders. He asked questions. What did Smart now need from the administration to build a championship program? “He needed to educate us,” McGarity says, “about what it meant to go big-time.”
I don’t know if it’s the best job in the country, but I do believe it’s a better place to be a head coach at than it was when Mark Richt had to pay his assistants’ bonuses out of his own pocket. Then again, maybe I don’t understand college football at all.
But I thought Tennessee was the best job in the country? At least that’s what I’ve been hearing for years…
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Having to pay bonuses out of his own pocket should have caused the AD to resign on the spot.
$30 mil (at the time) in unused “rainy day” funds, and the HC to has pay his assistants not take jobs elsewhere…an absolute disgrace.
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Georgia’s such a good job that McGarity thought about staffing it with unpaid interns.
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So, how many power five signees did the state of Georgia produce over that five year span?
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113.6 at the time the article was written.
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I think people like to claim that lack of in state talent makes jobs like UT and others difficult.
But as you can see, LSU and Bama are getting it done even though they are not in states loaded with prospects.
Their failure is not because they don’t have talent in their back yard. Their failure is because they aren’t attractive to recruits from other states for various reasons, chief among them coaches and ADs.
A master recruiter and coach like Urban Myer absolutely could make UT, Auburn, etc, a powerhouse again. The facilities are there. They have storied programs. They just have to stop shooting themselves in the foot.
It’s really Florida’s story, too. Mullen can’t land talent for whatever reason.
I’m not sure what Tech’s issues are, I’m assuming academic standards. But there really is no reason they aren’t in the ACC’s too four every year.
Let’s just hope all these rivals continue to be led by incompetence and that we are able to overcome Bama at some point.
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Top four*
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I’d put Ohio State and LSU above us, simply because those states aren’t transient at all. Everyone who lives there is from there and has more of a draw to the big state school.
I’d also still say USC is up there whenever they can get out of their own way. Being able to own the entire country West of Dallas is still a massive advantage.
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The challenge with the USCsr job is they lack in coaching salaries and facilities. The PAC12 network has been an albatross for all of the conference members and they’ve fallen far behind in resources, recruiting and facilities compared to the other P5 schools. USC has a wealthy alumni base, but it’s kind of a chicken and egg situation. They need conference financial resources to build a winning program and alumni will contribute heavily to a winning program. Plus you’ve got the Oregon Ducks to compete against for the spotlight.
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Agreed. USC could be a top job. It would be interesting if they were in a conference that cared about college football like, say, the SEC or the Big XII.
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I’d put OSU and other similars (OU, Clemson) ahead simply because it’s too hard to win this conference.
Easy ass route to 10 wins (i.e. job security) at Clemson, OU, OSU etc.
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I think UCLA could be a powerhouse program. The first time I visited the campus, I was pissed off I had spent 4+ years in Athens. The campus is gorgeous, the women are unbelievably hot by several orders of magnitude greater than SEC chicks, the weather is perfect, and their home stadium is more storied than Sanford. I can’t understand why UCLA fell off in the 1980s.
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L.A. and California suck, and the woman are all made of plastic.
I’ll take Athens, GA and who Kirk Herbstreit has described for years as the best looking coeds in all of CFB over anything in Commiefornia.
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I don’t know JR. Their stadium is not even on campus. I’ve never been to the UCLA campus, but spent a little time in LA. The chicks are hot, no doubt, but it is Hollywood. Are you seriously saying that there are more hot chicks per capita on the UCLA campus than the UGA campus? If so, I am duly impressed. But “several orders of magnitude “? I have to call bullshit on that.
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Same here Ghurka. I have actually been involved in a traffic accident because a lovely UGA coed lifted her minidress to clean her sunglasses, exposing a very small pair of blue underpants. We jumped the curb on South Lumpkin and ended up in that parking lot off Wray. I says to the driver: “WTF Bob? You’ve never seen a girl before?”
“Not like that one…”
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When I was in school, it was during the dolphin shorts & Uggs era, late 2000’s early 2010’s.
So many perfectly framed asses and beautiful legs. Even during winter.
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I’m showing my age, but I was in school during the short lived streaking era in the mid 70’s. Wild. As. Hell.
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Got, I’m with Bob. I’ll appreciate a pretty coed till the day I die.
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Damn right, Gurkhadawg. I came to UGA Winter Qtr 1980 after spending an eternity surrounded by hard tails and skanks passing for split tails. Was seriously contemplating starting all over at West Point when Big Dave, the doorman at the B&L Warehouse, took me behind Brumby Hall on the first warm day of the year. Oh my! Gorgeous ladies in bikinis laying out on the hill forming the most magnificent sight ever beheld to my young eyes. Thoughts of leaving disappeared immediately.
Of course if I were a mouth breathing moron I would think a pack of vacuous, plastic-infused airheads from a west coast shithole looked better.
But I ain’t so I don’t.
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Westwood is unbelievable. I just think it’s hard to shake that second fiddle thing. When SC is good, the only thing bigger in town are the Lakers.
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Georgia is the best job in the country for a multitude of reasons. We have better high school talent than Ohio, deeper high school talent than any state outside of Texas, Florida and California, a college town that pretty much blows every other big football school away (other than Austin), an excellent public university (no matter what one of our commenters claims about his alma mater), and a commitment to win big.
We should expect to be the mix every year, period. That’s exactly what I expect.
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Is UGA football the good job because of Kirby Smart and his “process”…talent in the state not withstanding…
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Nope. It was a great job before Kirby arrived. Everything except upgraded facilities were here. McGarity gave Kirby everything he asked for because he knew his neck was in the noose when he fired Richt and hired Kirby.
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Tommy Tuberville told a cousin of mine that UGA was the best gig in college football about 5 years ago. I’m no TT fan, but that guy was always looking for a better deal.
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Knowing that the UGA football battle cry for a long time was “wait till next year”, just seemed as though we watched sausage being made year in and year out…previous coaching staff had short comings just like the current staff does (or just plain old WTF moments)…win, lose or draw the direction of UGA football seems/appears/feels like the program has a trajectory that you can get your hands on and say “this feels good”…being the lead dog is cool, leading the pack as the rest chase you is where UGA football wants to go….
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Austin is overgrown. I’ll take Athens any day of the week.
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I agree.
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Austin was a great idea they ruined.
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As a college town, Athens beats Austin.
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I would agree with you. Maybe I should have said it differently. It’s the only “college” town with big time football that rivals Athens.
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I would rate Westwood better than Athens.
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Pardon, but Austin isn’t a college town anymore. It’s a city. But that’s just my take.
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Greg was told to STFU and do what Kirby told him from the same source that told Greg to hire Kirby.
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Well. . .
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LMAO. Why didn’t Richt early on, lets say 2005 or 2007 or even 2012 demand what Kirby did…..or leave? Kirby wasn’t “given” anything he demanded it.
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That wasn’t Richt’s style.
I do wonder what things would have been like in Athens if Sexton had been Richt’s agent.
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He was paid a lot of money and given the “best job in America” to make it his style. That is why he was let go, that and not managing a full roster, failure to recruit an elite OL and picking the wrong horses in Mason, Ramsey and Park……
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Oh. Sorry. Didn’t realize you wanted to open that can of worms in this thread.
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Nope just wanted to be clear. Technically you opened it with your comment that Kirby was given carte blanche. Semantics are important. So are facts. Still the best blog on the internet. 🙂
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Facts… and you know these particular ones how, exactly?
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Can we squeeze in some posts about Kirby being too married to the running game?
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But he still won……compare and contrast.
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The fact that it wasn’t his style was sort of the problem, no? Would you have provided additional resources to someone who had repeatedly demonstrated a lack of attention to detail when it came to resources he already had?
At what point is is throwing good money after bad?
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Then they should’ve fired him earlier. Which goes to the fact the AD sucked too.
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McGarity tried, but was overruled by Morehead, remember?
Lots of partial amnesia in this comment thread.
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An example of “a lack of attention to detail when it came to resources?”
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Willie Martinez
Undersigning
Jon Fabris special teams
Hell, refusing to hire a ST coach
OL recruiting, repeatedly
DVH when it was obvious S&C had passed him by
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Is that lack of attention to detail or poor decision making?
If its the latter why would it ever be characterized as being about “resources?”
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In this instance, is that a distinction without a difference?
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Yes. You’re saying that you don’t give resources to a guy who is bad at the job. I say you don’t retain a guy you’re not willing to invest in.
You’re defending the idea that it was ok to let cmr rot on the vine. I say that’s doubling down on stupid.
Its twice as bad to keep cmr and intentionally participate in his failure as anything that cmr did or did not do as hc.
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Richt burnt up his political capital when he promoted Willie, then got rolled by every DC he went after, only to settle for Grantham. To say nothing of Schotty.
By the time the arms race was in full swing, there was ample evidence that Richt wouldn’t know how to deploy the additional resources.
Granted, maybe he would have. But I think it’s fair to say that it certainly wasn’t a slam dunk.
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If I recall correctly, Pruitt didn’t speak with the press about the IPF to shame Mark Richt.
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Richt had 14 years to be enough of an asshole to get that thing built. I don’t see how Richt not having an IPF after 14 is evidence of anything other than him being too passive.
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Correct
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Oh, he had an IPF before then… it was the one that was torn down for being completely inadequate. But, sure, that was because Richt wasn’t enough of an asshole.
It’s like you guys have completely forgotten what life was like fifteen years ago.
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If he had played footsie somewhere anytime before the 2008 season, he would have had that facility.
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Uh hunh… because that’s how Michael Adams rolled, amirite?
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Then leave. I would not work a day under a clown like Adams if I had the leverage which Richt had.
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Easy enough to say…
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Ha! You have me there.
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My point is, it takes a village to hold back a football program. And Butts-Mehre was a helluva village in that regard. 😉
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Agreed.
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To clarify, the half IPF thing was utterly pointless and embarrassing.
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Yes it was. And it wasn’t what Richt had asked for. I guess he’d have gotten the other 80 yards if he’d been a bigger asshole.
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Actually, yes.
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I guess you’ve made your point. If Richt had been a bigger asshole, the Georgia job would have been the best in the country.
Pay no attention to those administrative idiots behind the curtain!
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I mean, Pruitt circa 2014 is sort of evidence of this, no?
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Excuse me, why is it being an asshole to use your equity/leverage as the HC to go to the board to get what you need…..or leave for another job who will? You don’t have to be disrespectful or an asshole. You simply do what is right. Mind boggling to me how you view things sometimes.
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First of all, you have no idea what steps Richt tried to take behind the scenes.
Second, I’m not the one who introduced the asshole concept into this comment thread.
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Its simple. Who has more power at a big state SEC university or Clemson? The AD or the HC?
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I have no idea you are correct. What I do know is he worked for clowns and he didn’t leave and he ended up fired. What else do I need to know? If you didn’t start the asshole comment then why continue to use it?
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C’mon, man, don’t you know me better than that? 😉
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This RDS is awesome. Richt was an asshole for not quitting on us and he’s an asshole for staying and not being an asshole…or something.
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I know from a source who knows the parties that Richt offered a different guy the DC job while at the 2010(?) winter coaches convention. The guy accepted the job and left the convention and drove to Athens to meet the AD. The AD overruled Richt and told the Coach to hire someone else. The next choice was Grantham. I heard about that when it happened.
Yeah, Richt should have made an issue of it but he was a good soldier and went along.
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Possibly. That wouldn’t shock me. But it was also pretty embarrassing when Foster and Chavis played him to get raises. Not to mention Saban basically telling Kirby to just wait a few years and he could have the big job.
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You have to admit that was the right play for Kirby long term. May not have liked it at the time, I didn’t, but it was the right play for him.
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It was. It’s also a testament to Saban. He read the situation correctly as well.
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Fuck saban. It was selfishness on his part. He wasn’t looking out for Kirby. He was looking out for nick as he always does.
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Saban is a fuckn asshole. It takes a special kind of dickhead to ignore that simply to win championships. Winning is important; but, it’s not the most important aspect of life.
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I think UGA is one of the tippy top jobs.
Fan base isn’t going to fire you in 2 years
There is money to do anything you want. Yeah Richt struggles with this but Kirby has proven the money is there.
Talent is easy to find
Athens is a nice place for your family. I’m sure half the coaches don’t care.
I think OSU, Texas, and USC are in the same group with Bama, LSU, Oklahoma, and UF right behind.
Where do you put a school like Wisconsin though? Seems like a great place but it has a ceiling.
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Wisconsin is north of the Artic Circle.
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Arctic. With a c in the middle. And I’ve been there.
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You’ve been North of the Arctic Circle…? Are you in mineral extraction or seal hunting, OD? I’m both curious and impressed.
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I was in the US Navy. There was a Navy Research Facility at Point Barrow, Alaska. We flew support and supplies into there in the early 70’s. We flew out of NAVSTA Kodiak…which is now a Coast Guard Station.
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Columbus is a an awful place. terrible city. I wouldnt want to live in LA, but I guess I can see a lot of people do. Baton Rouge is pretty awful, but you get every single beni there is there, if that’s your thing (every single thing i mean like they will carry you on a chair around town, never pay a bill, go where you want, do what you want, free cars, etc). Of all places, I never been to Gainesville, but maybe this year I will. Wisky would be great minus 6 months of suck. OU? also god awful. Ive been to every square inch of that state and I cant think of one moment or place i much enjoyed. I am not a fan of Austin, Ive been to every square inch of Texas just about, its just not my thing. And in Austin, different from BR, you arent the King, you are the King that everyone needs to give an earful too. But I’d rather be in Austin that OU, or Nebraska, or Columbus.
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That’s a flood of imagery there, Chuck. Pilots do get around, eh?
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But I havent been to yellowstone. 😦 The PCH ride is my last couple of bucket list things, and its not happening in 2020 it doenst look like. But, this is a really good year to shoot for JAX. But yea, ive been to more places than most anyone. air force plus pilot plus JSOC plus young and willing to drive does that. I wonder how my mud hut in iraq is fairing. My agent hasnt contacted me in a long while. Hope he’s ok.
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There is no state university with that much talent at hand and no real in state competition for it. Its really not close. Whether its the “best” job or not I will say its clearly the easiest.
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Ohio State and UGA are the best jobs, hands down.
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Alabama produces more talent than Ohio and they’ve got two in state schools there.
Its really not close:
https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/sec-states-produce-tons-of-fbs-talent/
Its an embarrassment of riches really.
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In my world 135 FBS players is more than 89…….
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Doh! Those rankings were misleading…to the careless….
Still 248 for Georgia and 135 for Ohio is a BIG difference.
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Yes massive talent here. Just have to get the right ones…….
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Like Watson and Lawrence? Definitely. Hopefully, we’ve shored that up with Vandergriff and Stockton. If getting the best in state qbs continues we’re going to have a lot of fun Januarys in the future. I firmly believe that qb has been the final missing piece. Fromm was good in a lot of ways but he wasn’t a guy that took games over with his talent and abilities. You get a guy that can and put him on a loaded roster and you own the world.
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I thought the guy on the other blog said Andy Staples aid A&M and LSU were better jobs and that Athens was boring?
I don’t get it.
Also, this commenting section took a weird turn down a well-trod path.
I’m surprised in talking about ineffectual AD’s no one brought up the fact that BVG left when he was still good at his job because Dooley refused to pay him what he was worth, which is how we got stuck with Soft Willy in the first place.
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I find it odd how BVG just slid into mediocrity and then obscurity. Maybe he’s the poster boy for the Peter principle?
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Spread offenses are his kryptonite.
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You’d think he’d recognize that weakness and seek clinics to overcome it?
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As a wise woman once said, aint nobody got time for that.
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How about Penn State?
Never been there, but it would seem like a nice gig.
(not intending or wanting to open the near recent can of worms concerning the sexual abuse and cover up, as disgusting as it was).
I’m talking about the job as it is now
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There’s precious little that’s more enticing than Amish country to an 18 year old.
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Rumschpringe!
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Why was the Amish girl excommunicated?
2 Mennonite.
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Happy Valley could be a great coaching job. Its a town, a county, part of a state dedicated to love of all things PSU. Unfortunately so much so they turn into children of the corn. They used to have a lot of recruits regionally also. Its a job that could be turned around, but its going to require some culture changing. and not like 404 waffle house, like, some real public speaking, leadership, and maybe some house cleaning of 50 year old good old boys.
SO in other words, they will continue to be children of the corn.
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It could be the best job in America if our President and Athletic Director were all in on excellence rather than profitability. As is, Alabama is head and shoulders over UGA as a job. They’re committed to excellence and have been following a plan to achieve that goal for years.
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It seems to me that Morehead is all in. He just doesn’t want a ridiculously leveraged balance sheet. If he were focused on profitability over excellence, Mark Richt probably would still be in Athens.
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Well, if we can split the difference I reckon thats a big leap.
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I agree that Bama is the best job as long as you are Nick Saban. But put a guy in there that goes three in a row without winning the SEC and the job begins to suck. He will be dealing with the likes of Phyllis from Mulga and Harvey Updike. Lose to Auburn twice in three years and he’ll be afraid to take his family out for dinner.
He’ll be Bill Curry.
This is why that job isn’t really number one.
It depends on who’s holding the title. It won’t always be Nick Saban and if Kirby stays at Georgia long enough, the next Bama coach is going to have a problem.
I think Kirby has just enough to Saban’s, “I don’t have time for that shit” attitude to be the next great and dominate coach in the league.
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Exactly. Bama tops the metrics in a few things that are relevant to the “what is the best job” question. But those same metrics are a major albatross to what, IMO, are the more relevant characteristics of what “makes X the best job.”
This argument always devolves into what program is currently rolling at the top. To that crowd, I want to ask “why don’t you just change the damn question to who has the most titles?”
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Bama is tops in many areas. However Richt wouldn’t last 14 years at Bama. It all depends on how you weight the metric. UGA has talent, resources, history, fan base, and doesn’t fire as quickly as most other programs in the same realm of the first 4.
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I’d love to know the collective difference of the wealth of the two alumni bases. My gut says UGA’s base is wealthier if for no other reason than the number of graduates over the last five decades. A significant difference between Bama and Georgia is that Bama heavily recruits out-of-state freshmen and Georgia has the HOPE grant. Auburn gets the in-state kids and half of TTown is from Texas.
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First off Senator, you DO know college football. I’ve benefitted greatly from the knowledge imparted by you and and many members on this board.
Secondly, UGA is the best HC job in football. It hasn’t always been. For the reasons listed above it is now.
Athens is a great place to base your life. Good dining and nightlife. Business in the surrounding counties is booming. Thirty minutes in three directions and you’re deep in the woods. An hour west and you can satisfy your big city desires. Quick access to a major airport and easy drive to mountains and lakes for recreation.
I am about weary of the long drive to the ocean. 300 feet or so sea level rise to the fall line would solve a lot of problems. Yeah, well…
Fuck those motherfuckers.
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“Down Island Way” may have a problem with some of that.
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Awww there’s plenty of unoccupied property Down Deepstep Way. That could be his new nom de guerre. We’d have to look after those DGD refugees such as him, akascuba and Chuckdawg. They’ve been living in enemy territory long enough.
In the words of Roger Waters, “Bring the boys back home!”
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Im not going anywhere, lol.
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Georgia is a great job. I’m not even going to try to be rational about it.
From a winning stand point, I think LSU and OU are also great jobs. At LSU you have an entire talent-rich state to yourself plus entry into SE Texas/Houston; at OU you have access to Texas without Texas’s booster problem (see yesterday’s post on “Eyes”).
Clearly, Alabama is a great job – but we’ve seen it in the hands of middling coaches. I remember clearly when Brodie Croyle was murdered between the hedges. Bama might actually be more about Saban than Bama. And Ohio State is a great job – they’re running roughshod over the B1G and will and have a national recruiting profile. I see Ohio State and Alabama as about the same, really.
I agree with many here that USC is just waiting to re-emerge. They have the cache no other program in the Pac has, they just need to go all-in. Now that they’ve thrown off the commissioner, they may be able to make some hay.
I’m not sure where to put Clemson. Clemson is benefiting a lot from FSU’s decline and Miami’s stagnation and Va Tech just not being able to keep up. If any of those three gets it back together – particularly the Florida duo – it’ll get interesting. Plus, it’s all about the assistants, too. We’ll see in a hundred so days though I guess.
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If FSU and Miami get their collective acts together, they can crush little ole Clempson. The problem is both of those schools seem to have a money and facilities problem. Are Norvell and Diaz the answers at those schools?
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Ive been to Tallahassee, a lot. I dont like it there that much. I guess if you were an elitist state official, it could be good. but for the regular joe smo – got nothing.
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I agree with many here that USC is just waiting to re-emerge.
This begs the question. Why isn’t UCLA in that same discussion? Better location, nicer campus, strong coed’s (Imeanstrong), etc. If I was choosing between the two, it’s not close. It’s UCLA.
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clearly they just dont care anymore. lot of history there too. Weird, unique stadium that i used to call a bathtub.
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Again… what is this obsession with UCLA?
It is NOT a better location. Commiefornia SUCKS. It is not a better campus. It’s flatter. I guess that counts as better. The coeds aren’t even close to Georgia’s, but they can be used as flotation devices in a water landing.
Oh, and the No. 1 reason why UCLA is nowhere close to being a better job or place to go to school than UGA?
It’s a fucking LITTLE BROTHER SCHOOL.
It’s Auburn with Palm Trees.
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“He needed to educate us,” McGarity says, “about what it meant to go big-time.”
WTF Greg? I thought were assistant AD at UF when Spurrier was there. Did you not take any notes? Or did you just fetch coffee in the meetings?
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Spurrier and Meyer were successful at Florida in a pre-Saban world.
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I have no doubt that had Saban not came back to the SEC that Richt would have eventually won a national title. Saban changed everything. Florida could get away without spending money because they had Spurrier and then Meyer because they could do so the powers at Georiga could get away with it too.
Richt was great. Kirby is great. Miles was the 2d best coach ever at LSU. Malzahn is Auburn’s 2d best coach ever. Saban is the best coach in the history of college football and he has changed everything for all the teams in this conference.
I have said it before but it bears repeating, what happens at Bama post-Saban is going to be extremely interesting and will probably make the last decade or so at Tennessee look like a success story, or will Saban leave the program in good enough shape to continue.
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Charlie McClendon and Paul Dietzel would like a word…
Lester is a fool.
I’ll take Jordan, Dye and Tubs over bus.
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Jim Donnan always said to take your wife when you go to watch a recruit play. If she can’t identify who yall came to see, he isn’t worth an offer.
I think the same should be done for “best job.” If you did anonymous deep dive polling (targeted, nuanced questions) of coaches wives, and all the things they would wish for on their ideal coaching stop, the results would spit out Athens.
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Athens/UGA seems to offer it all – recruiting, fan base, SEC East, tradition, climate, music, pretty ladies, downtown, country nearby, ATL nearby, etc.
I can’t think of another place that has all of those.
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Administrative support and the recruiting “machine” (I.e. their bagmen are far and away the most skilled in the nation) counterweigh a lot of that back into Bama’s favor. Also the very fact that Bama is at its peak right now under Saban is in itself a weight against Georgia in that discussion because it presents such a hurdle
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I had no idea the Senator was such an avid fisherman because this post was clearly a troll job designed to reignite the Richt debate!
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Funny, but I didn’t know that.
Again, kudos to all of you who know what I’m thinking better than I do myself. 😉
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At least the hypothesis about Derek being your sock puppet died. Must have been taxing for you to be arguing with yourself over player compensation.
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Heavy lies the crown of the blog proprietor.
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If the question is which school has the best confluence of advantages to make a HC’s job successful, then yes post-Adam/McGarity UGA would be at or near the top of that list.
That said, I think Mack Brown has the actual best HC job in America. UNC has all the same elements as UGA – Chapel Hill as college town, in-state talent, natural surroundings, history – just dialed down a few notches and without the pressure cooker environment of the SEC. The academics, both k-12 and colleges in area, make it a great place to raise a family.
Ego and championships aside, UNC is a great gig. Had Richt gone to UNC instead of UGA he would probably still be coaching as a living legend.
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Kind of surprising to me that no one has really made any noise at UVA.
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It must be a combo of academics and UVA not really caring too much about football. They are good at most of the sports they care about.
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