Georgia update: If Chavis was on the board, take him off
LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis apparently heard rumors that he was a candidate at Georgia, so he stopped them.
I’m not sure if this qualifies as news, since LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis never really has been cast as a realistic candidate for the Georgia defensive coordinator’s opening. But for the record, he apparently is telling LSU players he is not interested.
Tigers linebacker Kelvin Sheppard told a Baton Rouge television station that Chavis pulled him to the side during practice and told him: “You knew if I was going anywhere, you’d [Sheppard] be the first person I’d tell. I’m here with you all, I love it here, I’m not going anywhere.”
LSU is preparing for the Capital One Bowl against Penn State Friday. WBRZ in Baton Rouge reported that neither Chavis nor Les Miles were available for comment. Chavis in his first season at LSU after 20 years at Tennessee. He makes about $450,000 as LSU’s defensive coordinator.
There’s been no shortage of names that have floated around, including Bud Foster (who got a raise to stay at Virginia Tech) and Kirby Smart (who is expected to receive a significant raise to stay at Alabama). The Dogs also contacted Kansas State’s Vic Koenning before he left for Illinois, but it’s not believed they ever offered him the job.
If Georgia coach Mark Richt is getting closer to hiring a candidate, it’s only because he has been saying the process should be wrapped up by next week. That’s after the bowl games and the NFL regular season. I mention the NFL regular season because Buffalo defensive line coach Bob Sanders and Dallas defensive line coach Todd Grantham also have been mentioned as candidates.
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old timer
December 29th, 2009
3:26 pm
Inside tracker.New d.c will be announced at 6:pm Sunday,Dec.3rd
old timer
December 29th, 2009
3:27 pm
23rd
old timer
December 29th, 2009
3:28 pm
i mean 23rd
ORANGE BOWL COMMITTEE
December 29th, 2009
3:28 pm
Can we change our pick yet? Surely we can have Clemson play in our bowl. At least they won’t jump up and down thinking they are at a basketball game. Plus their program is good enough that they have a real foottball stadium and make money in football. Plus, they have fans as good as any SEC school. I don’t guess we can invite an SEC team that already beat our ACC champion. One that already won their bowl game. Darn it, I wish we were not tied to this stupid ACC champion thing, they don’t play football anymore in the ACC since Miami and FSU quit being serious.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 29th, 2009
3:28 pm
Norm Chow, really? He is the OC at UCLA! WOW!
The Houston Texans DC? Really? I love UGA, no NFL DC is coming to the college game, unless it for his son, alah Kiffin.
At this point Garner may have earned his shot last night. The defense finally showed that they could get up the field and pressure someone. I would not be opposed to the hire.
richard
December 29th, 2009
3:29 pm
Wonderdawg – i have been thinking the same thing. To listen to all the nerds boldly proclaim that they are going to score with chicks in Miami is beyond hilarious. In reality, they’ll piss their pants if a goodlooking female even glances at them, which won’t happen. I’m laughing so hard at the thought of this that I just $hit myself.
john
December 29th, 2009
3:29 pm
They should look at Robert Nunn. He has been with the Packers for about ten years. He was the GMC head coach………..great leader……..former captain of Okl State………..quality coach……quality guy
Stinger
December 29th, 2009
3:34 pm
I think I pooped in my pants
Tron Carter
December 29th, 2009
3:34 pm
The closest that tech students get to getting lucky is interning as peep show mop boys.
Cleanup in booth 3
ATL Fan
December 29th, 2009
3:37 pm
How many women Defensive Coordinators are there? Must be sexism.
dwdawg
December 29th, 2009
3:40 pm
you have been listening to too much rap when you write things should be “rapped up”
hmmm.....
December 29th, 2009
3:40 pm
Van Gorder gets canned by the Falcons and comes back to UGA
GayRay from South Beach
December 29th, 2009
3:40 pm
It’s easy to pick out the Tech fans that are coming into town.
They are all men, no women. Most are middle aged, fat, pasty and smelly with thinning hair combed over the tops of their crusty heads. They are wearing outdated bermuda shorts, dark, dress socks and sandals. They have on festive gold, short sleeve shirts emblazoned with that moronic, little bee and whatever greasy crap they had for breakfast. The rest are late teens, early 20’s, same attire but with acne infested faces and green teeth.They walk around babbling and giggling incoherently, gawking at the women and trying to get them to pose for pictures. The majority are Middle Easterners and Asians.
The old, fat ones keep hitting on me and giving me their room numbers.
Disgusting, all of them.
GT
December 29th, 2009
3:42 pm
Why would anybody sitting on top of a good DC job want to toss it all to come to Georgia where if the DC doesn’t fix the problem nobody is going to have a job including Richt or the DC. The same guy could go to Florida and know he is in the boat for a while, or a dozen other places like Notre Dame where the guy has a five year contract to make the program work. One more year like this year and the Dawg nation is going to be looking for blood. It is like buying a used car without a warranty for a coach to take this job. Not far from what happen to O’Leary at Tech. He leaves for his dream job and gets fired before he can coach a single game. Not because he couldn’t coach, but because this very public figure, not some fly by night had a misrepresentation on his resume that did nothing for him as far as ND deciding to hire him. Like saying he had 4 kids instead of 3. Now the same guy who could have picked and chose where he was going in his career is coaching in a mid level league. Leo Mazone did it in baseball. You think any of those guys would have left where they were if they had known what was in store for them? The odds are greater here that a move by any successful DC will have the same consequences.
Tech Fans are ugly
December 29th, 2009
3:42 pm
Not any women D coordinators but GA Tech broke new ground hiring a woman head coach. Too bad she can’t take a loss with dignity, and needs a better bra for the sideline camera shots.
hmmm.....
December 29th, 2009
3:43 pm
garner?? really? the a&m qp threw for like 360 yards!!!! the secondary was still sub par. But Rambo is gonna be the man.
Tron Carter
December 29th, 2009
3:46 pm
O’Leary – another class A, lying, cheating, douchenozzle, tech hero
I bet he likes UCF’s stadium better than what’s left of Bobby Dudd.
John
December 29th, 2009
3:47 pm
What makes Kirby Smart so special? Nick Saban is the real defensive coach at Alabama. Saban was fine before he had Kirby and Alabama will be just fine after Kirby leaves. Kirby Smart claim to fame is that he worked under Nick Saban, not that Nick Saban has him as a coach.
richard
December 29th, 2009
3:47 pm
Paul “Fat Turd” Johnson is a whiny little b!tch.
Kirby Smart's Coming to Georgia
December 29th, 2009
3:48 pm
You eggheads, I’ve been telling you all along it’s Kirby Smart.
Consider this, I was right so far about:
-Georgia beating Tech
-Georgia recovering a fumbling and getting an Int against Tech
-Georgia Beating Texas A & M easily and handily with Defensive to’s, Special Teams, and 200 yards rushing
-Urban Meyer would quit after 2009
Very few people got all 4 of those right, I did. Here’s #5:
Kirby Smart’s Coming to Georgia.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 29th, 2009
3:49 pm
Not worried about the total passing yards. When a play needed to be made, more times than not it was. The offense they faced was prolific, you weren’t going to shut them out. They hung 39 on Texas and people are screaming for Muschamp. Garner had 15 practices and 2 grad assistances to implement a defensive gameplan and excelled imo.
Timbo C.
December 29th, 2009
3:49 pm
speaking of tech douchenozzles like O’Leary, where are all those other losers like St. Simons, RambleOn, et al?
The Answer: probably at some gay bar in South Beach concocting lies about all the chicks they scored. Losers, every last one of them.
gdawginkalamazoo
December 29th, 2009
3:50 pm
oldtimer, what year? We get the Dec 23rd part but not sure of what year you are talking about. 1999? 2006? 2010? Or last week.
Stinger
December 29th, 2009
3:51 pm
The reason that I am so angry is that I have “micro” stinger and I can’t get a date.
Cheeseburger &Fries..
December 29th, 2009
3:54 pm
Get Real, You’re right racism goes both ways, now let’s count the ways. 1. 120 D1 schools in the FBS, less than twenty AA Coaches, 2.Out of your top 20,schools, they all carrie on average67% of AA ball players. #3. There is ocunt it less than 25 AA athletic directors in D1 collegiate sports, but overall in your top money making sports 65% of all AA students. #4 Historically, can you name me more than 1 AA head coach in the SEC? #5. aLABAMA, WITH IT’S HISTORY OF RACISM,has never even intervied a AA coach, but will stand to make millions off of Mark Ingram and so many before him(ask the Bear about 1970). #6Georgia, and Auburn’s revenue went through trhe roof in the 80’s because of who? Herschel, and Bo, but to this day haven’t had one OC, or DC. I could go on and on Get Real, but go read your history first and come back with facts. Maybe you can show me the “Other Side of racism!
Tron Carter
December 29th, 2009
3:56 pm
Timbo,
Its only 4:00. Right now they are tucking and playing silence of the lambs in front of a mirror, before they go out to the blue oyster.
DawgJones
December 29th, 2009
3:57 pm
Who thinks Garner will get a sniff at Florida for that DC job? If they don’t offer him then we should…that is how we recruit, take what Florida leaves for us. If Garner was great at UT, why have we not won one here? Does that mean Richt is no Fulmer? No big names want it because we lose our defensive line, will lose Curran and Jones as well and that is from a defense that stunk it up…maybe the situation isn’t great and another 7-5 means the head man is gone too…think people think
GayRay from South Beach
December 29th, 2009
3:57 pm
I am really getting aggravated at all of these Tech fans that are coming into town. They keep trying to punch me in the butt. I’ve already broken off three of their little stingers today.
Kendawg
December 29th, 2009
4:01 pm
It’s really incredible that as many times as Rodney Garner has been mentioned in recent blogs that people still refer to him as GARDNER. Are they totally stupid?
gdawginkalamazoo
December 29th, 2009
4:03 pm
John, I don’t think that the Frank Broyles award (best assistant coach) is handed out for just working for Saban. There is some merit there for Kirby’s abilities. And sure IF Smart leaves Saban won’t have any problems replacing him. Thing that bugs me is that the title game has two bulldogs running the defenses and we have been middling around with the D for 2-3 years now.
BILLY JACK
December 29th, 2009
4:04 pm
UGA DOES NOT WANT CHAVIS-THIS IS A FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!
John
December 29th, 2009
4:07 pm
I’ve heard Reggie Herring of the Dallas Cowboys is being considered. Another mediocre coaching carousel of defensive coordinators fired from teams only to be rehired time and time again. The 2 grad assistants last night proved just because you have road experience doesn’t exactly make you the better driver. How does 2 grad assistants outcoach experienced coaches with 15+ years experience? Why do schools continue to hire assistant coaches from top tier programs thinking that it will automatically rub off on their program?
UGAgrad71
December 29th, 2009
4:11 pm
I wish the UGA haters would, at least, learn to spell and use proper grammar and syntax. I read these blogs to learn something, not to try to figure out the “inside baseball” jokes. I, too, want a first-line DC for out football team. I do not want just a “name” so that a choice is made. I would like to see KS as the choice, but ALA is going to pony up some major bucks to keep KS, and UGA knows it will take major bucks to get him come to Athens. GO IOWA and ALABAMA!
Timbo C.
December 29th, 2009
4:11 pm
Tron – you’re probably right – i have met a few that remind me of Jame Gumb, but the majority of them look like the product of an affair between Steve Urkel and an Indian convenience store clerk.
Gloria Stienham
December 29th, 2009
4:11 pm
How come there are no woman candidates? I bet Rosie O’donell could do a pretty good job.
LizDawg
December 29th, 2009
4:12 pm
Still causes a mile to know tech never beat the Dawgs at the Joke by Coke during this entire decade.
30-24 all year long, there goes Caleb King running past Morgan Burnett UNTOUCHED and on his way to another TOUCHDOWN, GEORGIA! 30-24!
Gloria Stienham
December 29th, 2009
4:12 pm
Oh I forgot about Paul Johnson.
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
4:14 pm
As Bradley said, there are things worse than winning at Shreveport, and that is losing there.
richard
December 29th, 2009
4:14 pm
you’re right Gloria, tech’s coach is definitely a b!tch.
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
4:14 pm
Dawgs 8-5, Tech probably ends 10-3. Techs dream season is 2 wins better that our nightmare.
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
4:15 pm
Cheesburger, we need more white NBA players.
Keese
December 29th, 2009
4:15 pm
I’ve been saying this all along not just after TexAM. Give Garner his shot. Just because he is not thrown out everywhere dosent mean he’s not capable. IMO
My guess is that it won’t be him though. Kirby is a risk guys….a lot of money and no evidence he could run D like bama. If Van Gorder gets canned, grantham or Kirby see the oneas to keep eye on. Either way we’ll know soon! GREAT TO BE A GA BULLDOG!
Cheeseburger &Fries..
December 29th, 2009
4:17 pm
DawgJones, Garner gets that job, and this whole recruiting class is gone! Bank on it!
Willie Martinez
December 29th, 2009
4:17 pm
Mr. Charlie and Mr. Cheeseburger – why are there so few latinos like mysself in the NBA and NFL? Hmmm?
When you figure that one out, let me know.
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
4:17 pm
Van Gorder will not get canned, he did a good job there. Smitty loves him.
Tron Carter
December 29th, 2009
4:18 pm
That’s right Gloria. Don’t discount CPJ because his breasts are larger than yours. He proves that you can still be femenine and coach at a division 7 NAIA school, with a joke stadium that has to entice “fans” to games with free food and cheap tickets, all while being in the largest city in the State.
Cheeseburger &Fries..
December 29th, 2009
4:18 pm
Charlie I agree, Ask Larry Bird can he give some white women his DNA!
Tony Gonzalez
December 29th, 2009
4:18 pm
I play in the NFL.
SuperB
December 29th, 2009
4:19 pm
Rodney Garner is the man.
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
4:20 pm
Did’nt somebody try to hire Garner away as a DC at some point? But UGA antied up.