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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John
December 29th, 2009
4:58 pm
C’mon….enough with the racial idealogue, this is a sports blog.
dawgfan13
December 29th, 2009
5:00 pm
I think what people around here like about Muschamp is his intensity. I am not sold on him! I say bring in a guy from the NFL who is hungry to one day lead a program as a head coach. Make him Associate Head Coach and assign him to all the major recruits on defense. He can tell those guys, I have coached in the NFL and I know what it takes to get to the league.
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
December 29th, 2009
5:00 pm
Then it’s settled . . . we have a new mascot! Now, where will we find some coaches?
Cheeseburger &Fries..
December 29th, 2009
5:01 pm
Saban will leave Alabama soon! Go to S. Carolina and seal his name in SEC History as the only coach that can turn three teams in the SEC into winners. Spurrier, Meyer, Miles, and Richt will be after thoughts soon!
Dooley
December 29th, 2009
5:04 pm
Kirby Smart would be like hiring Steve Spurrier’s offensive coordinator. That is Nick Saban’s defense don’t kid yourself into Smart. He would be a bad hire. I liked a lot of what I saw but bottom line is we just out athleted them. It really kinda tells you how why the coaches got fired in the first place. We are as athletic as Ala and Fla just somewhere in the last 5 years we just try to knock people down and don’t lock up and tackle people. Thats coaching.
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
5:05 pm
It is settled, we have a new mascot, what should we call him, we will we paint is a$$?
The Truth
December 29th, 2009
5:07 pm
“There is a huge gap between how Mutt fans perceive their own program and how its [perceived] elsewhere.” (I corrected your spelling errors, Mr. “[Intelligentsia]“)
Oh really Mr. Johnson? UGA may not have won any recent National Championships, but they’ve done very well. UGA is making its 13th straight bowl appearance, 4th behind Florida State (28), Florida (19) and Virginia Tech (17). In those games, UGA is 25-16-3 all-time, again 4th behind USC, Bama, and Penn St. UGA has 13 straight seasons of 8 or more wins, tops in the country (as reported by this paper). Forbes just put UGA #9 on it’s list of top 20 most valuable college football programs (along with 7 other SEC schools, which basically means we Southerners are just plain football crazy). Along with Coach Richt’s record, I’d say UGA is most assuredly an elite program, especially when compared to the North Avenue Trade School.
Oh, and by the way, that’s COACH Suntan to you, d*ckweed.
John
December 29th, 2009
5:09 pm
Lowcountry Bulldawg you’re no better than Cheeseburger & Fries with your deep seated hateful idealogy. You two should have a beer and chill out…
Cheeseburger &Fries..
December 29th, 2009
5:10 pm
LowCountry Bulldawg, “Tolerant”, Failures! In case you didn’t read all of them (and It’s Obvious you didn’t, I have served “my Country” honorably, I work hard daily provide handsomely for my family and never had a drug put in my body, baby out of wedlock,never been on welfare, and Still pray daily!
richard
December 29th, 2009
5:10 pm
cheeseburger is obviously a loser. Pity the poor dumb@ss. He’s going to have a HARD time in life with his attitude. What an imbecile.
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
5:10 pm
Cheese, you will never change the “white culture” of racism and prejudice that exists until you are willing, with an open heart, to discuss and address the every issues in the self imposed “back culture” that intends to seperate.
Chris P.
December 29th, 2009
5:12 pm
Cheeseburger – somehow I doubt all of that. You spew the rhetoric of a lazy drain on society.
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
5:14 pm
Cheesburger, as you are proof, the choices you make are what determines the outcome in your ones life, not the color of ones skin…I could take this much further and provide examples and stats, but this is not the forum, Mark will shut is down. Anyway, have a good New Year, and thanks for serving.
Cheeseburger &Fries..
December 29th, 2009
5:18 pm
John your right about ideaology, but is mine based off facts? Every sports question I’ve asked about the History of the SEC not hiring Blacks in Key positions hasn’t been able to be answered. See it’s the shortcomings of The “true” racist on here that make it easy to keep this going. When you look at History(that’s what tells us our past)it’s obvious AAmen have never been given a fair shake in the SEC.can any one disput the facts!
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
5:18 pm
See you guy later, I have a feeling Mark is shuttin her down.
John
December 29th, 2009
5:19 pm
I will admitt that Muschamp, like Saban is intense. Saban is more of a controled intensity, Muschamp needs to tamper his enthusiasm a bit. Both has that “fire” that is desparately needed to rival CMR cool demeanor. I’m afraid CMR is looking for the person that “best fits him” (cool & calm)…which is why Georgia sometimes play down to the level of their competiton, and then come out flat in big games.
FFF
December 29th, 2009
5:21 pm
Your right, a complete NON-STORY……..
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
5:23 pm
Cheese, just keep working hard, and ones talents will be recogonized. The fact is, blacks were left behind, when you have a race of poeple who, only 200 years ago, they came from a place that did not have written language, medicine, institutions of higher learning, or any basic infrasturcture of civilized society, to magically get caught up and 100% integrated into a modern society is unrealistic. Again the “true racism” exists in both races.
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
5:24 pm
Cheese, it is all based of facts.
John
December 29th, 2009
5:29 pm
It’s just often times disheartening that we can’t converse without the racial element lurking under each subject. Can’t we all just get along?!
Mike (original formula)
December 29th, 2009
5:35 pm
I’m not trying to bring the discussion back to football or anything, but I did notice some people bringing up some numbers earlier. UGA can afford to pay whatever they want… literally. For years UGA was the gold standard in Economics textbooks, as it had the only athletics program in the SEC and most of the country that operated in the black. Today is no different. If you go and look at the numbers UGA brings in more money than any other school in the SEC (yes, that includes your school too UF fan). So, money should not be an issue. The right man for the job needs to be the issue.
Cheeseburger &Fries..
December 29th, 2009
5:35 pm
Mr Charlie, I agree to disagree, History will tell you that Africa, and Africans was the most modernized country in the world at that time, but when you are robbed of your language, robbed from your country and loose your culture, your religion and your God, you have to adapt to another way of living. Also let’s stop with the 200 years thing. It is the biggest lie in American History. Martin L King wasn’t killed 200 years ago, he was killed 41 years ago fighting for racial justice.
Angry Black Man
December 29th, 2009
5:38 pm
John,
Rodney King asked that same question 15 plus years ago and the answer seems to be no. There will always be people like Rev. Wright and Cheeseburger & Fries, just like there will be white neo-nazi’s. The best thing to do is ignore them regardless of how many times they attempt to use the race card, or call people racists…. which BTW is rapidly becoming a meaningless word.
WTF??
December 29th, 2009
5:40 pm
Jeff
This article was off your normally dead on work. I can’t understand the need to throw names out there that are not being considered for the job in Athens.
Do us Dawg fans a favor and report on candidates that are really being considered.
In last nights game, the TV announcers stated that two DC’s are being considered that are presently coaching pro teams. Who are they?
dagnabit
December 29th, 2009
5:42 pm
Grantham is coming to Athens.
Cheeseburger &Fries..
December 29th, 2009
5:43 pm
AngryWhiteMan,Don’t be an imposter, You gave yourself away inthe fourth line of your paragraph! Never become a coward, you disgrace manhood!
PowerDawg
December 29th, 2009
5:59 pm
Garner will leave UGA someday… but only for a quality HEAD COACHING job, which he richly deserves by the way, and we will miss him…end of story. He has had plenty of chances to leave and go other places…even for more money…and he hasn’t.
Know why? Because he loves Athens, the University of Georgia and Mark Richt, that’s why.
If he wanted to leave, he would have left as soon as he knew he wasn’t a candidate for the DC. He didn’t!
You think he was saying “I’ll bet Mark didn’t promote me to DC because I’m black” ?…Please! RACE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!
Cheeseburger-Head needs to get a life and stick his race issues where the sun don’t shine.
This blog is not the place for crap like that.
CheeseBurger- There are plenty of chat rooms for you and other like-minded haters to go into and spew your racism rhetoric. Go there!
Mr Charlie
December 29th, 2009
6:06 pm
On your point, it will change. Maybe not as fast as you like, but it will happen. If SEC schools continue to ignore the best coaching talent, they will be overtaken by other conferences. Root for Louisville, vote with your dollars. I do believe diversity is good. Ask any PGA player what Tiger Woods did to their earnings.
MikeHunt
December 29th, 2009
6:09 pm
This is a forum to discuss sports, you a-holes that want to discuss rasicm need to take it somewhere else. Grow the F up.
Pimp C
December 29th, 2009
6:10 pm
The real question is, why are all of the big names turning Richt-Evans-Adams down? It’s obviously not about money.
PT
December 29th, 2009
6:18 pm
Pimp C – you must have some inside info. no one else knows. Please tell us who has been offered the DC position at UGA. I have a direct contact and stilI dont have a clue, but I have a pretty good idea.
Dragin' Fly
December 29th, 2009
6:23 pm
Vince – Chuck Dowdle is a Georgia State alumni. You should know that.
PT
December 29th, 2009
6:25 pm
cheeseburger & fries – you have scared me for life!
UGA DC Search Committee
December 29th, 2009
6:29 pm
Mike Leach may be available soon. Hey he can’t be any worse than what we had.
No Chance as UGA's DC
December 29th, 2009
6:33 pm
Why would John leave a place where you can walk in to a grocery store and buy liquor on Sundays?
Cheeseburger &Fries..
December 29th, 2009
6:33 pm
Mr. Charlie, If you noticed I’ve never said a ‘Whiteman” held us back, I’ve said the opportunity’s wasn’t the same. I’m glad you unlike so many others saw my point. It isn’t about hate, I’m stating facts, And when people look at the facts, they can’t argue I’m wrong. Dan Mullins Becomes MSU head coach after two championships at Fla as OC, but Charlie Strong was overlooked by OLE MISS, AU, TENN,ARK, and LSU in there coaching decisions with three rings. Remember people he won one with Spurrier!
Bremen Dawg
December 29th, 2009
6:35 pm
Yeah, he is way to fat to coach at UGA. I think Mark Richt wants his coaches to be somewhat physically fit. The right guy is coming to Athens, just wait.
Cheeseburger &Fries..
December 29th, 2009
6:42 pm
It’s been nice, Love you all! Nothing like a heated debate to find the hateful conservatives on a blog!
Ga Dog
December 29th, 2009
6:53 pm
Don’t hire some fat, overpaid coach like Chavis. Hire the best D coordinator in america—kirby smart. For enough money, he’ll come to UGA—$1.5 mil plus a bunch of perqs and benefits will do it!!! Ga has to break the bank to get the best.
Reality Check
December 29th, 2009
7:01 pm
Jeff – Richt has already got him man so there is no board.
jumbeauxtiger
December 29th, 2009
7:04 pm
Otto
“Chavis!? The same one that 3rd and Chavis is named for. Many LSU fans and Sports Writers claim that the LSU defense does not have intensity.
Chavis would not be a step up from Garner and 2 Grad. Assistants.”
I’m a LSU season ticket holder and I went to every game but 2 road games and I only heard one fan all season say anything negative about Chavis.
In 2008 the Tigers were 56th in points allowed nationally. In 2009 they are 12th at 16.0 a game and just .8 behind Texas who is 8th at 15.2.
The facts show in the most important defensive statistic that LSU’s defense improved significantly this year.
Geaux Tigers
Go SEC
What could happen according to sources
December 29th, 2009
7:05 pm
A inside source at UGA has stated Mr. Smart will leave Alabama only if he is promised the keys to Athens. He know CMR does not want to coach forever (he want’s to be a motivational speaker). Smart wants to be promised the head coaching position in order for him to defect.
I personally would not agree to this. Is the D at Alabama because of Smart or Sabin. Sabin is a D god and also a micro manger. What if Smart comes to UGA we promise the throne to him and he was nothing but Sabin’s puppet. The contract must state the throne will be passed if he reaches certain goals over the next few year. Say 3 years in the top 20 in D.
Grady
December 29th, 2009
7:12 pm
You’re right. This doesn’t qualify as news. There must be incredible pressure to come up with something to say in a blog every few days. The attention-seeking headline implies that UGA is pursuing Chavis or that many UGA supporters want to see him hired and should be deeply disappointed that he’s not interested. Yet the content of this “story” is that Chavis has never been rumored to be a candidate, hasn’t to anyone’s knowledge been contacted about the job, and Chavis himself has been (allegedly) saying that he’s planning to stay at LSU for now.
Maybe if you cull the internet for news items on college coaches telling their players that they’ll be returning to their respective program, you can turn each one into a “story” about how that particular coach should be taken off of UGA’s wish list. That should provide you with at least another dozen “stories” before Georgia makes their hire (heavy sarcasm and an eye roll).
trey
December 29th, 2009
7:16 pm
Pollack does not want to be a coach. He has stated that multiple times in the last few days.
Smart isn’t going to be going to UGA. But if you’re banking it on that generic remark he made at that function then you’re dumber than RambleOn. Saban said he wasn’t going to Bama either (duh).
Ray Goof was a great recruiter too. Look how that turned out. Just because somebody is good at one thing doesn’t mean he’ll be a genius in another (duh)
Just a reminder:
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Wreckmaniac
December 29th, 2009
7:27 pm
Its really an insult when people that haven’t been offered the job refuse it.
Wreckmaniac
December 29th, 2009
7:28 pm
Chavis was also overheard saying ” I can’t turn quarterbacks into a defense and UGA only recruits QBs.”
heartofdarkness
December 29th, 2009
7:29 pm
Roberto Mancini’s Man City club shutout Wolverhamption yesterday, 3-nil. Maybe he would consider American football.
Wreckmaniac
December 29th, 2009
7:30 pm
Since Chavis has coached at both UT and LSU for years nobody is going to be convinced that he’s second rate.
mgdawg
December 29th, 2009
7:34 pm
Are you telling me that because rodney garner is a good recruiter that he should have his name thrown in for the DC job? I want a DC that can coach, not one that is a good salesman. Garner has been the interior Dline coach, to me that just doesn’t show that richt has alot of faith in him as a coach that he wasn’t even given the responsibility of the entire Dline. I still stand by my opinion that UGA needs fresh blood in the defensive coaching positions to give the defense a spark.