Chavis-to-Georgia rumors still alive — and why not Garner? (UPDATE II)
Rodney Garner has been getting raises. But he never has been given a shot at the defensive coordinator's job. (Brant Sanderlin/bsanderlin@AJC.com)
(UPDATED BELOW WITH CHAVIS COMMENT)
(SECOND UPDATE WITH RICHT SAYING GARNER IS NOT A CANDIDATE)
When I posted a blog Tuesday morning about LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis telling one of his players that he was not interested in the Georgia job, contrary to rumors, the last thing I expected was that it would unravel into some inane and profane race debate. After becoming aware of it last night from a reader (while I was covering the Hawks’ dreadful performance), I had to close commenting and eventually deleted about 60 comments.
It’s with that, and some trepidation, that I inform you of one thing and ask another this morning:
♦ Chris Low, the respected SEC football writer at ESPN.com, posted a blog this morning with the headline, “Chavis on Richt’s radar at Georgia.”
♦ If Bulldogs coach Mark Richt doesn’t get the coordinator he wants to replace Willie Martinez, would it be so awful if he promoted Rodney Garner?
First on the Chavis thing. I wouldn’t have brought it up a second day in a row if somebody like Low didn’t report it. (Notice I wrote Low, not ESPN in general). An excerpt from the blog:
In talking to several people close to the situation, Richt has serious interest in Chavis and is prepared to throw some serious money at the veteran defensive coordinator, who headed up Tennessee’s defense for 14 seasons prior to joining Les Miles’ staff at LSU for this past season.
Chavis makes a lot of sense. He’s a proven commodity and knows the SEC well. The Tigers were 12th nationally this season in scoring defense, allowing 16 points per game. They gave up just 18 touchdowns in 12 games. Only five teams nationally yielded fewer touchdowns this season.
Low also pointed out this interesting stat:
Since his promotion to defensive coordinator at Tennessee in 1995, he’s 7-3 against the Bulldogs in Sanford Stadium. That includes LSU’s 20-13 win over Georgia this season.
If Richt has some super secret candidate on his radar that nobody has mentioned, he deserves kudos for being so stealth. There has been nothing to indicate that, however. Chavis obviously would be a strong hire. But the likelihood of him leaving LSU after only one season — when he stayed at his previous school for 20 — would be surprising. If nothing else, Chavis — like so many others — might just get a raise out of this.
Now, about Garner. He is not a coordinator. But the case can be made he is the second most important football coach at Georgia after Richt. Why? Because he’s the recruiting coordinator. He keeps getting raises because other schools keep coming after him because he keeps landing all of those 37-star recruits we obsess about.
After Martinez’s firing, there were a flurry of unsubstantiated rumors, mostly on Twitter, that Garner resigned after learning he was not a serious candidate for the defensive coordinator’s position. Garner shot down those rumors, obviously. He stayed for the Independence Bowl game and, with the aid of only two grad assistants, he directed a strong defensive performance in Georgia’s win over Texas A&M.
The fact Garner has never been the defensive coordinator — or presumably has received a strong offer to call plays for another school — has led to this perception that he is not worthy of that position. If that’s true, here’s my question: Why not? Doesn’t he deserve the chance? It’s a topic that I don’t know has been given the attention it deserves.
(UPDATE: Chavis says nothing to quell speculation)
Our Tim Tucker has blogged about Chavis’s non-denial/denial at a Capital One Bowl press conference when asked about the Georgia job. You can click the link above, but here’s an excerpt:
Asked at a Capital One Bowl news conference in Orlando about his possible interest in the Georgia defensive coordinator job, Chavis said: “Well, we’re excited about what we’re doing at LSU, and my focus has been on LSU and will continue to be on LSU. We have an opportunity to win 10 ballgames, and certainly that is what we want to do. We’ve got an opportunity to be the third team in the SEC to win 100 ballgames in a decade, and certainly that is what we want to do.
“So that is where our focus is going to be. I’ll talk as long as you want to about LSU and about our players. I’ll be happy to do that.”
In other words: no comment about the Georgia job.
Didn’t exactly put that rumor to rest, did he?
(SECOND UPDATE)
Richt told Tucker this morning that Garner is not a candidate for the coaching job. That confirms what most of us thought — that if he was going to get the job, it would’ve happened by now. Richt also said the job search could take longer than expected.
Richt sidestepped a question on Chavis. An excerpt:
Richt would not comment today on his interest in LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis or any other candidates. But he did say that Rodney Garner, the only holdover on Georgia’s defensive staff, is not under consideration for the DC job.
“No, Rodney is not a candidate for the job. He knows that,” Richt said. “We’re just still in the search.”
As for all the rumors swirling throughout Bulldog Nation about the search, Richt said: “I’m not taking any pleasure at all in what people might be going through out there. All I can say is . . . when I do have that decision made and it’s ready for public consumption, I’ll let everybody know. My goal is to get the right man for the job.”
Asked specifically about Chavis, Richt said: “I’m not going to make any comment on these things until we’ve got our man.”
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$1.4 million Shreeports vs. $14 million BCS Oranges Bowls
December 30th, 2009
8:02 pm
Ok, I admit it, Georgia and Richt really are the best in the SEC. Much better than those lousy Gators.
Jeff Schultz
December 30th, 2009
8:05 pm
Hunker Down — Leach is an offensive guy.
South Ga Dawg 1888
December 30th, 2009
8:05 pm
The Dogs will rule the Gators in 2010. I love Mark Richt–he’s amazing and a great man. That’s why I’m a South Ga Dawg baby!
Mike Leach
December 30th, 2009
8:07 pm
How about letting me fill one of those vacant coaching positions?
The first thing I would do is tie a rope around Russ, the temporary Mascot’s testes and drag him down the street behind my scooter then I would lock him in the broom closet.
My second order of business would be to drive over to the flats and punch Paul Johnson in the mouth.
Jeff Schultz
December 30th, 2009
8:10 pm
Rambo — Please clean up your language. I’ve had to unapprove too many of your comments.
Jeff Schultz
December 30th, 2009
8:13 pm
PC Professor — Not true. You’re welcome to have an open and honest debate on race any time you like. Just not on my blog. This is not a democracy. Take it somewhere else.
Jeff Schultz
December 30th, 2009
8:14 pm
Matthew — I don’t think I’m “pushing” at all. If I were pushing, I would’ve written a column saying, “Georgia should hire Rodney Garner.” I never wrote that.
Clint
December 30th, 2009
8:16 pm
Jeff – What do you think John Chavis? I think he could do great things with UGA’s talent, maybe not immediately but with the right players he can place UGA back in a position to compete for the SEC East.
pill
December 30th, 2009
8:22 pm
Why not Garner? Because the general rule of wisdom is that when everything is going good your hire or promote from within. When things are not going correctly, you hire proven commodities from outside.
Dawg trapped in BAMA
December 30th, 2009
8:28 pm
Jeff- I live in Birmingham AL and regardless of who richt may truly be after, the bamers are still nervous about Smart leaving
Coaches
December 30th, 2009
8:44 pm
Say no to Garner. The dawgs need an aggressive DC.
Ole Yeller Dawg
December 30th, 2009
8:46 pm
Kirby will leave, if Alabama wins the National Championship title, there will be no reason for him to stay. If Alabama loses, he is staying put because more than likely Alabama is back in the hunt again next year. He needs that National Championship on his Resume. This young man is about to get paid!
Coaches
December 30th, 2009
8:47 pm
ok WM is gone. We played a bowl game without Willie and it was still the same non aggressive Zone Defense
Who'd thunk it?
December 30th, 2009
8:49 pm
Who’d a thunk the head of a group of Red Raiders would lose to a helicopter dad of all people?
Meanwhile...Jeff makes puns
December 30th, 2009
8:51 pm
Jeff when you say Leach is an offensive guy, is that with pun intended?
Mike Leach is a baaaad man
December 30th, 2009
8:55 pm
Mike Leach is so bad, even Ru Paul gets in back in the closet when he’s around.
Coaches
December 30th, 2009
8:55 pm
When is the last time the dawgs d has one on one coverage. This is the SEC. BE AGGRESSIVE.
Coaches
December 30th, 2009
8:57 pm
The question is will MR make the new DC be a hard nose Coach.
Ole Yeller Dawg
December 30th, 2009
9:00 pm
Coaches:
You had the same players….it’s hard to change the scheme when you have players that can play only one way. The soft zone covers for the players deficiencies because they can’t play the bump and run. You will have to find new players before you can change the scheme.
Coaches
December 30th, 2009
9:05 pm
Blitz
Coaches
December 30th, 2009
9:07 pm
BS The dawgs have the talent. they can play one on one. you don’t know.
South Ga Dawg 1888
December 30th, 2009
9:08 pm
If CMR can pull this off, is it possible he can snatch Chavis away? Wow, CMR’s a genious if he pulls this one off.
Coaches
December 30th, 2009
9:09 pm
The defense WM and BVG lives by is give five if u need seven. This is the SEC. Blitz, hit hard, blood makes the grass grow.
Coaches
December 30th, 2009
9:14 pm
Enter your comments here
Ole Yeller Dawg
December 30th, 2009
9:15 pm
That will only work a few times before they start to recognize it’s coming and you will end up getting burned. Even coach Bobo does a good job of recognizing the blitz.
Unfortunately we need to upgrade our defensive players especially LB and DE.
Vince Dooley
December 30th, 2009
9:37 pm
I don’t know what all my fans in dawg nation are talking about……but me being an intelligent coach and person there’s no argument about this……I’d take Tech’s 4 shinny National Championships any day over that silly one-on-one record between UGA and Tech…..just plain common sense I tell ya!
AugDawg
December 30th, 2009
9:57 pm
this is totally hypothetical. but makes some sense. what if garner is pushing chavis to richt. garner was an offensive coach at tenn. and may have admired chavis as a dc. he may want to work under chavis for the learning experience and if their friends hed keep garner around. also, garners recruting prowess compliments chavis lack of desire to recruit while chavis’ coordinating skills complement garner. could be nice team for all concerned including us fans. my only question is the scheme is the same tampa 2 that bend but dont break crap. wonder what blitz peecentages look like comparing cwm and chavis
thekingtata
December 30th, 2009
10:15 pm
Jeff
Here’s the deal, if the defense was lights out these past few years and slick Willie got promoted or took a head coach job then Gardner would have been a lock. However, you don’t give someone from a crappy defense a promotion…
GT seeking a whiter shade of pale
December 30th, 2009
10:16 pm
If GT fan paints their @ss white, will it provide enough UV protection to wear a thong at Miami Beach?
mgdawg
December 30th, 2009
10:24 pm
Ole yeller dawg, I find it hard to believe that uga doesn’t have the players to play one on one and if that is true fire garner for not finding guys that can. Honestly, I think they can, it’s all about coaching. The corners are pretty young, Smith is a true freshman and boykin is a sophomore and miller is a senior which is a good thing. I forgot who said it, but one of the big name defensive coaches in the sec said, “you have to be able to play man to man in the SEC.” You don’t have to play it all the time, although I would like to see that, but you do need to have the ability to play it. I just hate seeing the defense watch and react instead of stepping up and creating. How many times has a WR caught a football with 3-5 defenders around him but none actually covering him?
ButlerDawg
December 30th, 2009
10:33 pm
All of these writers who claim that Georgia’s D had a strong showing only watched the scoreboard periodically or caught final score on SportsCenter and were impressed that the Dawgs didn’t give up 40+. TAMU still only had 14 points late into the game (but the writers failed to see the amount of yardage our boys gave up and the stupid mistakes on the field)…if the writers (Schultz) had watched the whole game and not only tuned in during commercial breaks from old ‘Golden Girls’ episodes, they would have seen the same Martinez type defense, only with better line play. Schultz is a hack and a loser liberal who is beating the race drum.
GeorgiaGirl
December 30th, 2009
10:49 pm
it seems to me that Richt can mentor along a young OC given his experience coming up through the offensive ranks, but needs someone with a proven background running the defense in order to compete in the SEC – that’s why Gardner won’t be the guy… he already done trial by fire with Willie and it just didn’t work out. He can’t afford to try it out with someone else from the current ranks. The defense’s best years under Martinez were immediately after VanGorder left, and then got progressively worse each year. I don’t think it will be Kirby, but someone like him who has worked under a defensive guru like Saban and/or has experience running a defense for a lotta years
$1.4 million Shreveport vs. our $14 million BCS Orange bowl
December 30th, 2009
10:53 pm
I don’t care who UGA gets, we can still win the “A She She” next year! My Mommy said so. Go Tech.
$1.4 million Shreeports vs. $14 million BCS Oranges Bowls
December 31st, 2009
12:03 am
According to Forbes, Georgia is the #1 most valuable college football program in the SEC, worth about $90 mill a year. They can afford to get whatever coach they want.
Stringzs
December 31st, 2009
12:10 am
Jeff,
I admire your wit and sarcasm, and general good stories, but this is the most bone-headed thing you have written. This is not a game show trial extravaganza– we already had it with Martinez. A proven DC is needed- Garner is not it. So you try him and he fails– what happens next. This is not your shining hour my friend.
BigDawg
December 31st, 2009
12:17 am
Just finished watching the Nebraska/Arizona Holiday Bowl. What about Carl Pellini? Heck of a defensive effort by the Blackshirts.
bamadawg
December 31st, 2009
12:21 am
If Petrino is a pimp, then what is Saban????
PHIL
December 31st, 2009
12:22 am
For 1.4 Million, et al, Only one question is really relevant to this discussion and that is who waxed your a$$?? The answer to that would be Russ who, btw, will retire after having given two of the biggest waxings in a long time. None of your childish blabber changes that.
G DOG
December 31st, 2009
12:28 am
CMR do needs to hire a good DC. But CMR also needs to hire a OC because Bobo has nothing more than a highschool offence going.
Freddy
December 31st, 2009
12:30 am
Look at this easy schedule
University of Louisiana-Lafayette Athens, Ga. TBD
South Carolina * at Columbia, S.C.
Arkansas * Athens, Ga.
Mississippi State * at Starkville, Miss.
Colorado at Boulder, Colo.
Tennessee * Athens, Ga.
Vanderbilt * Athens, Ga.
Kentucky * at Lexington, Ky.
Florida * at Jacksonville, Fla.
Idaho State Athens, Ga.
Auburn * at Auburn, Ala.
Georgia Tech Athens, Ga.
G DOG
December 31st, 2009
12:39 am
I’ll give them 4-8
Hairy's Balls
December 31st, 2009
1:03 am
Jeff…on Garner:
(1) “those 37-star recruits we obsess about” are turning out to be worse recruits than we and the media think
(2) “strong defensive performance” against Texas A&M…What game did you watch? The UGA Defense gave up 471 yards of total offense. 362 PASSING YARDS!!
Nebraska gave up 108 yards of total offense to Arizona and 13 points to Texas. Maybe we should be looking at hiring Nebrask’s Defensive Coordinator Carl Pelini, Bo’s older brother.
BuLLdawg
December 31st, 2009
2:05 am
Jeff Schultz, UGA is hiring an NFL coach, too bad you cannot read.
Doug Roberson, sir :
Other than a Cuban sandwich, what you have is goulash. God Awful Goulash. That and a lot of bread. Sorry, but I do not share, and neither does anyone else that what you report about love you some Cuban food in Miami. It is inedible and there aren’t any places to be found that are edible.
HOW CAN YOU LEAVE OFF HOW UNSAFE YOU FEEL THERE ?
Guess you get used to that in the slums of Atlanta where all our CRIME is and where ALL OUR DRUGS are, surrounding the Tech campus. They tried to gentrify the neighborhood, but those businesses are now closing. Major landmark anchor businesses for those business-shopping districts in the slums of a city of 6 million – such as Publix who is closing this week.
238 lbs. Left Tackle for GA tek, yeah, that’s small, and as for how tough he is, pardon me, Paul Johnson YANKED HIM for the last 4 plays of the game when he SCRAPPED his high school offense and threw 4 incomplete passes instead to END THE GAME 24-30.
If you want a STORY LINE for THIS game NO ONE WILL WATCH and NO ONE WILL ATTEND, especially NOT any of THESE GA tek fans in here posting to this biased blog of feel good about a team who played SIX GAMES against OPPONENTS who are NOT even in a damn bowl game – here you go : Iowa beat 1 team all season long and that team beat NO TEAM RANKED IN THE FINAL BCS TOP 34 TEAMS (Pennsylvania State.)
GA tek beat 1 team all season long too.
So, there you have it.
Iowa who beat 1 team (who beat no team in the BCS Final Top 34 teams) plays Georgia tek who played 6 games against teams who are NOT EVEN IN A DAMN BOWL GAME and GA tek also ONLY BEAT 1 TEAM ALL SEASON LONG.
Iowa LOST to a team who LOST to 4-8 Syracuse, LOST to 6-6 Minnesota, and LOST to 6-6 Michigan State.
GA tek LOST to a team who LOST to 7-6 Kentucky and LOST to 7-5 TN vols.
Great game.
Huh ?
Here those 2 are facing off against each other in crime-ridden, horrible food horrible restaurants of no choices but Goulash to eat with lots of bread – which is all they eat –Miami.
Keep your doors locked in Miami Doug. Would love to have you make it back here safely and report to us after the game what is the story line of a game that no one cares about and no one will watch, with no GA tek fans there.
GA tek is the WORST TRAVELING school in all of America.
WAR ZONES look better than where you are Doug Roberson.
What do you mean, who cares ? You should care. For your own personal safety, you should care Doug Roberson.
Orange Bowl is an embattled bowl. Too bad reading your story line, one would have to reply with such a statement of fact, to know it.
WORST TV RATING Orange Bowl.
WORST ATTENDANCE Orange Bowl.
And, you are what ?
Stuck for a story line.
Just be honest Doug Roberson, sir.
Tell the truth. Quit with the GA tek bias.
AJ-C doesn’t provide that bias for UGA in our blog, Bubba.
Why not report Doug Roberson that GA tek is Number 35 and UGA Number 58 Top National Universities according to the latest 2010 U.S. News and World Report Rankings, and that more to the point, that that does NOT make GA tek 1 of the Top National Universities.
We’re Number 35.
When in the name of Hell did someone ever claim to be Number 35 at any damn thing ?
To Deflect this “obsessed” whining of GA tek fans (both of them) before they reply with that weak butt post, may I point out that it is NOT UGA who has To Hell with UGA in their damn Fight Song.
By the way, I am absolutely certain that THIS is the source of the POOR SPORTSMANSHIP that GA tek actually has forever been known for, not the least of which is Paul Johnson saying to GA tek fans (both of them) to hit UGA fans in the damn face.
Not close.
TIMING ?
Timing was surely NOT THERE to have Paul Johnson scrap his high school offense and THROW 4 PASSES to END THE GAME.
4 passes that looked like WOUNDED DUCKS…
Yet, on that point in here Doug Roberson, sir, you sit there and “REPORT” that “Quarterback” Josh Nesbit is a “HEISMAN HOPEFUL.”
Right.
With his 38 games played and only 13 touchdown passes to 11 interceptions and another 23 fumbles.
Pre-Game, you were in here GUSHING as you are now about GA tek, Doug Roberson biased AJ-C reporter.
After the game, you tried to deflect that what you said pre-game DID NOT HAPPEN.
If you want to talk about Iowa GA tek, why not report that GA tek FIRED JON TENUTA and that Paul Johnson replaced JON TENUTA with the linebackers’ coach at So Miss as Paul Johnson’s DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR…
…and that UGA took the football and crammed it right down GA tek’s throat.
Right up the gut.
Every play.
That tech was NOT TOUGH,
Now, were they Doug Roberson, sir ?
40 years plus ?
Huh ?
1966 season. This is 2009.
That, Doug Roberson, is
43 years.
43 years since GA tek has even BEEN to a Major Bowl Game.
1955.
54 years since GA tek last won a Major Bowl Game.
How old are you Doug Roberson ?
I was alive in 1955.
1955.
God Almighty Above is all I can say and it begs the damn question if you are going to bring up GA tek’s Major Bowl DROUGHT of 54 years since GA tek won a Major Bowl Game, then (1) call them the Major Bowls and (2) say it’s been 54 years since GA tek last won a Major Bowl Game the 1955 season; and (3) say why haven’t any GA tek fans showed up for their 1st chance at a Major Bowl Victory in 54 years ?
Huh ?
Why not ?
Where are the so-called GA tek fans you supposedly address yourself too Doug Roberson, sir ?
1-3.ACC is 1-3 in bowl games.
UGA has been to 8 Major Bowls since GA tek LAST EVEN WENT TO ONE.
By the way, if you are going to discuss BOWL GAMES Doug Roberson :
7 of GA tek’s last 10 bowl games, GA tek has LOST.
GA tek has been to 13 straight consecutive bowl games now with this game, but is a miserable 5-7.
LOSING BOWL RECORD over this span bragged about of GA tek having been to a Bowl Game 13 consecutive years.
UGA has been to a Bowl Game 13 Consecutive Years too, and UGA is :
NOT 5-7 like GA tek last 13 consecutive bowls now, but 2 LOSSES.
13 consecutive bowl games, 11-2, UGA.
13 consecutive bowl games, 5-7, GA tek.
Now, that’s just me Doug Roberson.
What do I know about college football and try to report an unbiased retort to a soul-searching on your part Doug Roberson AJ-C beat writer for GA tek for a damn story line where you discuss bowl games but fail to mention that GA tek doesn’t even have a single not 1 player on the GA tek team who has EVER WON A BOWL GAME in his entire career at GA tek.
13 consecutive bowl games for GA tek, INDEED.
Just be honest.
Not a homer.
-0- tech fans. That’s an honest report.
Will be -0- at the game too. Why not report that the facts are that GA tek cannot give away 2 free hotdogs, 4 free Coca-Colas, 2 bags of boiled peanuts and a free parking pass to get a single GA tek fan to buy a ticket to 1 game for your so-called GA tek fans you address yourself to in such a biased fashion daily Doug Roberson.
48.
# 48 in the nation attendance GA tek.
THOSE ARE ALL UGA FANS.
We buy season tickets for the GA tek football and throw away all the tickets but our game.
We own GA tek at Bobby Dodd Stadium (named after a University of Tennessee at Knoxville college DROP-OUT.)
The AJ-C reports that there are 29,700 GA tek alumni in the readership of the AJ-C.
And, there are of course a third of a million UGA alumni by direct comparison in your readership.
5.
Only 5 teams have more ATTENDANCE than UGA.
GA tek # 48 in Attendance.
No GA tek fan on the plane down ?
Duh….
Easy to spot the GA tek fans.
Slide rule hanging out their pants, pocket protector in their pocket and YELLOW wearing YELLOW.
Which of course, is the color of cowards.
Cowards who LOG ON as for example St. Simons pre-game and BRAG of the DESTROY UGA, but after the game, has YET to EVEN LOG IN as St. Simons, despite repeated attempts by me to call St. Simons out to have a pair and face the medicine.
Oh, he replied with a different handle that he didn’t think that 30-24 was DESTROYING of GA tek by UGA.
Less than a TD.
But, it was not I, nor any of the rest of us who come in here daily to call out 1 St. Simons to log in as St. Simons as he did for all this time and keep that just 1 handle.
And, take his medicine.
DISH IT OUT, can’t take it.
Of course, GA tek fans try to tell me it’s old gold.
YELLOWjackets.
Lived here all my life.
Dunwoody.
I do believe I know what color a damn YELLOWjacket is.
Like you guys trying to pass off a 1930 automobile for the AJ-C headlines of 1893 that a train wrecked outside of Lawrenceville with the cheaters from GA tek onboard stoned by UGA fans who recognized that THOSE WERE NOT GA tek students playing against us, but football players you HIRED FOR MONEY to play us.
RAMBLIN’ WRECK RETURNS TO ATLANTA, the headlines read with picture of WRECKED TRAIN.
Not Automobile from 30 years later.
By the way, Doug Roberson, I have looked up the draft projections and I cannot find a GA tek player on any NFL draft site mock draft.
GA tek has 25 NFL players today.
UGA 45.
UGA will have MORE DRAFTED again.
We had yet another UGA player drafted # 1 in the NFL Draft 1st overall pick, just last season.
GA tek NEVER HAS.
GA tek never has ANY HEISMAN TROPHY either, but you fail to report that.
GA tek has ZERO Final AP Poll NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS.
6 NC listed in the Official NCAA Football Records Book (I have a copy on my desk Doug Roberson, do you sir?), same as the 6 NC listed for UGA, and by ALL THE SAME POLLS that list GA tek 6 NC, that UGA has the same polls list us with 6 NC 1-A football.
But, UGA has an AP Poll Undefeated, Untied National Championship.
GA tek, by direct comparison DOES NOT, but does have SEVEN (7) SEASONS where GA tek did NOT WIN 1 SINGLE GAME all season long.
Read your articles Doug Roberson and GA tek has this great history.
B.S.
As you FAIL TO REPORT Doug Roberson that GA tek is on ACADEMIC PROBATION in NCAA APR with 914 in men’s basketball.
How can that be Doug Roberson that you have NOT MENTIONED THAT 1 TIME ?
This is CURRENT NEWS Doug Roberson. Today. Now. PROBATION GA tek by NCAA.
Today.
NCAA Academic Progress Rate GA tek Men’s Basketball PROBATION with LOST SCHOLARSHIPS AS PENALTY for PROBATION of limited to ONLY 11 SCHOLARSHIPS.
Did they decide they are even going to show this game on TV ? I never saw the AJ-C report on THAT, either. I heard FOX was not going to be available in MANY MARKETS, in fact I heard that includes this AREA.
Not that you can open the 1-horse newspaper town trying to coddle GA tek fans (both of them) sports pages and find a hard hitting truthful story line on GA tek.
Where is your retraction Doug Roberson for what you REPORTED in THIS blog about what you guaranteed would happen before GA Tek LOST it’s 60th game to UGA in football, a feat only 4 other 1-A programs have accomplished.
Let me know when you are going to FACE THE MUSIC and quit sitting there squirming in your chair hiding behind your keyboard UNABLE to login and say under the handle you said GA tek would “DESTROY UGA” that GA tek LOST St. Simons ?
St. Simons, don’t try to tell me you are NOT squirming in your chair as you read this, not man enough to reply with the handle St. Simons AND KEEP THAT HANDLE to continue to post ALL YOUR POSTS until AFTER THE NEXT GAME.
WUSS.
Doug Roberson, You know there is 1 more unfinished business item to address to your biased reporting for GA tek in the AJ-C, sir, and that is that GA tek’s fans are the WORST POOR SPORTS in all of sports. Imagine coming in here with the EXCUSES they came in here with after what they said pre-game about “DESTROYING UGA.”
There is a long TRADITION of POOR SPORTS at GA tek. Forever. From the beginning. No time off. Continuous. Everlasting.
60.
8 of 9 for Coach Richt.
30-24. (I didn’t know a 6-point LOSS is “DESTROYING UGA” Doug Roberson and both GA tek fans, and St. Simons.)
BuLLdawg
December 31st, 2009
4:21 am
Bluto,
I should also like to discuss Craig James and Colin Cowherd.
SHOULD NOT BE LEGAL to interview Craig James on ESPN.
We all saw him say his side of it.
Fair and balanced ?
I think NOT.
That’s not right.
I saw the cell phone pictures from Craig James’ son he sent not to SMU but to Texas Tech. The kid isn’t any good.
Adam James.
Excuse me.
Your video evidence produced does NOT support your dad’s claim of a shed, sir.
An equipment shed with tackling dummies and pads only.
In fact, the room looks quite large.
DARK ?
B.S.
I saw the light.
I note too, that Adam James SAYS NOTHING.
Just his dear old dad, Craig James.
TV interview after ESPN TV interview of JUST…
wait for it now…
ESPN Craig James.
Colin Cowherd, your Interview of Craig James is ALSO not legal, son.
You can’t do that.
There was a COURT CASE SCHEDULED.
Trust me, Texas Tech will PAY MILLIONS IN DAMAGES to Mike Leach.
Texas Tech under Mike Leach :
7-5
7-6
9-5
8-5
8-4 Final AP Poll Number 18.
9-3 Final AP Poll Number 20. AL appeal fails 10-2.
8-5
9-4 Final AP Poll Number 22.
11-2 last year Final AP Poll Number 12.
9-4 absolutely would have been again this year.
That is Mike Leach’s record at a “school” that the previous 7 years before Mike Leach were ON NCAA PROBATION for B.S. and lying and playing 21 players who were NOT ELIGIBLE, yet Texas Tech never corrected their won/loss record from it all.
Before that, Texas Tech was :
4-7
4-7
4-7
3-7
4-7
1-9
5-6
3-6
4-7
5-5
4-6
5-5
1-9
4-6
3-6
4-6
3-7
2-8
2-7
3-7
2-8
2-7
3-7
3-8
3-5
4-7
4-6
4-5
5-5
3-6
1-7
Nice Texas Tech.
And, nice place for your loser sons, loser Craig James. No one ever heard of you Craig James. Your teammates like Duper, yes.
All-Time without Mike Leach 416 wins 347 Losses 32 ties.
With Mike Leach : 86 wins in 10 years, only 42 losses.
9-4 with Mike Leach
Without Mike Leach ?
Not a damn freaking thing.
This is so typical of college football nowadays with ESPN.
All you have heard is the ESPN point of view.
This is NOT over.
Texas Tech is going down and this is going to cost Texas Tech MILLIONS.
They will PAY THE MILLIONS TO MIKE LEACH.
Just as UGA now, must stand up and pay Decory Bryant $500,000, no matter what the court said.
UGA pay up. I am ashamed of UGA not paying Decory Bryant $500,000 and standing behind some GOVERNMENT YOU CAN’T SUE ME CRAP. Football is NOT GOVERNMENT. If it were my $100,000 in donations to the Athletic Fund would be tax deductible.
Texas Tech will.
Chavis Links « Leather Helmet Blog
December 31st, 2009
4:52 am
[...] Chavis? Why not Garner? [...]
Angry Dawg
December 31st, 2009
6:40 am
This search for a d coordinator and all these rejections is getting embarrassing. Richt better find someone who can coach the D to beat florida and tennessee, or he can hit the road next year! I’m sick of losing to these teams every year and dealing with all their obnoxious fans!
santa cruz dawg
December 31st, 2009
7:00 am
Richt will hire the right man for the job, but I think like many others if it was Garner, it would already have happened. Insiders think it will be Smart or Todd Grantham, from the Dallas Cowboys.
Robert
December 31st, 2009
7:06 am
Considering the situation, think the GA defense did a good job against A&M’s offense. Also a lot of those yards came in the 4th quarter with the game well in hand. Garner should at least be in consideration for the position. Why is he the only defensive coach that wasn’t fired? He must have something besides being a good recruiter.
Steve
December 31st, 2009
7:11 am
I think all of these comments regarding coach Garner not being good enough is a bunch of crap. He knows deep down he will be considered nothing more than a recruiter and that’s a slap in the face to anyone with a desire to move up. What the h*** was Mike Bobo other than a position coach? He had no right being promoted to OC. What alot of people don’t understand is this: the man has has 19 years coaching experience counting his stops at Auburn, Tennessee, and Georgia. It’s evident the man knows what he’s doing. If it were me, I’d tell CMR and the UGA program where to go and leave. He has so much clout, he can call his own shot and go to any school he wants. If it were me, I would put in a call to Saban, learn from him for about three years, and I guarantee you won’t be hearing all of this “great recruiter” garbage. And before I leave remember this: Garner is the man in the eyes of those recruits. If he leaves, watch the talent leave Athens meanwhile, he’ll be hopefully in Tuscaloosa “recruiting” and learning from the best.
Lifelong Bulldog
December 31st, 2009
8:02 am
While Garner is an absolutely excellent recruiting coordinator and a very good position coach we do not know what kind of defensive coordinator he would be. Garner might be great!
But at this point Richt may not be willing to gamble. In that case we know that Chavis is an outstanding defensive coordinator and a very aggressive one. No doubt his attack style defense would thrill the Bulldog faithful. Chavis definitely has the experience and success.
My bet is that Richt is wanting Chavis and willing to spend some serious money to get him.