McGarity: It’s ‘unfair’ to give coach specific win mandate
New Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity says he won't tell Mark Richt he has to win "10 or 11" games.
New Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity is coming from a school (Florida) that won two BCS titles (2006, 2008) and two Final Fours (2006, 2007) in a span of three years. So the man is accustomed to success.
Amid media speculation that Mark Richt is feeling some heat for the Bulldogs’ disappointments of the last two seasons in the SEC, it seemed logical to ask him what his own expectations were of Georgia’s season. Without putting a number on it, McGarity said more than I expected. His expectations are high.
“We want to compete for championships,” he said. “There could be circumstances that lead you to not be in the hunt a certain year. But you want every sport at the university if Georgia to be in the conversation. In swimming, I think it’s safe to say Georgia’s in the hunt. You talk about tennis, softball, Georgia’s in the hunt. Football, I think Geogia’s in the hunt,. Some sports, Georgia’s on the way up.”
McGarity wasn’t asked directly about Richt, but he clearly then veered in that direction with this comment: “I think it would be unfair to coaches to tell them, ‘You’ve got to win 10 games, 11 games,’ or whatever that number is. It’s how people go about their work. Do you see improvements made? Do you see people giving 100 percent effort every day? Those are things I would look at more than number of wins. This conference is a meat grinder. There are so many great teams. I don’t know how many teams went to Birmingham [for SEC media days] feeling they can win the SEC championship. Nine schools, maybe? It’ll be interesting to watch.”
McGarity also had an interesting answer when asked about how, as the new athletic director, he feels the impact of the DUI arrest by former AD Damon Evans.
“It’s a huge responsibility — probably a life changing responsibility,” he said. “Regardless of what happened in the past, now with the advent of cellphone cameras and things of that nature, your life totally changes. I’ve been in sort of the shadows for 18 years. I could go into restaurants and nobody would know me. You didn’t know about some of the public things. Things have gotten out of hand. It’s a different set of eyes, and I knew that coming in. There’s no surprises there. You have to deal with it the best you can. We’re not all perfect. In the situation we’re in, you just have to do the best you can do in the way you conduct yourself.”
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Mobile Dawg
August 31st, 2010
3:39 pm
There shouldn’t be any win mandates. All I ask is that the Dawgs show up prepared to play and then play their a$$ off. Not like against UT, UA, UF, UK, Vandy, etc. the last few years. That said and done and we will be fine. If the players aren’t motivated, there’s a serious problem, CMR will be gone.
I believe CMR will coach one of his better seasons this year. Also I wouldn’t be so critical of Bobo’s play calling this year. He will be on the sidelines right beside guess who….My bet is CMR will take back some of the play calling this year.
shane#1
August 31st, 2010
3:41 pm
So, we fans have another moron that won’t fire a coach that doesn’t win a BCSMNC every year. Time to fire Bobo, Richt and McGarrity! Time for them all to go! UGA football is too important to leave up to the coaches. We fans rule.
MMA is stupid
August 31st, 2010
3:47 pm
He has to beat FL…Period
MCGARRITY GET RID OF RICHT,HE CANT BEAT FLORIDA
August 31st, 2010
3:48 pm
FIRE RICHT AFTER THIS SEASON MCGARRITY,AND THE ANNOUNCER IN ALABAMA IS RIGHT ABOUT RICHT,YOU SUPER STUPID BLIND RICHT FANS DONT SEE THAT HE RICHT CANT WIN THE BIG GAMES!
P.S.FIRE RICHT AFTER THIS SEASON,MAYBE HE CAN GO TAKE UP DIVING?
I POONTED
August 31st, 2010
3:50 pm
NESBITT FOR HURT ANKLES
MCGARRITY GET RID OF RICHT,HE CANT BEAT FLORIDA
August 31st, 2010
3:53 pm
NOW I SEE WHY ALABAMA AND FLORIDA WIN NATIONAL TITLES,THEIR FANS WOULD’NT PUT UP WITH MARK RICHT NOT WINNING A NATIONAL TITLE IN 10 YEARS.
ITS BEEN 10 YEARS HICKS,NICK SABAN HAS 2 TITLES AND URBAN MEYER HAS 2
MARK RICHT HAS NONE! WAKE UP PEOPLE,THE CHRISTIAN PREACHER HAS TO GO!
gdawginkalamazoo
August 31st, 2010
3:53 pm
Yeah we need to beat Florida. I bet that McGarity and Foley have a huge bet on the game. Foley has to wear red panties for a week if they lose and McGarity will have to wear orange ones.
Ball Boy.
August 31st, 2010
3:55 pm
Maybe we are super stupid but I bet we can spell the new A.D.’s name right!
MCGARRITY GET RID OF RICHT,HE CANT BEAT FLORIDA
August 31st, 2010
3:55 pm
THIS IS RICHT LAST YEAR,AND YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK!
MCGARITY GET RID OF RICHT,HE CANT BEAT FLORIDA
August 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
MUTT FANS ITS TIME TO FIRE RICHT NOW! IM FROM GEORGIA AND IM TIRED OF GETTING BEAT DOWN BY ALABAMA AND FLORIDA,PLUS WE HAVE BETTER FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN GEORGIA!
P.S. FIRE MARK RICHT!
Unfair?
August 31st, 2010
4:00 pm
10 or 11 wins should be expected.
Beating Trek 8 of 9 times and 60 to 39 times doesn’t seem fair either, but it’s expected every year like Trekkies expect their free hotdog and coke when they get to their seat at the joke.
MitchFarted
August 31st, 2010
4:00 pm
“THIS IS RICHT LAST YEAR,AND YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK!”
Richt could win 7 games this year and would still not be in danger of losing his job. You don’t fire a guy who averages 10 wins a year over almost a decade. And here’s another news flash for the Alabama retards: If you played Florida every year, you wouldn’t win all of them either.
MitchFarted
August 31st, 2010
4:02 pm
“MUTT FANS ITS TIME TO FIRE RICHT NOW! IM FROM GEORGIA AND IM TIRED OF GETTING BEAT DOWN BY ALABAMA”
Tired of getting beat down by Alabama? Georgia has won 3 of the last 4 against Alabama. Get your facts straight.
Nesbitt for Heisman Supporters
August 31st, 2010
4:03 pm
Thanks for the laugh.
Nesbitt for Heisman Supporters
August 31st, 2010
4:04 pm
If it were up to me, he’d be at Trek forever.
30-24
8 of 9
60-39-5
Nesbitt for Heisman Supporters
August 31st, 2010
4:05 pm
Good One
BBBUUUHHHHUUUWWWAAAHHHHAAA
MitchFarted
August 31st, 2010
4:06 pm
Until the 2009 season, the last time Alabama beat Georgia was when Mike Bobo was our quarterback. Think about that all you Bama retards….
Mobile Dawg
August 31st, 2010
4:07 pm
I’m sure a lot of people thought Fulmer couldn’t be fired either. People got fed up with mediocrity, lack of discipline, and lack of preparation. UT just made a poor choice on Kiffin as his replacement. CMR can, and hopefully will, quiet the growing frustration some loyal fans have been feeling by doing what he’s paid very well to do. I think the addition of McGarity is going to have a positive impact on CMR.
Dork # 1 "This is all so crazy!"
August 31st, 2010
4:07 pm
Dork #2 “I hear the meal plan’s amazing!”
http://www.urlesque.com/2010/08/06/party-in-the-uga-orientation-vid-captures-the-essence-of-awkwa/
John P.
August 31st, 2010
4:08 pm
Nesbitt for the Heisman? Man, that’s gotta be the most LSD-laced Kool-Ade I’ve ever heard of anyone drinking! Perhaps your brains have rotted.@M
@MitchFarted: Amen, brother! The Crimson Slide would have one hellova time winning all their games if they had the GAY-tors to play every year.
MCGARITY GET RID OF RICHT,HE CANT BEAT FLORIDA
August 31st, 2010
4:12 pm
You are right, Mitch. Alabama has only beaten Georgia 1 time in the last 4. Thats pretty shocking, but true.
No Sell Outs
August 31st, 2010
4:12 pm
Mark this down—tech will not sell out 1 game this season and UGA will sell out 100% of their games. A big difference between the elite and the minor league! Dawgs rule the state!
Dork # 1 "This is all so crazy!"
August 31st, 2010
4:16 pm
The biggest group of dorks alive! DO a google on this and look how many websites picked it up mocking them. Hysterical! Way to go uga! Of course the youtube isn’t working but this one does! DORKS!!!
http://fliiby.com/file/900019/fg33627ft5.html
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August 31st, 2010
4:19 pm
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ryan
August 31st, 2010
4:19 pm
Locker from Washington or Luck from Stanford will win the Heisman oh don’t forget Devine WV .
Fire Dawg
August 31st, 2010
4:20 pm
For better or worse, Richt ain’t goin’ no where!
GT Sambo
August 31st, 2010
4:21 pm
So here’s a fun but also serious question. Is CMR too nice? I’ve never heard anyone call Saban nice. I’ve never heard anyone call Meyer nice. I’ve never even heard anyone call Les Miles nice. Certainly no one is even calling Spurrier nice. Chizek doesn’t seem like a warm and fuzzy nice guy either. I’ll be the first to admit that CMR could probably get away with being such a nice guy, good Christian man, and a solid football coach in the ACC. But does he have what it takes in the SEC?
Bamers are IDIOTS
August 31st, 2010
4:22 pm
We can’t win ever game, BUT we can sell out every game!!!
What a miserable thing to be proud of…
THUGA, WE HIT AND RUN THIS STATE
Ryan
August 31st, 2010
4:22 pm
We already have 2 games close to sold out moron.
And when you have a fan base that’s 5 x bigger and a stadium that’s only twice as big, well the math isn’t that hard. But I forgot we’re dealing with idiots that don’t understand common logic.
NC Dawg
August 31st, 2010
4:23 pm
CMR is NOT getting fired this year! You all can scream all you want. I believe this is from all the UGA haters out there. Now, I know some will get on here and say “I love UGA football and we need new leadership”, whatever!! CMR leads and he is a great coach and man! Frank Beamer has won a NC ever! Should VT fire him? Heck no! They have the same expectations as we Dawg fans have. CMR is the man for the job and nothing ANY OF US say on here will influence McGarity. If it does, then he IS NOT the man to lead UGA athletics! UGA haters quit thinking you are controlling the mind of the AD. Just like you all think you control the minds of 17 and 18 year olds who are looking to go play ball at UGA or elsewhere. Go Dawgs, we needs some football!!
loyal
August 31st, 2010
4:25 pm
These four predictions will all come true:
1.UGA will win the NC
2.UGA will be undefeated
3.Caleb King will win the Heisman
4. Hell will freeze over
2014 SAY YAY!!
August 31st, 2010
4:28 pm
DORKS DORKS DORKS! BE PROUD DORKS!
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Einsteindawg
August 31st, 2010
4:33 pm
It’s amusing to see all the suggestions on this board for CMR. If he was truly major-league, head coach material, wouldn’t he already know this? If not, why is he still at UGA?
Einsteindawg
August 31st, 2010
4:35 pm
BTW, McGarity was the man I use to speak with concerning my parking permit for Ga home gsmes.
Ray Barone
August 31st, 2010
4:36 pm
My wife Debra, bother Robert, and my dad, Frank all are Bulldawg fans. My mother, bless her heart, Marie, is a Tech booster. It fits…………..doesn’t it.
5150 P.O.A.D.
August 31st, 2010
4:43 pm
UGA where headcoachesgo to die. When NFL or other high profile college jobs come available you never hear Coach Richt or Bobo never get mentioned. Who is the last UGA Head coach that got another headcoaching job after leaving UGA? I know that answer, but I don’t know who the last UGA OC was to get another job after UGA. Please Dawg Fans riddle me that.
Duck a Fawg
August 31st, 2010
4:54 pm
SEC a meat grinder? really? Let’s take a look because I’ve heard that so much I’ve vene begun to take it at face value…
East – Vandy …seriously? Kentucky…maybe 4 wins. The Joker is on them…South Carolina…pedestrian with usual pre-season “oh my it’s soooo tough to win in Columbia”…please spare me…Tennessee…the only wish for the Fulmer days…maybe 5 wins….Florida…legitimate top 10 I’ll give you that…UGA….good team but not top 10
WEST – Missy St…they can only hope that cowbells help…Ole Miss…average team….6-7 wins…Arkansas….they cant win consistently having to score 48 every week….LSU…trending downward…not what they used to be maybe 8 wins….Auburn…not buying the hype even with the FL re-tread QB…Bama…legitimate top 5….please show me the meat grinder…and dont start quoting conference vs. conference stuff from the past…the quote was that playing “within” the SEC is a meat grinder….
Dawg Tired
August 31st, 2010
4:55 pm
Richt better win at least 10 games and beat florida when they are down this year. I’m getting sick of this mediocrity and florida blowouts! If not, he can hit the road.
Bud
August 31st, 2010
4:59 pm
Nor would it be fair to hold McGarity respoinsible for the number of arrests during his 1st year as AD.
Larry
August 31st, 2010
5:02 pm
“In the situation we’re in, you just have to do the best you can do in the way you conduct yourself.”
Not easy but pretty simple, actually. Just behave.
UGA VIII
August 31st, 2010
5:04 pm
Russ quit griping or Sonny’s gonna stencil T E M P in big red letters on top of the white paint.
Larry
August 31st, 2010
5:05 pm
Duck a Fawg,
You are stupid!
The reasons many of their records are mediocre, stupid, is that they play each other 6-7 times per season! This means, stupid, that 6-7 will win and the same 6-7 will lose!
Whew!
Duck a Fawg
August 31st, 2010
5:08 pm
Larry – you must have majored in in math….i believe it’s mathematically impossible for teams to play “each other” 6-7 times a year….STUPID!…and going further…using your logic all teams would finish at or around .500….STUPID….WHEW
JRHD
August 31st, 2010
5:10 pm
@ Ryan – 4:22pm Two games “CLOSE” to being sold out…REALLY?!?! Wow, you bugs must be super excited about that one! Did you slow down the super collider to post that? And who says our fan base is “5 times” as big? We both pull from the exact same geographical base…Georgia, USA, planet Earth. Although you guys do own India, Pakistan and Iran. The way statistical modeling works (shouldn’t have to explain this to a Techie, but oh well) just because the person/subject is represented in our ‘pool’ doesn’t preclude them from being available to your ‘pool’. The ‘fan base’ as you termed it is all college football fans who show a preference for a certain school. Therefore, UGA v. GT would not be the proper way to couch that argument. You would have to include all ACC schools, all technical/trade schools, all in-state rivalry schools, and all in-town schools (Ga State will own you soon). That would begin to give a more accurate depiction of the fan-base based argument, but what it boils down to is…you = EPIC FAIL on the logic argument.
Larry
August 31st, 2010
5:10 pm
GT Sambo,
A guy by the name of John Wooten of UCLA was considered “nice” and I think he won a few championships–ten in a row! Tony Dungy is “nice” and he won a Super Bowl. Bobby Bowden was “nice” and he won two NCAA Championships and could have easily won two more with a decent kicker. Joe Torre is “nice” and he won four World Series. Even Phil Jackson is considered “nice” and he’s won, what, 10 NBA titles?
Try again!
Duck a Fawg
August 31st, 2010
5:11 pm
seriously…yuo’re going to defend Vandy, UK…Miss St…Ole Miss…??? just by the fact they play each other doesn’t prove the level of competition…if that’s the case…ANY conference can use the same logic
Larry
August 31st, 2010
5:14 pm
Duck a Fawg,
You’re so stupid you can’t grasp how stupid you are! SEC teams play other SEC Teams 6-7 times a season and in those 6-7 games for each team, stupid, one team wins and one team loses.
Let me guess… you are a proud alumnus of the Atlanta Public Schools System, right?
Awesome Dawg!!
August 31st, 2010
5:16 pm
Aaron Murray Highlight’s!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BEW6PHMXWk&feature=related
5150 P.O.A.D.
August 31st, 2010
5:19 pm
The SEC is a real meat grinder if you are Miss St, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Kentucky or Vandy. It is a pretty easy 7-8 win season for the other teams. It is not hard for an SEC team to beat the 3 cupcakes and 5 of their 8 games against the other SEC teams.
JRHD
August 31st, 2010
5:19 pm
Hey Larry, you can’t argue logic w/ stupidity…it’s like trying to argue w/ a liberal. They use emotion and you use facts. It never works.