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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Matthews Dawg
August 31st, 2010
1:37 pm
1st
Matthews Dawg
August 31st, 2010
1:38 pm
How sweet it is to be 1st!! Just like the Dawgs in the SEC!
Matthews Dawg
August 31st, 2010
1:42 pm
I believe we picked a winner in McGarity!! He is someone Dawg Nation can be proud to have as a leader. Go Dawgs!!
Joey
August 31st, 2010
1:42 pm
First things first. Make Richt dimote Bobo back to QB coach and go to the NFL for a new OC!! UF will have competition then!
Some Sense
August 31st, 2010
1:46 pm
Some people should just learn to stay home.
“dimote”…Wow.
Paul H
August 31st, 2010
1:48 pm
Go Dawgs! 4 more days
A-She-She Blogger
August 31st, 2010
1:49 pm
Do you think Tech will sell out a game this year?
Dawgtards ruin this state
August 31st, 2010
1:53 pm
St. Richt should win more football games than players arrested. So i guess he needs 9 wins and counting.
Matthews Dawg
August 31st, 2010
1:53 pm
Where’s Russ the Temporary Mascot blogger? Those are some of the best blogs online! I laugh at them out loud every time!
gdawginkalamazoo
August 31st, 2010
1:56 pm
Great choice for AD! Now if he can devise a program to dock the coaches pay for each arrest, say $10,000 each, then that might cut down on the embarrassment we face almost everyday. Coaches CAN eliminate the arrest within their programs.
harold
August 31st, 2010
1:58 pm
WEAK——-UNLIKE FOLEY AND MAL MOORE!
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gdawginkalamazoo
August 31st, 2010
2:05 pm
That would be $10,000 per arrest. I can bet that if the coaches don’t straighten the kids out the coaches wives will.
Bob Didier Caught Here
August 31st, 2010
2:05 pm
I mentioned on a previous post that AD McGarity should HAVE B E E N the original choice over Damon Evans. One can only wonder what kind of shape our program and football team would be in HAD AD McGarity been the original and prudent choice.
One last thing…….while I do believe that CMR is NOT on the hot seat I cannot say the same for our OC!
JB
August 31st, 2010
2:13 pm
We lose to Florida the next two years, but go say 10-2 and a pretty good bowl ,Mark’s fine. Lose to Florida the next two years and go say 8-4 those years, we’ll have a new coach. I want Mark to succeed more than anyone, but that would be 4 years of mediocrity and something i just don’t think he could survive………….But, GATA and win 10 games….or 12 this year and make all that go away.
30-24 Dawgs - We Run This State!
August 31st, 2010
2:25 pm
Agree JB, 10, 10-2 or if a bad year 9-3 sounds about right – as long as one of those losses is not to tech, which won’t happen given CMR has a 8-1 record against the wreck.
VJacket
August 31st, 2010
2:25 pm
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Nesbitt for Heisman
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Sanford Drive
August 31st, 2010
2:31 pm
McGarity is without a doubt the right guy.
So many Florida fans (while not chugging their Natty-Light), will tell us that we had to go “steal a Gator” in order to turn the Dawgs around. But in reality, back in 1992, Florida had to “borrow a Dawg” in order to turn thier program around.
Welcome home Greg. While all eyes are, and will be on you, i hope you feel nothing but support from Dawg Nation. You deserve it!
DAWG FANS….. check out why UGA fans NEED to cheerfor Oregon State and VIrginia Tech!! http://dawgdayafternoon.blogspot.com/
Dawgpaw
August 31st, 2010
2:31 pm
Nesbitt won’t make through the early part of the season. Hate to say it but its going to be even tougher on the young man than last year. Sorry dude, but I think the Pitt running back will get it this year, with Florida St Qb a distant second.
"Da Real" Damon Evans
August 31st, 2010
2:34 pm
dis joker done lost his mind.
He gonna get his arse runnout of athens before the year is over. I’ll be ready at that time after I finish my stint in rehab.
Damn those co-eds in red paties are irresistable.
He stole my gig schultz dat joker stole my gig. I wants my job back.
Paul in RDU
August 31st, 2010
2:44 pm
Looks like UGA made a good hire for AD
Scott W.
August 31st, 2010
2:45 pm
Until the fire CMR got picked up by the national media it was nothing more than a rumor. In a few short weeks some of you whom I see posting on UGA blogs daily have changed your own personal tunes. Perhaps you need to think for yourselves.
Dylan
August 31st, 2010
2:46 pm
I love having Coach Richt leading our football team. He’s a good guy and is a consistent winner, but with the talent that he is getting, there is NO reason why CMR shouldn’t have a National Championship ring. He’s been close, very close (2002 and 2007). Georgia hasn’t one the SEC since 2005. Florida’s not going to get weaker, they’re just going to keep reloading. CMR is nowhere near the hot seat, now. But if this season is like last, he’s going to be feeling the heat. I think UGA fans are becoming too content with being good. We should be striving for great.
Gah can’t wait for Saturday in Athens!!! I’ve missed it so much!! Good luck Dawgs, and GATA!!!!
bart
August 31st, 2010
2:47 pm
As much as I like and respect Richt, he has to deliver. That’s why he gets the big bucks. If he doesn’t deliver this season with a competitive year, he will definitely be on the hot seat. Then if he doesn’t deliver next season, then I would say his job is in real danger.
Dawgs97
August 31st, 2010
2:48 pm
Great hire. Really happy that Adams picked the actual logical and most accomplished choice. Well done.
Greg McGarity is in his first press conference and he’s a professional. He’s not going to start hemming and hawing about a particular # of wins. He’s going to say the right things, as he should. No problem with that.
But we hired McGarity because he became accustomed to winning big at Florida and the one time they experienced mediocrity with Zook, he was canned pretty quickly. Though McGarity is not going to say it, there’s almost certainly the expectation that Georgia must win 10-11 games this year for Richt to quiet the talk. If the Dawgs go 8-5 again (even if beating Florida is among those 8 wins), Richt will be gone. I would bet the house on it. Georgia has 2 instananeous credible head coaches in waiting with Kirby Smart & Will Muschamp. If Richt has another “down” year, he’s toast.
Especially considering that Georgia in fact has a more veteran roster, a more “ready to win” roster in 2010 than Florida, Tennessee or South Carolina. (Carolina had the most veteran team but has had several players now suspended). Georgia has every opportunity to win the SEC East. The analysts are way, way overrating the Gators this season. Florida will be good, but not great. Georgia needs to have a big year and absolutely should target making it to Atlanta as a reasonable goal.
Dylan
August 31st, 2010
2:50 pm
And before anyone corrects me, yes I know I put “one” instead of “won.” My bad.
Jamie
August 31st, 2010
2:50 pm
Is it just me or does Greg McGarity a dead ringer for Beetle Bailey!!!
ryan
August 31st, 2010
2:56 pm
Hey harold stop coming on UGA blogs you never like anything your just afraid that this is going motivate CMR to coach his A$$ off I believe it was smart move by McGarity it shows toughness not weakness .
jokurone
August 31st, 2010
2:56 pm
more like Howdy Doody. pickin and grinnin’
HugoStiglitz
August 31st, 2010
2:58 pm
Its not unfair. How long will UGA fans accept having top 5 recruiting classes and 2nd-3rd place finishes in the SEC east? Wont getting 9-10 wins and nothing else get old after a while?
2Dawgs
August 31st, 2010
3:01 pm
“This conference is a meat grinder.” Hell, yeah. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
poopdawg
August 31st, 2010
3:05 pm
Harold , speaking about being weak. Here’s your sign.
Bail Bonds R Us
August 31st, 2010
3:09 pm
Supposedly McGarrity’s next meeting will be
with the Athens Police, with blunt “instructions”:
If you want to keep YOUR JOB, then no more player arests.
You dig?
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
August 31st, 2010
3:09 pm
This looks like a guy that wouldn’t think of even painting a pound hound’s a$$, much less THE mascot of UGA (Temporary, junior grade.) Matter of fact, he looks like somebody who’d offer a hard-working bulldog a permanent promotion to become UGA VIII. At least I—I mean, a hard-working bulldog—wouldn’t roll over and die on ‘em in the middle of a season.
But no, I see the paint can, and there’s the brush. They’ll wait till Friday night to slap about three coats on my butt. And then one of the handlers will prep to tell the sideline reporter how old and sick I am. It’s all so unfair.
gdawginkalamazoo
August 31st, 2010
3:11 pm
Hugo, I don’t know, I recall 6-7 win seasons, lousy bowls, about 19 year stretch where we didn’t even sniff a conference title. Recruiting classes that nobody even looked at twice. I will stick with Richt and his 10 year average win seasons (ho-hum), 2 titles, and top recruiting classes. There are a lot of coaches out there who had to wait on their titles. Richt is pretty damn good and I think a lot people are still reeling from the “best friend hire” as DC debacle.
Ball Boy.
August 31st, 2010
3:12 pm
McGarity seems nice but he’s not 100% Dawg. Yep, judging from those massive ears, I truly believe he’s got a good bit of elephant in him.
dawg fans=window licker's
August 31st, 2010
3:12 pm
Oh goodie! CMR will have his job a little while longer=2nd tier for a few more year’s!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Old Dawg
August 31st, 2010
3:13 pm
Joey, you just got demoted!
reservoirDAWG
August 31st, 2010
3:14 pm
You losers are going to talk about looks? Pathetic.
reservoirDAWG
August 31st, 2010
3:15 pm
Is dimote dimoan’s cousin?
GIVE ME A BREAK
August 31st, 2010
3:17 pm
Richt’s days are numbered. he can not deliver.
markie mark
August 31st, 2010
3:17 pm
Russ…try and bite a Lafayette player….it’ll show em you got the spirit….hang in there, puppy!
gdawginkalamazoo
August 31st, 2010
3:20 pm
And if there are play calling problems on the O side this year I would expect to see a change there after the season.
PTC DAWG
August 31st, 2010
3:20 pm
Nesbitt is a good, very good actually, QB for GT…not sure what Nesbitt for Heisman has to do with UGA’s new AD, but hey, maybe I can figure it out.
OMG
August 31st, 2010
3:26 pm
He is the AD which means little. If Richt fails to win 10 with this schedule and the inherent weakness that is the SEC East this year he should certainly be under some serious flaming heat. The AD usually backs the coach until the fan pressure gets to a certain boil. Look at Bowden and FSU…he was great friends with the AD and now Bowden hates him. Why? Because the AD was forced to fire the legend. McGarity is likewise a bobblehead that will do our bidding.
Dawgtards Ruin This State
August 31st, 2010
3:27 pm
I wonder if anyone on the team I cheer for will get a girlfriend by the end of this season. Probably not.
RxDawg
August 31st, 2010
3:33 pm
This title was misleading for me. I thought McGarity DID give Richt a total win mandate. That could of been….awkward.
private plane watching
August 31st, 2010
3:34 pm
Matthews Dawg — you are correct… GA is #1 in arrests this year in the SEC!
GADAWGGIRL
August 31st, 2010
3:35 pm
Hey Russ, we are rooting for you. I sure hope you are picked for the sidelines. We’ve grown to love you :0)
MitchFarted
August 31st, 2010
3:35 pm
The only people who think Richt is “on the hot seat” are the nerds over at GT and Paul Finebaum in Birmingham. Finebaum likes to stir up trouble for anyone that Alabama recruits against. He thinks he’s actually helping Alabama when he continually puts down Richt on his radio show. He’s a sad sad man.
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!
http://fliiby.com/file/900019/fg33627ft5.html
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.
Larry
August 31st, 2010
5:30 pm
JRHD,
Touché!
I can tell by his blog name he is classless and is anti Georgia. Funny thing, I attended neither but I respect the coaching of both Georgia and Georgia Tech football, and love SEC Football and ACC Basketball. Anyone that tries to make a juvenile argument that the SE isn’t the best football and ACC the best overall basketball conference is, in fact, stupid! Not that there’s not quality at the top of other conferences but top to bottom they’re the elite conferences in their respective sports.
Furman Bishop
August 31st, 2010
5:43 pm
McGarity said nothing, but who expected him to say anything? If Richt goes 9-4 this year and beats the hell out of another nobody team in a nothing bowl, it’s what McGarity says then that will count.
jerry
August 31st, 2010
6:07 pm
The success of a coach, as measured by the fans, is wins, not if he gave 100%, and not if he showed improvement, unless it was in wins. We want wins, period. If he doesn’t win, don’t let the door hit him in the …..
Nesbitt for Heisman
August 31st, 2010
6:30 pm
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Georgia Tech has a good chance of jumping from eleven
to fourteen wins this year.
MATHDAWG
August 31st, 2010
6:42 pm
THE MATURITY AND COMMON SENSE OF GREG MCGARITY IS COMING THROUGH! WE ARE SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE HIM AND IT IS SO SATISFYING TO KNOW THAT HE IS “ONE OF OUR OWN”. GREAT THINGS ARE IN STORE FOR UGA ATHLETICS!!!
Shaquandralishanickra
August 31st, 2010
6:47 pm
first!
Ed
August 31st, 2010
6:47 pm
I like McGarity already. I found this quote interesting: “Do you see people giving 100 percent effort every day?” It seems to me (and at least some of the Georgia fans that I talk to on a regular basis) that Richt has lost some fire in recent years. I’ve thought for some time that Richt might simply have burned out. He’s had high-profile, high-pressure coaching jobs for about 20 years now – more than a decade as an offensive coach at FSU and almost a decade as head coach at Georgia. He’s not much younger than Dooley was when he retired in his mid-fifties in ‘88.
Richt sure seems to have a hard time motivating his team in recent years, and has resorted to gimmicks that we didn’t see at all from ‘01-’05: bizarre endzone celebrations and uniform changes, including those I-AA monstrosities that were unveiled at last year’s WLOCP. I like Richt, but if he’s run out his string then hopefully McGarity is the right man to recognize that and make the tough call.
PaulieOldschool
August 31st, 2010
6:48 pm
Actually, I disagree with the new AD, even though I like the hire. I think it is completely reasonable to expect a certain number of wins from Coach Richt. Maybe not publicize it, but I think you’d have to be crazy not to expect a team that basically gets everything it wants to lose. I think most (rational) fans are good with teams that show the effort. There will be teams that are just flat better. But there shouldn’t be a ton of teams that are better than Georgia, otherwise it’s time to change coaches. You beat the people you’re supposed to beat, be competitive with the rest, and continue to recruit well. Otherwise, and maybe it is time, you change coaches.
Ed
August 31st, 2010
6:56 pm
Another good point that McGarity makes is about not having win mandates. For example, Georgia was only 8-4 in Richt’s first year but played everyone tough and showed a lot of heart. In ‘08, Georgia was 10-3, but underachieved with top-level pro talent in the offensive backfield. We were humiliated in the first half of the Alabama game that year and the second half rally only prevented the final score from being embarrassing. In the Florida game, UGA quit after things didn’t go their way early in the second half (down only 14-3). In the Tech game that year, UGA played hapless defense and blew a 16-point halftime lead. It was the worst 10-3 season I’ve ever seen because Georgia beat teams it should have beaten but layed down against teams that stood up to it and punched it in the mouth. I’d take a gutty 8-4 season over a gutless 10-3 season every time, and I think that’s what McGarity was getting at.
May Be on the Bandwagon
August 31st, 2010
7:00 pm
You know UGA is in trouble when we start worrying about the Arkansas and South Carolina’s of the world. The only team that should be a threat to this team is Florida. Folks we always get top 10 recruiting classes. We are like Texas, USC, Bama, Florida, Oklahoma, FSU, Miami and UGA. A very good coach should win against the others! Period!! Our talent and depth has few equals. So why is Richt the only coach to have a ranked team lose to Vandy? EVER!!! How in the world did we lose to UT and UK last year? How did we blow the game against Yech in Athens two years ago up by 16 and heading away? Something needs to change if we can’t win 10 or more with this schedule. Period.
Concur
August 31st, 2010
7:07 pm
May Be… we did not have a top 10 recruiting class last year but I understand what you mean. The lowering class rank may also be a signal that he has been passed by. When hired he was top notch in the SEC. But today’s top programs have upgraded and it seems the middle pack teams and even some of the lower tier teams like Vanderbilt have started threatening to win more against us than normal. That has to affect the psyche of our players and lower their confidence. They have lost the swagger except when partying apparently.
Beast from the East
August 31st, 2010
7:11 pm
I don’t think it’s appropriate to set a number of wins as the barometer for a program. Too many variables like injuries, suspensions, bad calls, etc. If McGarity sees that they have put themselves into contention for an SEC East title and they lose a close game on a bad call or due to some key injuries then you have to take those things into consideration. If you set a number out there then you have to hold true to your word, or be questioned for second-guessing yourself. He’s way too smart to put himself in a position like that. I’m sure each coach will soon know what is expected of them. Those things are better dealt with behind closed doors…..not in a press conference.
Duck a Fawg
August 31st, 2010
7:40 pm
Larry….really? you don’t know how many conference games each SEC team plays? 6-7…I think that’s what you said….come on “know-it-all”….try 8…and 5150 knows what he’s talking about
5150 P.O.A.D.
August 31st, 2010
7:54 pm
MAY BE you have to look no further than Bobo for your problems now. Not a single team needing a head coach has even looked at Bobo and no Higher profile teams have looked at Richt. When Richt gets canned by UGA no team will hire him either. Richt and Bobo have done so little with so much talent. Why didn’t UT call to ask about Bobo before going to Dooley?
are you kidding me?
August 31st, 2010
7:55 pm
http://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/sports/sec-football-0831/
So 30% of Dawg fans think Ga will go undefeated this year!!! Could you guys possibly be more insane? When it comes to talking trash- you guys are just too too easy!!!
Nesbutt4Hyman
August 31st, 2010
8:07 pm
The only thing Nesbutt will win is the Hyman award for the fattest lips!!
black sheep
August 31st, 2010
8:09 pm
Nesbutt4Hyman What a classy guy you are. Pretty pathetic pal.
Long Offseason
August 31st, 2010
8:10 pm
117th!!!
Nesbutt4Hyman
August 31st, 2010
8:12 pm
@ black sheep
thanks for the compliment. now back to the tech board!
FLA DAWG
August 31st, 2010
8:15 pm
Of course he won’t say 10 or 11 wins – because he knows we can’t do it this season!
Paul Has A Small Johnson
August 31st, 2010
8:21 pm
If Mcgarity can teach Richt how to beat FL consitently
I will shut up
Football U
August 31st, 2010
8:36 pm
At GA, football runs the school. McGarity will be richt’s gofer.
black sheep
August 31st, 2010
8:55 pm
Nesbutt4Hyman You wouldn’t recognize a compliment if it bit you in the butt
Same with class-
Nesbutt4Hyman
August 31st, 2010
8:57 pm
@ black sheep
you’ve made 2 posts and its obvious that I’ve crapped more compliments and class than you will ever have!
Now shut your pie hole!!
AltamahaDawg
August 31st, 2010
9:02 pm
Ed that 10-3 was from the most beat up team in the nation too. I would say the most beat up team in the history of college football to win 10 games unless you can think of another. Interesting angle though that present a 10 game season as not as good as it seems. Others are at the other end of the spectrum and thought it was absolutely horrible to “merely” win 10 games. I would say a disappointing 10 game season, certainly some games, but better than it shoulda/coulda been, and a good job to get it to that. In the middle I suppose. As you point out all in the perspective.
FLA DAWG
August 31st, 2010
9:06 pm
Alta,
What………!?
AltamahaDawg
August 31st, 2010
9:06 pm
are you kidding me, since you are just going to repost that on every blog that comes out, I’ll ask again. Is that Dawg fans or respondents? Can we conclude that 90% of tech fans are childish and obsessed based on the respondent in our blogs everyday too?
AltamahaDawg
August 31st, 2010
9:07 pm
which what? FD
George
August 31st, 2010
9:20 pm
Another “Richt on the hot seat” article. Good work schultz. Maybe you can squeeze one or two more in before the season starts.
Maybe you should be on the hot seat. Seems you lack originality.
AltamahaDawg
August 31st, 2010
9:23 pm
Enter your comments here
Beat Florida or Beat It!
August 31st, 2010
9:37 pm
If Richt doesn’t beat florida in the next 2 years when they are way down, he better pack it up and head back to florida state for an assistant’s job. UGA fans are sick of losing to the obnoxious florida gators and their redneck fans.
ryan
August 31st, 2010
9:39 pm
The haters just don’t like the fact that McGarity is going to clean the program they want the lighting rod Evans back.
5150 P.O.A.D.
August 31st, 2010
9:44 pm
Beat Florida or Beat It What SEC team besides Vandy doesn’t have a bunch obnoxious redneck fans?
ryan
August 31st, 2010
10:06 pm
Its not a lock that Nesbitt is going to win the Heisman he lost a lot of his weapons Dwyer and Thomas Miami and VT are dangerous teams for Nesbitt so don’t count your chickens before they hatch Techies who come on UGA blogs .
college football
August 31st, 2010
11:04 pm
THe techies live in their stupid world with this nesbitt for heisman crap. He has two chances, slim and none and slim left town. There are 7 quarterbacks in the SEC alone that more deserving. These idiots pushing that crap know nothing about what a real quarterback is.
Mobile Dawg
August 31st, 2010
11:14 pm
Good post Ed, show up and give 100%. Nobody in this country should run the Dawgs off the field, UF, UA, UT, nobody. Anyone can have a bad day ocassionally, the Dawgs have made a habit out of it the last 4 years. I like MaGarity, hopefully he will rejuvinate Richt. Seems like he has that demeanor.
Mobile Dawg
August 31st, 2010
11:20 pm
Give Tech their due. They are the ACC champions. I wish Mr. Nesbitt the best. Let’s put their best against our best, and kick their best’s, well you know what. That’s what college football’s all about. To me “good old fashioned hate” is only about “ONE” game. My Brother was/is a Yellow Jacket, my Grandparents were Yellow Jackets. Damn, my wife is a “War Eagle”, her folks “Crimson Tide”. Gotta love the South and some CF on Saturdays…..
5150 P.O.A.D.
September 1st, 2010
12:53 am
College Football and how many UGA QBs have won the Heisman? O. Name 7 SEC QBs that are more deserving. The Last SEC QB to win the the Heisman? Florida’s Tebow in 07. The SEC QB to win before that? Florida’s Wuerffel in 96. Please don’t tell me about SEC QBs. The last Option QB to win the Heisman? Nebraska’s Crouch in 01.
12-2
September 1st, 2010
3:08 am
2 days on the job : 2 statements from our new A.D.
“We want to compete for championships,” Greg McGarity 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.”
The last time we even went to The SEC Championship Game was 2005. This is 2010.
He is as accountable for this as he is accountable for having a 10-10 Record vs SEC East the last 4 years, and having never beat a Top 10 Final AP Poll team in ANY bowl game EVER.
Greg McGarity said: “I’m going to learn about our structure, what we have set up as far as education of student-athletes. I want to learn exactly, why is this happening? Yeah, I think there are too many arrests. I think when it happens, it’s embarrassing to the institution [and] it takes away from team unity. . . . I think it’s a problem, and I don’t like the excuse, ‘Well, that’s going to happen [with] college students; it’s just part of the deal.’ I don’t buy that.”
All-time scoreboard for the Fulmer Cup :
All-Time Fulmer Cup Standings starting 2006 :
# 1 Illinois Fighting Illini 51 points 1 Fulmer Cup 2007
# 2 Georgia Bulldogs 48 points 1 Fulmer Cup 2010
# 2 Florida Gators 48 points
# 4 Penn State Nittany Lions 42 points
# 5 Arkansas Razorbacks 38 points
# 5 Missouri Tigers 38 points
# 7 Alabama Crimson Tide 37 points 1 Fulmer Cup 2008
# 8 Iowa Hawkeyes 36 points
# 8 Tennessee Volunteers 36 points
#10 Marshall Thundering Herd 35 points 1 Fulmer Cup 2006
#11 Nebraska Cornhuskers 33 points
#12 Florida State Seminoles 32 points
12-2
September 1st, 2010
3:26 am
Good try by the way, to try to get the New A.D. to say that 10-win seasons in 14-game seasons nowadays, is sufficient. 10-win seasons in 14-game seasons nowadays is 10-3, meaning we missed The SEC Championship Game for the 5th year in a row, were that instead to be the Goal for 2010 with 15 seniors and 4-5 juniors leaving after 2010. Next season, 2011, yes 10-3 would be a realistic goal with that schedule – not this season, not with THIS weak schedule. This is the 10th Season for this Regime. Goals have to PICK UP AROUND HERE on the field and off the field. You cannot say that we were trying against Kentucky last year, not looking at the Georgia tek game. The vols game either. The year before, 2008, we played 3 good teams and had we started out # 13 where we ended in the Final AP Poll 2008, we would have dropped 13 places to NOT BE RANKED in 2008, giving up Consecutive Points against us in all 3 of those games of 29 Consecutive Points, 31 to nothing and 42 Consecutive Points against us in those 3 games : That was WITH Knowshon Moreno, AJ Green and Matthew Stafford. Don’t give me that B.S. that we gave our best efforts in ANY of those 3 games 2008. 2007, we were out of it in our own Division for the season really even got started with our POOR EFFORT vs South Carolina a 6-6 teams who DID NOT EVEN GO TO A BOWL GAME and against the vols AGAIN who beat us 35-14. 2007 this made then 6 Consecutive SEC East teams we LOST TO. 2006, there is likewise no way you can say we gave our best effort against Colorado a sorry football team that year, the vols another sorry team we played 2006 who slaughtered us at home, a sorry Kentucky team who beat us and we gave it our all tried as best we could, and Vandie an Intramural team who won 4 games all of 2006 and that INCLUDES their win over us at Our House.
If we don’t go 12-2 this season and instead ratchet-down expectations because Aaron Murray is not the phenom Coach Richt has been telling us up until now that he is and settle for 10-3 again being ALSO National Champions in the Fulmer Cup for Most Arrests including 2 little coeds, abused by 2 different Top 10 at their position recruits both signed by Mike Bobo and Coach Richt (along with Christian LeMay as well), then they were RIGHT.
AD Greg McGarity is NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH IT.
Blue Dahlia
September 1st, 2010
6:52 am
Coaches CAN eliminate the arrests within their programs.
Yes they can, but they have to want to stop them, and they have to stop recruiting thugs.
Mark Richt doesn’t care, and that’s why McGarity must fire Richt.
Spirit of Saint Jan
September 1st, 2010
6:56 am
Attention, everyone, especially dawgtards. We will now observe a moment of silence in memory of Saint Jan Kemp, who exposed the shameful practices at UGA that were initiated and carried out by slimeball Vince Dooley. Dooley’s image as a coach and a nice guy were forever shattered during the trial, not to mention the one million dollars that dawgtards had to pay Saint Jan. These practices of recruiting morons and coddling them for four years, them tossing them out like garbage, are still going on, but at least the world knows what’s going on now.
And now, the moment of silence…
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Thank you, you may resume your normal activities now.
dagnabit
September 1st, 2010
6:59 am
JRHD: There’s a reason it never works. There I go using a word the intolerant neocons never understand!
AltamahaDawg
September 1st, 2010
7:18 am
…..as I recall you were pretty in Love with one on those little co-ed abusers, even wanted him to be named starter despite knowing what he had done. Until he got dismissed and then you changed your tune for the third time. (because as we all know you called him a complete waste of a scholarship just prior to calling him an NFL talent)
Or was that the BoWeevil talking?
James T. Kirk
September 1st, 2010
8:22 am
The mutts AD is scared because he knows they will be lucky to win 3 contests this year. While our AD has said it’s world championship or bust. Imagine that
Andy in WR
September 1st, 2010
8:23 am
so 5150 p.o.A.D. you are saying an 8 win season is pretty good in the SEC. Idiots, the SEC is a grind because of the talent each team brings to the table. Even Vandy is capable of beating anyone if you let up while playing them. never a rest-no gimmes. Yes, UGA should beat all of them but I’d rather play Tech and the Almost Competitive Conference on a weekly basis than the SEC. The SEC teams wear you down! That’s the difference–honestly hardly any of you even played the game it seems!
Andy in WR
September 1st, 2010
8:34 am
All of you crying that we havn’t been to the SECCG since 2005–before Richt what was our last SECC–1983! I will take Richt anyday as I definately remember what it used to be like. You johnny-come-latelys are as bad as the gator idiots that believe FL football began in 1990.
Andy in WR
September 1st, 2010
8:35 am
I’m glad I check my BP before reading these blogs.
mcdaviddawg
September 1st, 2010
11:54 am
He spook to the root of the problem, we 100%. In Richt we have a 3 mil part time coach. It doesn’t work in the SEC. Maybe with new department leadership, all these games we have not been prepared for will stop. The problem goes all the way back to 2003 when we lost a hopeful run for title on the fields at LSU. Little did I know that this would be a tradmark of CMR.
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