McGarity still calm amid storm, expresses confidence in Richt
Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity is not oblivious to the storm around him but he remains confident in coach Mark Richt.
ATHENS – Stationed in his first fire storm since becoming athletic director, Greg McGarity last Saturday chose to go in a different direction than some of the angry, torch-carrying villagers in Athens who believe the best course of action following SEC losses is to open more “Fire [Coach]” Facebook pages.
McGarity waited for Georgia coach Mark Richt to address his team after the home loss to Arkansas, waited until Richt released most of the players from a holding room under the stands at Sanford Stadium and then walked in.
“I don’t generally go into the locker room because I don’t feel I really belong in there,” he said. “What I did do was go in there after the game, but before the media came in, just to see Mark and the 12 or 14 players who were still there waiting for interviews. I just said, ‘Mark, let’s get ready to go next week. Call me if you need anything.’ I just felt he needed to know I was there to support him.”
Let’s start with the elephant in the room: McGarity said he has confidence in Richt and the direction of the football program. He responded, “Absolutely,” when asked.
But he also was wary of even going down that road.
“I know how the spin goes on these things,” he said. “I’ve seen how things are written and what’s said. People think, ‘Oh, he gave him a vote of confidence. You know what that means.’ But it’s not like that. I just want people to know that we’re working hard and we’re driven to get better every day.”
The Bulldogs are 0-2 in the SEC for the first time in 17 years. The coach in charge then (Ray Goff) is associated with a low point in Bulldogs’ history. That isn’t the case with Richt. He won two SEC championships in his first five years at a school that hadn’t won one in 20.
But national championships at Alabama, Florida and LSU have changed the landscape. The Dogs leveled off. South Carolina, Arkansas and Auburn are on the rebound.
The good news: Mark Richt's Bulldogs could be favored in their next five games.
Barbarians are at the gate.
There are Facebook pages to fire Richt and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo. There’s a “Fire Mark Richt” website. Juvenile or not, it’s the reality of life in the SEC. McGarity knows that, but he’s not walking around campus, swinging an ax.
“You can’t make a snap judgment on things, especially sitting in my chair right now,” he said. “I haven’t even been here a month.
“We’ve played one-fourth of the season. In athletics, people can turn things around in a hurry when they believe in themselves and they believe in their leadership. I think if our team had not fought back in the fourth quarter [against Arkansas], we would have some concerns, but that’s not what we saw.”
The Dogs conceivably could win their next five games, beginning Saturday night at Mississippi State, before heading to Jacksonville. But losses to South Carolina and Arkansas — following the summer’s arrests, last year’s 4-4 SEC record and the 2008 slide down from a preseason No. 1 ranking – appears to have split the fan base on Richt.
McGarity spoke at a quarterback club meeting Monday morning in Athens. Reading the audience wasn’t difficult.
“It would’ve been very easy to show up there if we were 3-0 and ranked,” he said. “I knew some people in that group were upset. I’m sure everybody is disappointed. But at the same time, I have to do everything in my power to support the team and show leadership. People look to leaders at times like this, just like players look to coaches.”
Asked if there were any harsh remarks at the breakfast, McGarity laughed and said: “No, but I don’t know what happened after I left.”
It’s probably for the best.
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UGAKev
September 21st, 2010
10:04 am
Bulldawg nation I understand the anxiety I have it too but we lost to two good football teams this year I believe that were both more mature than we were in key areas..Dont let the early losses fool you because it does look uglier when you lose early in the season especially two conference games but with that being said I believe we are going to finish 10-2 and win the SEC east…South carolina with their conference schedule is going to finish 5-3 in the conference. Florida will lose to alabama and us and we will get the tie breaker at 6-2 in the conference. Our team has been battle tested against two strong teams early in the season and this only will make things alot easier on us as the season goes by..Arkansas is going to scare Alabama next week folks mark that down. Their offense is going to make fans of many teams question their defensive coordinators..lol. I cant wait for Todd grantham to get his players into the system we will have faster linebackers with closing speed that will stop the little underneath routes to running backs like you saw arkansas do to us. And we will have a taller and more physical secondary, not willie martinez’s secondary. Just give it a year or two on defense. Offensively I have been wanting bobo to go for a long time but if our offensive line would man up it would help things out tremendously and our running backs have NO VISION that worries me so we must get isiah crowell at Georgia next year that can make plays even when the offensive line is not at their best. If you thought murray looked good so far wait until kris durham and aj green are on the field at the same time. I will close by saying firing coach richt this season would be a disaster unless he only won like 4 or 5 games because we need this deep recruiting class bad in Georgia this year! Also for those that say we need to hire kirby smart I am sorry but would be a terrible hire he has proven absolutly nothing to me that would make me believe he is a good head coach. At alabama nick saban is the defensive coordinator not kirby smart I can assure you that. That would be another ray goff in the making! Lets rally Dawg nation behind this team there is a lot of football to be played ….GO DAWGS!!!
WonderDawg
September 21st, 2010
10:07 am
“I don’t know what to make of this team right now. I’m trying to be optimistic, but the bottom line is starting 0-2 in SEC play scares the hell out of me. Am I alone here?”
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Scares me too, especially with the fact that, favored or not UGA is no longer a sure bet to beat Miss State, KY, UT, AU, and Tech. In fact, those games are absolutely a 50/50 proposition. Then, there’s UF.
I am certain the D will improve every game with Grantham. Because, we know the O is what it is. Outdated and predictable.
McGarity has seen excellence close up and personel. He will make Richt get a new OC.
SeminoleWarrior
September 21st, 2010
10:07 am
Slow Your Roll, great point. Richt is a fine coach. His arrival at UGA ripped the heart out of my Noles and we are still trying to fully recover. Georgia is on the cusp of something very special. You are recruiting very well, Richt is well respected across the nation as a MAN and a COACH. The future is bright. But your patience is running thin?
Be careful of what you are wishing for Dawg nation. The pickings out there are pretty slim.
SimpleDawg
September 21st, 2010
10:07 am
There are 4, 5, 6 plays in almost every game that could determine who wins and who loses……
The Dawgs have been within that 4 – 6 play window in both losses. We didn’t make a play and the other team did. That doesn’t mean that the sky is falling….it just means we lost 2 winnable games.
History shows that winning 80% of our games is a good year for Georgia. Most of our players are from Georgia. We are truly rooting for Georgia football and with mostly Georgia-grown players.
Do I wish we had won these past 2 games? Absolutely. Do I think we should have won both of these past 2 games? Absolutely.
But we didn’t. So…..we just get ready for the next game and plan and prepare to win that game and the next game………and every other game we play.
“After all, tomorrow is another day.”
JB
September 21st, 2010
10:08 am
He deserves to let it play out. It could go either way. UGA athletics is a lot like a business ( it is really)
When the money quits coming. When lot’s of folks don’t renew tickets. That’s when the alarm goes off.
200 or 300 hundred people not renewing won’t raise an eyebrow… let 4,000 not renew and a million or two in Hartman fund money not come in, people will take notice. I think Mark needs to juice up the program. I think Searles and Bobo need to go at year end. I think if Mark really means business, he ask to lay out 750,000 for the best OC available and say 500,000 for the best OL coach out there. We are stale. After watching Clemson this weekend, our offense looks like the 50’s. I think I could game plan for it. Clemson had Auburn on their heels all night.
Coach Boo-boo
September 21st, 2010
10:08 am
Please don’t get me fired. I have all these kids to support. I’ll do better. I promise. Next time we’re driving and we’re tied and it’s 3rd and 5 and we have 2 minutes left, I’ll send three receivers 30 yards down the field and provide an outlet 20 yards down the field. That’ll fool ‘em.
Dawg_Mike
September 21st, 2010
10:09 am
I agree with the” let the season play out “folks.
WonderDawg
September 21st, 2010
10:09 am
UGA’s gonn win 10 straight games this year?!?
Bartender, I’ll have what UGAKev is drinking . . .
UGAKev
September 21st, 2010
10:10 am
Seminole warrior I agree with you 200% I could of not said it better myself
Lowcountry Bulldawg
September 21st, 2010
10:10 am
Whats funny is the people afraid to make the change throw up the argument, Have you forgot about Goff and Donnan as the man argument. Hell, if this is the fans we have then I don’t want them! Of course we have not, but hell look were the program is now! It looks to already be at Donnan and Goff performance! The team is 1-2!
I am not pro firing CMR, but damn lets not kid ourselves here with the issues. Don’t start with the we are young crap! Its college ball every team has youth issues. Don’t tell me the DC or the secondary. Last I noted Hamilton is a CTG recruit.
At some point you say enough with the excuses, get me the results. Don’t say, well back in 2005 he won a SEC Title. Folks, that was 5 years ago. If you are happy talking about how good the team was 5 years ago then you are not living in the real world.
The team needs to wake up and the coaching staff does also. Just because you won a SEC Title when UF was down does not give you a free pass into lala land with the program. It is high time the results on the field reflect all the hype that the coaches make a big deal out of during recruiting. Go do it!
UGABugKiller
September 21st, 2010
10:10 am
Anyone calling for Mark Richt’s job is ignorant.
Need I remind any of y’all that it took Bobby Bowden over 25 years of coaching to win his first Championship. And the only reason he DID win in 1993, is because he finally gave up the playcalling duties to his young OC, Mark Richt.
Now, I was with many other people and thought that Richt needed to give up the play calling duties because the offense had grown safe.
Now I wonder if Richt started calling games that way because he knew his BFF Soft Willie was so far in over his head as a DC, that he had to ensure the offense play it safe, so as to not put the onus on Soft Willie.
Regardless, this team hasn’t won the East with Bobo as the OC, and we can honestly say they should have in 2007, but Bobo cost us the South Carolina game that year and Soft Willie cost us the Tennessee game.
Here are the fact: Richt feels beholden to Bobo. Not only is he Bobo’s mentor, but he knows (as we all do) that Bobo has 5 kids under the age of 5 years old. He can’t fire Bobo. Now, repurposing Bobo might be the way to go.
Relieve Bobo of his play calling duties, but have Bobo still be the OC, you know, like Neil Calloway was the OC. Be involved in game planning, still be the QB Coach. Still have a job at Georgia. He IS a good QB coach. Greene, Shock, Stafford, Murray. Bobo has a fine record as a QB coach.
He just cannot for the life of him call an offensive football game that has any semblance of rhyme or reason.
On a critical 3rd and 4, who sends three receivers 10 and 20 yards down field without a single shallow crossing route or a running back outlet receiver coming out of the backfield???
I mean, COME ON!
But again, anyone calling for Richt’s head at this juncture is simply ignorant.
Most in Bulldog Nation always knew that the stars were aligning for 2011. Hell, Bill King and a great many of us said THAT before the start of LAST season. How 2009 and 2010 were the steppingstones to 2011.
As to why Murray didn’t play last year, that IS on Richt. Yes, Murray was hurt at the start of the year, but once October rolled around, think even BEFORE the Kentucky game, he should have pulled Cox’s behind.
At least last year served as proof to how 2006 would have gone if JTIII was the guy all year. Sheesh.
As for the yahoos talking trash about Grantham, I mean… REALLY? First of all, you people can’t tell the night and day difference between the Martinez and Grantham eras? Let me just point you to the part of the stat sheet that reads “Defensive Penalties,” specifically, the part that reads, “stupid, stupid, undisciplined personal foul penalties.”
Yeah, forgot about all that, didn’t y’all? It’s gonna take more than a spring, fall, and 3 games for Grantham to get his defense installed correctly. PLUS, we’re missing what the 3-4 really needs. The Mountain at Nose Tackle. It’s gonna take a good part of the year to get everything running smoothly with the 3-4. Don’t be Chicken Little on Grantham yet. We suffered through 5 horrible years of Soft Willie.
So don’t try and run CTG off after 3 games, fools!
. . . Grady Jackson . . .*Barber Shop*
September 21st, 2010
10:11 am
Grantham is not doing a good job coaching the defense.
. . . . . . . . . UGA was never 0-2 in the SEC with Willie M.
Sweat Socks
September 21st, 2010
10:12 am
Hey dap01, you are in a state of denial.
I agree they want to sell papers and get hits on the web, but come on, man. Wake up! This downward spiral has been happening for at least three years.
Dawgs73
September 21st, 2010
10:12 am
Seminole Warrior – Kirby Smart, Will Muschamp, Chris Peterson, Gary Patterson, John Gruden
UGAkev – As much as I would like our Dawgs to go 10-2, I just don’t see it. What objective facts are you basing this magic turnaround on????
WonderDawg
September 21st, 2010
10:12 am
Dummy. It took Saban a full year to get his D installed and dominate.
UGAKev
September 21st, 2010
10:12 am
Hey bartender please get WonderDawg a shot of believe in your team
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
September 21st, 2010
10:14 am
“What, me worry?” I know I need to stay on his good side but I can’t help but notice McGarity looks a lot like Alfred E. Neuman. Was that picture selected on pupose?
They are distributing some pre-a$$ painting photos of me in Athens. Call it a cover-up. I am naturally handsome and if I was a car you’d have to pay extra for two-tone.
JB
September 21st, 2010
10:14 am
Also, as I predicted, McGarity has to give Mark the vote. If not, Every SEC/ACC coach would be on the phone today telling these commits( and we have some very good ones) that Mark is toast. Mark WILL BE OUR COACH in 2011, even if we lose 5 or 6 more games. I’m good with that….if Staff changes are made and this class comes in and next year is ALL DIFFERENT.
WonderDawg
September 21st, 2010
10:15 am
Grantham shaved about 20 points against SC and Arkansas from the previous (Willie) year. Blame the offense for the 0-2.
Reggie
September 21st, 2010
10:17 am
If Jeff’s right, Richt will be fired on Sunday. Then again, when it comes to Mark Richt, Jeff always seems to say things are horrible, sensationalistic, negative, cynical, serious, exaggeratted, and dark, and year after year, game after game, Richt’s still there, so Jeff’s usually wrong on his opinion of Richt.
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
September 21st, 2010
10:18 am
That guy Sonny says I am too old and not the right color to be the permanent mascot. Is that discrimination, or not? Age? Color? What matters is the content of my character and I am one of the only ones associated with the program with no arrest record. I ask for your help in being named the next Uga. It’s what Coach Butts would have wanted.
Sandman053
September 21st, 2010
10:18 am
BugKiller,
Very well-said. I think CTG is on the right track, just need bigger, meaner folks that know how to hit (and wrap up).
Plus I am praying that Isiah Crowell chooses UGA.
SeminoleWarrior
September 21st, 2010
10:18 am
Well Stated, UGABugKiller. How long did it take Paterno to win his first one. Look, UGA, I have no bone in this fight. I know you have a damned good coach that will not have a problem at all finding a new gig if your AD is crazy enough to let him go. Weather this storm and watch what happens. In the end, you will be proud.
WonderDawg
September 21st, 2010
10:19 am
Let’s see we last won 10 games in a row . . . . . in 1982 (11 actually). I believe in the team. I don’t believe our OC can out gameplan and out adjust any DC in the SEC anymore. That makes it tough to win 10 in a row.
I support my team, have since ‘68. I am also a realist.
wintervilledawg
September 21st, 2010
10:19 am
The program is fine. We probably win one of those games if we had AJ. Not to make an excuse but if you take the best player off each team then there is going to be some attrition. Anyway, college football goes through changes. USC is simply better this year. That’s not saying their program is any better. Richt is our coach and should be for a long time regardless of what happens this week or the next. Georgia football is pointed in the right direction.
James T. Kirk
September 21st, 2010
10:20 am
While the mutt program continues to implode and bring shame on the great state of Georgia, the REAL football factory of Georgia is growing more and more powerful with each passing game. By this time next week we’ll be back in the top 25. By season’s end we’ll back to where we belong in the top 2 and playing for the world championship against yet another overrated SEC team I’m sure. Coach Sir Paul Johnson is on the rise, while little Richty is sliding further down the toilet.
UGAKev
September 21st, 2010
10:20 am
Okay we lost at columbia to a solid south carolina team this year and we played them early in the year. We just lost to an arkansas team that will prob give Alabama all they can handle this year. The reason why things look so bad right now is because our losses didnt get spread out and we happened to play two very good football teams. We lost to teams that were not named florida or tennesse but the teams we just lost to are better than those teams this year I believe. Arkansas did not blow us out and we should of beat them. Aj puts us over the top in that game. I am telling you if we can get through this week it’s going to be down hill from there With AJ coming back and us not playing offenses as good as a arkansas
Phil
September 21st, 2010
10:22 am
I’m afraid we are falling into the same trap that the Breves fell into with Bobby Cox. He won the World Series back in 1995 but has sucked ever since then. But based on that 1 good year, he got a free pass for the next 15 years.
We are doing the same thing with Richt. He won the SEC back in 05 so let’s give him a free pass for the next 10-15. That’s not how it works people. If you want to be a 8-4, 7-5 program, then you should be happy with Richt. If you want to get to the next upper levels of the SEC along side Alabama and Florida, then you have to demand more.
saban
September 21st, 2010
10:23 am
Richt is a great coach.
Please keep him 10 more years so I can win, win, win,
I hear Georgia has applied for membership in the ACC. Can`t really blame them. Maybe they can win 7 games a year in that tough conference.
SeminoleWarrior
September 21st, 2010
10:23 am
Dawgs 73, Smart is a puppet figure there at Alabama. Can Peterson and/or Patterson recruit in the South, matched up against the like of Saban, Meyer, and Spurrier? Would Chucky really come to UGA and coach at the college level? Interesting pick there I would give you that and UGA has the deep pockets to pry him away for sure.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
September 21st, 2010
10:24 am
Look, we are talking about Paterno and Bowden. Legends, but how different was college football in the 80’s and 90’s when each won it. The reality is that there are PLENTY of young coaches out there who are more than qualified forthe job, lets not be naive.
If you think CMR will be the coach at this school for another 10 years without winning a NT then I think again thats pretty fool hearty. The days of a coach staying at a program for 20 years until he wins is over. CMR window is closing whether the die hard supporters like it or not. CMR has a window of 3-4 years if he can turn this season around to produce what would be considered Elite results or he will be shown the door just like Tuberville and Fulmer.
saban
September 21st, 2010
10:24 am
Georgia, where five star players go to become 1 star players and win 5 games a year.
Russ Hater
September 21st, 2010
10:25 am
Forget about Bobo, CMR, Grantham. Has anyone noticed that ever since the Texas A & M game, we’re 1-2? It’s that stupid, mangy, lazy mutt, I tell you. He must be a mongrel. Real GA bulldogs don’t need painting. And this one’s even too lazy to lunge at opposing players. In the most critical parts of our games, he’s asleep! Players are out there trying desperately to win, and our mascot is snoozing. What message is that sending to future recruits? When the camera zooms in on our mascot, he’s cutting Zs.
Fire Russ and your problems are solved.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
September 21st, 2010
10:26 am
Kyle Whittingham how about that name?
Also the recruit in the South argument- I think Urban has done a fairly good job of recruiting in the South since his arrival from Utah.
UGAKev
September 21st, 2010
10:27 am
Wonder Dawg I understand the stats do not look good BUT in 2007 we may not of won 10 games in a row but we sure did lose to two worse teams than we did this season and NOBODY saw that 11-2 season coming.
UGA Insider
September 21st, 2010
10:27 am
All of this bs about fire CMR is asinine! Wake up UGA fans… all college football programs run in constant cycles. Please remember that Alabama was playing in the Independence Bowl only 3 short years ago. Auburn has been down recently and so has UT. Yes, SC and Arkansas are better this year but when they lose their experienced qb’s they will be back in the toilet. Everyone needs to take a Zanax or a Valium and shut-up! You are going to kill our special recruiting class we are lining up for 2011. Just be patient, it’s been a rough summer. Go see Widespread Panic this weekend, don’t think about the game and chill out about CMR.
Pago Pago Dawg
September 21st, 2010
10:28 am
Relax people, we always have a Top Ten recruiting class. But, like Capt Superior says…..we always coach them down to one star recruits!
Jim Davis
September 21st, 2010
10:28 am
Having seen almost every Georgia game over the last forty years either live or on the “tube” I’ve witnessed losses to such “power houses” as Richmond,Wake Forest,Miami of Ohio,etc. For these “so called” Fans to call for the firing of a Coach with Mark Richt record is STUPID! Most of these “experts” are from a time when Trophy’s were given to everyone who played and there was a “limit” on how many points you “should” score. Check out where Richt ranks in total wins in the last nine years, then shut up and support the program instead of being a “whinning little twerp”! Nuff said!
Xavier
September 21st, 2010
10:28 am
Nerd fans crack me up by beating this ridiculous, completely dishonest myth that all UGA gets are 5 star players, while in reality, Richt’s only had 9 during his 10 years in Athens.
Face the facts Bugs .We’re beating your 3 star guys with our own 3 star guys each and every year. Now run along and work on some newer, more accurate excuses.
jtdawg
September 21st, 2010
10:29 am
cantondawg, I have to respectfully disagree.
A 5 star rating from magazine service looking to make money from football fans/enthusiasts does not make football players. Tennessee was raiding Georgia targeting those same type of players and produced exactly one SEC championship and a NC in the timeframe Donnan was here. Not exactly conference dominating, I would say, but very good nonetheless.
Donnan’s staff, however, in retrospect had a very good eye for “football” talent, not recruit rankings. He got the very talent here from this state needed to be very dominant for the early part of the 2000’s, regardless of the grading “stars”. There is no doubt Donan whiffed on talent as well, highly ranked players that were trouble on and off the field.
But it’s obvious this regime has stars in their eyes, regardless of character or “football” mentality. Alot of “me” players that are’nt making plays. I think recruiting is focusing on the wrong types of players at times as well.
UGAKev
September 21st, 2010
10:29 am
RUSS hater thats because we are having ball games at noon..lol
Lowcountry Bulldawg
September 21st, 2010
10:29 am
Alabama was in that Bowl game in Saban’s first season. They lost to La Monroe and two years later won it all. You tell me I can get Saban like results and I will go to the Independence Bowl this season.
Xavier
September 21st, 2010
10:30 am
Nerd fans crack me up with this desperate, pathetic, ridiculous myth that all UGA gets are 5 star athletes, while in reality, it’s really just UGA annually beating Yech’s 3 star guys with their own 3 star guys.
Now run along trolls and go work on some newer, more accurate excuses.
Charles
September 21st, 2010
10:32 am
Stop the nonsense nerd fans. Richt’s only had nine 5-star guys since being in Athens. He’s beating your joke of a program with primarily 3 star players every single year. I know that reality hurts.
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
September 21st, 2010
10:33 am
The pay is bad. Instead of Miami, we ended up in an armpit called Shreveport at the end of the season. I got my a$$ painted before the bowl game. Instead of a coed, they gave me a guy to be my handler. It’s hot in that little house and my a$$ is sore. Still, I show up and do my best. In fact, I did a lot better than Coach Grantham and he makes $750,000 a year. How can you hate a little dog that got his a$$ painted? I am asking McGarity for a vote of confidence. I hope he didn’t see my Alfred E. Neuman post.
1eyedJack
September 21st, 2010
10:34 am
I just don’t think you should clean house every time your coach/team loses a football game. That kind of disruption can take years to recover from. A new staff comes in with a new offensive and defensive philosophy can’t win with current players and needs years to get his recruits in place. Too iffy. I’ll stick with a known and proven commodity. The ball bounces funny.
UGAKev
September 21st, 2010
10:35 am
Look atleast some of you have witnessed a national championship for UGA in your lifetime I didnt have the pleasure of that I am fixing to be 24 and have more patience in CMR then alot of you have. I can see it all lining up for us in the next 1-3 years you just have to open your eyes and see it. If you fire mark richt its going to set us back for just as long if not longer.We have a good atheletic director that will make sure we go in the right direction
Dawg89
September 21st, 2010
10:36 am
… but the bottom line is starting 0-2 in SEC play scares the hell out of me. Am I alone here?
No, you’re not alone. The entire Dawg Nation is scared. And mad as hell that we’ve sunk this low.
The only rational solution: FIRE RICHT.
common sense
September 21st, 2010
10:37 am
Let’s pretend for a second it’s known Richt will be fired at season’s end. Ok, then who’s on the short list to fill the vacancy? Kirby Smart? As much of a micro-manager as Saban is you really believe that this is Smart’s defense? Give me a break. The guy wouldn’t even come home for the same salary he was making at Bama. Who else? Chucky? Get real. That guy has no interest in coaching college ball and I doubt if he’d even be a good fit. Who else? Dan Mullen? We’ll see how he does against us Saturday night, but again, what has he proven to anyone? Fact is, there are no viable candidates out there that would make one want to hurry up and fire Richt. That would just be program suicide.
WonderDawg
September 21st, 2010
10:37 am
Of course I wish we could run the table. I watch every play of every game, and I just don’t see something like that (07) happening. Our offense has been potent for all of one quarter so far in SEC play.
The O will obviously get better with AJ, but not if Murray doesn’t get some pass blocking. Bobo stood there Saturday watching our QB get squashed and didn’t have a clue to combat that pass rush, except endlessly try draws, that got nowhere.
Every DC in the SEC is gonna do what UT did last year to UGA’s offense, and Bobo isn’t good enough to adjust.