SI says Richt (UGA) has a better job than Saban (Alabama)
Does Mark Richt really have the fifth-best coaching job (two spots ahead of Nick Saban)?
Somebody at Sports Illustrated just came up with their list of the 20 best college football coaching jobs in the nation. Not surprisingly, Georgia made the list. Given its history, stature, conference, recruiting base and overflowing cash drawer, I’ve always considered it a top 10 job.
But No. 5 overall? Ahead of Alabama? As well as Penn State, USC and Notre Dame?
That’s the opinion of Andy Staples, who tackled this subject because of the current state of affairs at Ohio State (which is No. 2 on the list). I’m not going to copy-paste the entire article here, but here’s what Staples had to write about Georgia, as well as excerpts on the other SEC and ACC teams on the top 20 list of “most desirable jobs.” His reasons for having the Dogs so high are worthy, and also reaffirms why there is focus on coach Mark Richt this season.
Staples on the Dogs:
Want to know why Mark Richt is on the hot seat despite six seasons with at least 10 wins since 2001? Because Georgia has the resources to be in the national title hunt every season. The Bulldogs just finished a major football facility upgrade, and they play in one of the nation’s iconic stadiums. They have plenty of money. In terms of recruit preference, the Bulldogs rule a state that cranks out 90-100 BCS AQ-conference signees each year. Theoretically, Georgia should have its pick of those players, but Bulldogs coaches can’t always stop Alabama, Auburn, Clemson and Florida State from cherry-picking some of the state’s top recruits. Unlike Florida or Alabama, which must fight off in-state rivals, Georgia recruits on a different level than Georgia Tech. The situation is more comparable to Texas and Texas A&M, which is why Georgia fans had a right to be dismayed that the Bulldogs had to win last year’s installment of Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate just to pull even with the Yellow Jackets at 6-6 on the regular season. (Never mind the Liberty Bowl loss to Central Florida.) Put simply, this is a great job for Richt if he can return to his early 2000s dominance. If Richt can’t, the right choice can come in and win big in Athens.
It seems like a fair assessment. Here’s the list. We can debate the order but I think all of the right schools made the list:
1. Texas.
2. Ohio State.
3. Oklahoma.
4. Florida.
The forthcoming cavalcade of SEC schools probably should be listed as 4a-4d, but my bosses won’t let me have a four-way tie. So the SEC East’s best jobs get a slight nod over the SEC West’s best jobs only because the competition doesn’t seem so cutthroat in the East. You’re only supposed to win the national title every other year at Florida or Georgia; at LSU and Alabama, you’re supposed to win the national title every year. Sure, Florida has to compete with Florida State and Miami for recruits, but there is plenty of talent in the Sunshine State to go around. The state of Florida produces more talent than any other, and the University of Florida is the flagship university and the only SEC member within a 10-hour drive of the extremely fertile grounds on the southern end of the state.
5. Georgia.
6. LSU.
LSU edges Alabama because of only one factor. Alabama must fight Auburn for the best recruits in the state of Alabama. LSU has to fight no one for the best recruits in talent-rich Louisiana. Sure, out-of-state schools occasionally try to swoop in, but just as Ohio children grow up wanting to be Buckeyes and Georgia children grow up wanting to be Bulldogs, Louisiana children grow up wanting to be Tigers. Other than that, LSU and Alabama are about the same. Both programs rake in the cash and play in massive stadiums before deafening crowds. And in both places, if the coach can’t keep his team in the hunt for the national title every year, people will start clamoring for a coach who will.
7. Alabama.
In the 2009-10 school year, Alabama finished second to Texas in total revenue ($129.3 million), and the school opened an addition to Bryant-Denny Stadium in 2010 that raised capacity above 100,000. No fan base in America cares more about its football team, which can cut both ways for a coach. Win a national title and get a statue. Don’t win a national title and get run out of town.
8. Penn State.
9. Auburn.
Auburn falls below the dead-heat SEC quartet above for one reason. Because the Tigers historically are the Red Sox to Alabama’s Yankees, the Crimson Tide have the initial edge in most in-state recruiting fights. This edge isn’t insurmountable, though. Auburn also is only a short drive from talent-rich Atlanta, but those players have to be wrestled away from Georgia and Tennessee. Auburn doesn’t bring in quite as much money as Alabama, but the Tigers still have cash to burn. They can pay a handsome salary and have plenty left over to pay offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn $1.3 million a year to turn down the head coaching job at Vanderbilt. This is critical, and it is a common factor among all the schools listed so far. Any school willing to shell out for quality assistants is serious about winning.
10. Oregon.
11. USC.
12. Michigan.
13. Notre Dame.
14. Florida State.
Jimbo Fisher may just turn this into a destination job again. It sits this low because the fan/booster base was lulled to sleep at the end of the Bobby Bowden era. Upon his ascension to the big chair, Fisher immediately went into fundraising mode. He convinced boosters to chip in, and he quickly bulked up Florida State’s academic support, strength and nutrition programs. The recruits have flocked as well. Because of the school’s location, FSU’s coach has to work a little harder than Florida’s coach. Tallahassee is at the northern edge of the state, so players from Central and South Florida have to drive right through Gainesville on the way to FSU’s campus. The Seminoles are closer to many players in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina, but they have to fight to get those players out of their home states. That said, coaches at most schools would volunteer a limb to have as many quality players within 300 miles of campus.
15. Nebraska.
16. Tennessee.
In 2009-10, nine athletic departments broke the $100 million revenue barrier. You’ve already read about eight of them. Why would an SEC program with 10-figure department revenue and a 100,000-plus stadium slip this low? Because Tennessee coach Derek Dooley has to work so much harder than his rivals to get recruits. The state of Tennessee produces some players, but its geography tends to breed mixed loyalties. Most of the best players are in Memphis, which is a six-hour drive from Knoxville. Players there grow up hearing as much or more about Ole Miss and Arkansas. Nashville is more of a Big Orange stronghold, but out-of-state schools have been known to slip in and pluck players. Tennessee is at its best when it can dip into Atlanta (three hours away) and pull players, but when good coaches sit at Georgia and Auburn, that’s a tough assignment.
17. Virginia Tech.
In terms of proximity to players, Virginia might be a better job than Virginia Tech. But Coach Frank Beamer has done such a good job convincing players from the stocked Tidewater area to come to Blacksburg that he has effectively negated any geographic disadvantage. Virginia Tech also can dip down into North Carolina, which has an underrated high school football culture that routinely produces great players. Virginia Tech would be higher on this list but for its revenue. The fan base is excellent, and Lane Stadium offers an intimidating home-field advantage, but Virginia Tech consistently ranks in the bottom half of BCS AQ-conference schools in revenue. The Hokies are quite competitive on the field, but Texas, Ohio State and the SEC powers are playing an entirely different game on the balance sheet.
18. Arizona State.
19. Arizona.
20. Oklahoma State.
So what are you thoughts on the list?
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Disgusted with Richt
June 3rd, 2011
7:14 pm
A few comments:
1. Four different SEC teams have won the last five BCS championships.
2. UGA was not one of those teams.
3. During that period, UGA did not win the SEC championship.
4. During that period, UGA did not even win its SEC division.
5. Red panties.
In other words, UGA has sunk into total irrelevancy both regionally and nationally.
So why is UGA paying Mark Richt millions of dollars a year?
Sharkman
June 3rd, 2011
7:21 pm
Sounds about right.
Hair today, gone tomorrow
June 3rd, 2011
7:25 pm
Q: What do Mark Richt’s hair and UGA’s BCS hopes have in common?
A: They’re both fading fast.
bamaguy
June 3rd, 2011
7:40 pm
Actually, Carl, I believe his mother graduated from Alabama and he played football at Florida (Andy Staples).
The list was “best place to coach (be employed)” not “school with most championships”. It appears to me, from the outside looking in, that UGA is a great place to make millions. Just be a good southern fundamentalist christian man and the fan base will defend you to the end. Nick Saban goed to Mass every Sunday. But in the deep south that doesn’t count.
But I am obviously prejudiced.
FSUFalcon
June 3rd, 2011
7:51 pm
oklahoma state? puleeases…they have never won a darn thing…have only beaten ou about 12 times i their history, never been a bcs or major bow game…they are more like kentucky..
Tell the truth
June 3rd, 2011
8:00 pm
Ga the 5th best coaching job in America??? Are those monkeys flying all across the metro sky???
Laughable!!
Dawg Biskitz
June 3rd, 2011
8:03 pm
UGA corch has it made, because he has no expectations to live up to, but like most of his supporters say, “he’s such a great guy”.
And OS # 2? Absurd. OS = Thug U.
Football Dad
June 3rd, 2011
8:05 pm
Oregon has to be in the top 5. I realize that thier success is recent, however, I think they have the momentum to top this list in the near future. The athletic facilities at Oregon are far superior to ANY other program in college football…period…they are establishing recruiting pipelines in Ca and Tx as well nationally. Traditionally no…but in the present, which I believe is the gravamon of this article, Oregon is a better football program than UGA because of the Nike influence and facilities.
Blackoutanyone?
June 3rd, 2011
8:13 pm
The Alabama fan base would like to take this opportunity to apologize for its unrealistic expectations. Demanding and expecting excellencence…. please forgive us. Roll Tide
joe taxpayer
June 3rd, 2011
8:22 pm
It should be number 1 its the only head coach job where being a good man is more inportant than winning.
Let NONE in
June 3rd, 2011
8:31 pm
Paul Revere rode a horse to tell the British of the colonists plans. Paul Revere or Paul Stanley…I can’t remember.
U guys r hilarious!
June 3rd, 2011
9:42 pm
U guys r frigin hilarious!!!
Some ja’moke at SI gives his/her opinion on the best jobs in college coaching, and u all are clamoring over it like it’s actually fact!
What happens when some tool writing for Athlon’s says UGA is the best job in college football.
I’m kinda surprised said ja’moke at SI didn’t rank the SEC jobs 1 thru 12!
U guys r funny!
It is what it is...
June 3rd, 2011
10:24 pm
Is Alabama 47th or 49th in education? That says it all.
It is what it is...
June 3rd, 2011
10:35 pm
How many of of the Roll Tide faithful, actually prefer to live in Georgia? If you rednecks (yes, Rednecks) think Alabama is such a Garden of Eden, why do you prefer to live in Georgia? For all of you that live in Georgia, but boast that your home state is superior, please get out of my state. We don’t want you, and we certainly are a more clean state without you.
funny...
June 3rd, 2011
11:25 pm
Georgia might be even higher. All the listed qualities from above, conference, recruites, money, stadium, campus, and number of alumni donations are top notch, but Georgia has one advantage over all the other top schools. They demand national championships Georgia fans just want to be good. Win 10 games a year, shots at the SEC championships, and a few BCS games here and there and you’re the man (or Richt), just dont screw that up
lumpy
June 4th, 2011
12:00 am
I wouldn’t be beating my chest just yet if I were a ugag fan, last time you made a SI list in 2008, you started out as Number 1 and we all know how that ended….
Class of 93
June 4th, 2011
12:40 am
Win the east or walk away to better things in you life Coach.
It Ain't Rocket Science
June 4th, 2011
6:37 am
I don’t recall reading any place in this news article, where schedule or winning percentage had anything to do with how nice it is or isn’t to be at a certain college. Maybe the writer is from Georgia or something, but sounds like he thinks the campus, state and coaching situation is pretty good at UGA.
Bobby Walden
June 4th, 2011
7:21 am
When Rictus is fired in December, he and his wife should be tarred & feathered when they are evicted from Athens. He and his damn family have drained UGA of millions of dollars and have returned NOTHING.. What has befallen the program in the last several years was seen coming a long time before that. No true bulldawg he, Rictus finds chickens coming home to roost in that stupid Bart Simpson haircut.
FanSince59
June 4th, 2011
7:54 am
“The right choice can come and win”. Truer words were never spoken. One reason UGA’s job is a hell of a lot better then Alabama et al is because Alabama, Tenn, FL, Aub & LSU fans want to win a hell of a lot more then UGA fans. Their fans level of tolerance for a mediocrity is a lot less then that of UGA fans.
1eyedJack
June 4th, 2011
8:50 am
Still no brick through Mark Richt’s picture window. Coach Curry, how did you enjoy your stay in Tuskaloosa?
Saban
June 4th, 2011
8:57 am
Let`s see the last time I was in Athens we had the dawgs down by 30 at halftime and I got to play my b and c teams the rest of the game. Don`t believe I would want to coach there. I like natioal championships and without Russ there would be no chance.
Dawg Tired
June 4th, 2011
12:10 pm
One reason Georgia is a better job than Alabama is obvious: It’s not in Alabama.
Paul's Johnson says hey wait a minute
June 4th, 2011
5:15 pm
Why is GT not on the list! We have the best campus (if you want to get mugged or score crack) we have the prettiest best smelling girls (if you like curry and red dots) we have the best coach (if you like high school offenses) we have the best stadium (if you like itsy bitsy teeny weenie half empty ones) we have the best fans (if you like arrogant nerds) – the list is endless. Add us to the list or I will smack you in the mouth.
Genius Jacket
June 4th, 2011
6:59 pm
Tech should be in the Top 10!
All of our SAs take calculus and nuclear physics and are TRUE student athletes.
Boobie Bowden
June 4th, 2011
8:03 pm
A product of low expectations – the least of the east
Georgia Always Been Over Rated
June 4th, 2011
9:28 pm
Mark Richt never ever has or will win a National Title.
Mark Richt is..... below average coach
June 4th, 2011
9:31 pm
UGA is the new Vandy.
CHOKE! THE OFFICAL DRINK OF THE GEORGIA BULLDAWGS!
June 4th, 2011
9:38 pm
BAMA, LSU AND UF WINS NC TITLES! RICHT AND FLEA BAG NATION TALKS ABOUT TRYING TO WIN ONE!
Paul's Johnson says hey wait a minute
June 4th, 2011
11:04 pm
Don’t talk about UGA – smack them in the mouth – they OWN us.
D Bag Trolls!
June 5th, 2011
8:20 am
This should not be news to all of you little pea brains. This why you spend countless hours blogging with UGA on the brain. Wake up! UGA Rocks!
It Ain't Rocket Science
June 5th, 2011
8:25 am
Genius Jacket,
How would you figure that tech. should be in the top ten. List your criteria for such a statement. I don’t think you can , so you resort to childish banter with no substantial basis, as your reasoning. I would expect this from you though, but remember, jealousy can become a disease, when so much hate is applied.
D Bag Trolls!
June 5th, 2011
8:30 am
Btw, Who wants to live in bama. Saban is joke.
Camden Mark
June 5th, 2011
10:20 am
Only 6 SEC schools?
Snoop Dawg
June 5th, 2011
12:50 pm
Bulldog Nation,
Here is yet more convincing evidence that shows what a loser and fraud Mark Richt is. He is taking us down to the dregs in spite of all our competitive advantages. All you people with this irrational fetish about him are contributing to the University’s decay of its storied sports traditions and reputation. If you think that by doing this that you are somehow “loyal”, I strongly recommend you get psychological help.
Snoop Dawg
June 5th, 2011
12:53 pm
Folks,
Here’s more convincing evidence that Preacha Man Markt Wrecked is leading us to ruin. Those of you with this irrational love for this guy need psychiatric help. If you think this is being loyal to your school, you are crazy.
Snoop Dawg
June 5th, 2011
12:56 pm
Actually, UGA should be rated number one. Why? Because the alumni and fan base tolerate mediocrity and incompetence from it’s head coach while paying him millions of dollars every years. They think they are being loyal to their school by defending him against any and all criticism. Meanwhile, the football program has become the laughing stock of the SEC.
funny...
June 5th, 2011
1:02 pm
The article doesn’t say that Georgia is better than Alabama at football. I don’t expect the Alabama fans to understand this, they can’t read.
The article is stating that at Georgia you can have the money, status, fame, stadium, facilities, and spotlight as Alabama, Texas, etc, except you can go 6-7 and keep your job.
What a joke. Georgia is the best job in the nation. You can underachieve for 6 straight years and get a free pass to right the ship.
Richt hasn’t “earned” the right for one more year. He earned the right to be fired after the Liberty Bowl.
Richt has the same record as Donnan over the last five years of his career at Georgia, except Donnan wasn’t pretty for the cameras and fired.
Richt not only missed the chance to pass Florida in the SEC when they hired/fired Zook, he’s let a UT program in shambles pass Georgia, South Carolina has now passed Georgia, Kentucky is dangerously close to Georgia’s level, and he lost to Vanderbilt at home. Auburn and passed Georgia in the fast lane, Bama is Bama, LSU is always better than Georgia, State is better than Georgia, Arkansas laughed at Richt’s coaching last year, Ole Miss just sucks.
But Richt deserves another year.
Dancing in the endzone
Losing 4 of 5 in 2006, including VANDY at home
Getting waxed in Knoxville two straight trips
6-7
The Sugar Bowl murder in ATLANTA by WVU
Losing to Kentucky, ever, even worse at home
Player control and discipline
MIke Bobo
The LIberty Bowl
Still can’t beat Florida
Willie Martinez
The collapse against Tech two years ago
The loss to Florida this last year
The abortion of the 2008 season
Red-shirting Knowshon Moreno
Thinking Joe Tereshinkski III was a better QB than Matt Stafford
Actually playing Joe Cox
David Greene was AWESOME, but how much better was DJ Shockley
Again, The Liberty Bowl
….and Richt deserves another year? REALLY? REALLY?
Snoop Dawg
June 5th, 2011
1:24 pm
…and don’t forget scouting Cam Newton at College Park High School as “a potential tight end.”
Bamma Ramma
June 5th, 2011
1:51 pm
Ga job better than the Bama job? Get real–Saban makes almost $5 million, much more than Richt, has 1 title and will win more. Ga has no shot at a title. Bama has more tradition, more fans, better stadium, more money…. The list goes on and on.
Ed (The Original)
June 5th, 2011
4:10 pm
I’m as rabid a Georgia fan as anyone, but we top USC, Notre Dame and Alabama? We trail a school (UF) that went 59 years without even a conference title? I think the author was high on something when he made this list. Oklahoma State’s inclusion in the Top 20 was the icing on the cake.
null
June 5th, 2011
4:50 pm
Richt sucks, but she still takes all our bucks.
Real Dawgs drink POWER-aid.( kool-aid is fool-ade)
June 5th, 2011
5:58 pm
Results. It’s all about results. As I look at the poll Georgia is ranked fifth. Obviously, the teams ranked higher have won the national championship. But the disburbing thing for Georgia fans is most of the teams ranked below the Dawgs have won national titles as well and we haven’t despite our vast resources. To be specific in the last 25 years according to your poll, the only programs not to win a national title besides Georgia, are Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon, Oklahoma St., and Virginia Tech. We Georgia fans would like to regard ourselves as a major player for the title every year, but the truth is we are not. There are numerous reasons why Georgia has not reached the ultimate goal in the last quarter century. But one of the fundamental reasons begin with a only 3 wins in the last 21 years in Jacksonville. Repeated poor performances versus the Gators has cost the Dawgs dearly. I have some very eye opening information and it’s alarmly accurate and true. From 1974 through 1989 Georgia won 13 out of 16 games versus Florida in Jacksonville. For that period of domination the Dawgs achieved “1” national title and “4″ pre-merger SEC titles. ZERO national titles or SEC Championship were won by Florida while Georgia ruled the series at that time. Now let’s look at Florida from 1990 through 2010, the Gators have won 18 out of 21 games vs. the Dawgs. During this ongoing period of utter domination, the Gator have cashed in on “3″ national titles and and a whopping post merger “8″ SEC titles. During this period Georgia has “zerO” national titles and only winning “2″ post merger SEC titles. So there it is my fellow Dawgs the facts speak for themselves. We won’t get any real national recognition until UGa. gets back to winning versus it’s major rival: The Florida Gators. It’s going to take time and it’s going to take change.The Florida Gators would not wait for their coach to go 2-8 versus Georgia before terminating him even if he walked on water and healed the sick. It’s time for the Georgia BulldogNation to STAND UP and UNIFY and make the tough decisions needed to reclaim our pride and self respect for the honor and glory of ole Georgia. We must start winning games versus Florida again by “ANY MEANS NECESSARY” (morally and legally) for the program to get back to where it needs to be !! No more EXCUSES !!! We have done it before and we WILL do it again through hard work and sacrifice. Unproductive underachieving resulting in unacceptable outcomes for the program must be stopped and those responsible must be weeded out from the top to the bottom immediately if we want to be great ! No matter what anyone says or we’ve taken the Florida Gators best shot for the last 20 years and WE STILL ARE THE DOMINATE PROGRAM with 47 wins 40 losses and two ties vs. UF !!! Y’all must have forgot. We cannot continue to hesitate to eliminate the mediocrity thats dragging a one proud program down. Drink the POWER-aid and throw away the kool/fool-aid and let’s start winning the big game and championships again.
sldkfjslk
June 5th, 2011
6:14 pm
UGA is a better job than Alabama. Saban is doing a better job than Richt. Alabama is a backwards hellhole. They’re trying to make us look progressive with their new anti-immigration proposal. Since Atlanta was toasted (by the retreating Confederacy, not Sherman) Georgia has been ahead of the curve in the Southeast and has benefited economically. Georgia has a much higher population than Alabama. Georgia Tech is a decent in-state opponent but they really don’t compete for the same talent like Auburn does with Alabama for a much smaller pool of in-state talent. That being said, Richt is soft and the team plays soft. I don’t care what anyone says, Richt can’t cut it. Richt won’t turn it around. We have an easy schedule this year and if we lose 4 games he should be fired. Tennessee is pathetic but they play with heart, which is something I haven’t seen in Athens on a consistent basis in years. Maybe Richt needs to collaborate with Soulja Boy to get our team to Crank out another decent season. At least Richt has two hits while Soulja has only one. Florida is breaking in a new coach but we couldn’t beat Zook and Zook didn’t have a Super Bowl winning OC like Muschamp. Will may be a rookie head coach but he already knows more about hiring assistants than Richt does. Will went out and got someone who knows what he’s doing. Richt promoted a mediocre former UGA qb who looked good when he had the 2nd best qb in SEC history but looks pathetic in the last two years. Does anyone remember the first half of the 2009 LSU game. Everyone blames the A.J. Green crappy penalty celebration call for the loss but we had 1 first down in the first half. Bobo is a dud as an OC. Bobo vs. Weiss is a mismatch. We will continue to get schooled vs. Florida. South Carolina will manhandle us like they did last year, falling forward for 3 yards on every play while we go down like a glass menagerie. If we lose to a weak Auburn team Richt should be fired on the field and forced to walk out of the west endzone and head out of town. He might as well keep that lake house on Hartwell to retire. If Tech didn’t choke every year against us he would have been gone by now. If Tech was as good as they were during the late ’90s Richt would be gone by now. Richt’s teams play worse than Donnan’s teams ever did. Richt has embarrassed UGA with their pathetic display the last five years. Forget the 2nd place ranking in 2007. That was a mirage and an example of how NCAA football makes no sense in general. We beat a weak Florida team and a weak armed Auburn QB that year and that’s all. We got schooled by a mediocre Tennessee team in 2007 and dialed up a stinker against BLAKE MITCHELL. That’s right Blake Mitchell beat UGA.Pathetic. In 2006 we lost to Kentucky and Vandy in the same year. In 2008 we got killed by any decent team we played. We didn’t even show up against Alabama and Florida and the Tech game that year was just plain unforgivable. I’ve never seen a meltdown like that. But that goes back to support my claim that Richt can’t hire assistants and waits too long to make a move. Donnan would have never kicked a field goal on fourth and 1 against Central Florida. That is really the epitome of Mark Richt. He’s so soft that he’s scared of Central Florida. That is what Georgia football has come to, losing to Central Florida, while wasting the best receiver in SEC history. Richt has wasted the best QB in UGA history, the best RB since Herschel and the best WR in SEC history. Donnan was fired for losing four games. We’ll be lucky to win four games. Why do UGA people love our coach so much. I only keep typing so I can change the minds of ONE UGA fan. If you care about UGA, you don’t want Richt to coach our team any longer. He can’t get it done. We will always have plenty of talent. We will always put players in the NFL. There is no reason we should look like crap on the field. I’d give him a break if it looked like we played hard but we play soft and there is no excuse for that. This MUST be Richt’s last year at UGA. We can’t but up with any more mediocrity. We are better than that.
sldkfjslk
June 5th, 2011
6:37 pm
Real Dawgs drink POWER-aid.( kool-aid is fool-ade): We won’t do what you want us to do until Georgia donors stop acting like fools. Bullgators don’t take crap and demand excellence. Georgia donors act like every game is the Kentucky derby. It’s not surprising we’ve lost 2 games against the bluegrass state in the past five years. If UGA is a top five program, UGA should have a top five program. We’ll be lucky to have a top 20 program. Wake up people. Send Richt to Shady Acres or on an overseas mission. I don’t care. Just get him off the sidelines in Athens.
sldkfjslk's mother
June 5th, 2011
6:59 pm
I had no idea my son knew that many words.
Real Dawgs drink POWER-aid.( kool-aid is fool-ade)
June 5th, 2011
7:09 pm
Not many UGa fans would not mind if its current football coaching regime went 9-4 this season. And if they do it would be significant whether or not it includes a win over rebuilding UF or not. I’ve already covered that issue & I’m going to move on to another problem facing UGa. Adams and Garrity have their poker faces on and have to say they are happy about the football crisis at UGA. They are lying to themselves and hating every minute of it. Truth is they know the remedy to the crisis is change, but it has to be handled very carefully. The vibe I’m feeling is Garrity, a old school Dawg, turned Gator, turned Dawg again deep, deep down inside really doesn’t want to retain Richt, thus the hot seat has been custom fitted and designed for Richt this year while Greg Garity watched its construction through the blinds. GG is getting to know Michael Adams through this situation, but wants to win asap at UGA. And GG knows from his time in Gainesville that the last thing UF wants to see is Richt’s departure from Athens. Adams was willing to go one more year with Richt after a 6-7 season only because of his overall won-loss record and he feared retribution from the reprobatic moral majority segment of UGa’s fanbase if he pulled the trigger too soon. Adams knows the Dawg fanbase is completely divided, but knows he is beholdened to the kool-aid sipping, power broker boosters which are infatuated even still with the Richt persona phenomenon. So felt he owed to that moral majority to appease them by toughing out one more year with a broken, proven second-rate coaching regime. Pontus Pilate Adams is washing his hands and feet in the proverbial bowl of water and asking GG to be patient and quiet. Meanwhile Richt is under tremendous pressure and feeling the heat, which is causing him to act out character. He’s running key players out of the program, cursing, selling off assets and pinning all dreams of escaping the hot seat on a freshman crop of inexperienced players and underachieving, poorly coached returning players. Clear signs that there is total panic on in Athens. If CMR can squeeze out 8 or 9 wins this year he still can’t win because that will drive expectations sky high for 2012 with the delusional, fanatical moral majority fanbase that truly believes Richt can stand on water. The bad news for the reprobates is the MR kool-aid machine is running on fumes at UGa. The end is near Adams and GG know it and Richt knows as well. So what will happen? If Richt wins 8 or 9 games I can see him throwing his name in the hat at the OSU or resigning, once MA and GG refuse to give him a long-term extension and huge buyout at the end of 2011. GG and MA wouldn’t have a problem with Richt leaving on his own terms after an 8 or 9 win season. For them to escape the acrimony of the CMR reprobates, GG & MA hope the OSU or some other program will rush to grab the CMR mess off their hands, because he would be just what they need to preach and teach the virtues of morality and clean southern living to the tatted infidels there. There MR, architect of the “Georgia Tradegy”, could pass out large cups of his patented brand of kool-aid punch guaranteed in time to cause mediocrity, division, chaos and confusion among the fanbase . At the OSU, Richt won’t beat Michigan but maybe 2 out 10 meetings and he may not win any national titles, but he might win a Big 10, to give them false hope and stimulate delusional dreams of bigger things to come, while cleaning them out at 3.5 million per year. But that’s not why you hire MR anyway, you hire a MR to bring in a good upright, genuine virtuous man to right the wrongs of the listing ship and be everything the OSU thought had by deception with the sweater vest man. Don’t forget about how relieved and overwhelmed with joy, Garrity or Adams would be with such an outcome. Then those two could happily accept applications at UGa at last, with no blood on their hands. But for UGa fans we will still have to pray that whomever GG and MA hire that he won’t read or repeat the book of Mark R.
Waynesboro
June 5th, 2011
7:36 pm
I would say UGA should be in the top 4. Oklahoma? They produce ZERO talent of their own and have to fight it out with OK State and Texas on an annual basis.
Just further proof of how hot Richt’s seat is this year.
Bobby Petrino
June 5th, 2011
8:24 pm
What about Louisville, I mean Arkansas !
Bawbie
June 6th, 2011
7:01 am
FIRE PERNO! He chokes again!