What’s first-year verdict on Grantham’s defense?
Was it just a personnel problem, or should the Georgia defense have made more progress this year? (Brant Sanderlin / AJC)
Whether you tend to spin these things positively or negatively, Mark Richt pretty well summed up the defensive picture for the Dogs this week when he said Georgia still has “a ways to go” and “we’re still not playing championship-level defense right now.”
Since the end of the regular season, there’s been a lot of discussion among fans about the Georgia defense this year and the fact that its only real improvement over the Willie Martinez era was in takeaways.
All the offseason talk about a more “aggressive” style of play got fans excited about the arrival of Todd Grantham, but overall, the stats this season weren’t much different from the year before. Aside from Justin Houston, the Dogs weren’t very successful pressuring opposing quarterbacks. And Georgia ended the year dead-last in the conference in third-down defense.
Granted, the personnel wasn’t ideal for Grantham’s 3-4 scheme, particularly on the line, but it’s kind of alarming that there wasn’t any real improvement shown over the course of the season. And Grantham didn’t appear to have a clue how to defend the option running attacks that the Dogs increasingly face.
Should Georgia be feeling buyer’s remorse over spending big bucks for Grantham instead of opting for others who were available at the time, such as Tim DeRuyter, who has turned things around at Texas A&M, or Manny Diaz, who wound up at Mississippi State?
I put that question to a few fans this past week.
“I didn’t really feel like I saw the 3-4 I was expecting with lots of pressure and pressure coming from all over and confusing quarterbacks,” my son Bill said. “We played a lot of 4-2-5 or sometimes it looked like even just 4-3. Houston was always rushed from the end and that seemed to be our only blitz.”
Bill thought it instructive to look at Texas A&M, our bowl opponent last year, which also replaced its defensive coordinator after the season. “I watched Texas A&M, which switched to a 3-4 this year when they hired Tim DeRuyter from Air Force, who was floated for our D-coordinator job last year. A&M does a lot more varied blitzing and looked more like a 3-4 defense. They have Von Miller, a Justin Houston type player (they were both finalists for the Dick Butkus Award, which Miller just won) and he was rushed from different positions, so the QB didn’t always know where he was coming from, despite being an outside linebacker.
Was Todd Grantham's NFL experience perhaps not the best background for a college defensive coordinator? (Brant Sanderlin / AJC)
“It’s possible A&M just has better personnel to run a 3-4 than UGA. It is also possible that hiring a college D-coordinator made more sense than hiring a pro one, where those spread type offenses aren’t around as much. We also had an inability to adjust to covering a wheel route for way too long this season. Couple the collapses with the wisdom of giving a choke sign to a college athlete on an opposing team and I wonder about Grantham. Sure enough that hire will help determine if 2011 is the end of the Richt era.”
My friend Joel said he tends to think “it’s a personnel issue more than coaching. DeAngelo Tyson and Abry Jones should be playing DE, not nose tackle, especially in the 3-4, where (I’ve heard over and over) you need a really big space eater at the position. I wonder about the development of Kwame Geathers and Justin Anderson, both of whom are big bodies.”
But watching a replay of the Tech game particularly bothered Joel. “Bob Davie was pointing out that the interior gaps in the 3-4 defense are very wide, and Tech was simply running through those gaps. I’m no expert on defense, but I would assume that the linebackers are supposed to fill those gaps and they clearly were not. Maybe Grantham was willing to give up the inside runs to protect against the pitch, but they hurt us outside as well. I’d also note that Duke held Tech to 100 yards less offense that we did and, more telling, Tech only converted four of 13 first downs against Duke, while converting seven of 12 against us. Nobody can tell me that Duke has better personnel on defense than UGA.
“I do think Grantham is a smart coach — I remember Wade Phillips saying he was the most overqualified D-line coach in the NFL — and maybe with a year under his belt we’ll see some improvement. I also remember reading an article in the preseason that quoted some former players as saying that fans should not expect an immediate turnaround on defense, that it will take time to learn the new scheme and get the right personnel in place. I’d say that so far he’s been proven right.”
My old buddy Dan said he saw “little to no improvement on the defense this season other than the turnovers. Clearly that was due to a more attacking defense in place of the Willie Martinez style of waiting (until the other team was in the endzone, too often) and reacting.”
But, Dan said, “I am inclined to give Grantham one more year with his style players. I do fault any coach that coaches to his preferred style over the talent he has. … For Grantham to point to a lack of a nose guard for failure of his defense raises the more basic question of why was the defensive coordinator running a defense he did not have the personnel to play. He knew after spring practice what he had. His job is to design a defense with what he has.”
My brother Tim thought the biggest problem on defense was the lack of size on the line. “We were just overmatched by the big offensive lines we faced. All the deficiencies in the defense this year can be attributed to the line. (This is true for offense as well.) If you make plays at the line or behind the line it makes the other parts of your defense better. Defensive backs don’t have to cover as long, and you get more pressure. If it takes two offensive linemen to take on your defensive tackle(s) then your linebackers can make the plays.”
The outlook isn’t that bright either, Tim said. “I don’t think you can recruit enough players to turn it around in less than two years. Grantham was pretty much stuck with the players we signed last year, which mainly consisted of light, fast defensive end/linebacker types and defensive backs.”
My friend Carl over in Athens agrees. “I do think it’s a bit early to make any judgements on Grantham. He’ll need AT LEAST two years to get it turned totally around. Manny Diaz had considerably more talent at MSU. I have never been comfortable with the JUCO route, but right now I don’t see much other way to go. At least in the short term. I heard David Greene on ‘The Bulldog Brunch’ say that in 2002 the defense was so deep that Thomas Davis and Greg Blue were second stringers. Now, that was some fast defense in 2002. Boss Bailey, et al. All we have now on defense is fat, slow guys. Hopefully, this new move in S&C will be a big help. Couldn’t get much worse.”
Not a very encouraging picture, is it? What’s your take on Grantham and the Georgia defense?
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310 comments Add your comment
joseph
December 11th, 2010
8:47 pm
maybe cmr changing ctg coaching style had something to do with the defense not improving as much as it could have.
just a thought
Sugar HillDawg
December 11th, 2010
8:47 pm
I reiterate what another said before me. If Missippi St. has considerably better talent than UGA did last year we ARE in BAD shape AND who is doing the recruiting—-a drunken monkey???
RJ
December 11th, 2010
8:52 pm
Sugar hilldawg,
I guess we have a drunken monkey leading our recruiting then.
Macclenny_dawg
December 11th, 2010
9:01 pm
************BREAKING NEWS*********
Florida has hired defensive coordinator Will Muschamp!!!! Florida stills away a UGA grad!!! Florida beats us again!!!
GATOR
December 11th, 2010
9:03 pm
gator naion will dominant the Dawgs again and again and……
UGA Dawg 97
December 11th, 2010
9:05 pm
Man, I am fed up. If we had the balls to make a move you know Muschamp woulda came back here. Richt should have already been given his walking papers!
Bob
December 11th, 2010
9:06 pm
Gators hire away a UGA grad? Looks more like Gators had to take UGA grad.
And remember, the last three times Muschamp’s defense played Georgia his LSU and Auburn defenses gave up 45, 37 and 45. Not exactly causing me to tremble.
Bill
December 11th, 2010
9:07 pm
Bobo and Searels will soon be in Gainesville!
Mr. Rephrase
December 11th, 2010
9:11 pm
Lemme sea if I can rephrase the comments above. (the ones about “stills” and “will dominant”.) Wail, I don’t sea how it can bee dun, so eye want even tri. I wood like to no, however, whair Macclenny and GATOR wint to schu-al.
Mr. Rephrase
December 11th, 2010
9:15 pm
And hoo they voted four in the last election.
Mr. Rephrase
December 11th, 2010
9:16 pm
And whut they’re favorite News Channel mite bee.
Mr. Rephrase
December 11th, 2010
9:19 pm
Kin eye here a a-men ?!!
Clean House
December 11th, 2010
9:23 pm
Dont Worry…. Mark Richt will be gone after next year…. Mark it Down !!!!!
Snoop Dawg
December 11th, 2010
9:25 pm
The entire UGA coaching just stinks to high heaven. Offense, defense, lines, special teams, just about everything from A to Z. Teflon man Markt Wrecked is still a master of deflection, but he’s got the ship sppding toward the big iceburg at breakneck speed.
Grantham was picked just like our recruits are picked– based on other peoples’ assessments. Richt relies on the scouting agencies to figure out who to recruit because they flat have no ability to assess the talent themselves. We really don’t know how many candidates turn UGA down (I wonder why) but they finally signed on Grantham because of his NFL statistics.
If we don’t have the talent to run the 3-4, then why do we insist on hammering the square peg into the round hole. This is akin to Richt not pursuing Cam Newton because he didn’t “fit into his system. Well, his system stinks. It will continue to stink more just as a dead cadaver ripens the longer it sits in the sun. The Dawg Nation is doomed to loser status until the powers to be get the intestinal fortitude to fire Richt and his Medicine Show and to hire a truly professional team of coaches who have proven to be winners at the positions they get hired for.
Grantham is a big flop by any quantitative analysis of any statistics of defense this year. You can rationalize about what might be someday until the cows come home. Unfortunately, hope is not a method.
Mr. Rephrase
December 11th, 2010
9:26 pm
Just watch yore spellin, Clean. Else, I’m gonna be all over you like Anne Coulter’s adam’s apple.
Heathcliff
December 11th, 2010
10:29 pm
Blown assignments and location placement seemed to have been a recurring problem. I recall Coach Richt having to frantically call time out several times. Maybe our players were slower reacting than we might expect in college players at this level ? They seemed quick enough to chest thump and prance about when they did make a play.
mgdawg
December 11th, 2010
10:43 pm
I was very dissapointed. I expected that the defense wasn’t going to be up to par, but there are some areas where I expected improvement and saw none.
Tackling: At the start of the season it was pitiful, there was improvement as the season went on though. However, a lot of times it seemed like the defensive players were waiting for the offensive player to come to them instead of going to the offensive player.
Pass Coverage: There was none. The defensive backs covered grass; however, covering receivers is one thing they still haven’t learned to do. I expected a lot more man to man this year, but it seemed like zone continued to be the more popular call. However, I do think once the receiver caught the ball the DB’s seemed to close on them faster this year then last year.
Blitzing: I thought the purpose of the 3-4 was to disguise the fourth rusher. When you have 4 lineman all the time it doesn’t seem to work the same.
icedawg
December 11th, 2010
10:47 pm
Too early to tell but the personnel obviously did not match the scheme this year and likely not next year unless they get some super freshmen that can step right in to fill those slots. In fact, I wonder if the 3-4 is really the best scheme for the college level. I agree with those who have said that the 3-4 leaves huge lanes for the run. The D has been the Achilles heel for the past few years. The days of the Junkyard Dawgs have sadly passed. One observation is that the fact that defense in college ball across the board seems to have fallen on hard times. There’s tons of offense and not a single team that I can recall could be called stingy. It seems that the defense that can keep an opponent from scoring under 20 wins the game. That is a paradigm shift from years gone by.
BoWeevil
December 11th, 2010
10:51 pm
Aaron Murray threw Mark Richt under the bus today, complaining about Mark Richt firing Dave Van Halanger.
“Coach ‘Van’ is a tremendous coach,” Murray said. “We love him greatly.”
Quarterback Aaron Murray said players were caught off guard by the Dec. 2 firing of Dave Van Halanger.
http://www.ajc.com/sports/uga/multiple-uga-players-looking-773366.html
I don’t think it is right for the Quarterback and leader of your team going to the Press to complain about your head coach’s decisions. By the way, Dave Van Halanger is the most unfavorable coach on the football team, outside of Mike Bobo.
In the weeks leading up to the firing, everyone everywhere said Dave Van Halanger had to be fired, Aaron Murray.
Aaron Murray, 6-6 as Starting Quarterback at Georgia, was out-performed head-to-head by 6 opposing Quarterbacks this season, losing all 6 games as a DIRECT RESULT. Georgia ended the regular season # 73 in the nation in gaining 1st Downs this year.
GATA
December 11th, 2010
10:54 pm
Though yardage hasn’t changed from last year, what about turnovers? TG defence has done something WM could never hace done..go after the ball. Georgia has created many more turnovers as opposed to last season. I think its personal as well. If this guy can get the right players in here with his ball hog mentality..we might have something. Besides, even the great and powerful NICK SABIN, struggled his first year at Bama with there d-fence. Does that loss to louisiana monroe ring a bell?
hind tit
December 11th, 2010
11:10 pm
Backers play to far of the line to fill the gaps against the run, they don’t use enough different looks on defense and the result is they are to predictable. Defensive backs still look a little lost at times but much improved over last year and will get even better next year. I believe they were the reason for the improvement in the takeaways. Must concentrate on stopping the third down conversions which was the difference in a winning and losing record.Better conditioning will improve this. Not that far away just tweak the little things will make the difference.
ToccoaDawg
December 11th, 2010
11:22 pm
I am not pleased with this season. Still missed Tackles and Blown assignments but neither was Coach G. He brings a whole new mentality to the Dawgs. Remember these are Willy’s type players. I said last year when he was hired it would take him 2 or 3 years to get his players. Don’t panic fellow dawgs. We are in good hands on the D side. Just remember this year we had probably the best practice squad LBs in all of college football. As for me I saw improvement in the mentality and that’s a great start. Lets just sit back and let coach G get his guys. This year was a huge learning curve for him. What I saw was unlike weak willy, when his players messed up he was dead in their face. And we all know that’s been missing. Don’t worry be happy. we have the right D coach. The Offense on the other hand still needs tweaking. I did see some improvement on that side also. BUT Coach Bobo STILL goes away from whats working at times and that just drives me crazy. That too has to stop. But I have seen an improvement with the whole teams mentality, since Coach G arrived including Coach Richt. I was not happy with the record by any means. But I am willing to sit back and Let CMR and the rest of his staff coach up what is a young team and a new D.
cmac
December 11th, 2010
11:35 pm
IT SUCKED!! He got OWNED by Miss St, Florida, auburn, arkansas & COLORADO!!!! He is not worth the $$ he is getting!
Dusty
December 11th, 2010
11:44 pm
Grantham got behind the 8 ball with Murray’s 4 to’s against Florida.
Grantham held SC to it’s seaosn low scoring output but got no points from the offense in that game.
Grantham got no help from Caleb King (fumble) in Colorado game–and from Murray,,Colorado has one of the worst pass defenses in the nation, AJ should have scored 5 td’s.
Miss State, offense couldn’t score 25 points.
Arkansas, offense flopped at end of game, couldn’t move the ball 25 yards for game winning field goal.
Auburn? Got his butt kicked.
BoWeevil
December 12th, 2010
12:02 am
ToccoaDawg,
Sit back ?
That is your advice to us in This Great Bulldog Nation ?
To sit back ?
We have LOST 20 games these last 5 years, 4 LOSSES a year
We’ve been
SITTING BACK
way too long.
PHIL
December 12th, 2010
12:19 am
A few observations
Many have mentioned adjustments not being made. I am betting the ranch that anyone who wrote that wouldn’t know an adjustment on defense from a chiropractic adjustment to their back.
Bill as your son mentioned we played lots of 4-2-5 or similar nickel alignments. So to me, that throws all the arguments about not having the personnel out the window since we didn’t play that 3-4 alignment all that often. I am guessing, but it seems logical that it was because we didn’t have the personnel to play it.
Until that fiasco with the trade school, UGA was ahead of Alabama in total yards allowed per game and less than 30 feet behind Florida. After Cam lit Alabama up through the air, maybe we still finished ahead of them, I haven’t looked. So I see it as a trend that defense is going down due to rule changes and more teams with more sophisticated passing games. It’s been true all over the country but is just now coming home to the SEC.
What I saw time after time was that out players weren’t in the places they were supposed to be in on critical plays. Someone mentioned we couldn’t cover the wheel route and that is so true so I am figuring that is a hole in the scheme that needs to be fixed. I don’t know if the coaches are poor teachers or the players are dumb. But I am going to guess.
I am guessing it’s the players. Did anyone watch UCONN play SC last year? They made Stevie look like it was his first game. Coach Lakatos was able to coach up those kids. I am doubting he forgot how to coach so I’d say his players now are over rated and under IQed. Everyone raved about the LB coach hire from Vandy, how good he was there. I doubt he forgot how to coach. I think the poor defensive performance is due to poor players and them not knowing the defense. Maybe its too pro style for college, too sophisticated for the average college kid to master?? I remember reading on several occasions that Justin Houston would say that his team mates would not be where they were supposed to be for what ever the call was. For me that is more credible than a coach saying the same.
For example, do you think that Florida thought that Will had forgotten how to coach because his defense SUCKED this year? His team isn’t even going to a bowl. It’s not Muschamps fault and the University of Florida believes that as well. If they followed the same logic as many of you people, he’d still be at Texas.
And last but not least it is easy to observe that this blog is eaten up with simple minded morons that get their whole sense of self and their pride from a game played by 30 year olds. That’s sad. You know what else makes me sad? Bill gets paid for interviewing his family. And they are the ringleaders of this brainless coach bashing. For instance:
Bill’s son says “They (Texas A&M) have Von Miller, a Justin Houston type player (they were both finalists for the Dick Butkus Award, which Miller just won) and he was rushed from different positions, so the QB didn’t always know where he was coming from, despite being an outside linebacker.
Read that outloud. If you know anything about Von MIller and Texas A&M you know he IS coming. WHERE he is coming from is where ever he is lined up. It’s easy to see where he is coming from. He is not invisible and he has big numbers on his chest for you to identify him easily. EVERYONE in the stadium should know WHERE he is coming from if they can see where he is at the snap of the ball, In the 3-4 it’s not that you don’t know WHERE they are coming from , it’s that you don’t know WHO is coming, I promise you that every player on the field that comes from where ever they are at the time the ball is snapped.
I don’t even know why I bother
BoWeevil
December 12th, 2010
12:21 am
Todd Grantham ?
I’ve got no EXCUSES for him; none.
$750,000 and he comes in here with 11 years of NFL Experience.
He told us he would evaluate the players, first; and, then he would get the best on the field.
Instead, what we witnessed was he came in here pre-set on ONLY forcing his defensive scheme ON THE PLAYERS
NOT evaluating what we have and coaching to their strengths
He doesn’t know how to evaluate players
All we heard out of him all Spring and Summer was Jakar Hamilton was great
Jakar Hamilton I didn’t see do a damned thing all season long
Kwame Geathers
What the hell is up with Kwame Geathers and Todd Grantham ?
Brandon Boykin, the only reason why he will not be drafted highly right now, is because Todd Grantham obviously has him OUT OF POSITION.
Branden Smith
What the hell is up with Branden Smith and Todd Grantham ?
Bacarri Rambo
The guy made some of the worst plays in college football this season
And, yet, every time we looked up – back out there doing it again was Bacarri Rambo
What’s up with Bacarri Rambo and Todd Grantham ?
Vance Cuff, Jordan – LAWRENCE – Love, what’s up here with these guys Todd Grantham ?
BoWeevil
December 12th, 2010
12:22 am
Someone mentioned South Carolina game just now. Been a big bone of contention with me too. Game 2 this Defense was FAR BETTER than it was in Game 12.
Todd Grantham is GREAT ?
Really ?
Then, wouldn’t we have played BETTER defense in Game 12 than in Game 2 ?
Look, I realize the OFFENSE could not buy a 1st Down this Season and that we were wholy unable to return kick-offs laden with walk-ons as always which has not worked yet we do it year after year after year after year, that we were # 73 in the nation at even getting a damned 1st Down all season long and the # 48 Total Offense in the NCAA as well.
But, on
DEFENSE :
# 59 Defense in Pass Efficiency Defense
# 59 Defense in Rushing Defense
Good Googly Woogly, what the hell else is there on Defense ?
# 49 Defense in Scoring Defense
# 47 Defense in Tackles for a Loss
# 57 Defense in Sacks of Opposing Quarterbacks
Hey, we are supposed to have had this season a pressing, pressuring, get after the Quarterback DEFENSE
he TOLD us
PHIL
December 12th, 2010
12:23 am
20 year olds, my apologies for the typo
BoWeevil
December 12th, 2010
12:37 am
Mark Richt
Of course, this all gets right back to Mark Richt.
Look at the “coaching staff” he has for 2011
2011 without all these players
And, he has THIS “coaching staff”
The guy has NO CLUE how to hire a Coaching Staff
Maybe in his next job, he will
He has done everything to ruin this football program he can with his damned “coaching staff”
And, ESPECIALLY with his NO DISCIPLINE.
I am surprised that Herschel Walker didn’t say anything about this “coaching staff” of Mark Richt’s
BoWeevil
December 12th, 2010
12:38 am
PHIL,
20-year olds
Is that what YOU are in here talking about ?
legionaire
December 12th, 2010
3:53 am
Two problems I see with the NFL D that Grantham uses is 1st : it demands a big tough NG and there are not many guys who want that doubleteaming every play or can take it over a season without injuries. Thus your recruiting is severly limited at that key spot. 2nd : teaching the 3-4 D in college is ongoing whereas in the NFL, drafted players already have been exposed to it and it is a matter of plugging in guys where you need them. The jury is out on Grantham and his D.
BoWeevil
December 12th, 2010
4:12 am
No, the jury is not out on Todd Grantham, or anyone else Mark Richt has hired on the coaching staff.
EmoryDawg
December 12th, 2010
4:27 am
I agree UGA’s football implosion entirely belongs to CMR. He will never bring the team to competitive achievement. He doesn’t have the fire in his belly as Dooly once noted is essential. His coaching staff is next to worthless. His team management is non-existent. He’s arrogant in the lack of acceptance of accountability. UGA has the history of being an aggressive, four quarter team. This bs about “finish the drill.” is artsy cutesy until you realize a drill is a practice. “Finish the drill” my butt, Get After Their Asses!
EmoryDawg
December 12th, 2010
4:43 am
I’ll note one omen that is a harbinger of certain change – In the 30 plus years of our group of 8 coming to the UGA games, to a man, not one of us remember when the Athletic Department so aggressively advertised next season’s tickets as was done during games this year. The hand writing is on the wall.
Dirty Dawg
December 12th, 2010
5:04 am
I’ll never forget the word of Tom Osborne headed to the locker room at half-time of the NC game when Nebraska absolutely killed Florida that year…with a three or four touchdown lead he was asked by one of those sideline mic-ettes about how his team had been able to handle Coach Spurrier’s, and Florida’s ’schemes’…to which he responded – ‘It’s not about schemes…it’s about athletes’…and headed to the locker-room.
Agree that we need bigger-faster-and in better shape athletes…then we’ll see where they start out matters so much. Interesting that the names of Thomas Davis and Greg Blue came up – I don’t see anybody on this team that’ll ‘knock their d**ks off’ (a favorite Jim Donnan term) and until we do I don’t care what ’scheme’ you use, you won’t be successful.
JeffT
December 12th, 2010
6:08 am
Choked 1- to many times !
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
December 12th, 2010
7:04 am
F-
F-
F-
Need a refund
Need a Refund
No improvement at all
@ Phil
December 12th, 2010
7:09 am
@ Phil…”And last but not least it is easy to observe that this blog is eaten up with simple minded morons that get their whole sense of self and their pride from a game played by 30 year olds…” corrected to 20 year olds
Morons, morons, you say…quick, run and find a mirror…there’s one loose in your house…people get on here to blow off steam, and talk football as they see it…next to come out will be the “how many of you have ever played college ball”…relax and enjoy the morons
BoWeevil
December 12th, 2010
7:31 am
Like I said…
PHIL
come in here to talk about 20 year olds
And, picks on US for coming in THIS BLOG RIGHT HERE to say that Todd Grantham is
YET ANOTHER
MARK RICHT
HIRE
on
his
“coaching staff”
who is a
bust
NewnanDawg
December 12th, 2010
7:33 am
It’s all talk until UGA replaces Mark Richt. Van Gorder is long gone and it shows. We just missed out on Will Muschamp, Kirby Smart, and Major Applewhite. Nice job McGarity.
dawgma
December 12th, 2010
8:10 am
I will reserve judgement one year. Must be much better next year with a full year of recruiting and teaching the 3-4.
LION26
December 12th, 2010
9:19 am
With players leaving early and players not being held accountable to there production why blame one coach on his first year. I realize it’s a win now league but again, Alabama didn’t turn it around until Nick got his players on the roster. Give him one more year and just remember what we lost just two years ago, almost all of our offensive and remember these kids give 110%.
GO DAWGS.
jwritz
December 12th, 2010
9:23 am
So far, Grantham is a dud, plain and simple. Somebody needs to man up!
Tuna
December 12th, 2010
9:47 am
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it annoying that B. King feels he needs to use commentary from his “son” or a “friend in Athen” to fill out his blogs?
Whiny Dan Magill
December 12th, 2010
9:54 am
Wow. Army’s losing streak to Navy is now longer than The Drought.
I’m writing a letter to the Superintendent up at West Point and tell him he can start pretending some of the losses don’t count, since Navy has apparently had officer trainees on their rosters.
GDAWG65
December 12th, 2010
9:54 am
To win players need good coaches and coaches need good players. Think about it Richt.
Paint
December 12th, 2010
9:55 am
I was screaming yesterday to replace Grantham with Randy Shannon. Anyone wanna bet he joins Coach Mack at Texas?
SOUTHGADAWG88
December 12th, 2010
9:59 am
Grantham was not a good hire at that salary.I’m still unconvinced the 3-4 is such a big deal in college anyway.Everybody likes to tout Saban but even Nick’s teams have been unimpressive on defense when he doesn’t have great players.It’s no different than any other scheme in that regard except this…great 3-4 scheme players are harder to find than great fits for the 4-3
UGADawg83
December 12th, 2010
10:34 am
Gee Bill, your son, your buddy, and your brother. Now those are expert opinions. Tons of football and coaching experience I’m sure. Was the guy that changes the oil at Jiffy Lube not available to give his opinion?