What sort of ‘cutting edge’ football are we likely to get from Mark Richt?
Mark Richt doesn't want to "confuse" Aaron Murray with too much change. (Associated Press)
It’s the postseason, so fans and columnists are naturally devoting a lot of energy to parsing Mark Richt’s intriguing but typically vague comments at his season-end press conference.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t a whole lot of substance there, and what there was isn’t likely to make folks feel any better about the direction of the Georgia football program.
In other words, a typical Richt press conference.
The most interesting revelation was that UGA athletic director Greg McGarity, who was notable in his presence at the press gathering, has taken some of the administrative duties off Richt’s plate, which the coach says is “going to help free me up to [spend] more time doing the things I love the most, which is study the game of football and be an expert and be on the cutting edge.”
Richt didn’t spell out what that meant, but he indicated he was “not making any plans” to take back the playcalling from offensive coordinator Mike Bobo. He said he would meet with his offensive staff to “just look at what we’re doing and why we’re doing it and making sure we’re on the right path.”
Some wondered if he is contemplating revamping or opening up the offense, perhaps installing more spread option elements to take advantage of quarterback Aaron Murray being a dual threat.
But then Richt noted that when you make a lot of changes, it’s tough on the players. “If you just change for the sake of changing, then all of a sudden you’ve got to relearn something all over again. Do I want to confuse Aaron Murray right now? Heck, no. That guy knows what he’s doing, and he’s going to have a lot more confidence going into next season.”
So it doesn’t seem likely that he’s talking about installing the fun ’n’ gun.
Richt’s comments that Bobo and offensive line coach/running game coordinator Stacy Searels “have done a great job — not a good job but a great job” raised a lot of eyebrows and drew the expected hoots of derision. But, really, what did you expect him to say? It’s too late in the game for Richt to be reshuffling his offensive staff. He has to play the hand he dealt himself.
Perhaps a clue to what Richt will be doing with all this extra football time came when he said, “One of the biggest things I am going to be looking for is effort in the team and everyone around here. We need to do what we do well and do it full-speed. As a head coach, that’s the number one point of emphasis that I am going to watch for.”
Coupled with the installation of “old school” Joe Tereshinski in charge of the strength and conditioning program, you might take that to mean that Richt will be taking names and kicking butts during the offseason to try and light a fire under his team.
But then you remember this is Richt we’re talking about, the man mentor Bobby Bowden once joked was so calm and cool you needed to take his pulse to make sure he was still alive. It’s hard to imagine Richt summoning up any inner Nick Saban.
So the bottom line is that Richt says “we’re not looking to blow anything up.”
No wholesale changes, in other words. Which is not surprising. Sure, the Dogs just concluded a poor season in a lethargic manner that makes a good case for major change being needed, but the fact is that Richt only has the one season to turn things around and, as he noted, change confuses players. So whatever change we see on the field in 2011 is likely to be incremental and more of the attitude adjustment variety.
Richt tried to buck up the Bulldog Nation by declaring, “In my opinion we’re very close.”
He meant that the elements are there in his program for success.
But the reality is that if the head coach doesn’t manage to get more out of those elements in the coming season, we’re likely to be very close to the end of the Mark Richt era at UGA.
Were you disappointed by what Richt had to say or was it pretty much what you expected? And what “cutting edge” changes would you hope his football studies produce for the 2011 season?
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SHANNON
January 6th, 2011
2:20 pm
I hope the cutting edge change is that we actually have a pass pattern under 18 yards on 3rd and 2 next year.
Phil
January 6th, 2011
2:31 pm
Richt is a delusional clown. Now all of a sudden he’s going to become an expert?? Expert on what, how to reduce prison sentences and suspensions?
On the field, he is not expert and about a million miles away from cutting edge. The most daring play we had all year was a screen pass. No end arounds, no reverses, no fake punts, no onside kicks, no nothing. Look at the trick plays in Auburn’s arsenal. They killed us with the Statue of Liberty play, caught us asleep with the onside kick, burned us on the end arounds.
I would call Auburn cutting edge, we are as plain Jane as they come. Richt has truly lost it.
bdawg
January 6th, 2011
2:39 pm
I can’t get over the fact that we had roughly 33 days between last game and bowl game (finals, xmas break) to prepare for CFU….Obviously their coaches, players, and program took it upon themselves to showcase their football team and it’s obvious by our performance the game didn’t mean anything to us. Unfortunately for us, recruits are beginning to see this….I remember afew years back Coach Dye asked the question if we were “man enough” to play with Alabama…From our performance at the Liberty Bowl, it’s obvious the question has been answered about our players and coaches….HELL NO.
Evansdawg
January 6th, 2011
2:40 pm
This season has left me angry just like everyone else. But, if you recall the 2007 season, Richt came out of his shell in a big way. He started fist pumping and showing a lot emotion, at least for Richt. 2008 came, and he went back into his cocoon. I think the players would feed off of outward emotion from him because they obviously rarely see it. The problem from my perspective is that we are WAY too predictable of an offense. I could care less that we put big scores on the board during the last 6 games of the regular season. Its the play calling that haunts me. I can almost ALWAYS tell what we are going to do next, and it bugs the hell out of me. Then, in the bowl, going for the field goal on the first possession told the offense that CMR had NO confidence in them, and it haunted him the rest of the game. Its time for Richt to leave the cocoon and gamble a bit. If he refuses, stays mundane and can’t keep the in-state talent in-state…Richt be gone!
Bride of Chucky Knapp
January 6th, 2011
2:41 pm
Before: Vanilla Offense
Now: French Vanilla Offense!
Gbal
January 6th, 2011
2:46 pm
I am pretty tired of hearing CMR talk about how long it takes for the kids to learn a system…how he doesnt want to put to much on the young guys plates… accepts that it takes a half a season or more to learn a system…These comments or excuses just kill me. I honestly dont think the his staff gives the kids enough credit and/or he lacks confidence in them.
Face it, UGA’s playbook seems pretty simple as you sit and watch a game. We are so predictable… other staffs know what is comming at them. I have watched several other bowl games this week and am amazed at how some of these teams complex offenses make UGA’s look like something from my highschool teams back in the 1970’s. Look at Stanford, shifting not only backs but O-linemen to confuse the opposing defenses. Arky, OSU, UCF, UF, LSU, Bama, TCU, Oregon, go on and on and on…. These offenses appear to have 4x to 5x the complexity as UGA’s predictable offense.
I think strength and conditioning and recruiting good atheletes are both obviously important but there are so many teams out there who are not as stocked as we are who out coach or have schemes that keep more atheletic teams off balance and WIN.
Mark, you have got to give our student atheletes more credit and confidence or if it is accountability to be able to learn and execute more. We need to shake the bland, predictable, offense to give the kids a chance. I really believe this.
I’m no coach… just love to watch football and I am pretty simple thinking, but I can sit and watch a UGA offense for 4 quarters and guess that they might run 12 different plays over the course of a game.
I sit and watch these other bowl games and I am feeling like many or most of these teams have playbooks that are so much more diverse and keep defenses guessing… They seem to run 40+ different plays.
I am sure I am exagerating, but it honestly seem to me like night and day as a casual interested observer. My honest perception. Am I wrong?
Are other kids just smarter than ours???????
Or do we just not expect as much from ours???
Gotta open it up on both sides of the ball. All top teams are strong and atheletic… you cant have the opposing team predicting 90% of the time what you are going to run, no matter how atheletic and strong you are.
Phil
January 6th, 2011
2:46 pm
And for all of those who say “Who out there are we going to get?”
Well, Florida just hired Muschamp, we could have gotten him. You think Florida knows a thing or 2 about winning football games? 2 out of the last 4 National Championships, I think so.
Kirby Smart is out there, we could get him. He’s going to land a head coaching job, just wait and see.
We could have gotten Randy Edsall as someone pointed out, instead Maryland picks him up. You think he would have picked Maryland over Georgia?? I don’t think so.
While we sit still and do nothing, other schools are making moves and snatching up all the good coaches. Next year we be right back in this same boat, only behind the other schools who had enough sense to make the change.
Richt is a clown, Bozo is a clown, Grantham is a clown.
edumacated
January 6th, 2011
2:49 pm
I agree that Grantham has been a disaster. Everybody keeps defending him by saying that he didn’t have the right personnel, but shouldn’t a good coach be able to adjust his defense to fit the personnel on hand? The defense improved some, but that sure isn’t saying a lot considering who Grantham replaced, and how much money he got to do it.
On the other hand, it’s hard to work with guys who aren’t motivated and are phsically weak, so maybe I am judging too harshly.
Oh, and for the money Richt is paid, he should already know more about football than everyone except a handful of coaches in the country. He was suppossed to be an “expert” when he was hired.
Gbal
January 6th, 2011
3:01 pm
And I dont buy blaming assistant coaches for our bland basic scheme. Does an OC decide what the complexity of the playbook is giong to be?
Does the HC not determine the basic scheme or have input on a game plan and areas we target?
Does the OC decide how much of the playbook is feed to the players?
If so, tdoes the HC not have the responsibility to step in when thing are not going well and make adjustments.
Give em some rope on the playing field coach. come out with an O in 2011 that is not so predictable and keeps D’s off guard and gives our kids a chance to win. ALL OUT!!!
How much of the playbook should you expect every player on the team to know beginning game 1???? Absolutly, positively, no exception or excuses…. EVERY F’in BIT OF IT. PERIOD. Otherwise, when our backs are against the wall, we have nothing to fall back on and are likely to loose.
Jimmy
January 6th, 2011
3:09 pm
For all the idiots who think we should fire Richt immediately,
We can’t now. That time has passed. There is no one available right now who is as capable a coach as Richt. If we wanted to fire him, we needed to do it in early December so we could have choices as to who we wanted. We are also too late in the recruiting season. Our class as it stands now would blow up, and none of the uncommitted prospects in Georgia would want to commit to a coach they don’t know. Florida could recover because Meyer resigned early enough for the new staff to make some headway before signing day. We wouldn’t have that luxury.
Also, don’t freak out about the two kids who committed elsewhere yesterday. You can’t win ‘em all. UGA’s class will be just fine.
My point is for everyone to calm down and see how next season goes. I am of the opinion that Richt will turn things around, but if there is no progress next season (9-10 wins), then he should be let go.
Lil-Dawggie
January 6th, 2011
3:10 pm
Why doesn’t somebody ask him how the recruiting is goind for that dream team ? Can we get a writer with a set to be man enough to ask the tough questions to Richt ? Ya’ll all (sports writers) look like Vanilla Ice asking the generic softball questions anybody could easily answer.
Ask Richt just how he explains that Bobo and Searels were GREAT ?
You writers can write a blog but aren’t man enough to address Richt with the issues face to face !
wildbill
January 6th, 2011
3:11 pm
Here is the cutting edge change we will see this fall. Instead of run, run, pass, punt it will be run, pass, run, punt.
Lil-Dawggie
January 6th, 2011
3:14 pm
The Bowl game meant losing or gaining recruits on the fence. Now they are over the fence and grazing in Alabama…
chickenman
January 6th, 2011
3:17 pm
i cannot believe richt is keeping his staff… what a joke. This team sucks, all we can hope for is another losing season then maybe the AD will sack up and make a change..losing to inferior teams is GTs job not UGA
Spike
January 6th, 2011
3:26 pm
Color me unimpressed. After the debacle in Memphis, and that is what was, and that field goal try at the start of the game, here is what I hear … blah, blah, blah, blah.
Delbert D.
January 6th, 2011
3:32 pm
I posted this partial quote from the NYTimes site on Mr. SEC’s blog, and it got pulled. I guess he’s getting tired of my Death to the BCS message. The full article has been updated by the Times a few minutes ago.
“SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A political action committee out to change college football’s postseason system has filed a complaint with the IRS about a cruise hosted by Orange Bowl organizers for athletic directors and conference commissioners, along with their spouses.
The Playoff PAC reported the “Orange Bowl Summer Splash” to the IRS, complaining that the “all-inclusive, three-night, four-day complimentary getaway” to the Bahamas was a junket and could be impermissible under the bowl’s tax-exempt status as a charity.
Orange Bowl spokesman Larry Wahl told the Miami Herald the cruise was a business trip. An IRS spokesman declined to comment.”
Delbert D.
January 6th, 2011
3:33 pm
By the way, Andrew Luck is staying at Stanford. Another AP article on the Times site.
cutting edge
January 6th, 2011
3:34 pm
the only cutting edge for UGA next year will be the scissors on Richt’s contract….
huffsleeper
January 6th, 2011
3:36 pm
I can’t believe we are going to waste another year of futility before pulling the trigger. McGarity is as gutless as the rest of them. Richt has totally lost his way, is out of touch, has no discipline and no math skills. I’m a UGA grad but I will recommend to every player I see that they go somewhere else.
Spike
January 6th, 2011
3:39 pm
And run Caleb Kings’ arse off today!!
huffsleeper
January 6th, 2011
3:42 pm
12 o’clock high is a 1949 Gregory Peck classic about a tough as nails general who takes over a bomber squadron suffering low morale. The previous commander was not a bad guy but had lost it. McGarity needs to watch that movie.
Destin Dawg
January 6th, 2011
3:43 pm
several better coaches were fired this year…. that bowl game was pitiful… hell they’re OUT OF Shape….. FAT A$$ OL standing around.. hands on hips while Murray.. runs for his life and gets intercepted… NO creative Offense… no run blocking…. reverse ?? Fake punt ?? on side kick ??? end around ??? too EASY to defend !!!!!!! physical conditiong is the FOUNDATION of coaching !!!!
Top Recruit
January 6th, 2011
3:44 pm
I think it will be in the run game. Different blocking schemes and sets. Can not line your TB 8-9 yards deep and expect it to work. Have to split the backs and set them closer to the line of scrimmage. Think he plans to take the entire field…100 x 53…into the sets.
If they sign a smaller, lightning quick type RB [not necessarily a C. Thomas type]. Plus he will have the numbers at QB next year to be more aggressive in sets and calls [injury concerns during games and next games]. No doubt the QB play and development has been an issue the past two season with Stafford leaving. He has the QBs in fold now. And he has the D scheme he wants too. Think he runs a hybrid I and spread from here out.
Whiskeydawg
January 6th, 2011
3:44 pm
That press conference was near worthless. The only thing I took from it was the AD has taken more off Richt’s plate in order to give him no excuses for next year. I’m not in love with Bobo’s game calling but that O line just plain sucked and I don’t care who you have at RB, you can’t get far when the line collapses and they are not opening up holes. To say that CSS did a great job still has me shaking my head. What would a bad job look like I wonder? Lineman aimlessly roaming the field like freshly electro shocked inmates in a mental institution.
Delbert D.
January 6th, 2011
3:46 pm
Randy Edsall is an intelligent, good man who does *not* make “typically vague comments” (borrowing Bill’s line in this blog.) Yet Tony B. had misgivings about him moving to Maryland. I don’t know why, because Maryland is not in the SEC. Edsall has experience in Georgia, too, albeit at Ga. Tech.
7576DAWG
January 6th, 2011
3:50 pm
huffsleeper
That’s cutting off your nose in spite of your face. Let the AD handle this , that’s what he was hired for.I think that everybody at UGA has received and got it how upset the fans are. You have to complain in mass so the message will get across but as a graduate I will never wish UGA any ill will or in your case for a recruit to go somewhere else.
I went to UGA because of the school not the football program and I don’t want a recruit to come to UGA because of football but that’s one of their fringe benefits for coming to a great school.
extrapoint
January 6th, 2011
3:55 pm
What has become obvious, is that CR and AD Evans were at odds over the direction and control of the football program while CR has praised our new AD for backing the progam. It makes you wonder if Evans thought of himself as being in total control of the sports program and CR was second fiddle. It was easy to see there was friction between them. CR now has a AD who has granted his wish, go forth, coach and study football. As they say, be careful for what you wish, it might come true. CR now has to deliver the goods.
Delbert D.
January 6th, 2011
4:01 pm
extrapoint – I wonder if part of the agreement is a requirement for CMR to turn in regular reports on his studies.
schmeckdawg
January 6th, 2011
4:05 pm
CMR says he same thing after every year and before every season gets started. I am tired of the same ole rhetoric and getting nothing done. The recruiting is turning into a disaster. I mean what does he/the team/the fans have to look forward to next year? Even if we get Crowell, Drew, Rome etal. they are still going to be freshmen and how much will they really contribute? In Richt’s offense if you can’t pass block, you do not play as a running back so that ALMOST illiminates Crowell. Veterans on the OL sucked this year. Our RB’s for the most part sucked this year, and for all of his banter about how he know who the Georgia fans want to beat, Grantham, Belin and Laktosintolerant’s defense was very, very average. My question, is can anyone tell me honestly what there is to look forward to regarding the 2011 football season.
cutting edge
January 6th, 2011
4:06 pm
delbert….tony barnhart is mad because one of his golf buddies at reynolds – the fridge – got fired.
after his rant on todd grantham’s choke hold, and his hypocracy with masoli (ok) and newton (not ok) i use tony’s columns to help start fires in the fireplace.
G2Rhett
January 6th, 2011
4:07 pm
There’s really not much they need to change on the offense, defense, or special teams as in terms of play calling/schemes. The major thing is finding players that have heart, that want to play for Georgia, and that don’t lose their wits about them on the field. They’ve got to know their responsibilities and execute. Well, that last part lies with the players and the coaching staff. You’ve got to teach these young men responsibility and coach them up on technique. In the past we had numerous guys with heart on both sides of the ball, they truly loved playing for the Red and Black and they played SOUND football (technique wise).
This past year, I can only name a couple of guys that put forth effort, that played sound football, and that showed heart. As for the defense, it seemed like (as a whole) the players were afraid to pop someone in the mouth for fear of injuring themselves and they sure as hell couldn’t wrap anyone up when they were in position to do so. Defensively, backside containment was horrible. And on the playside, we did a horrible job of slow playing the run, maintaining outside containment, and turning everything toward our inside help (inside linebackers to be exact). And, with the exception of Boykin, our corners were brutalized on the outside physically. However, most of the fault lies with the outside linebackers as it is not a corners job to be the primary run stopper on the outside; their primary responsibility is pass first. The OLBs need to be the ones turning everything inside of them towards their help while maintaining good outside position. If an outside linebacker does his job correctly the majority of tackles made on the defense will come from the inside help flowing to the ball (inside linebackers to be exact). Corners and safeties will come up for extra run support once the ball carrier crosses the line of scrimmage. Do you hear that DBs? Only come up for run support once you know for sure that the running back/quarterback has crossed the line of scrimmage. We got burnt so many times when our DBs forgot to do their primary job…covering receivers down field. Many times our DBs got sucked in on play action passes allowing receivers to get behind them for easy scores.
The leading tacklers on your team should be your inside linebackers!!! Outside linebackers and down linemen should be creating the opportunities for your inside backers to make plays. The second leading tacklers should be your outside linebacker and strong safety. Good outside linebackers will not allow anyone outside of them (hence the name of your position, outside linebacker), they will take on a lead blocker with physical violence and get that blocker the hell off them to make a play if possible. BUT, no matter what, you maintain outside contain and turn the play back inside. You should not be relying on your corners to do this; there’s a reason why you play OLB…it’s for your strength and speed. Corners are not built like you and cannot take on a lead blocker with the same physical violence that you can. Corners are built for speed…you’re built for both speed and strength. Do your job. Boykin and Smith should not be primary run support on the outside unless the OLB is blitzing. Even then, if blitzing, the strong safety should essentially become the outside backer NOT a corner. It’s not that hard. I hope to God that the coaches are teaching this stuff. I would assume that Grantham being from the NFL is doing just that…of course when you assume, you make an A$$ out of you and me.
Phil
January 6th, 2011
4:11 pm
Jimmy,
How can firing Richt screw up our recruiting class when it sucks already? If anything, getting rid of that clown might actually help! These kids want to play for a winner, not a buffoon like Richt.
Phil
January 6th, 2011
4:13 pm
Listening to Bruce Feldman on the radio. He says Jon Gruden may be interested in a college job. You think Gruden could get some of these top recruits out there excited? More so than that clown Richt.
wildbill
January 6th, 2011
4:14 pm
Fans, it is gonna be a long year till this time next year. I just wonder what the current coaching staff thinks about all this crapola they have taken part in this past year. And, I wonder what the board of regents think. I am betting they are happy now that UGA football has been neutered.
AltamahaDawg
January 6th, 2011
4:25 pm
Good read Bill. Spot on with the idea that it’s foolish to expect him to say much at a deal like this. Folks can’t seem to figure out that he can’t run his press conferences like he is some faceless blowhard in a blog comment section.
FootballFan
January 6th, 2011
4:26 pm
Rest assured that whatever new gimmicks Rich and that idiot Bobo come up with, the opposing defensive coordinators will figure it out and stop it in short order. I think if Richt wins 8 gmes next year it will be a miracle. I feel sorry for the UGA fan base, but I don’t feel a damn bit sorry for Richt. He and he alone is responsible for how things now stand. His past decisions have finally caught up with him. At the end of 2011, McGarity should “man up” and fire Richt. He can then concentrate on bringing in a coach that can and will do the job of bringing UGA back to football prominance.
Coachdawg 2000
January 6th, 2011
4:27 pm
I’m soooooo sick of hearing some you mental midgets say “We could have gotten Will Muschamp”. Who wants him? Texas played worse defense than we did and during his days with Saban (just like Kirby) he just signaled in the plays that Saban wanted. We hung 37 on him when he was at Auburn. The guy is more over-rated than “New” coke. The guy is as a big of a fraud as the wizard.
AltamahaDawg
January 6th, 2011
4:28 pm
Our recruiting class sucks already???? how so?
Coachdawg 2000
January 6th, 2011
4:31 pm
Which part of us setting a school record for points scored are you morons not understanding? Bobo is not the problem. We underachieved and I think it is as obvious as ba11z on a tall hog that our coaches were more focused on recruiting than scheming for the fightin’ o’learys. GET A CLUE! Your levels of idiocy are why we do lose recruits. Maybe you all should be fired (and of course BILL KING!)
dawgcrzy
January 6th, 2011
4:40 pm
If Mark Richt would just look up, he would see even GOD has his arrms crossed and shaking his head.
AltamahaDawg
January 6th, 2011
4:47 pm
Bobo The playcaller is not the problem. Bobo the co-ordinator working with, or depending on, Seales as the running game co-ordinator is a problem. Something isn’t working there, despite Richt saying exactly what I expected him to say. And should say. But there is no way he is ignorant to the fact that the failure of our running game to be even marginally effective in the 4th quarter is why UGA lost the games. So where is that problem coming from? It’s not the only thing that kept them from being championship caliber, but its what kept them from playing on New Years day. Could be part of the “we are close” comment. How difficult it is to fix that is the question.
Denver Dog
January 6th, 2011
4:53 pm
The words “cutting edge” and Mark Richt should never be uttered in the same sentence.
Al
January 6th, 2011
4:57 pm
Well look folks, Richt is going to be with us at least one more year and so are his assistants so rather than spending more time calling for headsw to roll, how about something constructive: Here is what I think needs to be done to turn things around:
Lets start by teaching basic fundamentals hitting, tackling, blocking. It is painfully obvious that these kids don’t know how.
Start developing some toughness. That means intense downright brutal practices. The players should look forward to gameday because the other team can’t dish out as severe a punishment as the coachs during practice.
Learn how to hit an opponent so hard that he doesn’t even want to get up off the turf much less face you again on the line.
Take care of the fundamentals and the other pieces will fall into place.
drbasic1
January 6th, 2011
5:11 pm
Al
Best comment of the day!
AFDawg
January 6th, 2011
5:13 pm
C From Marietta, Friedgen from Maryland would come in to be UGA’s new OC and it would be a huge improvement. There is a lot of offensive genius available out there. Move Bobo back to QB coach — then Richt doesn’t have to worry about taking food out of the mouths of all those kids Bobo has (which I’m sure is Rict’s main concern in regard to Bobo).
Vain Jangling
January 6th, 2011
5:18 pm
CMR is powdered toast tough!
AFDawg
January 6th, 2011
5:19 pm
Al, I would add to your list to put a huge emphasis on special teams — start playing Beamer ball. Special teams should have won the game for Arkamsas in the Sugar this year. Did anyone notice how long the opposing punter held the ball against the Dawgs this year? They did that because Georgia never put any pressure on the punter all year and it allowed their headhunters more time to cover the kick-off return man. You can pick up on these things if you study game film. Does Georgia have a special teams coach? Sure didn’t look like it this year.
drbasic1
January 6th, 2011
5:20 pm
just my opinion here, but did these guys who committed last night, even take an English course in HS? I was ashamed of the lack of grammar. A show put on by all thee 17 and 18 year old young men, and exploited by all of us ‘grown men” makes me wonder what happened to “COLLEGE athlete”. I guess people are correct; college football has turned into nothing more than a small stepping stone to the NFL. Look for the young men that want to bleed “red and black”, get their Diploma in 4-5 years and in the process become a great football player with the possibility of turning pro. Showboats work for themselves only and have no concept of team. just my thoughts
old dawg
January 6th, 2011
5:24 pm
optimistic about next year?? let’s see… boise st and then south carolina. hmmm.. 0-2 to start. then coastal carolina and ole miss, so that get’s you even to 2-2. then miss st and tenn, so you’re 2-4. vandy and fla gets you to 3-5. new mexico st and auburn gets you to 4-6. kentucky and gt gets you a split so call it 5-7. best case you win 1 more and it is 6-6.
it is not too late to kick searles and bobo in the butt and tell that what you expect and you are going to call the shots and design the offensive game plans, and they better execute it properly.
it is not too late to announce a no tolerance policy “get arrested for anything and you are gone”.
it is not too late to set player development objectives for each and every player and a plan for them to get there. don’t do it/ make it… don’t expect to play.
it is not too late to announce that the performance in the off season and on the practice field will get you playing time regardless of how long you have been in the program.
or we can remain vague, have another break even year, they can all be sent packing, mcgarity can tear down 1/2 the stadium (ala gt so they can fill it going forward), and adams can proclaim that to enhance uga’s competitiveness he is pulling out of the sec and joining the ivy league so uga can really be the “harvard of the south” as he wants.
and lastly the remaining 27,000 fans can come to town on saturdays, find close in parking, sip cognac, eat cheese, and debate about whether it is civil to even keep score or are the players personal self image being damaged.
long live sec smash mouth football!
icedawg
January 6th, 2011
5:27 pm
Bloggers it’s time to take the spring and summer off. There’s got to be other subjects and blogs on which to bloviate.