Comments on: Jim Donnan reconsidered: Not a bad ‘Old Coach’ after all

By: Palemoon

Palemoon — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:50:27 +0000

I don’t see the same “upgrade” in Richt that everyone sees. He’s not a very good coach. A micro-manager, sure. Brazen? Very. You can tell Richt graduated from the dirtiest, cheating’est program in the NCAA, the Miami Hurricanes.

Anyways, I want Richt held to the same standard as Donnan. I want him fired because he will never, ever, beat Tennessee and Florida in the same season. Especially when Urban Meyer is coaching Florida. Now *THAT* would have been a serious upgrade at coach for Georgia, to have landed him instead of Richt.

By: Cindy Hendrix

Cindy Hendrix — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:02:56 +0000

Jim Donnan did a fair to average job at ga going from Marshall to Div 1-A was a big leap & he just
could not do it compete with the big boys in the sec will give him credit for 97 his best year ga was
10-3 & beat fla great game in 97 aganist Auburn his personality needed some work after all remember alumni donate big money & the fans buy the tickets to fill up the stadium I commend Mike
Adams for saying it’s time for a change in the football program & now is the time Dooley taking up for him was a lost cause If Adams had not made the choice to fire him & hire Mark Richt UGA would not be where we are today Richt has taken us back to a team to be proud of not since Dooley have we come so far Richt is a fine coach & a good man a good fit for ga he learnded from 1 of the best Bobby Bowden Donnan did a good job at Marshall but the sec is a whole new ball game 1 he just could not compete with great job Mark Richt I hope you will be our coach for a long time to come GO DAWGS!!! Cindy

By: shepdawg

shepdawg — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:45:56 +0000

Thanks Mark for a nice article on an underappreciated coach. Coach Donnan left Georgia much better than when he arrived. Most of the criticisms of him are childish and uninformed. While everyone was disappointed in Quincy, Donnan did what was best for the program at the time and thankfully did not lift the redshirt on David Greene. His loyalty to Georgia is great even today ( yet our loyalty to him has been shaky at best). If you remember he turned down offers at NC, NCSt, and Oklahoma. Had Georgia stuck with Donnan I am sure he would have won several SEC titles and competed for the national title also. Don’t forget his comment on David Greene ” If you think Quincy was good wait till you see this kid’. He would have had a great team in 2001 and 2002. As for the Tech losses it seems to me that Al Ford should have been fired not Donnan. Rarely is it mentioned that ACC officials in Athens blew the Hamilton fumble at the end of that game also. He would have been averaging over 9 wins a season over his last 4 seasons at a time when Fla and Tenn were winning national championships and always ranked in the top 5. Yet he broke long losing streaks against both. He was always very pleasant around me so I never understood the off field angst. As a former high school coach I can tell you that his X’s and O’s were highly respected in the profession. Thanks Coach Donnan for all that you did to pave the way for our current successes.

By: lazydawg

lazydawg — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:21:29 +0000

Can you say tunnel sceen?Mr.Predictable let the players run the school and the locker room,but was a hell of alot better than what we had.

By: George

George — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:55:19 +0000

Donnan was offered the Kentucky and Kansas jobs before Brooks and Mangino along with others that his agent told me since he was terminated.

By: Mark Bradley

Mark Bradley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:43:41 +0000

I got an e-mail from the Old Coach today. He asked me to keep the contents private, and I’ll honor that request, with this tiny exception: He did say thanks for the kind words.

By: Dawg stuck in Bham

Dawg stuck in Bham — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:38:51 +0000

As the brother of an Athens teacher and coach(he coached numerous athletic dept. kids, let me share what was shared with him…
Donnan’s downfall was he only wanted to deal with X’s & O’s and no off field stuff. The day of that coach is over. A Div I coach is a CEO and Donnan was not that at all. The teams had a TON of racial issues between the players during his years. Donnan’s view was let the players work it out among themselves.
Donnan allowed the program to be in complete disarray behind the scenes. That, along with not winning some important games, is what cost him his job.

By: Putting Jim Donnan’s Tenure with the Georgia Bulldogs Into Perspective | The Epic Sports Wagering Broadcast

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:24:47 +0000

[...] the College Football Hall of Fame. Now, I have no intention of continuing to flog a dead horse, but the latest apologia penned by mealy-mouthed Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Mark Bradley (for whom the defense of the 1990 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Coach Donnan are recurring [...]

By: chazzo

chazzo — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:47:15 +0000

Ole Dawg: He had a clause in his contract did he not? He received a nice pay check for doing nothing. That was one of my worries about firing him at the time. Anyone know what he got severance? What about Goff?

By: Monday (7/20) reading « The Chapel Bell

Monday (7/20) reading « The Chapel Bell — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:48:11 +0000

[...] Bradley offers his opinion that Jim Donnan just needed a break or two to go his way while he was the coach at [...]