Even as Richt focuses on Tech, there’s a grim big picture

First loser.

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Darn!

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Mark, you are right again. I think the coaches actually gave up on coaching 2 years ago. I don’t think they know what to do now. As I learned in management many years ago, the old saying is true that when you have ignorant people and you decide to have a meeting (or in this case form a coaching staff), all you get is a pool of ignorance. I kind of see this as what has happened at UGA. I don’t think making any changes in strategy or coaching style will accomplish anything. The program needs some different thinking and nobody has ever had much success changing anyone’s thinking. You just have to start with new people.

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We’re gonna win!!
Go DAWGS!

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Thank you Mark. Thanks very much. All your points all year on this selfish head coach of ours are dead on, and I’m glad the media finally caught on to what a fraud this guy is. Mark Richt is a fraud. He won big early because of the sorry state of the conference (declining UT, UF with Zook, typical SC, down Bama), Yech with Gailey, and Brian Van Gorder. UGA won in spite of Richt’s pitiful offense then. Now, our offense is slightly better but still outdated, but there’s no Van Gorder, and the conference is upgraded. Richt is selfish and blind to the fact that he’s let this program slip considerably. I want him out, and MANY other Bulldogs know the Mark Richt ship has sailed in Athens. Thanks again.

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AS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO THE BUMBLE BEES,UGAY WILL KEEP WILLIE AND BOBO,MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GO TECH!

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spot on…perfect diagnosis on what is wrong in athens….now,…my pet goat wants to know what georgia is going to do about it????????…you could make me happy and do nothing!
what’s it going to be georgia fans???? what are the necessary changes???

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If he doesn’t grasp it, then in two years’ time at the most, he won’t have to worry about it. It won’t be his problem any longer. Of course, Bradley, as do a lot of others, you are crediting Richt with too much intelligence. I don’t think he is quite as smart as s lot of people think. I will put forth the opinion that, instead, he has been quite lucky. Luck makes up for a lot.

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End of the year coaching changes:
1. Willlie demoted to DB coach, New DC comes in.
2. Bobo demoted to QB coach.
3. Mark Richt takes over calling plays again.
4. Fabris gone.

Anyone who thinks CMR will bring in a NEW OC has lost their mind. The offense is his baby that he brought in from fsu.. Bobo is his protege and calls CMR plays.. I only see the possibilty of 2 new coaches. DC and Special teams..

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I remember last year when Alabama was “young” – they only went 10-2 because they had good coaching. UGA, on the other hand, has no coaching but plenty of excuses.

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Head Coach: Spurrier
OC: Weiss (Don’t be fooled by his HC performance folks. This guy can run an Offense.)
DC: Tubberville

A Dawg Team with these guys coaching would be Fearsome to say the least.

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you may be right smiba

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Beating Tech (unlikely but possible) would be sweet, but I can’t believe that would lead CMR to kid himself that everything is OK.

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Comparing Kentuckys team to teams of the past is wrong. The Dooley years was at a time where all big college teams picked all and as many great players they wanted while teams like Kentucky got average players at best but now with the scholarship limits the big schools can’t sign all the blue chippers. Just look at the top 25 and you’ll see teams like Boise St who were once homecoming picks for the big schools while teams like Georgia, Oklahoma, Nortre Dame are trying to get into ANY bowl. this does not hide the fact that so many other teams have Gotten better while Georgia has become stationary. I don’t know what needs to be done to turn this DAWG team around except have patience and see if these young players, which we have so many of, will live up to their 5 star high school ranking. Maybe just maybe Coach Richt can get the right prayers answered and replace coaches when and where needed

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Eddie: you are delusional. Mark Richt is either in denial or just plain stupid. All you have to do is look at the stats…or maybe you are in denial or just as stupid as Richt. UGA needs to get rid of their DC, their LB’s coach, and their special teams coach. They need to tell Bobo to play power football or else he is gone.

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See if you can find another way to say that UGA is going down the tubes. I think you have now written this column 57 times. It’s amazing that you get paid for this. BTW, please explain how LSU has lapped the Dawgs? 5 losses last year, 3 (so far) in ‘09. That is a moronic statement. Bama is on the way up…but hasn’t won anything (much like your hero Paul Johnson). Florida…I agree with that one. They’ve lapped the nation, though, so there is no shame in that. For the record; I agree that UGA is not in good shape right now. Richt has given no indication that he isn’t capable of fixing it…shut up and give him a chance to do it.

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I have heard that Willie will resign on Sunday. Any credibility to that report?

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I hope that the ignorant Georgia fans get their wishes and Adams finds a way to fire Richt. Richt is a quality coach and has earned more respect than he is getting now. Other potential coaching candidates will then see how a quality coach is utimately treated by these yahoos and will then shun the job, and Georgia will be stuck in another lost 20 years. Just like the end of the Dooley era and those under Goff and Donnan. Come on Georgia idiots, fire Mark Richt, fire Mark Richt!!! This will ensure your rightful return to college football mediocrity for years to come.

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There have been many interviews with Coach Richt. There have been many (maybe more) interviews with Joe Cox. There have been a few interviews with Bobo. Why has no one been interviewing Martinez? What he might have to say on this deplorable situation would be interesting.

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I look for Michael Adams to get involved…he’s good at crisis situations. Maybe it will help his character issues.
It is apparent that Bulldog Nation needs for him to act…say something at the very least.

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Amazing how many in Dawg Nation refuse to see the obvious.

This program is getting worse – not better. We drag the anchor with penalties, turnovers, points allowed, yardage allowed. Yet we have been among the Top 5 or 10 in recruiting almost every year. Our players are out of position, not prepared for gameday, execute poorly and have sometimes laid down on Martinez and given up.

We have not prepared even ONE QB for next season. I submit Richt and his band should go but there will likely only be a couple of other coaching changes that will help but not provide the player performance needed to win the SEC. This will eventually be Richt’s downfall.

The pity is that the players, students, alums and all Dawg Fans will see another year or two of embarrassment before it happens.

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MB:

Your finest article in months! I am glad you and Schultzie are finally discussing what us in the know have known for years, that Richt is an emperor with no clothes. Take away Greene, Shockley, Pollack, and Van Gorder, and you have nothing. This is a complete and utter disaster.

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I heard Richt and the entire staff resigned this morning but will coach the Tech game just to piss off Georgia fans.

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364 days ago today

By the time Roddy Jones finished tightroping his way down Georgia’s sideline, the dog nation had been put in their rightful place from pre-season national champion to real-season state runner up.

There were many big plays in Georgia Tech’s 45-42 victory over georgia (Tech’s new bitch) at Sanford Stadium (Tech’s home away from home) last season. But none was bigger than Jones’ 54-yard, game-winning touchdown run with 7 minutes, 13 seconds remaining.

Cheers ring out every time the run is played on Tech’s scoreboard during games. There are more than a dozen versions of it on Youtube.com that have been watched more than 40,000 times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlAAkUYZ1Y

It capped a comeback from a 28-12 halftime deficit (that’s 16 points if you are a Georgia fan). It came with a little more than 7 minutes remaining and really put an exclamation mark on a third quarter beat down/fourth quarter bitch slapping that has silenced all but the rabid azzholes of the dog nation for an entire year.

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Leave him alone, or he’s going to Miami.

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Funny,how the AJC.com decided to pull the “Who is the Best Coach a) Johnson b) Richt c) Smith” survey from the UGA section but left it on the Tech section.

Trying to “rig” the numbers? : )

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I think that something has probably been worked out behind the scenes for Martinez’s departure. I may be going out on a limb here but What I think we MAY happen is a lucrative buyout of Willie’s contract, he resigns and is possibly replaced by Tommy Tubberville. His background is primarily in defense and he and Coach Richt are close friends. I love your articles Mark, does this scenario seem far fetched?

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It is all about Michael Adams handicapping Richt! Damon Evans is just one of Adams’ puppets.

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Here is an unbiased, national sportswriter’s take on the state of the UGA program. It’s a reality check time for you blind homers: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/stewart_mandel/11/24/sooners-bulldogs/index.html

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I hope Adams is paying attention. Maybe he isnt. But he should be—–somebody is on sleeping pills over in Athens. Hellloooo!!! Anybody alive in that graveyard over there?

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Dang Yellow Fuzz! I thought the tryptophan would have you sleeping in this morning?

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Cantonese Dawg….I believe what Mark is doing is reporting on the “state of affairs” as they stand now. It is honest journalism and it is what reporters do in good times as in bad. I don’t like casteroil but sometimes it is good for me!

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Papadawg at 8:09 is another blind homer

ATTENTION EVERYONE: PAPADAWG AND EDDIE ARE TWO MORONS. PLEASE IGNORE ANYTHING THEY SAY!

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AU True Blue
I believe you are right about the cycle , but I am also afraid that UGA is in a down cycle of several years if for no other reason the QB situation you are very right about stafford hurting the team the most ,and what are we looking at next year for a QB nobody knows.
I think Auburn , and Tenn are on the up cycle , Fla and Ala cant maintain their current level and their coaches are liable to move on . Kentucky is better but still Kentucky vandy is a very clean college , ark is going to be tougher than people think , south carolina will continue to be middling , i think the next few years will be ripe for a team like auburn ,tenn, or ga to make a run. Of those three i believe Tenn is the most likely to impload .
GO DAWGS !!!!!!!!

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Dawgs win tomorrow night. Tech is # 7 in the nation, play at home, and are only a 7.5 pt favorite?
Again, dawgs win tomorrow night.

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the news arm of liberals, the ajc.com will barely sell at the stands and you can’t even write an article about saturday’s game…lay off the coaching situation and write about the state championship game Mr. educated Badley. for the sake of both ga. and ga. tech fans! course i am sure richt’s conservatism doesnt set well with the ajc!!!!!!!!

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i mean tech is only 26 games behind in the series!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Shock value. Write exclusively for the big hits. Geez….

How many times do we have to talk about the same thing over and over? At the very least, we will have a new defensive coordinator and I’m betting we will have 1-2 more new assistants as well.

This is a huge game, Mark, not because of bowl implications. It’s because another win for Tech means they finally have a winning streak against us. It means when you talk about best teams in Georgia, Tech will have to start the discussion, not the Dawgs. Win this game and Georgia fans can be comforted that even though we’re at our deepest depths and Tech is at it’s highest point, they still can’t take us over. That’s why it’s huge.

Herschel Talker: It will get better, buddy. Mandel is wrong in his article. I truly believe just a few coaching changes with the assistants will turn this around quickly. Especially def.coordinator.

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johnson may win that many in a row and even the series

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Miss has lapped Ga too. Face it mutts. You have been a 5-8th best team in the sec for a while now. This year it’s #8. You could go lower next year.

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I’m sick of hearing from bulldog fans that are complaining about other bulldog fans because they are complaining about the losing and the poor coaching with perceived talent that is supposed to be superior to teams like tech and Kentucky. VanGorder was a big reason we were competing at a higher level nationally in the past. Richt is a good coach but who cares if he can’t find assistants that do their job. You supposedly die hard ga fans wake up. The rest of us are still Ga fans but we know that something has to be done. I wish Richt had half the balls that Paul Johnson does. He is the man! I’m not a tech fan but I am a Paul Johnson fan. What’s funny about tech fans is that most of them don’t even know they have a football team until they win a couple of games and even then most of them don’t know who their players are…Sorry that’s true. Fire Willie Martinez and everything else will fall into place.

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Several random thoughts:

1. My first doubts about this staff date back to DJ Shockley’s senior season. Poor coaching decisions cheated DJ out of the chance to lead two potentially game-winning drives: first, against Auburn (coaches let AU run last minute off clock at goal-line instead of allowing score and putting ball back in DJ’s hands); and second, against West Virginia in the Sugar (coaches let a slow Germanic punter run 20+ yards for 1st down on a fake punt with no one covering the fake, again taking the ball out of DJ’s hands with 90+ seconds to go and the game on the line). For all the praise of DJ’s character that year and others, the coaches totally dropped the ball and hosed him–otherwise, DJ just might have led a one-loss (to UF, only because Joe T couldn’t quite get it done) team that year. Nice coaching.

2. Speaking of fake punts, do we have a scheme for defending them at UGA? Why are they so successful against us? Do we actually play 11 guys on special teams plays? Or do we just put 7 out there?

3. When was the last time our defense played with outright meanness? I mean, like “Nick Saban is going to call your momma the nastiest things he can think of if you don’t hit and wrap” meanness? The 1980’s?

4. When was the last time our O-line absolutely roadgraded another good team? Why do our O lineman so often (a) get injured, (b) leave the program, (c) not live up to their hype, (d) seem to regress or (e) have to be shuffled from spot to spot? Why do we always seem to be short on quality OLs?

5. Even though the schedule lightens next year, does anyone think a freshman with no snaps can help us win more than 8 games next year? Even with the embarassing riches on offense? Even Peyton had a tough rookie campaign at Tenn, and I don’t think we have a Peyton in the stables at UGA.

6. One optimistic note: we are a tipped ball vs. SC, an AJ block vs. ASU and a Cox career night at Ark away from being 3-8. But for all the abyssmal performances, we should have won vs.UK, basically got hosed vs. LSU and were a couple of plays from turning the Okie State game in our favor–all of which would have left us 9-2 now. Some teams (think Iowa) play poorly and nevertheless win all those games. We didn’t this year. With the right 2 or 3 assistants, how does this year change?

7. The Jackets are already strutting (can nerds strut?) and slapping their pocket protectors. No upset predictions here, but what do you do if you are a Trade Schooler and you lose this game? How do you face yourself Sunday morning?

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[...] Mark Bradley of the AJC writes that there’s a grim big picture at Georgia. [...]

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LSU only passed the Bulldogs with the SEC officials help. You are so full of IT, you can no longer be objective. Mark Richt will do what is right and he does not need to tell you, any sports writer or any supporter of the program. The only one he needs to answer to is Damon Evans. He will when the time is right. Mark is smarter than any of you nay sayers think.

Go Dawgs!

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I watched the Texas/Texas A&M game last night with probably a bunch of you folks. Not one flag was thrown for excessive celebration or even flipping the ball in the air after a terrific catch or run….so I pose this question to all including MB – do you think that college conference referees need to all use the same handbook?

Clearly – and I know I will get grief over this – would the Ga-LSU call have changed the direction of the Ga program, really made that much of a difference, or does Ga have a celebration target on its’ back from last year?

And that was a good Turkey day college football game last night!

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I’ve been saying it for two years.Bring in Jon Tenuta to take over the defense.With Weis on his way out at ND this guy is going to be looking for a new job.

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Back atcha Yellow Fuzz! Sending Georgia A New X-Mas present….= PRICELESS
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It wasn’t a Head Coach that said doing the same thing over and over expecting different results was still a winning philosophy after your opponents figured it out…

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mark, you’ve been writing the same blog for 2 months now. anything new?

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I looked at the administration in the football program—–why does Georgia have all these people from Florida running their program? Now that is something to think about. What is really going on at UGA—this could be a plot to keep Georgia as a second tier program so that Florida keeps winning and winning and……….Wake up Georgians, you are being hoodfinked.

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Wow Mark, same article every week, just change of opposing team name. Every week you talk as if this game is important to lose because if we don’t it will justify keeping the same coaches aboard, message received, next argument.

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The statement about Richt’s first five years (played for three SEC titles)……………….Vangorder was the defensive coordinator and BoBo was NOT doing the play calling. Surely Richt is not so blind to see he needs to get back to what works and a new defensive coordinator. I’m sure Willie is a great guy and a good friend to Richt, but time to move on

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GaGator makes a good case. The problem at UGA is coaching. Things aren’t likely to change while Richt is head coach. Georgia will have better years than this (a disaster by any standards), but they will not be good enough to overtake the top teams like Florida and Alabama.

With all of this so obvious, why are fans who are demanding a coaching change being criticized so loudly?

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Loyal Bulldog….How do you know that CMR has not had a sit down with Mark? And CMR told him to keep it under wraps until an appropriate announcement is made, true journalist would honor that request. Relationships between newspaper writers and head coaches are not something that are made public. Neither party would admit to that prior to a press release or press announcement. Forging those types of relationships take a long time to cultivate and are based on the trust of both parties. CMR and the AJC reporters are good professionals. Both know what they are doing and how to do it. If you read between the lines you can sometimes tell what the gist of the next article on the subject will be. Covering a national team like UGA is a practiced science and relationships are the linchpin of that relationship.

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About Richt changing some of his assistant coaches, particularly Martinez and Bobo: The assistants are not the real problem. The head coach is the problem. Firing Martinez and Bobo is like putting a bandaid on a bleeding artery. Georgia needs major surgery, and that means removing Richt.

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This debacle of a season comes down to four major issues:

1) Turnovers. A good team can lose to anybody when they turn the ball over 4 or 5 times in a game. An average team will lose almost everytime when the turnover ratio is where Georgia’s is this season. Playing in the SEC doesn’t allow you those type of mistakes.

2) Penalties: Mark Richt has to get serious here. ANY player who makes a careless stupid penalty needs to be jerked from the game immediately. I don’t care if your name is AJ Green, Rennie Curran, or Drew Butler. This will solve the problem.

3) Defensive Philosophy: Willie’s bend and break has to go. No further explanation required.

4) Blocking: Our offensive line got pushed around this year. We should have been racking up big yards on the ground. Our offensive scheme relies on play action(David Greene was the master of play action). Without the fear of a strong running attack, our offense is crippled. You don’t need a Knowshon if a hole is there. Any decent back should be able to get 5-6 yds if the line does its job.

OK, one more for good measure.. once again, no pressure on the QB.

If any one of the four major issues was not present this year, we would have at least 2-3 more wins. In a year where we had to replace 90% of our offensive firepower and play one of the toughest schedules in country. That would be about right.

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One year does snot define a coach. Meyer had a 4 loss season, so did Miles. Carrol had a 6 loss season. Patterson has 2 bad years win/loss wise recently.

Richt:
60 wins in 6 years
70 in 7
80 in 8

To defend Mark Bradley’s argument, you’d have to conclude that Stoops, Carrol, Meyer, Paterno, Mies, Patterson should all have shook up their staffs or been fired.

Typical journalists inability to accurately predict the future.

Interesting though, bradley now thinks Georgia MIGHT win, whihc is why he wrote this. What does THAT say about this staff?

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Okay, I want to throw this in before the rest of the idiots keep spewing…

Does anyone notice the similarities between UGA and FSU? FSU had some great seasons but they have dropped from the national championship talk to mid-tier bowl projection. UGA had some good seasons and now has dropped to mid-tier bowl projection. FSU does not want to see change. UGA…

I am a big Mark Richt supporter (heck I’m one of the bandwagon drivers). But change is needed in Athens from the way things are being done. I’m married to a Clemson fan for the past nine years and saw some of the same things in Tigertown, but there is a new attitude in Clemson. Yeah, they are playing in a VERY bad ACC division, but they did not do some of the same mistakes found during another Bowden led team. I just want to see a Dawg team that is disciplined.

Finally, a decent football team with a great and talented QB can do something. A great and talented team with a decent QB finishes 6-6. We had better hope that Aaron Murray is a great and talented QB as we have been told or next year is 6-6 again.

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Sorry, Mark, but Kentucky was not the lesser team. Brooks has built a successful program by recruiting sound players and maintaining high academic and behavior standards. Last year, Brooks dismissed his number one quarterback prospect for an ofense that Richt would have winked at. I attended the Georgia/UK game last year and counted 13 Georgia players on the field with arrest records, including the felon, Ellerbe. I think that the decline in Georgia began with Adams when he brought his friend, Harrick, to Georgia and enrolled Tony Coles, who is presently in prison in Illinois. The housecleaning must start at the top.

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Herschel Talker: LOL….maybe you need to re-read my posts. Pretty sure I mentioned some new assistants for next year.

If you’re one of the ones that feels Richt should be gone, well, I think you don’t have a clue.

He will make some big changes in the program for next year. I guarantee it.

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If Richt stays, it will be great for sports bars, since UGA fans will flock to these places every year to watch the SEC championship game on bigscreen TV. Unfortunately we’ll be watching other teams playing for the title.

Ask yourself the question: Will UGA ever beat Florida again and win the division? And even if the Dawgs beat the Gators in an upset, there would still be those absurd inexcusable losses to teams like Kentucky that would keep us out of the championship game.

I’ve already sent my letter requesting Damon Evans to fire Richt and hire another head coach. I;m not expecting an answer, but at least I tried. Maybe if he got several thousand letters, they would have some impact.

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Most of you “coach coaches” are frigin’ idiots!!! Richt struggled this year, get over it. Bob Stoops lost some key starters and has struggled (we lost them to the draft), Pete Carrol’s team is struggling (is he a dumbass too?), Ohio State has dropped 2 games with an experienced QB. My point is we won 10 games 7 of 8 years with a #2 final ranking in 2007.

Thats 2 years ago IDIOTS!
The cupboards are full with young talent IDIOTS!
Our non-conference schedule will lighten up next year IDIOTS!
Our 2010 incoming class is very strong IDIOTS!
Its obvious Richt will shuffle the coaching staff, obvious unless your an IDIOT!
Anybody calling for Richt to get fired is an IDIOT!

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Stop the option!

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He never has coached anyone to one with Tebow and he never will

Well, despite the fact that you spelled Meyer’s name wrong TWICE, Florida’s a solid team all-around. Why are college football fans (at least the stupid ones) so afraid to admit that a rival is legit or supperior or give them any credit?

I wish UGA fans would recognize that Tech and Florida are good and legit. I wish Tech fans would admit that Georgia has OWNED them the past couple decades (seriously…they win once and they own the world). And Florida, well…they pretty much don’t have to own up to anybody.

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Ludicrous: What did Ellerbe do that was a felony?

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I hope you folks who are asking for Mark Richt to resume playcalling duties are delirious on turkey and pumpkin pie. How quickly you all forget how asinine Mark Richt’s playcalling was when he did it. We won on defense plain and simple in the early part of RIcht’s reign. His play calling was maddening and pretty ridiculous at times. I agree that Bobo needs to be replaced, but please OH PLEASE do not ask for Richt to play call. We will get enough 3rd and 14 fullback screen passes to stuff our faces with.

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If I were Coach Richt, I’d throw my hat into the ring for the UVa job if it comes open. Far superior school with equal facilities (stadium looks out onto Shennadoah Mts.) and excellent recruiting opportunities. Richt would get the respect from a classy fan base that he deserves.

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TommyP:

I saw you said it’s about jettisoning assistants, but it’s more than that. It is you who don’t have a clue. You and all the other Richt supporters. Here is the truth, you buffoon. People are finally waking up to the truth. How can you continue to excuse Mark Richt’s loyalty to Willie Martinez Saban and Meyer would have jettisoned Martinez years ago (truthfully they would have never hired his inept a$$ in the first place, but that’s another topic). Last year, after the season, Richt said that reviewing Martinez’s performance was not even on the table for discussion. Are you kidding me? He should have been canned years ago. At the very least, Richt could have said something to the effect of the program always striving to be the best and that all facets should be currently under review. Yet Martinez, who gave up 31 to Bama at the half, 49 to Florida (a little less, I guess, since there were defensive scores, but the point is the same), and 45 to Tech (including 26 in one quarter!) didn’t even merit a review! Forgetting the fact that Martinez is a bum, what does that say about Richt, the fact that he won’t review him and the fact that he lets his personal feelings get in the way?

It is obvious that the Emperor has no clothes. Mark Richt was successful early in his tenure because:

1. Ron Zook was at Florida (and even then, Richt went 1-2 against that moron). The fact that we lost to Florida in 2002 and 2003 was a complete disgrace.

2. Tennessee was in decline

3. Saban had just gotten the LSU juggernaut going, but it wasn’t yet in full steam (it would be starting in 2003)

4. Most importantly, he had natural born leaders on the field (i.e., Greene and Pollack) and a fiery animal and defensive genius in Brian Van Gorder, whose fire picked up the slack for what Richt lacked. BVG, DG, and DP made sure that the team had discipline and fire. Mark Richt accomplishes no such thing. How many years running have we been hearing about cleaning up the penalties? How many games do we have to watch our defenders look absolutely clueless out there? How many more games do we have to lose in such ugly fashion? What happened to the days of losing in Death Valley to LSU on a late TD in a very well played game (2003)? Now, when we lose, all hell breaks loose, and it’s a complete disaster.

WVU in 2006 Sugar Bowl
UT in 2006
UT in 2007
Bama in 2008
UF in 2008
GT in 2008
UT in 2009
UF in 2009
UK in 2009

These losses were complete and utter disasters. And that’s ignoring the defensive meltdowns in games we actually won (e.g., LSU in 2008). Those of you who don’t see these things just aren’t paying attention, plain and simple.

Now that Richt has no leaders on the team and has surrounded himself with absolute boobs as assistants, the Emperor has been exposed.

Mark Richt is a good man. He represents the university well. But being a good man is different than being a good coach. But you and the other blind homers who overlook his blind loyalty to Willie Martinez and overlook the complete and utter lack of discipline on this team and just say something moronic like “we’re just having a down year,” you just aren’t looking at the entire picture. He is not fit to be a head coach. Period. End of story.

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Funny how Mark Bradley writes an article that myself and a dozen or so others have been saying since the TENN game. The only arguement I have with this poece is that CMR is not such a smart guy if he lets this type of coaching (or lack of) and this type of preperation go on for 4 years by himself and his staff. It is no secret what has happened over the the past 4 years. You have CWM as DC minus BVG, and you have 100% of CMR’s recruits minus HC Donnan’s. What this tells me is that CMR is not near as good as a recruiter as Jim Donnan. Also, when you are lucky enough to get a talent of a AJ Green, you don’t know how to deploy that weapon and do serious danger. You have to know that you need a QB to go along with the AA WR.

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mark Richt take over playcalling. You guys who want that are clearly the heaviest of drinkers since you cant remember his atrocious playcalling when he was O coordinator as well as head coach. Van Gorder’s D won us games, not RIcht’s offense.

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It doesn’t matter what Richt does, uga will be an average team with Richt and then without out Richt when they fire him.

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Been a season ticket and avid supporter of all things UGA and more specifically…UGA football for longer mthan I want to admit! I put my money where my mouth is and I give! They say if you don’t give till it hurts, then you are not really giving….trust me…I GIVE!

Bradley I understand exactly where you are coming from and your motivation…and while I agree with some of what you say re: the state of UGA’s current football team….exactly what is your point? Should the Dawgs throw in the towel? Should they lose the GT game on purpose (they will probably do say regardless) just to put an explanation point on the fact that there are problems with the program? What are you trying to say?

I wish we could take a year off from the realities of UGA and REAL college football and turn the UGA program to some of these genuises on here.like Hershel Talker and give them the opportunity to show the world just how little they actually know about coaching a football team…hiring assistanta, game planing, play calling, half time adjustments etc.! Monday morning quarter backing and recognizing that there is a problem….well my 6th grade grand son can do that! But some of you idiots come on here and talk like you know exactly what the specific problems and solutions are…and not only that, but seem to think you could resolve said problems in a week or a day! BS!

Bradley and the idiots….dont identify the problem….state your logical and sane solutions! Do you honestly expect CMR to go public and tell the world, his team, and coaching staff something like this…recruits also by the way…..We suck! My coaches suck! As soon as the season is over coachy x, y, and z are outta here! I made a mistake and thought Joe Cox would be at least an adequate qb this year…but as you all know…he sucks! Reshard Jones was rated as one of the three top HS safties in the country and we were proud that he picked UGA..BUT he sucks…cant play a lick! And if we were as good of a coaching staff as we should be..and IF we were as SMART as some of you expersts out there…certainly we should have known NOT to recruit Zeb McKenzie..the all american hihg school OL from
Parkview and the other HS all american OL..the Watts kid from sandersville who would be starting now if not for having to give up football from injuries….I mean we should have known they would be injured right? I could go on and on…but I think even the “idiott” so called experst here who shopuld in reality be running the UGA football program get the point!

CMR, in my humble waited one year too long to honestly evaluate his staffs shortcomings….and it has biten him in the butt…BIGTIME! Why dont ya’ll take a zanex..calm down…hope like hell WE can beat the hated yeller jackets Sat!

In the mean time WHEN the time is right…AFTER the season is over give the man a chance to do whatever the hell he needs to do to right the ship!

How soon we forget…2 short years ago we were ranked number 2 in the nation and came within a Gawhs hair of playing for the national championship!

GO DAWGS and now and always….TO HELL WITH GIT!!!!!!!!!!

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11-2 or 13-1 GRIM?,

You must be kidding me. He had seasone QB DAvid Greene and #1 draft pick Matt Stafford groomed for those years. WHo does he have ready for next year????? Nobody.

If you think we are going 13-1 with Aaron Murray never taking a real snap in a game, you are delusional.

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Georgia’s future Sat is looking good. This guy got 7 yards on 5 carries against Miami. 7 yards.

My dog could get 7 yards, blindfolded.

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When the going gets tough, dog fans leave the stadium!

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They schedule 3 or 4 cream puffs every year.

Who wants to play for a coach like that who’s SCARED TO LOSE?

This year’s cream puffs:
Charleston Southern
Troy
Florida Intl.

Wow, what a BRAVE COURAGEOUS COACH—–NOT!!! What A wIMP…no wonder he’s NEVER wona Champ without Tebow.

Richt did it with 2 DIFFERENT QB’s at FSU.

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After the Tech game in Atlanta,
The next 6-6 UGA dawg walk will be at the
…….Shreveport Greyhound Bus Station.

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YOU ARE ALL BLIND HOMERS AND MARK RICHT APOLOGISTS. HE IS A GOOFBALL WHO CARES MORE ABOUT JESUS THAN ABOUT WINNING FOOTBALL GAMES. THAT IS GREAT FOR SUNDAYS, NOT FOR SATURDAYS. HE IS MOST DEFINITELY FIT TO TEACH MEN HOW TO LEAD RIGHTEOUS LIVES, BUT HE IS MOST DEFINITELY NOT FIT TO COACH A FOOTBALL TEAM. ALL OF YOU WHO CAN’T SEE IT ARE STUPID IDIOTS.

FIRE MARK RICHT!!!

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…………..Nesbitt for Heisman…………….

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Even this year, Georgia has fixed the TO problem in certain games. The formula is there. Georgia just has to repeat the formula of what they did in those 15 games where they had 0 turnovers.

You can coach, do drills, exercises, on CAUSING TO’s, Willie will. You can coach, do drills, exercises, on PREVENTING TO’s. Bobo will finsd better ones.

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They schedule 3 or 4 cream puffs every year.

Who wants to play for a coach like that who’s SCARED TO LOSE? Why Florida Stinks

I’m pretty sure the coach doesn’t schedule games. And thanks for helping me prove my 9:38 point.

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I heard an interesting rumor while I was in Atlanta yesterday and wanted to see if anyone else has heard the same………..”Willie Martinez is set to hand in his resignation on Sunday morning” regardless of tomorrow’s outcome, any validity to this?

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How much is a bus ticket to Shereveport?
Are the Dawgs staying at the Red Roof or the Days Inn?

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Wyy such black clouds?

Murray, Ealey, Brown, Green, Charles. 5 Heisman candidates.

Georgia will go on a USC like run of Heisman’s and Natl Champ’s.

80 wins in 8 years. 4th winningest coach out of 120 programs.

What’s grim about that?

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Tu Turnovers can be fixed,

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That is all.

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Mark,

One bad year and you are going to pile on this man (or as I should really say.. this entire university). You writers amaze me with these obscure stats you use to determine the direction a program is heading.. Now it’s the 2 and 2 record against Kentucky. Why don’t you mention Floridas record against Mississippi the last few years and make some sort of determination.

How bout these stats.

One of only seven coaches to reach 80 wins in 8 seasons. (others include Woodruff, Carrol, Stoops , Stag, Switzer, Meyer)

2 SEC Titles Played for 3

SEC Coach of the Year twice 2002, 2005

FACT – UGA finished in the AP top ten 6 of the past 8 years..are you kidding…and you are going to pile on this man..I liken what you are doing to the eye jab of spikes only you are using a poison pen.

This man is proven…end of story.. He could retire today and go down as one the great all time coaches in UGA and SEC history.

Mark Richt knows more about his coaching staff, his team and oh yes, FOOTBALL than you or any of these other peanut galley bloggers who post on this site.

As a Georgia fan I feel proud and blessed have Mark Richt as our coach. I will go to war with him any day and something tells me his team plans to do that Saturday night.

My only hope is that win or lose Saturday night, Mark makes the decision to stay at Georgia at the end of the season and not go to Florida State or some other program. I can promise you if he leaves UGA he will be the hottest commodity on the coaching market and when he begins winning at whatever school he’s coaching you will be the first to remind us of how stupid we were to not appreciate him when he was at UGA.

Mark – Young recruits a very impressionable and for you to continue writing this crap in my opinion undermines the UGA program.

So Mark, to all you sports talk radio host and newspaper writers.. THIS BUD’s FOR YOU!!! You know everything there is to know about college football except how to PLAY it or COACH it!!!!

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The sad thing is I could care less about the out come of the Tech game. While I want UGA to win, because a UGA makes the weekend. Doesn’t matter if Tech is a rival game or not. To hear alot of UGA fans. Tech is not our rival, UF is. Tech was not a rival until last year when they won, and this year because of the lackluster season UGA is having. The simple truth is as much as I want UGA to win; just to say that we beat a good quality team, UGA has no chance in this game. Whether a so called rivalry or not, noone can expect UGA to win this game with the undisciplined play by our defense, a STs unit last in the nation and giving opponets a starting field of the 40 yard line or better, and certainly not with Joe Cox at QB. As much as I want to say UGA has a chance, I don’t see it.

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Why do people hold up last year’s 10-3 record as a positive?

We started out pre-season #1, had two NFL first rounders on offense and UNDERPERFORMED!

WE BLEW IT! Or, more accurately, RICHT AND THE COACHING STAFF BLEW IT!

Frankly, 10 wins seasons aren’t enough for a lot of Bulldog fans. And after this season, Richt won’t be 90 wins in 9 seasons, so even this statistic, that people continue to trumpet, will be gone.

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PS. the bunch of whiners who are going on now are the same bunch that booed David Greene and Terrence Edwards. I trust Mark Richt.

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We need a DC Mark…period. The only difference in UGA past and present is Brian Van Gorder. The rest of the coaches have put more players in the NFL during Richt’s reign than any team in the SEC. I am for change at this point. But I think you are over stating it a bit. At least you are not as moronic as your colleague Schultz….

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Why schedule games against teams like Florida Intl?

He’s an absolute WIMP of a coach, which is why he will NEVER, and HAS NEVER won a Natl’ Champ without Tebow.

No High School Hero weants to play for a SCARED COACH like Meyers.

See ya’ in Notre Dame Meyers. Your dream job.

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The dawgs need a rabie shot.
GO JACKETS

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Paddy, As a UGA fan I am proud of the job Tech has done this year. As one Tech fan said earlier. Nesbit for Heisman. That kid was not an option QB. Said he never would have went to Tech if CPJ recruited him instead of Gailey. That kid has turned out to be one hell of an option QB. And now he has more than just Thomas to throw the ball to. Congragulations on a fine season.

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SadDawg, to further state, UF would be still a top 5 team. Cannot say that about UGA as we have seen.

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I agree, 7 yards do not make sense IF the triple Option is SO good, why did he only get 7 yards, makes no sense, I agree with you.

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Amazing that UGA’s staff could miss out on recruiting the top talent in our state. Recruiting stars or no we just don’t have the talent we need to be a dominant program. Looks like it will happen again this year Mack Brown to UF,etc.

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Sorry Fellow dawg fans but CMR will need to go if this program is to compete for championships. the problem will really rear its ugly head Saturday when CMR gets out coached again. Last year Tech tried and completed ONE damn pass and spanked UGA in the second half to win the ball game which should tell any die hard fan something is definitely wrong. This team has NOT improved in one area this year and yes that goes for the Running game as well. Its the coaching pure and simple which includes The defense,The offense,Special teams,Strength and conditioning,schemes and play calling and also recruiting. Wake up Faint hearted Dawg fans its as Bradley says, Its a trend!

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first!!!!!!!
Oh yeah it is page three.

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Meyers idea of challenge= fla Intl, at the time, noone was saying how great a team OSU was when UGA signed to play them. Noone was saying that about ASU either. When those 2 games were added to the schedule, they were only slightly better than what UGA had been scheduling all alone. Remember last year UGA was playing GA South and CMich, and us UGA fans were all upset about other team’s fans talking about our strngth of schedule. Remember Tech wasn’t getting love last year either, they were the same ‘ol Tech team that had lost 7 straight to UGA. Now, after Tech whips our Arse and a down Tenn whips us also. we are bragging about how tough our scedule is and UF and Tech’s is not.

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Two things:

1) Richt did a poor job of picking his coordinators. Previously he had himself as the OC and Brian Van Gorder as the DC. Obviously Richt himself came with a sterling resume in coaching the offense and calling plays, having won all those years with FSU. Van Gorder has shown himself to be very competent not just at the college level but as a position coach and now DC in the NFL. I think the decision to hand the offense to Mike Bobo, who had never been a coordinator (not even at a lower level) was a power move for Richt. He didn’t want a strong, experienced personality in charge of the offense. But with the prestige of UGA, they could have lured a talented OC that could have taken their offense to new heights. As for the Martinez hire, it was purely nepotism, just like things were at FSU with Bobby Bowden. Friends win out over talent, even to the detriment of the program.

2) Richt has long held the philosophy that he learned from Bobby Bowden that discipline is not that important if you recruit better than everyone else. And when you are mining the talent rich state of Florida in the 1990’s without scholarship limits, that philosophy will not cost you much, other than a few headaches once in a while. But when you’re competing for recruits in Georgia against Nick Saban of Bama, Urban Meyer of Florida, Paul Johnson of GT, Lane Kiffin of UT and traditional recruiting competitors like Auburn and Clemson, you need your team to be disciplined because you aren’t going to out-talent any of those teams. You have to play clean to win, because most of those coaches (aside from maybe Kiffin) demand discipline. Richt has long shrugged off how many penalities his teams commit. Now they’re pulling kids off the field for penalities, but to me it’s too late in the season to make a difference and it tells me Richt and his staff don’t have their kids attention in practice. It shouldn’t take in game consequences to get his players’ attention. And to me that says you’ve lost a little bit of your coaching edge (if you even had it to begin with).

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If there are not any changes in the coaching staff after the season, then CMR’s job should be on the line next year.

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THIS JUST IN—-
AS A RESULT OF TECH’S HUGE BLOWOUT 3 POINT WIN IN ATHENS LAST YEAR, MARK BRADLEY(OR IS THAT TERRENCE MOORE IN DISGUISE)HAS PAVED THE WAY FOR PAUL JOHNSON’S INDUCTION INTO THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, AND “GREATEST PLAYCALLER IN HISTORY OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS INSCRIBED ABOVE HIS NAME”…GOT TO GIVE PAUL CREDIT…HE MASTERMINDED THE COMEBACK OVER THE BADA$$ DUKE BLUE DEVILS AND WAS ABLE TO MOVE THE FOOTBALL AGAINST THE ANIMALS DUKE PLAYS ON DEFENSE….WITH DEFENSES LIKE FSU AND DUKE, NO WONDER WE AT TECH HAVE SOME NICE STATS…

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6 – 6 …. What has happened to this program and the so called great recruiting classes? CMR Must Go !

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Can you believe Meyers is heading to Notre Dame? Without Tebow, I knew he’d take the money and run. I guess since Meyers is Catholic and was named after Pope Urban, and he mentioned coaching at Notre Dame was his dream, and the big cntract, he just couldn’t pass it up. Meyers, after Tebow leaves, you better get Lois Lane on the phone and call for Superman again. How many Natl’ campionships ya got without Tebow? What’s that? Your cell phone line is b…r…e…a..k..i…n..g. up. Ha ha ha.

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If Tech’s so good, why are they only favored to win by 4 against a 6-5 team whn they are 10-1?

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46 NFL Drafts. Just had the #1 NFL pick. That ain’t grim for future prospects Bradley.

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chazzo…you’re very emotional.

Again, some of us want a NC and to beat FLA (I’ll settle for ‘compete with FLA), not just 10 win seasons…which we aren’t getting this year, and probably not next year either

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I remember when Tennessee fired a damn good football coach after an 8-3 season to bring home Johnny Majors. Tennessee stayed mired in mediocrity for the next 15 years until Phil Fulmer’s palace coup. Be careful what you ask for.

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If Willie succeeds in shutting down BOTH Aubrn’s dual threat offensive genius AND Johnson’s 1 trick pony express, his job is absolutely safe.

Richt will realize 4 of the 5 losses came when Bobo’s O gave up 3-4 TO’s. Willie’s D has yet to give up a single 100 yard rusher this season. Normally, Richt wins 93% of those games.

1 more win Willie–shut the critics up, just like you did in the Hawaii game.

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Dwyer gets 7yrds in 5 carries…..Wow you are stuck in reverse. This just in…Bob Waterfield just threw 2 interceptions for the Cleveland Rams and lost to the Washington Redskins. Red Grange had a fumble in 1924 and they lost to Michigan. How did these guys ever get into the Hall fo Fame? Even my dog could have married Jane Russell!

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If a journalist is allowed to refer to Richt’s past loss against Kentucky, and that’s the proof of his point, then why is referring to the fact Richt has NEVER had 2 bad seasons in a row, not correct?

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Paddy, Wow, you are on the top of your game today. Bob Waterfield, Cleveland Rams and Jane Russell all in the same post. CLASSIC! I laughed my butt off.

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Bobo’s been pretty solid until this year.

Bobo has had a tough year. 4 of the 5 losses were games where the O gave up 3 or 4 TO’s.

If Bobo plays a TO free game, he will absolutely keep his job.

And the dream of becoming a head coach somewday will stay alive.

If he coughs up 3 or 4 more TO’s for the 5th time this year, it ain’t lookin good for Bobo.

Come on Bobo, show us what ya got. You were practically error free as a QB in college, bring back the mojo baby. Just a 1 game. Make Tech remember ever bad word said about you.

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CBS is saying Meyers is going to the NFL:
http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/12585042/meyer-going-to-nfl-believe-it-numbskulls

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Without Tebow and Spikes, the 2 leaders, Florida will be officiallly DOA in 2010.

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My left lugnut could for 7 yards, uphill.

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CMR did not get stoopid just because fatboy and nono departed early….those guys still in atown, dogs would be barking before the Tech game….yelping after though….LOL!

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Sad that UGA has to celebrate other teams losing good people … build your own program. Here’s proof of what the UGAyers know how to play with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJCFXwUo8v0&feature=related

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Mark is right on. The UGA program has slipped greatly in the last couple or three years. It is the sum of the small things, like TWO ugly losses to Tech and now KY twice. It is the inexplicable TWO UT blowouts in the last three years or the breakdown VS Auburn on what was 4th and 32? and we ALLOWED THEM to hit one on a slant route to the corner of the endzone for the eventual win.It is the unsportmanslike conduct call vs LSU and the subsequent lousy short kick after UGA’s TD and the missed tackle by Rennie Curran ( too small ) on Charles Scott for the winning TD or the lousy, lousy play of the 09 OSU game after about 8 minutes gone in the first qtr. I could go on and one with the goofy inexplicable things that defintily show a lack of HIGH CALBER coaching like Penalties and turnovers,etc.

We all know the truth if we are REAL UGA fans and not simply onlookers.

It is time for them all to go. Why wait for yet another lousy year to take place at UGA, then in 2010 make the changes? Get TCU’s coach NOW and his Head D coach and we could go 8-3 next year, then maybe 10-1 in his second year. Why not?

UGA, class of 71 & 73

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Hey MUTTS BARK…..Be careful how you criticize anyones faith!!!! Maybe you need a little preaching to yourself!! I guess you had rather have a coach who swears at your son!

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Who you gonna hire Shards1967? I guess USC needs to fire Pete Carroll too, huh guys?

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Yea, we need to fire Richt, then we can go 8-3, kinda like Richt did last year, but want, then in 2011 will go 10-1, GUARANTEED!!! I mean, any logical person would fire Richt today based on these facts.

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Hey folks at the time there were a lot of people thinking Hawaii should be in the title game. I thought they should have been on the blue field not playing the Dawgs.

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UGA actually could have won the national championship that year, there was 1 game they lost, I don’t remember to who, they were driving for the winning touchdown. Moreno was getting 5-10 yards a carry, but jumping up and celebrating after very play. CMR took him out and UGA didnt score. So they tied for the SEC east, didn’t play for the SEC or National Championship. Maybe that is why CMR isn’t as strict on his players now.

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Of course they would have had to beat LSU ( i think ) again, and somebody better than Hawaii in the NC game

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It really is not complex –

- Swap your DC that gives up 16 points a game for one that gives up over 30 per game.

- Mix with an average OC and the worst team in penalties and turnover ratio

- Add an incompetent special teams coach

What do you get? 6 and 6. Even with an easier schedule next year, I can’t get to more than 7 wins best case.

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I am so excited about state of Georgia Tech football! I think I might even go to a game next year. Who our new goalkeeper going to be? Yay!

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Richt won on Donnan’s recruits

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The sky is falling, the sky is falling. Yet another piece of drivel brought to you by the AJC’s newest Terrance Moore impersonator. Those who can, do. Those who can’t, write (or at least try to). Get a new horse MB this one has been beaten to death

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If Cox outgunned Brady, Marino, and Tebow, and if he’s as bad as it gets for Georgia, then 2010 is looking good.

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Tom Brady 1998 Michigan
131 Effic., 15 td’s, 12 int’s, 2636 yards

Joe Cox 2009 Georgia
139 Effic, 21 td’s, 14 int’s, 2350 yards (2 games to go)
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Dan Marino, Pittsburg, 1982
58% completion, 2432 yards, 17 td’s, 23 int’s, 67 pass rating

Joe Cox, Georgia, 2009
56% Completion, 2350 yards, 21 td’s, 14 int’s, 138 pass rating (2 more games to go)
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Cox-
21 TD’S, 2350 passing yards, 10 sacks (2 games to go)

Tebow-
14 TD’s, 1945 yards, 23 sacks
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Florida will be dead in 2010: Dude! UF is STILL loaded but so are we. Should be a good one JAX next year!

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Dwyer 7 yrs 5 carries….please keep it up you are making my case for me. See you after the Cumberland game. You will able to spot me, I will be the one who does not have crow feathers around his mouth. Bring me someone else, this guy is just too easy!

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Mark – Well stated.

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UGA isn’t good enough for Richt … you guys will run him off and he will come back and haunt you. The conflict is, the fan base doesn’t have the same charcter. Go ahead, pull the trigger.

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It is amazing, you are not going to win them all every year. Granted, UGA is having too many penalties and turnovers, but it is not exactly life and death, or something that can’t be fixed.

Even the mighty USC got smoked by Stanford.

I think you UGA fans who want Richts head are just naturally unhappy people.

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Young players, and inconsistent coaching are the root of this evil. However, I said it early and often, Richt will make the changes he needs to make, or UGA will make them. Some coaches take that very personal though. AKA Dick Sheridan when he was told he had to keep Bill Lewis on the UGA staff in 1989. Let’s see what happens now, he can’t change coordinators in the middle of the season, and he can’t change the results. I would believe that we will see at least three new coaches this year, and 2 of the 3 coordinators will be replaced.

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By the way, I continue to hear that Tubberville is coming our way. If Richt does this and then takes over Offensive Playcalling we will be in a better position. I’d still like to see Spurrier (can’t believe I’m typing this!) as Head Coach with Weiss as OC and Tubberville as DC.

Dream Coaching Team!

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Mark once my persona did invoke
supposedly not to provoke
he can’t know
how high my bp goes
when he asks me about mirrors and smoke

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Paul Johnson has yet to win any championship beyond lower division. Chan Gailey did that. Jim Donnan did that. Right now PJ’s body of work doesn’t come close to Richt’s on the big stage. Come back when he does. And yes he is winning with Chan Gailey’s players. So what?

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Willie will be leaving Sunday, you can bet on that. Richt will go back to the play calling and Bobo will be the QB coach. All you haters will see what happens(possibly tomorrow) and def. NEXT YEAR!!!!!

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Mark,

i do also, but yours sounds more like my obit. willie

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If there are not any changes in the coaching staff after the season, then CMR’s job should be on the line next year.

It’s not saying much, but that is one of the smartest and most logical statements I’ve seen on here. Everyone wants to throw out CMR’s previous body of work, attributing it to Greene, VanGorder, etc. And judge him because he’s having a bad season. It’s obvious there needs to be big changes made. If by next season we’re seeing the same story, then I think it’s time for Richt to go.

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How has LSU lapped UGA? We were going for 4 in a row when some Ref decides to pull his flag out of his pocket! LSU went from NC to 7-5 last yr? Mr. Timex couldn’t even manage the end of the Ole Miss game. If Miss St had ant creativity in there play calling on the goaline we are not even having this convo. I will give you the Fla and Bama lapping UGA however not LSU

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Mark right down the middle again. One thing that always amazes and educates me is Georgia unlike Georgia Tech has picked their talent right off the tree. No having to work with what is handed them or having to recruit second choices or forth or fifth. When Tech has had their worst years the coaches couldn’t or wouldn’t recruit the talent, seldom were they down with talent the cause. Usually they had to coach and take what came after Georgia picked over the crop. Gailey had Calvin but was stuck with Reggie who I am sure came to Tech because most others were thinking of moving him to another position. I can’t remember a quarterback for Georgia under 6ft. tall, yet I can remember several for Tech lke Dewberry or Hamilton. To watch the rich kid drop out of college when Tech has stuggled all these years to have enough dimes and nichles to get in the game amazes me, but teaches me that coaching is more than just getting Hershal Walker. Vince was more than Hershal Walker too. Maybe this little time in the cellar might cause a little new found respect for the man who caused all this talent to come to Georgia and I would think now bites his tongue watching it being wasted.

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By the way, PJ is doing a heltuva a lot MORE with Gailey’s players than Gailey ever did!

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Rumor has it that Willie has already been fired and that will be announced after the Tech game regardless of the outcome. More than likely on Sunday. Question is does he promote Garner or Jancek from within or look outside the program. Not sure they can lure Kirby back to his alma mater after the way he left last time.

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I agree with that GT45. Just like Meyer did more with Zooks and Richt did more with Donnans. Not sure what your point is other than coming in here and trying to start another Paul Johnson lovefest. Aren’t they doing that in the GT blog this morning?

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What year did Richt stop calling offensive plays?

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Bobo took over as OC for the Bowl Game in 2006.
Has been OC since 2007.

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TommyP – thanks. I knew it was late in the 2006 season.

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How many times is this article going to be written by the AJC. Tell us something we don’t know already.

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Hey YF…you and your little crew of 5′8″ 160 lb. dorm brothers still gonna be near the 3rd baseline foul pole at the BB stadium? I hope to see you.

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No changes are needed. Georgia continues to send #1 recruiting classes to the NFL, but is a middle of the pack and sinking SEC team. I guess it could be worse, you could be South Carolina. No, no changes are needed at all….

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Discipline is the biggest missing ingredient in Athens. If you can win six or seven games, or eight is still possible with such criminally horrendous turnover and penalty stats (and no FCS teams on the schedule) then the foundation of your program is still strong. But, obviously much needs to improve quickly.

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Actually Stowers was there for six seasons, which only proves your statement is completely impotent.

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What are you saying, Bradly? Richt should step down on his own accord? You’re an idiot.

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Ok Thunderchief. I stand corrected. But the fact remains PJ is doing it now with Chan’s players. RIcht has top 10s and an SEC Championship, with his players. Let’s see if PJ can do it without Dwyer, Nesbitt, Morgan, and the rest of Chan’s players when the time comes. And then we could argue that it is just the ACC when it comes right down to it.

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ex just broke it off in your fairy azz Thunderchief.

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Hey Florida Bum Georgia Basher-

We know who you is.

All your dumb posts about how bad Georgia is? Child please, grow up.

Here’s the way to recognize him:
1) Bash Richt
2) Love Urban
3) Make up false rumors about Georgia

Hi Basher, yep, I is calling you Florida Bum out.

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Mark — You have become a caricature of yourself. It is almost as though someone has hi-jacked your column and is recycling these columns so as to make you look evermore ridiculous. We just read earlier this week how last November, with one humble victory, college football as we know it in the state of Georgia has been changed. That singular event served to launch Georgia and Georgia Tech on diverging trajectories. Obviously, these were absurd and grossly over-simplified leaps in logic — but you made them – so they must be true. Now, just a few days later, we read that if Georgia were to somehow win tomorrow it would be harmful to Georgia. Brilliant.

Now that you have crafted these logic loops with your keen insights, can you please share with us what profound conclusion can be derived from a UGA victory, should it occur? We know you believe it would somehow be harmful for Georgia, but what pray tell does it mean for the state of college football in Georgia and for the nascent juggernaut of program led by your new love Paul Johnson? I mean, if CPJ loses to the bumbling idiot that is Mark Richt, who can’t even beat basketball schools like Kentucky, then what does it say about the Paul Johnson as Clint Eastwood in Jacket drag narrative you have spun? I mean, as you told us earlier this week we can draw conclusions about careers, programs and rivalries based on the outcome of a single game. I will wait with baited breath as to how you craft your next masterpiece.

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DawgBite! Down boy! You’re baring your teeth over nothing. Save it for tomorrow. lol

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My guess is that with the success he’s had, Johnson will be able to recruit players just as good if not better. Surely that makes the most sense, n’est pas?

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Hey Georgia Hater Pro-Florida Dude,

No ya’ tryin’ to stir up 2010 QB controvery? Or a little RB controversy this year? We know who you is, Bro.

You a clown. And Florida really IS goin’ down, nothing fake about that rumor, Flrodia is dead in 2010 Bro.

Yeah Gatorette, I is calling you out.

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Anyone who claims to hate Richt’s stubbornness, where the hell were you during Greene’s tenure!?!?! The ridiculous, pointless, unnecessary QB rotation he insisted on just to keep DJ happy was far more hurtful to the program than beneficial. But yet you clowns kept your mouths shut then. Hypocrites!!!

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After all, there’s not much difference in Chan’s top 10 2006 class and PJ’s #49 and #52, huh Thunderchief? We’ll see.

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If you really knew what Mark Richt needed to do, than someone would be paying you to coach a top program. I haven’t seen that happen. It’s easy to second guess, but not profitable.

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Mark — You have become a caricature of yourself. It is almost as though someone has hi-jacked your column and is recycling these columns so as to make you look evermore ridiculous. We just read earlier this week how last November, with one humble victory, college football as we know it in the state of Georgia has been changed. That singular event served to launch Georgia and Georgia Tech on diverging trajectories. Obviously, these were absurd and grossly over-simplified leaps in logic — but you made them – so they must be true. Now, just a few days later, we read that if Georgia were to somehow win tomorrow it would be harmful to Georgia. Brilliant.

Now that you have crafted these logic loops with your keen insights, can you please share with us what profound conclusion can be derived from a UGA victory, should it occur? We know you believe it would somehow be harmful for Georgia, but what pray tell does it mean for the state of college football in Georgia and for the nascent juggernaut of program led by your new love Paul Johnson? I mean, if CPJ loses to the bumbling idiot that is Mark Richt, who can’t even beat basketball schools like Kentucky, then what does it say about the Paul Johnson as Clint Eastwood in Jacket drag narrative you have spun? I mean, as you told us earlier this week we can draw conclusions about careers, programs and rivalries based on the outcome of a single game. I will wait with baited breath as to how you craft your next masterpiece.

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Not saying PJ is not a damn good coach. Just that he isn’t the diety that GT fans have annointed him at this point. He hasn’t done anything that dozens of coaches have not done. Winning the upcoming ACC title game is a start. Right now he’s just another good coach that needs to prove it on the big stage.

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Mark — You have become a caricature of yourself. It is almost as though someone has hi-jacked your column and is recycling these columns so as to make you look evermore ridiculous. We just read earlier this week how last November, with one humble victory, college football as we know it in the state of Georgia has been changed. That singular event served to launch Georgia and Georgia Tech on diverging trajectories. Obviously, these were absurd and grossly over-simplified leaps in logic — but you made them – so they must be true. Now, just a few days later, we read that if Georgia were to somehow win tomorrow it would be harmful to Georgia. Brilliant.

Now that you have crafted these logic loops with your keen insights, can you please share with us what profound conclusion can be derived from a UGA victory, should it occur? We know you believe it would somehow be harmful for Georgia, but what pray tell does it mean for the state of college football in Georgia and for the nascent juggernaut of program led by your new love Paul Johnson? I mean, if CPJ loses to the bumbling idiot that is Mark Richt, who can’t even beat basketball schools like Kentucky, then what does it say about the Paul Johnson as Clint Eastwood in Jacket drag narrative you have spun? I mean, as you told us earlier this week we can draw conclusions about careers, programs and rivalries based on the outcome of a single game. I will wait with baited breath as to how you craft your next masterpiece.

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I agree with your assessment of Johnson, he’s not Bear Bryant until he proves it and he hasn’t. Also, Mark Richt hasn’t become Ron Zook until he proves it and he hasn’t. Hope it’s a great game. Sorry for being an @$$. I was born this way and will try to do better.

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Somebody tell me about this Tuberville rumor. Haven’t heard that one from anyone on the inside.

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I had the same revelation after that loss. It was kind of like the severe migraine that forces you to get checked for a brain tumor instead of the nagging headache for which you take two Advil.

Richt is still by far the best coach to lead the program. But some of his subordinates aren’t doing the job. Martinez’s defense has been horrible for two years. Whoever is coaching the OL (Searels?) isn’t doing very well this year. Aside from a few lucky ducks who win a lot early, most coaches take a while. Despite the insane amount of “Tech rules!” coverage this week, the only thing other than games that Paul Johnson has won is an ACC division title. He hasn’t even won a bowl game.

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2 winning seasons in the ACC doesn’t mean you are good, it only means you are slightly better than average. Congrats Tech fans on winning a conference who can’t even sell out there conference championship game. NO matter how bad UGA’s record is, it is still better than that Trade School on North Avenue. I can’t wait to watch that stadium full of virgins dressed in Yellow Jacket gear get stomped by the one and always true powerhouse of the state.

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I think it’s a little early to be writing off UGA as a program in decline. This year is a bad one, no doubt. Things change quickly in college football as players move on to graduation and the NFL each year. Did any other team in the nation have to replace three NFL starters at the skill positions this year? (Stafford, Morino, Massaquoi) How good would the Tech offense be if they’d just lost Nesbitt, Dwyer and Allen?

Some times it’s the smart coaching decision to take your lumps this year instead of trying to put a young player in a position where he has to carry the team. It’s a different sport, but look at the Braves as an example. They let Hanson develop in the minors until he was ready to be a top notch major league pitcher. They put Schafer in the starting lineup too early and may have destroyed his confidence. How much better might one of the UGA freshman quarterbacks be after a full year of development and learning the system? Is it possible that by not throwing one of them to the wolves this season Richt has given UGA a better chance of success for the next 3 or 4 years?

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QB’s can always benefit from a redshirt year. Had D.J. Shockley had another year left you can bet that Stafford would have worn the shirt. Joe Cox is way more advanced than Joe T. was at the QB position and with the disappointing performance of the O line this year, it could have been a very ugly wasted year had Richt played Murray or Mettenberger. As it stands UGA will now have 2 highly recruited QBs for 4 more years, ala David Green and D.J. Shockley. Frankly I think playing one of them this year would have been a big mistake. Just like NOT playing Ealey would have been a mistake.

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Agree with much of this, except for the part where LSU “lapped the Bulldogs.” Not sure how you arrived at that conclusion. We beat them last year, almost beat them this year. Since ‘07, LSU is 28-10 and the fan base is not happy; Georgia is 27-10 with an unhappy fan base. Both have suffered losses that they probably shouldn’t have, and both appear to be slipping further behind Alabama and Florida.

Seems to me like the programs are pretty much on the same track right now.

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Iron Bowl coming on…”War Eagle.”, sez my daughter.

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Delbert – I agtee it’s an unknown, but it’s hard to say the Jackets will be better without their top 3 statistical leaders. It seems unlikely that all 3 will leave at the same time anyway.

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Delbert D., Jaybo Shaw ain’t Josh Nesbitt by any stretch. Nesbitt has put that team on his back several times this year. There’s a huge difference. To me, Nesbitt is the MVP of that offense.

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Of course Richt knows that you can’t take turnovers out of the equation. His argument is nonsense, because he has to know that protecting the ball from the other team’s efforts to take it from you and forcibly taking the ball from the other team despite their best efforts to keep it are key goals in any football game. Bottom line, well-coached teams protect the ball on offense and ball-hawk on defense.

You might as well say “if not for their superior quarterback play, we would have won the game.”

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<—————- Loyal Tech Fan here!

Coach Mark Richt will make the right decision. He knows who needs to go. Pup fans shouldn't be so hard. If Mark Richt is fired, who would want to come coach behind that? No one behind that kid of pressure. "One bad year and you want the man fired?" That's insane. CMR can coach anywhere in the country. He will make the right decision at the end of the year.

Ramblin Wreck! Go JacketS!!!!

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Sounds from the past – That’s so mean. I bet he couldn’t recruit. Mamas wouldn’t want their boys to play for him. Etc., etc., etc.

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LOL! The best play for a trophie with his name on it. Coaches are to be coaches, to be feared, respected, and obeyed. They are not to be friends, coddling and conjoling, afraid to get in somebodies ear hole and straighten out stinkin’ thinkin’!

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Joshua the pollock nerd “aka yellow fuzz”. You better be thankful I have a family and friends in town for the holiday. It will save you from the arse whipping I was going to put on your wimpy arse in Section 305 tomorrow. date tomorrow.

Stupid, fat and a nerd is no way to go through life son.

Enjoy your blow up doll date tomorrow.

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YOU ARE ALL MARK RICHT APOLOGISTS

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Bradley, you are an idiot. Florida will take a step back next year, and LSU can’t even read a clock. Miles might be gone before Richt. Tennessee isn’t even bowl eligible yet, Kiffin hasn’t proven anything. But you don’t care about facts. The sky is perpetually falling in yoru world. Luckily we won’t have to read your columns much longer. The AJC may not last to the end of the year.

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I thought Tech fans were supposed to be smarter than UGA fans, but after reading all this mess, it appears that the UGA fans attended all of their English classes in school. All of the Tech fans must have spend that time coloring in their Hooked On Phonics books.

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What will the bcs do if Auburn wins and then Bama beats Fla? You have no justification for putting either team ahead of Cincy or TCU if they win out

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Rumor mill has willie martini resigning as DC Sunday and BVG coming back as DC after the Falcons season is over ? Any truth?

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Social comments and analytics for this post…

This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mark Bradley: Even as UGA and Richt focus on Ga. Tech, there’s a grim big picture. http://bit.ly/7rP4Xw…

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To borrow a phrase from former coach Pat Dye-

GEORGIA IS NOT MAN ENOUGH to beat Georgia Tech this year.

and

THE DOG NATION FANS are not man enough to sit through an entire azz whoopin.

Please use the trash receptacles that we have provided for you and support your team until the final buzzer. And STFU when walking back to your truck!

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I laughed at you the last time you mentioned LSU in the SEC elite and that was before they loss to Ole Miss. They will lose again today to Ark just like they did last year during a 5 loss season. Please apply your pathetic logic to all teams in the SEC and state of GA not simply the bulldogs. It really shows you as a hater.

Enjoy the holiday

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I’m actually afraid that if GA beats Tech tonight that CMR will take this as a big validation that he doesn’t have to make changes. In fact – during the off-season he will blame in the “young” team he had. And Willie and Booboo will be back next year.

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Don’t take the knee jerk reaction to a less than par season. Stay behind all UGA coaches, overall they have a good record. All teams are dynamic and behave like fluid. Sometimes they’re hard to manage and circumstances are beyond anyone’s control. Hang in there and stick with them.

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Hey Delbert D – What are the UGA football players majoring in?? Do you have that breakdown so we can effectively compare? And then compare that to Tech players. Even in Tech’s easiest major, the students still have to take a year of calculus.

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Adams and Richt had long heated meeting recently. Sumpins up!

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Although I totally agree Georgia’s defense has been sub-par for far too long, their offense & O-line have been underperforming and kickoff & punt team coverage the worst I’ve seen in a long time, people calling for Mark Richt to step down are just crazy. His record is among the best for all active coachs while at UGA. Does he need to make changes, absolutely, but give him this off-season to do the right thing and if he doesn’t than yes as good as he is (and as good a person as he is) it’s probably fair to question his leadership skills to make the tough decision.

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Great points, Mark!

Coaches > Recruiters

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Mark Richt Era (2001-present)
LSU 90-26, 3 SEC titles (2-3 vs. UGA)
Florida 88-26, 2 SEC titles (7-2 vs. UGA)
Georgia 88-27, 2 SEC titles
Auburn 78-34, 1 SEC title (3-6 vs. UGA)
Tennessee 74-39 (4-5 vs. UGA)
Alabama 73-40 (1-3 vs. UGA)
Arkansas 62-49 (0-5 vs. UGA)
South Carolina 59-49 (2-7 vs. UGA)
Ole Miss 55-52 (0-4 vs. UGA)
Kentucky 48-59 (2-7 vs. UGA)
Mississippi State 33-73 (0-2 vs. UGA)
Vanderbilt 31-75 (1-8 vs. UGA)
…and…
Georgia Tech 70-43 (1-7 vs. UGA)

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After reading these blogs for several weeks now. I think the most pressing need with this program is a good purging of the idiot fans that think they know more about the game of football than CMR has forgotten.

For all you CWM detractors out there that think that a team should play man to man a blitz every play, I hope you watched game day this morning and listened to Micky Andrews. “I am retiring because the game has passed me bye and my pressure man to man will not work any longer.” I guess you all know more than Micky ha?

From a layman’s eye it appears some changes may be needed but I think CMR is in the best place to determine what if any changes are needed and I will support his decisions.

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Nice post LJ of UGA. But you left out National Championships, of which the Dawgs have won NONE during the Richt years. In fact they haven’t won one since 1980! That’s 29 years, folks! I’ve had it. Let’s make some changes. Football has evolved over those 29 years and we’re not playing the kind of football that’s winning national titles. It’s kind of like Kentucky and basketball. They’re used to winning national titles. When it became apparent they weren’t winning them anymore, they went looking for someone who could put them back on top, opened their wallets and hired Calipari. Like him or hate him, the Cats are 6-0 so far this year. I’m tired of the excuses. The Kentucky football game was it for me. That was some of the most pitiful Georgia football I’ve ever witnessed. And I am absolutely sick and tired of losing to Florida. CMR is a nice guy and all that, but UGA’s football program is going down the toilet. It’s time for change. So, GO DAWGS! Beat Tech! And then let’s hire some new blood.

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The Dawgs will destroy the Jackets 62-7! The triple option will be a BIG ZERO.

Go DAWGS!

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Hey yellow fuz,

2,555 days from 2001 – 2008

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Looks like the Fuzz Fairy is back. Fuzz is a pole smoker.

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Nope, don’t think he does

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Being a Bama fan< I have no stick in this fight-just an outside observation of a program (Bama) that has gone through it's share of bad coaches until we found the right one.
March Richt is not a bad coach! His problem is that he is too loyal to his staff. When you recruit as well as UGA as done over the past few years and find your program in decline, the ONLY direction for your finger to point is the coaching staff.
UGA's offense will be much better once Cox is gone..The main problem lies on the defensive side of the ball..I don't know of one defensive coach I would retain…

Mark, seems you have a bug up your bum about UK…get over it..the problems are much deeper than one team…

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I bit dramatic here. Just two years ago we finish number 2 and were probably the best team at the end of the season. We beat LSU last year so to say they lapped us is a bit misleading. While, change is needed in some aspects to say the team is so far down is a stretch. Don’t push the panic button becuase the journalist thinks so.

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We lost four big time players to the NFL, there is no way to do that and not have a dropoff. The huge question next year will be qb, where we will have to suffer through a totally inexperienced redshirt frosh, or an almost totally inexperienced redshirt junior. Poorly handled this year in terms of getting ready for next. We used to plan for those things by getting the next guy significant snaps while playing in a backup role. Next big question next year will be D line, followed by safeties. Change is coming, first off, we have to go get the jackets. HBTD

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Mark,
I don’t normally respond to online articles…but after reading yours I felt a need to do so. You’ve raised some valid points…however, there is one glaring point that UGA has to address and it’s been present for the last couple of years.
The UGA football team is one of the most undisciplined teams in the SEC. Need proof? Look at the penalties. Key penalties that kill drives. “Emotional” penalties at the wrong times that let an opponent off the mat. Need further proof? Look at the off the field “incidents” with law enforcement.
It all starts with the head coach and a climate of accountability–to him, the team and each other. Until Mark Richt instills some standards and discipline into his program–this slide into mediocrity will continue.

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