What’s wrong with UGA? Sad to say, it starts with Mark Richt
"The meeting of the Mark Richt Fan Club is called to order." (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
Mark Richt’s teams use to have all the answers. Whether it was P-44-Haynes in Knoxville or 70-X-Takeoff in Auburn, his Georgia Bulldogs would win the sort of breathless games that stamped Richt as college football’s next great coach. But it has been a decade, and Richt hasn’t taken Georgia to the pinnacle — got close a couple of times — and nobody sees him that way anymore.
If you’re looking for what has gone wrong with this program, there it is: Mark Richt never quite finished the drill. Georgia was No. 3 in the final polls after the 2002 season and No. 2 according to the Associated Press after 2007 and No. 1 according to everybody in preseason 2008, but the Bulldogs could never do as Florida and LSU and Alabama did — they couldn’t get to the BCS title game and win.
And now they’re 1-4 and Richt isn’t the sleek young man just in from Tallahassee; he’s a 50-year-old who has been on the job a decade and who seems at a loss to arrest the slide. This isn’t to say he’s a bad man or even a bad coach, but it is to say that in college football the blame must always fall upward: There’s a reason head coaches are multimillionaires.
It’s convenient to say that Georgia in Year 10 under Richt resembles Florida State near the end of his mentor Bobby Bowden’s reign. Convenient, and also true. Attention to detail has slipped. Players appear to be coaching themselves. Players also seem incapable of conforming to team rules and community laws.
A college coach can override almost any embarrassment so long as he wins 10 games as a matter of course, but Richt’s team is but 9-9 over the past season and a quarter. And you simply cannot play .500 ball and have 10 players arrested in one offseason.
The belief here is that Richt will not be fired this season or in its aftermath. The belief here is also that Richt stands before us a damaged coach. There was no reason for Georgia to lose to Mississippi State or Colorado, no reason other than that these Bulldogs no longer expect to win. They’ve seen themselves caught and passed in the SEC. They’ve seen their gimmicks — the blackout against Alabama in 2008, the black helmets in Jacksonville last season — fall flat. They’ve seen teams with lesser talent being coached up.
There was a time when we would have expected Richt to solve any problem, but that time is gone. The slide of 2006 — four losses in five games — was halted by three rousing victories at season’s end, but come 2009 the Bulldogs were back in the same place, needing to beat Georgia Tech and win a bowl to salvage a season.
This winter Richt steeled himself and fired three-quarters of his defensive staff, but nothing much has changed. Tackles are still being missed. Coverages are still being blown. The whole operation comes off as disjointed, distracted, dysfunctional. It’s as if the Georgia Bulldogs awoke one morning and found themselves reinvented as the Kentucky Wildcats. (Who, not incidentally, beat UGA in Sanford Stadium last season for the first time since 1977.)
The effect has been stunning. How long since we’ve seen the Bulldogs so inept? (Even Ray Goff’s otherwise lousy 1990 team managed to beat Alabama.) It would be one thing if Georgia wasn’t good enough to compete, but nobody can seriously believe that a roster including A.J. Green, Justin Houston, Branden Smith, Aaron Murray, Orson Charles and Washaun Ealey is without talent. Ask Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen if he’d trade rosters with Richt. Heck, ask Paul Johnson.
Rule of thumb: If it’s not the playing, it must be the coaching. What worked for Richt for five years and two SEC titles has stopped working. (He lost 13 games those first five seasons; he has lost 18 in the four-plus seasons since.) This team of 10 returning offensive starters and the new 3-4 defense hasn’t won a game in a calendar month.
The optimum course would be for the man making the millions — that’d be Richt — to seize the wheel and steer this program back to excellence. But if he could, wouldn’t he have done it by now? It’s the age-old question: What do you do when you’ve run out of ideas?
(Take the guys swimming? Nope. Tried that already.)
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still a dawg fan
October 4th, 2010
12:41 pm
Hey dawgfaceboy,
What team have you been watching this year? I don’t think Spurrier wants a roster that has lost to SC,MISS ST,COL & we still have TENN,FL,AUB,GT,KY,& VANDY(I don’t see any sure wins in that group) —need I say anymore.
Dontavius Supremo
October 4th, 2010
12:41 pm
Still wouldn’t fire him yet; he’s done well enough (more than well enough) for a decade to deserve an appropriate amount of time to correct the errors. That would be one more season, max. This year the problem really appears to be offensive ineptitude. Martinez is gone; what about Bobo?
Bogus Bill
October 4th, 2010
12:41 pm
No, Paul Johnson would *not* trade rosters with Richt. To go to Tech you need intelligence and character, neither of which are present in “U”GA’s typical recuit.
Ole Ball Fan
October 4th, 2010
12:42 pm
Even as a Tech Fan, I take no delight in seeing UGA lose. My 2 cents: having a coach on the hot seat will adversely impact recruiting; the opposing coaches will really capitalize on it. Besides give me a really good example of the last coach to turn around a program from a really bad year after the 2 previous years were very rough. If CMR fails to wins 6 games let him go.
Ole Ball Fan
October 4th, 2010
12:43 pm
Oh BTW Joe Pa doesn’t really count. He’s a ceremonial HC.
bugsquacher
October 4th, 2010
12:43 pm
Mark has to go…. not because he is a bad person, its because he doesn’t understand…..FULL BORE, KNOCK YOU ON YOUR BUTT, WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS, SEC FOOTBALL…….
DOES THIS TEAM HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE UNDER THE CURRENT COACHING STAFF?
Time
October 4th, 2010
12:44 pm
@ This Jacket will blah blah blah…you said this.
“We are having a bad year as well, but damn…..”
Just to correct you. Fact is, Tech is having it’s USUAL season. UGA is having a bad year. But guess what, even in a bad year, with a coach who may or may not be on the hotseat, the Dawgs will crush the piddly little trade shoolers. Just as they did last year when Tech had it’s once a decade decent season in just Another Crappy Conference.
Doug
October 4th, 2010
12:44 pm
What I was missing in the article was what constitutes good coaching. Pointing out failings without offering solutions means little. What I find missing in general for the UGA teams is higher levels of persistent intensity, confidence, concentration (illustrated by fumbles at crucial moments), and the ever present need for execution. The head coach has to set the standard. Asking young men, who simply have been blessed with talent, to develop winning attitudes without a leader facilitating those attitudes is to watch a team go 1 – 4 and worse.
NC Trooper
October 4th, 2010
12:44 pm
But Mark you gave us 5 reason why UGA wasn’t so bad. Does this mean you aren’t up to par in your commentary? Just sayin
Andy
October 4th, 2010
12:44 pm
You crushed him Mark but it is well deserved. I think we are seeing the Richt era ending before our very eyes.
Dawg Drool (Go VOLS!)
October 4th, 2010
12:44 pm
Working with Sandy and Lori to get 5,000 letters of disdain. See earlier post for AD address-send letters of support (and checks) there if possible. But also send a letter of discouragement to CMR here:
Mark A Richt
Title:Head Football Coach
Dept.:Athletic
Phone:706-542-1307
Address:
0111 DawgButts-Bleeding Way
1 Worthless Pup
VOLS B*tch, GA 30602
Billy Ocean
October 4th, 2010
12:44 pm
Bama Johnson, I think Richt will stay put for now. He if I’m not mistaken has a pretty big buyout in his contract so I don’t think you’re going to see him get the boot. McGarity is going to sit on that money until he has to. Although I’m more inclined to call that money a bomb. He’ll sit on that bomb until its about to explode.
truckstop
October 4th, 2010
12:45 pm
Hey Mark, can you go over those “5 reasons the Georgia Bulldogs are better off than you think” again? I’ll hang up and wait for your your response.
innocent bystander
October 4th, 2010
12:45 pm
It’s a terrible awful painful year. Should have never happened.Personally I think three coaches should be fired. None of them are named Richt.When was the last time a Georgia coach beat Auburn 4x in a row.? Not in my lifetime. When was the last time a Georgia Coach beat Tech eight out of nine? Not in my lifetime. I’m 60 years old. What was the name of the Auburn DC Richt outschemed in the 06 game when Georgia buried heavly favored Auburn? Muschamp.Do you think if Coach Richt is fired Coaches the caliber of Saban and Meyer are going to line up around the block waiting to fill out an application? Dream on.
Volman
October 4th, 2010
12:45 pm
You forgot that Tennessee made it to the BCS title game and won…
Shame on you, Mr. Bradley.
Roy Barns
October 4th, 2010
12:45 pm
All of you haters are stupid! Coach Richt is still a better coach than what you could find! Things have been down lately but will change! Richt is 3 and 1 against Saban and y’all think he walks on water! What comes around..comes around!
NewnanDawg
October 4th, 2010
12:45 pm
IMO, the team does not have the confidence of their coaches and they know it, so they don’t believe they can win. I would bet a bunch of money that after a virtually flawless game by Caleb, shortly before the fumble, someone on the coaching staff felt the need to say something like, “We only need the field goal son, so just protect the ball.” They thought it was smart coaching, but what that really says to King is “Even though you’ve learned this in practice since Pop Warner, we don’t have complete confidence in you to execute.” Winning coaches say those things during practice but during the game they just call the play and say “Go do your job, win the game.” If they fail, they go back and coach for the next game, but don’t plant the idea of failure in the kid’s head before he has the chance to succeed. The coaches are not coaching with confidence in their players and the whole program is infected with it. I can’t figure out any other reason to be losing with the talent we have.
Go Dawgs!
shane
October 4th, 2010
12:46 pm
Coach Richt might just decide to walk away after the season and do some missionary work. He seems like the kind of Coach who would do that for the sake of the program. Not as a cowardly act, simply realizing his time there has come to an end.
Dooley Family
October 4th, 2010
12:46 pm
Agree. It is simply time for some new coaching blood! I will attend this weeks game but doubt I will attend any of the others until we get a new head man. But UT is almost as inept as we are and so I will show up in the hopes we pull one out against another inferior team.
Top Dog
October 4th, 2010
12:48 pm
COFAN- Interesting comment. Were you really at the game? What reasons did the players parents give you for the disdain against CMR? I would think they love him with all they seem to get away with. I do not buy that unless you have specific examples. Hard for me to believe that most of the players hate CMR. I would have to question the level of respect that they have based on their performance on and off the field
I.P. Rainwater
October 4th, 2010
12:48 pm
Sniff, sniff. Is that buffalo poo poo that I smell?
Larry Munson
October 4th, 2010
12:50 pm
Would you look at the losses falling from the sky?
Dawg with bag over his head
October 4th, 2010
12:50 pm
Ray,
You’re obviously not watching the games. The coaching staff has lost control. Hanging on to CMR is just prolonging the agony and keeping us from becoming competitive again. You and other homers keep saying this is just one bad year. Since 2005, it’s been one almost great year (2007), three bad years (2006, 2008, 2009), and a terrible year (2010) that will only get worse.
Godawgs75
October 4th, 2010
12:50 pm
I like Richt and I am not sure about firing him. What I am sure about is that BOBO Needs to go!! Richt if you can recall, stopped making play calls becuase he said himself he needs to focus on the team. So having him make calls will not work either. What is the solution? Keep him and hope he gets better? We have talent, we just never are able to put all the talent to work. One more year for Richt to turn it around and if not then he can go. Bobo needs to go now, his play calling is horrible!!! Run run throw. Run run Throw. if that doesnt work, run run throw, run run throw.
Larry Munson
October 4th, 2010
12:51 pm
Dang, I broke my chair. Fell right in a pile of buffalo poo poo. Lauren, whatta ya got?
Ron O
October 4th, 2010
12:52 pm
Let’s look at this objectively. This season is a an equal opportunity clusterf**k by all parties. Starting with the coaches. The strength and condition coach has been doing it for 30 years. 30 years the same way, he has not changed his methods despite the vast improvements in technigues and exercises. BoBo is as predictable an offensive play caller as they come, its like he emails his game plan to the opposing DC before every game. I wonder if he even studies game films from the opponents. Defensively, you have to give a pass this year given the drastic change in philosphy. Special teams has actually improved this year over the last few.
The players? Despite having 10 starters back, the offense is leaderless. Can’t expect a redshirt freshman to take that mantle. AJ being out may have left it void but where are the senior lineman!!?? This may also be a reflection of BoBo’s lack of ability. He is not very inspiring his he? On defense no one has stepped up to take Rennie’s or Jeff Owen’s place. Again this a function of coaching as well. Good coaches demand leadership from the players and the UGA coaches haven’t done it in years.
Finally it starts and stops at the top, Richt is a great man but appears to be indecisive when it comes to leadership qualities. He is not inspiring the coaches or players. And McGarity, WTF, saying we are approaching this like we are 4-0. 4-0 teams tweak their performance not overall them like a 1-4 team has to do. The Bulldawg Nation is having its doubts about his leadsership and he’s only been on the job 60 days.
Einsteindawg
October 4th, 2010
12:52 pm
Mark…great article and to the point! All of these Richt apologists must be watching reruns of his first six seasons, not what he’s doing now. Our pro-style offense doesn’t give us the options to utilize our talent, and our 3-4 defense, with our current players, is like fitting a square peg into a round hole. Richt either can’t or won’t change, hence he has lost control of his team and the respect from his players. Too bad as he’s such a nice person.
Nick
October 4th, 2010
12:52 pm
Found this account when Mark Richt was a trending topic on Twitter Saturday night. I’m still pro-CMR but it’s pretty dang funny: http://twitter.com/themarkricht
Chloroform me
October 4th, 2010
12:53 pm
Mark, I have to agree with Chopchamps95 and NC trooper. You keep a positive outlook and keep preaching they are good and that they will turn it around, but what you’re saying and what I’m seeing are 2 totally different things. Results speak for themselves and no amount of fancy words and inspirational speech will do anything to change their poor performances week after week.
In the movie Remember the Titans, after a practice one day Julius tell Gary Bertier “attitude reflects leadership, captain.” The same can be said for this UGA team. The coaching staff, mainly Mark Richt, are supposed to be leading this team, but right now I don’t see any leadership from anyone who is involved with that football program. And the attitude based on the way the players have been playing reflect a lack of leadership. This ship is starting to sink faster than the Titanic.
shane
October 4th, 2010
12:53 pm
I can’t believe that there are actually Vol fans on here being critical of anothers team’s coach. REALLY! After all the mess that has been happening in Knoxville? Come on man. At least UGA’s coach can count to eleven.
Mike
October 4th, 2010
12:54 pm
It is amazingly difficult to stay at the top as long as Richt has in a conference as good as the SEC has been. What Florida St. did is an exception, not the rule. Most long standing coaches have to deal with seasons like this. Bob Stoops has had two 8 win seasons in the last 5 even at Oklahoma. Spurrier’s Florida teams had lost their grip by the time he left. Fulmer lost his grip at the turn of the decade. Vince Dooley and Joe Paterno also went through similar dips in their careers. It happens if you stay long enough. Meyer, Saban, Petrino, and the like have always left while things are rolling, so it is difficult for me to take them seriously in this kind of discussion.
WIMODOGG
October 4th, 2010
12:55 pm
WinderDogg….you’re an absolute IDIOT!
Bleacher Fan
October 4th, 2010
12:55 pm
I wrote this a week ago and it still holds true after that joke this weekend.
http://thesportsdebates.com/2010/09/28/the-fire-mark-richt-debate-expectations-outpace-mark-richt/
WIMODOGG
October 4th, 2010
12:55 pm
WinderDogg…..You’re an absolute IDIOT!!!!!
DawgFaceBlues
October 4th, 2010
12:56 pm
How bout bringing Bobby Bowden in to be head coach and move Richt to Off Coord?
Would that work?
TROTTINGHOME
October 4th, 2010
12:56 pm
It’s the ‘RED PANTY CURSE’…sad but true…Richt has to go.
1992dawg
October 4th, 2010
12:57 pm
My vote is to try and get John Gruden as the next UGA head coach!! That man has won a Super Bowl!! I think he could possibly win a National Championship!! He shows emotion!!
doc
October 4th, 2010
12:57 pm
right now the players think athens, ga. is their playground or country club. they rule and act with a sense of entitlement. the student body sees it but the coaches dont. that is ok, i guess, if you are number one and are delivering. if you are a .500 club or worse, it is not appropriate to think and act that way. at some point the emphasis is going to have to change within the attitudes of the players. that will have to come from the top or from a new voice.
Mike
October 4th, 2010
12:59 pm
On the topic of coaches dealing with decline if they stay long enough…a lot of that is due to losing Coordinators. LSU has not been the same without Jimbo Fisher and Bo Pelini. Spurrier certainly missed Bob Stoops on the defense. UT’s offense has never been the same without Cutcliffe running it. Florida’s offense has not been the same without Dan Mullen. I would bet that its not long before the defense shows the loss of Charlie Strong once his players are out of the system.
Georgia has not been as sharp ever since Van Gorder left and was replaced by Martinez, and Mark Richt turned over the offense to Bobo. Both units have declined severely over the last 2-3 years. I think Grantham is a good hire. Now Richt needs to find a better OC than Mike Bobo.
EricADawgFan
October 4th, 2010
12:59 pm
FIRE BOBO AT THE END OF THE SEASON JUST LIKE THEY FIRED MARTINEZ LAST YEAR. THIS MUST BE DONE !!!!!!
Andy
October 4th, 2010
1:00 pm
I think if Richt still has the desire to fix things, he can and will, if given the chance. I think the coaches need to demand more from the players. If the coaches don’t demand and expect excellence, even perfection in some aspects, the players will never reach it if left to their own devices. Maybe our coaches have forgotten what excellence looks like. If so, they need to watch some Alabama games or something and drill the players until it takes hold.
whats that you say
October 4th, 2010
1:01 pm
Roy Barns, I think Bama found better. You can spit all this crap out about UGA is 3-1 against Saban but like chloroform me just said……results speak for themselves. They just won a national title last year and (as much as i hated it) whipped our @$$ 2 years ago when they came to play HERE IN ATHENS. What have we done in 3 years……we beat Michigan State and Texas A&M in back to back bowl game, yeah there’s alot to hang our hats on. Bama is doing just fine
Mark Bradley
October 4th, 2010
1:01 pm
If last year was Willie’s fault and this year is Bobo’s … when is it ever the head coach’s fault?
TheBeast
October 4th, 2010
1:01 pm
hmmmm….i think we should fire the entire AJC staff too while we are getting rid of Richt….lets look at the last 10 years and compare…hmmmmm….readership in the AJC is down alot….care to give us the stats Bradley??? Lets blame it all on the writers and fire them too….All Coach Richt has done is win in a very honorable way…..not one year…but every year he has been at UGA I am very happy with the man Richt has proven to be and the way he has won…..can’t say the same about many programs in the NCAA….I will take this past 10 year stretch and the memories he has given us….he didn’t jump ship after a few short seasons unlike many in the SEC have done before…..from day one when he was hired, he said he would stay as long as UGA wanted him….I don’t want a quick fix…i want stability year after year….everyone no matter what business they are in has a down year or two….We have not only a good coach…but a great coach as time has shown us…
NC Dawg
October 4th, 2010
1:01 pm
I’m really glad you have that ever clear crystal ball from which you see the real truth. That’s especially comforting, since you most likely have never coached or even played an organized down in your life. I’m sure MR is far more concerned about the situation than you or all the fair weather fans out there. Let’s take 11 of you and go play Alabama. Somebody’d have to make one heck of a half-time speech, wouldn’t they? I think there’s a little more to it than tough talk and cheap shots.
AMG
October 4th, 2010
1:02 pm
Retarded dawgs – Fire Richt after two off seasons? Really?
Gordon
October 4th, 2010
1:03 pm
Mark,
It is amazing how this parallels Paul Hewitt at Georgia Tech. We may not have the off-court/field problems that UGA has, but Hewitt’s decline like Richt’s began when the early assistants starting leaving about 4 or 5 years in. Both had great success early and are now either unable or too stubborn to make fundamental changes.
Mark Bradley
October 4th, 2010
1:04 pm
That’s a salient observation, Gordon.
UGABugKiller
October 4th, 2010
1:05 pm
We must be honest about Mark Richt’s career at Georgia.
And to be honest we need to understand who was truly responsible for Mark Richt’s success as a head coach at Georgia.
The man responsible for Mark Richt’s success at Georgia is not Mark Richt. It’s Brian Van Gorder.
Follow my logic. When Brian Van Gorder left the Bulldogs, he did so under very strange circumstances. In the last few years it came to light that he left because Michael Adams refused to pay him what BVG felt he, as Broyles Award winning DC, was worth, and even worse, that Richt didn’t back him in request to be properly compensated. Why would Richt back his DC? Maybe because Richt wanted his former college roommate to be DC? Maybe? That is conjecture on my part. What we do know is, Adams didn’t pay BVG a fair contract, so he left. And then Richt promoted his good friend and former failed defensive coordinator to the position of Georgia’s DC.
Georgia DID win the SEC in 2005, with all of the BVG coached players on defense, but some subtle things began to change. The secondary exclusively began playing zone coverage, with no man coverage mixed in. Corners playing 10 yards off the line. An even more subtle change happened to the team: sideline discipline became an issue. How many times did we see Georgia get sideline warnings? That never happened with BVG patrolling the sideline.
Then the first obvious harbinger of things to come: being run out of the building by WVU in the first half of the Sugar Bowl. The Bulldog defense looked disjointed, like they weren’t properly prepared by coaches to play the game.
2006 continued the trends seen in 2005. The defense started giving up yards and points at levels not seen at Georgia… ever. This was made worse by Richt waffling on the QB situation for weeks. Sideline discipline continued to be poor. Players were seen acting unprofessional on the sideline, dancing and acting foolish, not at all focused on the task at hand. This was a team now run by Richt and Martinez.
2007 saw a head-scratching blow out by Tennessee because Georgia’s DC was unable or unwilling to adapt his defense to what was happening on the field. It saw a loss to SC that cost the Dawgs a shot at the MNC because the defense couldn’t stop the runs that everyone knew was coming. Discipline on the field was becoming a problem. Stupid penalties lengthened drives. But the Bulldogs got hot at the right time. Why? Because Marcus Howard, the last player coached under Brian Van Gorder, decided to play with discipline and unmitigated want-to, and he single-handedly saved Georgia’s season. Mark Richt embarrassed himself and the program by telling his team to commit a unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. The dancing and carrying on on the sidelines, the abject indiscipline and lack of focus on the sideline was reaching a fever pitch.
2008 began with an embarrassing string of arrests that would make Urban Meyer blush. Arrests that NEVER happened while BVG was the voice of discipline at Georgia. Nine arrests over the summer. NINE. The team came out, ranked number one, but by now, the unprofessionalism fostered by lackadaisical approach to discipline fostered by Richt and Martinez had so infested the team. The inmates now ran the asylum. For the FOURTH straight season under Martinez, Georgia gave up more points and more yards per game than the year before, yet Richt refused to even DISCUSS Martinez’s job status. He refused to hold Martinez accountable, just like Martinez and Richt were not holding their players accountable on and off the field. Personal foul penalties became rampant this season at UGA. Hitting the QB late. Hitting out of bounds late. Georgia was now the most penalizing team in the SEC. And the inexplicable blow outs continued.
2009 brought with it what was thought to be rock bottom. More arrests over the summer. Not nine, but more arrests still. That undisciplined nature of the team showed itself on the field yet again. This time, Georgia just didn’t lead the SEC in penalties, it was the second-worst penalized team in ALL of college football!!! And still, the players were allowed to dance and act foolish on the sideline, showing no respect for the game or for their coaches or for the fans. For the FIFTH straight year, Georgia gave up more yards and points per game than the year before, a run of defensive ineptitude that stands alone in Georgia’s once-proud defensive history. Willie Martinez set records for his defense. Finally, Richt relented, firing Martinez. The fact is… HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER PROMOTED MARTINEZ IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Now this summer, with TEN ARRESTS. A new DC comes in, but he can’t bring discipline to where the inmates run the asylum. Todd Grantham has tried. We’ve seen him yell. Saw it in the Spring Game. Saw it in the first game. Haven’t seen it again. Why? Because Grantham knows this is a losing proposition. He sees what Mark Richt has wrought and knows he has no chance. No chance at all.
Look at the choices and decisions made by Mark Richt over the last five-plus years of this program without the name “Mark Richt” attatched to the choices decisions, and ask yourselves, would you HONESTLY want this man to run the program? His name is blurring the reality of the situation HE has placed OUR program in.
He appears to have passive-aggresively backed Martinez over BVG as the DC by not backing BVG’s request to be fairly compensated.
He allowed his team to become an undisciplined mess on the sidelines during games. This spilled over into the games themselves, and then after the games with the embarrassing arrests.
He continued to defend the indefensible Soft Willie Martinez, putting his personal relationship with this man over the FACTS piling up about just how badly Martinez was ruining the defense and the program.
Think about that. Richt put his friendship with Martinez FIRST. BEFORE THE TEAM.
And THAT’S the man y’all want as the head coach? Because of what he did six years ago?
Richt doesn’t hold his players accountable. He doesn’t hold his coaches accountable.
It’s about damn time we and Greg McGarrity and Michael Adams hold RICHT accountable.
Larry Munson
October 4th, 2010
1:06 pm
They just took a hobnailed Buffalo turd and put it right on our necks.