What’s wrong with UGA? Sad to say, it starts with Mark Richt

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Richt’s final poll finishes at Georgia:

2002- #3
2003- #6
2004- #6
2005- #10
2006- #23
2007- #3
2008- #10

THAT’S PATHETIC!!!

SHOULD HAVE BEEN #1 EVERY SEASON!!

Mark you’re so right, wow, look at all those terrible finishes, worst than any coach in the nation!!

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It is not he is a bad person or coach, but time for a change to get us to the top…we have been 2nd tier behind Florida and could not reach the top. Now we have fallen…Just need some new direction. He will coach again and do not feel sorry for him at $50,000 a week…We just need some fire. Some of these kids were coached harder in high school…that is why they are 4 and 5 star athletes..

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Meyer and Saban play for National Championships…Richt will not be able to say that any time soon…

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Great Article Mark,

We all like Mark Richt as a person. He is a great guy, but when you look at his work compared to Les Miles, Urban Meyers, and Nick Saban, it is safe to say Mark Richt has won as many ballgames in the SEC as these coaches. What separates Mark Richt from these coaches is that he has not been able to elevate his team to the National Level, that is winning a National Championship or even get us to the Big Game.

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its the direction of the program SINCE 2008 that is the problem.. and not just “rebuilding,” but the off and on field problem. thats the argument that bradley presented. how about you make a response to that instead of foaming at the mouth over richt’s stellar coaching history.

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So all those years Georgia finished 6-6 and 4-7 and 6-5 under Vince Dooley in the late 60’s and early to mid 70’s was becasue he ran out of answers and he was not the right guy to fix it? Yeah. I sure am glad that Georgia got rid of him after his first losing season…oh wait he had like 5 losing seasons and coached 25 years? Any other school in the south would have neamed their stadium after Mark Richt for what he has done in 9 1/2 years and still here we are talking about firing the guy. How about we talk about something meaningful and realistic.

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Even the year they finished #2 in the nation. That defense STILL wasn’t very good. They still lost games they shouldn’t have because the defense underachieved.

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Only rats leave a sinking ship. Things get fixed one way or another. Go dawgs, pull it together!

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Operator: “Information. What city, please?”
McGarity: “Boise, Idaho.”

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Mark-

Excellent journalism here.

Nice job presenting 1 side of the story, great credibility.

Nice job, perhaps your finest work.

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I agree if Richt knew how to fix it we would be 3-2 right now. I hate its come to this but we must make wholesale coaching changes and possible wholesale player changes. I can believe that some of theses players will accept this no desire to play attitude from others they are going into battle with every Sat.

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sug, you left out 2009 and the current year. Just an oversight I know.

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What is the number one goal of a college head coach? To win football games – Period
What is the second goal? To win a National Championship – Period

Richt has accomplished the first, he will never accomplish the second.

With that in mind, all you blind homers and blind belue’s out there: Whats the solution?

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Turnovers, boneheaded penalties, poor execution, off-season arrests…these are caused by lack of discipline. Richt came to Athens with the ‘Fininsh the Drill’ mantra and instilled discipline that had been lacking for years. But for some reason, those days are gone. A couple of weeks ago I thought we had slipped back to the Donnan days- a talented team that could compete in every game but just couldn’t make it to the top. Now we are back to the Goff era- a poorly coached, under achieving team where someone rises to the occasion every week to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.

We are undisciplined & underachieving. That’s sad.

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being 1-5 is about as cool as a grown man barking in opposing fans faces. Its seriously one of the most disturbing things in SEC football

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WHat he’s got to do is unify everyone.

That’s probably going to entail Richt taking over both playcalling and personnel on the field duties. It’s got to be his call.

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5,000 letters of support for CMR. Join the effort today. Send your letter to the AD office. Lets not lose the greatest coach in UGA history.

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It’s definitely not promisiing for the remainder of this season, but the larger problem is the overall direction of this program. This is not just a one year swoon, this has been brewing for at least the past 3 years and UGA is trending downward. Mark Richt is not capable of leading the Dawgs to a National Champioinship, and for those of you that believe that he will MAGICALLY become something he is not, you’re delusional.

As stated many previous times, it will take a National Championship calibur coach to elevate this program to be competitive in the east/Sec conference (due to having NC in Bama, Fla, & Lsu). It’s been time to wish Richt well and start searching for a new coach.

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Put down the pipe Ray! Greatest coach in UGA history? I sure hope you’re being sarcastic.

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Mark Richt – great Christian man, great coach and I admire the work he does with these young men. Nothing personal, but college football is a business. The company isn’t offering the best product anymore. It’s time to “new and improved” this team.

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sug, get over it. The decline has been happening for 3 years. #1 every year? hell, we’re #11 in the SEC.

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Is Mark Richt much different than Bobby Cox? (situationally speaking)

Yeah, I just dropped that bomb.

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Richt hasn’t coached in so long that he no longer knows how. Replacing BOBO won’t help, he’s doing what Richt wants. If Richt is allowed to return next year the program will begin to seriously lose talent. It’s already a train wreck. Attendance will tank. I know my eight season tickets will be up for the taking. It’s no fun to watch this kind of coaching. The real losers here are the players who are not being coached and who’s futures are damaged. The most honorable Richt should do the right thing and quit. I’ve been going to games since my first game against Auburn in Columbus and haven’t seen many years as hopeless as this one. FIRE RICHT!

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Mark Richt’s mother has been busy blogging this morning. Good article Mr. Bradley, dead on.

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I don’t think firing CMR is the answer.. of course the head coach should get all of the blame if the team isn’t performing, I do believe that he has made some bad decision i.e. promoting mike bobo to OC, staying with willie too long as DC, if you look at CMR’s first staff at UGA there is no way you replace a VanGorder or current UAB COACH Neil Callaway with the likes of willie and bobo… those two decision have cost him… Do I think there were unrealistic expectations this year of course I do… anyone who know football, knows that a new defensive scheme can’t be taught in a spring or fall camp… just look at saban’s 2007 team.. All i’m saying is that CMR has earned the right to correct this mess he made.. he just needs a new offensive coordnatior… CTG is going to be very good, just needs a big run stuffer ala mt. cody like ALA.. FANS DON’T FORGET SABAN’S FIRST YEAR IT WASN’T UNTIL THEY SIGNED TERRANCE CODY THAT ALA D. BECAME GOOD PLUS SABAN WAS ABLE TO RECRUIT THE PLAYERS TO FIT THE 3-4 SCHEME … GIVE HIM TIME GUYS MY QUESTION TO YOU WHO DO YOU WANT AS YOUR COACH IF NOT CMR… PETERSON.. COME ON THEY PLAY IN WAC, SERIOUS THE WAC, THE REAL QUESTION IS WOULD HE ABLE TO PRODUCE THE SAME RESULTS IN SEC…

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Vince Dooley had Herschel…..we have no Herschel and they are not going to UGA with Bama and Florida in our conference….if we did, we would redshirt him or bench him because he could not pass block…

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To give Richt another year is to doom this program for another five. Fire him now. Hire somebody BIG, and maybe, just maybe we can be back in the mix in three years. Richt peeked two years ago. Nowhere to go but down from here. Sure Richt has done some pretty good things for our program, but I’m agraid his legacy will be marred by the shambles he let our program erode to.

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First. Bradley is a writer. He has no knowledge of day to day football operations or coaching

Second-You think companies have a better year every year? Even IBM has a bad year and then they adjust, make changes and come back better.

Third- The OL and RB aren’t who we thought they were. They have been over hyped and Green’s selfish behavior cost the offense.

Fourth- The boys need to stop acting like fools on campus

Last- Anyone who thinks Richt should be replaced should remember long and hard about Ray Goff and all the disaster coaching changes in the SEC over the last decade. Change for changes sake is stupid.

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2010:

THE CURSE OF DAMON EVANS Begins for UGA

Beware the pitfalls of unqualified, undisciplined Affirmative-Action hires.

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What Would Damon Do?

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To all the fans writing letters of support from Jeff Foxworthy: “Here’s your sign”

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2010:

“THE CURSE OF COURTNEY’S UNDERWEAR” Begins for UGA

Beware of Drunken Trollops Who Don’t Know When to Shut Up and Listen to a Law Enforcement Officer.

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Mark, I follow your articles with great appreciation, ordinarily. It’s hard to agree with you on this one, though. Why do the Richt-haters start howling at one bad season? A bad season now and then happens to the best of them.

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I am very concerned about the direction of this program. I have met Coach Richt on numerous occassions during his annual tours to Bulldog Clubs each year, and I know he is a fine person and a good man. That being said, I fear he has, at least for now, lost control of this team. It may be too late to get it back this year. I think that Dr. McGarity will probably give Coach Richt the rest of this year and one more year to turn things around. But, if we don’t go at least 9-3 in 2011, we will more than likely be searching for a new head football coach in January 2012.

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2010

“THE CURSE OF THE PHIL FULMER CUP” Begins for UGA

Beware of Drunken, Law-Breaking Thugs Who You Kick Off the Team but Who Also Happen to Practice VooDoo and Curses.

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I was in Co….talk to alot of parents…they hate Richt and most of the players do as well except the ones that he show favor to..
one mom can be on the field with her camera and only take pictures of her son and his friends…a dad that can walk on the sideline..Richt can go

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Hey Sug, were you listing convictions?? Just to finish your list.
2009 11
2010 4 (sitll counting)

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Anyone who thinks cmr is doing a good job is a fool! Richt will NEVER be the caliber coach Georgia deserves! We need a coach that can compete with Saban and Meyer – Richt can’t. Why are Georgia fans so satisfied with mediocrity? WHY? Mark Richt is a nice man, Christian, etc… – who cares? He hasn’t gotten the job done! He has had 10 years and the program is in OBVIOUS decline! How can Georgia fans be so forgiving? The man hasn’t done his job, he is incapable of competing with the top schools, he does less with more talent each and every year.

Please write the AD and ask him to fire Richt!

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Not to make any excuses as to why UGA is not simply reloading each year – but these things do run in cycles.

I can understand the defense struggling under a new system – heck – Bama lost six games and gave up many a big play in Saban’s first year.

However, I do not understand the lack of offense and planning.
Murray was supposed to be the only concern.

I do not know the answers – but I do know that in 2008 – we still won 10 games.

Last year we won 8 games after Stafford and Moreno left early – and it was supposed to be a transition year.

This year was also a transition year – with new defense and QB – but lord knows we were not to be 1-4 at his point in the season – and being passed by Mississippi State ……. and Colorado.

In reality – we suck!

In reality – 10 arrests and 1 -4 says it all.

In reality – we need to let Richt figure this thing out this year and give him next year to get it back on track.

A lot of transition the last two years – let’s see what happens in 2011.

If 2011 is more of the same – we will need new leadership to jump start the program. Richt would be better off as well – getting his coaching career back on track with a different school – where he would be embraced as he has been embraced here.

Firing Mark Richt would be like shooting Old Yeller! But if 2011 is more of the same – find the shotgun!.

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How would 0-6 in the SEC look going into the FL game. Quite possible.

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I have said it for years. Jim Donnan had the program going in the right direction. But Mark Richt looked better on TV, and dog fans fell in love with him.

Richt took what Donnan left him and rode the wave as far as he could. This includes easy recruitment after initial success, thus explaining his record in ensuing years.

Now that the whole program has Richt’s stamp on it, well, you see the results.

He only planned to be at UGA until Bobby Bowden retired and handed him the Florida State job. His plan would have worked perfectly if Bowden had retired a few years sooner.

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Barry Switzer once said he forgot to put up a sign in the Oklahoma athletic dorm, “No Raping Allowed.” Richt needs to put up a sign, “No Fumbling or Raping Allowed.” AJC is rejoicing in this. Bradley wrote after opening Clemson win in 2003 that Richt was greatest ever but losing has changed his mind. The fans and media are doing a lot of mind reading through all of this. Do you expect Richt to say, “I’m totally distracted right now.” Of course he’s in a fog, 1 and 4 will do it.

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Lots of internet coaches for sure.

I’ll say this, 1-4 is touch to take.

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Absolutely no reason Richt can’t have GA 4-4 going in to the Florida game.

Problem is they’ll most likely get spanked by Florida and thats when the natives get really
restless!

Who doesn’t like what Richt stands for, but it boils down to this.

I’m from Jax, FL, grad of UGA and a letterman.

Still like the way Richt goes about his business overall, but haven’t been content with him all the way back to not even being able to one up Ron Zook.

Think about that, he also needed help to get to Atlanta the 3 times or whatever. He’s never one the SEC East outright yet!

How can you not accomplish that at UGA. Allbarn and So. Carolina have 20-30 Georgians on thier rosters!

Mark Richt is just soft overall sorry to say. Perfect in the narthax after Church, as a head coach it just is not going to happen. Been rooting for the nice guys can finish first, it just aint going to happen for him

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If Mark Richt is the greatest coach in UGA’s history, then what was Vince Dooley?

As a head coach, Dooley was a PR maestro. A head coach has to work the PR side of the game, particularly in tough times. He has to keep the players motivated and confident, and the alumni from coming after his head. My only criticism of Richt is that he has gone on TV during the last two weeks and sounds very glum, very gloomy, with this flat, uninspired demeanor. Are their players and fans supposed to rally around someone who sounds either depressed or uninterested?

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The worst coached and the most confused team is the SEC!!!!!!! Where are all of the great Players we sign in the last 4 years,,,,,,,Embarrassing.

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Look at all of those 4,5,6 loss seasons. I am using the exact same logic you are for say that Mark Richt is terrible. And yes, thank you so much for personally insulting me. I really appreciate you doing that for me sharing my opinion.

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int the 70’s and 80 UGA owned Florida.

Now UGA can’t beat FL on its worst day!

MR record against FL 2 – 7!

Greatest coach of all time? You people need to put down the crack pipe!

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Working with Sandy and Lori to get 5,000 letters of support. See earlier post for AD address-send letters of support (and checks) there if possible. But also send a letter of encouragement to CMR here:
Mark A Richt

Title:Head Football Coach
Dept.:Athletic
Phone:706-542-1307
Address:
0111 Butts-Mehre
1 Selig Circle
Athens GA 30602

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Perfectly stated column.

CMR’s comments about a “minority of fans” being upset indicates how unwilling the staff is to accept the avalanche of criticism. True most fans continue to support the Bulldawgs, that’s why we are called fans but the majority is also extremely dissatisfied with their current performance and as Bradley correctly asserts, If it’s not the playing, it must be the coaching.

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Mark, should we assume that Ben Jones’ suspension for trying to MAIM MSU’s Fletcher Cox is being put off until the Idaho State game?

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I thought AJ Green was your savoir??? The Bulldog nation needs to brace themselves for being a bottom dweller in the SEC for years to come. Looking at the rest of the schedule for this year, there are no gimmies anymore…even Vanderbilt.

Pathetic.

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Ben Jones sat out the 1st half of the colorado game for the hit on the Miss St.

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Bear Bryant had a pair of 6 win seasons in 1969 and 1970 and before that had 2 8 win seasons in 1967 and 1968. We stuck with him and the rest is history as we had an incredibly dominant run in the 70s. It wasn’t too long ago that Joe Paterno had some subpar years including losing seasons and the seat got hot. But Penn State also stuck with Paterno and he recently won 11 games the last 3 years in a row.

Richt deserves the same amount of patience given what he has accomplished earlier in the century with a series of top 10 finishes. Unfortunately we now live in an immediate gratification society and people lack long term thinking. I hope he gets the chance to right the ship. Anyone can and does have a couple of subpar years here and there. All programs ebb and flow over time and this is just a short down cycle for the dawgs. I hope they give Richt time to right the ship.

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Ray – you are a fool! Why do you want to send letters of support? Are you really a UGA fan or a Tenn or UF fan?

If you are a UGA fan it is STUPID to send letters supporting Mark Richt – a coach who cannot compete with the other SEC coaches. Florida has owned us – and you want that to continue?

What an idiot!

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There is no point in prolonging the obvious. Georgia needs to hire a new coach for 2011. Period.

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Sure. Fire the coach, fire everybody. Then what? The head coaches being mentioned aren’t coming to UGA. I know of only 2 high profile assistants who I’d want to recruit, first being Muschamp at Texas provided Mack Brown isn’t pushed out first, then Kirby Smart. I like Kirby’s pedigree under Saban and if we thought CMR was ready after his tenure with Bowden, then I suspect he’s ready for a promotion. Whatever happens, Go Dawgs!

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Mark Bradley—

As a writer, who only has theories, and never takes actions for a living, do you really feel you are qualified to speak about how to coach a college football team or for that matter, how to do anything but theorize?

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Keep donating and paying for losses, PT Barnum would be proud.

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What a bunch of cry-babies….you GA fans are……Your lucky to have such a good coach….and once he is gone….you will wish ya had him back.

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Mark – Do you think the impressive performance against Tech last year prolonged the inevitable (ie Richt’s departure)? Looking back, I think it has. Like others have said, I like Richt and he did well for us but clearly something is not working anymore…Think it’s time to move on

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Can someone send this letter to Athens? If this is not motivation enough to win a game I dont know what is…

Dawg Drool (Go VOLS!)

October 4th, 2010
12:23 pm
Get ready to be 1 – 5, because you’re about to get routed between the hedges next Saturday! Vols kick the already toothless pups in the mouth again!

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These stats should show you how bad the coaching is:

TOTAL OFFENSE #73

TOTAL DEFENSE #39

SCORING OFFENSE #79 24.8 POINTS PER GAME

SCORING DEFENSE #48 21.6 POINTS PER GAME, BUT IF YOU TAKE

AWAY THE 55 SCORED AGAINST LaLa THE REAL
POINTS PER GAME DROPS TO 13.25, THAT’S RIGHT
13.25 POINT BOBO GOTTA GO

NET PUNTING #22 EVEN OUR STRONGEST POINT HAS BEEN
REDUCED

TURNOVER MARGIN #68

GAINED 1 FUMBLE, 5 INT, LOST 3 FUMBLES, 5 INTS.
FOR A NET LOSS OF –2

FEWEST PENALTIES PER GAME #59 SOME IMPROVEMENT, BUT TOUGH
GAMES REMAIN

SACKS #55 THAT 3-4 IS REALLY GETTING AFTER THEM

That 13.25 points per game should be enough to demote if not fire Bobo, for crying out loud, Richt was supposed to be a great offensive coordinator, yet he thinksBobo is doing a good job. BS

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Snake Doc,

My biggest point was that there was 8 years between Dooley’s 2nd and 3rd SEC crown. Also, record-wise what we are calling medicore today happened much more then that it has the past few years. I, like everyone else, am very concerned about how we have played. I want Georgia to get better and I believe that it can and should happen under the Richt regime. I could be totally wrong about that, and I will readily admit that now.

At then end of the day, we are both Georgia fans. No offense taken and I’d be glad to sit and talk UGA football with you anytime.

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Mr. Bradley-

Perhaps you should look at the coaching career of John Wooden, a flooew Christian who like Richt, doesn’t favor shortcuts, so it takes a bit longer to get to the National Championship level.

Wooden didn’t win any National Championships, for a long time. Then he won 10.

Doesn’t that disprove your theory?

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Mark Bradley:

Pete Carol at USC cheated to win a National Championship with Reggie Bush.

Is that ok?

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Mr. Mark Bradley–

There you go again.

See, if Richt’s paid millions, and the team is losing, and it’s all his fault, and he’s not fired, then his bosses all disagree wiht you, then that porves your sensational irrational hypothesis is wrong again.

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It’s time for UGA to break out the checkbook. I’m sure if given a chance, Richt has a few more good seasons in him. But he’s never going to win a national title. He had a chance there for about two seasons, but he couldn’t string enough wins together. UGA has to much money and fan support not to make a change. I remember when Bama signed Saban for $40M, everyone balked and said it was outrageous. Now look at the Tide. It’s time for the Georgia boosters to get together, break out the checkbooks and go get a big time coach.

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Hey MB, I thought you said last week you still thought this team could go 9-3…..still think they can go 8-4? Can you give me your address so I can ship you a giant crate of alka-seltzer to help ease this discomfort from that massive plate of crow you’re eating?

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I agree, it’s the CURSE OF THE RED PANTIES..i e trashy campus . too many thugas. raunchy student attitudes, downtown drug havev, AD chewing on red panties. on and on It’s out of control!!!!!!

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Martinez is gone, let’s move on. Richt is not the leader for this team now. When he first came to UGA he had that fire to win and now it’s gone. Again he has taken too long to fire another inept coordinator and he has to understand how that makes him look. It makes no difference how you recruit if you don’t recruit the right players for the system. The RBs are not as talented as we thought and the OL has been a big bust. Start looking now for replacements to limit the loss of recruits. The entire offensive staff has to go and I hate to add Garner in the equation, but I am not impressed with his recruiting or his coaching of the DL. Grantham should have taken the DL since that is his experitise. We need to hire coaches that not only can coach’em up but, who can also recruit. The strength and conditioning coach is a joke and it shows on the field. The OL looks flabby and the physicality is not there. We need to bring some fire into the program and scrap the boring offense or throw some wrinkles in it. Too much talent to play at this level. To stick with a OC that you know is not getting the job done is stupid and it shows. As the old saying goes, ” the way you practice, is the way you play.” The weak practices and weak logic makes this team look like a Jr. Varsity team and it is embarassing. We don’t need more excuses, we need wins and I will say this to the recruits, commit for the love of the school not just for the coaches. I need to see that fire Grantham brought into the first game and Rambo needs to go to the bench. The corners are weak and the tackling is horrible. Branden Smith has been here 2 years and he does not look any bigger. The players need to gain more muscle mass and have a meaner demeanor on the playing field. The bottom line is it comes to discipline and we don’t have it. The only player i am impressed with is Aaron Murray and with a better coach he will turn into something very special on the playing field.

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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.

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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.

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Oh BTW Joe Pa doesn’t really count. He’s a ceremonial HC.

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@ 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.

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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

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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

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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.

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You forgot that Tennessee made it to the BCS title game and won…

Shame on you, Mr. Bradley.

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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!

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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.

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Sniff, sniff. Is that buffalo poo poo that I smell?

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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.

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Dang, I broke my chair. Fell right in a pile of buffalo poo poo. Lauren, whatta ya got?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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/

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How bout bringing Bobby Bowden in to be head coach and move Richt to Off Coord?

Would that work?

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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!!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I remember when Richard Samuels fumbled the kickoff against Tech 2 years ago (his 2nd of the day). After the game when Richt was asked what to do about Samuels he said, “You just have to love him more.” For clarity he repeated that line.

I remember thinking – wow, nice guy – soft coach!

I was in Boulder Sat and had a great time up until the 4th Qtr. I was angry after Miss St, now I’m just numb. There are no quick fixes as these problems are systemic. Starting over with a new coach wipes out this recruiting year. On the other hand, bringing in a bunch of blue-chippers with this staff and you’ll still lose 3-5 games going forward. Based on those alternatives, I’d say we start over now and take whatever setbacks come with the transition. Get it over with and move on.

12% of our spring roster has been arrested in the last 6 months. In my estimation, that is as embarrassing as losing every week.

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Gordon
Don’t forget the buyout.

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SDSU is 6 point favorite over BYU ..GO AZTECS

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Run Lindsey. Lindsey Scott Lindsey Scott Lindsey Scott. My gawd, he slid right through the buffalo turds.

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I will guarantee you a blog by theoretical writers who never act in the real world, is the last place Mark Richt will be turning for advice. Richt’s a doer in a world of dreamers.

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go for broke Coach Richt. take the offense from Bobo.throw the dang ball all the time. Vince won’t care, he’s following the Vols anyway. Let’s win at least one or two of the remaining games 55 to 48 or something similar. got nothing to lose now. might even beat Florida or Auburn that way. just a thought. make it fun to watch the Dawgs again even if we lose.

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UGA needs to aspire to be a great university and recruit / coach accordingly or aspire to be a college that had rather have a great football team without being acknowledged as a leading university. Its very difficult to have it both ways.

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The team is the responsiblity of the head coach and his staff. Richt has failed to constructively oversee the team as evidenced by the lack of responsibility by the players on and off the field. This has been showing for several years and finally has overridden the organization and solid footing the players really need. The gimmicks and apparent encouragement of lack of respect not only for the game but a total disregard of sportsmanship finally overtook the team. I don’t think UGA owes Richt one thing except the current state of affairs happened while on his tour and if he can’t clean his own mess up it’s time for someone else to lead and correct the direction of this program in a hurry. Facts are totally evident and the AD hopefully will be addressing this immediately. The man is no longer effective and he knows it.

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Mark,

If you run into Damon would you tell him I would like my red panties back?

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Football 101 says “don’t beat yourself!” Yet UGA continues to do that! It’s not a one year trend & has been going on for the last few seasons. I love CMR but to me the only way he can save his job is to miraculously run the table. IF he survives there will at least be some more staff changes. Things he needs to fix:

1-Win!
2-STOP the off the field problems!
3-Stength & conditioning
4-Playcalling
5-Guys not being fully prepared to play, examples: Maury not having an “internal clock”, you can DRILL that until he GETS IT. Guys committing DUMB penalties.
6-EFFORT if guys don’t want to give 110% everyday for the G then send them packing & go find new guys!
7-Recurting – How is it we don’t even offer some of the top kids in GA? Then you have situations like: Getting a kicker out of CA to fix the kickoff issue but he has kicked off like 5 times! That’s a wasted scholarship as are some of one’s given to walkon’s.

Can CMR fix all those? Not sure but if we need major changes in the program maybe we should start at the top & bring Kirby home. That move also hurts Bama, mainly in recruiting GA. If Miles doesn’t survive then LSU might go after Kirby which may force a move by UGA. The Dawg nation might not be happy if one of their own is snapped up while we continue on a downward spiral. My other top choices with UGA AD affiliations are: Will Muschamp & Dan Mullen. Top outside choices: Jim Harbaugh & Al Golden. So far no one has connected these dots but is not kind of strange that Oregon announces a new deal for Chip Kelly the week after speaking to UGA about scheduling? Hmmm the AD just came from a school that runs the spread who may also need a new coach soon due to the health of their HC. So Oregon makes a preemptive strike to ward off SEC offers.

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Old lady luck she just aint smiling down on us. Oh would you look at the losses falling from the sky! Loren, whatta ya got? Well, Larry I’ve got buffalo turds all over my cowboy boots. Let’s take a network time out for our sponsor, Athens Bail Bonds …. bailing out dawgs since 1970

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still a dog fan- I’ve been watching a team that is loaded with talent. I’ve been watching a team that is loaded with guys who were highly sought after by other top programs. I’ve been watching a program with a TON of money and state of the art facilities fall short of expectations for the past 4 years. I’ve been watching a team not being coached up, not improving from week to week. I’ve been watching an awful lot of talent being wasted every Saturday.

I don’t know wtf you’ve been watching but that team is not lacking talented players.

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I think they all just need to hold hands and sing “Kum Bah Yah” by the campfire at Richt’s youth church camp and then pray about it.

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Studs not Thugs!

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Brad Stevens- you are a moron. Why the $&*#( would you sink a bunch of money into an unproven guy like Smart???? Or mushcamp for that matter!! You wanna hire somebody go get a Chris Peterson type. Who is the HC at TCU?? I’m not about to write a check to somebody whose never been a HC before and ask him to rebuild my program.

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Coach Richt is still the best thing for the DAWGS, What I believe is happening starting from Joe Cox, is that there is no leadership on either side. last year the offense just could not pull together and do what was needed, The defense would miss tackles and so on and so on.

The thing that Georgia is missing is team leadership on and off that field. That core person on both sides of the ball. no matter what was happening he would bring his team together. Georgia has lost that for sure. Now on the coaching Who would you replace Richt with Bobo? your kiddin right. I do not think their is a coach out there today. that will or would want to come to GA face the music so to speak. Not to mention Richt is a Darn great coach. The problem is the team has given up already, You can see it in their eyes and faces. Only a team leader can bring that back. Not a coach. Will a team leader please stand up!

Just my opinion.

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No answers????

I find it hard to believe that Richt has no answers at this point and if he does’nt, then he needs to move on. I think we can all agree that first and foremost, move Bobo back to QBs and Richt needs to pick up the Offensive clipboard again.

Possible answers:
1. Dust off the old Charlie Ward, FSU Playbook
2. Run the no-huddle offense
3. Spread the field every down
4. Use Brandon Smith as the “Percy Harvin” type flanker
5. Run the bubble screen
6. Shotgun each and every play
7. Defense, switch back to 4-3, or 4-4 on occasion

These are just a few suggestions without really thinking about the underlying problems. So, don’nt tell me that Richt has run out of answers. If he has run out of answers, then it is time to start the mission full time and get out of football.

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Mark,

You need to go back and look at the scores of the football games the Dawgs won from 2001 to 2004.

Look at the scores of the games, Mark. Look at the scores of the games the Dawgs LOST.

Look at those scores and then tell me again that BVG didn’t make Richt. Look at the SCORES!

14-9 (USC) Loss. 20-16 (BC) Loss. 20-13 (UF) Loss. 17-10 (LSU) Loss. 16-13 (UF) Loss. 19-14 (Tenn) Loss. 24-6 (AU) Loss.

These are not the losses of 35-30, like under Martinez. These are losses due to an offense (Richt) not holding up it’s end of the bargain while the defense plays is A$$ off! ESPECIALLY against Florida. How can you excuse losing to Florida 16-13? Defense did its job. Richt didn’t do his.

And you want to tell me BVG didn’t make Mark Richt? The numbers say otherwise.

The Dawgs gave 30 or more points ONCE in all of BVGs tenure in four years. With Martinez, they did so 17 times in five years. SEVENTEEN TIMES.

BVG made Mark Richt. His leaving and then being replaced by Soft Willie Martinez was the death knoll for the program. We just didn’t know it six years ago.

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I’m willing to help if you need me.

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All of you A_ _ holes are spoiled!!!!!!!!
You have tradition, a great coach and some talented players. Ease up Dudes!!!!
When you run Richt out of Athens, we’ll take him in Columbia, SC

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The worst part is the poll in the Orlando paper was right. 64 sounds about right.

Horrible football.

Lifelong bulldog fan.

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If you can wait until 2012, I will be available to take over as coach. I can bring some realy hope and change to the program.

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I wonder if the argument over at Bama to get rid of Shula revolved around him being a ‘GOOD MAN”………………I think it was over being paid $3mil a year to win football games and championships…………….I think……..I may be wrong.

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Mark,

Kudos for hanging in with the Braves. You got it right.

As far as Richt is concerned:

20 or 30 years ago, he absolutely gets to come back next year.
Now-no chance unless they run the table and go 8-4.

The money drives everything now.
It is drying up in and around Athens.
Alumni are furious.
Former players are beyond fed up
You have a new AD with an itchy trigger finger that he learned how to use down in Gainesville

Short of beating

UT
Vandy
UK
Fla
ISU
Aubie
GT

in a row, Richt is gone.

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Mark, please tell me again the “5 reasons the Georgia Bulldogs are better off than you think” that you posted last Thursday. I think that I am confused, but I may not be.

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Be careful what you ask for.

I remember when the Falcons decided that they needed to take their program to the “next level” and fired Leemon Bennett after making the playoffs and replaced him with the “up anc coming” Dan Henning. They averaged 3 wins a year for the next 3 years.

I remember when Tech fired Bud Carson after 3 relatively successful years and replaced him with some guy whose name I cannot even remember who crashed like a 1 winged plane.

Sometimes bad times come for even the good coaches. Smart programs stick by those coaches and give them time to right the ship.

Georgia would be stupid to lose Richt because 2 running backs fumbled and cost us 3 games.

The breaks will even out over time. Mark, take a chill pill and get a life.

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I read “…use to…” and couldn’t read the rest of the article. Come on Bradley (or an editor)…get it together.

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Sad but True

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dawgster… get a frakking life, you over-emotional d-bag.

What Jeff was saying, obvious to everyone else, is that while Saban and Meyer and whomever else might possibly want to do the charitable acts Richt does, like the mission trips, they don’t.

WHY?

Because they are paid millions of dollars to win championships. Not build a school in Central America.

So instead, Saban and Meyer act charitably by giving money, not time.

Because they have their priorities in line with their job expectations.

Richt does not.

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be careful what you ask for…………could also mean, get the young kids out the room so they won’t remember a Georgia team playing like this……….. Coach’s come and go…..you guys have gotten to attached to this guy………..Love the University, not the man……..

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The past three years have seen us become a very mediocre SEC program. We have not competed well with upper echelon teams and have competed poorly with teams we should defeat easily. Consequently, we have begun to take sharp criticisms (deserved) from a multitude of media outlets in and around our state. We are surrounded by schools who will do anything to keep UGA down. ( Why are Bama fans constantly taking jabs at UGA. We have really not presented any threat to anyone in quite a while-because everyone sees the untapped potential of UGA) College football is now an ESPN Gameday, radio talk show, internet blog driven machine and if you do not have a positive vibe about your program, you are ignored or negatively reported on. College football has changed drastically in the past 5 years. Coaches at some of our biggest rivals and other successful programs around the country are getting tremendous attention and props at every moment. Is Mark Richt? Honestly, he doesn’t have the appeal of a Meyer, Saban, Spurrier, outside of Georgia. I’m sorry to say, but UGA has put itself into a situation which once again will only produce negative vibes around our program. Fire Mark Richt and UGA is the bad guy. Keep Mark Richt and I’m afraid we remain a mediocre SEC team in the coming years because he won’t be able to recruit the type kids we need, he will need to overhaul his coaching staff, and the negativity will continue. Best possible scenerio, Richt realizes he has lost control of the program and resigns effective after the last game. Any new coach, and I would have to believe we would be able to find someone quite competitive on a national level, would immediately energize a fan base and begin the process of positive vibe concerning local and national media. I would think anyone UGA contacted would have to listen because of our enormous resource base. Peterson, Patterson, Muschamp, Smart and what about Mullen. He beat us, trained under Meyer, has connections with McGarity, and is considered an up and comer, great recruiter, energetic, head coaching experience, national championship experience, and I believe would have to leave MSU if UGA called because of the resources UGA can offer over MSU. If LSU doesn’t get him first. I love the DAWGS and only hope all this works out for the best. GATA

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Interesting that of all of the talented guys mentioned, not one was a defensive lineman or an offensive lineman. That’s been a problem for a while, with a few notable exceptions.

Until we’re much, much better in the trenches, we’re going to continue to struggle.

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Fire Richt, we dare you! Life’s like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get!

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None of this would even be up for discussion if Glenn Mason would not have changed his mind and gone back to Kansas.

Maybe Brad Scott is available.

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Mark or Jeff are you going to cover the live blog for the UGA game this weekend? I can’t be on I will already be down at Tech probaably before the Game starts.
If you can get a Photo of Barbara Dooley in her Orange for the game.

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Question to all ya’ll UGA fans:
Who do you get to replace Richt? I am not coming to coach. Saban is not coming either. Vince Dooley is not coming back. His son will be in town next week to put the smackdown on you all.

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fire the clowns and hire Jim Harbaugh! dont waste time and fool yourself, stop the nonsense, fire Richt this year is better than next year. Richt will NOT be able to bring this team to win 10, 11 and 12 games a season, Richt made terrible mistakes by hiring bad assistants, Bobo is terrible OC, he never dreamed of being the Georgia Bulldogs OC, simply because he is not a bright OC, its over! Georgia will never be the same with Richt as HC. Bobby Bowden once said he never thought Mark Richt is a head coach material.Coach Richt was given last year and this year to fix things but the team went from bad to worse. bring in Jim Harbaugh or Kirby Smart and fire the clowns

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I have had many debates with the Dawgie faithful. Richt is NOT a good coach! How can he consistently recruit Top 5 talent and lose? He has no ability to motivate his players to play with a killer instinct. He promotes being “Ford Tough” yet he is “Charmin SOFT”. UGA football is consistent with 1 thing year in and year out, LETDOWN!!!

That starts with Richt at the top and he should be fired!!!

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Please don’t be fooled ….Grantham is “fool’s gold”…

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I like Mark Richt.

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If you look back it all started when one week I got onto my guys for standing on the star at Vady and the next week I send them on the field against the Gators. I started the downward spiral with no dicipline and its been downhill ever since

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No matter what you say, he has done a good job! He can coach, preach, and follow his players 24 hours a day but in the end it is the player who has to make the decision to do right or wrong and the player has to make the plays the way he was coached. Richt can coach but he can’t get out on the field and play for them!!!

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why does everyone always say…well Richt is a Christian man…who the heck cares..I am Jewish, he can be a friggin atheist for all I care..i just want wins and a NC!!!!! All I know is Florida kept Zook for a couple years with similar record and then fired him quickly and brought in Meyer…enough of liking Richt because he is religious..what the heck does that have to do with Football?

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It’s not like the Dawgs are playing like doormats, they’re in these games but finding ways to lose. The defense remains a big problem; it might take two years of new recruits to fix the problems there. The o-line has been underachieving badly – for several years now. This might be recruiting, player development, or play calling; all three fall back on the coaches, but injuries have changed some of the key faces, too.

Right now this team does not have an offensive identity. Attempts to be an I-formation run-first team went down in flames with the coaches’ expectations of having a strong offensive line and power running backs and AJ Green to stretch the field. The coaches seem to have misread Murray’s strengths (running and a strong arm) and lost track of their tight ends.

Defensively, they have a handful of players playing their hearts out and a bunch of d-backs seemingly confused as to which team they play for.

There doen’t seem to be upper classman leadership on the team. When all these hot-shot freshmen and sophomores start believing they are the big men on campus the discipline problems are bound to follow, off and on the field.

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Athletes today want to drink beer, start fights, not go to class, sell jerseys, sell rings, be given cash for spring break.. etc. UGA is right on track for a great recruiting class

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Forest Through The Trees

Dawg Fans most of you know this has been a long time coming. This train wreck of a season has been rolling down the tracks since 2007.

Starting Point – 2007 UGA goes into the UF game with MOTIVATIONAL problems. If you recall, the “dance” in the end zone was to hopefully get our players fired up. What?!?!?! Why are’nt they fired up EVERY week. Simple answer, coaching.

2007 – GREAT finish, but Lost to S. Carolina, got thumped by UT, barely beat Vandy. Defense looks shakey, Martinez quiestioned

2008 – Preseason #1 and 10-3 was the best we could do. Willie gave up 30pts or more 4 times during the season. Defense was terribley. No Firing of Willie. We have to put up with mediocrity for another year.

2009 – Finish the season 8-5. Willie gave up 30pts or more 5 times during the season. Defense AGAIN terrible. Starting QB was a under Richt for 5 years and was TERRIBLE. Once again, an underdevelpment of talent. Head to the Independence Bowl.

2010 – Season starting out terrible, 1-4. Looking 4-8 or 3-9 squarely in the face.

The decisions that have led to the dismantling of this season have been going on over the last 3 years. The wheels have been comming off for awhile now. Unfortunately, it has manifested into quite possibly the worst season UGA football has ever experienced. The choices of Mark Richt is what has gotten us to this point.

Every week seems to be a “make it or break it” for Mark Richt and company. I do know this. If UGA gets beat at home by UT, Richt will be facing the fact that he may lose touch with his team and they may not win another game this season. If that happens, UGA may lose the ability to be competitive for the remainder of the season and McGarity will have some tough decisions to make.

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go ahead and get rid of him and my donations for season tickets will go with him.

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You know, outside of some of the totally delusional Dawgs, most of us realize that Richt has brought this upon himself.

Dooley won 6 SEC titles in 25 years and averaged 8 wins per year.
Richt has won 2 titles in 9 years.
Richt raised the bar and the level of expectation.
That coupled with the fact that Florida stunk in Dooley’s day and now they have Meyer, has caused this furor.
Richt deserves another chance but he won’t get it short of a 7 game run.

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Donnan had the program going in the right direction? You’ve got to be kidding..he had a lot of talent but he couldn’t beat Florida, Tennessee, etc. and the team was not improving — it stayed the same. If Donnan is so great, why hasn’t anyone hired him? Even Dooley read the writing on the wall — his recruiting was dropping off — his offense was stagnant — and his time was up — he left at just the right time. Goff always had a good offense but his choice of DC’s was terrible. When you look at Richt’s team, where is the strength? Offense? Defense? Special Teams? Enough said.

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These here Dawgs are real Dogs.

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I’ll bet the Texas folks would give you CWM after the last 2 weeks. That UCLA game was just ugly. They now have a 2 game losing streak-bet they are happy too.

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It’s Bush’s fault!

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just because he is a nice guy doesn’t mean he is the richt guy. we need a serious shake up in athens and it starts with bringing in a hard nosed football coach not a nice guy that is friends with the players. half of the problem is not playing the best guys at each position. richt feels that some of the older guys have earned a right to play eventhough they may not be the best guy to put out there. richt is soft and he needs to go.

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Nick Saban sounded more disgusted by his team’s performance on Saturday than Richt sounded about his team’s play:

Saban: I was disappointed by our performance in the second half.

Richt: I think we played hard and came away with some positives.

THAT IS THE PROBLEM.

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Three reasons for the decline and the first two I know for a fact are true.
1. There are a set of rules for the team and another set of rules for AJ GREEN. Rest assured, that doesn’t build team unity.
2. BOBO DOESN’T HAVE THE EXPERIENCE NEEDED FOR THE OC JOB.
3. CMR DOESN’T HAVE A HEART FOR THE JOB ANYMORE. TIME FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN.

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itle:Athletic Director
Dept.:Athletic
Phone:706-542-9037
Email:gmcgarity@sports.uga.edu
Address:
0409 Butts-Mehre
1 Selig Circle
Athens GA 3060

Thank you for that address.

I just sent the following email:

Fire Richt.
Right now.

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Mojo – Go west young man…….think Oregon or Boise State……worked for UF – they went to Utah and have 2 rings…….need to bring in the spread offense and recruit the QB talent out of the great state of Texas…you’ll be ready to play for the NC in 2014

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As a UGA fan and a big fan of Mark Richt, I think its a sad thing to have to admit but his time in Athens may be coming to an end. He has lost the ability to lead these players. They may love him but they no longer fear him. I think The AD needs to put a call in to Boise St. before another team has a chance to hire Chirs Peterson. When you look at our competition in the SEC, we need to have a top line coach to compete with Bama and UF. And Peterson is that guy

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One bad season does not equal a bad coach!! People would not be this upset about what is going on right now if CMR had not taken our expectations to a new level. He deserves time to get this right. Let all the dirty rats jump ship first!! GO DAWGS!!

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Jon Gruden

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yes, it all rests on the head coach, but the players have a little to do with it also..some guys that need to be benched…#11,18,23,60,78 to name a few.. you just can’t keep showing up with the same guys and expect a different result….and as far as that 3-4 B.S., you can shove that right up someone’s azz…if you don’t have the horses to run it, then don’t!!! sometimes a good coach needs to realize that if the players aren’t or can’t do what “we’re trying to do”, then maybe you should change what you are trying to do….

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Its not one bad season Lindsey….its the last 4 that have been a downward spiral…

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Answer the question – Yes! It’s the coach! Whether it’s because of his inability to make some other tough choices regarding coaching staff or whether it’s his inability to effectively coach the team himself, he isn’t demonstrating leadership!

In general, anyone can wing it’ and coach a great team when you have better players, but it’s a different story when leadership develops players in ways they didn’t know they could.

Coach Richt has done good things, but in this industry, games have to be won, and plenty of them. If the team’s attitude suffers on or off the field, then whether Richt wants to accept it or not, he’s has something to do with that.

Lastly, upsets happens all the time in sports, and underdogs often do the unexpected. How? Well, maybe its because they have a leader that’s taking his followers to another level. Again, as I said last week, this is a prime example of the “Law of the Lid” for Richt.

He has reached is plateau!

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What names will be considered when Coach Richt is fired and I’m pretty confident he will be.

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Love Mark as a Christain man and also as a person but in Football, especially College Football, you must show INTENSITY and SOME kind of EMOTION. With Mark, I see none of it. What we need is a hard nose coach like Nick Saban. A coach who will chew your as* out if you make a stupid play when you’re returning to the sidelines. A coach who has a tough demeanor about him. Sure, it’s kinda like a dictatorship but if you want to win, you have to install FIRE and INTENSITY, INTENSITY and more INTENSITY in these young adults. If you don’t, they will be mediocore at best. Sorry Mark, but I see no fire in your eyes.

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Wow, Mark. Took you this long to figure out that Richt is responsible? All of us knew this years ago. But thanks for calling.

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Bobo’s play calling is terrible and too predictable. Georgia can’t win without running the ball effectively. We need a big brusing back in order to run it up the middle, and we don’t have one to my knowledge. Most penalties result from a lack of discipline…….. need I say more? Discipline
starts at the top.

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Seems to me that they need to tighten up the recruiting – quit bringing in these idiots that stay in trouble- all these arrests and suspensions are distracting and show a lack of discipline that then moves to the field. The philosophy of win at all costs ultimately leads to bad choices

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I’ve noticed the slide in the program over the last few years seems to coincide with off-field issues that led to suspensions, legal and otherwise with players. Seems the UGA program has tried to keep up with Florida initially, and now Alabama also, and is paying the price for recruiting marginal players who don’t have the morals, but are more gifted physically.

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Please stop comparing your program to that of Alabama. You shouldn’t even compare your program to Mississippi State.

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MUSCHAMP

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Too bad really, Richt did a lot of good, but somehow, someway, it has gotten completely out from under him. Sometimes, you just need a change and this is one of those times.

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BRING BACK VINCE DOOLEY!!!!!! THIS JUST MIGHT BE GOTCHA BASED ON HOW THE GENTLEMAN WAS DONE…BRING HIM BACK – HE CAN HELP FIGURE THIS ALL OUT!!! bOOO ADAMS!!!

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I lost the keys to my truck.

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How can some of ya’ll blame Richt? 3-17 equals 20…Richt has only been there 10.

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Hey, don’t forget about me!

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WHILE YOU’RE AT IT, I KNOW LARRY MUNSON IS GOING TO BE RIDICUOUSLY HARD TO EVER REPLACE….BUT WHAT WE’VE GOT NOW STINKS!! YOU GOTA FIND SOME ENTERTAINING, KNOWLEDGEABLE, AWESOME ANNOUNCER!!!!

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It is an annual ritual for Mark Richt’s teams to lead the SEC on penalty yards and team arrests. College kids getting in trouble away from school related activities comes down to recruiting kids who aren’t timebombs, which Richt seems to have a knack for picking. From a coaching standpoint, it’s pretty hard to conceive that Richt has not righted the problem with UGA’s enormous penalty yards surrendered. I hope they don’t fire him as he helps Auburn recruit all over Georgia. War Eagle.

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He should be fired immediately. The new coach should be hired ASAP to get a jump on recruiting.

Chris Peterson, Dan Mullin, John Gruden would be the 1st 3 choices.

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Keep Mark Richt!!!

-Your friends at Toucan Tan

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Well Dawgs…………………………………….bye!

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Bradley, did your dog proofread this article for you?

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Our problem is that our fan base is fans of the coach first, and fans of the team second. That’s not the case at winning schools. Richt would have been fired already at Florida, Bama, LSU, USC, Ohio State, Texas, or Oklahoma….that’s why THEY win. We have an apathetic and heartless bunch of losers for our fan base, the exact identity of our coach.

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Gosh, Mark. You should be a coach !! You seem to have all the answers. You remind me of Toby Keith’s song, “The Critic”. “So he sat behind a typewriter and gunned the boy down”.

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Nothing, NOTHING, beats you whinning, crying, UGA fans! I can’t get enough of the back biting, fire this coach, fire that coach, bring back Munson, get a new bullpup! How sad it must be when your LIFE revolves around college football. Tech looses (and they do – a lot),and my life goes on. Enjoy the wins and get the blank over it when they loose. Bama will OWN the SEC conference for a while.

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Uhhh…Bama owns the SEC for a lifetime.

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Can the 3-4 NOW. As a UVA fan, I suffered through 9 years of the Groh 3-4. Georgia does not have the personnel for it now, and it is much to hard to recruit for at the college level, year-in-and-year-out. Cut that loss right now and go to an aggressive 4-3.

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Look, anyone can sit here and play the blame game, but I will tell you I saw a much better team this past weekend than the first few games. # 1 we are installing a new defense. You have to recruit a new defense, very seldom do you go out and magically find players in one scheme are perfect for another. That is going to take a year or two. #2 As good as Murry is he is still a Freshman. #3 I don’t know what was up with all of those personal fouls we received this weekend but I dont think half of them were warrented. That kicker deserves an oscar for that performance. #4 if Rick goes it will be a whole new coaching staff in the fall and we will start all over again. Id rather have issues only one year not 2 or 3.

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It seems odd to think that Richt has suddenly become an idiot, or out of touch. His record should speak for itself but – obviously – it does not. Georgia was lucky to get him and continues to be lucky to have him.

I think at least one statement in the blog is wrong. I don’t think – by and large – this is a gifted team. There’s a big difference between potential, or athleticism, and how a person can actually perform on the field. It seems clear, watching the games, that some of the players can’t perform at a high level. Before someone yells, “that’s coaching” – it isn’t really. These players – after all these years of high school and college ball, know how to tackle, how to open up holes on the offensive line, how to hold a football so that it’s difficult for someone to take it away. What seems to be lacking on the field are basic fundamentals.

Sometimes teams go through rough spells. We’re going through one now. But replacing a fine coach with someone new creates problems of its own. And it starts a honeymoon period where loses are explained away by those who say that the new coach needs time to build his own system and to recruit. If you look at the history of coaching changes like that you will see that – more times than not – a team does worse, not better, after a big change.

One thing is certain, the notion of loyalty is gone, or almost gone. My guess is that too many people get most of their own self-esteem from how well the team does. So, in bad times, they lose the only claim they have to feeling good about themselves.

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Bradley says Richt is the problem. Now, when Richt is fired (and he will be fired either after this season or next), mark my words, Bradley will rail about the injustice of it all. “He won 70% of his games, blah blah blah.” “UGA’s fans and administration were totally off base, blah blah blah.” It’s all about the page hits, isn’t it, Bradley?? Got to keep people stirred up, got to jump on whichever side of the fence stirs up the most people.

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Walmart UGA fans Unite! And collectively save your breath.. your opinions mean nothing! If the only time you’ve spent on campus is walking to the stadium. You’re a Walmart fan, please go away!

Look at UF’s arrest records, hell 256 traffic tickets last year alone… does winning make it all ok? No! It’s exactly what happens when you recruit 3,4,and 5 star players. They are kids.. at the end of the day when they mess up and they will. i’d rather have a man of character like coach Richt there to represent and coach my team. He has won before and will again… it’s called faith. Pick some up!

Sorry MB this tabloid style journalism isn’t inflammatory enough to sell your rag of a newspaper that is failing in a one paper town.

CMR is going to stay because level headed UGA fans know he is not replaceable …even if we don’t win another game this year. So please write another article like this and rile up the dolts into a frenzy if it makes you feel important. It’s amazing they actually pay you for this sensationalistic junk.

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Mark – Can you post the stats for the offensive, team, and wins since play calling changed hands to Bobo vs when Richt was at the Offensive helm? I think the stats over time may shock folks and point the finger at (IMO) what is causing Richt not to be able to finish the drill. IMO the defensive stats will show differently as well because they have been forced to ‘attempt to make up for the offensive’. A lot can go wrong in all areas off and on the field if an engine just won’t crank OR stay cranked… which is where we are now.

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When is the last time we saw P-44-Haynes ( call it P-44 Chapas or whatever). Cannot remember when.
I saw last saturday the first passes down the middle to the TE all year.
I cannot blame Richt for that. I blame the OC…and that is Bobo(aka Billbo Baggans).
Mike I agree…the problem is not the defense, it is the offense. With the experience and talent this offense should be loading up the points. Insteads they are loading up the turnovers and sacks.

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I wonder where all the coach love was for Jim Donnan? This lovefest for CMR borders on man love……..

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So, we throw Mark Richt away and who do we get? How long will the new guy have to win? Someone is going to need to think long and hard at what they want long term because giving up on Richt when he has a stud QB in there ready to play for 3 more seasons and a couple of nice looking young running backs as well as a pretty good class coming in! If Richt was smart he would send Bobo packing or demote him to a waterboy and take back the play calling until he can find someone that knows what he is really doing! Bobo couldn’t run the plays when he was QB what makes him think he can call them? Argue with anyone blue in the face but that was a designed FLEA FLICKER gone bad Saturday night when we were already in position to win the game with the best kicker in the country warming up! Run right look for a hole run left KICK THE DAMN BALL BOBO!! We are in a tough spot right now but you send CMR packing and it might take 3-5 years to get where we need to be… Keep him and fire everyone but Grantham (yeah, i think he deserves a chance to field his type of players for his style of D) and see what turns around. CMR needs change his attitude or go! He never coached at a head position before he came here and is still very young so it will take some time for him to see this thing through but I think that builds character and only helps a coach get better in the long run. Joe Pa had his losers and they stuck with him until he had a winner… I say give him a chance to turn the boat around and see if he makes the right choices on coaches but at the end of the day we are in a much worse place without him than we are with him TODAY!

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There is nothing great about Coach Mark Richt. That said, he has been a very good coach and maybe the best ever at Georgia.

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“rile up the dolts into a frenzy”

Now exactly which one is the dolt riled into a frenzy?

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We could do much worse than Richt. In fact, we have done worse than Richt. Finding a head coach who can have your team in the top 10 as often as Georgia has been is a difficult task. Just ask Michigan, Tennessee, Notre Dame and Clemson. If it were easy, every other program would do it, too. Does he have the quick answers? Obviously not. Have I heard anyone else with quick, realistic answers? No.

All programs have down years (Texas, Virginia Tech) and some have extended down periods (Michigan, Notre Dame, UCLA, Miami, Florida State, Georgia Tech). The trick is to repair things quickly to avoid having the extended down times. It is how coaches make their TRUE reputations – not just by being a flash in the pan for a few years.

It remains to be seen if CMR can turn the ship around. I hate life right now because of our record, but I honestly think we are better off with Richt at this position than we are with someone else.

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UGA just hired a first-rate AD. He’s the one who’ll make the decision about CMR staying or going, and if he’s as smart as he seems he’ll pay no attention to 99% of the blather on this blog from pinheads in search of a life.

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Regardless of what happens with CMR, it’s time for a new direction in recruiting…either the system is too hard, or these players don’t have the capacity and/or drive to “complete the drill.”

a 4-8 season won’t get CMR fired, but the decisions/coaching changes he’ll be asked to make will have him walk away…

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For all those complaining about our offensive production…guess what other team runs the same scheme as UGA?…BAMA. They line-up and run at you, and obviously they are doing something right. No spread, no gimmics, just pound the ball. Some of you UGA fans need to get your head out of your aces before running off at the mouth.

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Agree with your comments so why would Richt return next year?

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Richt Love vs Richt Hate
We’ll be here all week. Gonna be GREAT!

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Here is your problem Mutt Nation… you’re STILL living off of P-44-Haynes and the Hobnail Boot radio call which was one single play to win one single regular season game. That’s all you got going all the way back to 1980. Sad.

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Mike Bobo’s gotta GoGo. Thats trademarked so I better get my darn quarter everytime thats used. The problem isn’t with Richt except maybe his loyalty and having a rabid fan base. Georgia doesn’t have the same draw anymore for HS players which is a shame. there is no reason Georgia shouldn’t be just as good as Alabama and Florida every single year but Mark needs to revamp the recruitment and how they evaluate players b/c those can’t miss players have missed big time. I won’t complain about the D b/c of a new system but they’re still playing responsibilities so they should be better they’ve played.

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The Jedi mind-trick! Trained Richt in this I did! Falling for it are you all!

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Memo to all UGA players, “sell high”, your jerseys will be worthless at the end of the year. (Emerald Nuts Bowl)

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Richt made 4 mistakes

1.Hanging on to Bobo too long.
2.Not firing Searles last year
3.Hiring Grantham
4.The basically ceding of the Coulumbus and south Georgia areas to other schools in recruiting.

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Hypothetical. If a train left Chicago at 8pm traveling 150mph…and another train left NYC at 6pm traveling 130mph. Exactly when would Georgia’s next arrest come?

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LSU will give you Les Miles (5-0) and Jordan Jefferson for Mark Richt (1-4) and A.J. Green no questions asked.

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What’s wrong with the AJC? Sad to say, it starts with Mark Bradley.

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@ Time, you say the Jackets are having a USUAL year, except for last year?

Dude, we have gone 8-3 or BETTER the past 7 years, our record has been just as good as UGA every year. Not to mention we beat you like you stole something in Athens the year that ya’ll were ranked preseason #1. BAHAHAHHAHAH….not to mention ya’ll KNOW DAMN WELL last year was a complete fluke and ya’ll should have lost to us if it werent for one dropped pass. And oh yea, what about the years Reggie Ball was our QB and we were within 20 yards of beating you 3 YEARS IN A ROW before Reggie made a dumb mistake and lost it. I’m sure you guys have retired Reggie’s GT jersey in thanks for saving you fools the embarrassment.

The fact is, you guys have top 5 recruits EVERY YEAR AND YOU STILL SUCK, and when you have beaten us, it has been within a touchdown. Do you know what GT’s recruiting class is every year?…….25-30th. You guys blow a fat one for the talent you get, all that boils down to is lack of character. Go kill yourself and save the state of Georgia the nation wide embarrassment of that secondary special ed school called UGA.

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I’ll be in Athens Saturday regardless. I’m going to the game.

They need support and not folks booing.

Beating Tennessee is always good for what ails you.

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I should have burned Athens instead.

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first of all, this is the new normal. a great person, and a great coach, has all jump off the bandwagon as soon as things are not going so well. This is the same coach that all were adoring just a few years ago.

Second, mr. Bradley, Washaun Ealy as one of the top players? He played in single a and lost in the state championship and had less than a hundred yards…..hardly a performance that suggest a dominant future.

Truth is…..we lost stafford and moreno and have a redshirt freshman QB and played three winnable games without our best player…and a new D coordinator. Everyone settle down and we will see an upswing over the next two years.

We are fortunate to have Coach…

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You are all missing the BIG problem.

UGA has problems winning whenever they’re missing a permanent Uga. Russ is fine (he’s .500 since beating Tech last year), but he’s just not giving the team the boost they need. Has he tried to rip the pants off an enemy receiver yet? Has he peed on an opposing coaches leg? Left a ‘present’ in their end zone? He’s just not giving 100%.

Sonny: get a replacement puppy in there STAT.

Seriously folks, stop with the ‘Fire RICHT” crap. He’s not strapping on pads & tossing to fullback.
You have a rookie QB, a new defensive coordinator & players that recruited by Barney Fife.
Give ‘em time to get a new crew in there, buy new stars from high school that have the sense not to get arrested on DUI’s, and call this a ‘lost year’. Get all the losses out of the way.

(Disclaimer: I’m a Boston College alum. I have no dog in this fight.)

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Hey Mark, ANYONE, and that seems the norm lately, can write about how bad someone is coaching. Knowing that and that there could be a concern for the UG football coach, now is the time for YOU to put down that pen, turn the computer off and start making your bid to replace Richt. You appear to have all sides covered. Come on, go for it…

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When a ship starts drifting, the captain cannot always get the ship back on course immediately. We need to update offense to 21st century. We have a young team. I think you will eat some of your words within 3 weeks.

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Hey Georgia Nation!! CMR & Ga. is Tommy Bowden & Clemson all over again; Although a better coach but who isn’t. Make the move sooner than later but no assistants. Peterson, Harbaugh, Patterson, Mullen, or Mike Leach.

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Hey dawg77…Bama was on probation when they were losing. What’s your excuse?

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Mark, Good Job Keep all the rednecks fired up wanting to fire Mark Richt. Only one problem
who you gonna hire thats better? Who would come to this program? Expectations are ridiculous.
Fans think they should win the National Championship every year. They have won 1 thats right 1
in 30 years and a shared National Championship in their existence. Take Herschel Walker out
of the equation and this Football Progam is the same as Ole Miss wait a minute they have won 3.
Give me break. You are a second tier SEC Team and always will be. Thats why your fans constantly
pull for a Conference not your School.

LMFAO

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lol@South Ga….that’s not even the close to being the same thing.

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With 10 players arrested and a lot of the same every year durring the off season, please tell me exactly how many losses can Richt have this season and still keep his job?

CMR is not bigger than the Dawgs, we need to change coaches now so we can have a shot at something great next year.

All of you talking about finishing strong, making a bowl, competing for the SEC East, ect….what have you seen so far that makes you think we are going to win another game much less win out?

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“What do you do when you run out of ideas?”

You punt to another HC.

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I coached for forty years. Thirty Three in Ga. Seven in Virginia. I have said many times over those forty years that I would prefer to be lucky than good. The three State championships we played for and won there was a lot of luck involved, injuries, officials, and the bounce of that odd shaped ball. I have watched Ga football since 1947 and yes in many of those games Ga played stronger than some of our recent Bulldogs. The head coach didn’t Tell Caleb to fumble the ball nor did he tell Washan to fumble those things happen sometime at the most opportune time.
I am quite sure most people didn’t look close enough to see the linebacker come unmolested ad actually helped create the fumble. As a disciple of the ledegendary Bear Bryant I can remember what he said a coaching clinic in 1959. His comments to a bunch of coaches was boys if you are going to win the big ones you had better be able to run off tackle, and you had better be able to stop the off tackle play. I think the ship will get righted it may not be this year,but stay together Dawg fans and support the troops in the trenches.

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South Georgia,

Our Offensive Line is not young.
They are among the most experienced in the country but play as true freshmen – high shool freshmen.

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Grantham flat out sucks in any scheme he has put on the field.750K was a big mistake

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Mark,

Way to keep the Dawg Nation in an uproar. Fire Coach Richt. Who you gonna replace
him with? Who will take a job in which fans think they will win a National Championship
year in year out and they have Won 2 thats right 2 in the history of the school. One of
which was shared. This program is a Second Tier SEC program and always will be.
Thats why the Fans constantly pull for the conference instead of their own university.
SEC baby SEC. Ole Miss has more National Championship than Georgia

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missouridawg,

There is no accountability.
And just like the government, we are paying for this mismanagement.

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LMAO, no one is expecting a NC every year….about at least 1 BCS bowl game?…

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Heck, hey Mr AD….pay me a couple mil a year. I’ll sit on my couch, watch the games on my flat screen, and yield the exact same results. Throw in a Christmas bonus and I’ll even put on a head set and tweak it from time to time.

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dawgfan_1977, you forgot to ask for the red panties girl

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“The players and coaches work tirelessly at this game, give all they have, die inside with every loss, and come back to go at it again.”

You are correct…they just come back to go at it again, the exact same way as the week before. If they guy was making minimum wage, I probably wouldn’t care. However, if he’s getting paid millions to do a job, then at least be good at it.

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I’ll take the job but it will cost you 5 million a year and keep the rednecks out of my face.

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Jim Harbaugh that was hilarious!

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JB – My blog is dumb wait the truth hurts doesn’t it. As a matter of fact I am not a Tech
Fan and could care less how many years you have beaten them. Facts or Facts who
is gonna take this job and you are and always will be a second tier SEC team

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yalls inside info sound like a bunch of balogna

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Right now, I’d say the Idaho game is suspect.

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If granny holtz took over, I’d shoot myself. Seriously…

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UGA is a top ten Coaching Job.
Right now Mark Richt is not a top ten coach.
If he can’t get the job done at UGA then cut him loose and hire someone who can get it done.
Bama did it, so can UGA if we hire the right coach.

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Program’s just fine, all is well, my coach will turn it around. -Jesus H. Christ

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“Rule of thumb: If it’s not the playing, it must be the coaching”

MARK YOU’RE AN IDIOT.

I’m sure CMR’s coaching made King drop the ball (literally) and made Ryan Mallet (BEST QB in the SEC) complete a pass in BLOWN coverage. You are just like the rest of the DESPICABLE bandwagon fans on his butt. BCS WINS, SEC TITLES, BEATING GT HOME, AWAY, GAILEY, JOHNSON, etc…, isn’t enough for the man to have ONE bad season in ten? 90-27 record before this year, .767 win pct., and a great season 90% of the time is worth firing?

Btw, this is coming from a GT fan who doesn’t want to see ANOTHER coach done WRONG by his school. Treat CMR bad and see how karma brings that back around. You know what they call her.

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Richt ain’t going nowhere anytime soon but “the fire in his belly” has been burning low for too long. If he would take off those stupid looking Nike sunglasses, I’d like him a lot more and his players could look into his eyes and see if he is serious. But those sunglasses and the amount he is paid to wear them is an indication of the problem. If you get paid $4 million a year maybe the fire goes out?

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Didn’t Bradley say the dogs would go 9-3? LOL

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SOUTHGADAWG88

Solid points and bring much to light!

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Anybody else think Meyer would trade for Murray right now even up for Brantley?

Anybody else think Murray wishes he had put on the Gator hat on signing day?

Talk about being surrounded by idiots……………

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Hire Jim Harbaugh (Stanford) ASAP before someone else does:

Wait a minute let me see here Stanford or Georgia hmmmmmm.
NO expectations or Ridiculous Expectation. Think I will wait and
go to the NFL

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UGA not a top ten coaching destination? Money, Facilities, Major Recruiting Base, Great Fans (full stadium). Am I missing something?

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Hire Jim Harbaugh (Stanford) ASAP before someone else does

Wait Stanford NO Expectations or Georgia Ridiculous Expectations. Think I will just stay here.

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I remember reading that Vince Dooley told Mark Richt when he was being considered for the UGA head coaching job, “My only concern is that you may not be tough enough”.

Vince, you were right. Richt has the football knowledge and is a fine representative of UGA with his moral values and family life style. I’ve met you and I’ve met Mark Richt. I would rather go on vacation with Mark, but I had rather have you be the head football coach. I also don’t want to go on vacation with Nick Saban or Urban Meyer. One of us wouldn’t come back if I did! However, they can both coach my football team.

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Jim Harbaugh will NEVER NEVER come to Georgia

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It is absolutely ridiculous to even discuss firing the best coach in school history. It reminds me of the fire Bobby Cox retards. The only intelligent way to have this discussion is to ask yourself ” who could we get that would not only be better in the short run, but give us a reasonable chance of accomplishing our goals of winning championships?” Surely Auburn, Ole Miss and not least of all our national government demonstrates what happens when fools scream for change without a rational alternative plan. So give me some names Mark et al, or go take a cold shower. I will toss out a couple: Dan Mullen, (reportedly Florida was set to hire him, that should mean something), Harbaugh from Stanford, (runs a hard nosed SEC style of program), anyone else? I will go ahead and shoot holes in a couple of local favorites. Will Muschamp- has access to worlds of talent, but Texas defense has not been that great, and he may not be ready yet. Kirby Smart- left UGa under not the best circumstances, may not be ready yet, and Saban is his own defensive coordinator. You are in fact likely to get turned down a couple times and end up with somebody like Auburn, Tennessee and Clemson got, which is just a postponement of the problem .

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Realist, your moniker is a misnomer. Do you really think Harbaugh would leave Standord for UGa?

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Harbaugh signed an extension and isn’t going anywhere. Certainly not to the chaos in athens. You idiots still think your on the same level as usc, oh st fla bama, etc.
After 09,10 you’re an average program floating towards below avg. Just wait til a couple of top recruits jump ship.

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Shreveport just called……………. even THEY are no longer interested!

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OK, Mark, who would you hire? Who would take this job? Georgia is a historically good program, not a great program. During the last 60 years or so, Georgia has won ONE national championship. ONE. This is not Southern Cal we’re talking about.

Richt has won the conference twice in a decade. Dooley won six in 25 years, back when there were only 6 conference games (and no championship game) and he could duck Bama as much as he wanted. Pretty comparable, and Dooley is considered the greatest coach in school history. And everyone wants to run Richt out of town because of a couple down years? What decent coach would take this job, with all of its attendant absurd expectations?

I’m not saying Richt is a great coach – I don’t think he is – and if he settles into a pattern of 6-6, 15-arrest seasons, eventually the AD will have to make a change. But let’s be realistic about what we can expect from the UGA football program.

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When the AJC starts putting Richt down, you know he’s got one foot out the door. Anyone would be a better coach but UGA will never get someone who can compete with Meyer and Saban to take that job. It’s a dead end job as Richt is proving right now.

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You may have a shot at baby holtz. But Richt era almost over has a point no good head coach is coming into the SEC right now with the dominance of Saban. Wait 2 more years and he will go back to the NFL. Look at what tennessee hired lmao

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To everyone, Your right, Harbaugh may not want to leave Standford for lousy UGA (with all the rednecks — haha) however we need to set our goals high! If there is any chance; UGA should at least try to lure Harbaugh to Athens. Keep the faith!

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I think CMR can lead UGa as far as anyone. MOF, he has led them farther than anyone in 30 years. Why do you expect UGa to be better than the top half of the schools in the SEC? Is there something magical about that place which I haven’t seen?

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If you guys were smart their is one guy thats is an hour away you could hire and no one has said it yet and he would come to Georgia and that name is BRIAN VAN GORDER. Defensive Coach. That is what you need.

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Inspired by former UGA Athletic Damon Evans, which Bulldog player (or Coach) will be the first (this season) to be arrested for shoplifting red undergarments from Victoria’s Secret?

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As Ted Nugent would say “The Indians need food, They needed skins for a roof”
Great White Buffalo.

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If Vince Dooley were coaching today, he would be fired before the 3rd season after his 5-6 team. Also, UGA won 69.79% of the games under Dooley. When did UGA become such a power that it is not satified with a coach that has won at least 8 games every year and is 7-2 in Bowl games. Give the guy some credit.

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A trend on the flip side DawginLex. Put the pipe down son.

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LMAO…they only took what they needed, millions of buffalo were the proof

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He deserves at least 2 more seasons. He’s earned that
If we can’t compete by 2012, when the world ends anyway, then who cares.

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bevanscds @ 11:38

Dude or Dudette, I don’t know where you get your information, but, Dooley only had ONE losing season in the 25 years he was @ UGA.

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da Greek- need a good doc as I strained my extra calf muscle- any advice?

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