5 reasons Mark Richt won’t leave UGA for Miami or anywhere

Did you write this with crayon Mark???

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So close, yet so far.

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Not even close. Should have waited a while on that second cup of coffee.

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Looks guys we need to give Richt another year. Even I had a few difficult years. Honey, can you get me some more cereal?

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Hope Richt stays – BUT major changes need to be made – recruiting, S & C, etc.

Is the best available person in EACH and EVERY position? I think not.

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UGA Head Coaches don’t leave UGA. Georgia is a recruiting talent rich state and UGA has easy majors to get ANY kid in school. Richt will not leave no coach would willing want to leave. What UGA coach has left UGA for a better job? I know UGA is a real good job, but it seems to be a career ender too. No UGA Head Coach get offered a better job because there few better jobs. If a UGA coach gets fired he is not going to get a good job because he couldn’t win at UGA with all the money, talent, and easy classes. Richt better leave for a new challange or UGA will be his last good job and he will be coaching at some Christian high school where his kids go to school.

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Does anyone else find it ironic that the UGA coach is considered too dirty for Miami, a school once known for its thugishness?

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Interesting comment about not being a Miami fit. Having coached at UGA Richt will likely always be considered a football factory coach, but it is sad for UGA to think that he runs too rogue and undisciplined of a program for Da U.

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Sure bet: There is “First” and 499+ responses that pretty much mean nothing. Just like mine.

Time to give back to my employer.

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Reason 6 – He has a cush job that no one demands any excellence from him for performing. The stupid fan base and alums are willing to let him coach forever as long as UGA wins at least 6 games every season and beats Tech. Forget being 2 and 8 vs Florida, forget that he has not won anything in 5 years, mediocrity thy name is UGA.

No one demands excellence from MR so he will stay until someone does!

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Mark, I have tired of your lazy journalism. Yes, we have had some arrest – mostly minor offenses similar of many undergrads across the country. Yet, you seem to do little effort in pionting out Atlanta PD has little time to worry about things that arrests are made for in Athens (ie: shooting off fire works, scooter violations). Have you ever made any effort to see if Saban and other have relationships with local PD to handle things internally? No, that would actually take journalistic investigation and you have been safe and lazy at the AJC for too many years now. There was a day you were the best around – but that was years ago.

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“The weirdo Dennis Franchione is the exception that proves the rule.”

And Lame Kiffin

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Reason why to leave-

1 more bad season in Athens and he is history

In Miami he will have a window of 4 years to make a go of it. He might not make 3 mil, say only 2 mil w/ other money coming from radio/tv contracts, Nike endorsements. If the money is close, Miami offers “potentially” better longterm job security than rolling the dice for anotheryear in Athens.

Also CMR may feel that he could be the man to turn the “U” around. Miami is not playing in the Mountain West. Miami is playing in a BCS conference, and has won a NT this decade. Say what you want about lack of funds, poor stadium, but with the right coach in place Miami is lethal.

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Without AJ Green next year, who is Murray going to throw to. The first three games told you what is about to happen. If Richt doesn’t get another Def. Coordin. it will be another long season. The one he has is not getting it done already.

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We will never agree on the arrests thing but lets go over it YET AGAIN!!

First off I concede and Richt concedes that he was too soft in the past. However in the last 18 months, serious offenses have resulted in immediate expulsion from team. Fender benders, riding scooters, and being flat out just immature and stupid, (Caleb King) have resulted in game suspensions. Other than public flogging what exactly is it you would like Rict to do beyond this? Has he been softer during this period than other coaches…NO WAY. Chizik has a national championship team yet he has a criminal at nose tackle that weekly tries to end young men’s careers to the delight of his coach. Is Richt’s charachter not hugely better than that?

The kids are a bit thick. It has taken a while for the new standards to have the needed ripple affect. Lets see how many get in trouble between now and the Boise Game.

But to suggest that Richt’s charachter is somehow beneath freeking MIAMI and a BILL CLINTON appointee??!!!!

Lets see. I want to improve the morality of my University and teach charachter. The only worse place I can think of to look than the Clinton administration would be in the Obama administration. But hey….at least they are not going to hire the vile, horrid, Mark Richt. He only adopts special needs children and gives them a loving home. He only spends his vacations on mission trips or in seeing the troops. He only opens his home to scores of young people every summer. What a scum bag.

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I’m so sick of “a play here and a play there.” Give me a break. Man up, admit you didn’t get the job done, and resolve to do whatever it takes to bring a championship to Athens. Instead, we get platitudes and cliches, we get ‘aw shucks’ and ‘we’re doing our best.’ Well, your best isn’t good enough.

FIRE MARK RICHT.

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It may not be his choice next year if he doesn’t get this thing turned around. Back to back 7-5 and 6-6 seasons are truly disappointing. At least the expectations for next year will not be as high. 8-4 is looking pretty darn good right about now…

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P.O.A.D

Tech gets them in too. They just farm them out for classes at local colleges. Now Mark, that would be a story you could investigate further and hardly get off your brain.

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Mr. Red — RIGHT ON! Demand EXCELLENCE! Folks like you and I are criticized as “bad fans” who “don’t support the program”, but that’s a bunch of bunk. It’s the fans who accept mediocrity who are truly “bad fans”. Demand excellence in everything you do.

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If 9 wins is the barometer lets take at look ahead into 2011

Schedule:

Boise State
South Carolina
Coastal Carolina
@ Ole Miss
Miss St.
@ UT
@ Vandy
UF
New Mexico St.
Auburn
UK
@ Tech

This does not appear to be a overly difficult schedule, but with the potential early defections and the apparent poor recruiting on each side of the line who knows what to think of a season with this schedule. Realistically it looks like an 8-4 type of schedule with the loses coming to South Carolina, UT, UF and Auburn.

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Jim, Everybody including you seem to forget that the only reason CMR reluctantly hired Bobo was because CMR sucked calling the plays. And here we go again, I am sure he will take it over if he feels it will buy him some time, which it probably will. He makes decisions like this to respond to pressure, not because he thinks it is good for the team. We have all known Bobo sucks, but CMR continues to stick with him, Why because CMR does not know what he is doing.

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Come on. Richt heard the same song in 2001 & 2006. After those 2 bad seasons, what happened? Still here. Give me a break.

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In that third point I think Bradley politely called UGA a “rule-flouting football factory.” Can anyone argue with that?

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5 more reasons

1- UGA MADE A $45 MILLION PROFIT LAST YEAR, BETTER THAN bAMA, fLORIDA, OR lsu
2- richt’s #5 winningest coach
3- 6 top 10 season in 9 seasons at UGA
4- #1 ON ACADEMIC SCORES (APR) AMONG SEC TEAMS
5- #5 recruiter in nation over last decade

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We will win all of our games next year and win the national title! We are ready!

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Call 911, I just found out another assistant
is leaving me. What is going on in Gainesville?

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Question: Why is everyone so supportive of CMR when Donnan gambles with Quincy Carter and has one down year and everyone wants his head. But for CMR it is different. How? Because Donnan was an a hole and mean to Lorn. Come on! I think firing Donnan was the right move because we were being aggressive and sending a message that we have high standards and we expect to compete with the top teams in the country. For some reason I guess us UGA fans don’t feel that way any more.

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Boots, What is his plan?

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Mark…i’m trying to figure out why CPJ gets a pass from you…i meand Coach Richt has beaten 2 out of 3 years…He continues to go against sound football by not taking field goals instead of always fgoing for it on fourth down…How many coaches around the country do that on a regular basis…I wonder how many times that has cost Tech…I mean Sat night they could have taken the lead in the game, which is huge in another opponents stadium…What about last year or this year when he abandoned the run that was working and started passing…You criticize Coach Richt and the dawgs for any coaching decision…Oh and why did Tech not try and tackle Ealey and force a fumble, he has shown the ability to do that this year, isn’t that sound football vs.quitting..Of all the years playing and coaching, not a single coach ever asked, nor have i, our team to not tackle an opponent, i mean how do you teach that….I’ve seen comments on here about Ealey should have fell down, well how many RB’s are taught to do that when they see open field in front of them…These are just a few things that i would point out, now i still think CPJ is a very good coach, thats not the point of my remarks, its just to have you open up your eyes instead of the constant negative remarks toward the dawgs and Coach Richt…The bottom line Mark is Coach Richt is 9-1 against Tech and 2-1 against CPJ..it really doesn’t matter which team played better or had better statistics or what coach made more blunders, it still goes in the “W” column for the dawgs for at least another year…go dawgs

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The biggest reason he won’t leave. He’s working for a SEC school that being mediocre in Football is OK. You would think we are a ACC team by the No comment coming from the University President. I would like to Hear Adams say ” We want all our Athletic teams to strive to win championships. This has been a very disappointing season for our football team. I trust that AD McGarity is evaluating all facets of our program to get us where we want to be as a program, and that is champions.

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Fire CMR please. His window of excellence has closed, the program is treading water at this point, why does he get a pass.

Just like his truck commercials….he’s Found On Road Dead

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LowCountry, so you are saying UGA goes 4-4 in the SEC next year? If that is the case, Richt is gone. Also, if he loses to Tenn,Fl, and S.C., he will finish in 4th in the East. Gone again. I don’t see anyway he turns this mediocre program around. He want fire his jogging buddy the S&C coach, he want get rid of BooBoo, and he can’t get rid of CTG. UGA doesn’t have a nose guard, the inside backers are too small, the corners can’t cover man to man, and the safties are terrible in run support. Too many problems on Defense, and no answers on campus. Offense, will be terrible next year. No dominant O.L., no big play threat at w.r., and no big play threat at r.b. UGA has a decent Q.B. that gets tight when the game is on the line, and that’s about it. So if UGA is going to hang it’s hat on a slightly above average q.b, with no playmakers on offense, and no playmakers on defense to turn this mess around, it want happen. Face facts UGA fans, no coaches, not enough talent=disaster in the SEC.

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I’m still waiting on McGarity or Richt or SOMEONE to sell me that things will be better next year.

There is simply no way we lose 6 starters on Offense (including our #1 playmaker) and 7 starters on a Defense (if Boykin leaves, if not, 6) that was average at best and expect to somehow have things click.

The road to 5-7 is paved with good intentions.

I think Richt is circling the drain unfortunately.

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Nine great years and one bad one that was not all his fault (AJ suspension, new coaches and schemes, etc.)certainly deserves more respect than a lot of crazies are giving coach Richt.

Next season, after all the adjustments faced this season have been embedded, will put all these folks on the Richt bandwagon. He is a great head coach and UGA will suffer if he leaves. Show the man a little love.

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Good grief, Richt went to work on everything this season, he improved:
pass defense
rush defense
total defense
pass offense
total offense
scoring offense
socring defense
kick off coverage
turnovers
penalties

He made those improvements, and more. His game strategy is unrivalved, you don’t win 90 games in 9 seasons in the SEC being a poor strategist.

Mark, shocker, sometimes Freshman QB’s and a brand new defensive line don’t execute well.

But your propensity to BLAME RICHT FOR ALL BAD, and give RICHT NO CREDIT FOR ANY GOOD, is false.

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He’s gone. Stay tuned.

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$500,000. per win WOW!

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Concur

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@crap sandwich

well said…..he was better 20 years ago when he wasn’t lazy and secure at the AJC.

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Georgia will not rebound until it starts getting
top recruits to stay at home.
Georgia will not get top recruits to stay at home
because of the fan base.
Who would want to come to Georgia and get
chopped up on these stupid blogs.

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http://KeepMarkRicht.com/

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In regards to dicipline, players need to behave better. It is reasonable to expect 18-22 year olds to know how to behave when they get to school. Only so much baby sitting can be done. These men need to grow up and behave like men. It’s pathetic that grown men have to be baby sat. Do what you’re supposed to do and there won’t be any issues.

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No hate for Richt. But to deny that his teams are underachievers is folly.

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C’mon now, Richt may have a lot of players getting booked for stupid stuff, but he’s hardly too ‘Rogue U.’ for Miami. And the players who were more than just stupid got kicked off the team — hardly a culture of permissiveness. At the old Miami, those offenses would’ve been winked at.

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With this schedule
Boise State
South Carolina
Coastal Carolina
@ Ole Miss
Miss St.
@ UT
@ Vandy
UF
New Mexico St.
Auburn
UK
@ Tech

dont be surprised if the Dawgs go 9-3 or 10-2 . And finishes second in th East.And they go to the OutBack Bowl. And if that happens than Richt will get another year.With the reason being that ” he is so close to turning it around.”

It’s like watching the same bad movie over and over, expecting the outcome to be different. You know the ending, but your hoping the zit faced kid running the project took some tape and spliced a better finish. Only it never happens. The zit faced kid is eating popcorn and reading girl magazines and “Woooh, Quick to the Slow”.

Anyway, I would rather watch War and Peace and The thornbirds back to back then to watch another game where we are passing the ball at will and suddenly Bobo decides we need to run the wild Dawg. Or where Georgia has the opposing team in 3rd and 19 and they get a first down on a screen pass. Or another press conference where Richt says” We just are not getting the breaks, one or two plays our way and we win.” Or another game where we are up 21-7 and decide to go conservative.

If Richt is not willing to make the changes necessary, then the changes need to be made for him…and to him.

AD McGarity…..time to give up the popcorn, and splice a different ending.

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Shankit………….You don’t think the fans in Alabama take losing serious ?

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Bring back Donnan!

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Sad to say but the way it is at Georgia now is not whether they will compete for the SEC title next year but will they win enough games to qualify for a bowl.

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Fuzzybee. Go back and read the article this time. That was the old ‘U’. They have worked very hard to clean that up. No excuses, we need to do the same. But remember, you still have the champion dope traffic champion of all time. And you guys ‘fixed it’, so that he didn’t do jail time. Regular guy on the street is still in jail. Suspended drivers licensed and drunk in public really is kid stuff. You have fewer offenses (and we can debate the reasons why, ranging from no ‘real campus’ to who is looking the other way and who isn’t.) Let’s be clear, CMR has to clean that stuff up, but you do not have a bunch of angels over by the Varsity. I have friends who have sons at Tech, believe me – there are issues, just like at any other D1 school.

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I think Richt does have some sense of the pressure he’ll be under next season. I think he also knows his defense needs to improve drastically. (How many games did we give up 30+ points this season?) But he won’t say that publicly. His hopes are hanging on Grantham. In fact, we all are. “Nobody who matters wants Richt to fail” is right — for better or worse, our best option is to give Richt and co. every opportunity to turn things around.

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College Football goes in cycles. WHEN Coach Richt turns this around I hope Bradley and Shultz are both called out on all the “clever” articles belittling CMR. It’s like it’s personal for these two.

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Mike, that’s +30 points this past Saturday only if you include the defensive TD and the 20-yd unchallenged run after GT turned to ball over on downs.

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What a piece crap to write. Of course Mark should stay. He is one of the best Coaches in the US and we could not get a better Coach/Person to lead our program. Please leave Mark alone.

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@Dawg_Mike…good points, the D does have issues and that is what is holding us back in my opinion…Hopefully next year the defense will be better, it has to if we are ever going to compete for the SEC or NC in the future…As far as our offense, i think we will be ok there, and even better if we get a great RB…the O-line did not perform as expected this year, some of that could be because of people coming back from injuries and and having nagging injuries during the season…I think that our RB’s inability to hit the holes or break tackles at times made our O-Line look worse than they were, but we do need to show some improvement up front…again, the D is where we have to step it up a notch, especially up front, thats where we are absolutely getting manhandled…If we can see that then i know the coaches also see it..Next year we should see if Coach Grantham is the answer for our D…go dawgs

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Someone needs to write an article entitled “50 reasons Mark Bradley and Jeff Shultz won’t leave the AJC…but should”. Seems like they would have followed good ole’ Terrance by now!

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Mark,

I think that you’re a good writer but I can certainly see where “Done
with you” is coming from….interesting parallel that he postulated.
All too often it appears that the AJC staff uses a degree of negative
sensationalism in choosing how to frame up a story, particularly when
Georgia football is concerned….and when you have a negative story to
report, does someone there seek to find the LEAST flattering picture
of the subject that you can find ? I see that over and over. And you
don’t need to wonder whether the Athens police targeting UGA football
players…..that happens, because I’ve seen it with my own eyes. A
few years back a football player rear-ended my car on Milledge Avenue
during heavy stop-and-go traffic – could’ve happened to any driver.
I called the police since it was an accident, but no damage to my car
occurred. The policeman, after finding out who the other driver was,
urged me to press charges. As I had no damage to my car, I declined.
I’d have done the same with any reasonable person, and both the driver
and his passenger (another UGA football player) were very respectful.
I mentioned that I didn’t want to get the young Bulldog in trouble, and
the policeman continued “You don’t need to worry to about that – they
have so many privileges”. Again I declined. I just wonder if this
goes on in Tuscaloosa, Knoxville, etc (I doubt it). Mark, you and your
staff write for the AJC – a GEORGIA newspaper. There are certainly
negative things to report (in ANY college town), but if you want your
readership to truly believe that you’re reporting accurately, quit with
the negative framework. Do you honestly believe that the offenses that
our players got arrested for would have achieved such attention from
significant state media in Alabama or Tennessee ? Some would have, but
not most of them…..sorry, but I don’t buy it. Our players certainly
need to behave and follow the rules, and Richt has implemented much
stricter punishments over the last year. Just as Richt might not
see himself as part of the problem, neither do you and Schultz see
yourselves as part of the problem. There’s room for improvement in
both camps. There are many, many people who would LOVE to see our
program get torn down…..all too often Schultz and to a lesser extent
you seem quite willing to help them do it. You think recruits don’t
read these stories ? Please consider the journalistic power that you
have, use it fairly, and remember which state you and most of your
readers are in.

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MB,
Do you follow your own advice or are you of the “Do as I say, not as I do” ilk? If you are of the former then I wish you the best when you join Terrance!!!
Tis the season of dreams and wishes!!!

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BTW-One big difference in Miami…no UGA Police!!!

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Collegefootballfan-

Right off the top of my head I cannot think of a OL/DL lineman that was a top 1-2 rd pick that was a CMR recruit. We had plenty in the early part of this decade, but all where Donnan guys. Let me know if I am missing one.

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So Mark do you think the gators are going to win the national championship next year? How did that work for you this year?

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Please stop bashing MB! He is doing a great job. You people complaining about his journalism can’t handle the truth. I have seen CMR struggling for the past 3 years. And it used to make me sick how supportive MB was of the team and CMR. His points in the article are very valid. Many of you will attack anyone that has anything negative to say about CMR no matter how valid the issues are. We just want a competitive team. Your blind loyalty to CMR only puts the program farther away from becoming a quality competitive football program.

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Elvis Dog, there are no points to be gained by sucking up to MB. Once he posts these crappy stabs at humor, he’s on to the next one.
I think I’ll leave it to the powers that be “McGarity” to decide if/when CMR needs to go….not Mark Bradley.

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Who really cares. What dawg fans do not understand is that the rest of the SEC has caught up. There are five or six teams in the SEC that are head and shoulders about UGA. The other SEC schools that are in the top 10 in recruiting seem to post good seasons and their recruits become a team. What causes that? Good coaching. Something UGA is missing.

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AJ, stay and we will set you up an ATM account
This goes for all potential recruits considering
crossing the state line, we will match any offer.

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EDawg71, I believe sports writers have been posting their oponions in newspapers for the last 100 years. We all know he does not have the power to fire CMR. He is simply bringing up some points. I don’t understand the anger coming out about it.

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I told all of you change people last year that the D was not going to get any better this year just because you fire CWM. Guess what it did not. Why, because we are not playing college football on XBOX. It takes time for a new DC to come in and turn things around. Plus, Defense, and well as offense, is won in the trenches. First rule of coaching, if you can stop the opponents running game with your front 4 then you have the advantage. We could not and and had to bring the 8th man in the box to slow down the running game. UGA had three DL’s that went to the NFL and had to replace them with young players. It takes time folks be a freaking realist and not a stupid idiot. I think CTG has the right concepts and in a couple years he will improve the D if he can recruit the players he needs.

Point two, there is nothing wrong with the O. UGA scored enough points in most games, once they took the reigns off of Murray, to win. They will continue to do this for at least the next three years.

Point three and the most important: Recruiting. This is were we have failed the past few years. I am sure CRG has not forgotten how to evaluate talent and could get us some great recruits in but there is something you all have to realize. CRG and CMR ARE HAVING THEIR HANDS TIED BY ADAMS ON WHO CAN COME AND PLAY FOOTBALL AT UGA. It takes a mean, nasty streak to play LB or DL in the SEC and a good deal of the great ones have a shaky past (fights in HS, suspensions for cussing teachers, discipline problems ect). Adams has set up a special committee to review all athletic scholarships and if there is a hint of past character issues then these athletes can not play at UGA. This committee has refused admission to at least three I can think of in the past 5 years. CMR is a smart man and I am sure he knows what they look at and I am sure he has not even offered scholarships to some great players because he knows they can not get in. Example, The last two great LB that went to FL out of the state of GA. If I was a betting man I would bet that we did not even seriously recruit them because they could not get in. This committee was set up one year before CBV left the program and I bet he knew he would not be able to recruit the same players and it had something to do with his decision to leave? I wonder if this also played into the decisions of some of the DC’s we looked at last year?

If you really want to lay blame then you need to look at Adams first. Even if CMR was to leave the program, do you really think things will change that much when the next coach could not get the players they need? I have said it for the past three years. UGA will not be a consistent player on a national level until Adams is gone but you so called fans are just to stupid to see the real reason for the problems.

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Is this a joke? I enjoy Ga losing, but he needs to leave. They need fresh faces and a winner. Richt is tired of coaching football. I not sure his first years were just lucky. He is what we call diminishing returns. Deep down I wish Ga would sign him to a lifetime contract.

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The puppies seem to think they can go out and pluck all the A+ recruits and the world will be fine. Think again. 6-6

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We have got to work hard to get better.

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Richt is 50… been a long time since he roamed the streets of Miami…30+ years….Miami is NOT the same place Mark grew up…….He would not put his family in that town.TV shows the glamor side of that place. 90% of the place is a crime infested Hell hole, just say’n.

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Mark, well done. Needed to be said.

Mutt fans, you tickle me.

Mark Richt rescued your sorry football program in his first two years. He then provided your FIRST SEC TITLE IN OVER 20 YEARS then a second soon afterwards. Sure, the winning average has dropped from 10 to something much lower but where would you be without him? Seeking your first SEC title in 30 years.

Get on your knees and kiss this man’s feet. You could very easily be Kentucky, Ole Miss, Clemson, or Tech for that matter.

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I almost took the bait, but I won’t comment on the column. There are a few bloggers (who have the right to their opinion, just as I do)all you do is say “Fire CMR”!! We all have heard you! He is staying and you all need to get over it and either “get on the bus with us all, or get OFF the bus”! You are either with us or against us! It’s not blind loyalty, it’s backing who is in charge and giving them 100% backing. If you can’t do that, then YES I do question you as a Dawg. B/c all you do is gripe and cause strife! We have people like Bradley and Schultz to cause all of that. We don’t need our supporters do it with them. If we don’t win next year, then the “powers that be” will make tough decisions. As long as CMR is the head coach, I’m with him and the team. If someone new comes in then I’m with them. You all let Bradley and company stir the pot way too much! Go Dawgs!!

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TD….great post! The D will and has to get better! We need D linemen and the offense score a lot of points! We hold a few people and we wipe out a couple of those losses. Go Dawgs!!

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He might wish he’d gone to Miami after he loses to Boise State and S Carolina to start next season. I only see 3 sure wins on the schedule, maybe 3 more that the Dogs should win, and the remainder could go either way. Will the Bulldog Nation support a 7-5 campaign and again being a non-factor in the SEC?

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JB

November 30th, 2010
10:38 am
td……………I lost you at sentence three….The first rule of blogging……quick and to the point.
90% of people who read a newspaper article quit after the first paragraph

How about this then: President Adams meddling is the real problem and until he is fired then the football team will never be a consistent winner.

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@MatthewsDawg…very good remarks, couldn’t have said it any better…believe me there are more like us than these blogs would have you to believe…The bottom line is you support your program and its players, let the AD and others make decisions regarding changes that need to be made…I will put my trust in them than to what many of the negative bloggers say, most of them are not truly dawg fans, oh maybe they jumped on the bandwagon when we were going good, but when it gets tough as it does at any program in time, they jump off…go dawgs

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If I were Mark Richt, I would stay another year, live off what I made this year, put every penny of the 3 million I earn next year in the bank…and then retire and do mission work. Who needs the hassle/

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CMR can hear all the 9 win to 11 win talk or go to the U and have 3 to 4 years of peace. He can work for “Behind the Hedges” Mikey Adams or Donna keep Shannon. He can be seen as a past employee of Damon Red Under Pants Evans and the current employee of the Temp AD and the future employee of ……. or work at Da U with an in place stable AD. CMR can wash his hands of his current staff and past recruits. Everyone will be new to him at Da U. The man is crazy if he stays!

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Mark,
Could it possibly be that Richt will not leave because:
1. He is loyal to UGA. 2. He loves UGA football. 3. He is honest when he says that he wants to finish his career in Athens. 4. He is committed to the program. Mark Richt is the best thing that ever happened to UGA football. Adams and AD know it, most clear thinking fans know it and deep down you must know it also. The finest coach in UGA history will not soon be fired.

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Why would anybody want to live/coach in that cess pool …”thug u”?

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9 wins next season is a pipe dream with the addition of boise.
fla is a loss again. auburn is a toss up. dooly may have tenn back and that game is at ut where ga struggles. sc is likely a loss. and who knows what gt and miss st will be like.
i see 7-5 as a likely result.

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Mark Richt is the chan gomer gailey of athens.

And thank God and Greyhound he is gone….even if idiots like Bark Madley continue to prop him up.

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hEY lONE bLOGGER, sIR pOST A lOT, (aka m/outside/sorry/fsu alum/etc. & 90% of all posts here–could they all be the same person? No!)

Using all your fake names again to bash Richt eh? Bored? My, what a futile waste of time.

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Bradley, give it up. Coach Richt is staying and most Ga fans are glad. You need to get over the arrest issues also………majority of them were traffic/vehicle/drinking issues. Boys being boys. I know you are dissappointed that you couldn’t influence Coach Richt’s future.

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Dawgster…thanks! I’m am tired of all the negative comments. Things haven’t been good the last 2 years. But, I will back them until there is a change. Let’s face it, ALL coaches are hired to be fired! Well, that is true for about 99% of them. JoePa is about the only one that I can think of that gets to stay as long as he wants. They haven’t won many NC either. But, he is a great coach and so many thought the game had passed him by, but I guess he showed us all. Time will tell on CMR. I for one hope he proves he IS the head coach that UGA needs. I personally think he will. He’s a great coach and a man of character! There are not too many out there in today’s world with character! Go Dawgs!!!

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For an instant there when I read he headline of your piece Bradley, I had a thought that just maybe you were gonna say something nice about Mark Richt….but noooooo! I don’t know what had gotten into me. Maybe I thought that you were gonna practice a little objectivity, but then ‘columnists’ aren’t required to be objective, and you clearly have what was referred to above as ‘an agenda’. Then I tried to ask myself, why?

Do you just dislike the University of Georgia so much that anything you can do to undermine and criticize the institution and those associated with it is fair game?

Are you, as has also been mentioned, simply interested in ‘hits’ so you can show off for whoever pays your salary (it sure ain’t a Georgia grad – where is Jim Minter when you need him) and you know that you can easily ‘get a fight started’ by poking a stick up a Bulldog’s butt.

And speaking of that, is it that you’ve become such a Paul Johnson ‘B-Boy, that you’ll take any opportunity to find fault with Mark Richt? Is that your problem ‘bumpee’?

I suppose I could go on and come up with any number of motivations – or as you put it, ‘reasons why Mark Bradley likes to stick it to Georgia’, but I think I’ll just settle in on that you just don’t like us, or for that matter, you don’t like being in Georgia at all, do you? If so, you can go back to Kentucky anytime you like, you won’t be missed by me and a few others.

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hey losers…just wanted to remind you to watch a real team with a real coach in atlanta this weekend. glad you’ll get to play in the dome next year to start the season – it will be your only chance.

ps, nick says hello and hopes you enjoyed watching him and the defense knock bama qb out of the game

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Hate to break it to you Mr. Bradley, but I can tell you with a very good degree of reliability that Miami is not interested in Mark Richt. That is nothing but internet chatter.

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I agree with much of what M. Bradley said….save 1 comment. He referred to Damon Evans as “Richt’s former boss”. That is utterly ridiculous. Everybody with any knowledge of Damon and the athletic dept knew/knows that Damon was a token….a non-decision making lightweight…..a front boy for Pres. Michael Adams. Think about it. he NEVER negotiated a contract. He never even hired anybody save a few secretaries. When a coaching postion came available, he made one phone call…..to a professional search firm to give him a name to submit to the Dept. Sorry if this hurts anybody, but it is the absolute truth…..and people in the know, well, they know it.

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Mark, what did CMR do to tick you off so badly?

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You may be too optimistic with 7 or 6 wins in ‘11, “question?”.

Assuming our D will be better because Saban’s 2nd D at Bama was better, I ask, who’s replacing Houston, and where’s our Mt Cody?

Anybody who thinks our O will be as good next year, without AJ, Durham, and 3 OL, and Bobo still in charge of the offense, is in denial.

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Ah, War Damn Eagle…we cleaned your damn clock four years in a row. See you again next year and let’s hear you talk then. Enjoy Scam and the whole delusional world you are in right now….the probation and forfeits are coming.

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Very well written, Mr. B. You are spot on.

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You and Jeff are negative to the core. The two of your can’t write any thing positive abour UGA or CMR. I am sick and tired of the AJC and their negative writings about a great school and a great program.

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think Richt and Uhhban ought to get together on how to hire compentent assistants?Dan Mullen and Charlie Strong have not been replaced at Florida, at 25% of their ability.Both hired D.Cs. from the NFL where they had assistant jobs. Might have been a reason..

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I’m not saying Richt is gone and i don’t want him gone, but if so why is no one talking about throwing huge money at Jim Harbaugh from stanford. I’ve read reports on Muschamp being on the short list, but come on…really?

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Loveless copulation!

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Wow. Coach wins 91 game sin 9 seasons, top 5 win % at .742, top 5 in profits in NCAA, top 5 in recruiting over decade, 6 top 10 finishes over 10 seasons at UGA, #1 at getting players into the NFL, #1 in academics (APR) in SEC.

Yet Bradley CHOOSES to TRY and find something BAD to write about Mark Richt?

Is it envy? Of course. Richt does stuff, writers conceptualize and write about the DOERS.

It is resentment? Doubtless. Bradley likely has a hard time comparing his salary, to Richt’s $3 million salary (which was more than fair considering Richt made UGA $40 million + profit).

So we try and bring the great down. To medicore. To average.

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rich and paul hewitt have something in common? big payouts if fired? hmmmmmmmm.
hey, for the record, uga is now an engineering school so all the classes are not grade gifts, poad.

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i agree mark b – rich is not a fool.

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Richt’s one of the humblest coaches I’ve seen,. What an insult to hurl at him that he lacks humility. Richt’s constantly improving his team, look at the turnovers and penalities this year. Very humble guy.

Paul Johnson? Not so much. An arrogant, pompous jerk who rarely changes anything, even when it stops working.

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For those of you wanting to ‘FIRE MARK RICHT’, who would you rather have in place? I think he is the right man for the job here and needs to stay on. Granted, he needs to reign in the team a bit on the arrests, etc., but that can easily be corrected.

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Dream Team….what a joke!

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Boise State – if Kellen Moore goes pro, it would help – pick ‘em
South Carolina – will be stacked next year – L
Coastal Carolina – W
@ Ole Miss – another long year for Nutt – W
Miss St. – home field advantage might tip this in UGA’s favor – pick ‘em
@ UT – Vols turned it on at the end of the season. They will be tough in 2011 – pick ‘em
@ Vandy – W
UF – they lose a lot of linemen & D but all the playmakers are back – pick ‘em
New Mexico St. – W
Auburn – they lose a lot of talent but you never know in this game – pick ‘em
UK – W
@ Tech – again a you-never-know game but Joshua Nesbitt is gone and this offense is not fooling anyone anymore – W

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For all of the “let’s go get Chris Peterson” people he just lost the the putrid WAC. Gary Patterson would not touch UGA with a 10 foot pole. TCU is moving to the Big East and thus they will be an automatic qualifieer. Big East=fast track to BCS championship. SEC= murders row scked every year! If we run off CMR then we will be in very embarrassinbg coaching search (think 1995).

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We’re 1/2 way there!! Adams fired Donnon for losing to TECH 3-straight yrs, not for losing to FLA. However, it was the mutual consensus that the NEXT coach could, and WOULD, not only beat TECH, but also get over that dreadful hump of losing to FLA (most) every year. SO, do you look at the glass as 1/2 empty OR 1/2 full??
Guess it depends on who’s looking… But I will say that as much as I like Richt (and I do think he should stay another yr or two-pending results) I think he will be on borrowed time if he can’t right this ship.

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Mark, your last sentence hit the nail on the head, but you’re forgetting one thing:

CMR isn’t paid to win the NC, win the SEC Championship, have winning seasons, or even keep his players out of the care of Clarke County’s finest…he’s paid to beat Tech, and he has done so consistently. Richt will stay the coach as long as he is beating Tech more often than not, even if he never takes the field in December again.

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Ain’t nuttin average bout Coach Richt.

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Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!”

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The best thing about Richt staying is another year like this or worse is assured. You figure blowout losses to Boise, Florida, and Auburn is a guarentee, losses to S Carolina and Tenn is likely and you already have 5. Then the chances are they will lose at least one or two of Miss, Tech, and Kentucky and 6-6 or 5-7 is certain. I’m loving it

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PHIL

November 30th, 2010
12:58 pm

“The guy that was in charge had a couple tough years so they replaced him with this new fangled guy. I want to ask all the UT fans and the admin how that “Hopey/Changey stuff is working for them now. UT has been a joke and a soap opera since the day Fullmer was fired. I would much rather go through some hard times and keep the program intact than go through what UT is going through.”

I could just about guarantee you that the same people calling for CMR head right now voted for Obama. Stupid then, Stupid now.

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I would say thinks are the same over in Athens. Good coach, good players, now lets form a good team. Nuff said…..

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Sign a real stout RB, WR and a couple of good DL and watch how fast the dawgs can get back to elite status. SEC football goes in cycles see how UF did not lose for two years and then they are down this year too. Everyone complained about the DC needed to be changed last year and I guess everyone assumes you can just plug in a square peg in a round hole and have a top ranked defense. The offense has a good QB returning next year, a great hybrid TE in Orson Charles and some quality recruits at WR. Most glaring weakness on offense is a gamebreaking RB, but hopefully Crowell or some other kid will come. If you do not think a FR RB can make a difference look at SC and their RB. Also, we are only three days after the end of the season. Lets wait until Signing Day to make judgement on changes or lack of before real UGA fans write off 2011. Most of the teams UGA has lost to this year are home gomes next year and it is ludicrous to project losses already.

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What UGA coach has the highest winning percentage?
Who are the top three coaches with most wins in UGA history?

Difficult year – absolutely.
Defense cannot give up 400+ yds rushing to Tech.
Offense must get play makers the ball.

RICHT MUST STAY despite this challenging year!

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Bradley, Will you a schultz leave so the Georgia program can catch a break from all the over blown criticism. I’ll take richt as coach any day over you as journalist.
i cancelled my subscribtion because of Tucker, you and Schultz and take great delight in pointing out your agenda to everyone I can. I’ve tried to convince others to cancel their subscribtions. I think it’s working.
Thanks for another crummy, agenda driven hachet job on Georgia.

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Mark, here you go again! Stop! Coach Rieth is a great coach, a great individual, and even a better man. Yes, we have to go get some big lineman for his D. Mark you need to report on the trade school on 10 th avenue and not UGA.

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[...] (Meyer blew off his postgame interview after Saturday’s loss.)2.  This writer gives five reasons why Mark Richt won’t leave Georgia (even though he believes the coach probably should go).3.  Defensive coordinator Todd Grantham is [...]

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CMR seemed that the beginning of the season to be burnt out to me. He just didn’t act and look like he was doing what he wanted to be doing. Who could blame him? late night calls about kids in jail, beginning 17 year old kids to come to your school, fans that expect a win every week and on and on. He has his pockets full of money how much of that kind of stuff do you take?

Hopefully things will turn around and he will get excited about coaching at UGA again and we will be competitive.

If he wasn’t burnt out and just couldn’t get the team ready to play that is a different matter all together. He needs fired if he can’t do the job— a little slack, not much at these wages,if he simply let down from a little burn out.

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The 6th reason Richt isn’t leaving is because Derek Dooley isn’t ready to leave TN yet. UGA is waiting on Derek to get a few more years under his belt, then he will be named the new head coach at UGA! Done deal!

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GA won’t go 9 – 3 next year. Who says the schedule is not overly difficult? SC has arrived. TN on the rise. Auburn is certainly there. We never beat FL.

I gotta go to the dog track with you people. You can obviously forecast what kind of team everybody will have before the previous year is even over. Amazing.

Aurburn wont have Cam. Ask Florida if losing Tebow hurt a little.

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You suck, Bradley. Where’s the article criticizing CPJ after going 6-6 in the weak ACC? Oh yeah, you write for the AJC, Tech’s unofficial PR department.

Perhaps you should be registered as an official recruiter for Tech based on your previous article. The NCAA should consider it.

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Auburn will be taking a nose dive back to the middle tier of the SEC next year…FACT!

You don’t think that Newton (was money well spent?) was important to that team going to the record that it did so far this season??? If you think you can simply replace him you are DELUSIONAL. Ask any level headed FLA fan how easy it has been to replace a similar type player in TIM TEBOW.

Auburn fans…next year you are AT BEST 8 maybe 9 wins depending on how other teams do as far as replacing their own players (Bama is biggest question mark with their QB graduating)

The arrogance of Auburn fans and their refusal to see the reality of the situation has greatly changed my perception of Auburn BLOG fans on this site. I know many Auburn grads/fans personally and they aren’t nearly as arrogant and blind as you AUBURN HOMERS on this these blogs.

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GEORGIA HAS ACCEPTED MEDOCRITY! GREAT NEWS FOR THE REST OF THE SEC!

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Some of you people are foolish. With AJ Green, Aaron Murray, Orson Charles, and Kris Durham any OC in college football could average way over 30 points. Just because UGA scored some points dosen’t mean they came anywhere close to reaching their potential. With Bobo’s undying affection for the play action pass in situations where everyone knows it is a pass is ridiculous. Simply put Bobo is the most predicdable and unimaginative OC I have ever seen on any level.

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“I’m a Dawg fan and I support Coach Richt – he needs to make some tough decisions on his staff right away or drastically improve for that to continue.”

Uh, looks like you actually agree with Mr. Bradley. And, besides, why try to run a sportswriter out of town? To make UGA a better team? I’m aware of the “it’s not the coach, it’s the players” defense (which, by the way, Mack Brown at Texas shot full of holes yesterday), but it’s a bit of a stretch to think either the team or the program are going to improve if a writer stops writing about it.

Oh, one more thing. I have two wonderful daughters, both in their 20’s. Neither has ever had a traffic ticket or any, much less several, missed court appearances.

I’ve got a new slogan for CMR and his fans, for next Fall’s practice t-shirts (in the Erk Russell tradition — at GA Southern),…..

“No Excuses”

Has a nice “ring” to it.

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The program wouldn’t be so profitable if its fans quit rewarding poor performance. If you really want Richt to leave send UGA’s purse a message and stop attending games and buying overpriced apparel.

That said, UGA will be a 6 or 7 win team next season and Richt will still not be forced out.

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Iv’e asked before and I’ll ask again, how are we going to be better next year loosing AJ and Durham, and our next leading receiver has 4 or 5 catches on the year.Running game alredy hurting and loosing our best blocker in the fullback, and loosing a couple of lineman. Only 2 plyers, Houston and Dent, on defense and loosing both. All the hopes and dreams in the workd wont change the facts. (Oboma) It is nice to have hope but reality is what it is as Rich likes to say. If we win 6 games next year, it will be a good year. Someone anyone please tell me how its is going to be better. When people accept what is happening at UGA this is what you will contimue to get. I know we who want better are all idiots, morons, stupid and non-fans as that is the common theme among most who want to stay the same.

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bradley why not make everbodys day and go jump in a pile of s*^%

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MB: to even mention Donna Shalala and U-Miami in the same breath as UGA and Mark Richt is astounding – and anathema! This is oil and water. The two are so completely different.

Shalala is by all accounts one of the most liberal members of Clinton’s cabinet – a woman who as Chancellor at UW-Madison instituted a hate speech code that was deemed overstepping by her colleagues and declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. No coach at UGA would fit in at U-Miami and very very few students would feel comfortable on that campus. I went there for a year and had to leave – I was literally the only person on my floor born south of the Mason-Dixon line and who did not snort coke. Absolutely true! God how I hated that place!!!

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IlliniDawg – yeah, that makes perfect sense… “every” student is a coke-snorter at Miami and the worst that Dawg players do is participate in a little too much drinking… yeah, right. You wouldn’t be a bit biased now would you?

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There are going to be a lot of empty seats next year. Richt is going to set the program back years. We ended this year in a tie with Tenn. How can that be with the talent avialable. Same coach same results. Richt is worse than a bad coach, he doesn’t coach at all. If it’s a preacher you folks want we can get a top one for a hundred thousand and save a lot of money and still lose.

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This is the ONLY cycle that uga goes through….

Step 1: Our recruiting class is top 10! Go dawgs!
Step 2: We are pre-season top 10! Go dawgs!
Step 3: Off season arrests.
Step 4: Loss to Florida.
Step 5: Loss to Auburn/Alabama.
Step 6: Loss to another lower tier team (ie: Kentucky).
Step 7: Drop out of top 25.
Step 8: Beat Tech.
Step 9: Pitiful bowl.
Step 10: Wait ’till next year.

Repeat.

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The bloggers on this site who demand anything from CMR and who stoop to name calling and all the trash I read here are in no position to demand anything. You kow it all but have no real answers, no real solutions, only vicious name calling and charater assisnation. Get real and get a life and get some real meaning in your life. Go Bulldogs and right on with CMR!

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Lest we forget, Mark Richt had his entire immediate family eventually move to Athens. Even is brother in law moved to Athens from Tallahassee, Fl. from a multi million dollar mansion. His mother also moved to Athens and his father although divorced from his mother also moved to Athens. I have lost track if more moved in or if some moved out, but the Richt family I believe is sold on UGA, Athens and the State of Georgia and I believe that the football team with this to be determined football recruit class may well be just what the Doctor ordered and if we can get better blocking for the run and pass, add some more super sized defensive linemen, we may well run the table next year as our defense will have another year of learning the 3-4 defense and Murray is an accurate passer and furnished some more fast pass catching ends and flankers, UGA will be a scoring machine, add some bigger backs for depth and UGA is there.

With the absence of a big fullback next year and no 2011 recruit in site to fill the position, the spread offense may be where UGA is headed unless there is a big talented walk on or two in our future or someone moves from the line to fullback because they could not gain enough weight to play on the offensive or defensive lines. Of course they could run 2 quality backs in the same backfield and remain in the present offense like Auburn did several years ago..Time will soon tell.

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Bradley….Reading your column is like picking up POOP off the ground. You columns have made you the second coming of Terrance Moore, with the exception you don’t blame everthing on white people.

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I miss Schlabaugh…O that’s right, I can go watch Talkin’ Football.

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This s h i t is contrived to make it appear that Richt has some value. Aint nobody interested in his sorry a s s .

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I wish Mark Bradley could get an offer to go to Miami or Colorado…..or Obknoxville!

Do you get a bonus for stirring up all of this? What about something constructive?

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hmmmm. Think I am going to go to Willy’s and get something to eat. Football? I think Georgia has just about forgotten what they used to made of—–those days are long gone. Food ===then sleep. Dream on————–yall————no running game in any year I can remember since Richt has been at UGA===so the better backs are going elsewhere—that King guy looks like he is afraid of his own shadow——what a joke this team is——–where is the hitting and the grinding? Never Mind. That Lattimore guy can run harder than anybody at UGA–and he is a freshman. Hello? Anybody home? Glad you guys beat Tech though—–could be worse.

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You people do not know what you were talking about. When UGa was losing earlier in the yr. without AJ…it wasn’t bc of Murray. He still had good numbers…including a lot of yrds. to Kris Durham. I know the offense played a lot better with AJ. The strength of the team was thought to be th O-Line & RBs. So, obviously with an inexperienced QB tehey were going to lean on those strengths, & not open up the play book like they did later in the yr. The team played fine at the end of last yr. even without AJ, & appeared to be playing even better. I would prefer for him to treurn, but with a more experinced QB, & some other receivers that have been pretty good when given the chance…that should be better next yr. Also, the defense should hopefully be better, bc it will be the 2nd yr. in the 3-4, hopefully we’ll get some recruits in there that fit that system better.

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Bradley, you’re an idiot (again). The only person who needs to leave is you. Richt is one of only a handful of coaches that I would want my son to play for – and I can’t say that about many coaches these days. Write something worthwhile, will you? Cutting down our local teams is not what we, as readers, want to see. When will you get this?

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thanks for the words of wisdom…richt’s not going anywhere. Wow how long did it take you to come to that conclusion. You’re sounding like some of the uga bashers (in the minority may i add) that thought he’d be gone half way thru the season, but now realize he’ll be coaching at uga next year against their wishes.

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Mark Bradley why don’t you go to Colorado or Miami and quit writing about our beloved UGA teams and coaches. You never have anything positive to say about them. It would be good ridance if you left I PROMISE we wouldn’t MISS YOU at all!!!!!!!!!!!.

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Excuse me but one kinda bad season does not mean the best coach( mark richt) since vince dooley shoud leave. He is an awesome coach and an awesome person. He has all the qualities that I like in a person and coach. Get off of his back! He never claimed to be superman. He has put his career and faith in the other coaches that he hired so maybe they should be looked at a little closer. Leave Coach Richt alone. He is one hell of a man and coach. A big big GEORGIA FAN!!

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Why would talented kids want to lose to Florida EVERY year by 15 points and also lose to Auburn, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tenn, Bama and LSU. Go to any other school in the nation and don’t collect garbage for a living, like most 4-5 star recruits that regress at thUGA. Play for a real coach and fans that understand football, not just shop at wal-mart in Bogart, GA and buy groceries at piggly wiggly.

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I live in Athens, and did not go to Georgia. I am amazed that a great place to live has such a backwards country village mentality in its police department. Granted, Ealey took a car belonging to his teammate, wrecked it and drove off. Absolutely moronic, no excuse for it. But riding a scooter down an alley, shooting off fireworks, etc…and being arrested for it is a little ridiculous, a well. I read the local news every day, keep up with what’s going on over at the University as it is the engine that drives the economy here. There have been, by my count, four or five arrests that were legitimate, no kidding problems where arrests were warranted (no pun intended) the rest ranged from silly to absolutely ridiculous. No, he doesn’t have a squeaky clean group of players, they’re teenagers away from home for the first time and I certainly did my share of stupid things when I was away at school, they’re no different. Put it to bed, already!

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Look I really don’t understand this Mark Bradley bashing. I mean the AJC is a really crappy newspaper from cover to cover, but Mark Bradley’s column is among the better parts. He is typically a “fan of the home team,” but is willing to issue a wake-up call from time to time. Get over it, folks.

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and their fans!

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CMR needs to fire his buddy the strength and conditioning coach or else they will both get fired next year.

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Mr. Bradley, fortunately for you, your insight is so flawed and off-beat that it manufactures interest, while allowing your apparent lack of (at least) constructive jabber to be ignored. Are you completely fabricating this issue, because regardless of any offers/interest on behalf of “tha U,” there is no chance that Richt would leave UGA willingly FOR ANYTHING! He’s comfortable (lifestyle wise, not w/ respect to job-security obviously), where he enjoys a premier recruiting base, one who’s major concern is competition from the state of Florida, which would sky-rocket w/ a move to Miami. He’s within the Bible Belt, so that his post party-boy “Chrustanity” can be respected, despite the fact that he has trouble relating to high profile athletes…that said, are you seriously saying that he would bring DETRIMENT to “tha U’s” rep? That’s laughable and not worth further comment.
Further, where do you get the idea of his apparent loyalty to the alma-mature, besides the fact that he did, indeed attend “tha U in tha Eighties.” He was overshadowed throughout his entire career in Miami, and absolutely holds more esteem for Fla. St. than Miami. Tell your editors (who hopefully will wake up some time soon) to let me know when their hiring.

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…this correspondent really, really should jump back into the toolbox…one I expect belongs to a 7 fingered handyman “willing to perform a variety of odd jobs!

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fuzzybee

November 30th, 2010
8:49 am
Does anyone else find it ironic that the UGA coach is considered too dirty for Miami, a school once known for its thugishness?

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Great comment from a fan of a school that once suited up a FEDERALLY INDICTED DRUG-RUNNER..just so that they could win a game against Larry Coker. Yup…bumbling Larry Coker

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we have been passed by Aub, Miss St, SC and maybe even TENN
COME ON BULLDAWG NATION we deserve better, because we are
better just not well coached, not respected, not feared,
not strong, not disciplined, not a factor in the SEC, this
is not JUNKYARD DAWG FOOTBALL folks, when will the bulldawg
nation stop putting up with this CRAP, I think if CMR and
company don’t end up in the SEC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME next
year he should be shown the door, anything less is
unacceptable CUT AND DRY PEROID 12-0 or 11-1 or FIRE CMR

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As a native South Carolinian, I never liked Spurrier.Upon moving to ATL for 15 years, I hated him. Now that he is OUR coach, I appreciate the way he COACHES.The way he looks for more from his guys. He demands accountability. Arrests are unacceptable. Skipping class is unacceptable. Changing the loser mentality culture was a huge hurdle here. Now it’s paid off. Win or lose on saturday, we are still SEC EAST CHAMPS. Whether other teams are down or not, the games still have to be played. Spurrier is not dirty, never has been. Cocky,yes. Dirty,no!
No need for me to insult Georgia,I just want to say how good it feels to be at the top like UGA/FLA etc have enjoyed for so long!

Go Gamecocks!!!!!!!!! USC 27 AUB 24

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Reason #6: No university would be stupid enough to hire Richt, a proven failure. Richt has been @ UGA for what, 10 years? How many SEC championships? How many national championships? And now that ALABAMA and AUBURN are back in the “zone” UGA will be sucking hindt__t for the next few years. Hell, even Derek Dolley, in his first year with Tennessee, did a better job coaching than Richt. Yeah, Mark Richt want leave UGA because there not another university stupid enough to hire him.

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Mark, you are as bad as the robo-calls and the TV commercials during an election. No true comparisons and no real research.

Maybe you should go back to your high school newspaper, you might qualify.

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CMR has not been a good coach since getting that 8 year contract extension. But look for him to have a great year at uga next year cause his job is on the line. I believe he can turn it up or down like most people adjust their thermostat. With the talent he has he can have almost any record he wants. I think Bobo is a great oc and he was a great quarterback at uga. Bobo is a living legend. CMR should definitely not gett a contract extension as we will never get a national championship as long as he is head coach. His ties and loyalties are with the state of Florida. What we need in the near future is a good ol georgia man like derrick dooley or kirby smart. GO DAWGS!!

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