Win or lose Saturday, can Richt ever again feel safe at UGA?
"Let's try that play where we jump offside. That's working!" (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
The label “must-win” has affixed itself to the South Carolina game, but a more precise description is “darn-well-better-win.” There’s a chance an 0-2 Georgia could still make something of its season. Say the Bulldogs win nine of their next 10: Wouldn’t 9-3 with a strong finish coming after 6-7 be construed as, ahem, significant improvement? That said …
Beyond simply saving himself for next week or next season, can Mark Richt ever again be truly safe in this job?
When the second game of any season is deemed, however inexactly, a “must-win,” matters have already deteriorated. When something is so far gone, is there any going back? The Georgia-Tennessee game of Oct. 6, 2007, was considered a “must-win” for Philip Fulmer, and he won it 35-14 and rose from 2-2 to 9-3 and led the Vols to the SEC East title (shading Georgia on a tiebreaker). Great recovery, huh?
Reality check: Philip Fulmer was fired in November 2008.
The Fulmer parallel is often invoked regarding Richt, and it’s apt. Both men won big for a good long while. Both took two SEC championships. (Fulmer even won a BCS title, a prize for which Georgia under Richt has never played.) Then they stopped winning so much. Fans noticed. Fans began asking: “Is he still the right guy?”
When enough fans ask that loaded question enough times, games stop being games and become referendums on the coach. This week a man who has a finger on the pulse of Bulldog Nation estimated Richt’s job-approval rating at five percent. Should Georgia lose to South Carolina, what might the approval rating be? Two-point-five percent? Zero percent?
We need to ask this, too: Even if Georgia wins this game, will Richt’s doubters again become believers? Or will they just doubt a bit less until he loses again?
A coach cannot serve for long at the displeasure of his constituency: This has always been true, but it’s truer than ever in a world where the athletic director has an e-mail address and anyone with Internet access can post on Twitter and Facebook and AJC.com. With so much money in play and so many seats to fill, can any AD wage a protracted fight against the wishes of his fans?
Loading ...When C.M. Newton was in charge at Kentucky and folks were upset that Bill Curry wasn’t winning, the AD advised the dissidents to go find another school to support. Even with such administrative backing, Curry wound up resigning. When you lose so often that the roar of discontent drowns out the huzzahs raised in any victory, you’re a goner even before you actually go.
Richt is treading perilously close to that tipping point. Losing to Boise State mightn’t have been so bad on its face — the Broncos arrived ranked No. 5 in the land and were favored by Vegas — but the manner of the loss was devastating. This disjointed performance didn’t augur a new beginning; this was merely more of the same, which made it worse than ever. You sign the Dream Team and can’t stay onside? To borrow from Steve Spurrier’s famous 1991 dismissal: “Georgia gets all these recruits, but I don’t know what happens to them.”
Should Georgia lose to South Carolina, as coached by the dastardly Spurrier, Richt won’t resign on the spot or be fired on Sunday. He might still win enough to keep his job. (For another year, anyway.) But here’s the bigger issue: Even a win over the Gamecocks won’t convince many folks that the 51-year-old Richt remains the daring young man who Finished The Drill way back when.
It might take another SEC championship to do that. It might take a BCS title. And if, after Boise, you espy such glory on the horizon … well, count yourself among that five percent.
By Mark Bradley
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Stinger2
September 9th, 2011
2:21 pm
Mark: CMR can never feel safe at UGA as long as the fans
continue to hurl insults and negative criticism about him. Your negative articles (see caption under picture above) only inflame the fan base. He earns every penny of the 3 million he makes.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
September 9th, 2011
2:23 pm
Lowcountry Bulldawg
Let me ask you something
What you saw Saturday after all year to prepare do you really think this ship is ever going to be turned around. Seriously
I was hoping that Richt got the message that people wanted improvement but what I saw Saturday was Richt sending a message to the Fans
and that was
I KNOW WHAT THE HELL IM DOING Im not going to change get used to it.
Charles756
September 9th, 2011
2:24 pm
From a Gamecock fan’s prospective…Yes yall got pushed around by a very good Boise St. team. It shouldn’t that hard to accept that they are a NC contender, believe it or not, there is some good ball being played outside the dominant ranks of the SEC. Carolina got had fits in the first 1.5 quarters of the game last week against ECU..Granted, when Garcia came in, the ship began to steer the course it was set to sail on. Carolina got pushed around though all game in the short/quick passing game. UGA has an outstanding QB who has the ability to shred a secondary. Carolina fans are all to worried about the tendency we seem to have in terms of a let down or not playing to our potential. Any SEC road game is a challange in its own right, Athens being one of the more difficult ones. I do believe Carolina will pull this one out, but I think it will be like many many USC vs UGA games of the past. Hard hitting, smash mouth, no nonsense, and a bloody battle in which every yard is going to have to be paid for in blood, sweat, and tears. I’m making my first trip to Sanford tomorrow and I expect to see on heck of a football game between the hedges. Prediction: USC 27 UGA 20
Flounder
September 9th, 2011
2:24 pm
@blue … now that’s hilarious! Love me some Animal House quotes. But my all-time favorite was the one directed at “Flounder” from Dean Wormer: “you know … fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son”. Very appropriate for a UGA blog as well
Good luck tomorrow little doggies … you’re gonna need it.
gdawginkalamazoo
September 9th, 2011
2:24 pm
Beat Carolina Saturday would be a huge step in the right direction. IMO. I’ve got beer to drink and being down by 3 TD’s does not make me feel like drinking. Win Saturday and 10+ win season is feasible if the kids play like they are very capable of playing.
dawgfanndom
September 9th, 2011
2:25 pm
“a man who has his finger on the pulse of Bulldog Nation”? Exactly who is this, you? that’s bad journalism, this guy could be anyone, and probably doesn’t know his head from his a$$. I’m not sayin Richt’s approval rating is high, or even 50%, but 5% is ridiculously low. Herschel Walker counts for 5% of the rating in my book, and he supports Richt.
Instant Dawgma
September 9th, 2011
2:26 pm
Negative, negative, negative…………..
sammiamm
September 9th, 2011
2:27 pm
Stop the slide, turn it around, quiet the crowd–a little. Fans want championships–what’s wrong with that? With the in-state talent, the budget, the facilities, and the SEC competition week-in, week-out–maybe fans expected a little better than 3 penalties on the opening drive…
Robert
September 9th, 2011
2:28 pm
Georgia sports fans are truly strange
I mean – Mark Richt coaches a quite mediocre UGA football team. If that team were to lose this weekend, that would make two losses to two teams ranked higher than they were – in other words two losses in two games you could be expected to lose – and if that happens his approval ratuing will be near zero
On the other hand – Bobby Cox managed Braves teams who lost in the playoffs to inferior teams time and time again – they couldnt beat the teams they were supposed to beat when it mattered – and yet, and yet – for almost decades a good majority of the team’s fans thought the man was a genius and were vehement in their support of him
It just makes no sense
Kissinger
September 9th, 2011
2:28 pm
I heard a rumor that UGA was considering changing the fight song to Sunday Morning Coming Down by Kris Kristofferson. Any truth to that?
Rest of the SEC
September 9th, 2011
2:28 pm
Keep Richt. We need him. The rest of us need a whippin’ boy.
Flounder
September 9th, 2011
2:28 pm
re: gdawginkalamazoo comment above … I rest my case.
Flounder
September 9th, 2011
2:32 pm
Mark Richt addressing his team:
http://youtu.be/DeZqW6eqK2M
Lowcountry Bulldawg
September 9th, 2011
2:33 pm
Little do you know we are on the same page man. The thing that seperates us is your voracity in the charge.
Do I know if it will change? No
Do I want Richt fired?
No, I have met him 2-3 times and he carrys himself well and is a good man, but with that being said this cannot continue on anylonger. 9-3 at worst is the only thing acceptable to give it one more year and another year with seasoned recruits.
I know what the hell I am doing comment? Hey, what was he supposed to say when put in that situation by the fan. His job is to get the fanbase excited, not depressed heading into the season. So you would have him temper his enthusiasm? Isn’t he called boring often? He was encouraged by these same bloggers for that response. Wasnt he?
Hey my point is if he goes then thats what needed to be done, but up until that point he has my support. You can fuel the fire all the want to the mass of people that smell blood in the water but I will take a different approach.
Robert
September 9th, 2011
2:34 pm
“According to Richt every loss he has ever had has been due to players not executing.”
If you dont accept that arguement – then why do people buy into the excuse made for Bobby Cox – that he never threw the pitch or ran the bases or swung the bat?
PerryB
September 9th, 2011
2:34 pm
Georgia has some of the best High School players in the country. Just look at what Saban has built at Alabama with Georgia and Florida recruits. Alabama has 18 players from the state of Georgia on it’s roster. The majority of those players were 4 star recruits.
Burdell 90
September 9th, 2011
2:35 pm
95
Your like the other dumba$$ rednecks….you think y’all are the greatest until you have to play a game
SEC Fact Finder
September 9th, 2011
2:36 pm
Had some time to watch the UGA Boise game this morning, I worked the USC E.Carolina game in Charlotte last saturday night. These are my thoughts on this game.
First thing I noticed about UGA was the number of recievers who dropped passes and changed momentum for the series. If those throws are made this week and the space that was available last week on those throws, you will see UGA move the chains.
When Shaw was in the game, there were times when players on USC were looking over to see if Garcia was coming in the game. Once Garcia entered the game, the entire atmosphere changed for USC on both sides of the ball. USC and Steve Spurrier find your weakness and he will make up a ton of plays in various formations to hide that the same play is being run from different sets and angles. How will the defensive staff at UGA adjust is going to be the difference.
If UGA comes out trying a bunch of small trick plays and gadgets you can expect a long day in Athens. If UGA can come out and hit a TE and WR on the first few plays it will open up the running game tremendously. It takes USC about 3 series to adjust their defense. For those three series UGA needs to put 7 points on the board each trip.
In a very tight game one has to give UGA a slight edge. These kids have read all the trashing of their coaches, and understand they stand between Mark Richt being at UGA in 2012 or starting over with a new regime in place.
McDawg
September 9th, 2011
2:36 pm
i give him one more season after this year and hopefully the OL coach can better evaluate talent
Robert
September 9th, 2011
2:39 pm
“Talked to several Florida friends this week and the recurring theme was unanimous…….”Please don’t fire Mark Richt! He’s the best coach not on our payroll!”
This is what 29 teams told John Schueholtz every year about Bobby Cox
Lowcountry Bulldawg
September 9th, 2011
2:40 pm
Look we are on the same side, just going about it in two different manors. I am not going to fuel the masses who smell blood in the water.
I am do not want to be that guy after 1 game who says fire him! Fire him! Because we do not have a large enough sample of THIS team. We can all look back 2-3 years ago and say well he has to go, but he is here. So after playing a damn good Boise team I want to see a larger sampling before I comment of whether the move needs made. Doesn’t make me a KoolAid drinker makes me…logical.
I dont understand even why we want Richt to call the plays. We at the end of ‘05-06? wanted him to stop calling plays and turn it over to be the CEO of the team. Look how that has worked out! Now we are coming full circel with this, never a good thing.
It is tough, but it has been one week. In 24 hours the metal of this team is going to get tested. I hope for a fast start b/c if we get down early say 10-0 this team and staff is simply not mentally tough enough right now to comeback. That should give you a idea of how I feel about the current situation in Athens.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
September 9th, 2011
2:41 pm
Burdell 90
You really are an idiot
I have never got on this blog saying we would win a NC this year or brag about what we will do this season
Go back on all these blogs and see if you can find where I acted like these kool-aid drinkers on here by saying THIS IS THE YEAR!!!! UGA is the team to beat!!!!!
Do some homework next time you idiot.
T.A.
September 9th, 2011
2:45 pm
They should stop calling it a newspaper and start calling it a speculation paper. All you do now days is start rumors that make everyone uptight. Report the news and stop trying to be a football coach. Anyone can write a bunch of lies that make people look bad. It takes a true writer to publish an informative article.and not a bunch of untruth’s.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
September 9th, 2011
2:45 pm
Bradley,
Where is my comment? First time it was lost. Second time I save it. It didn’t show. Went to paste and submit again and it showed duplicate comment. Nothing other than Bill Cosby words on it man.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
September 9th, 2011
2:48 pm
Flat Tire-
I just pasted my answer to you on Kings blog, it went thru. Wierd.
warped logic
September 9th, 2011
2:48 pm
jerry
September 9th, 2011
1:50 pm
I have checked out the track record of UGA head football coaches hired. Keep Richt. The percentages are loaded in favor of them hiring either an incompetent, (Griffith), an idiot (Goff), a lucky pick (Dooley), or another average coach, e.g., Butts, Donnan, Richt. If anyone thinks UGA is going to give Gruden, Johnson, or Cowher the millions it would take, even they were interested, you are delusional. It also won’t be Petersen or Mullen. Best to keep Mild Mannered Mark.
Really? With this logic, UGA would hire the worst coach they could so that they could lose every game they were supposed to lose. A lot of people on here post comments like this as shots to Georgia’s program by invalidating the expectations of Georgia fans in today’s college football environment.
TampaDawg
September 9th, 2011
2:48 pm
How the hell did Bobby Cox get brought up in a UGA blog? He’s a retired baseball manager considered by MOST coaches/managers/GMs in the game as a legend whether you like him or not and considering his last few years in the dugout, he did some of his best work then.
Anyway, for the fire CMR crowd, yes, last year was a disaster at 6-7. The year before was 8-5. Both of those years were with first year starters at QB. But the year before that was 2008 and they had a 10 win season. And four years ago was 2007 and they won 11 games topped off by a BCS bowl game win. In fact, before the 8-5 2009 season, UGA had won 74 games over a 7 year span from 2002-2008. But back to back mediocre seasons and everyone thinks they’re a soon-to-be SEC coach themselves. Let this season play out!
Big Dawg
September 9th, 2011
2:50 pm
Here’s a Mark Richt stat for those of you still drinking the Kool-Aid:
2 wins and 8 losses against the Florida Gators.
Unacceptable. Talk about trending the wrong direction, here’s your proof.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
September 9th, 2011
2:50 pm
Lowcountry Bulldawg
Thats this stupid filter on here that thinks you posted something vulger
It does it to everyone good luck finding out in what you wrote causing it
1eyedJack
September 9th, 2011
2:53 pm
Mark, I’d like to reserve the decimal value .48 of that 5% please. Thank you.
The Ole Ball Coach
September 9th, 2011
2:54 pm
How did the Georgia Offense look against Boise or UCF for that matter?
Last two games are maybe the worse UGA has played in many many many years…..
The current trend has me concerned….
JB
September 9th, 2011
2:55 pm
Funny seeing Stringer2 lecturing us about our feelings about Richt. Go back and look at these blogs about Gaily and Hewitt, and they were vile and hateful and plentiful.
Burdell 90
September 9th, 2011
2:55 pm
95
The koolaid is what makes you cheer for the THUGS and therefore a dumba$$ redneck…
noseknows
September 9th, 2011
2:56 pm
Yes, if and when he gets rid of Bobo and gets a good O.C. Malzahn and the biggest outlaw of all of college football, Trooper Taylor, has made the Auburn job secure – which wasn’t a few years ago. If Bobo was a good friend of Richt, he would resign since Richt is too loyal to get rid of him.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
September 9th, 2011
2:57 pm
Lowcountry Bulldawg
I agree with what your saying
I understand its the first week but what I saw in the first week was nothing different from past years
Thats what upsets everyone
I wished I could believe Richt will turn it around but after what I saw I dont think he is changing his ways
He better do what Lou Holtz said and take the play calling back. If he does he will at least show he still wants to be employed here
JB
September 9th, 2011
2:58 pm
Hey ole ball coach….about the way you looked in the SEC title game and your bowl game. I wish we played Carolina later in the year, because they ALWAYS fold like a cheap beach chair at the tail end of the season.
warped logic
September 9th, 2011
2:59 pm
jerry
September 9th, 2011
1:50 pm
I have checked out the track record of UGA head football coaches hired. Keep Richt. The percentages are loaded in favor of them hiring either an incompetent, (Griffith), an idiot (Goff), a lucky pick (Dooley), or another average coach, e.g., Butts, Donnan, Richt. If anyone thinks UGA is going to give Gruden, Johnson, or Cowher the millions it would take, even they were interested, you are delusional. It also won’t be Petersen or Mullen. Best to keep Mild Mannered Mark.
Really? This has to be a fan of another school taking shots at UGA’s fan expectations. When a guy makes 3.5 million a year and has the athletic association and facilities that Georgia possesses in today’s college football landscape, it isn’t unrealistic to expect regular BCS bowl appearances.
Bobo, use the stinkin' I formation
September 9th, 2011
2:59 pm
Yes, 9-3 would be a good finish if the Dawgs lose to the Roosters tomorrow. Unless that third loss is to first year HC Muschamp & the Gators.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
September 9th, 2011
3:00 pm
I know but hey we didnt start out with “Sister Mary of the Poor” this year. We started out against a stud of a team and did look bad. Tell me when Gates jumped offsides befor ethe first play who didnt go “O Crap”. That is a problem when you have a penalty like that and the fanbase immediately goes, here we go again. Its tough but we gotta try and pull through this.
JB
September 9th, 2011
3:00 pm
Tomorrow is big, but Miss St,Fla,AU and Tech will give us fits this year. And don’t overlook Kentucky.
JB
September 9th, 2011
3:01 pm
And Tenn.
1eyedJack
September 9th, 2011
3:01 pm
Fire all the coaches!
Fire all the players!
Fire the NCAA!
Fire Obuma!
Fire Congress!
The problem with that is the unknown that you might not get anything better and possibly worse, with the exception of Obuma of course.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
September 9th, 2011
3:02 pm
Burdell 90
Brilliant Response Burdell
I pull for UGA makes me a redneck drink kool-aid drinker
Thats what you come up with.
You really need to get back to your job flipping hamburgers. That sounds just like what some uneducated moron would say
And you call UGA fans rednecks.
Guess we are some rich Rednecks since UGA Ranks #2 in money among college football programs
TampaDawg
September 9th, 2011
3:03 pm
Fair enough Big Dawg, but try this one. The previous 12 years before Richt, Goff and Donnan combined for an 86-53-1 record with 1 win against UF. So before we run off and fire a guy who, again, had 74 wins in 7 seasons, let’s remember where he took us from being. All with a relatively clean program.
jerry
September 9th, 2011
3:04 pm
UGA used to beat Florida. Florida got better. Relative to Florida, there is no evidence that UGA is any better after 10 years of Richt.
doug dawg
September 9th, 2011
3:05 pm
oh, why, oh why are we still dissecting the sinking of the titantic? it was a great ship, but it failed in the run. when adversity hit, it sank. just like our beloved uga football team. there is no way to ressurect it. it is gone, and the captain and crew are going down, along with the crew and the passengers. gone. only solution is to build a new ship with new captain and officers. it may take a few trials, but it will sail on and be better. the longer we dawgs fail to realize this, the longer it will be before we have a ’ship of state’ again. all of the puling comments won’t help things. richt and his regime; out now. no need to try and shrink the tumor; cut it out now, to the core. i’ve given up on this season. there is no reason for optimisim; just same old same old. and it is a pain to admit.
DawginLex
September 9th, 2011
3:05 pm
Looks like I left at the right time.
The haters are gonna hate
The idiots are going to show us why they are idiots
As Dawgs, we have to support our coaches and our team.
Talk to y’all later
TampaDawg
September 9th, 2011
3:06 pm
1eyedJack, that might be your best post yet. I am not a big fire CMR guy myself. I do agree that Bobo either has to go back to just coaching QBs, or go altogether, but CMR has done a quality job with this program for those can’t remember past 2009.
Mike
September 9th, 2011
3:06 pm
No coach these days is completely safe – see Bobby Bowden. Joe Paterno has to answer retirement questions all the time and they are always in the spirit of “when are you going to retire?” instead of “coach, please stay.” Prior successes mean little. Vince Dooley would have never lasted these days, he survived only because he coached back in the day when winning wasn’t everything.
Today, it’s “what have you done for me latey?” Prior success and championships mean little when you string back to back poor seasons together. Add a third one and you take the train. Winning and money is the center of it all and that’s very sad. Mark Richt is a great guy, the type of man that you would want your sons to play for. I want Mark to be the man, but if he doesn’t turn something around quickly, I’m afraid he may be packing his bags.
We need (Mark needs) UGA to catch a break early and score, keeping morale up and making a game of it. But if UGA gets down they may (as usual) give up and this thing could get ugly. You know Spurrier would hang 70 points on us if he could. I don’t think that will happen, but UGA has shown me no progress from the end of this year through Boise State. Only the special teams shined – and as Lou Holtz said, “regardless of how great your special teams are, if they are on the field too much, then you won’t win.” ‘Nough said. Go Dawgs, but I’m not feeling good at all.
Columbus
September 9th, 2011
3:07 pm
Who can organize a rally supporting Richt or knows someone who can get the word out?
Stirring the pot more huh Bradley? Do you now that there are just as many or more supporters of Richt as there are detractors? Do you know that Fulmer was EXPOSED as being a product of Cutcliff’s offense and not a good head coach? Do you know that while Fulmer did play for a NC, that NO coach in their FIRST 10 years of coaching plays for one much LESS wins one? Richt has only been a head coach for 10 years.
As Lou Holtz said recently: Richt is a GREAT football coach but is he going to let Bobo lose his job for him or is he going to get rid of Bobo?
Mark Bradley you are just stirring the pot and Fulmer is a TERRIBLE comparison. How about when they wanted to run Dooley out the year before he won the NC? Or Bryant? Or Paterno? Or all the ones who stayed.
Mark Richt has NO fear. He is not worried about safe but your are strssing him and putting pressure on him that makes it MOST difficult to do a good job. Is that what your intent is? To HURT the program with this EXCESSIVE PRESSURE?
He would like some back of what he gave to the to the UGA nation when we had virtually had no title in 20 plus years. He gave us cheers and hope and championships that we had not had in so long.
Now when times are tough on this same man, the SAME man who you were ALL SCARED would leave when he was the MOST desired coach in the nation and STAYED COMMITTED AND TRUE TO UGA AND ALL OF YOU AND NOW HOW DO YOU REPAY HIM?
If I was him I would win the championship and LEAVE because you are not loyal fans nor are you FAIR or reasonable. Including the worst in the state at stirring the pot and offering NO SUPPORT in articles of any substance. The ANGLES ARE ALL AGAINST HIM. Where is the VOICE OF REASON BESIDES MCGARRITY?! Where is it in the press?
With FULMER, he was exposed for not being the reason for the teams success when Cutcliffe left. EVERYONE SEEN IT. There was reason within the fan base and boosters and donors to want him out.
With Richt, he has MUCH fan support, donor support and booster support and administration support! You just dont see it as much because most people that post are the complainers and ones with NEGATIVE comments. Thats a fact. Then with the press stirring the pot and offering virtually NO SUPPORT OR THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY AS BEING MIGHTY IMPORTANT AND HEY THINK ABOUT THIS INSTEAD OF A LYNCHING….you stir the pot. You should be ashamed and so should all of you UGA fans calling for his head…
He DID NOT LEAVE when people tried to lure him away. He gave you championships and hope that you NEVER had on a CONSISTENT BASIS, a national championship oppurtunity and stayed COMMITTED TO YOU. Now when he needs you, you treat him like this, make it HARD AND TOUGH AS POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY THE WRITERS AT AJC? Do you know that AJC is not the ONLY voice in the state nor the only commenters following articles in the state? DO you know that it is NOT like this in most places in the state? The HATE is not rampant like it is here. It is reasonable and fair and hopeful and INTELLIGENT AND NOT EMOTIONAL LIKE LITTLE GIRLS. The writers are MUCH more balanced and dont have the story angles to one side.
Richt deserves support and BETTER THAN JUST THE SQUEEKY WHEELS IN HERE. There is so much support for OUR coach in this state and WE need to start speaking up.
We NEED to GET TOGETHER AND FORM A RALLY SUPPORTING RICHT FOR HIM TO SEE AND FEEL. WE NEED TO GIVE HIM SOME LOVE AND DESTRESS HIM AND HE WILL BE BETTER FOR IT AS WELL AS WILL BE THE FOOTBALL TEAM. WE NEED TO DO THIS FOR THE COACH WHO STAYED WITH US WHEN EVERYONE WANTED HIM TO COME COACH THEIR TEAM. THE COACH WHO HAS DONE MORE THAN ANY COACH IN 20 PLUS YEARS AT UGA AND HAS A BETTER WINNING PRECENTAGE. HERSCHEL MADE DOOLEY OK OR HE WAS FIRED?
THE COACH WHO WILL LEAD US TO MORE TITLES IN THE NEXT 6 YEARS. RICHT IS A GOOD AND A GREAT COACH THAT WILL ONLY GET BETTER AND HE DESERVES BETTERNOW. WE CAN DO THIS. I WISH WE HAD MORE TIME AND WE COULD DO IT TOMORROW OR TONIGHT. WE CAN DO IT THOUGH. WHO HAS THE KNOW HOW TO PUT IT TOGETHER AND GET THE WORD OUT ON THE RADIO AND IN THE PRESS AND TO THE FANS? LETS DO THIS. OK? I WILL CHECK BACK LATER AND SEE IF THERE IS SOMEONE TO STEP UP THAT CAN GET THE WORD OUT AND WE GET A FEW THOUSAND TO SHOW UP. EVEN A FEW HUNDRED WOULD DO A LOT FOR THIS MAN WHEN HE NEEDS IT MOST.
WHO CAN ORGANIZE A RALLY?