Another assistant chooses loyalty to Richt over $
Interesting to find out that Georgia linebackers coach John Jancek apparently turned down the opportunity to become defensive coordinator at South Florida recently. Once again loyalty to Mark Richt seems to have won out over money.
I don’t know what Bulls coach Jim Leavitt offered Jancek as DC but he is currently the second-lowest paid coach on Georgia’s staff ($163,000). Richt gave raises to his other coaches who turned down opportunities to stay with him in Athens (Rodnet Garner, Stacy Searels). It’ll be interesting to see if he does the same for Jancek.
By the way, Jancek has been a D-coordinator most of the 18 years he’s been in college coaching, including his previous stint at Central Michigan.
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE 5:15 p.m.: Jancek was promoted to co-defensive coordinator by Georgia.
A few links:
I shared a conversation I had with former Georgia coach Hugh Durham in this space a month or so ago in which he talked about how he thought the Bulldogs’ basketball job is a great one in which the right coach could win big. He told reporters more of the same on his recent stop in Macon to be inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. . . .
Anthony Dasher of uga.rivals.com reports that former Georgia tight end Ben Watson, now of the New England Patriots, contacted the Bulldogs’ latest tight end signee, Arthur Lynch of Dartmouth, Mass. To two are supposed to get together for lunch and go over what he needs to know about Georgia and Athens and how to go about getting ready to report. . . .
Darren Epps of the Chattanooga News talked to a couple of analysts about who Georgia needs to hire as its new basketball coach.
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Jimmy
March 3rd, 2009
10:07 pm
AltamahaDawg,
I’m not talking about the wins against average teams: your Kentuckys, Vandys, USC’s, etc etc. I’m talking about when the Dogs are in a big time game(Fla, Tenn, Bammer) the coaches don’t seem to adjust when the other team starts playing better. I’m not talking about CMR’s overall tenure, i’m talking about the three crushing losses LAST YEAR alone to Fla., Bama, and Tech. In two of those games-the two in which we were blown out-the coaching staff came across as having a moment much like a deer has before getting hit by a semi, aka clueless. Now is it the coaching staff not being able to adjust to what Satan, CUM, or PJ’s staffs were doing, or was it because we just didnt have the players last year? That’s all I want to know. Oh, and what the staff does to correct it, because CMR has put unrealistic expectations on this team-they SHOULD contend for a NC every year, or at least an SEC title, IMHO.
The Big Bug
March 3rd, 2009
10:23 pm
Um, Is it loyalty to Richt or the knowledge that you will have job security whether you perform or not?
Glad to Hear
March 3rd, 2009
10:53 pm
I am extremely glad to hear some of the bloggers finally admit that they think CMR is more involved and should be in the defensive aspect this offseason AND that if the defense does not play well in ‘09 that a change MAY be in order. That is a major step!
AltamahaDawg
March 3rd, 2009
10:58 pm
Sounds like a pretty good move with Jancek. Heard a few well meaning bloggers suggesting something like that. If the worst thing about it was it was just a title and money, nobody would sneeze at that. I would hope though that if he had some previous DC experience that could have been helpful with that set of circumstances last year, he wasn’t holding it back, because of a lack of title.
But full circle back to my point earlier. Jancek just signed on to be co-blame with WM, and that says something.
AltamahaDawg
March 3rd, 2009
11:24 pm
Well Jimmy, I dont think it has to be, or ever is, as simple this or that. I think we ran up against better teams in Alabama and Florida at our best, didn’t have our best players at the time to boot turning a close loss into a bad one, and the coaches definetely didn’t have their finest moment. My point was that when UGA puts up 35,40, even 50 points against some of the top teams, I have yet to hear any UGA fan dismiss that as thier coaches were just clueless. We have blowout some of the top names in the coaching business too. Wouldn’t you have to ask the same question about them?
Cuz
March 3rd, 2009
11:24 pm
My turn Alt, sorry I was busy earlier. Look, the one common denominator in the SEC teams scored more points against Slick Willie Martinez versus Brian, Luke I am your Father, Van Gorder is this fact. All SEC teams have scored more points in that time. All SEC offenses, do I need to repeat it for the idiots on this blog. ALL with capital letters.I personally said wtf in the third quarter of the Tech game. Looking at the stats the next day it was the right side where they ate up yardage. Did I know it watching the game, heck no and I am one of the best armchair quarterbacks of all time.
So you get brownie points for firing people. Lord please never put me in that spot. The people I have fired I did because the ship was sinking and they refused to bail. A ten win season is not a sinking, heck barely a list.
You dam@ right I want to work with Mark Richt. Here is a man that recruits great talent and supports them through the slings and arrows of lifes discontent. Give me more of that. I got laid off because a brand new boss had no idea what I meant to the company. He lost three times my salary, benefits included in a month in a half since letting me go. I was easy dollars and he thought it was good to go. Now he will lose his job in a few months. What I am trying to say is us armchair coaches may not know where the problem lies. It may not be the DC, it could be the players, assistants or the watergirl, just kidding on the watergirl. We faced losses and my new boss eliminated salary without looking at the big picture. Look at the big picture folks. We had a ten win season in a “Bad Year”. As an alum who suffered through plenty of bad years. Give me a ten win bad year.
And that is all I got to say about that.
Sven Ottke
March 3rd, 2009
11:32 pm
Hot dang! Another defensive coach for Paul Johnson to haze and abuse!
Cuz
March 3rd, 2009
11:34 pm
Alt, quit your preaching the choir wants to sing.
Hey all SEC teams are putting up more points. Deal with it.
R E S P E C T find out what it means to me. Just a little bit, just a little bit.
Cuz
March 3rd, 2009
11:47 pm
EAT BOOGERS AND DIE TECHIE, RUN FOR I GET A CAN OF RAID.
shane#1
March 3rd, 2009
11:51 pm
Cuz and Alt, this is my take on coaching, at least as far as most fans understand it. When UGA had Green at QB Tony Ball was a great WR coach. When Stafford was a freshman and Bailey missed a year because of injury Ball needed to be fired. When Sean came back and Mo-Mass hit his stride in 2007 Ball was okay. In 2008 when Green started and Mo-Mass was a senior and Stafford a junior all of a sudden Ball learned how to coach. Amazing! With Owens back this year and a strong LB corps and healthy backups I predict that Willie may learn how to coach defense. However, we will have a new QB and Mo-Mass has graduated, so it may be time to fire Ball again. Oh, and Bobo. It is obvious that if you only win between 10 and 13 games a year you have real problems and someone needs to be fired!
shane#1
March 3rd, 2009
11:55 pm
Cuz, you ain’t Aretha, and I ain’t no Vandella, so I am shutting it down for tonight. Peace out!
AltamahaDawg
March 4th, 2009
12:07 am
In my opinion Bobo should have been mentioned in every comment complaining about WM. The offense was at least 50% (and that being conservative) to blame for every loss in the past 2 years. I’ve never understood this standard that if the offense fails, who should be able to execute every single play for a minimal gain, holding the upper hand by knowing the play, it gets far less blame than when the defense doesn’t guess what the other team is doing right.
AltamahaDawg
March 4th, 2009
12:09 am
headed in myself, be sure to leave a love offering in the plate.
Cuz
March 4th, 2009
12:56 am
okay, shut up Cuz, I get it. Nite all.
FLDAWG
March 4th, 2009
1:09 am
Shane, Coach Ball wasn’t even at UGA when Green was QB. Heck, I think Ball has only been at UGA 1 year as RB coach. He is now the WR coach. He was at VT as WR coach for several years before UGA.
Thomas Brown
March 4th, 2009
5:28 am
We missed the topic of the day again, talking about a coaching staff except for Stacy Searels who is no damn good, and the loyal the bums are who have no discipline, no fire, and no future except losing all but 3 of the 20 games against our own division foe when we play next year.
Paul Westerdawg hit on the Topic of the Day.
Something missing in these blogs. Here are my thoughts about the Actual Topic of the Day for UGA Sports.
Are we allowed to disagree totally with your analysis once again in here please Paul ?
How could you possibly ignore the fact that as our ancient cow palace built on the Agricultural School for the Agricultural School, grows ever more tiring, that we have an Administration who believes that it is incorrect to borrow money like every other American, ever.
Our ladies’ basketball program and our men’s basketball program both suffer from 1 main obstacle.
And, it is not keeping talent here and the Good Lord knows we have plenty of talent that goes out of the State of Georgia every single year now and getting worse every year leaving behind UGA and our dilapidated out-dated under-sized poorly lit poorly designed for Basketball, gymnasium.
It is boring to go down there, no fun at all as a venue, and all we get is bad press about it.
What Coach in his Right Mind would come to this Cow Palace and attempt to have the Elite of the Elite Basketball Programs ?
The answer is someone young looking to prove himself who fooled himself that with the talent in this state, that HE can recruit the basketball players of this state to come play in that sorry sack of a Basketball Stadium. (And, keep them when we all know that the NBA uses Major College to simply let the kids play a year and then flunk out – or jump straight to the NBA when they are 17.)
Paul, you are not going to pay $2 million or more a year for a Men’s Basketball Coach with our crappy facility and play meaningful basketball. What are we supposed to do ? Show them where they practice, or their locker room ? You are talking about playing basketball. That is what is played in a place with great amenities, services and conveniences. They wasted their money on the practice court and locker rooms – just as we continue for the same reason of not having a note at this economy’s interest rates, a damn inside practice facility for football.
We have a problem all right, but you have failed to even mention what it really is. I believe that I have. We flatly refuse to borrow money to build a Sports Center or an indoor practice facility for football.
We are the Joke of all Collegiate Sports’ Programs with our total inability to pay so much a month for anything on our campus that remotely resembles an Indoor Sports Center of any kind. We don’t know if we can engineer one. We will not allow ourselves to even frigin’ think about. And, you missed the boat.
With all due respect Sorry Paul Westerdawg, Try speaking up about what prevents us from building any Indoor Sports Facility for Football or Basketball ? You know, the 2 sports which produce the money for the Entire Athletic Departments of this entire Great Nation’s Collegiate Athletics Departments ?
ceph
March 4th, 2009
6:58 am
The word out of south florida is that he was not offered the job he ONLY interviewed for the position as co-defensive co-ordinator. Information is that he would have taken the job if he had been offered the defensive co. position. Of course by the time Richt gets hold of it the whole scenario changed> (He puts another feather in his cap) But Jancek got what he wanted out of it a PROMOTION!!!!
shane#1
March 4th, 2009
7:38 am
Oops, My bad, thanks FlaDog, who in the hell was the WR coach in 2006 that everybody wanted to fire? My long term memory is as bad as My short term memory!
MoDawg
March 4th, 2009
8:15 am
Shane, that would be Eason in 2006.He was catching grief because the receivers couldn’t catch anything, not even grief. Ball is moving to receivers’ coach this year.
I said last year that Richt should promote Garner or Jancek to D-Coordinator and put WM back to coaching the D-Backs, as he did during the Van Gorder era, but this move, moving Jancek to co-coordinator is a step in the right direction. I spent all of last year thinking that Martinez had too much on his plate as certain aspects of our defensive gameplan always seemed to be missing at critical times during a game. This way, maybe they can share the responsibilty of gameplanning, and have an “extra set of eyes” in the film room. It can’t hurt.
flats
March 4th, 2009
8:29 am
I’m sick and tired of people on this thang spouting off about thangs they have no idea about…Joun eason was the wr coach that was responsible for ruining our recievirs from 2000-2007!!!!!Another one of richts college buddies!!!!